Articles by Ignacio Arana Araya

May 26, 2026

Keiko Fujimori: bidding to turn dynasty into destiny in Peru

Ignacio Arana Araya

Peru's most polarising politician is making an extraordinary fourth bid for the country’s presidency. Carolina Guerrero Valencia and Ignacio Arana Araya discuss how Keiko built her career on dynastic inheritance and the First Lady role: two shortcuts to power that push fragile democracies toward soft patrimonialism

Ignacio Arana Araya

Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy and Technology, Carnegie Mellon University

Ignacio studies how the personality traits and other individual differences of national leaders affect executive governance.

His work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Psychology, Democratization, Journal of Legislative Studies, and Latin American Politics and Society, among others.

He is currently finishing the book The Psychology of Presidents, under contract with Cambridge University Press.

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Presidential Personalities and Constitutional Power Grabs in Latin America, 1945–2021
Oxford University Press, 2026

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Keiko Fujimori: bidding to turn dynasty into destiny in Peru

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