I am a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. My research examines how states build authority across time and space, bureaucratic development, and transitions to democracy. My paper "Varieties of State-Building: Ecology, Clientelism, and Bureaucratic Rule in Chile" has been published at Perspectives on Politics.
In my dissertation and book project, I study how subnational regions' attributes - explain local trajectories of bureaucratic rule and country-level state capacity. In a separate project, I explore the role of traditional oligarchies in transitions to democracy during the first wave.
The SNF Agora Institute, the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (LACLxS), the 21st Century Cities Initiative, and the Nicole Suveges Fieldwork Fellowship have supported my work at JHU. You can follow me on Twitter or connect with me on LinkedIn.
Email: maxvejares[at]jhu[dot]edu
Top photo: Santiago, Chile. Taken from Cerro San Cristóbal's cable car (M. Véjares 2018)