Prof. Dr. Mariana Llanos

This book generates new empirical and theoretical insights by bringing together the scholarship on Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, providing context-bound intraregional research as well as long-term perspectives for the study of term-limit change. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Democratization.

In der Ausnahmesituation der COVID-19-Pandemie haben die Obersten Gerichte in fast allen Ländern möglichem Machtmissbrauch der Exekutive Grenzen gesetzt. Illiberale Präsidenten können die Unabhängigkeit der Justiz jedoch untergraben, wenn sie von der Legislative unterstützt werden.

In this article we propose an innovative comparative analysis of cabinet reshuffles in Latin American presidential systems, focusing on personal incentives as drivers of ministerial turnover.

Im Jahr 2022 wird in Chile über eine neue Verfassung entschieden, die unter anderem eine Umstrukturierung des Nationalkongresses vorsieht. In diesem Audio-Interview sprechen Evan Romero, Prof. Dr. Mariana Llanos und Ass. Prof. Dr. Christopher Martínez Nourdin über die Auswirkungen der möglichen Änderungen. Hören Sie jetzt rein!

The Online Event Series brings together scholars from Brazil and Europe to discuss the results of the 2022 elections in the context of the Brazilian political system, to draw a balance of the Bolsonaro presidency, and to provide an outlook on expected developments from 2023 onwards.

The event featured the book's presentation by Dr. Bernd Rother, Historian and Senior Fellow at the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation and a subsequent discussion with Prof. Dr. Mariana Llanos, Extraordinary Professor for Democratic Institutions in the Global South at the Brandt School.

This seminar studies the formal institutions that must converge in order to deliver a policy outcome. We concentrate on five major themes: the electoral cycle, dynamics of executive-legislative relations, decision-making between national and sub-national levels of government, the judiciary and the protection of rights, and mechanisms for direct democracy.

Universität Erfurt Erfurt Deutschland

According to the latest Freedom House’s report, global democracy is in further decline, with the number of countries experiencing deterioration outnumbering those with improvements by the largest margin since this negative trend began to be observed 15 years ago. In this course, students are familiarized with three successive developments in global democracy as well as with the political science concepts and literature that have accompanied these trends: first, the inception of the third wave of democratization in the 1970s-1990s; second, democratic recession and problems in the quality of consolidating democracies; third, developments leading to democratic erosion and backsliding. Students will learn to work with key concepts and indicators related to each of these trends. They will work with case studies.