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MIT-Brazil
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Latin America O ce
Center for
International
Studies at MIT
PROGRAM [Preliminary]
FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2016
8:30
Registration and continental breakfast (1st floor of building E51)
9:00
Welcome
David Capodilupo (MIT), M. Victoria Murillo (Columbia University) and Ben Ross Schneider (MIT).
Wong Auditorium (Building E51)
9:15
Opening Keynote
“China and Latin America: Policies to Improve a Significant New Relationship.” Barbara Stallings (Brown
University).
Wong Auditorium (Building E51)
Room: E51-372
Chair: Kevin Gallagher
(Boston University)
10:30 Ernesto Calvo (University of
Maryland), Isabella Alcañiz
(University of Maryland), and
Marcelo Escolar (Universidad
Nacional de San Martin).
Blaming Local: A Survey
Experiment on Close Networks
and Attribution of Responsibility
Room E51-376
Chair: Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro
(Brown University)
Room: E51-395
Chair: Aldo Musacchio
(Brandeis University)
Merike Blofield (University of
Miami).
Moving away from maternalism?
The politics of work and family in
Latin America
Yanilda María Gonzalez
(Harvard University).
The Social Origins of Institutional
Weakness and Change
11:00 Matthew Amengual (MIT Sloan). Alisha Holland (Harvard
Local rent distribution and social University).
conflict
The Forbearance Trap: Squatting
and Housing Policy in Latin
America
11:30
Coffee Break
Renato Lima (MIT).
From Geology to Public Policies:
Explaining Institutional Change
in Mexico’s Oil Sector
12:00 Andres Schipani (University of
California at Berkeley).
Strategies of Redistribution: The
Left and the Popular Sectors in
Latin America
José Carlos Oriheula (Pontificia
Universidad Católica del Perú).
The Political Economy of
Translation: Participatory
Protected Areas in the Southern
Peruvian Amazon
Verónica Amarante (CEPAL
Uruguay) and Cecilia Rossel
(Universidad Católica del
Uruguay).
Poverty and Inequality in Latin
America: A Shift in the Research
Agenda
Jazmin Sierra (University of
12:30 Oxford).
Global Champions Are Made At
Home: The Brazilian
Development Bank and State
Support for Domestic
Multinationals
Maria Paula Saffon Sanin
(Princeton University) and Juan
F. González Bertomeu (ITAM).
The strength of land rights under
the Porfiriato
Eduardo Dargent (Pontificia
Universidad Católica del Perú)
and Madai Urteaga (Pontificia
Universidad Católica del Perú).
Respuesta Estatal por Presiones
Externas: Los Determinantes del
Fortalecimiento Estatal frente al
Boom del Oro en el Perú (20042015)
13:00
Lunch (MIT Sloan Cafeteria)
Room: E51-372
Chair: Candelaria Garay
(Harvard University)
Room E51-376
Chair: Steve Levitsky
(Harvard University)
Room: E51-395
Chair: Eduardo Dargent
(Universidad Católica del Perú)
14:30 Renato Boschi (IESP-UERJ, INCTPPED) and Flavio Gaitan (UNILA,
INCT-PPED).
¿Variedades de capitalismo o
padrones de crecimiento?
Análisis de los factores políticos
en las dinámicas de desarrollo de
América Latina
Kathryn Hochstetler (Balsillie
School of International Affairs,
University of Waterloo).
Electricity consumption in Brazil
and South Africa: Distributive
Coalitions and Consequences
Diego Diaz (Brown University).
Blessing and Curse: Oil and
Subnational Politics in the
Argentine Provinces
15:00 Luigi Manzetti (Southern
Methodist University) and Carlos
Rufín (Suffolk University).
The left and economic policies
Mariana Mota Prado (University
of Toronto).
Using Institutional Redundancy
to Fight Corruption: The Brazilian
Experience
Marconi Aurelio Silva
(Associação Caruaruense de
Ensino Superior e Técnico).
