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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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
Speaker: Kai Thaler, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
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
Speaker: Andrew Schrank, 
