Carlos de la Torre
- Political Sociology
- Global Populism
- Latin American Studies
- Racism
Ph.D. Sociology, New School for Social Research 1993 M.A. Sociology, New School for Social Research, 1987
Books
The Routledge Handbook of Global Populism. New York and London: Routledge
Populismos: Una Inmersión Rápida. Barcelona: Tibidabo Ediciones, 2017.
De Velasco a Correa: Insurreciones, populismo y elecciones en Ecuador, 1944-2013. Quito: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar and Corporación Editora Nacional, 2015.
Carlos de la Torre, ed., The Promises and Perils of Populism: Global Perspectives. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Populism of the Twenty First Century. Co-edited with Cynthia Arnson. Baltimore and Washington: the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Woodrow Wilson Center Press (2013).
Populist Seduction in Latin America. Athens: Ohio University Press, second edition 2010.
The Ecuador Reader: History, Culture, Politics, co-edited with Steve Striffler, Duke University Press, 2008
El Retorno del Pueblo, co-edited with Enrique Peruzzotti, Quito: FLACSO, 2008.El Retorno del Pueblo, co-edited with Enrique Peruzzotti, Quito: FLACSO, 2008.
Galo Plaza y su Época, co-edited with Mireya Salgado, Quito: FLACSO and Fundación Galo Plaza Lasso, 2008.
Afroquiteños: Ciudadanía y Racismo. Quito: CAAP, 2002.
¡Un Solo Toque! Populismo y Cultura Política en Ecuador. Quito: CAAP, 1996.
El Racismo en Ecuador: Experiencias de los Indios de Clase Media. Quito: CAAP, 1996. (Second edition Quito: Abya-Yala 2002).
La Seducción Velasquista. Quito: FLACSO and Libri Mundi, 1993 (Second Edition 1997).
El Populismo en el Ecuador: Antología de Textos. Co-edited with Felipe Burbano. Quito: ILDIS, 1989.
Recent articles
“Trump’s populism: lessons from Latin America” Postcolonial Studies, 20 (02) 2017, 187-198 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2017.1363846
“Hugo Chávez and the Diffusion of Bolivarianism” Democratization, 24 (7) 2017, 1271-1288 DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2017.1307825.
“Populism and Nationalism in Latin America” Javnost- The Public, 24 (4) 2017, 375-390 DOI: 10.1080/13183222.2017.1330731
“Populist Citizenship in the Bolivarian Revolutions” Mid-Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies, 1 (1), 2017, 4-29.
“Populism and the Politics of the Extraordinary”, Journal of Political Ideologies, 21 (2) 2016, 121-139, DOI: 10.1080/13569317.2016.1150137.
“Populist polarization and the slow death of democracy in Ecuador” with Andrés Ortiz,. Democratization, 23 (2) 2016, 221-241, DOI:10.1080/13510347.2015.1058784
“The People, Democracy, and Authoritarianism in Rafael Correa’s Ecuador” Constellations, Vol. 21, Nº4, Fall 2014, 457-466.
“In the Name of the People: Democratization, Popular Organizations, and Populism in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador” European Review of Latin America and Caribbean Studies/Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe N 95, October 2013, 27-48.
“El Tecnopopulismo de Rafael Correa. ¿Es compatible el carisma con la tecnocracia?” Latin American Research Review 48 (1) Spring 2013, pp. 24-43.


