Ernesto Calvo

Ernesto Calvo (PhD, Northwestern University 2001), Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. His work centers on the study of comparative political institutions, political representation, and social networks. He is the author of Non-Policy Politics (Cambridge U.P, 2019) Legislator Success in Fragmented Congresses in Argentina (Cambridge U.P: 2014), Anatomía Política de Twitter en Argentina (Capital Intelectual, 2015), and La nueva política de Partidos (Prometeo: 2005). His articles have been published in major journals of Latin America, Europe, and the United States, including the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Communication, the Journal of Politics, World Politics, and The British Journal of Political Science among others. His research has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Lawrence Longley Award, the Leubbert Best Article Award, and the Michael Wallerstein Awards from the American Political Science Association. He is currently working on a book project on the propagation of political messages in social media.