Colombian Elections

Date: 

Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 12:00pm to 1:20pm


For a recording of this event, click here.

Speaker: Silvia Otero, Assistant professor of International, Political, and Urban Studies, Universidad del Rosario;  Monica Pachón, Associate Professor in the Design Department, Universidad de los Andes;  Juan Pablo Milanese, Chair of the Political Science Department, ICESI
Moderated by: Alisha Holland, Associate Professor of Government Department, Harvard University

Silvia Otero is an Assistant Professor in the School of International, Political, and Urban Studies at Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia. She earned her PhD in political science from Northwestern University in June 2016 with a dissertation entitled "When the State Minds the Gap: The Politics of Subnational Inequality in Social Development." Her dissertation focuses on subnational disparities in social development and why some countries are more successful than others at reducing the subnational inequality in education and health. In the past few years, she has been working on several projects. Rebel Roads (with Simón Uribe and Isabel Peñaranda) asks about the hundreds of roads that former rebel group FARC built or sponsored in its areas of operation; Divergent Urban Inequalities, which asks about the causes of divergent trajectories of income inequality in four Colombian cities; and Subnational Policies for the Containment of Covid-19 in Latin America, as part of the Observatory for the Containment of Covid-19 in the Americas of University of Miami.

Monica Pachón is an Associate Professor in the Design Department, at Universidad de los Andes. Political scientist from the Universidad de los Andes, M.Phil in Latin American Studies from St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, and PhD in Political Science from UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. Visiting professor at Rice University (2013), Former director of the Master in Public Policy at the University of the Andes; Dean of the Faculty of Political Science, Government and International Relations of the Universidad del Rosario; and Tinker Fellow at the Institute for Latin American Studies at Columbia University (2018). She has published extensively on electoral systems, ballot design, executive-legislative relations in Latin America, and institutional design at the national and subnational levels

Juan Pablo Milanese is a Full Professor of the Department of Political Studies at Universidad Icesi, Colombia. He earned a PhD in Political and Social Science at Università degli Studi di Bologna and an MS.c. in Geographical Information Science & Systems at the Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg. His main research fields are electoral geography and subnational politics.

Alisha Holland is an Associate Professor in the Government Department at Harvard University. Before joining the Harvard faculty, she was an Assistant Professor in the Politics Department at Princeton University and a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She studies the comparative political economy of development with a focus on urban politics, social policy, and Latin America. Her book, Forbearance as Redistribution: The Politics of Informal Welfare in Latin America (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics), looks at the politics of enforcement against property law violations by the poor, such as squatting, street vending, and electricity theft. Holland’s current book project focuses on the political determinants of the level, quality, and social response to infrastructure projects in Latin America. Her other research interests include migration, crime control, and subnational governance. Her articles have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Latin American Research Review, Perspectives on Politics, and World Politics. She holds an A.B. from Princeton University (2007) and a Ph.D. from Harvard University (2014).

 

Presented in collaboration with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs