Author: Max

Maxwell A. Cameron teaches in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. His research on Peru dates to the 1980s when he wrote his doctoral dissertation (University of California, Berkeley, 1989). The dissertation was published as Democracy and Authoritarianism in Peru (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994). He co-edited The Peruvian Labyrinth (University Park, Pennsylvania: The Penn State University Press, 1997) with Phil Mauceri. Cameron has also written about NAFTA and the international campaign to ban landmines. More recently he co-authored “Democracy Without Parties? Political Parties and Regime Change in Fujimori’s Peru,” Latin American Politics and Society (Vol. 45, no. 3, 2003, with Steve Levitsky), and his essay “Endogenous Regime Breakdown: The Vladivideo and the Fall of Peru’s Fujimori” recently appeared in a volume edited by Julio Carrion, entitled The Fujimori Legacy (University Park, Pennsylvania: The Penn State University Press, 2006). In the fall of 2005, Cameron was the Canadian Bicentennial Professor at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. He will spend January-May in Peru studying the general election as it unfolds. Cameron has recently begun to blog for The Guardian at Comment is free…