Latin American Political Institutions Section (LAPIS)

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📢 The LAPIS Best Paper Committee extended the deadline for the LASA 2025 Best Paper Award to Feb 13, 2026. To nominate, you must be an active section member. If you’re not a LASA member, join via Friends of LASA.

📢 El Comité del Mejor Paper de LAPIS extendió el deadline del premio al mejor paper presentado en LASA 2025 hasta el 13 feb 2026. Para nominar, debe ser miembro activo. Si no es miembro LASA, puede unirse vía Friends of LASA.

Tribunales de Disciplina Judicial en las entidades federativas La reforma judicial de 2024 introdujo los Tribunales de Disciplina Judicial como pieza clave para investigar, sancionar o evaluar el desempeño de jueces y magistrados en todo el país. Aunque su implem...

La reforma judicial introdujo los Tribunales de Disciplina Judicial como pieza clave para investigar, sancionar o evaluar el desempeño de jueces y magistrados en todo el país

Ricardo Alexys Valencia escribe en Pacto Federal, el blog de federalismo en Nexos

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Apply to join UCL’s Institute of the Americas as Lecturer in International Relations of the Americas 👇
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The AIM-3D Lab is a new Kellogg Research, Policy & Practice Lab sponsored with @lucyinstitute-nd.bsky.social. Led by Michael Coppedge and Dmitry Zaytsev and others, the team uses AI to model and forecast democratic and autocratic change worldwide. See their new website: https://sites.nd.edu/aim3d/

Just accepted for publication at Socio-Economic Review, my new paper co-authored with brilliant Princeton undergraduate Aishwarya Swamidurai!

The "power to pollute" and "post-neoliberal" climate
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German Research & Exchange Organizations Present Their Programs for Students and Faculty | Miami-Florida Jean Monnet European Center of Excellence Interested in Germany? Join German funding organizations to explore Research & Exchange Opportunities in Germany for Faculty and Students.

Interested in studying in Germany? Come to the information session about available programs on Feb. 6. More info here: miamieuc.fiu.edu/events/gener...

How does democracy erode when the state itself is weakened?

In The Democracy Paradox, Javier Pérez Sandoval (Kellogg Institute) explains why populist leaders "hollow out" state capacity – and what that means for justice, security, and elections.

Listen: https://bit.ly/4qW9i0d

We are pleased to announce that the call for the 4th Annual Early Career Workshop on Social Science Approaches to Law and Courts is now live. If you are a PhD student or postdoc working in this area, you can send us your abstract via this link: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Escucha el episodio más reciente del podcast Global Stage con la artista cubana Tania Bruguera sobre la relación entre arte, política y vida cotidiana: https://bit.ly/3NNzeMR
#performanceart #cuba #latinamerica

Want expert commentary on Venezuela? Media appearances by FIU Green School faculty can be found here: sipa.fiu.edu/news-events/...

The Role of Institutions in Policy Design: The Case of Research and Innovation Policies This article investigates the diachronic evolution of institutional approaches to research and innovation policies (R&I) in France and the UK, with a focus on how institutional arrangements and coo...

How institutional arrangements and coordination practices influence the temporal evolution and layering of policy design choices?

Acciai & Terlizzi

The Role of Institutions in Policy Design

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis

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📣 Recordatorio final: Las nominaciones para el Premio al Mejor Artículo LAPIS 2025 cierran el 23 de enero. Celebra la investigación innovadora en política latinoamericana—¡envía una nominación antes de la fecha límite!
Más info: sections.lasaweb.org/sections/pol...

⏰ Recordatorio: ¡Ya están abiertas las nominaciones LAPIS 2025! Presenta nominaciones para el Premio Donna Lee Van Cott antes de enero 16. No pierdas la oportunidad de reconocer investigaciones destacadas sobre instituciones políticas en América Latina.
Más info: sections.lasaweb.org/sections/pol...

📣 Final reminder: Nominations for the LAPIS Best Paper Award 2025 close January 23. Celebrate innovative research in Latin American politics—submit a nomination before the deadline! More info: sections.lasaweb.org/sections/pol...

⏰ Reminder: LAPIS 2025 nominations are open! Submit nominations for the Donna Lee Van Cott Book Award by January 16. Don’t miss the chance to recognize outstanding scholarship in Latin American political institutions.
More info: sections.lasaweb.org/sections/pol...

Open call for papers, Economic Analysis of Regulation. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on April 24, 2026. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on February 10, 2026. More information: www.nber.org/calls-papers...

Junior Law and Politics community sign-up The Junior Law and Politics research community and seminar series is a vibrant network of junior researchers (graduate students, post-docs, assistant professors, other non-tenured faculty) in the fiel...

📣 Junior scholars in public law & courts! The Junior Law & Politics Research Community is accepting proposals for our Spring 2026 virtual seminar series. Grad students, postdocs & junior faculty encouraged to apply! ⏰ Deadline: Jan 12, 2026 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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The US intervention in #Venezuela raises questions: What are the real interests of the #Trump administration? What does the future hold for Venezuela without #Maduro?

➡️ Our Latin America experts shed light on the background and analyse current developments: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/press/us-...

U.S. interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean haven't always gone as planned President Trump's pressure campaign against Venezuela is the latest in a long saga of U.S. intervention in the region that is rooted in the 1823 Monroe Doctrine — and is a mix of success and failure.

PIR’s Dr. Eduardo Gamarra was recently featured in NPR’s “U.S. interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean haven't always gone as planned.” Read it here: www.npr.org/2026/01/02/n...

🚨Just a week left to apply for the 2025 Donna Lee Van Cott Book Award. Deadline is January 16, 2026.

The instructions to apply are here: sections.lasaweb.org/sections/pol...

🚨Just a week left to apply for the 2025 Donna Lee Van Cott Book Award. Deadline is January 16, 2026.

The instructions to apply are here: sections.lasaweb.org/sections/pol...

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✨The NLP+CSS workshop is returning to ACL 2026!✨

And this year, we have a new shared task with prizes!

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Deadlines: March 5 (direct), March 24 (pre-reviewed ARR)

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📢 Call for Nominations – LAPIS (2025)
Now open: 🏆 Donna Lee Van Cott Book Award (deadline Jan 16)
🔗 More info: sections.lasaweb.org/sections/pol...

📢 LAPIS abre nominaciones 2025:
🔹 Donna Lee Van Cott Book Award (deadline: 16 enero)
🔹Más info: sections.lasaweb.org/sections/pol...

📢 Call for Nominations – LAPIS (2025)
Now open: 🏆 Best Paper Award (deadline Jan 23).
🔗 More info: sections.lasaweb.org/sections/pol...

📢LAPIS abre nominaciones 2025:
🔹 Best Paper Award (deadline: 23 enero)
Más info: sections.lasaweb.org/sections/pol...

‼️ New working paper ‼️

We find bipartisan appeals credibly signal policymaking intentions—on an issue-by-issue basis

We show how and why bipartisan lawmaking persists amid congressional conflict: progress often comes through issue-specific pathways rather than broad consensus between Ds and Rs

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🎙️ Nuevo en Global Stage: Luis Schiumerini (Notre Dame/Kellogg) explica por qué gobernar puede ser una ventaja o una desventaja electoral en América Latina. Expectativas vs. capacidad real de los gobiernos locales.
🔗 Escucha en el link: https://bit.ly/4rLjjhs
#GlobalStage #KelloggInstitute