Régis Dandoy is Professor of Comparative Politics and Director of the Centre for European Studies at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador). He is also an Associate Researcher at Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan) and the United Nations University (UNU-CRIS). His main research interests and publications focus on federalism, party manifestos, digital democracy, subnational elections, electronic voting and election observation.
Régis says:
I’m thrilled and grateful to the RSA for awarding me a Start-Up Research Grant. As someone deeply invested in regional studies, I welcome this opportunity to pursue my research on the content of party manifesto for the last national and subnational elections in Ecuador, and in particular their focus on decentralization and indigenous issues. I also look forward to sharing my findings with RSA members and the scientific community