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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