Aníbal Pérez-Liñán

Aníbal Pérez-Liñán (PhD University of Notre Dame) is Professor of Political Science and member of the core faculty at the Center for Latin American Studies. His research focuses on democratization, institutional performance, and the rule of law in Latin America. He has conducted fieldwork in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, and Venezuela, and published in academic journals in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Egypt, Great Britain, Peru, Spain, the United States, and Uruguay. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the United States Agency for International Development, and the Inter-American Development Bank, among other institutions. He is the author of Presidential Impeachment and the New Political Instability in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America: Emergence, Survival, and Fall (with Scott Mainwaring, Cambridge University Press, 2013).