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Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser

Portrait Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (David Ausserhofer)
Research Fields
  • Populism
  • Political theory
  • Latin America
  • Historical sociology
  • Elite theory
Contact
mail: c [dot] rovira [at] sussex [dot] ac [dot] uk
Visiting Researcher of the Research Unit
Former Staff Member of the Bridge Project
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from September 2011
Marie-Curie Research Fellow, Deparment of Politics and Contemporary European Studies, University of Sussex

January to June 2010
Visiting fellow, Oxford University, Nuffield College

since April 2009
Post-doctoral scholarship at the WZB, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH)

2004-2008
PhD student, Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS), Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin

2002-2003
Research fellow, Chilean Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)


Selected Publications
  • Mudde, Cas/Rovira Kaltwasser, Cristóbal (2011): Voices of the Peoples. Populism in Europe and Latin America Compared. Kellogg Institute Working Paper. Notre Dame, IN: Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
  • Rovira Kaltwasser, Cristóbal (2011): "The Ambivalence of Populism. Threat and Corrective for Democracy". In: Democratization, S. 1-25.
  • Rovira Kaltwasser, Cristóbal (2011): "Toward Post-Neoliberalism in Latin America?". In: Latin American Research Review, Vol. 46, No. 2, S. 225-234.
  • Kaltwasser, Cristóbal Rovira (2010): "Moving beyond the Washington Consensus. The Resurgence of the Left in Latin America". In: Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft/International Politics and Society, No. 3, S. 52-62.
  • Rovira Kaltwasser, Cristóbal (2009): Kampf der Eliten. Das Ringen um gesellschaftliche Führung in Lateinamerika, 1810-1982. Frankfurt a.M./New York, NY: Campus, 361 S.
Projects

2011
Bringing the Right back in: The Right and Democracy in Contemporary Latin America, Workshop at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), July 2011, funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation (with Juan Pablo Luna)

2010
The Ambivalence of Populism: Threat or Corrective for Democracy?
Workshop at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), August 2010, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation (with Cas Mudde)