Bienvenida y presentación del premio Seligson de 2023

– Elizabeth Zechmeister, LAPOP Lab Director

– Noam Lupu, LAPOP Lab Associate Director

– Chantal Agarwal, USAID Democracy Officer

Charlas con los estudiantes

Sesión A: Participación popular

– Laura Beghini Chelidonopoulos (University of Pittsburgh)

“Is rejection stronger towards leftist parties? Antipartisanship and

party punishment in Brazil”

– Anthony Calacino (University of Texas at Austin)

“Drying Up Trust? Extreme Weather, Clientelism, and Political Attitudes

in Brazil and Mexico”

– Isabel Laterzo (University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill)

“Progressive Ideology and Support for Punitive Crime Policy: Evidence

from Brazil and Argentina”

– Guillermo Miranda (Escuela de Comunicaciones Mónica Herrera)

“Political Culture and Democratic Resilience: El Salvador in the Mirror

of Chile”

– Jair Moreira (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

“Attitudes Towards External Voting: A Case Study of Colombia”

– Alex Wais (University of Texas at Austin)

“The (Sometimes) Virtuous Cycle of Political Engagement in Brazil”

Sesión B: Instituciones democráticas

“State Absenteeism: An Analysis of Vigilantism and Security Provision

in Latin America”

– Martín Gou (Vanderbilt University)

“When do citizens react to democratic backsliding? Using public opinion

models to explain perceptions of democratic backsliding”

– Anusha Natarajan (Columbia University)

“Comprehending the Role of Media and its Power on Democracies: A

Citizen’s Perspective”

– Luis Remiro (Universitat de Barcelona)

“Undermining Democracy, Fueling Polarization: The Consequences of

the Indefinite Suspension of the 2016 Recall Referendum in Venezuela”

– Mishella Romo (Princeton University)

“Competing with Executive Aggrandizement? The Politics of Horizontal

Accountability Institutions and the Personalization of Justice in

Polarized Democracies”

– Daniel Rojas (University of British Colombia)

“Ideological Expectations and Support for Redistribution among the

Wealthy”

Panel A: Migración.

Comentaristas: Alegría Donoso y José Emilio Vásconez

– Lucas Perelló (Marist College)

“Why Do People Migrate? Evidence from Four Central American

Countries, 2008–2018”

– Ana Isabel López García (Maastricht University)

“Migrant remittances and the local fiscal contract in Latin America”

– Nathalie Mendez Mendez (Universidad de los Andes)

– Manuel Muñoz (Texas A&M University)

“Dual Attitudes Toward Immigrants? the Politics of Group-Specific

Stereotypes in Latin America”

– Jon Hiskey (Vanderbilt University)

“Gender-Based Violence and Central American Migration”

Panel B: Sufragio y elecciones

Comentaristas: Belén Espinel y Paolo Moncagatta

– Carolina Plescia (University of Vienna)

– Maria Belen Abdala (University of Vienna)

“Would you vote for yourself? An analysis of citizens’ initial motivation

to compete in elections and seek public office”

– Eduardo Carrillo (Asociación TEDIC)

“¿Democracia y usabilidad? Tres años de implementación del voto

electrónico en Paraguay”

– Milany Andrea Gómez Betancur (Universidad Católica de Oriente)

“La percepción de la democracia en Colombia durante el año 2022 y

su influencia en las elecciones presidenciales. Un estudio cuantitativo.”

– Razvan Vlaicu (Research Department, Inter-American Development Bank)

“Voting Age, Information Experiments, and Political Engagement:

Evidence from a General Election”

Mesa Redonda: Seguridad y democracia en Ecuador

Moderadora: Ruth Hidalgo (Universidad de Las Américas)

– Fernando Carrión (FLACSO)

– Daniel Montalvo (LAPOP Lab – Vanderbilt University)

– Renato Rivera (Universidad de Las Américas)

– Arturo Torres (Portal Código Vidrio)

Panel C: Democracia

Comentaristas: Katalina Barreiro y Sebastián Donoso

– Matthew Singer (University of Connecticut)

“Do Authoritarians or Democrats Want Weaker Term Limits? Views

from Latin America’s Citizenry”

– Orlando Pérez (University of North Texas at Dallas)

– Christine Wade (Washington College)

“Militarism, Authoritarianism and Corruption: Post-Coup Honduras

and the Decline of Democracy”

– Dorothy Kronick (Berkeley)

“Backsliding by surprise: the rise of Chavismo”

– Brett Bessen (Tecnológico de Monterrey)

“Populist Discourse and Public Support for Executive Aggrandizement

in Latin America”

Panel D: Nuevas formas en la investigación de opinión.

Comentaristas: Karen Sichel y José Luis Fuentes

– David De Micheli (University of Utah)

“Consequences of Corruption for Political System Support: Evidence

from a Brazilian Scandal”

– Carew Boulding (University of Colorado Boulder)

– Velasco Guachalla (University of Essex)

– Gustavo Perez (University of Colorado)

“Understanding Protesters’ Attitudes about the Political System”

– Maria Curiel (Stanford University)

“Civilian Perceptions of Former Insurgent Parties”

– Daniela Osorio Michel (German Institute for Global and Area Studies)

“The Effect of Women Occupying Political Office on Bias Against Women

Politicians: Evidence from Latin America”

Barómetro de las Américas de 2023: Una breve mirada a las conclusiones de la décima ronda.

– Elizabeth Zechmeister, LAPOP Lab Director

– Noam Lupu, LAPOP Lab Associate Director