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CURRICULUM VITAE
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser
Associate Professor
Diego Portales University
School of Political Science
Ejército 333, Santiago, Chile
Tel. +56 (2) 26768464
Email: [email protected]
Languages: Spanish (mother tongue), German and English (very good)
Homepage: www.cristobalrovira.com
I. EDUCATION
2008, Ph.D. in Political Science, Humboldt University of Berlin
Dissertation: “Elites and Societal Leadership in Latin America”
Supervisors: Herfried Münkler and Klaus Eder
2002, “Título Profesional” in Sociology, Universidad de Chile
Thesis: “Towards a Reconstruction of Dependency Theory”
Supervisors: Enzo Faletto and Raul Atria
II. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY AND ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
Since 11/2013, Associate Professor, School of Political Science, Diego Portales University, Chile
09/2011-10/2013, Lecturer and Marie Curie Research Fellow, University of Sussex, Department of
Politics
04/2009-08/2011, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Research
Unit on Democracy
01/2010-06/2010, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Oxford, Nuffield College
03/2010, Visiting Lecturer, University of Salamanca
03/2009-07/2009, Part-Time Lecturer, Humboldt University of Berlin, Department of Social
Sciences
10/2008-03/2009, Research Assistant, Humboldt University of Berlin, Department of Social
Sciences
01/2003-08/2004, Research Assistant, Chilean Bureau of the United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP)
III. FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH GRANTS
2015: Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to undertake a two months
research stay at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
2014: Millennium Science Initiative grant to undertake a three-year research project (with Rossana
Castiglioni) on “Critical Citizens, Politicization of Inequality and Institutions: Chile’s Political
Representation in Comparative Perspective”
2014: Humboldt Talent Travel Award to do a research visit of two weeks at the Humboldt
University Berlin
2014: National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (FONDECYT) grant undertake
a four-year research project on “Populism, Constitutionalism and the Politics of
Representation: Cross-regional Patterns”
2012: British Academy International Partnership and Mobility (IPM) grant to undertake a three-year
research project on “Populism: A Cross-Regional Perspective” between the University of
Sussex and Catholic University of Chile
2011: Marie Curie Intra-European Research Fellowship (IEF) to undertake a two-year research
project on “Populism and Democracy” in the Department of Politics, University of Sussex
2010: Research grant of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation to organize a workshop on “The Right in
Contemporary Latin America” at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
2009: Research grant of the Volkswagen Foundation to organize a workshop on “Populism and
Democracy in Europe and the Americas” at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
2009: Post-doctoral fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to undertake a two-year
research project on “Populism in Europe and Latin America” at the Social Science Research
Center Berlin (WZB)
2008: Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS) fellowship to work on the manuscript of
the doctoral thesis and deliver it to a publisher
2003: Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to write a Ph.D. at the
Humboldt University of Berlin
1999: Scholarship from the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg to spend one year at the University
of Heidelberg
IV. PUBLICATIONS
Books
Cas Mudde and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (forthcoming): Populism. A Very Short Introduction.
Oxford, Oxford University Press
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2009): Kampf der Eliten. Das Ringen um gesellschaftliche Führung in
Lateinamerika, 1810-1982. Frankfurt/New York: Campus
Edited volumes
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Paul Taggart, Paulina Ochoa Espejo and Pierre Ostiguy (eds.)
