
Kirk A. Hawkins is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. He studies political parties and populism, especially in Latin America. He is the author of Venezuela’s Chavismo and Populism in Comparative Perspective (2010, Cambridge University Press) and a coauthor of Latin American Party Systems (2010, Cambridge University Press). His work has been published as several book chapters and in journals, including Comparative Political Studies, Latin American Research Review, and Third World Quarterly