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

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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

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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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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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2019 Feb 26
Venezuela: Understanding the Crisis. Building a Sustainable Solution
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S020, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Temir Porras Ponceleon, CEO, Ventuari Partners
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
Temir Porras Ponceleon began his public service career in the Republic of France and continued in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. He specialized in foreign policy, sovereign credit, and oil. He has brokered and negotiated political and trade deals at the presidential level for more than 10 years in Latin...
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2018 Sep 25
Colombia's 2018 Elections: Implications for the Peace Process and Criminal Dynamics
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Angelica Duran-Martinez, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Angélica Durán-Martínez is an assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. She obtained a Ph.D. in Political Science at Brown University, a B.A. from Universidad Nacional de Colombia and an M.A. from New York University. She is the author of “The Politics of Drug Violence: Criminals, Cops, and Politicians in Colombia and Mexico” (Oxford University Press, 2018). Her...
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2018 Sep 11
Tuesday Seminar Series: Republican Shields in Times of Executive Excesses: Revisiting the Uruguayan Collegial Governments (1952-1966)
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: David Altman, Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Luksic Visiting Scholar
Moderators: Steve Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University and Fran Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University
How do you limit the temptations and excesses of government chief executives in a democratic context? Theoretically, systems in which multiple people share executive power –collegial executives – might be one way to prevent abuses of power by leaders who concentrate authority...
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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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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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