CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 📃 The Central America Section of LASA invites individual paper proposals for two sponsored panels at the 2024 Annual Congress, which will take place in Bogotá, Colombia, from June 12-15, 2024. 🗓️⏳Due date: Monday, August 28, 2023

🧵 Looking to stop an autocratic president? In Guatemala's presidential race, Arévalo perfectly executed a strategy that has been tried and tested across Latin America. Here's how, courtesy of Laura Gamboa. Now free. buff.ly/45JE8ON (1/2)

El artículo más esclarecedor que he leído sobre el caso de Georgia contra #Trump , liderado por la fiscal #FannyWillis ¡Excelente aporte ⁦Tatiana Benavides Santos⁩ ! Esquema para revertir una elección: nacion.com/opinion/column… nacion.com/opinion/column…

Cada vez menos institucionalizados los partidos políticos en América Latina y el mundo (VDEM) Observatorio de Reformas Políticas América Latina

Forty years ago both parties had liberals and conservatives in them; whichever you were, you had perceived allies in both parties. That is no longer the case. This homogeneity makes it easier for people to accept one party as the enemy. thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/joe-the-plum…

📢 A NEW INDEX ON PARTY SYSTEMS' DEMOCRATIC LEVELS📢 Together with Felix Wiebrecht & @StaffanILindber, we provide a new index that defines to what extent party systems are more democratic or authoritarian. Here is the working paper: v-dem.net/media/publicat… Varieties of Democracy Institute A 🧵

If you want your representatives to support the issues you care about, it’s important to show up to vote in every election. This National Voter Registration Day, register or update your voter registration at IWillVote.com. Then ask your family and friends to do the

En el “paraíso” de El Salvador una persona muere cada cuatro días en las cárceles de Nayib Bukele. Mientras el presidente proclama al mundo el éxito de su estrategia de seguridad pública, se acumulan historias de torturas y muerte tras las rejas. 👇 infobae.com/america/americ…

.Department of State looks forward to joining this important event with hundreds of civil society, private sector, & government leaders to advance inclusive economic development efforts in Central America. Follow along using #CADF2023 & check out the agenda here: cadonorsforum.org/en/2023agenda/

¿Quién más es fan de Guillermo O’Donnell? Uno de los científicos sociales más influyentes que estudió América Latina. 🩷 Nunca dejemos de celebrar la carrera de quien nos enseñó tanto 🩷 La convocatoria del premio de LASA en su honor está abierta lasaweb.org/.../guillermo-…

En una sociedad polarizada, CONQUISTAR el centro es ganar; SER el centro es perder.

Power is not monolithic in #Venezuela today, and post-election divisions within Chavismo could present new opportunities for change. Here is my interview for CNN. youtube.com/watch?v=7r3Kzw…

📌 | #Agéndate Presentación del libro "The Persistence of Local Caudillos in Latin America. Informal Political Practices and Democracy in Unitary Countries" de Tomas Dosek. 🗓️ Viernes 23 de agosto ⏰ 09:00 Hrs. (CDMX) 📽️ En vivo x #ReformasTV ⬇️

A reminder from Tyranny of the Minority

On this Election Day 2024, in a letter organized by the American Bar Association’s Task Force for American Democracy, 125 current and past presidents of the nation’s state, local, and national bar associations put lawyers on notice of their professional obligations

Correction: Costa Rican President bestows diplomatic honor to ES Pres. Bukele. Costa Rican Congress refused to host Bukele and so did the Supreme Court, a piece of info absent from your story.

The world's richest man, Elon Musk, gave nearly $200 million to President-elect Trump's campaign, and is now playing a role in weighing in on staffing decisions for his next administration. Daniel Klaidman breaks down what Musk and other billionaires stand to gain from Trump's second

80 % of Germans didn't vote for the Radical Right .

𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 For political scientists, the just-out 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘴 has some good chapters specifically focused on political institutions. Open access: link.springer.com/referencework/…