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
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 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) and Lucas Nobrega Augusto (lucas_na@mit.edu).
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
Urban securitization and human rights in Colombia.
Lindsay Mayka
Assistant Professor, Colby College
October 26, 2018 12:00PM E53-482, Millikan Room
Social movements, labor unions, and informal workers in developing countries
Candelaria Garay
Ford Foundation Associate Professor of Democracy at the Kennedy School of Government
October 17, 2018 12:00PM E53-482, Millikan Room
Policies Make Politicians: Intermediaries, State Benefits, and Political Entrepreneurship in Brazil
Yuri Kasahara
Norwegian Institute of Urban and Regional Research
October 10, 2018 12:00PM E53-482, Millikan Room
How do candidates spend? An analysis of campaign expenditures of federal representatives from 2002 to 2014 in Brazil
Arthur Fisch
FEA USP, currently a PhD candidate at the program in Public Administration and Government at FGV EAESP, Research Assistant at Centro de Política e Economia do Setor Público (CEPESP - FGV), and a visiting student at MIT.
September 26, 2018 12:00PM E53-482, Millikan Room
The Contentious Returns to Education: Evidence from Protests in Brazil
Jorge Mangonnet
Columbia University
PhD Candidate
May 2, 2018 12:00PM E53-482, The Millikan Room
The Art of Accountability: Using Technology towards a New Democracy in Brazil
Bradson Camelo
Prosecutor of the State Accounts Court of Paraíba, Brazil
February 28, 2018 12:00PM Millikan Room, E53-482
Political Elites and Teacher Unions: Making Sense of the Politics of Mexico's Education Reform
Blanca Heredia
Director of the research unit on education and education policy (Programa Interdisciplinario sobre Política y Prácticas Educativas -PIPE)
CIDE (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas) in Mexico City
February 23, 2018 11:00AM E53-438