Rodrigo Barrenechea

@rbarrenechea.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Political Science at Universidad Católica del Uruguay

New article with Daniel Encinas. “Cleavages without Parties: Populism and its Voters in Peru.” Even without stable parties, Peruvian voting is quite predictable. Competition has long been structured by a core–periphery cleavage and a populist narrative of “people vs. elite.” Link: t.co/P7AuVXzSTZ

Latin Americanists looking at all the contradictory factions of a populist coalition that undermine existing institutions, while fighting each other, yet are loyal to the same charismatic leader who they believe can resolve all their problems and restore national glory, this time in the U.S..

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Se ha estudiado cómo la baja capacidad estatal lleva a menor capacidad de representación. Con Estado incapaz es difícil representar preferencias de votantes. Pero el Perú actual muestra cómo la baja capacidad de representación puede llevar a menor capacidad estatal. 🧵

This was my last semester at UCU. In '25 I'm joining the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Universidad del Pacífico. I'll miss my wonderful colleagues and I'm also excited to start a new stage with excellent colleagues at UP. Thanks for everything, Uruguay. See you in Lima.

I’ve had many interesting conversations about the election & what the next Trump administration will bring. Is the US set to slide into authoritarianism? Will we wall ourselves off from the world? Is it a new dawn of American prosperity? Might Trump remake the whole political landscape? 🧵 1/N