(forthcoming): The Oxford Handbook of Populism. Oxford, Oxford University Press
Juan Pablo Luna and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (eds.) (2014): The Resilience of the Latin American
Right. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press
Cas Mudde and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (eds.) (2012): Populism in Europe and the Americas: Threat
or Corrective for Democracy? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Articles
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser and Paul Taggart (forthcoming): “Dealing with Populists in
Government: A Framework for Analysis”, Democratization
Paul Taggart and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (forthcoming): “Dealing with Populists in
Government: Some Comparative Conclusions”, Democratization
Sonia Alonso and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2015): “Spain: No Country for the Populist Radical
Right?”, South European Society & Politics, 20(1): 21-45
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2015): “La derecha en América Latina y su lucha contra la adversidad”,
Revista Nueva Sociedad, 254: 34-45
Cas Mudde and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2015): “Vox Populi or Vox Masculini? Populism and
Gender in Northern Europe and South America”, Patterns of Prejudice, 49 (1-2): 16-36
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2014): “Latin American Populism: Some Theoretical and Normative
Lessons”, Constellations, 21(4): 494-504
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2014): “Explaining the Rise of Ethnic Politics in Contemporary Latin
America”, Latin American Politics & Society, 56(1): 166-174
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2014): “The Responses of Populism to Dahl’s Democratic Dilemmas”,
Political Studies, 62(3): 470-487
Cas Mudde and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2013): “Exclusionary vs. Inclusionary Populism:
Comparing Contemporary Europe and Latin America”, Government & Opposition, 48(2): 14774
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2012): “The Ambivalence of Populism: Threat and Corrective for
Democracy”, Democratization, 19(2): 184-208
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2011): “Post-Neoliberalism in Latin America?”, Latin American Research
Review, 46(2): 225-34
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2011): “Populismus in vergleichender Perspektive. Skizze einer
Forschungsagenda”, Berliner Debatte Initial, 22: 4-11
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2011): “Skizze einer vergleichenden Forschungsagenda zum
Populismus”, Totalitarismus und Demokratie, 8: 251-71
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2011): “Moving Beyond the Washington Consensus: The Resurgence
of the Left in Latin America”, Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft, 3: 52-62
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2009): “Populismus: Jenseits seiner Dämonisierung oder
Vergötterung”, Berliner Debatte Initial, 20: 69-77
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2007): “Chile: transición pactada y débil autodeterminación colectiva de
la sociedad”, Revista Mexicana de Sociología, 69(2): 343-71
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2007): “Pinochets Tod und die schweigende Zustimmung zu seinem
Regime”, Lateinamerika Analysen, 16(1): 253-64
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2005): “Globalización en América Latina: sobre los aportes y perjuicios
sociales de la dependencia”, Revista Persona y Sociedad, 9(3): 63-84
Book chapters
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2015): “Explaining the (Re)Emergence of Populism in Europe and the
Americas”, in Carlos de la Torre (ed.), The Promise and Perils of Populism: Global Perspectives.
Lexington, Kentucky University Press, 189-227
Juan Pablo Luna and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2014): “Introduction. The Right in Contemporary
Latin America: A Framework for Analysis”, in Juan Pablo Luna and Cristóbal Rovira
Kaltwasser (eds.), The Resilience of the Latin American Right. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1-22.
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2014): “From Right-Wing Populism in the 1990s to Left-Wing
Populism in the 2000s – And Back Again?”, in Juan Pablo Luna and Cristóbal Rovira
Kaltwasser (eds.), The Resilience of the Latin American Right. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 143-166
Juan Pablo Luna and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2014): “Conclusion. Right (and Left) Politics in
Contemporary Latin America: A Framework for Analysis”, in Juan Pablo Luna and Cristóbal
Rovira Kaltwasser (eds.), The Resilience of the Latin American Right. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 347-365
Cas Mudde and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2014): “Political Leadership and Populism”, in Paul ‘t
Hart and Rod A. Rhodes (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Leadership. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 376-388
Cas Mudde and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2013): “Populism”, in Michael Freeden, Marc Stears
and Lyman Tower Sergeant (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 493-512
Cas Mudde and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser: “Populism and (Liberal) Democracy: A Framework for
Analysis”, in Cas Mudde and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (eds.) (2012), Populism in Europe and
the Americas: Threat or Corrective for Democracy? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1-26
Cas Mudde and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser: “Populism: Corrective and Threat to Democracy”, in
Cas Mudde and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (eds.) (2012), Populism in Europe and the Americas:
Threat or Corrective for Democracy? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 205-222.
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2011): “Hacia una sociología histórica de las elites en América Latina.
Un diálogo crítico con la teoría de Pierre Bourdieu”, in Pedro Güell and Alfredo Joignant
(eds.), Notables, tecnócratas y mandarines. Elementos de una sociología de las elites en Chile (1990-2010).
Editorial Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile, 219-39
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2006): “Chile: Eine vorbildliche Demokratie innerhalb
Lateinamerikas?”, in Christoph Kowalewski, Fabian Laubner and Henrike Thies (eds.),
Probleme und Perspektiven der Demokratie in Lateinamerika. Martin Medienbauer, München, 138167
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2004): “Der Beitrag der Dependencia-Schule für das heutige
Verständnis der Globalisierung”, in Alexander Brand and Nicolaus von der Goltz (eds.),
Herausforderung Entwicklung. Neuere Beiträge zur theoretischen und praxisorientierten
Entwicklungsforschung. LIT Verlag, Münster, 22-38
Other academic publications
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2013): “Wahlen in Chile: Die Suche nach einem neuen
Gesellschaftsvertrag”, GIGA Focus, 7
Cas Mudde and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2011): “Voices of the Peoples: Populism in Europe
and Latin America Compared”, Kellogg Working Paper, 378.
