Author: Laura Gamboa | Journal of Democracy

Laura Gamboa is assistant professor of political science at the University of Utah. She is the author of Resisting Backsliding: Opposition Strategies Against the Erosion of Democracy (2022).

Articles by Laura Gamboa:

July 2023, Volume 34, Issue 3

How Oppositions Fight Back

Laura Gamboa

Behind today’s authoritarian wave are democratically elected leaders who use and abuse institutions to undermine the system that brought them to power. But with the right strategies, opposition forces can slow or stop these would-be autocrats.

October 2018, Volume 29, Issue 4

Latin America’s Shifting Politics: The Peace Process and Colombia’s Elections

Laura Gamboa

Colombian voters turned against the architects of the peace accord ending the country’s decades-old internal war, while giving the presidency to a lieutenant of ex-president Uribe, the agreement’s leading opponent.