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Lucas Perelló
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Bio
Dr. Perelló is a scholar of comparative politics specializing in Latin America and the Caribbean. His research focuses on supply- and demand-side politics in socio-economic settings marked by poverty and inequality. Dr. Perelló has published his research in the Journal of Democracy, Studies in Comparative International Development, Politics, and the Journal of Latin American Politics. He is working on a book manuscript examining party systems in Central America. Dr. Perelló received a 2019-20 Fulbright scholarship to conduct fieldwork in Honduras.
Education
Ph.D., Politics, The New School, 2023
M.Phil, Politics, The New School, 2018
M.A. in Applied Quantitative Research, New York University, 2015
M.A., Political Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2012
B.A, Political Science, Universidad Diego Portales, 2010
Research Interests / Areas of Focus
Comparative Politics, Democratization, Political parties, Party systems, Latin America, Central America, the Caribbean, Migration.
Selected Publications
Perelló, L. and Navia, P. 2023. "Jumpstarting ideological alignments in clientelist party systems: Evidence from Honduras’s 2009 coup." Studies in Comparative International Development. 58: 103-126. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-022-09379-4
Perelló, L. and Navia, P. 2023. "Conditional cash transfers and voting for incumbents under democratic backsliding: The case of Honduras’s Bono 10,000." Bulletin of Latin American Research 42(3): 456-472. https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13463
Freeman, W. and Perelló, L. [Equal authors]. 2022. "The long game: The opposition wins in Honduras." Journal of Democracy 33(2): 118-132. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/852749
Perelló, L. and Navia, P. 2022. "The disruption of an institutionalised and polarised party system: Discontent with democracy and the rise of Nayib Bukele in El Salvador." Politics 42(3): 267-288. https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957221077181
Navia, P., Perelló, L. and Masek, V. 2022. "Demand without supply? Mass partisanship, ideological attachments, and the puzzle of Guatemala’s electoral market failure." International Area Studies Review 25(2): 99-120. https://doi.org/10.1177/22338659211072939
Perelló, L. and Navia, P. 2022. "Changes in support for Nicaragua’s Sandinista National Liberation Front during democratic backsliding." Politics 42(3): 426-442. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263395720961999
Perelló, L. and Navia, P. 2021. "Abrupt and gradual realignments in developing democracies: The case of Costa Rica, 1958-2018." Journal of Politics in Latin America 13(1): 86-113. https://doi.org/10.1177/1866802X20967733
