Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Studies
Date and Time
Location
Agrarian Elites and Democracy in Latin America
Speaker:
Belén Fernández Milmanda, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Trinity College.
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:
While the historical role of landed elites as obstacles to democratic consolidation in Latin America has been widely studied, how these elites have adapted to the new democratic context remains underexplored even four decades after the start of the Third Wave of democratization. Dr. Fernández Milmanda's work addresses this gap in our knowledge by studying the strategies agrarian elites employ to protect their interests in democracy, showing they have been more successful in influencing policymaking where they have organized in the electoral arena than where they have relied on non-electoral means such as lobbying or protests.