Prof. Dr. Mariana Llanos

Lead Research Fellow | Leitungsteam GIGA Institut für Lateinamerika-Studien (interim)

Prof. Dr. Mariana Llanos

  • Kurzer Lebenslauf

    • Seit 08/2023: Co-Direktorin des GIGA Institut für Lateinamerika-Studien (interim)
    • Seit SoSe 2021: außerordentliche Professur für „Demokratische Institutionen im Globalen Süden“ an der Universität Erfurt; Projekt "Democratic Institutions in the Global South" am GIGA

    • 08/2018 - 04/2021: Stellv. Gleichstellungsbeauftragte am GIGA

    • 05/2015 - 07/2022: Leitung des FSP 1 "Politische Verantwortlichkeit und Partizipation"

    • 2014 - 2015: Kommisarische Leitung des FSP 1 "Legitimität und Effizienz politischer Systeme"

    • 2009 - 2015: Sprecherin des Forschungsteams 2 "Politik in Judikative und Verfassungsrecht" im Forschungsschwerpunkt 1

    • Seit 2006: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am GIGA Institut für Lateinamerika-Studien

    • 2001 - 2004: Projektmitarbeiterin am Institut für Iberoamerika-Kunde, Hamburg

    • 2000: Gastforscherin an der Universität Augsburg

    • 1993 - 1998: Doktorarbeit der Politikwissenschaft zum Thema "Privatization and Democracy in Argentina"

    • Studium: Promotion in Politikwissenschaft an der University of Oxford, St. Antony's College, Großbritannien; Masterstudiengang "Sozial- und Politikgeschichte", Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentinien; Politikwissenschaft an der Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentinien

    Aktuelle Forschung

    • Politische Institutionen in Lateinamerika

    • Präsidentialismus

    • Parlamente in Lateinamerika

    • Gerichte in Lateinamerika

    • Beziehung Exekutive, Legislative, Judikative

    Länder und Regionen

    • Argentinien

    • Lateinamerika

    • Brasilien


    Mitgliedschaften

    • Journal of Politics in Latin America, Chefredakteur:in, seit 2021

    Auszeichnungen

    • 2022 Jewell-Loewenberg Prize in Comparative Politics, Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association, 2022
    • Founders Award 2015, American Political Science Association (APSA), 2015

    Prof. Dr. Mariana Llanos

    Lead Research Fellow / Leitungsteam GIGA Institut für Lateinamerika-Studien (interim)

    T. +49 40 42825-766mariana.llanos@giga-hamburg.de


    GIGA Working Papers | 01.2024

    Personnel, Institutions, and Power: Revisiting the Concept of Executive Personalisation

    Es zeigt sich ein wachsender Trend zur Personalisierung der Macht in Auto- und Demokratien. Der wissenschaftliche Fokus bleibt je nach Regimetyp isoliert. In diesem Working Paper wird ein übergreifender Rahmen für die „Personalisierung der Exekutivgewalt“ vorgestellt und beteiligte Mechanismen identifiziert.

    Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics | 06.2023

    Conclusion

    This concluding chapter analyses how and to what extent the COVID-19 pandemic has altered the course of or affected democratic institutions in Latin America by reviewing and assessing their reactions thereto.

    Prof. Dr. Leonardo Morlino

    Prof. Dr. Leiv Marsteintredet

    Forschungsprojekt | 15.01.2022 - 14.12.2024

    COVID-19 and Executive Personalization in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America and the MENA Region

    In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, political leaders reacted by containment measures that, next to combating the spread of the pandemic, also presented a window of opportunity to bolster executives’ personal grasp on power. Personalization of power has been particularly worrying in the Global South where constraints on the chief executives were often already weak prior to the pandemic. This project assesses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the personalization of executive power in 36 countries of the Global South.
    DFG, 2021-2024

    Forschungsprojekt | 01.05.2021 - 30.04.2026

    Democratic Institutions in the Global South (DEMINGS)

