Andres Uribe is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford University Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Andres is a scholar of democracy, political violence, and the state in the Americas. His primary research agenda seeks to understand the causes of violence in democracies and its consequences for democratic institutions, policy outcomes, and human security. Other projects explore processes of competitive state building during civil war, governance by non-state actors, and the political strategies of anti-democratic politicians.
