# The 2025 Chile Election ![Tuesday seminar logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum12451/files/styles/hwp_5_4__480x385/public/2025-09/Tuesday%20Seminar%20Photo%20Template_0.jpg?itok=ZrZeEeFY) #### calendar\_today Date and Time **November 18, 2025** 12:00PM - 01:30PM EST #### pin\_drop Location **CGIS South, S216** [1730 Cambridge St Cambridge, MA 02138 United States ]() [ Registration Link arrow\_circle\_right ](https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yZSkVFivQ9GWbLWyxZeuUA#/registration) **Speakers** **David Altman,** Profesor, Instituto de Ciencia Política, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. **Patricio Navia,** Clinical Full Professor of Liberal Studies and Adjunct Professor at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University, and Full Professor of Political Science at Universidad Diego Portales (Chile). **Rossana Castiglioni,** Full Professor of Political Science and Dean of Social Sciences and History at Universidad Diego Portales (Chile). **Lucia Dammert**, Professor of International Relations, Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Moderated by **Steven Levitsky**, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. **Alisha Holland**, Gates Professor of Developing Societies, Government Department, Harvard University. **Frances Hagopian**, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University. --- **About the Speakers** **David Altman** is a professor and former chair of the Political Science Institute at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 2001. His research and teaching focus on comparative politics, particularly democracy—its quality, institutions, performance, and innovations. He is the author of Citizenship and Contemporary Direct Democracy (Cambridge University Press, and has published over sixty articles in leading journals. He has been a visiting professor at institutions including Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Gothenburg, and the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence. He currently serves as Project Manager for the Varieties of Democracy project and as Director of V-Dem’s Latin America Regional Center.2019) and Direct Democracy Worldwide (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and has published over sixty articles in leading journals. He has been a visiting professor at institutions including Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Gothenburg, and the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence. He currently serves as Project Manager for the Varieties of Democracy project and as Director of V-Dem’s Latin America Regional Center. **Patricio Navia** is a Clinical (Full) Professor of Liberal Studies and Adjunct Professor in the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. He is also a (full) Professor of Political Science at Universidad Diego Portales in Chile. Ph.D. in Politics from New York University, an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Political Sciences and Sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton University, New School University, Universidad de Salamanca, Universidad de Chile and NYU Buenos Aires, and a visiting fellow at the University of Miami. He has published scholarly articles and book chapters on democratization, electoral rules and democratic institutions in Latin America. As founding director of Observatorio Electoral at Universidad Diego Portales, he has co-edited *Democracia Municipal* (2012), *El sismo electoral de 2009. Cambio y continuidad en las preferencias políticas de los chilenos* (2010) and *El genoma electoral chileno. Dibujando el mapa genético de las preferencias políticas en Chile* (2009). His books *Diccionario de la política chilena* (with Alfredo Joignant and Francisco Javier Díaz), *El díscolo. Conversaciones con Marco Enríquez-Ominami* (2009), *Que gane el más mejor: Mérito y Competencia en el Chile de hoy* (with Eduardo Engel, 2006) and *Las grandes alamedas: El Chile post Pinochet* (2004) have been best sellers in Chile. He is a columnist in El Líbero in Chile and the Americas Quarterly in New York. He has previously penned columns for *La Tercera*, *Capital* and *Poder* magazines in Chile, *Perfil* and *Buenos Aires Herald* in Argentina and for Infolatam.com. **Rossana Castiglioni** holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame. She is Full Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and History at Universidad Diego Portales. Dr. Castiglioni is co-founder and co-coordinator of PolSoc (Latin American Network on the Analysis of Social Policy) and co-editor of the Journal of Politics in Latin America. Her research focuses on comparative social policy and the dilemmas of democratic representation in Latin America. She has been a visiting professor at several institutions, including the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. Her work has appeared in various academic journals. Her book The Politics of Social Policy Change in Chile and Uruguay was published by Routledge in 2005 and reprinted in 2013. Her most recent book, The Political Economy of Segmented Expansion (co-authored with Camila Arza, Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Sara Niedzwiecki, Jennifer Pribble, and Diego Sánchez-Ancochea), was published in English in 2022 and in Spanish in 2023 as part of the Elements series by Cambridge University Press. **Lucia Dammert** is a Professor of International Relations at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Born in Peru, her research interests lie in the field of public security, criminal organizations and criminal justice reform. Her expertise has been widely acknowledged in Latin America. Among her most recent books are Fear of Crime in Latin America (2012, Routledge) and Maras (2011, University of Texas Press) edited with Thomas Bruneau. She has held key advisory positions in Chile, Argentina, México and Perú and has served as key advisor at the Organization of American States and other regional organizations. At the global level she has been invited to be part of the UN Secretary General´s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters. She holds a PhD from Leiden University, a Masters Degree from University of Pittsburgh and a BA from Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Argentina. **About the Moderator** **Steven Levitsky** is David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government, Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard. He is also a Senior Democracy Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Senior Fellow at the Kettering Foundation. His research focuses on democracy and authoritarianism, political parties, weak and informal institutions, and most recently, the crisis of democracy in the United States. He and Daniel Ziblatt are authors of How Democracies Die, which was a New York Times best-seller and was published in 30 languages, and Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point. Levitsky has written or edited 11 other books, including Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press 2003), Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War (with Lucan Way) (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (with Lucan Way) (Princeton University Press, 2022). He and Lucan Way are currently writing a book on the sources of global democratic resilience in the 21st Century. **Alisha Holland** is the Gates Professor of Developing Societies in the Department of Government at Harvard University. Her research examines the comparative political economy of development, with a focus on urban politics, social policy, and Latin America. She is the author of *Forbearance as Redistribution: The Politics of Informal Welfare in Latin America* (Cambridge University Press), which explores state enforcement practices around property law violations such as squatting, street vending, and electricity theft. Her current book project studies the politics of large infrastructure projects in Latin America. Holland’s broader interests include law, migration, crime control, subnational governance, and corruption. Before joining the Harvard faculty, she was an Assistant Professor at Princeton University and a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She holds an A.B. from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University. **Frances Hagopian** is Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government at Harvard University. She specializes in the comparative politics of Latin America, with emphasis on democratization, political representation, political economy, and religion and politics. She is the author of *Reorganizing Representation in Latin America* (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and *Traditional Politics and Regime Change in Brazil* (Cambridge University Press, 1996), and editor or co-editor of several volumes, including *Religious Pluralism, Democracy, and the Catholic Church in Latin America* (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009) and *The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America: Advances and Setbacks* (Cambridge University Press, 2005, with Scott Mainwaring). Her current research focuses on the development of social welfare regimes in Brazil and the political economy of inequality in Latin America. Hagopian has previously taught at the University of Notre Dame, Tufts University, and Harvard, and has held visiting positions at the London School of Economics, MIT, and Nuffield College, Oxford. ###### This event is presented in collaboration with the [Weatherhead Center for International Affairs](https://wcfia.harvard.edu/). See also:- [ Cambridge ](/locations/cambridge-office) - [ Virtual ](/location/virtual) - [ Tuesday Seminar Series ](/programs-initiatives/tuesday-seminar-series) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://www.drclas.harvard.edu/node/1588886/event-feed.ics) Copy link link