Events

    2024 Feb 27

    Mano Dura: An Experimental Evaluation of Military Policing in Cali, Colombia

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South S216, Hybrid

    This event is hybrid, to attend remotely register here.

    We experimentally evaluate the social and political consequences of a military policing intervention in Cali, Colombia, one of the world’s most violent cities. Despite null or adverse effects on crime and human rights, we show that Plan Fortaleza improved citizen’ attitudes towards the military and increased their demand for military involvement in domestic law enforcement. It also strengthened citizens’ support for...

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    2024 Feb 20

    Easier Said than Done: Citizens' Stated and Revealed Democratic Commitment in Latin America

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South S216, Hybrid

    This event is hybrid, to attend remotely register here.

    This project examines citizens' commitment to democracy and their role in monitoring politicians' undemocratic behavior.

    The most commonly used measures of support for democracy come from public opinion surveys, based on questions that may suffer from social desirability bias and overlook the trade-offs that citizens face when choosing candidates. We scrutinize stated commitment to democracy, as measured by both...

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    2023 Nov 07

    The Origins of Democracy in South America

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event will be hybrid. To register for the online session, click here.

    Speaker: Raul L. Madrid, Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin
    Moderated by: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

    This talk...

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    2023 Oct 10

    Why Presidents Leave Early: New or Continued Political Instability in Peru and Ecuador?

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event is hybrid. To register for the online session, click here.

    Speakers: Andres Mejia Acosta, Associate Dean of Policy and Practice and Professor of Political Economy of Development, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame; Gretchen Helmke, University of Rochester; Mariana Llanos, Lead Research Fellow / Co-Leader of the GIGA Institute for Latin American Studies (ad interim).
    Moderated by: ...

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    2023 Oct 03

    Poll Workers and the Effects of Supportive Political Participation

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event is hybrid. To register for the virtual session, click here.

    Speaker: Noam Lupu, Associate Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University; Associate Director of LAPOP Lab
    Moderated by: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

    How does participating in democracy shape the attitudes...

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    2023 May 02

    Democratic Hollowing: The Perils of Power Dilution and the Lessons from Peru

    12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Location: 

    S216, CGIS South

    This event is hybrid. To register for the in-person session, click here. To register for the virtual session, click here.

    Speaker: Rodrigo Barrenechea Carpio, Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University; Assistant Professor at the Departamento de Ciencias...

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    2022 Apr 26

    Colombian Elections

    12:00pm to 1:20pm


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    Speaker: Silvia Otero, Assistant professor of International, Political, and Urban Studies, Universidad del Rosario;  Monica Pachón, Associate Professor in the Design Department, Universidad de los Andes;  Juan Pablo Milanese, Chair of the Political Science Department, ICESI
    Moderated by: Alisha Holland, Associate Professor of Government...

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    2022 Apr 05

    Latin America’s Changing Left: Red versus Green?

    12:00pm to 1:20pm


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    Speakers: Thea Riofrancos, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Providence College; Andrew Carnegie Fellow (2020-2022); Manuela Picq, Professor of International Relations at Universidad San Francisco de Quito & Senior Lecturer of Political Science at Amherst College; Marco Fernandez, Professor of Government, Tec de Monterrey
    Moderated by: Steven Levitsky...

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    2022 Mar 29

    The New Right in Latin America

    12:00pm to 1:20pm


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    Speakers: Lindsay Mayka, Associate Professor of Government, Colby College; Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, Assistant Professor of International Development, University of Bath; Cristobal Rovira, Professor of Political Science, Universidad Diego Portales
    Moderated by: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, David Rockefeller...

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    2022 Mar 08

    Latin America After the Left Turn

    12:00pm to 1:20pm


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    Speaker: Santiago Anria, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies, Dickinson College; 2021-22 Cisneros Visiting Scholar, Harvard DRCLAS
    Moderated by: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

    Santiago Anria is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Latin...

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    2022 Mar 01

    Peru’s Continuing Crisis: New Perspectives

    12:00pm to 1:20pm


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    Speakers: Gonzalo Banda, Chevening Scholar, London School of Economics and Political Science; Rodrigo Barrenechea, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Universidad Católica del Uruguay; Zarai Toledo, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Inter-American Policy and Research , Tulane University
    Moderated by: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard...

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    2021 Nov 30

    Chile Presidential Elections

    12:00pm to 1:20pm


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    On November 21, 2021, Chile will hold its first presidential election since a massive wave of protest shook the country and ushered in a period of far-reaching constitutional change. What do the results of the Chilean election tell us about the country’s changing politics--and what do they portend for the future?

    Speakers: Juan Pablo Luna, Pontificia...

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    2021 Nov 16

    Impact of Venezuela Migration on Latin America

    12:00pm to 1:20pm


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    Of the more than 5.6 million Venezuelans who have left Venezuela since 2017, more than 70 percent have migrated to Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Despite their stated intention to remain in the countries that received them, they often lack regular migration status, and they have suffered from unemployment or employment discrimination and restricted access to health care and local...

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