Curriculum vitae y mini bio

Mini Bio

Profesor Asociado en el Departamento de Ciencias Sociales (Sección de Ciencia Política y Gobierno) de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). Doctor en Ciencia Política por la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Máster en Estudios Latinoamericanos por la Universidad de Salamanca, España, y en Relaciones Internacionales y Diplomacia por la Escuela Superior de Economía de Praga, República Checa. Es autor de The Persistence of Local Caudillos in Latin America. Informal Political Practices and Democracy in Unitary Countries (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024) y ha co-editado junto con Flavia Freidenberg, Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian y Mariana Caminotti los libros Mujeres en la política. Experiencias nacionales y subnacionales en América Latina (IECM e IIJ-UNAM, 2018) y Women, Politics, and Democracy in Latin America (Palgrave, 2017). Sus líneas de investigación son los partidos políticos y sistemas de partidos, las reformas electorales y la política subnacional. Ha publicado artículos en revistas como PS: Political Science & Politics, Cities, Urban Affairs Review, Democratization, Studies in Comparative International Development, Local Government Studies, Contemporary Politics, Latin American Politics and Society, Latin American Research Review, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Revista de Ciencia Política o Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas. Co-fundador y uno de lxs coordinadores de la Red de Estudios sobre Política Subnacional en América Latina (REPSAL). Ex coordinador del Grupo de Investigación sobre Estado y Sociedad (GIES-PUCP) y ex coordinador (junto con Lindsay Mayka) de la sección de Subnational Politics and Society de la Latin American Studies Association (LASA). 

Mini Bio (English)

Tomas Dosek is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Salamanca. He is the author of The Persistence of Local Caudillos in Latin America. Informal Political Practices and Democracy in Unitary Countries (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024) and co-editor of Women, Politics, and Democracy in Latin America (Palgrave, 2017) and Mujeres en la política: Experiencias nacionales y subnacionales en América Latina (IECM and IIJ-UNAM, 2018). His research interests include political parties and party systems, electoral reforms, and subnational politics in Latin America. He has previously published in journals such as PS: Political Science & Politics, Cities, Urban Affairs Review, Democratization, Studies in Comparative International Development, Contemporary Politics, Local Government Studies, Latin American Politics and Society, Latin American Research Review, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Revista de Ciencia Política and Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas. His research has been disseminated via blogs such as Urban Affairs Forum (Urban Affairs Review), Monkey Cage (The Washington Post), Presidential Power, OpenDemocracy.net, Agenda Pública (El País), Panoramas (University of Pittsburgh), and Primer Saque (Oraculus and CIDE Mexico). He served (together with Lindsay Mayka) as a co-chair of the Subnational Politics and Society Section of the Latin American Studies Association. He is co-founder and co-director of  the Latin American Research Network on Subnational Politics (REPSAL).