Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Politics

Date: 

Tuesday, October 2, 2018, 12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S250

"Changing Course? Understanding Mexico's 2018 Election"

Speaker:

Gustavo Flores Macías, Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University.

Contact:

Gabrielle Patterson
gpatterson@fas.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Steven Levitsky, Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Populism/Challenges to Democracy. David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies, Department of Government, Harvard University; Harvard College Professor.

Frances Hagopian, Faculty Associate. Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Biography:

Gustavo A. Flores-Macías is Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University and the 2017-18 Democracy and Development Fellow at Princeton University. He is the author of After Neoliberalism? The Left and Economic Reforms in Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2012) and editor of the volume The Political Economy of Taxation in Latin America (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press). Before academia, he served as Director of Public Affairs in Mexico’s Consumer Protection Agency.