    This project contributes new knowledge on the functioning of democratic institutions in the Global South, their (in)efficacy to constrain powerful executives, and the effects of particular institutions on both democratic quality and regime stability. The focus is on countries with presidential constitutions, i.e., those with directly elected presidents, an institutional choice that extended worldwide in the last decades.
    Leibniz Competition, 2021-2026

    Forschungsprojekt | 01.01.2019 - 31.12.2021

    Presidents Who Die Too Soon and Presidents Who Live Too Long. Term Limits and Succession in Presidential and Semi-Presidential Regimes

    This cooperation project researches two important rules defining the presidential mandates, i.e. presidential term limits and succession rules, and their intersection in the presidential regimes of Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.
    DAAD/PPP, 2019-2021

    Forschungsprojekt | 01.12.2018 - 30.06.2022

    Latin American Courts Going Public: Institutional Innovations for Social Participation in the Judicial Decision-Making Process

    Since two decades, constitutional and supreme courts in Latin America increasingly have been engaging with the public: for instance, they include the perspectives of civil society through public hearings or extensively use social media to inform about their work. This new court behavior stands in stark contrast to the traditional image of the judges as distant from the people and it could potentially have strong effects on the role of courts in the political system and the quality of democracy. This project is the first to investigate this phenomenon in a comparative perspective for all democratic Latin American countries.
    DFG, 2018-2022

    Latinoamerica 21 | Artikel | 21.03.2024

    Perú vuelve a tener un congreso bicameral

    Perú retorna a la bicameralidad -un poder legislativo de dos cámaras- con temas pendientes y con la estabilidad política dependiendo más de sus políticos que de la reforma. 

    Deutsche Welle | Interview | 25.01.2024

    DW News

    General strike over spending cuts in Argentina

    DW | Zitat | 28.12.2023

    Los retos políticos de América Latina en 2024

    América Latina afronta en 2024 retos comunes al resto del mundo y desafíos que ponen en jaque a toda la región, pero además, los diferentes países deberán abordar sus propias problemáticas.

    Workshop | 09.11.2023 - 10.11.2023

    The Landscape of Third-Party Funding

    Retreat of the Graduate Center Effective and Innovative Policymaking in Contested Contexts (EIPCC), Willy Brandt School at the University of Erfurt, GIGA, Hamburg Organisation: Willy Brandt School of Public Policy Prof. Dr. Mariana Llanos (Vortragende:r), Dr. Thomas Richter (Vortragende:r)

    Workshop | 13.10.2023

    Forty Years of Democracy in Argentina

    Breakdowns and (De)Democratization in South America and beyond, University of Trento, Trento Organisation: Università degli Studi di Trento Prof. Dr. Mariana Llanos (Vortragende:r)

    The 22 October 2023 general elections in Argentina commemorate 40 years of uninterrupted democratic rule. However, citizens are expressing discontentment and anger with the established parties. The prospects for democracy and the economy look gloomy in what should be a year of civic celebration.

    David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies | 10.10.2023

    “Why Presidents Leave Early: New or Continued Political Instability?”

    Organisation: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University Prof. Dr. Mariana Llanos (Vortragende:r)

    Panelists reflected on how well their past work explains the recent inter-branch crises in Peru and Ecuador. Do the same theoretical frameworks still apply or did we see new dynamics develop during these recent crises that went against their predictions?

    Lehre | Universidade de Brasília | 2023

    Autocratization: Discussions on a Global Trend and Perspectives on Latin America

    Short Course for graduate students at the University of Brasília funded by the CAPES Print Programme.

    Lehre | Universität Erfurt | 2022

    Democratic Institutions and Policy Making

    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.

    Lehre | Universität Erfurt | 2022

    Democratization and Autocratization in the Global South

    In this course, students are familiarized with three successive developments in global democracy as well as with the political science concepts and literature.

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