🗣 Reminder: CERLAC Event: Challenges to Democracy in the Andes: Strongmen, Broken Constitutions, and Regimes in Crisis. February 8 at 1:00

 

CERLAC Presents:

Challenges to Democracy in the Andes: 

Strongmen, Broken Constitutions, and Regimes in Crisis 

 

Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 1:00 pm 

Register in advance for this webinar: https://yorku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_T9_S6WSGQtqo2lNgpiuydQ 

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Although military coups are rare in the Andean countries, democracies remain prone to deep political crises caused by elected leaders (especially strongmen, or caudillos) who abuse their power―often with broad public approval. What explains this phenomenon?

The authors of Challenges to Democracy in the Andes propose answers to this question. Offering an analytical framework that disaggregates the components of democratic regimes, along with case studies and comparisons from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela, they describe and explain political changes within the gray zone between democracy and authoritarianism. 

Maxwell A. Cameron is professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Grace M. Jaramillo is adjunct professor in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at UBC. 

 

Panelists: Maxwell A. Cameron, University of British Columbia  and Grace M. Jaramillo, University of British Columbia 

 

Discussants: Pablo Andrade, Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar  and Thomas Chiasson-LeBel, Ontario French University 

 

Chair: Werner Jungbluth, York University 

Moderator: Patrick Clark, York University