Publication Type: Proceeding
Abstract: This paper is a comparative study of Fujimori of Peru and Chandrababu Naidu of India, and their redistributive programs. The paper traces similarities between the two leaders policy strategies, and narrates the experience of the implementation of their respective development programs - FONCODES and Velugu. The paper argues that 'neo populists' like Fujimori and Chandrababu Naidu are capable of reaching the poor, but run the risk of making the poor worse off.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: In order to explain the most recent transitions, particularly the Peruvian in 2000, it is necessary to revise the current literature in order to include issues of institutionalization and legitimacy.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Recent elections shed light on the continued travails of the party system in Peru. After the dramatic collapse of an inchoate party system in the 1990s and the rise of an anti-party president, traditional parties and politicians experienced a modest recovery in 2001, in the first elections after a return to democracy. A new round of elections in 2006 revealed the party system’s remarkable continuities after five years: the two most institutionalized traditional parties achieved almost exactly the same legislative and presidential outcomes as in 2001, while a new candidate replaced 2001’s victorious outsider. This time, however, the outsider was defeated and for the first time since 1985 a party system insider has reached the presidency. Ironically, it is the same candidate as was elected 21 years ago.
What do rational choice, political culture, institutional, and structural approaches tell us about the survival and demise of political parties and party systems? In the present paper, I compare these approaches as they attempt to explain a specific political phenomenon: the death, resurrection, and continuities of traditional political parties in Peru.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: The paper supports the authors in the April 2002 Journal of Democracy issue in their arguments that, in our regime classifications, analysts should carefully assess not only electoral processes but also incumbents' record of respect or disrespect for democracy and the rule of law. As Larry Diamond declares, "Regime classification must, in part, assess the previous election, but it must also assess the intentions and capabilities of ambiguously democratic ruling elites, something that is very hard to do."

Indeed, it is the argument of this chapter that the intentions and capabilities of elites should be assessed not only with respect to their administrations, as Diamond suggests, but also with respect to elections under their auspices. Using Peru's 2000 presidential election as a case study, the paper points out that, evaluating electoral processes just as they happen, international observers may be unable to secure the evidence necessary for judgment of the election. In the case of Peru's 2000 election, this paper shows that, not taking into account Alberto Fujimori's record of disrespect for democracy and the rule of law, international observers almost gave the election a passing grade.

Publication Type: Paper (prepared oral presentation)
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: As is known, on December 10th of 2008, began the Peruvian ex-president and dictator from Peru, Alberto Fujimori Fujimori trial. He is judged for three crimes against human rights: The two slaughters realized on Barrios Altos and Cantuta University, and the kidnapping from the journalist Gustavo Gorriti and the businessman Samuel Dyer.

The present work explores the affections, emotions, perceptions and judgments that have been formed in the people who attend regularly to the trial, where is judged Alberto Fujimori. It focuses specially on humanitarian watchers and members of the interdisciplinary equipment that toils around this process, but also tries to approach to those other assistants, as the militaries relatives. To get both approaches, the methodology employed includes interviews to some of the current assistants, review of articles from several psychologists, journalists and social scientists, and finally participant observation through ten months of the trial. But also, for a better understanding of the trial, a pursuit to the journalistic information and significant the connected facts was done.

Anxiety, fear, hopes, disappointments, rage, but also much love and the development of empathic capacities, solidarity and self-esteem fortification are some of the mixed emotions and affections found. The conviction and security in the culpability of Fujimori, guides and orients the judgments on the trial, being diverse levels of objectivity, which not always are shared. Finally, the most positive process observed through this work is the conformation of a great family united by ideals and values of life, democracy, justice and truth.