Kellogg at LASA 2023
 

Visit the Kellogg Institute exhibit at booth IA01-JA01 of the exhibit hall!
See and purchase books from the Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Human Development, and learn more about Kellogg programs. 

 

 

Please join us for
Friends of Kellogg Institute Reception on Thursday, May 25 from 8:00 to 9:30pm
in Ballroom B of the convention center. 

 

 

LASA Featured Presidential Session

Thursday, May 25, 1:45 to 3:15pm

Presidential Roundtable: Prospects for Democracy: Past and Future of Latin America
Former Visiting Fellow, Margarita López Maya (Session Organizer)
Kellogg Institute Director and Faculty Fellow, Anibal Perez-Linan (Chair)
Kellogg PhD Alum, Laura Gamboa (Presenter) 
Former Kellogg Advisory Council and Working Paper Author, Terry L. Karl (Presenter)
Kellogg Working Paper Author, Laurence A. Whitehead (Presenter)
Philippe C. Schmitter (Presenter)
See Tab for details

 

LASA Congress Highlights

Thursday, May 25 12:00 to 1:30 p.m

Honorable Mention: Charles A. Hale Fellowship for Mexican History
Kellogg PhD Fellow, Jorge Iván Puma Crespo
Dissertation: “La única línea correcta: La historia transnacional de Política Popular, 1968-1979”

Saturday, May 27, 10:15 to 11:45am

Honorable Mention: Howard F. Cline Book Prize in Mexican History
Visiting Fellow, Danielle Terrazas Williams
Book: The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy and Liberty in Colonial Mexico (Yale University Press, 2022)



More than 75 Kellogg-affiliated scholars are participating in LASA events this year!

(Listed below in date order in Pacific Time)

Wednesday, May 24, 1:45 to 3:15pm

Panel: Food Studies in Latin American Literature
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Vanesa Miseres (Discussant)


Wednesday, May 24, 1:45 to 3:15pm

Panel: Geopolitica regional y retos globales
Former Visiting Fellow, Arie Kacowicz (Presenter)
Paper: The Latin American Contributions to the International Society and the Liberal Script


Wednesday, May 24, 1:45 to 3:15pm

Panel: Democracia, sistemas electorales y voto en Latinoamérica
Former Visiting Fellow, Peter Johannessen (Presenter)
Paper: Disability and the Right to Vote in Latin America
 

Wednesday, May 24, 1:45 to 3:15pm

Panel: La desaparición de personas en Colombia y México: procesos de memoria y resistencias
Former Guest Scholar, Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa (Chair)


Wednesday, May 24, 3:30 to 5:00pm

Panel: Violences, Displacements, and Responses: Exploring Settler Colonialism in North and Central America
Former Visiting Fellow, Shannon Speed (Discussant)


Wednesday, May 24, 3:30 to 5:00pm

Panel: Derechos humanos en acción
Former Visiting Fellow, Adela Cedillo (Discussant)


Wednesday, May 24, 3:30 to 5:00pm

Panel: Género y cuidado: hermanar, cuidar, sanar
Former Visiting Fellow, Juliana Martinez Franzoni (Discussant)


Wednesday, May 24, 5:15 to 6:45pm

Panel: Mexican H-2A Labor Migration, Transnational Families, and Communities: Plataforma Huaya-Puebla-Seattle Research Collaboration
Former Guest Scholar, Guillermo Yrizar (Presenter)
Paper: “Primero su casa..., sin olvidar sus comunidades”: Liderazgos, tensiones comunitarias y visas H-2A


Wednesday, May 24, 5:15 to 6:45pm

Panel: Climate Change in the Andean Region
Kellogg PhD Alum, Carlos E. Meléndez (Chair)


Thursday, May 25, 8:30 to 10:00am

Panel: Aborto y justicia reproductiva en América Latina
Former Visiting Fellow, Mariela Daby (Presenter)
Paper: The Politics of Abortion in Latin America


Thursday, May 25, 8:30 to 10:00am

Panel: Courts and Contentious Politics
Kellogg PhD Alum, Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos (Discussant)
Former Guest Scholar, Alba Ruibal (Discussant)


Thursday, May 25, 8:30 to 10:00am

Panel: Identity Politics, Mobilization, and Democracy in Latin America
Visiting Fellow, Maxwell A Cameron (Discussant)



