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Speaker: Brian Palmer-Rubin, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the International Affairs Program, Marquette University
Moderated by: Steve Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Brian Palmer-Rubin is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the International Affairs Program at Marquette University. He completed a PhD in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and an MA in Latin American Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He studies interest representation, political economy of development, and accountability institutions, with a central focus on Mexico. Brian's recently published book, Evading the Patronage Trap: Interest Representation in Mexico, was awarded the Harold D. Lasswell Award from APSA for best dissertation in public policy. Other research has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, and World Development, among other outlets. Brian also led a recent public scholarship project about Mexico's transparency institute, Big Data and Access to Information in Mexico.
Steven Levitsky is the Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. As the David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government, his research focuses on democratization, authoritarianism, political parties, and weak and informal institutions. He is author (with Daniel Ziblatt) of How Democracies Die (Crown, 2018), a New York Times Best-Seller that has been published in 25 languages, Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War (with Lucan Way) (Cambridge, 2010), and Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge, 2003), and co -editor of Informal Institutions and Democracy in Latin America (with Gretchen Helmke) and The Resurgence of the Latin American Left (with Kenneth Roberts). He has written frequently for the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Vox, The New Republic, The Monkey Cage, La República (Peru) and Folha de São Paulo (Brazil). He is currently writing a book (with Lucan Way) on the durability of revolutionary regimes. Levitsky received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
Presented in collaboration with Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
LOCATION:S216, CGIS South STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20230131T170000Z DTEND:20230131T182000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR