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Dr. Mariana Llanos

Lead Research Fellow

Head of RP 1

Short CV

  • 08/2018 - 04/2021: Deputy equal opportunity commissioner at the GIGA

  • Since 05/2015: Head of RP 1 "Accountability and Participation"

  • 2014 - 2015: Acting Head of GIGA’s Research Program 1 “Legitimacy and Efficiency of Political Systems”

  • 2009 - 2015: Speaker of the Research Team "The Politics of Courts and Constitutions", at GIGA’s Research Programme 1 "Legitimacy and Efficiency of Political Systems"

  • Since 2006: Researcher, GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies

  • 2001 - 2004: Project Researcher, Institut für Iberoamerika-Kunde, Hamburg

  • 2000: Visiting researcher, Universität Augsburg

  • 1993 - 1998: D.Phil. thesis in Political Science

  • Education: D.Phil in Politics, University of Oxford, St. Antony's College, U.K.; Postgraduate Programme on Social and Political History, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Licenciatura in Political Science; Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Current Research

  • Political institutions in Latin America

  • Presidentialism

  • Latin American congresses

  • Latin American courts

  • President-Congress relations; president-court relations

Countries and Regions

  • Latin America

  • Argentina

Research Programme

  • Accountability and Participation

Publications

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Projects

01/11/2021 - 31/10/2024

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...
01/12/2018 - 01/11/2021

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....
01/08/2017 - 31/07/2021

The (In)stability of Presidential Term Limits in Africa and Latin America: Assessing the Impact of Tenure-Rule Reforms on the Political Regime

Many countries in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa (re-)introduced term limits during the third wave of democratization as a democratic safeguard against personal rule and power abuses. Since then, term limits have been contested by a plethora of reform attempts. In this project, we take a longitudinal view on these sometimes recurrent reforms and analyse their repercussions for institutionalization, democratization and autocratization. DFG, 2017-2021
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Lectures

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