Microfundamentos da Ciencia,
Tecnologia e Inovacao em Rede
de Petroleo e Gas do Brasil: Uma
Analise Sobre os Ativos
Relacionais
15:30
Coffee Break
16:00 Santiago Anria (Tulane
University) and Sara Niedzwiecki
(University of New Mexico).
The Participatory Politics of
Social Policies: The Cases of
Bolivia and Brazil
Francisco Gonzalez (Johns
Hopkins University School of
Advanced International Studies).
The historical origins of openand limited access orders
Peter Johannessen (Princeton
University). Do Programmatic
Parties Matter at the Local
Level?
16:30 Antoine Maillet (Universidad de
Chile), Gonzalo Delamaza
(Universidad de los Lagos),and
Christian Martinez (Universidad
de los Lagos).
Lo que los conflictos territoriales
producen. Evidencias desde Chile
James McGuire (Wesleyan
University).
Initial Conditions and Economic
Development: The East Asian
"Tigers" and Cuba
Isik Ozel (Sabanci University) and
Merve Sancak (University of
Cambridge).
Skill-Gap, Middle-Income Trap
and the External Actors, A
comparative look at labor
market institutions in Turkey and
Mexico
17:00 Giancarlo Visconti (Columbia
University).
Political Preferences after
Natural Disasters: Evidence from
the 2015 Floods in Northern
Chile
Christopher Chambers-Ju
(University of California at
Berkeley).
Teachers, Unions, and Political
Parties: Education Politics in
Latin America
Ralf Leiteritz (Universidad del
Rosario) and Horacio Coral
(Universidad del Rosario).
Latin America-China relations
18:30
RECEPTION
Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School
124 Mount Auburn Street
SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 2016
8:30
9:00
Continental breakfast (3rd floor building E51)
DA-RT Panel Discussion
M. Victoria Murillo (Columbia University, Chair), Juan Pablo Luna (Universidad Católica de Chile),
Diana Kapiszewski (Georgetown University)
Room: E51-345
Room: E51-372
Chair: Matthew Amengual
(MIT)
Room E51-376
Chair: Paula Muñoz
(Universidad del Pacífico)
Room: E51-395
Chair: Isabella Alcañiz
(University of Maryland)
Matthew Carnes (Georgetown
10:00 University) and Marisa Hawley
(Georgetown University).
Explaining New Patterns in
Family Leave Policies in Latin
America: Partisanship, Religion,
and Economic Change
Gustavo Flores-Macías (Cornell
University).
Financing Leviathan: Elite
Taxation and Public Safety in
Latin America
Luis Schiumerini (Oxford
University).
Is incumbency a blessing or a
curse for politicians in developing
countries? Evidence from Brazil
10:30 Stephen Kaplan (George
Washington University).
Technocrats and Economic Policy
in Latin America: Fighting the
Last Economic War
Lucas da Silva Tasquetto
(Catholic University of São
Paulo).
Higher Education in Preferential
Trade Agreements: New
Regulatory Patterns in the
Agrements from Chile, Colômbia
and Peru?
Brian Palmer-Rubin (Harvard
University).
The New Kid in Town: Party
Building and Policymaking in
Post-Transition Mexico
11:00
11:30 Katharina Stepping (German
Development Institute /
Deutsches Institut für
Entwicklungspolitik).
It’s politics, stupid! Drivers of and
Obstacles to Wastewater
Treatment in Urban Areas in
Brazil
Coffee Break
Oliver Kaplan (University of
Denver). Shootings and
Shamans: Local Civilian Authority
Structures and Civil War Violence
in Colombia
Horacio Larreguy (Harvard
University), John Marshall
(Harvard University), and Laura
Trucco (Harvard University).
Programmatic Policies and
Clientelist Politics
12:00 Aldo Madariaga (Universidad
Diego Portales and Max Planck
Institute for the Study of
Societies).
Explaining neoliberal continuity:
a systematic process analysis of
Chile’s economic policy model
Clarice Melamed (Oswaldo Cruz
Foundation, Brazilian Health
Ministry).
