I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I study democracy, violence, and the state in the Americas. My book project, War on the Ballot Box: How Violent Actors Corrupt and Disrupt Democracy, examines how armed non-state groups seek to influence the democratic process. Through analysis of rebel, paramilitary, and criminal groups in Latin America, I identify the factors that lead these actors to intervene in electoral politics and the consequences of their interventions for democratic institutions and policy outcomes. Other projects explore governance by non-state actors, statebuilding and political conflict, and the strategies of anti-democratic politicians. At UW-Madison, I teach courses on political violence and democratic erosion.

I received my PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 2023. In 2023-24, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. My CV is available here; please feel free to email me at andres.uribe [at] wisc [dot] edu.