Alfredo Joignant Rondon is a Chilean sociologist and

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

professor at the

Diego Portales University Diego Portales University ( es, Universidad Diego Portales, UDP) is one of the first private universities founded in Chile and is named after the Chilean statesman Diego Portales. UDP has campuses in the Barrio Universitario de SantiagoA litera ...

. He holds a Phd in political science at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Joignant is a researcher at Centro de Estudios de Conflicto y Cohesión Social (COES), a joint venture of the

University of Chile The University of Chile ( es, Universidad de Chile) is a public research university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded on November 19, 1842, and inaugurated on September 17, 1843.

, the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Diego Portales University and Adolfo Ibáñez University. Joignant is the past President of the Chilean Political Science Association. He has published in journals of international prestige such as ''Sociological Perspectives'', ''Sociology Compass'', ''Memory Studies'', ''Democratization'', ''Journal of Latin American Studies'', ''Revista mexicana de sociología'', ''Cahiers internationaux de sociologie'', Politix. ''Revue des sciences sociales du politique'', and ''Revue française de science politique''. His last book is ''Acting Politics: a Critical Sociology of the Political Field'' (London and New York: Routledge, 2019), forthcoming in Spanish in 2022 (''El juego político''. Madrid: Tecnos). Joignant has praised the "programatic intuition" of the second government of

Michelle Bachelet Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria (; born 29 September 1951) is a Chilean politician who served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2018 to 2022. She previously served as President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and 2014 to 201 ...

(2014–2018). He is the co-author (with Fernando Atria, Javier Couso, José Miguel Benavente and Guillermo Larraín) of '' El otro modelo. Del orden neoliberal al régimen de lo público'' (Santiago: Debate, 2013). Joignant has on the other side being deeply critical of

Axel Kaiser Axel Phillip Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen (born 4 July 1981) is a Chilean writer, lawyer and political scientist. A Mont Pelerin Society member, he has collaborated as a columnist for ''El Mercurio'', ''El Líbero'' and ''Diario Financiero'' ...

's and Gloria Álvarez's book ''El engaño populista'' which he called "confuse", "harmful" and "very bad".''El Informante'',

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. 2016 In 2018 Joignant sparred with Daniel Jadue, a defender of the Maduro government, in televised debate over the situation in Venezuela. In 2019 Joignant was a member of the “jury d’agrégation” in political science in France. He is a counsellor of the Chilean Electoral Service (2018-2023), appointed by the Senate.

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