Martín Tanaka is senior researcher at the Institute of Peruvian Studies and an associate professor at the Catholic University of Peru, where he directs the political-science undergraduate program. He is a weekly columnist for the newspaper La República and coeditor (with Francine Jácome) of Challenges to Democratic Governance: Political and Institutional Reforms and Social Movements in the Andean Region (in Spanish). This essay was translated from Spanish by Brent Kallmer.
October 2011, Volume 22, Issue 4
Despite the presidential victory of Ollanta Humala, Peru’s 2011 elections had some continuities with the 2006 contest. The electorate is dividing along regional and socioeconomic rather than partisan lines.