Thursday, May 25, 8:30 to 10:00am

Panel: Explaining Political Turbulence in Contemporary Peru: Political Values, Parties, and Elections
Former Visiting Fellow, Martin Tanaka (Discussant)
Paper: De la fuerza centrípeta a la centrífuga (2016-2022): cambios de fondo en la competencia política y en el sistema político peruano
Former Visiting Fellow, Veronica Patricia Zarate (Discussant)


Thursday, May 25, 10:15 to 11:45am

Featured Session: Guillermo O'Donnell Democracy Award and Lectureship:Terry Karl
Former Visiting Fellow, Timothy J. Power (Organizer and Chair)
 

Thursday, May 25, 10:15 to 11:45am

Panel: Solidaridad contra el Estado y en tiempos de crisis en América Latina
Kellogg Doctoral Student Affiliate, Laura Lopez Perez (Presenter)
Paper: The legacies of collective action: emergence of groups of families of disappeared persons in Mexico 2001-2014


Thursday, May 25, 10:15 to 11:45am

Panel: Ideologies of Illicit Actors, Part 1
Former Visiting Fellow, Gema Kloppe-Santamaría (Presenter)
Paper: Pious Bandits and Virtuous Vigilantes: Disentangling the Religious Ideologies of Illicit Armed Actors in Postrevolutionary Mexico


Thursday, May 25, 10:15 to 11:45am

Panel: Poderes fácticos, organizaciones criminales y gobernanza criminal
Kellogg Doctoral Student Affiliate, Mayra Ortiz Ocaña (Chair & Presenter)
Paper: Demanding Justice in Criminal Governance Contexts: The Case of Chihuahua, Mexico


Thursday, May 25, 10:15 to 11:45am

Roundtable: Discussing Religion(s) and the Construction of Post Secular Latin America
Kellogg PhD Alum, Nicolas Somma Gonzalez (Presenter)


Thursday, May 25, 10:15 to 11:45am

Panel: Investigando en las memorias y las violencias. Lecciones de método - Parte I
Former Visiting Fellow, Manolo E. Vela Castañeda (Organizer)


Thursday, May 25, 12:00 to 1:30pm

Panel: Investigando en las memorias y las violencias. Lecciones de método - Parte II
Former Visiting Fellow, Manolo E. Vela Castañeda (Organizer & Presenter)
Paper: Estándares de evidencia 


Thursday, May 25, 12:00 to 1:30pm

Panel: Ciencia Andina en el Peru: en busca del bien común. Limitaciones y posibilidades.  Homenaje a Carlos Amat y Leon
Former Visiting Fellow, Elena Alvarez (Organizer & Presenter)
Paper: Reflexiones sobre Ciencia Andina en el Peru. Hacia un nuevo paradigma


Thursday, May 25, 12:00 to 1:30pm 

Panel: Affective Modernismos
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Vanesa Miseres (Presenter)


Thursday, May 25, 12:00 to 1:30pm

Panel: Right-wing opposition and the stability of the democratic regime in contemporary Latin America
Kellogg PhD Alum, Laura Gamboa (Discussant)


Thursday, May 25, 12:00 to 1:30pm

Roundtable: The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements
Former Visiting Fellow, Leigh A. Payne (Discussant)
Former Visiting Fellow, Rose J. Spalding (Discussant)
Kellogg PhD Alum, Nicolas Somma Gonzalez (Presenter)


Thursday, May 25, 12:00 to 1:30pm

Roundtable: Book Presentation: Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Activism by Maylei Blackwell
Former Visiting Fellow, Shannon Speed (Presenter)

Thursday, May 25, 12:00 to 1:30pm

Publishing in the Latin American Research Review
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Abby Cordova (Presenter)
Incoming Visiting Fellow, Jana Morgan (Presenter)

 
Thursday, May 25, 1:45 to 3:15pm

Panel: The Ethics of Conducting Migration Research in/on Latin America
Former Visiting Fellow, Joseph L. Wiltberger (Presenter)
Former Visiting Fellow, Laura Gomez Mera (Presenter)

Thursday, May 25, 1:45 to 3:15pm

Panel: Investigando en las memorias y las violencias. Lecciones de método - Parte III
Former Visiting Fellow, Manolo E. Vela Castañeda (Organizer & Chair)
 

Thursday, May 25, 1:45 to 3:15pm

Panel: Tensiones de la Democracia en el Sur de América
Kellogg PhD Alum, Carlos E. Meléndez (Chair)
 

