2021 Apr 27
Reforming Chile’s Constitution: The Debate over Social and Ethnic Rights
12:00pm to 1:20pm

This event is part of a virtual series. To register, click here.
Speakers: Veronica Figueroa Huencho, Associate Professor at the Institute of Public Affairs, University of Chile; Daniel Brinks, Professor of Government and of Law, UT Texas at Austin; Rossana Castiglioni, Professor of Political Science, Universidad Diego Portales; Christian Rodriguez, DRCLAS Luksik Visiting Scholar
Moderated by: Steven Levitsky,...
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2021 Apr 13
Peru’s Presidential Election: A Path Out of Crisis, or More of the Same?
12:00pm to 1:20pm

This event is part of a virtual series. To register, click here.
Speakers: Marisa Glave, Peruvian Sociologist and Politician, Member of Congress (2016-2019); Salvador del Solar, Peru's Former Prime Minister (2019) and Former Minister of Culture (2016-2017); Alberto Vergara, Professor of Social and Political Sciences, Universidad del Pacífico
Moderated by: Steven Levitsky, Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin...
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2021 Mar 09
Challenges to Social Welfare Provision During and After COVID-19
12:00pm to 1:20pm

This event is part of a virtual series. To register, click here.
Speakers: Alejandro Gaviria, President, Universidad de los Andes; Jennifer Pribble, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies, University of Richmond; Merike Blofield, Professor of Political Science, University of Miami
Moderated by: Alisha Holland, Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University
Presented in...
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2021 Mar 02
The Return of the Military?
12:00pm to 1:20pm

This event is part of a virtual series. To register, click here.
Speakers: Wendy Hunter, Professor of Government, UT-Austin; Diego Vega, PhD Candidate in Government, UT-Austin; John Polga-Hecimovich, Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics, U.S. Naval Academy; Kristina Mani, Associate Professor of Politics, Oberlin College and Conservatory; David Pion-Berlin, Professor of Political Science, University of California Riverside
...
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2021 Feb 16
Is Colombia’s Peace Over? Challenges and Progress in Implementing the Peace Accords
12:00pm to 1:20pm

This event is part of a virtual series. To register, click here.
Speakers: Juanita Goebertus, Colombian Congresswoman and Former Member of the Government Peace Delegation with the FARC; Juana Garcia Duque, Associate Professor at the Business School, Universidad de los Andes; Sandra Botero, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Government, and International Relations, Universidad del Rosario; Mauricio Velásquez, Professor of Government,...
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2021 Feb 09
Ecuador’s Presidential Election: Is the Citizens’ Revolution Over?
12:00pm to 1:20pm

This event is part of a virtual series. To register, click here.
Speakers: Valeria Coronel, Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, FLACSO Ecuador; Pablo Andrade, Professor of Latin American Studies, Universidad Andina; Grace Jaramillo, Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia
Moderated by: Alisha Holland, Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University
Presented in...
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2020 Dec 01
Right Wing Populism in Latin America
12:00pm to 1:20pm
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Speakers: Kenneth Roberts, Binenkorb Director of the Latin American Studies Program and Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government, Cornell University; Cristobal Rovira, Professor of Political Science, Universidad Diego Portales in Chile; Amy Erica Smith, Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professor and Associate Professor of Political Science, Iowa State University
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2020 Nov 24
Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America
12:00pm to 1:20pm
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Speaker: Yanilda María González, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Discussant: Eduardo Moncada, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University
Moderated by: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, DRCLAS
In countries around the world, from the...
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2020 Nov 17
Federalism and COVID Responses
12:00pm to 1:20pm

This event is part of a virtual series. To watch the recording, click here. 
Speaker: Agustina Giraudy, Associate Professor of Political Science, American University
Discussant: Kent Eaton, Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Moderated by: Alisha Holland, Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University
Presented in collaboration with ...
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2020 Nov 10
The Uneven Racial and Ethnic Impacts of COVID in Latin America
12:00pm to 1:20pm

