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Speaker: Fernando Limongi, Professor of Political Science, São Paulo University; Fundação Getulio Vargas
Moderated by: Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Why was president Dilma Rousseff impeached? Why the coalition that supported PT governments for more than a decade fell apart? The answer lies on the internal disputes within the coalition.
Fernando Limongi is is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Sao Paulo and at Sao Paulo Economic School at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and is the author of Democracy and Development (co-author with Adam Przeworski, Michael Alvarez and Jose Antonio Cheibub) and Executivo e Legislativo na Ordem Constitucional (co-authored with Argelina Figueiredo). Recently, he published a book reconstructing the political crisis that lead to the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff (Operação Impeachment, Todavia Editora, 2023). Professor Limongi is engaged in a series of project and research groups dealing with democratic rule around the world.
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
LOCATION:S216, CGIS South STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20231017T160000Z DTEND:20231017T172000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR