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Speaker: Laura Gamboa, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Utah; Santo Domingo Visiting Fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Moderated by: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
This seminar will analyze how opposition strategic choices can help or hinder executives with hegemonic aspirations erode democracy.
Laura Gamboa (PhD, University of Notre Dame) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Utah. Her research focuses on institutions, regime and regime change in Latin America. Her first book “Resisting Backsliding: Opposition Strategies against the Erosion of Democracy” won the 2022 Donna Lee Van Cott Award for best book in Political Institutions from the Latin American Studies Association. Her work has been published in Comparative Politics, Democratization, Political Research Quarterly, Electoral Politics, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties, Terrorism and Political Violence, Journal of Democracy, and Latin America Research Review.
Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez is a PhD candidate in the Department of Government. His research examines contemporary challenges to democratic institutions in Latin America, with a focus on Central America and Mexico. His dissertation explores the causes and consequences of efforts by criminal organizations to influence elections. He is a 2022-23 USIP and Minerva Peace and Security Scholar and a graduate of the University of Oxford and Harvard College. Manuel was born and raised in El Salvador.
Presented in collaboration with Weatherhead Center for International Affairs