Thursday, May 25, 1:45 to 3:15am

Panel: Nuevas perspectivas sobre derechos humanos (History)
Former Visiting Fellow, Carmen Diana Deere (Presenter)
Paper: Ecuador's 1911 Economic Emancipation of Women Law and the Pursuit of Economic Autonomy

Thursday, May 25, 1:45 to 3:15pm

Panel: The Political Economy of Natural Resource Extraction
Former Visiting Fellow, Richard Snyder (Discussant)
Paper: Modes of Extraction in Latin America’s Lithium Triangle: Explaining Negotiated, Unnegotiated and Aborted Mining Projects


Thursday, May 25, 1:45 to 3:15pm

Panel: The Struggle for Democracy in Latin America
Former Visiting Fellow, Raul Madrid (Organizer & Chair)
Paper: ​​Elections and Democracy in South America before 1930
Former Visiting Fellow, Kathleen Bruhn (Discussant)
 

Thursday, May 25, 1:45 to 3:15pm

Roundtable: Confronting Multiple Crises: Lessons from the Social Policy Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Former Visiting Fellow, Juliana Martinez Franzoni (Discussant)


Thursday, May 25, 3:00 to 5:00pm

Panel: PSS: Las protestas sociopolíticas del siglo XXI
Kellogg Former Research Visitor, María Pilar Garcia-Guadilla  (Presenter)
Paper: Movilización social, protestas y polarización sociopolitica en Chile y Venezuela: El movimiento estudiantil chileno del siglo XXI frente a la democracia de derechos. 


Thursday, May 25, 3:30 to 5:00pm

Panel: Cosmética, prostética y desafíos biopolíticos del cuerpo
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Vanesa Miseres (Presenter)
Paper: La rosa muerta" de Zoila Aurora Cáceres: estética, feminismo y medicina de entresiglos


Thursday, May 25, 3:30 to 5:00pm

Panel: América Latina ante la transición hegemónica: ¿Protagonista o irrelevante?
Kellogg PhD Alum, Luis Leandro Schenoni (Presenter)

Thursday, May 25, 3:30 to 5:00pm

Panel: The Effects of Information and Communication Technologies on Campaigns and Party Organizations in Latin America
Former Visiting Fellow, Virginia Oliveros (Presenter)


Thursday, May 25, 3:30 to 5:00pm

Roundtable: ¿Un nuevo giro a la izquierda fallido? El Perú de Pedro Castillo
Kellogg PhD Alum, Omar Coronel (Presenter)

Thursday, May 25, 3:30 to 5:00pm

Panel: Protest and Protest Event Analysis
Former Guest Scholar, Maria Pilar García-Guadilla (Presenter)

Thursday, May 25, 5:15 to 6:45pm

Roundtable: What We Know and What is Next: Present and Future of Institutional Studies in Latin America
Kellogg Visiting Fellow, Katherine Bersch (Presenter)
Kellogg Faculty Fellow,  Guillermo Trejo (Presenter)
Former Visiting Fellow, Sara Niedzwiecki (Presenter)
Former Visiting Fellow, Virginia Oliveros (Presenter)
Former Visiting Fellow, Sandra J. Ley (Presenter)


Friday, May 26, 8:30 to 10:00am 

Panel: Hacia una nueva política feminista contra el autoritarismo y violencia policiaca y estatal: reconociendo las luchas de mujeres en América Latina
Former Visiting Fellow, Verónica Zubillaga (Presenter)


Friday, May 26, 8:30 to 10:00am

Panel: Rubén Darío: el archivo o la vida (Rubén Darío: the archive or the life)
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, María Rosa Olivera-Williams (Presenter)
Paper: Génesis de la actualidad de Darío: su viaje iniciático a Chile (1886-1889)


Friday, May 26, 8:30 to 10:00am

Panel: Consecuencias políticas de la pandemia de COVID-19 en México
Kellogg PhD Alum, Maria Alejandra Armesto (Organizer & Discussant)

Friday, May 26, 8:30 to 10:00am

Panel: ‘Other Epistemologies’ and the Question of Universalism
Former Visiting Fellow, Maxwell A Cameron (Organizer)
Former Visiting Fellow, Tulia Falleti (Presenter)

Friday, May 26, 8:30 to 10:00am

Panel: Themes and Activism in Women's Writing in the 20th Century
Doctoral Student Affiliate, Joaquin Venturini (Chair and Discussant)
Paper: De muñecas ominosas: femineidad y Doppelganger en “Las Hortensias”, de Felisberto Hernández

