Challenges of Democratic Representation in Latin America
Juan A. Bogliaccini, Christopher Carter, Rafael Piñeiro-Rodriguez
What are the challenges of class-based representation and social inclusion in contemporary Latin America? Panelists analyze how organized groups have achieved government action on a range of policies, including wages, abortion, and transgender rights. And they engage with both historical and contemporary factors that have shaped the modern landscape of organized groups' representation in Latin America.
This event is co-sponsored by UVA's Karsh Institute of Democracy, Latin American Studies Program, and the Honors Program (Politics).
Speakers
Juan A. Bogliaccini
Professor of Social Sciences and Dean of the Graduate School, Universidad Católica del Uruguay
Juan A. Bogliaccini
Professor of Social Sciences and Dean of the Graduate School, Universidad Católica del Uruguay
Juan A. Bogliaccini is a professor in the department of social sciences and dean of the graduate school at the Universidad Católica del Uruguay (UCU). He studies political economy of distribution, crime, and the illicit economies, and data science. He was founding director of the department of social sciences from 2012 to 2016 and founding director of the Methods Center from 2021 to 2022 at UCU. He was also lead editor at Palgrave Latin America Political Economy Series and currently serves as chair of the REPAL (Network for the Study of Political Economy in Latin America) steering committee. Bogliaccini has published two books—Empowering Labor: Leftist Approaches to Wage Policy in Latin America (forthcoming 2024 at CUP) and Twittarquía: la Política de las Redes en Uruguay—and dozens of academic articles and op-eds. His research has been funded by ANII Uruguay, CONICYT Chile, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, ILO Research Department, UNDP, IADB, and UNU-Wider.
Christopher Carter
Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and John L. Nau III Assistant Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy, University of Virginia
Christopher Carter
Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and John L. Nau III Assistant Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy, University of Virginia
Christopher Carter is an assistant professor in the department of politics and John L. Nau III Assistant Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy at the University of Virginia. He is also a research associate at the Center on the Politics of Development at the University of California, Berkeley. His research examines the historical foundations of Indigenous groups' demands for autonomy in the Americas. The research for his book project won the 2020 APSA Best Fieldwork Award and the 2021 Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy. His work has been published or is forthcoming in American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Perspectives on Politics, Party Politics, and the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics.
Rafael Piñeiro-Rodriguez
Professor of Political Science at the Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Católica del Uruguay
Rafael Piñeiro-Rodriguez
Professor of Political Science at the Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Católica del Uruguay
Rafael Piñeiro-Rodriguez is a professor of political science at the Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Católica del Uruguay. His focus of research is on party organizations and activism, and on political incorporation of popular sectors in Latin America. He has published in Governance, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Party Politics, Government Information Quarterly, Latin American Politics and Society, Latin American Research Review, and Journal of Democracy, among others. In collaboration with Verónica Pérez Bentancur and Fernando Rosenblatt, he has coauthored How Party Activism Survives: Uruguay’s Frente Amplio, published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press. This book received the Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award from the Political Organizations and Parties section of the American Political Science Association.