Democracy Under Assault: The Peruvian Crisis in Comparative Perspective

Alberto Vergara is a political scientist. He is a professor at the department of social sciences at the Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Peru). Among his recent books: Moder Peru: a new history(edited with Paulo Drinot, Duke University Press, 2025); Peru Global: explicar el Perú con el mundo (edited with Adrián Lerner, Fondo editorial de la Universidad del Pacífico, 2025); Repúblicas defraudadas: Puede América Latina escapar de su atasco? (Crítica, 2023).