Events

    2024 Apr 09

    Government Crackdowns and the Transformation of Mexican Drug Cartels

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South S216, Hybrid

    This event is hybrid, to attend remotely register here.

    This research project explores how the Mexican War on Drugs prompted drug cartels to diversify their activities and expand their geographic presence beyond their historical strongholds. Focusing on oil theft, it then explores the intrusion of cartels into new territories and analyzes its impacts on politics, crime, and violence.

    Speaker: Marco Alcocer, Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy...

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    2024 Apr 02

    Understanding Mexico's 2024 Election

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South S216, Hybrid

    This online panel will discuss Mexico's upcoming elections from multiple perspectives, providing both a general overview and specific policies and candidate positions that define this election.

    Speakers Joy Langston, Professor and Researcher of Political Science at the Center of International Studies-CEI, Colegio de México. Kenneth F. Greene, Associate Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin. Mariano Sánchez-Talanquer, Assistant Professor at the Center for International Studies, Colegio de México (...

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    2023 Mar 07

    Migration on the Rise: The Roles of Work, Violence, and Climate Change

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    For a recording of this event, click here.

    Speakers: Abby Córdova, Associate Professor of Global Affairs, Faculty Fellow of the Keough School’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame; Sarah Bermeo, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, co-director of the Duke Program on Climate-Related Migration, Duke University; David Scott FitzGerald, Theodore E. Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican...

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    2019 Apr 23

    The political origins of Mexico’s corruption

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

    Speaker: Viridiana Rios, Ph.D. in Government, Harvard University

    Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University

    In contexts where corruption is widespread, why do some incumbents choose to not be corrupt? My research argues that party loyalty is a major influence to reduce corruption and test this argument using fine-grained data of 12 billion dollars audited to 3,601 local incumbents over a period of 16 years. Contributing to an unsettled and vibrant...

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    2018 Oct 23

    Can Access to Information Increase Community Monitoring & Service Provision? Evidence from a School Intervention in Mexico

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

    Speaker: Ana De la O, Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University

    Ana Lorena De La O is associate professor of Political Science at Yale University, where she is affiliated with the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, the Institution of Social and Policy Studies, and the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Her research relates to the political economy of poverty alleviation, clientelism and the provision of...

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    2018 Oct 02

    Changing Course? Understanding Mexico's 2018 Election

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

    Speaker: Gustavo Flores Macías, Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University

    Moderators: Steve Levitsky, Professor of Government and Fran Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government

    Gustavo A. Flores-Macías is Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University and the 2017-18 Democracy and Development Fellow at Princeton University. He is the author of After Neoliberalism? The Left and Economic Reforms in Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2012) and editor of the volume The...

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    2017 Oct 10

    Living in Fear: The Dynamics of Criminal Extortion in Mexico's Drug War

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

    Speaker: Beatriz Magaloni, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

    Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University