Latin American Politics and Society

About Gerardo L. MunckJuan Pablo Luna

Gerardo L. Munck grew up in Buenos Aires Argentina and is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California. His books include Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies (with David Collier; 2022); A Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America (with Sebastián Mazzuca; 2020); and Measuring Democracy: A Bridge Between Scholarship and Politics (2009). He worked on Democracy in Latin America (2004) a United Nations Development Programme report. His awards include the Frank Cass Prize for Best Overall Article in Democratization in 2016 and the Award for Conceptual Innovation in Democratic Studies in 2003. Juan Pablo Luna grew up in Montevideo Uruguay and is Professor of Political Science at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Associate Researcher with the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data. His books include Latin American Party Systems (with Kitschelt Hawkins Rosas and Zechmeister; Cambridge 2010); Segmented Representation Political Party Strategies in Unequal Democracies (Oxford 2014); The Resilience of the Latin American Right (with Rovira-Kaltwasser; Johns Hopkins 2014); En vez del optimismo. Crisis de representación política en el Chile actual (Catalonia 2017); and Political Parties and Diminished Subtypes (with Rosenblatt Piñeiro and Vommaro; Cambridge 2021).