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Center for
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Studies at MIT
PROGRAM
FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2016
8:30
Registration and continental breakfast (1st floor of building E51)
9:00
Welcome
Ben Ross Schneider (MIT), M. Victoria Murillo (Columbia University), and David Capodilupo (MIT).
Wong Auditorium (Building E51)
9:15
Opening Keynote
“China and Latin America: Policies to Improve a Significant New Relationship.” Barbara Stallings (Brown
University). Introduction, M. Victoria Murillo.
Wong Auditorium
10:30 DA-RT Panel Discussion
M. Victoria Murillo (Columbia University, chair), Juan Pablo Luna (Universidad Católica de Chile), Evan
Lieberman (MIT)
Wong Auditorium
9:00
11:30
Coffee Break
11:30
Room: E51-372
Chair: Kevin Gallagher
(Boston University)
12:00 Matthew Amengual (MIT Sloan).
Buying Stability: The Distributive
Outcomes of Firm Responses to
Risk in the Bolivian Minin
Industry
Room E51-376
Chair: Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro
(Brown University)
Ben Ross Schneider (MIT) and
Alisha Holland (Harvard).
Easy and Hard Redistribution:The
Political Economy of Welfare
States in Latin America
Room: E51-395
Chair: Aldo Musacchio
(Brandeis University)
Verónica Amarante (CEPAL
Uruguay) and Cecilia Rossel
(Universidad Católica del
Uruguay).
Making Inequality an Issue: The
Rise of Inequality in Latin
America’s Research Agendas
2
Jazmin Sierra (University of
12:30 Oxford).
Global Champions Are Made At
Home: The Brazilian
Development Bank and State
Support for Domestic
Multinationals
13:00
Maria Paula Saffon Sanin
(Princeton University) and Juan
F. González Bertomeu (ITAM).
What/Whose Property Rights?
The Selective Enforcement 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)
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).
Latin America’s New Left
Experiences and Economic
Policies: Argentina under the
Kirchners and Brazil under Lula
and Dilma
Mariana Mota Prado (University
of Toronto).
Using Institutional Multiplicity to
Address Corruption as a
Collective Action Problem:
Evidence from Brazil
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
3
16:00 Santiago Anria (Tulane
University) and Sara Niedzwiecki
(University of New Mexico).
The Participatory Politics of
Social Policies in Bolivia and
Brazil
Francisco Gonzalez (John
Hopkins University, School of
Advanced International Studies).
Freedom for Few: Mexico under
‘Misplaced Monopolies’ and
Implications for Other Countries
Peter Johannessen (Princeton
University).
Programmatic Parties and Local
Politics
16:30 Antoine Maillet (Universidad de
Chile), Gonzalo Delamaza
(Universidad de los Lagos),and
Christian Martinez (Universidad
de los Lagos).
¿El despertar de la fuerza?
Análisis exploratorio de la
politización de los conflictos
socioterritoriales y sus
consecuencias en Chile (20052014)
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).
The making of skill systems:
External actors and local factors
at work – A comparative look at
Mexico and Turkey
17:00 Ernesto Calvo (University of
Maryland), Isabella Alcañiz
(University of Maryland), and
Marcelo Escolar (Universidad
Nacional de San Martin).
A Survey Experiment on “Bad
Bosses”: The Effect of Social
Networks on Gender Solidarity
Christopher Chambers-Ju
(University of California at
Berkeley).
Labor Politics after the
Breakdown of Corporatism:
Teachers’ Unions in Argentina,
Colombia, and Mexico
Horacio Coral (Universidad del
Rosario) and Ralf Leiteritz
(Universidad del Rosario).
Chinese International AId and
FDI determinants at the
subnational level: a social
network analysis approach
18:30
RECEPTION
Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School
124 Mount Auburn Street
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SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 2016
8:30
Continental breakfast (3rd floor building E51)
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)
9:00
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
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?
9:30
Andres Schipani (University of
California at Berkeley).
Strategies of Redistribution: The
Left and the Popular Sectors in
Latin America
Alisha Holland (Harvard
University).
The Forbearance Trap: Squatting
and Housing Policy in Latin
America
Renato Lima-de-Oliveira (MIT).
