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Speakers: Viridiana Rios, Journalist and Author; Gustavo Flores Macías, Associate Vice Provost for International Affairs and Professor of Government and Public Policy, Cornell University; Beatriz Magaloni, Professor in the Department of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), Stanford University.
Moderated by Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
Viri Ríos is a Mexican journalist and academic. She is a columnist at the European newspaper El País, and the Mexican newspaper Milenio. Her most recent book, "It is not normal (No Es Normal). The rigged game that fuels Mexican inequality and how to change it", explores how to create a fair, inclusive, and prosperous Mexico by changing fiscal, labor and competition regulations. She holds a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University.
Gustavo Flores Macías is Professor of Government and Public Policy at Cornell University. His research and teaching interests include a variety of topics related to political and economic development in Latin America. Currently, his research focuses on three main areas: 1) the politics of economic reforms, 2) taxation and state capacity, and 3) the causes and consequences of the militarization of law enforcement. He served four years as Cornell’s Associate Vice Provost for International Affairs and am currently serving as interim Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Cornell’s Brooks School of Public Policy.
Beatriz Magaloni is Professor in the Department of Political Science and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University. She is also director of the Poverty, Violence and Governance Lab. Most of her current work focuses on state repression, police, human rights, and violence. In 2010 she founded the Poverty, Violence and Governance Lab (POVGOV) within FSI's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. Her first book, Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico (Cambridge University Press, 2006), won the Best Book Award from the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association and the 2007 Leon Epstein Award for the Best Book published in the previous two years in the area of political parties and organizations. Her second book, The Political Logic of PovertyRelief (co-authored with Alberto Diaz Cayeros and Federico Estévez), also published by Cambridge University Press, studies the politics of poverty relief. Why clientelism is such a prevalent form of electoral exchange, how it distorts policies aimed at aiding the poor, and when it can be superseded by more democratic and accountable forms of electoral exchange are some of the central questions that the book addresses. Her work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, World Development, Comparative Political Studies, Annual Review of Political Science, Latin American Research Review, Journal of Theoretical Politics and other journals.
Steven Levitsky is David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard. His research focuses on democratization and authoritarianism, political parties, and weak and informal institutions, with a focus on Latin America. He is co-author (with Daniel Ziblatt) of How Democracies Die, which was a New York Times Best-Seller and was published in 25 languages. He has written or edited 12 other books, including Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press 2003), Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War (with Lucan Way) (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (with Lucan Way) (Princeton University Press, 2022), and Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point (with Daniel Ziblatt) (Crown Publishers, 2023). He and Lucan Way are currently working on a book on democratic resilience across the world.
Presented in collaboration with Weatherhead Institute for International Affairs.