Friday, May 26, 8:30 to 10:00am

Panel: Latin American workers and labor organizations in transnational context
Former Visiting Fellow, Maria Candelaria Garay (Organizer)

Friday, May 26, 10:15 to 11:45 am

Panel: ​​Comparative and historical perspectives on the Latin American states
Former Visiting Fellows, Sebastian Mazzuca (Discussant)
Kellogg Visiting Fellow, Katherine Bersch (Discussant)

Friday, May 26, 10:15 to 11:45 am

Roundtable: ​​New Work on Latin America in Studies in Comparative Energy and Environmental Politics (Oxford University Press Series)
Former Visiting Fellow, Rose J. Spalding (Organizer and Presenter)

Friday, May 26, 10:15 to 11:45 am

Panel: Challenges to Democracy in the Andes: Strongmen, Broken Constitutions, and Regimes in Crisis
Former Visiting Fellow, Maxwell A Cameron (Organizer)

Friday, May 26, 10:15 to 11:45 am

Panel: Kalman Silvert Award: Susan Eckstein
Former Visiting Fellow, Carmen Diana Deere (Presenter)

Friday, May 26, 10:15 to 11:45 am

Panel: Civil Society and Policies for Marginalized Communities
Former Visiting Fellow, Maria Candelaria Garay (Discussant)


Friday, May 26, 12:00 to 1:30pm 

Panel: Understanding Authoritarianism in Latin America: incumbent strategies, defections, and mobilization
Former Visiting Fellow, Verónica Zubillaga (Presenter)
Paper: Más allá de la justicia versus la paz: víctimas de la violencia policial y la búsqueda de democratización en Venezuela
Former Visiting Fellow, James Loxton (Discussant)
Former Visiting Fellow, David A. Smilde (Discussant)


Friday, May 26, 12:00 to 1:30pm

Roundtable: Democracy, Judicial Institutions and Organized Crime in Latin America
Kellogg PhD Alum, Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos (Discussant)

Friday, May 26, 12:00 to 1:30pm

Roundtable: Representación y populismo
Former Visiting Fellow, Kenneth Roberts (Presenter)


Friday, May 26, 12:00 to 1:30pm

Panel: The 'Long Peace' in Latin America: Updating the Debate
Former Visiting Fellow, Arie Kacowicz (Presenter & Discussant)
Paper: The Latin American Contributions to the International Society and the Liberal Script

Friday, May 26, 12:00 to 1:30pm

Panel: Bolsonaro Administration: Setbacks and Impacts on Brazilian Democracy
Former Guest Scholar, Oswaldo Amaral (Presenter & Discussant)
Paper: From democratic degradation to reconstruction: the role of Bolsonarism in the opposition

Friday, May 26, 12:00 to 1:30pm

Panel: Mexican H-2A Labor Migration, Transnational Families, and Communities: Plataforma Huaya-Puebla-Seattle Research Collaboration
Former Guest Scholar, Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa (Presenter)

Friday, May 26, 12:00 to 1:30pm

Panel: COVID-19 Vaccination Policies in Latin America: The Politics Behind the Variety in Outcomes
Former Visiting Fellow, Juliana Martinez Franzoni (Organizer and Discussant)

Friday, May 26, 12:00 to 1:30pm

Panel: Global Energy Transition as Silver Bullet for Latin America? Governance and Macroeconomic Issues
Former Visiting Fellow, Richard Snyder (Discussant)

Friday, May 26, 12:00 to 1:30pm

Panel: Transforming democracy: from social movements to constitutional change in Chile and Peru
Former Visiting Fellow, Gabriel Leonardo Negretto (Chair and Discussant)


Friday, May 26, 1:00 to 3:00pm

Panel: Translating Democracy for Latin America in the Long 19th Century -- Part II
Former Visiting Fellow, José Antonio Aguilar Rivera (Author)
Paper: Leopoldo Bora y la política de la imitación: Tocqueville en América


Friday, May 26, 1:45 to 3:15pm

Panel: Political Reactions to Changing Societies
Former Visiting Fellow, Noam Lupu (Presenter)
Paper: Understanding Democratic Attitudes Across Generations in Latin America

Friday, May 26, 1:45 to 3:15pm

Panel: New Horizons in China-Latin America Relations: Diplomacy and Political Economy
Former Visiting Fellow, Carol Wise (Organizer and Chair)


