#  Turning Away From the State: Trade Shocks and Informal Insurance in Brazil 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 29, 2024** 

 12:00PM - 01:20PM EDT 

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 **CGIS South, Room S210, No advance registration required to attend in-person.**  



 

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Speaker: **Paula Rettl,** Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Moderator: **Steven Levitsky**, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

**About the Speaker**

**Paula Rettl** is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. Her primary areas of expertise are comparative politics, political economy and political behavior, with a focus on Latin America and Europe.

Professor Rettl’s research centers on how broad societal changes shape mass attitudes and behavior. For example, in some of her work, she examines how voters’ responses to globalization varies depending on whether they rely on the state or religious organizations for support during difficult economic times. In other work, she investigates how natural disasters shape voting behavior and the role played by economic interest in this context.

**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.

*Presented in collaboration with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs*



 

 



 

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- [ Brazil Studies ](/programs-initiatives/brazil-studies)
- [ Tuesday Seminar Series ](/programs-initiatives/tuesday-seminar-series)
 
 

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