Tuesday Seminar Series

Latin America has experienced an unprecedented wave of far-right electoral victories. Four scholars join Steve Levitsky to discuss the causes of this far-right turn and its consequences for Latin American democracy. This event is presented in...

The rise of the populist right is a defining feature of contemporary world politics. In Europe and in the Americas, in particular, the political dimensions (illiberalism, cultural backlash, the reactionary international) of this epochal shift are...

A panel of four specialists will analyze the results of Brazil’s October election and their consequences for the country. This event is presented in collaboration with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs .

Abortion is a polarizing political issue across the American continent, yet US-focused scholars seldom interrogate the consequences of abortion politics for democratic institutions. Latin America scholarship has done better. Moving beyond the typical US...

The Jan 3 U.S. removal of Nicolás Maduro created an opportunity for redemocratization in Venezuela. However, the Trump Administration has shown little interest in democracy, working closely with the authoritarian government of Delcy Rodriguez and...

Police violence against marginalized groups persists in many democracies. Yet, democratically-elected leaders may lack incentives to curb it because repressive policing often enjoys widespread support, and views toward police violence often mirror...

Colombia elected a new right-wing president, Abelardo de la Espriella, by a razor-thin margin in the June 2026 runoff. De la Espriella ran as an outsider against the political establishment and against Iván Cepeda, the left-wing governing coalition's...

Participation in Rio de Janeiro's escolas de samba was a powerful form of collective action that Brazil's military dictatorship (1964–1985) paradoxically tolerated and even promoted. While these organizations operated as vital civil society organizations...

This presentation uses migrant stories and decision-making theory to explain why U.S. “prevention through deterrence” policies have raised the human and financial costs of migration without reliably stopping people from coming. Drawing on interviews...