Latin American Politics

The Standing Group on Latin American Politics proposes this panel. How has Latin American political science contributed to the wider discipline? Recent work has highlighted the role of political scientists from across the region in shaping key intellectual debates in comparative politics, international relations and political economy. Initially, in the 1970s, quite a number of prominent scholars, fleeing authoritarian and repressive regimes in Latin America, moved abroad and produced a corpus of seminal work relating to topic such as presidentialism, democratization and populism. Over thirty years later, Latin American scholars, trained all over the globe, are still framing the parameters of key fields in political science from international cooperation to coalitional presidentialism to party systems and political stability. In celebration of this, this section, proposed by the Standing Group on Latin American Politics, aims to bring together scholars addressing topics, which inform our understanding of politics, not only in Latin America, but in Europe and other parts of the world also. We are interested in contributions related to comparative politics, international relations and political economy more broadly. More specifically, we call for papers on topics such as delegative democracy, coalitional presidentialism, judicial politics, contentious politics, political stability, populism rentier states, clientelism, and party system stability and change. We particularly welcome comparative papers, which demonstrate the bridge between Latin American political science and Europe, together with other parts of the word.