Brazil

The new issue of the Journal of Politics in Latin America offers a variety of analyses on topics such as the decline of partisanship in contemporary Chile, Brazil’s stealth military intervention, the Nicaragua protest crisis, the Role of Mexico’s TVRH, and more.

This issue of the Journal of Politics in Latin America examines, among other things, the response to COVID-19 containment measures in Brazil and Mexico, and the relationship between socio-economic inequalities and public opinion on Corona policies in Peru.

Mariana Llanos and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán has received the Jewell-Loewenberg Paper Award of the American Political Science Association (APSA). Their paper “Oversight or Representation? Public Opinion and Impeachment Resolutions in Argentina and Brazil” was named the best article in Legislative Studies Quarterly.

In a historic verdict on 11 September, Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal convicted former president Jair Bolsonaro, sentencing him to more than 27 years in prison. GIGA expert Prof. Dr. Mariana Llanos explains in an interview why this trial is so important and to what extent it could serve as a model for protecting democracy worldwide. 

This issue covers topics such as electoral personalism in presidential elections, the reasons for the frequency of constitutional amendments in Mexico, the Brazilian extreme-right and China, regulatory agencies’ financial autonomy in Brazil, and Latin American views of China and the United States.

The current issue surveys the nexus of agrarian conflict and food crises; globalisation and liberalisation in Brazil’s social policy expansion; antecedents to perceptions of corruption in Guyana; the relationship between compulsory voting and the over-representation of extreme parties; and more.

The alliance of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa is meeting for the 15th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg. The grouping wants to reposition itself, and many countries of the Global South are interested in joining. GIGA experts observe and analyse these developments.

This issue of the Journal of Politics in Latin America covers topics such as the effects of and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in the peripheries of Brazil, economic elites and policymaking during times of crisis, and indigenous movements and regional threats in Bolivia and Ecuador.

The new issue of the Journal of Politics in Latin America analyses topics such as abortion rights in Argentina, private pension fund reforms in Peru, the provision of identification numbers to election candidates in Brazil, and more.

The new issue of the Journal of Politics in Latin America offers a variety of analyses on topics such as the decline of partisanship in contemporary Chile, Brazil’s stealth military intervention, the Nicaragua protest crisis, the Role of Mexico’s TVRH, and more.

This issue of the Journal of Politics in Latin America examines, among other things, the response to COVID-19 containment measures in Brazil and Mexico, and the relationship between socio-economic inequalities and public opinion on Corona policies in Peru.

Mariana Llanos and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán has received the Jewell-Loewenberg Paper Award of the American Political Science Association (APSA). Their paper “Oversight or Representation? Public Opinion and Impeachment Resolutions in Argentina and Brazil” was named the best article in Legislative Studies Quarterly.