#  Poll Workers and the Effects of Supportive Political Participation 

 



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 **October 3, 2023** 

 12:00PM - 01:20PM EDT 

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 **S216, CGIS South**  



 

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 Speaker: **Noam Lupu**, Associate Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University; Associate Director of LAPOP Lab  
Moderated by: **Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez**, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

 How does participating in democracy shape the attitudes of citizens? This study looks at how the experience of serving as a poll worker in Peru affected the democratic commitments and evaluations of individuals.

 **Noam Lupu** is Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of LAPOP Lab at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of *Party Brands in Crisis* (Cambridge 2016) and coeditor of *Unequal Democracies* (with Jonas Pontusson, Cambridge 2024) and *Campaigns and Voters in Developing Democracies* (with Virginia Oliveros and Luis Schiumerini, Michigan 2019).

 **Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez** is a PhD candidate in the Department of Government. His research examines contemporary challenges to democratic institutions in Latin America, with a focus on Central America and Mexico. His dissertation explores the causes and consequences of efforts by criminal organizations to influence elections. He is a 2022-23 USIP and Minerva Peace and Security Scholar and a graduate of the University of Oxford and Harvard College. Manuel was born and raised in El Salvador.

 *Presented in collaboration with [Weatherhead Institute for International Affairs](https://wcfia.harvard.edu/)*



 

 



 

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