The theoretical debate on
Brazilian welfare (1995-2015)
and the developmental project
failure
Maritza Paredes (Pontificia
Universidad Católica del Perú).
The Political Economy of StateMaking in Coca Fields: A
Comparative Subnational
Analysis of the Alto Huallaga
Valley in Peru
12:30 Alejandro Bonvecchi
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)
and Emilia Simison (Universidad
Torcuato di Tella).
Business and Lawmaking in
Authoritarian Regimes: Policy
Networks Business Influence in
Argentina's Last Military
Dictatorship
Andrew Schrank (Brown
University).
From Competencia Desleal to
Continuous Improvement: The
Farmacias del Pueblo in the
Dominican Republic
Ismail Seyrek (University of
Necmettin Erbakan Konya).
Central Banking in Emerging
Countries: A Comparative
Analysis
13:00
Lunch (3rd floor building E51)
Room: E51-372
Chair: Eduardo Silva
(Tulane University)
Room E51-376
Chair: Rich Snyder
(Brown University)
Room: E51-395
Chair: Andrew Schrank
(Brown University)
14:00 Alberto Fuentes (Georgia
Institute of Technology) and
Seth Pipkin (University of
California at Irvine).
The Runner or The Course?
Impacts of Industrial Policy
Approach on Responses to
Vulnerability in Mexico and
Brazil
Matias Lopez (Pontificia
Universidad Católica de Chile),
Rodrigo Espinoza (Pontificia
Universidad Católica de Chile),
and Marcel Mejía (Pontificia
Universidad Católica de Chile).
Inequality, Revolutionary
threats, and regime change: a
design-based reconsideration
BOOK PRESENTATION: Isabella
Alcañiz,
Environmental and Nuclear
Networks in the Global South:
How Skills Shape International
Cooperation.
Discussants: Matthew Amengual
and Eduardo Dargent
14:30 Ricardo Fort Meyer (GRADE),
Miguel Jaramillo Baanante
(GRADE), and Héctor Paredes
Castro (GRADE).
Economía política de la
desigualdad territorial en el
Perú: una mirada de largo plazo
Steven Samford (University of
Toronto) and Dan Breznitz
(University of Toronto).
Business Networks and the
Failure of the Maquiladora
Model in Jalisco, Mexico
BOOK PRESENTATION: Michael
Albertus,
Autocracy and Redistribution:
The Politics of Land Reform.
Discussants: Maria Paula Saffon
Sanin and Gustavo Flores
Macias
15:00 Yuri Kasahara (Norwegian
Institute of Urban and Regional
Research), Antonio Jose
Junqueira Botelho
(IUPERJ/UCAM), and Marcelo
Caetano Correa Simas
(IUPERJ/UCAM).
Through the tiers of a supplychain: Survey-based evidences
about the Brazilian local content
policy in the Oil & Gas sector
15:30
Pablo Andrade (Universidad
Andina Simon Bolivar) and
Esteban Nicholls (Universidad
Andina Simon Bolivar).
Towards a Novel Theory State
Behavior: Governmental
Regimes and Institutional
Capacities in Processes of State
Articulations
BOOK MANUSCRIPT: Paula
Muñoz,
Buying Audiences in Peru: An
Informational Theory of
Campaign Clientelism.
Discussants: Juan Pablo Luna
and Alisha Holland
Coffee Break
16:00 Final Plenary Panel on the Political Economy of the United States
Room: E51-345
Matthew Amengual, Sloan School, MIT (Chair)
Tom Kochan, Sloan School, MIT. Overview of US labor markets and inequality
Jorge Dominguez, Department of Government, Harvard University. US-Cuba thaw and overall
relations between United States and Latin America
Chappell Lawson, Department of Political Science, MIT. Rethinking Homeland Security
Charles Stewart. Department of Political Science, MIT. US presidential election
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Juan Pablo Luna (Universidad Católica de Chile) and M. Victoria Murillo (Columbia University)
LOCAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Ben Ross Schneider (MIT), Candelaria Garay (Harvard), Matthew Amengual (MIT)
OUR SPONSORS
Center for Inter-American Policy and Research (CIPR) at Tulane. CIPR is devoted to inter-hemispheric exchanges
that will advance the production and dissemination of knowledge about critical policy issues facing the Americas
as well as the deepening of academic research in these areas. Its aim is to stimulate contact between scholars
and decision-makers working on the region at different locations and in different languages, enriching their
production by enabling the confluence of multiple perspectives.