Friday, May 26, 1:45 to 3:15pm

Panel: Movimientos sociales y partidos políticos en los Andes
Kellogg PhD Alum, Omar Coronel (Organizer & Presenter)

Friday, May 26, 1:45 to 3:15pm

Workshop: Investigación bajo asedio en América Latina: enfoque sobre Venezuela (parte 2)
Former Visiting Fellow, Veronica Zubillaga (Presenter)

Friday, May 26, 1:45 to 3:15pm

Panel: Translating Democracy for Latin America in the Long 19th Century – Part I
Former Visiting Fellow, Eduardo Posada-Carbó (Organizer)

Friday, May 26, 1:45 to 3:15pm

Panel: Promoting the rights of minority and vulnerable populations through Centers for the Study of Latin America: Past Experiences and Future Projects
Former Visiting Fellow, Tulia Falleti (Organizer & Presenter)


Friday, May 26, 1:45 to 3:15pm

Panel: Access Scenarios: Apoyo a la democracia: transiciones, crisis y desconfianza ciudadana
Former Guest Scholar, Oswaldo Amaral (Presenter)
Paper: Remembering and Repairing the Authoritarian Past: Contrasting Policies and Enduring Outcomes for Democracy in Argentina and Brazil


Friday, May 26, 3:30 to 5:00pm

Panel: Guerra y relato en América Latina: imaginarios bélicos de los siglos XIX y XX
Kellogg Faculty, Magdalena Lopez (Organizer)
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Vanesa Miseres (Discussant)

Friday, May 26, 3:30 to 5:00pm

Panel: Subnational Approaches to Understanding Industrial Policy in Mexico
Former Visiting Fellow, Carol Wise (Chair and Discussant)
Former Visiting Fellow, Steven Samford (Discussant)
Paper: The Emergence of State Science, Technology, and Innovation Agencies in Mexico

Friday, May 26, 3:30 to 5:00pm

Panel: African-Caribbean-Latinx Connections: Literature, Culture, and Art
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Marisel Moreno (Session Organizer)

Friday, May 26, 3:30 to 5:00pm

Panel: Corruption, Politics, and Public Policies: Connections Through Different Perspectives of the Phenomenon
Former Guest Scholar, Oswaldo Amaral (Discussant)

Friday, May 26, 3:30 to 5:00pm

Panel: Translating Democracy for Latin America in the Long 19th Century – Part II
Former Visiting Fellow, José Antonio Aguilar Rivera (Discussant)
Former Visiting Fellow, Eduardo A. Zimmermann (Discussant)
Paper: París en (Sud)América: la traducción de Laboulaye por “Dominguito” Sarmiento
Former Visiting Fellow, Eduardo Posada-Carbó (Organizer and Presenter)
Paper: George Sydney Camp’s Democracy and the Liberal Revolution of mid-nineteenth-century in New Granada:

Friday, May 26, 3:30 to 4:00pm

Book Presentation: Recognition Politics: Indigenous Rights and Ethnic Conflict in the Andes
Former Visiting Fellow, Maria Candelaria Garay 


Saturday, May 27, 8:30 to 10:00am

Panel: Retos para la implementación en Latinoamérica de los principios interamericanos sobre libertad académica y autonomía universitaria
Former Visiting Fellow, José Antonio Aguilar Rivera (Discussant)

Saturday, May 27, 8:30 to 10:00am

Panel: Gender and Organized Crime; A Discussion from historical, political and socio-economic perspectives
Former Visiting Fellow, Gema Kloppe-Santamaria (Discussant)

Saturday, May 27, 8:30 to 10:00am

Panel: Women and Congress: Political Participation and Representation in Latin America and Spain, 19th and 20th centuries
Former Visiting Fellow, Eduardo Posada-Carbó (Discussant)


Saturday, May 27, 10:15 to 11:45am

Panel: Latinoamérica: las "nuevas" formas de la política autocrática
Former Visiting Fellow, José Antonio Aguilar Rivera (Discussant)


Saturday, May 27, 10:15 to 11:45am

Panel: De otro mundo: emergencias corporales latinoamericanas
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, María Rosa Olivera-Williams (Presenter)

Saturday, May 27, 10:15 to 11:45am

Panel: Sex, gender, work, and labor in contemporary Latin America
Former Visiting Fellow, Maria Candelaria Garay (Organizer)

