You are invited to join the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies for part two of the Legislative Effectiveness in Latin America workshop series on November 16, 2020, from 1:30 – 3:00 pm EST. The event will compare legislative processes in the United States with those found in Latin...

The first of the two legislative effectiveness workshops was held on October 16. The full video can be watched at this link.

Clientelism has been a major issue in Brazilian politics since the foundation of the Republic in 1889. Victor Nunes Leal’s Coronelismo, Enxada e Voto, first published in 1948, is probably the most well known and influential book on this topic. Delineating electoral practices that occurred in the first republic (1889-1930), Leal...

A new and crazily ambitious cross-national and historical dataset of cabinet members provides good comparative international data to confirm some of what is often affirmed about Brazil. For example, in comparative terms, the article shows that the country has high cabinet turnover, low female cabinet participation, and high levels of party representation...