Andres Estefane Jaramillo PhD in History (State University of New York at Stony Brook) and researcher at the Center for the Study of Political History of the School of Government at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile). His research interests revolve around the links among bureaucracy, local power, territory, and processes of State formation. Among his latest publications are “La institucionalización del sistema estadístico chileno: debates y problemas prácticos (1843-1851)” (2016); “Militancy and parliamentary representation in Chile, 1849-79. Notes for a prosopographical study of the Chamber of Deputies” (with Juan Luis Ossa, 2017); and “Latin American Marxism and the Atlantic” (with Luis Thielemann, forthcoming). He is also coeditor of the collective project Historia política de Chile, 1810-2010 (4 volumes, 2017-2018).