Carlos Guevara Mann

Carlos Guevara Mann (PhD, University of Notre Dame, 2001), professor of Political Science and director of the Master’s program in International Affairs at Florida State University, Panama, was a Kellogg Visiting Fellow in Spring 2010. His project, “Career Paths and Representatives’ Motivations: A Comparison of the Political Behavior of Deputies in Chile and Panama,” took the dissertation work he undertook with Michael Coppedge in 1997-2001 several steps further. In this previous research, he found that some politicians were concerned not only with getting reelected but also with becoming wealthy and avoiding prosecution. Comparison between Chile (a formally institutionalized multiparty democracy) and Panama (a democratic regime with lower levels of formal institutionalization) reveals some of the implications of legislators’ behavior for the quality of democracy.

Carlos Guevara Mann was an assistant to the Panamanian secretary of state and taught Political Science at University of Nevada, Reno (2005-2010) and Universidad del Norte, Colombia (2014-2015). He was policy advisor to the Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP, 2011-2013).  A regular columnist for La Prensa of Panama since 2004, Dr. Guevara Mann is the author of Panamanian Militarism: A Historical Interpretation (Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1996) and Political Careers, Corruption, and Impunity: Panama's Assembly, 1984-2009 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2011) as well as several journal articles on his topics of expertise and nearly 1,600 newspaper editorials.