2018 Mar 27
The Political Crisis in Honduras: Implications for Democracy and U.S. Policy
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Michael Shifter, President, Inter-American Dialogue
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government at Harvard University
By any standard, the 2017 presidential election in Honduras was a major setback for democracy. President Juan Orlando Hernández’s decision to run for reelection was fraught with constitutional problems. The electoral authorities mysteriously stopped counting votes when the opposition candidate was ahead. When counting resumed, Hernández was somehow in the lead. Calls from the Secretary...
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2018 Mar 20
Bolivia’s Process of Change at Twelve
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Martin Liby Troein, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, MIT
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University 
Morales ascended the presidency in 2006 on promises of far-going change. In office since then, he has largely delivered: Writing a new constitution, nationalizing the hydrocarbons sector, and providing greater political and economic inclusion for Bolivia’s indigenous majority. But in contrast to counterparts in Venezuela and Ecuador, with which the Morales administration...
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2018 Feb 27
Varieties of Capitalism and Sub-Types of Populism: Reflections on Latin America and Europe
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Kenneth Roberts, Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government at Cornell University
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government at Harvard University
Many scholars have drawn distinctions between left-leaning, so-called “inclusionary” populism in Latin America and right-wing “exclusionary” populism in Europe. The recent rise of left populisms in the aftermath of Southern Europe’s financial crisis, however, has strong parallels to the Latin American experience, and it casts doubt on any...
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2018 Feb 20
Legacies of Revolution: Peasant Militias and the Rule of Law in Mexico
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Mariano Sánchez-Talanquer, Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University

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2018 Feb 13
In the Shadow of Recognition: Conflict, Identity and Resources in the Andes
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Lorenza B. Fontana, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program. Research Associate, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Politics and International Studies, Open University
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of...
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2018 Feb 06
Capabilities and Competitiveness: Essential Medicines in the Dominican Republic and Beyond
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Andrew Schrank, Olive C. Watson Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, Brown University
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2018 Jan 30
From Sandinismo to Orteguismo: the new-look FSLN and authoritarian regression in Nicaragua
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

Speaker: Mateo Jarquín, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
Today most historic Sandinista leaders oppose current president Daniel Ortega. This talk shows how a much-...
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2017 Nov 21
On the Ballots, in the Streets or under the Table: Explaining Business Political Strategies in Latin America
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Belén Fernández Milmanda, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
Belen will be presenting an advance of her dissertation which studies how rural elites organize to influence policy-making in Argentina, Brazil and Chile and explains why they have chosen different strategies of political participation.
Belén Fernández Milmanda is a fifth-year Ph. D. candidate at the Government Department. Before coming...
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2017 Nov 14
Unlocking the State’s Front Door: Principled Commitment NGOs and Environmental Rights in Argentina and Colombia
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Veronica Herrera, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University 
The distance between the state and grassroots claims is long. To access the state territorial groups must overcome limited material resources education and time as well as public officials who dismiss them as illegitimate policymaking partners. This paper based on extensive field research examines the construction of advocacy networks for environmental...
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2017 Oct 31
Information, Accountability, and Family-School Engagement: Experimental Evidence from Colombia
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Assistant Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
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2017 Oct 24
Democratic Innovations and Citizen Participation in Latin America
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Thamy Pogrebinschi,  Democracy Visiting Fellow Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation,  Harvard Kennedy School 

While Latin America consistently scores badly in most assessments of democracy it has been celebrated by many as a laboratory of citizen...
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2017 Oct 17
Serving God and Man: Evangelicals and Electoral Politics in Latin America
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

Speaker: Taylor Boas, Custer Visting Scholar, DRCLAS; Associate Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies, Boston...
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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

2017 Oct 03
The Politics that Political Purges Make: Legacies of Authoritarian Politics on Democratic Brazil
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

Speaker: Daniel Hidalgo, Cecil and Ida Green Associate Professor of Political Science, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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2017 Sep 26
Creative Construction: The Rise and Corruption of Infrastructure Projects in Latin America
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Alisha Holland, Assistant Professor in the Politics Department, Princeton University
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University

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2017 Sep 19
When the Rebels Win: State Building and Service Provision in Revolutionary Nicaragua
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

Speaker: Kai Thaler, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
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2017 Sep 12
Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

Speaker: Peter Andreas, John Hay Professor of International Studies, Brown Unviersity
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
Peter Andreas will discuss his new book a political memoir described by the New York Times as "...
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