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Vice-Director of the Centro de Análisis multidisciplinar de la incorporación social (CAMIS), a Center of Research and Innovation (CIDI) of the University of Valparaiso, 2024-2026.
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Principal Researcher. Fondecyt Regular, ANID (Chile’s centralized national research agency), “Appeals and Political Differentiation in Post-Populist Party Systems: A New Framework for Comparative Spatial Analysis”. Awarded in January 2023.
clp$159.120.000, for four years (US$ 200,000 in Chile, where moreover inputs costs are much lower), 2023-2026 (four years).
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Principal Researcher (on team of four). Proyecto Anillos PIA-SOC 18001 “Bienestar y desigualdad en Chile después de la independencia, c. 1810-2020”, 2020-2022. (Director: Manuel Llorca.)
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Principal Researcher. “The Performance and Cross-Regional Praxis of Populism”, with Joe Lowndes (University of Oregon). CAS Program Grants and Office of International Affairs, Global Oregon Research Grant program. 2017. $ 15,000 US.
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“Populism in Europe and Latin America: A Cross-regional Perspective”). With Paul Taggart, Department of Politics, University of Sussex. The British Academy, International Partnership Scheme, 2012-2015. £ 30,000
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"Systèmes de partis et espaces politiques en Amérique latine : Venezuela et Argentine” [Party Systems and Political Spaces in Latin America: Venezuela and Argentina]”, Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture (Canada), Can $38,400 for 3 years, May 2004. I relinquished this highly competitive grant to move to Bard in July 2004.