Santiago Anria
Santiago Anria is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Labor and Work at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. His research examines the relationships between social movements, labor unions, and political parties in Latin America. It has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Politics & Society, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Latin American Politics and Society, among others.
His first book, When Movements Become Parties: The Bolivian MAS in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, 2018), examines the internal politics of parties formed by union movements. Santiago's current book project, Polarization and Democracy: Latin America After the Left Turn (co-authored with Kenneth M. Roberts and forthcoming with The University of Chicago Press), provides a new perspective on the causes and consequences of political polarization in Latin America. He is also working on a research project that investigates how social movements shape the entrenchment of policies aimed at reducing social inequalities.
Santiago received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2015. He has held fellowships at Harvard University (2021-22) and Tulane University (2015-17).
Publications
Books
- . (2025). Polarization and Democracy. The University of Chicago Press.
- . (2018). When Movements Become Parties: The Bolivian MAS in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge University Press, Studies in Comparative Politics Series.
Journal Articles
- . (2022). Empowering Inclusion? The Two Sides of Party-Society Linkages in Latin America. Studies in Comparative International Development, 57, 410-432.
- . (2021). Agents of Representation: The Organic Connection between Society and Leftist Parties in Bolivia and Uruguay. Politics and Society, 50(3), 384-412.
- . (2019). The Participatory Politics of Social Policies: The Cases of Bolivia and Brazil. Latin American Politics and Society, 61(Special Issue 2), 115-1377.
- . (2017). Inside Revolutionary Parties: Coalition-Building and Maintenance in Reformist Bolivia. Comparative Political Studies, 50(9), 1255-87.
- . (2016). Delegative Democracy Revisited: More Inclusion, Less Liberalism in Bolivia. Journal of Democracy, 27(3), 99-108.
- . (2016). Democratizing Democracy? Civil Society and Party Organization in Bolivia. Comparative Politics, 48(4), 459-78.
- . (2016). Social Movements and Social Policy: The Bolivian Renta Dignidad. Studies in Comparative International Development, 51(3), 308-327.
- . (2013). Social Movements, Party Organization, and Populism: Insights from the Bolivian MAS. Latin American Politics and Society, 55(3), 19-46.