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Aníbal Pérez-Liñán

Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs

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O205 Hesburgh Center For International Studies
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone
574-631-3837
Email
aperezl1@nd.edu

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Biography

Aníbal Pérez-Liñán is Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, where he serves as Director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. His research focuses on political institutions, the rule of law, and human rights in new democracies. He is co-principal investigator of the Notre Dame Reparations Design and Compliance Lab, and editor of the Kellogg Series on Democracy and Development at the University of Notre Dame Press. He served as editor in chief of the Latin American Research Review (2016-21), the scholarly journal of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the United States Agency for International Development, and the Inter-American Development Bank, among other institutions. He is the author of Presidential Impeachment and the New Political Instability in Latin America (Cambridge University Press and Fondo de Cultura Económica), and Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America (with Scott Mainwaring, Cambridge University Press and Fondo de Cultura Económica).

On leave Fall 2026

Research Interests

Democracy, Latin America, Political Institutions, Rule of Law, Human Rights

Affiliated Centers and Institutes

  • Kellogg Institute for International Studies
  • Keough School of Global Affairs
  • Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights

Awards/Honors/Grants

  • 2023-25. Co-Principal Investigator with Diane Desierto (Notre Dame Law) in the project “Reparations Design and Compliance in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.” Faculty Research Support Program - Regular Grant, University of Notre Dame.
  • 2016-18. Co-Principal Investigator with Andrea Castagnola (UNSAM, Argentina) and Andrés Molina (Instituto Desarrollo, Paraguay) in the project “Political Fragmentation and Judicial Independence,” funded by Paraguay’s National Council for Science and Technology, CONACYT (PINV15-901).
  • 2016. Norbert Lechner Lecturer. Universidad Diego Portales, Chile.
  • 2015-17. Co-Principal Investigator with Adolfo Garcé and Daniela Vairo (Universidad de la República) in the project “Ideas, Institutions, and Democracy: Concentration of Power and Political Instability in Latin America,” funded by Uruguay’s National Agency for Research and Innovation, ANII.
  • 2009-11. National Science Foundation (Law and Social Sciences Program): Research grant for the project “Supreme Court Stability in Latin America” (SES 0918886).

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