2020 Mar 10
Electoral Management, Partisan Strategic Interaction, and Civic Engagement: Lessons from Latin America and Africa
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Alejandro Trelles, Assistant Professor of Politics, Brandeis University
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government
This talk focuses on the formal and informal aspects of electoral autonomy in Latin America and Africa, how political parties interact within electoral management boards, and mechanisms that facilitate the civic engagement and transparency. Drawing on examples from Venezuela, Mexico, Ghana, and Kenya, the talk centres around the concepts of autonomy, the adoption of...
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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 25
Neoliberalism and Social Protest Waves in Latin America: The Chilean Case in Comparative Perspective
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, Room S-250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Kenneth Roberts, Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government, Cornell University
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government
Waves of social protest have increasingly challenged Chile's neoliberal economic model and the constitutional order that sustains it. Chile's most recent protest cycle belongs to a broader pattern of resistance to neoliberalism in Latin America, but it has a number of distinctive characteristics that reflect the singular breadth, depth,...
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2020 Feb 18
Bureaucratic Entrepreneurs, Reputations, and Shocks: A Theory of Transnational Bureaucratic Cooperation on Migration Control
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S-250
Speaker: Angie Bautista-Chavez, PhD candidate, Department of Government 
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government
In this presentation, Bautista-Chavez shares findings from her dissertation project, titled: "Exporting Borders: The Domestic and International Politics of Migration Control". Using key informant interviews and archival research, she examine two central questions. First, why and how has the United States internationalized U.S. immigration enforcement? Second, under what...
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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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2020 Feb 04
Brazil Under Bolsonaro: Brasil Acima de Tudo, Deus Acima de Todos
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S-250
Speaker: Amy Erica Smith, Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Professor and Associate Professor of Political Science, Iowa State University               
Moderator: Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government
How have Brazilian society and politics changed in Jair Bolsonaro's first year in the presidency? In rhetoric and style, Bolsonaro has intensified culture war politics, setting his camp up for Manichean battles against perceived enemies who range from the...
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2019 Nov 19
A new approach in peacebuilding: the role of the private sector in the reintegration of Colombia’s excombatants
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250
Speaker: Juana García Duque, Associate Professor at the Business School, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia; Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS
Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Department of Government; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
The current Colombian context presents various challenges for peacebuilding, specifically regarding the reintegration and reincorporation of former combatants from illegal armed groups into civil society. The reintegration of ex-combatants implies a complex process that includes,...
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2019 Nov 12
Torture as a method of criminal prosecution: Democratization, Criminal Justice Reform, and the Mexican Drug War
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250
Speaker: Beatriz Magaloni, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Department of Government; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
A criminal trial is likely the most signicant interaction a citizen will ever have with the state; its conduct and adherence to norms of fairness bear directly on the quality of government, extent of democratic consolidation, and human...
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2019 Nov 05
Lessons from Bolivia’s “Left Turn” (and Post-Electoral Scenarios)
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216
Speaker: Santiago Anria, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies, Dickinson College
Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Department of Government; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
What has gone right and...
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2019 Oct 29
Downwind, Downhill, Downstream: Binational Security on the U.S.-Mexico Border
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Ieva Jusionyte, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Studies
Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Department of Government; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS

In the U.S.-Mexico border region, environmental emergencies – from...
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2019 Oct 22
A Tweeted History of the 2019 Argentine Election: It's not fake news if we believe the thread
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S-250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Ernesto Calvo, Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland-College Park
Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Department of Government; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
Social networks are today the primary source of political content among the unsteadily informed voters of Latin America. Much of the content, produced and published by traditional news organizations, caters to communities of partisans who activate posts among their peers. In this presentation,...
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2019 Oct 15
Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Eduardo Montero, Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Assistant Professor, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Department of Government; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
...
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2019 Oct 08
Population Pressures: Migration, Repression, and Agrarian Reform in Latin America
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Emily Sellars, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Department of Government; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
Does emigration undermine pressure for agrarian change? I examine how the...
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2019 Oct 01
Democratic Deepening and Political Parties: The National Implementation of Binding Participatory Institutions
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Jared Abbott, PhD candidate, Department of Government
Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Department of Government; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
 Why are local-level participatory institutions implemented nationally in some countries but...
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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 10
Strategies of Redistribution. The Left and the Popular Sectors in Latin America
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Andrés Schipani, PhD in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Department of Government; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
The study analyzes the different redistributive strategies adopted by presidents...
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2019 Apr 30
Resistance and Repression: One Year on from Nicaragua's Civil Uprising
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Kai Thaler, Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
How did...
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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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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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2019 Apr 09
Non-Policy Politics: Richer Voters, Poorer Voters, and the Diversification of Electoral Strategies (book presentation)
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S030, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: María Victoria Murillo, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Columbia University
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
This book focuses on the non-policy benefits that voters consider when deciding their vote. In addition to proposing policies, parties deliver non-policy benefits, such as competent economic management, constituency service, and patronage. This book provides a unified view of how politicians...
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