MIT Sloan Latin America Office. Located in Santiago, Chile, the mission of the MIT Sloan Latin America office is to
develop and nurture meaningful activities throughout Latin America that benefits the region, the School and the
Institute, and supports the advancement of management education and practice. This will be accomplished by
enhancing admissions activities, providing new opportunities for Action Learning for MIT students, support
increased research for faculty and students, and prompt the activities of MIT throughout the region.
MIT Center for International Studies (CIS). CIS aims to support and promote international research and
education at MIT. Whenever possible, CIS capitalizes on MIT’s strengths in science and engineering, examining
the international aspects of these fields as they relate both to policy and practice, and focusing on those issues
where science and engineering intersect most closely with foreign affairs. CIS includes 160 members of the MIT
faculty and staff, mainly drawn from the departments of political science and urban studies, and visiting scholars
from around the world. CIS sponsors formal programs, multidisciplinary working groups and numerous public
events.
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School. The Ash Center strives
to make the world a better place by advancing excellence and innovation in governance and public policy through
research, education, and public discussion. By training the very best leaders, developing powerful new ideas, and
disseminating innovative solutions and institutional reforms, the Center’s goal is to meet the profound challenges
facing the world’s citizens.
INDEX
Name
Institution
Day
Time
Room
Albertus, Michael
University of Chicago
Saturday
14:30
E51-395
Alcañiz, Isabella
University of Maryland
Saturday
14:00
E51-395
Amarante, Verónica
CEPAL Uruguay
Friday
12:00
E51-395
Amengual, Matthew
MIT
Friday
11:00
E51-372
Andrade, Pablo
Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar
Saturday
15:00
E51-376
Anria, Santiago
Tulane University
Friday
16:00
E51-372
Aurelio Silva, Marconi
Associacao Caruaruense de Ensino Superior e
Tecnico
Friday
15:00
E51-395
Bloefield, Merike
University of Miami
Friday
10:30
E51-376
Bonvecchi, Alejandro
Universidad Torcuato di Tella
Saturday
12:30
E51-372
Boschi, Renato
IESP-UERJ, INCT-PPED
Friday
14:30
E51-372
Breznitz, Dan
University of Toronto
Saturday
14:30
E51-376
Calvo, Ernesto
University of Maryland
Friday
10:30
E51-372
Carnes, Matthew
Georgetown University
Saturday
10:00
E51-372
Chambers-Ju, Christopher
University of California at Berkeley
Friday
17:00
E51-376
Coral, Horacio
Universidad del Rosario
Friday
17:00
E51-395
Correa Simas, Marcelo
IUPERJ/UCAM
Saturday
15:00
E51-372
Da Silva Tasquetto, Lucas
Catholic University of Sao Paulo
Saturday
10:30
E51-376
Dargent, Eduardo
Universidad Católica del Perú
Friday
12:30
E51-395
Delamaza, Gonzalo
Universidad de Los Lagos
Friday
16:30
E51-372
Diaz, Diego
Brown University
Friday
14:30
E51-395
Espinoza, Rodrigo
Universidad Católica de Chile
Saturday
14:00
E51-376
Flores-Macías, Gustavo
Cornell University
Saturday
10:00
E51-376
Fort Meyer, Ricardo
GRADE
Saturday
14:30
E51-372
Fuentes, Alberto
Georgia Institute of Technology
Saturday
14:00
E51-372
Gaitan, Flavio
UNILA, INCT-PPED
Friday
14:30
E51-372
Gonzalez Bertomeu, Juan F.
