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Addier Giovanni Arriola Laura

DPhil Student
AFFILIATION
College
Nuffield College
Course
DPhil Politics
supervisor
email
addier.arriolalaura@politics.ox.ac.uk

I am a DPhil student in Politics, supervised by Professor Ezequiel González Ocantos. My studies are generously funded by Nuffield College and the Clarendon Scholarship. My research examines criminal governance, state capacity, and the functioning of illegal and informal economies, using a mixed-methods, qualitative approach. My doctoral proposal specifically examines the variables that explain the variability of ‘criminal governments’ in areas of illegal mining that share similar historical processes in Latin America. More broadly, my academic interest centres on ‘non-state’ forms of social, political and economic order. 

Before joining Oxford, I completed my undergraduate studies in Political Science at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). I then completed an MSc in Criminal Justice Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where I was awarded two Titmuss Prizes for outstanding performance and an outstanding dissertation. My dissertation, ‘Policing extractive environmental crimes: a comparative study of illegal gold mining in Madre de Dios and La Libertad, Peru 2021–2024’, examined the role of non-state actors in policing illegal mining against a backdrop of weak state capacity and the Peruvian state’s limited territorial reach.

I have also worked as a research analyst specialising in organised crime at the Peruvian Ministry of the Interior and as a research officer specialising in restorative justice at Restorative Justice for All (RJ4All) in the United Kingdom.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • “La urbanización informal: dinámicas entre traficantes de tierras y la alcaldía de un municipio de la periferia urbana de Lima, Perú”. Debates en Sociología, (61), 14–38 (2025). https://doi.org/10.18800/debatesnesociologia.202502.001
  • “Entre el entusiasmo y la indiferencia. Expectativas y acciones de la baja y mediana burocracia frente a la Reforma del Servicio Civil en dos ministerios peruanos” (with Alva, J. and Ramos V.) Politai Revista de Ciencia Política, 9(17), 90-118 (2018). https://doi.org/10.18800/politai.201802.003
  • “La burocracia del sector extractivo: Un análisis del perfil profesional de la alta burocracia del Ministerio de Energía y Minas en el marco del boom de los commodities (2006-2016)” (with Alva, J., Calisaya, S. and Trujillo, J.) Politai Revista de Ciencia Política, 8(15), 15-42. https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/politai/article/view/19585

Books and book chapters

  • “Capítulo 2: ¿Elección o selección? Mecanismos de democracia interna durante las elecciones congresales 2020”. En Una elección extraordinaria. Análisis de las Elecciones Congresales de 2020. Lima: Jurado Nacional de Elecciones (2021).
  • En busca del distrito prometido: participación directa y consulta vecinal en Alto Trujillo. (with Ayala, H. and Cantuarias, P.) Lima: Jurado Nacional de Elecciones (2020).

Non-refereed