Agradecemos al comité evaluador por su cuidadosa evaluación: Belén Fernández Milmanda, @ddemicheli.bsky.social y @egocantos.bsky.social.
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Nos complace anunciar al ganador del Premio Donna Lee Van Cott 2025: Raúl Madrid (UT Austin) (@raullorcamadrid.bsky.social) por The Birth of Democracy in South America.
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¡Felicitaciones!
#LAPIS #LASA2025 #LatinAmericanPolitics
We thank the award committee for their careful evaluation:
Belén Fernández Milmanda, @ddemicheli.bsky.social, and @egocantos.bsky.social
We are pleased to announce the 2025 Donna Lee Van Cott Award winner: Raúl Madrid (UT Austin) (@raullorcamadrid.bsky.social) for The Birth of Democracy in South America. www.cambridge.org/core/books/b....
Congratulations!
#LAPIS2025
Agradecemos al comité evaluador:
Silvia Otero-Bahamon, @gontrerasa.bsky.social y @anriasantiago.bsky.social.
Felicidades a los ganadores del Premio LAPIS al Mejor Artículo 2025: Verónica Pérez Betancur, Rafael Piñeiro-Rodríguez y Fernando Rosenblatt (@fernandorosenblatt.bsky.social) por su trabajo: “La incorporación política de los sectores populares en América Latina.”
#LASA2025
We thank the award committee:
Silvia Otero-Bahamon, @gontrerasa.bsky.social, and @anriasantiago.bsky.social
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 LAPIS Best Paper Award: Verónica Pérez Betancur, Rafael Piñeiro-Rodríguez, and Fernando Rosenblatt @fernandorosenblatt.bsky.social
for their paper: “The Political Incorporation of Popular Sectors in Latin America.”
Congratulations!
#LASA2025
Exciting news! Accountability Shock is available! The book shows how robust transitional justice contributes to the development of peaceful democracies and prevents the outbreak of criminal wars. It is the product of a truly amazing intellectual partnership with G. Trejo and @tiscornia21.bsky.social
ICYMI: PIR’s Ernesto Fiocchetto’s work “Is there a way back after the Venezuelan diaspora?” was recently featured in Latinoamérica21. Read it here: latinoamerica21.com/en/is-there-...
En paralelo a lo ocurrido en el ámbito federal, más de la mitad de las entidades federativas han reformado o sustituido sus leyes de desarrollo social
Manuel Ignacio Martínez Espinoza escribe en Pacto Federal, el blog de federalismo en Nexos
federalismo.nexos.com.mx/2026/03/la-r...
New issue of the Journal of Politics in #LatinAmerica out! It examines how political trust shapes citizen behaviour in unequal contexts, models of constitution-making in #Brazil and #Chile, how people relate to the police, and more.
➡️Read: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/press/new...
From the Kellogg Violence and Transitional Justice Policy and Practice Research Lab - get your copy today!
📚 Best Book in Foreign Policy Analysis. Winner: Luis Schenoni, Bringing War Back In
Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
@llschenoni.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org
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This coming week at the University of Richmond! 💚 I will be also offering a food studies workshop with my dear and brilliant colleague, Karina Vazquez. It is actually a great excuse to learn from her! 💖
Interested in hearing from FIU experts on Cuba? Check out the website “Understanding Cuba’s Uncertain Future,” which features PIR Professors Pedreira, Gamarra, and Moreno. Find it here: news.fiu.edu/2026/underst...
Happy to share my new paper published in @LAPSjournal.
Do voters take into account the deaths of family members and close friends when evaluating the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic—particularly when that response is problematic or even negligent? bit.ly/3MBjEDW
📢 The LAPIS Best Paper Committee extended the deadline for the LASA 2025 Best Paper Award to Feb 13, 2026. To nominate, you must be an active section member. If you’re not a LASA member, join via Friends of LASA.
📢 El Comité del Mejor Paper de LAPIS extendió el deadline del premio al mejor paper presentado en LASA 2025 hasta el 13 feb 2026. Para nominar, debe ser miembro activo. Si no es miembro LASA, puede unirse vía Friends of LASA.
La reforma judicial introdujo los Tribunales de Disciplina Judicial como pieza clave para investigar, sancionar o evaluar el desempeño de jueces y magistrados en todo el país
Ricardo Alexys Valencia escribe en Pacto Federal, el blog de federalismo en Nexos
federalismo.nexos.com.mx/2026/01/trib...
Apply to join UCL’s Institute of the Americas as Lecturer in International Relations of the Americas 👇
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
The AIM-3D Lab is a new Kellogg Research, Policy & Practice Lab sponsored with @lucyinstitute-nd.bsky.social. Led by Michael Coppedge and Dmitry Zaytsev and others, the team uses AI to model and forecast democratic and autocratic change worldwide. See their new website: https://sites.nd.edu/aim3d/
Just accepted for publication at Socio-Economic Review, my new paper co-authored with brilliant Princeton undergraduate Aishwarya Swamidurai!
The "power to pollute" and "post-neoliberal" climate
finance
Interested in studying in Germany? Come to the information session about available programs on Feb. 6. More info here: miamieuc.fiu.edu/events/gener...
How does democracy erode when the state itself is weakened?
In The Democracy Paradox, Javier Pérez Sandoval (Kellogg Institute) explains why populist leaders "hollow out" state capacity – and what that means for justice, security, and elections.
Listen: https://bit.ly/4qW9i0d
We are pleased to announce that the call for the 4th Annual Early Career Workshop on Social Science Approaches to Law and Courts is now live. If you are a PhD student or postdoc working in this area, you can send us your abstract via this link: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
Escucha el episodio más reciente del podcast Global Stage con la artista cubana Tania Bruguera sobre la relación entre arte, política y vida cotidiana: https://bit.ly/3NNzeMR
#performanceart #cuba #latinamerica
Want expert commentary on Venezuela? Media appearances by FIU Green School faculty can be found here: sipa.fiu.edu/news-events/...