This event is part of a virtual series. To watch the recording, click here. 
Speakers: Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy Development and Rule of Law, Stanford University; Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University; Edward Telles, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
Moderated by: ...
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2020 Oct 27
Democratic Backsliding in Contemporary Latin America
12:00pm to 1:20pm

This event is part of a virtual series. To watch the recording, click here. 
Speakers: Manuel Melendez-Sanchez, PhD candidate in Political Science, Harvard University; Santiago Anria, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies, Dickinson College; Calla Hummel, Assistant Professor in Political Science, University of Miami; Carmen Aída Lazo, Dean of the School of Economics and Business at Escuela Superior de Economía...
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2020 Oct 13
The Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America: Causes and Consequences of Lava Jato
12:00pm to 1:20pm
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Speakers: Ezequiel González Ocantos, Associate Professor in the Qualitative Study of Comparative Political Institutions, University of Oxford; Paula Muñoz, Profesora del Departamento Académico de Ciencias Sociales y Políticas, Universidad del Pacifico en Perú
Discussant: Alisha Holland, Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University
Moderated by: ...
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2020 Sep 29
How COVID has Changed Latin American Economics
12:00pm to 1:20pm

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Speakers: Andres Velasco, Dean of the School of Public Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science; former Finance Minister of Chile; Ana Maria Ibanez, Professor of Economics, Universidad de los Andes; Economics Principal Advisor for the Interamerican Development Bank; Daniela Campello, Associate Professor, Brazilian School of Business and Public Administration;...
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2020 Sep 22
Populist Coalitions in Latin America
12:00pm to 1:20pm

This event is part of a virtual series. To view the recording, click here.
Speaker: Rodrigo Barrenechea, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Discussants: Thea Riofrancos, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Providence College; Aaron Watanabe, PhD Candidate in Government, Harvard University
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2020 Sep 15
Democracy on the Line in Chile
12:00pm to 1:20pm

This event is part of a virtual series. To watch the recording, click here. 
Speakers: Claudia Heiss, Assistant Professor, Institute of Public Affairs, Universidad de Chile; Juan Pablo Luna, Associate Professor of Political Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Peter Siavelis, Professor and Chair of Political Science and International Affairs, Wake Forest University
Moderated by: Steven Levitsky,...
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2020 Mar 03
On the Origins of Polarization in Venezuela
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Alejandro Velasco, Associate Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government
While the literature on urban Latin America has examined the relationship between politics and space, the particular impact of political polarization on urban space and vice versa has received scant attention. In this sense, Caracas is an exemplary case. On one hand, it is marked by long standing spatial...
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2020 Feb 11
Coproduction of Health Care for Indigenous Women
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S-250
Speaker: Tulia Falleti, Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science; Director of Latin American and Latino Studies Program; Senior Fellow Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government
Coproduction between state and civil society in the delivery of public services raises a host of questions that go from cooptation of civil society to efficiencies in the delivery of public services. Moreover, when this cooperation...
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2019 Sep 24
Electoral Dis-connection: The Limits of Re-Election In Contexts of Weak Accountability
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Julie Weaver, PhD candidate, Department of Government
Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Department of Government; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
Conventional academic wisdom holds that the carrot and stick of...
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2019 Sep 17
Hybrid Regimes within Democracies: Argentina's Subnational Rentier States in Comparative Perspective
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Carlos Gervasoni, Associate Professor of Political Science, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Department of Government; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
Both democratic and not-very-democratic (or...
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2019 Apr 16
Gone with the wind? Exploring Fujimorismo’s decay in contemporary Peru
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Alberto Vergara, Professor of Social and Political Sciences, Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Peru)
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
Political parties are usually depicted as indispensable for democracies. However, Latin American history does not lack of instances of parties playing against democracy. Observing the case of Fuerza Popular (the Peruvian Fujimorista party) will allow us to analyze the ways how a political vehicle might...
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