ITAM
Friday
12:30
E51-376
Gonzalez, Yanilda María
Harvard University
Friday
10:30
E51-395
González, Francisco
Johns Hopkins University
Friday
16:00
E51-376
Holland, Alisha
Harvard University
Friday
11:00
E51-376
Hochstetler, Kathryn
University of Waterloo
Friday
14:30
E51-376
Jaramillo Baanante, Miguel
GRADE
Saturday
14:30
E51-372
Johannessen, Peter
Princeton University
Friday
16:00
E51-395
Junqueira Botelho, Antonio
IUPERJ/UCAM
Saturday
15:00
E51-372
Kaplan, Oliver
University of Denver
Saturday
11:30
E51-376
Kaplan, Stephen
George Washington University
Saturday
10:30
E51-372
Kasahara, Yuri
Norwegian Institute of Urban and Regional
Research
Saturday
15:00
E51-372
Larreguy, Horacio
Harvard University
Saturday
11:30
E51-395
Leiteritz, Ralph
Universidad del Rosario
Friday
17:00
E51-395
Lima, Renato
MIT
Friday
11:00
E51-395
López , Matías
Universidad Católica de Chile
Saturday
14:00
E51-376
Madariaga, Aldo
Universidad de Diego Portales, Max Planck
Institute
Saturday
12:00
E51-372
Manzetti, Luigi
Southern Methodist University
Friday
15:00
E51-372
Maillet,Antoine
Universidad de Chile
Friday
16:30
E51-372
Marshall, John
Harvard University
Saturday
11:30
E51-395
Martinez,Christian
Universidad de Los Lagos
Friday
16:30
E51-372
McGuire, James
Wesleyan University
Friday
16:30
E51-376
Mejía, Marcel
Universidad Católica de Chile
Saturday
14:00
E51-376
Melamed, Clarice
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazilian Health
Ministry
Saturday
12:00
E51-376
Mota Prado, Mariana
University of Toronto
Friday
15:00
E51-376
Muñoz, Paula
Universidad del Pacífco
Saturday
15:00
E51-395
Nicholls, Esteban
Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar
Saturday
15:00
E51-376
Niedzwiecki, Sara
University of New Mexico
Friday
16:00
E51-372
Orihuela, Jose Carlos
Universidad Católica del Perú
Friday
12:00
E51-376
Ozel, Isik
Sabancí University
Friday
16:30
E51-395
Palmer-Rubin, Brian
Harvard University
Saturday
10:30
E51-395
Paredes, Maritza
Universidad Católica del Perú
Saturday
12:00
E51-395
Paredes Castro, Héctor
GRADE
Saturday
14:30
E51-372
Pipkin, Seth
University of California at Irvine
Saturday
14:00
E51-372
Rossel, Cecilia
Universidad Católica del Uruguay
Friday
12:00
E51-395
Rufín, Carlos
Suffolk University
Friday
15:00
E51-372
Saffon Sanin, Maria Paula
Princeton University
Friday
12:30
E51-376
Samford, Steve
University of Toronto
Saturday
14:30
E51-376
Sancak, Merve
University of Cambridge
Friday
16:30
E51-395
Schipani, Andres
University of California at Berkeley
Friday
12:00
E51-372
Schiumerini, Luis
University of Oxford
Saturday
10:00
E51-395
Schrank, Andrew
Brown University
Saturday
12:30
E51-376
Seyrek, Ismail
University of Necmettin Erbakan Konya
Saturday
12:30
E51-395
Sierra, Jazmin
University of Oxford
Friday
12:30
E51-372
Simison, Emilia
Universidad Torcuato di Tella
Saturday
12:30
E51-372
Stepping, Katharina
German Development Institute
Saturday
11:30
E51-372
Trucco, Laura
Harvard University
Saturday
11:30
E51-395
Urteaga, Madai
Universidad Católica del Perú
Friday
12:30
E51-395
Visconti, Giancarlo
Columbia University
Friday
17:00
E51-372