Historical Foundations of Political Development in the Global South Mini-Conference: Historical Causes and Consequences of Democracy

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Part of Mini-Conference

• Historical Foundations of Political Development in the Global South Mini-Conference

Session Description

The first panel addresses the historical causes and consequences of democracy. Callis examines the conditions under which economic elites supported democratic reforms in early twentieth-century Argentina. Tiberti shows how this early democratization led to greater investment in bureaucracy in areas where bureaucratic capacity was initially low. Pardelli and Buarque de Hollanda investigate how geographic endowments shape party systems across Brazilian states during the First Republic (1899-1930). Tuñón examines how different forms of democratization in twentieth-century Brazil shaped municipal-level electoral competition. Albertus analyzes the relationship between state recognition of Indigenous communities and support for democracy in Peru.

Sub Unit

• Division 6: Political Economy

Cosponsor

• Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy

Individual Presentations

• Geographic Endowments, Commodity Shocks, and Party Systems - Giuliana Pardelli, New York University Abu Dhabi

• Oppression Beyond Plantations: The Effect of Emancipation on Incarceration in Urban Buenos Aires - Guadalupe Tuñón, Princeton University; Valentin Figueroa, Stanford University

• When Economic Elites Support Democratization - Anna Firestone Callis, Lafayette College

• Democratization and Local Bureaucratic Capacity - Federico Tiberti, Princeton University

• Indigenous Identity, State Recognition, and Democracy - Michael Albertus, University of Chicago

Chair

• Daniel W. Gingerich University of Virginia

Discussants

• Daniel W. Gingerich University of Virginia

• Guadalupe Tuñón Princeton University