Bosco Govantes

Bosco Govantes serves as a Political Science Associate Professor at Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville, Spain, where he is affiliated with the Department of Public Law. His academic work focuses on North African political systems with particular expertise in Tunisian politics and Euro-Mediterranean relations.

His primary research interests include:

• Comparative Politics
• Euro-Mediterranean Politics
• Democratization and Democratic Backsliding
• Populism
• Tunisian Politics
• North African political dynamics

Govantes' scholarly work examines the relationship between political dissatisfaction and democratic erosion in North Africa. His recent publications analyze voting behavior in Tunisia's 2019 parliamentary election and Tunisia's complex relationship with Palestine, connecting citizen discontent with institutional collapse and authoritarian trends in the region.

He currently leads the research project 'Dissatisfaction, Populism and Authoritarianism in North Africa: Tunisia as a Case Study' funded by Universidad Pablo de Olavide and has participated in four Spanish Government-funded research projects on North African Politics.

Govantes is actively involved with multiple research collectives:

• Group for the Study of Arab and Muslim Societies (GRESAM)
• Politics, Territory and Participation
• Political and Electoral Observatory for the Arab and Muslim World (OPEMAM)
• Research Forum on the Arab and Muslim World (FIMAM)

His field experience includes serving as an electoral observer in Tunisian elections for OPEMAM in 2018 and 2019. As of summer 2025, he holds a Visiting Scholar position at the University of Exeter's Department of Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy and Anthropology, continuing his research on authoritarian drift in Tunisia.