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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2018 Oct 23
Can Access to Information Increase Community Monitoring & Service Provision? Evidence from a School Intervention in Mexico
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Ana De la O, Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Ana Lorena De La O is associate professor of Political Science at Yale University, where she is affiliated with the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, the Institution of Social and Policy Studies, and the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Her research relates to the political economy of poverty alleviation, clientelism and the provision of...
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2018 Oct 02
Changing Course? Understanding Mexico's 2018 Election
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Gustavo Flores Macías, Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University
Moderators: Steve Levitsky, Professor of Government and Fran Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government
Gustavo A. Flores-Macías is Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University and the 2017-18 Democracy and Development Fellow at Princeton University. He is the author of After Neoliberalism? The Left and Economic Reforms in Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2012) and editor of the volume The...
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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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2017 Nov 07
The Long Run Effects of Agricultural Productivity Shocks: Irrigation and Structural Change in Mexico
12:00pm to 2:00pm

Speaker: Melissa Dell, Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
This study examines the long-run impacts of irrigation on agricultural productivity and economic development in Mexico using data...
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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

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