Saturday, May 27, 12:00 to 1:30 pm

Roundtable: Rethinking rights: Forging a holistic approach to understanding climate change and migration from Honduras
Former Guest Scholar, Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa (Chair)

Saturday, May 27, 12:00 to 1:30 pm

Panel: Actividades ilícitas y organizaciones criminales como principales amenazas en contra de defensores indígenas y ambientales en Perú, Colombia, y Brasil
Former Visiting Fellow, Elena Alvarez (Chair)


Saturday, May 27, 1:45 to 3:15pm

Panel: Patterns of Illicit Markets and the Organized Crime Governance in Latin America
Former Visiting Fellow, Arie Kacowicz (Presenter)
Paper: The Latin American Contributions to the International Society and the Liberal Script

Saturday, May 27, 1:45 to 3:15pm

Panel: Institutional Fragilities in Guatemala
Former Visiting Fellow, Rose J. Spalding (Organizer)
Paper: Social Movements and Political Contention: Applying Tarrow’s Framework to Indigenous Community Consultation in Guatemala

Saturday, May 27, 1:45 to 3:15pm

Panel: Building Judicial Independence: Judges’ Incentives to Resist Political Co-optation and Foster Judicial Power in Latin America
Kellogg PhD Fellow, Benjamin Garcia Holgado (Organizer, Chair and Discussant)

Saturday, May 27, 1:45 to 3:15pm

Panel: Compromiso y desafección política en América Latina
Former Visiting Fellow, Cecilia Martinez-Gallardo (Paneliest)
Paper: Populism and the Representation Gap: A comparison of Latin America and Europe

Saturday, May 27, 1:45 to 3:15pm

Panel: Sistemas electorales y comportamiento del voto
Former Visiting Fellow, Gabriel Leonardo Negretto (Discussant)
Paper: The Party System Effects of Unstable Electoral Rules: Evidence from New Democracies in Latin America

Saturday, May 27, 1:45 to 3:15pm

Featured Session: Bryce Wood Book Award: Sabine Cadeau
Former Visiting Fellow, Maria Candelaria Garay (Chair)

Saturday, May 27, 1:45 to 3:15pm

Panel: LGBTI Migrants: Intersecting Vulnerabilities and Political Struggles from Origin to Destination
Former Visiting Fellow, Laura Gomez Mera (Organizer and Discussant)
Former Visiting Fellow, Joseph L. Wiltberger (Organizer, Chair, and Discussant)
Paper: The Politics of Intersecting Vulnerabilities: Comparing LGBTQ+ Latinx Migrants in Florida and California

Saturday, May 27, 3:30 to 4:00pm

Book Presentation: Independence and Nation Building in Latin America: Race and Identity in the Crucible of War
Former Visiting Fellow, Eduardo Posada-Carbó (Presenter)

Saturday, May 27, 3:30 to 4:00pm

Panel: Sexual Transgression, Trans Literature, Trans Representation, and the Literary Market in Latin America
Kellogg Doctoral Affiiiate, Ignacio Sánchez Osores (Presenter)
Paper: Las travestis entran a escena: estética y política en la literatura travesti latinoamericana

Saturday, May 27, 3:30 to 5:00pm

Roundtable: Democracy and Polarization in Latin American Politics
Former Visiting Fellow, Kenneth Roberts (Presenter)
Former Visiting Fellow, Steven Levitsky (Presenter)
Former Visiting Fellow, Sam Handlin (Presenter)
Kellogg PhD Alum, Laura Gamboa (Presenter)

Saturday, May 27, 3:30 to 5:00pm

Panel: Consolidación democrática en Latinoamérica: retos de los gobiernos progresistas
Former Visiting Fellow, Isidoro Cheresky (Organizer & Presenter)


Saturday, May 27, 5:15 to 6:45pm

LARR – University of Florida Article Award: Magdalena Gil
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Vanesa Miseres (Organizer)


Saturday, May 27, 5:15 to 6:45pm

Roundtable: Police reform in Latin America: An analysis of its triggers, enablers, results, and lessons
Former Visiting Fellow, Hernán Flom (Organizer)
Kellogg PhD Alum, Leslie E. MacColman (Discussant)

 

Prospects for Democracy: Past and Future of Latin America

Thursday, May 25, 01:45 PM - 03:15 PM

 

Participants:

