A reminder to apply to our workshop on dem resistance/backsliding -- including attitudes, institutions, etc (very broadly construed!) -- in LatAm at the LBJ School by 10/15! Details below 👇

🌟 Latin Americanist Meetups (LAM) at #APSA2025! 📍 Malone’s, 608 W Pender St, Vancouver 🗓️ Fri, Sept 12 @ 6PM — 16-min walk from Convention Centre ✨ Drop-in, no RSVP, pay your way ✨ Come & go freely Questions? Ask @ndelacerda.bsky.social 🍻 #LAM #Vancouver

Super excited about hosting this workshop at the LBJ School @utaustin.bsky.social with Diego! Apply by 10/15, and see below for more details 🌎

We are hiring! Not on the search committee, but happy to chat if you want to learn more about LBJ. The past year has been wonderful, and it is a great (and growing) community of awesome people.

🚨 NEW RESEARCH ALERT 🚨 My latest article is now available at @polbehavior.bsky.social! "Cueing Without Parties: Experimental Evidence from Peru" explores how citizens navigate politics in contexts without stable parties and deeply-rooted partisan predispositions. 📖 doi.org/10.1007/s111...

For today's spotlight, we are highlighting work by @garciaponce.bsky.social and @isabellatingley.bsky.social Read more about their paper, “Who is to Blame? Youth Crime and Attribution of Responsibility in Urban Mexico” on the EGAP site.

(5) "Progressive Ideology and Support for Punitive Crime Policy: Evidence from Argentina and Brazil" by Isabel G. Laterzo @isabellatingley.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Check out our new article in @lawfaremedia.org - with @ndelacerda.bsky.social and Ayelén Vanegas - which covers our our working paper "Institutional Accountability and Support for Democracy: Evidence from a Natural Experiment". You can see the article below.

Very happy and grateful to learn that my dissertation was awarded the APSA Human Rights Section Best Dissertation Award. Great motivation to keep working on the book & another round of fieldwork in Brazil this summer

Great paper just out!

New important research by Guillermo Trejo & @natanski.bsky.social on violence against local journalists in Mexico's drug war. "Silencing the Press in Criminal Wars: Why the War on Drugs Turned Mexico into the World’s Most Dangerous Country for Journalists" Link here: bit.ly/4h1R74j

Excited to have a new review article up – on Land and Politics – at Annual Review of Political Science. To understand inequality, development, identity, conflict, state-building, and more, you have to understand the power of land!

Reposting this in case useful to anyone this year! Includes info on negotiating, etc.

In a post-peak public engagement world where mainstream papers have dropped outlets like the Monkey Cage, what avenues exist for academics to get their work and insights in front of a wider public audience or directly to policymakers? A thread of examples from my own experience. 1/

🆕 How Paraguay’s dictator turned infrastructure into a tool for repression Felipe González Queen Mary Uni, Josepa Miquel-Florensa TSE, Mounu Prem Einaudi Institute & @stephanestraub.bsky.social WorldBank explore how infrastructure can be exploited for political power: voxdev.org/topic/infras...

HUGE AMAZING news. Please share!!! EGEN, the Empirical Study of Gender Research Network, announces its 2025 prize competition, up to $5000, for cutting edge research on gender and politics. Due Feb 1, 2025 www.egenpolisci.org #gendersky #polisky @egenpolisci.bsky.social @mirya.bsky.social