Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Studies
Date and Time
Location
Partisan Prosecution? Theory and Evidence from Corruption Probes in Argentina
Speaker:
Guadalupe Tuñón, Assistant Professor of Politics and Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.
Moderator:
Steven Levitsky, Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies, Department of Government; Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University.
Registration:
Please register to attend virtually.
Contact:
Darinelle Merced-Calderon
dmercedcalderon@fas.harvard.edu
Presented by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
Abstract:
As courts around the world become more active in convicting politicians for corruption, politicians have increasingly responded by appointing partisan judicial actors in the hope of securing judicial protection. Does this strategy lead to partisan bias in corruption investigations? We address this question by analyzing prosecutorial behavior in all corruption probes filed in Comodoro Py—Argentina's most prominent federal court circuit—between 2013 and 2023.