Autor: Juan Pablo Luna

Juan Pablo holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina; his dissertation won the Juan Linz Award for Best Doctoral Thesis, awarded by the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Association of Political Science. He is currently a Faculty Member at the Political Science Institute and a professor at the Government School, both at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His topics of interest are the analysis of political party systems and political representation, the political effects of inequality, the state, and the research methodology in political science, with emphasis on the mixed methods approach. He is the author of the books "Segmented representation: political party strategies in unequal democracies" (Oxford University Press 2014) and of "Instead of optimism, Crisis of political representation in Chile today" (Catalonia, CIPER 2017).