Politics and Society in Latin America after the Crisis

The effects of the global economic crisis have left long-lasting legacies in societies across the world, but we have yet to fully understand or grapple with these effects. Recent work focused on Europe has highlighted the role of the economic crisis in shaping electoral cleavages and party systems, European integration and social welfare regimes. However, despite a large and well-developed literature on the crises in Latin America in the early 1980s and Argentina’s devastating crisis of 2001/02, research on the effects of the current economic crisis on Latin American politics and society lags behind the research on Europe. We can now begin to understand how the most recent crisis has shaped politics across the region, and what this means for the well-document contemporary support for left-leaning parties across Latin America. 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 as 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, and other parts of the word.