Juan Pablo Luna and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2011): “Las derechas gobernantes en América
Latina”, LASA Forum, 3: 16-19
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2010): “Rechtsruck in Chile: Beginn einer neuen politischen Ära?”,
GIGA Focus, 2
Carolina Moreno and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2009): “Imaginarios: desarrollo y aplicaciones de
un concepto crecientemente utilizado en las Ciencias Sociales”, Programa de las Naciones Unidas
para el Desarrollo, Dirección Regional para América Latina y el Caribe
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2006): “Eine Frau kommt an die Macht: Verkörpert Chile einen
Sonderweg in Lateinamerika?” GIGA Focus, 3
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2006): “Haben die alten Eliten ausgedient? Eliten und Macht in
Lateinamerika”, Ibero-Analysen, 18
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2003): “Transformaciones culturales e identidad juvenil en Chile”,
Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo, Santiago de Chile
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (2003): “Die Dependencia-Schule im Kontext der
Globalisierungsdiskussion. Ein Beitrag zur Überwindung der Diskontinuität in der
lateinamerikanischen Sozialwissenschaft”, Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien
Bremen (InIIS) Arbeitspapier, 26
V. ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (LAST FOUR YEARS)
Diego Portales University, Conference on Crisis of Democratic Representation in Chile, presenter
(11/2015)
European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) conference in Toronto, paper giver (09/2015)
Policy Network, research presentation on “Dealing with Populists in Government”, London
(06/2015)
European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) research sessions in Nijmegen (06/2015)
University of Thessaloniki, Conference on Populism, paper giver and discussant (06/2015)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA) conference in Puerto Rico, panel organizer and paper
giver (05/2015)
Team Populism Conference, organized by Brigham Young University in London, discussant
(05/2015)
Woodrow Wilson Center, book presentation (01/2015)
European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) conference in Glasgow, paper giver and
discussant (09/2014)
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Workshop on “Comparative Populism Worldwide”,
conference organizer and paper giver (07/2014)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA) conference in Chicago, panel organizer and paper giver
(05/2014)
European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) joint sessions, panel “Defending or Damaging
Democracy?”, paper giver (04/2014)
European University Institute (Florence), conference “Elections in Europe in Times of Crisis”,
paper giver (11/2013)
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society (New York), conference on “Populism and
Constitutionalism”, paper giver (09/2013)
Latin American Studies Association conference in Washington DC, panel organizer, discussant, and
paper giver (05/2013)
University of Swansea (UK), paper giver (03/2013)
European Bureau of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Brussels), workshop “Populism within
Europe and beyond its borders”, paper giver (12/2012)
American Political Science Association conference in New Orleans, panel chair, panel organizer, and
paper giver (09/2012)
International Political Science Association conference in Madrid, panel chair, panel organizer,
discussant, and paper giver (07/2012)
Latin American Studies Association conference in San Francisco, panel organizer and paper giver
(05/2012)
Political Studies Association conference in Belfast, paper giver (04/2012)
University of Kentucky, workshop “Power to the People”, paper giver (03/2012)
Princeton University, workshop “Populism: Conceptual and Normative Aspects”, paper giver
(02/2012)
VI.PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Member of editorial board of the journal “Government & Opposition” as well as “Colombia
Internacional”
Reviewer for Ashgate, Comparative Politics, Colombia Internacional, Current Sociology, Democratization,
European Journal of Political Research, Fondo Nacional de Desarollo Científico y Tecnológico (FONDECYT),
Government & Opposition, Journal of Political Ideologies, Latin American Politics & Society, Mobilization,
Palgrave Macmillan, Party Politics, Perfiles Latinoamericanos, Persona y Sociedad, Sociological Forum, Sussex
European Institute Working Papers, Revista de Ciencia Política, The European Political Science Review, The
International Journal of Press/Politics, Political Studies, Politics, Swiss National Science Research Foundation
(SNSF), West European Politics, World Politics
Santiago de Chile, December 2015