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Isabel Laterzo-Tingley @isabellatingley.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

UNC’s Institute for the Study of the Americas was instrumental to my graduate school career. Multiple grants — including during COVID to conduct surveys — and a FLAS. Without them I wouldn’t have been able to complete my dissertation. This is horrible news. www.dailytarheel.com/article/a4ee...

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UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026

As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...

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Isabel Laterzo-Tingley @isabellatingley.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

A reminder to apply to our workshop on dem resistance/backsliding -- including attitudes, institutions, etc (very broadly construed!) -- in LatAm at the LBJ School by 10/15! Details below 👇

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Latin American Political Institutions Section (LAPIS) @lapislasa.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

🌟 Latin Americanist Meetups (LAM) at #APSA2025! 📍 Malone’s, 608 W Pender St, Vancouver 🗓️ Fri, Sept 12 @ 6PM — 16-min walk from Convention Centre ✨ Drop-in, no RSVP, pay your way ✨ Come & go freely Questions? Ask @ndelacerda.bsky.social 🍻 #LAM #Vancouver

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Isabel Laterzo-Tingley @isabellatingley.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Super excited about hosting this workshop at the LBJ School @utaustin.bsky.social with Diego! Apply by 10/15, and see below for more details 🌎

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Isabel Laterzo-Tingley @isabellatingley.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

We are hiring! Not on the search committee, but happy to chat if you want to learn more about LBJ. The past year has been wonderful, and it is a great (and growing) community of awesome people.

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Nicolás de la Cerda @ndelacerda.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

🚨 NEW RESEARCH ALERT 🚨 My latest article is now available at @polbehavior.bsky.social! "Cueing Without Parties: Experimental Evidence from Peru" explores how citizens navigate politics in contexts without stable parties and deeply-rooted partisan predispositions. 📖 doi.org/10.1007/s111...

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Cueing Without Parties: Experimental Evidence from Peru - Political Behavior

Citizens infer policy information from partisan cues, yet their utility varies cross-nationally. In weakly institutionalized democracies with short-lived political parties and volatile party systems, ...

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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

For today's spotlight, we are highlighting work by @garciaponce.bsky.social and @isabellatingley.bsky.social Read more about their paper, “Who is to Blame? Youth Crime and Attribution of Responsibility in Urban Mexico” on the EGAP site.

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Priority Theme Spotlight: Omar García-Ponce and Isabel Laterzo – EGAP

Author: Max Méndez Beck

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Comparative Political Studies @cpsjournal.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

(5) "Progressive Ideology and Support for Punitive Crime Policy: Evidence from Argentina and Brazil" by Isabel G. Laterzo @isabellatingley.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Isabel Laterzo-Tingley @isabellatingley.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Check out our new article in @lawfaremedia.org - with @ndelacerda.bsky.social and Ayelén Vanegas - which covers our our working paper "Institutional Accountability and Support for Democracy: Evidence from a Natural Experiment". You can see the article below.

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Isabel Laterzo-Tingley @isabellatingley.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Very happy and grateful to learn that my dissertation was awarded the APSA Human Rights Section Best Dissertation Award. Great motivation to keep working on the book & another round of fieldwork in Brazil this summer

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Omar García-Ponce @garciaponce.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

New important research by Guillermo Trejo & @natanski.bsky.social on violence against local journalists in Mexico's drug war. "Silencing the Press in Criminal Wars: Why the War on Drugs Turned Mexico into the World’s Most Dangerous Country for Journalists" Link here: bit.ly/4h1R74j

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Michael Albertus @mikealbertus.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Excited to have a new review article up – on Land and Politics – at Annual Review of Political Science. To understand inequality, development, identity, conflict, state-building, and more, you have to understand the power of land!

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Land and Politics | Annual Reviews

Human societies and their politics are deeply rooted in the land. Land shapes politics through its material nature and distribution across society, by serving as a mechanism of control and state-build...

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Isabel Laterzo-Tingley @isabellatingley.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Reposting this in case useful to anyone this year! Includes info on negotiating, etc.

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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

In a post-peak public engagement world where mainstream papers have dropped outlets like the Monkey Cage, what avenues exist for academics to get their work and insights in front of a wider public audience or directly to policymakers? A thread of examples from my own experience. 1/

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

🆕 How Paraguay’s dictator turned infrastructure into a tool for repression Felipe González Queen Mary Uni, Josepa Miquel-Florensa TSE, Mounu Prem Einaudi Institute & @stephanestraub.bsky.social WorldBank explore how infrastructure can be exploited for political power: voxdev.org/topic/infras...

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How Paraguay’s dictator turned infrastructure into a tool for repression

Infrastructure can drive development, but history shows it can also be used for political control. Paraguay’s roads under Stroessner's dictatorship highlight this dual nature, providing valuable lesso...

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Dawn Teele @teele.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

HUGE AMAZING news. Please share!!! EGEN, the Empirical Study of Gender Research Network, announces its 2025 prize competition, up to $5000, for cutting edge research on gender and politics. Due Feb 1, 2025 www.egenpolisci.org #gendersky #polisky @egenpolisci.bsky.social @mirya.bsky.social

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EGEN

The Empirical Study of Gender (EGEN) Working Group

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