Political and institutional determinants of private investment in infrastructure: The case of Brazil
Marden Barboza
MIT Visiting Scholar
February 23, 2022 12:00PM zoom
Latin American Working Group
The Latin American Working Group provides an interdisciplinary forum for faculty and students across the Institute who work on issues related to Latin America. Students and Faculty are welcome.
Meetings will take place from 12:00pm – 1:30pm on selected Tuesdays and Wednesdays in the Millikan Room, E53-482 (lunch will be provided), or Zoom via registration.
If you have questions about LAWG, the mailing list, or would like to attend a meeting, please email Antonio Mahana (aamahana@mit.edu), Lucas Nobrega Augusto (lucas_na@mit.edu), and Terrence Roh (troh@mit.edu).
Against the Local Grain: Finance and the Centralization of Urban Water Governance in Brazil
Isadora Araujo Cruxen
MIT
December 1, 2021 12:00PM Zoom
Transparency and Freedom of Information in Latin America
Gregory Michener
FGV
November 17, 2021 12:00PM Zoom
Measuring political elites’ renewal: Legislative amateurism in Latin America
Gabriel Levita
Harvard
November 3, 2021 12:00PM Zoom
Peru's Recent Elections and Political Context
Paula Muñoz & Tomas Dosek
Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the Universidad del Pacífico, Peru
Professor of political science in the Department of Social Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
October 20, 2021 12:00PM Zoom
Opposition at the Margins: Strategies against the Erosion of Democracy
Laura Gamboa
Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department, University of Utah
October 6, 2021 12:00PM Zoom
Balan & Rizzo on The Labor Market of Political Intermediation
May 19, 2021 12:00PM
May 19, 2021
12:00PM
Autocracy Rising in Venezuela, with comparisons to Nicaragua, Colombia, and Ecuador
Professor Javier Corrales
Amherst College
April 7, 2021 12:00PM
April 7, 2021
12:00PM
Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg
Ben Bradlow
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
March 31, 2021 12:00PM
March 31, 2021
12:00PM
March 17, 2021
12:00PM
Social Protest in Chile
Loreto Cox
Centro de Estudios Públicos, Chile.
MIT PhD in Political Science
December 2, 2020 12:00PM
December 2, 2020
12:00PM
The Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America: Causes and Consequences of Lava Jato
Ezequiel González Ocantos
University of Oxford
November 18, 2020 12:00PM
November 18, 2020
12:00PM
The Politics of Digital Surveillance in Latin America
Sam Handlin
Swarthmore College
October 28, 2020 12:00PM
October 28, 2020
12:00PM
Subnational Variation in Latin American Social Policy
Sara Niedzwiecki
Sara Niedzwiecki, University of California, Santa Cruz
October 21, 2020 12:00PM
October 21, 2020
12:00PM
From Protests to Constitution-Making: A conversation on the Chilean Constitutional Reform Process
Julieta Suarez-Cao
Associate Professor in Comparative Politics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
October 7, 2020 12:00PM
October 7, 2020
12:00PM
Political Strategies of Mass Member Organizations in Latin America
Christopher Chambers-Ju
Visiting Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross
April 8, 2020 12:00PM zoom
CANCELLED: Fernando Luiz Abrucio, Visiting Scholar at MIT
April 1, 2020 12:00PM E53-482, The Millikan Room
Manipulate my fear: How new forms of (mis)information and processes of political subjection contribute to the erosion of democracy in Brazil
Jean Wyllys de Matos Santos
December 6, 2019 11:30AM E40-496 (Pye Room)
Large-scale Social Housing Programs in Brazil and Mexico: Political Balances that Define Public Action
Claudia Acosta
Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), São Paulo, & MIT
November 20, 2019 12:00PM E53-482
Local Politics and Development in Brazil
Alicia Cooperman
Princeton University
October 2, 2019 12:00PM E53-482
Economic Dependence on the State and Democracy: Theory and Evidence from Latin America
Carlos Gervasoni
Associate Professor of Political Science, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
September 18, 2019 10:00AM E53-482
Strategies of Redistribution. The Left and the Popular Sectors in Latin America.
Andrés Schipani
Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley
September 9, 2019 12:00PM E53-482
Networks, Information, and Vote Buying
Horacio Larreguy
Faculty Associate and Assistant Professor at the Department of Government of Harvard University
May 8, 2019 12:00PM E53-482
Landowners and democracy in Latin America
Belén Fernández Milmanda
Harvard University
November 14, 2018 12:00PM E53-482, Millikan Room