  • Terry Lynn Karl (Stanford University), winner of LASA’s 2023 Guillermo O'Donnell Democracy Award
  • Laurence Whitehead (Oxford University)
  • Philippe C. Schmitter (European University Institute)

Chairs:

  • Laura Gamboa (University of Utah)
  • Aníbal Pérez-Liñán (University of Notre Dame)

 

Decades after the workshop “Prospects for Democracy” inaugurated the study of transitions from authoritarian rule in September 1979, questions about the future of democracy remain as urgent as ever. This presidential session brings together three foundational intellectuals in this tradition to reflect on the contemporary challenges posed by the study and the practice of democracy in Latin America. The Kellogg Institute sponsored this Presidential Session as part of its 40th Anniversary Celebration.

Foundational Readings

Middlebrook, Kevin J. 1979. “Prospects for Democracy: Regime Transformation and Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: A Rapporteur's Report.” Wilson Center, Latin America Program Working Paper #62
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/62-prospects-for-democracy-regime-transformation-and-transitions-authoritarian-rule

Report of the first meeting of the Transitions project in September 1979. This meeting anticipated key ideas about the origins of transitions from authoritarian rule, the transition process and its main actors, possible outcomes of the liberalization process, and methodological issues of case selection.

O’Donnell, Guillermo. 1983. "Democracia en la Argentina: micro y macro." Kellogg Institute Working Paper # 2. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, https://kellogg.nd.edu/documents/1070

Argentina’s dictatorship prompted the proliferation of societal authoritarianism. Important advances in societal democracy are necessary for the consolidation and expansion of political democracy.

O’Donnell, Guillermo. 1984. "América Latina, Estados Unidos y democracia-variaciones sobre un viejísimo tema." Kellogg Institute Working Paper # 19. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame.
https://kellogg.nd.edu/documents/1212

Domestic actors are ultimately responsible for the establishment of democracy. The experience of dictatorship prompted a revalorization of democracy as a goal in itself. The paper ends with a proposal for the creation of an Inter-American Endowment for Democracy.

Schmitter, Philippe, and Terry L. Karl. 1991. “What Democracy Is and Is Not.” Journal of Democracy, 2(3): 75-88
https://www.ned.org/docs/Philippe-C-Schmitter-and-Terry-Lynn-Karl-What-Democracy-is-and-Is-Not.pdf

Modern political democracy is a regime in which rulers are held accountable by citizens, who act indirectly through the competition and cooperation of their elected representatives. This paper placed accountability and the rule of law at the center of the definition of democracy.

O’Donnell, Guillermo. 1992. "Delegative Democracy?” Kellogg Institute Working Paper # 172. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame.
https://kellogg.nd.edu/documents/1407

Delegative democracies have weak institutions of horizontal accountability. Those who win a presidential election are enabled to govern the country as they see fit, to the extent that existing power relations allow.

O’Donnell, Guillermo. 1993. "On the State, Democratization, and Some Conceptual Problems (A Latin American View with Glances at Some Post-Communist Countries)." Kellogg Institute Working Paper # 192. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame.
https://kellogg.nd.edu/documents/1427

Theories of democracy assume homogeneity in the scope of the state. But in much of Latin America, states are unable to regulate social life across their territories. In countries with extensive ‘brown’ areas, the state mixes democratic and authoritarian characteristics.

Karl, Terry L. 1994. “Central America in the Twenty-First Century: The Prospects for a Democratic Region.” Kellogg Institute Working Paper # 000PLA2K05. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame. https://kellogg.nd.edu/documents/6459

Whitehead, Laurence. 1994. “The Peculiarities of 'Transition' a la Mexicana.” Kellogg Institute Working Paper # 000PLA2K04. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame. https://kellogg.nd.edu/documents/6458

The Mexican authoritarian regime defied traditional images of authoritarian rule by combining institutionalization and mass incorporation. This paper analyzed the conditions for a democratic transition (by stealth or rupture) at the time of the Zapatista rebellion in 1994.

Karl, Terry L. 2005. “From Democracy to Democratization and Back: Before Transitions from Authoritarian Rule.” CRDDL Working Paper. https://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/publications/from_democracy_to_democratization_and_back__before_transitions_from_authoritarian_rule

This paper assesses how democracy studies changed with the publication of Transitions from Authoritarian Rule, retracing subsequent debates about the meaning of democracy, structure and agency, regional and cross-regional research, modes of transition, and political pacts.