Alejandro Olivares L.

I am a Doctor of Social Sciences and hold an MA in Political Science, both from the Universidad de Chile. I also earned a BA in Political Science from the Universidad Central de Chile.

In addition, I am a researcher at the Fondecyt de Iniciación 11200345, a Chilean National Agency for Research and Development funded project focused on the continuity of public policies in Chile. I recently joined the Núcleo Milenio de Desigualdades y Oportunidades Digitales (NUDOS) as an early career researcher and also am an adjunct researcher at the Centre for Health and Society Research at the Universidad Mayor.

Since 2022 I have been the director of the Public Administration programme at the Universidad Mayor. Previously, I was a visiting professor at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO) in Ecuador, a scholar at the Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile, and a Lecturer at the Universidad de Chile.

Featured Articles

Albala, A., Clerici, P., & Olivares, A. (2023). Determinants of the cabinet size in presidential systems. Governance. Early View.
Martínez, C. A., & Olivares, A. (2022). Chile 2021: Entre un intenso calendario electoral y la acusación constitucional en contra de Sebastián Piñera. Revista de Ciencia Política, 42(2), 225–253.
Olivares, A., Martínez, C. A., Arellano, J. C., Carrasco, S., Campos, M., Medina, P., & Lopes, A. V. (2022). Presidencialismo en América Latina. Algunas consideraciones para el debate. Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal, XXII(79), 211-242.
Olivares, A., Carrasco, C., & Tricot, V. (2022). The student movement 2011 and free education policy in Chile (2017). Revista Brasileira de Políticas Públicas, 12(3), 255-273.
Rozas-Bugueño, J., Maillet, A., & Olivares, A. (2022). Entre la independencia y la militancia: Análisis de la vinculación partidaria de los y las convencionales constituyentes de Chile. Revista Economía y Política, 9(2), 67-100.
Olivares, A., & Medina, P. (2020). La persistente debilidad institucional de Ecuador: Protestas, elecciones y divisiones políticas durante el 2019. Revista de Ciencia Política, 40(2), 315–349.
Olivares, A., & Carrasco, C. (2020). Social Movements and Public Policies in Chile: Analysis of the Student Movement of 2011 and the No+AFP movement of 2016. Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review, 20(2), 203–222.
Olivares, A., González-Bustamante, B., Toro, S., Arellano, J. C., Yanes-Rojas, A., Zurita-Tapia, J., Lopes, A. V., Robledo Guzmán, C., & Canavesi Sosa, J. B. (2020). Nuevos desafíos, enfoques y perspectivas para estudiar élites políticas. Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal, XX(74), 229–259.
Maillet, A., González-Bustamante, B., & Olivares, A. (2019). Public-Private Circulation and the Revolving Door in the Chilean Executive Branch (2000–2014). Latin American Business Review, 20(4), 367-387.
Olivares, A. (2018). Ministros y precandidatos presidenciales en Chile 1990-2014. Revista Chilena de Derecho y Ciencia Política, 9(2), 230–258.

Book and Chapters

Olivares, A. (2022). Survival of Ministers and Configuration of Cabinets in Chile and Uruguay. Springer Nature.
Zurita-Tapia, J., Yanes-Rojas, A., & Olivares, A. (2022). ¿Vicepresidencia para Chile? In C. A. Martínez (Ed.), Presidencialismo. Reflexiones para el debate constitucional en Chile. Santiago: Fondo de Cultura Económica.
Escudero, M. C., & Olivares, A. (2021). From the Dance of Those Left Out to a New Constitution: Channeling the Chilean Social Unrest. In B. Navarrete & V. Tricot (Eds.), Social Outburst and Political Representation in Chile. Springer Nature.
González-Bustamante, B., & Olivares, A. (2018). La élite política gubernamental en Chile: Supervivencia de ministros. In A. Codato and F. Espinoza (eds.), Las Élites en las Américas: Diferentes Perspectivas. Curitiba: Editora Universidade Federal do Paraná.

Data Collection Projects

González-Bustamante, B., & Olivares, A. (2023). Data Set on Chilean Ministers (1990-2014) (Version 3.3.7 – Soft Dew). Dataset, University of Oxford, Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH), Universidad Mayor and Training Data Lab.
González-Bustamante, B., & Olivares, A. (2023). Data Set on Chilean Undersecretaries (1990-2022) (Version 2.1.4 – Wandering Grass). Dataset, University of Oxford, Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH), Universidad Mayor and Training Data Lab.
González-Bustamante, B., Olivares, A., Cisternas, C., & Cuevas, R. (2023). Chilean Political Science Ranking. Dataset, University of Oxford, Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH) and Training Data Lab.

Contact Information

Email: alejandro.olivares@umayor.cl
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6934-2437

41% of works as first author, 12% as sole author.
Last updated: June 1, 2023.