Twentieth-century peasant mobilization pushed the Peruvian central government to expand its reach into rural areas. The paper argues that mid-century collective action gave incumbents a political incentive to create local bureaucratic offices that could address peasant demands and integrate peripheral communities into the state.
Michael Albertus examines how formal government recognition of indigenous communities—policies that have expanded rapidly worldwide—affects people’s sense of belonging and choices inside those communities. In Peru, where recognition now covers thousands of communities and roughly one-third of national territory, these decisions shape access to land, local authority, and long-term livelihood strategies.
This paper explores how US military deployments to Peru engage civilians and shape local perceptions.
Comparison focuses on Peruvian municipalities where the previous incumbent was ousted through a recall referendum versus municipalities where a recall referendum failed by a small margin. The goal is to estimate how political accountability mechanisms affect who runs for office when those mechanisms are vulnerable to political capture.
When indigenous groups hold communal property informally, they invest in traditional institutions for collective action and electoral success.
This paper addresses concerns about a recent critique of the 2003 Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission's (TRC) conflict mortality study. The critique attempts to provide an alternative estimate for deaths caused by the Maoist guerrilla group, Sendero Luminoso.
Government transparency is widely promoted, yet its effects on political attitudes remain unclear.