From Geology to Public Policies:
Explaining Mexico’s Institutional
Reforms
10:00 Matthew Carnes (Georgetown
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) and Mariano
Sanchez-Talanquer (Cornell
University).
Building the Modern State:
Understanding the Relationship
between Order and Taxes with
Evidence from Mexico
Luis Schiumerini (Oxford
University).
Resources, Party Labels, and
Incumbency Effects: Evidence
from Brazil
10:30 Stephen Kaplan (George
Washington University).
Fighting the Last Economic War:
Crisis and Austerity in Latin
America
Merike Blofield (University of
Miami).
The Politics of Work and Family
in 21st Century Latin America:
Moving Away from
Maternalism?
Brian Palmer-Rubin (Harvard
University).
Evading the Patronage Trap:
Organizational Capacity and
Demand-Making in Mexico
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11:00
Coffee Break
11:30 Katharina Stepping (German
Development Institute /
Deutsches Institut für
Entwicklungspolitik).
It’s politics, stupid! Urban
Wastewater Collection and
Treatment in Brazil
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).
Breaking Clientelism or
Rewarding Incumbents?
Evidence from an Urban Tilting
Program in Mexico
12:00 Aldo Madariaga (Universidad
Diego Portales and Max Planck
Institute for the Study of
Societies).
How do ideas, institutions, and
interests explain neoliberal
continuity? A systematic process
analysis of policymaking in Chile
(1990-2010)
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).
El Leviatan Desarollista y la
Creacion de Zonas de Economia
Ilicita en la Amazonia: El Caso del
Alto Huallaga en el 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
Yanilda María Gonzalez
(Harvard University).
The Social Origins of Institutional
Weakness and Change: Police
Reform in Latin America
13:00
Lunch (3rd floor building E51)
6
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 Giancarlo Visconti (Columbia
University).
Ideological Preferences after
Natural Disasters: Evidence from
the 2015 Floods in Northern
Chile
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 designbased reconsideration
BOOK MANUSCRIPT: Paula
Muñoz,
Buying Audiences in Peru: An
Informational Theory of
Campaign Clientelism.
Discussants: Juan Pablo Luna
and Alisha Holland
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 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
Pablo Andrade (Universidad
Andina Simon Bolivar) and
Esteban Nicholls (Universidad
Andina Simon Bolivar).
Latin American State Theory in
the 2000s
BOOK PRESENTATION: Isabella
Alcañiz,
Environmental and Nuclear
Networks in the Global South:
How Skills Shape International
Cooperation.
Discussants: Matthew Amengual
and Eduardo Dargent
15:30
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
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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.
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INDEX
Name
Institution
Day
Time
Room
Albertus, Michael
University of Chicago
Saturday
14:30
E51-395
Alcañiz, Isabella
University of Maryland
Saturday
15:00
E51-395
Amarante, Verónica
CEPAL Uruguay
Friday
12:00
E51-395
Amengual, Matthew
MIT
Friday
12:00
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
Saturday
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
Botelho, Antonio
IUPERJ/UCAM
Saturday
15:00
E51-372
Breznitz, Dan
University of Toronto
Saturday
14:30
E51-376
Calvo, Ernesto
University of Maryland
Friday
17:00
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
09:00
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
09:00
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
Saturday
12:30
E51-395
González, Francisco
John Hopkins University
Friday
16:00
E51-376
Holland, Alisha
Harvard University
Saturday
09:30
E51-376
Hochstetler, Kathryn
University of Waterloo
Friday
14:30
E51-376
Jaramillo Baanante, Miguel
GRADE
Saturday
14:30
E51-372
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Johannessen, Peter
Princeton University
Friday
16:00
E51-395
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-de-Oliveira, Renato
MIT
Saturday
09:30
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
14:00
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
09:00
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
Saturday
09:30
E51-372
Schiumerini, Luis
University of Oxford
Saturday
10:00
E51-395
Schneider, Ben Ross
MIT
Friday
12:00
E51-376
Schrank, Andrew
Brown University
Saturday
12:30
E51-376
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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
Saturday
14:00
E51-372
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