Comparative Latin American Politics: Short-term Dynamics and Long-term Processes

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

These papers provide valuable perspectives on crucial topics in Latin American politics. Two of them focus on long-term processes and the extent, nature and form of path dependent processes. One does so with regard to ethnoracial demography and the provision of public goods in Brazil and another with regard to the differential consequences of military dictatorships in Brazil, Chile and Uruguay on subsequent political party systems. Two other papers focus more on short-term dynamics related to electoral phenomena. One examines the implications of the Colombian referendum vote for arguments around direct democracy and the other focuses on whether vote buying can extend beyond national borders in the case of Mexico.

Sub Unit

• Related Groups / Comparative Latin American Politics and Political Economy

Individual Presentations

• Turnout in referendums: A formal model with observations from Colombia - Radha Sarkar, Yale University; Susan C. Stokes, University of Chicago; Eli Gavin Rau, Yale University

• Buying Votes across Borders? A Survey Experiment on Mexican Immigrants in the US - Yuriko Takahashi, Waseda University; Takeshi Iida, Doshisha University; Jaehyun Song, Waseda University; Jesus Tovar, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico

• The Causal Effect of Ethnoracial Demography on Public Outcomes - Alexander Kustov, Yale University; Giuliana Pardelli, New York University Abu Dhabi

• What Happens When Regime Divides Fade? Evidence from Latin America - Simon C. J. Bornschier, University of Zurich

Chair

• Jonathan Hartlyn Univ North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Discussants

• Carlos Gervasoni Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

• Martin Mendoza-Botelho Eastern Connecticut State University