Lucas Perello

Contact Information & Background:

Visiting Lecturer of Political Science
Office: Ladd Hall #317
Phone: 518-580-5240
Email: lperello@skidmore.edu 

Website: Visit Professor Perello's personal website 
Social Media: Twitter: @lucas_perello
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Biography

Professor Lucas Perelló teaches in the Department of Political Science at Skidmore College. He is an affiliate of the Latin American, Caribbean, & Latinx Studies program.

Education:

• Ph.D. candidate & M.Phil. in Politics from The New School
• M.A. in Applied Quantitative Research from New York University
• M.A. in Political Science from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• B.A. in Political Science from Universidad Diego Portales

Research Interests:

• Latin America and the Caribbean
• Political parties
• Party systems
• Democratization

Courses

• Introduction to Comparative and International Politics
• The Latin American Puzzle
• Latin America and the United States
• Comparative Revolutions

Selected publications

• Freeman, Will, and Lucas Perelló (2022). “The long game: The opposition wins in Honduras.” Journal of Democracy, 33(2), 118-132. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/852749
• Perelló, Lucas, and Patricio Navia (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, Patricio, Lucas Perelló, and Vaclav Masek (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, Lucas, and Patricio Navia (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, Lucas, and Patricio Navia (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
• Perelló, Lucas, and Patricio Navia (2020). “The rise of alternative presidential candidates in Chile, 2009-2017.” Revista Latinoamericana de Opinión Pública, 9(2), 81-109. https://doi.org/10.14201/rlop.23628

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