WIAS Visiting Researcher Seminar:
“The New Configuration of Democracy in Latin America” （June 14）
講演者 / Speaker
TOVAR MENDOZA, Jesús （Professor, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México）
日 時 / Date & Time
Thursday, 14 June 2018, 14:45-16:15
会 場 / Venue
Discussion room on the 12th floor, Building #3, Waseda University 
主 旨 / Outline
At the best moment of democracy in Latin America, there were 17 democratic regimes in the middle of the last decade, with the sole exception of Cuba. Nowadays there are only 13 democracies and Haiti (2010), Nicaragua (2014), Venezuela (2015) and Honduras (2017) stopped being democracies. A similar situation occurs with the quality of democracy, which we argue, has decreased in the last five years due to various internal causes (systematic corruption, delegitimization of the political class and of democracy itself, disaffection of citizens with respect to politics) and at least one external cause: economic slowdown. In any case, a new period of Latin American politics opens up from this year toward the end of this decade, in which 14 countries have or will have presidential elections, and a cycle of predominance of the left has ended (the “pink wave”). This paper proposes to describe the new configurations of Latin American politics and provide the keys to understand these changes.
対 象 / Prospected Audience
Faculty and staff members of a university, grad students, undergraduates, the general public
主 催 / Organizer
Waseda Institute of Advanced Studies, Waseda University
共 催 / Co-organizer
Positive/Empirical Analysis of Political Economy, Waseda University
申込み / Registration
Free of charge. Please come to the event venue directly.
