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GIGA Working Paper | No. 340 | August 2024. Abstract This article explores the practice of “instructed voting” prevalent among rural Indigenous communities in Bolivia, referring to the taking of collective electoral decisions. It...
GIGA Focus | Latin America | Number 4 | August 2024 | ISSN 1862-3573. As Nicolás Maduro spuriously claims to have won the 28 July elections, Venezuela slides into full autocracy. While this...
GIGA, Neuer Jungfernstieg 21 (room 243), 20354 Hamburg, Germany, and online. Tuesday, 3 September 2024 | 5:00‒6:15 p.m. (CEST). Panelists: • Ana Paula Balthazar Tostes, PhD (Rio de Janeiro State University) • Carlos Milani,...
The current issue surveys the nexus of agrarian conflict and food crises; globalisation and liberalisation in Brazil’s social policy expansion; antecedents to perceptions of corruption in Guyana; the relationship between compulsory voting and the...
Indi-Carolina Kryg and Luz Marcela Villalobos Andrade. Mexico: Sheinbaum to Face Militarisation and Human Rights Concerns. GIGA Focus | Latin America | Number 3 | June 2024 | ISSN 1862-3573. Mexico’s president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum secured...
This special issue focuses on social unrest, representation and the constitutional process in Chile. It analyses gender quotas, hyper-presidentialism, the strong oscillation of voting preferences, the social upheaval in 2019 and democracy and institutional...
GIGA Focus | Latin America | Number 2 | April 2024 | ISSN 1862-3573 The resounding victory of María Corina Machado in the opposition primaries of October 2023 gave new hope for a transition...
Sabine Kurtenbach, Désirée Reder, and Alina Ripplinger. Guatemala: A Vote for Turning the Tide . In the surprise victory of Bernardo Arévalo in Guatemala’s run-off presidential elections in August 2023, various elements came together: elite...
Mariana Llanos / David Kuehn / Thomas Richter / Martin Acheampong / Esther Song / Andrea Emilia Arellano Castillo Personnel, Institutions, and Power: Revisiting the Concept of Executive Personalisation GIGA Working Papers | 2024...
Johanna Pieper and Daniela Osorio Michel. Crisis in the Andes: The Rise (and Fall?) of Two Women Leaders GIGA Focus | Latin America | Number 06 | December 2023 | ISSN 1862-3573. Viewed as...
This issue of the Journal of Politics in Latin America covers topics such as presidential debates and electoral preferences in weakly institutionalised democracies, how presidents answer the call of international capital, women in Latin...
Víctor M. Mijares. GIGA Focus | Latin America | Number 05 | November 2023 | ISSN 1862-3573. In Latin America and the Caribbean, China’s growing presence represents a significant challenge to the worn-out hegemony...
GIGA Working Papers | 2023 n° 337 / Yannick Deepen / Sabine Kurtenbach. Abstract Non-state armed actors (NSAAs) come in a variety of shapes and sizes, including warlord-led groups, insurgencies, militias, and organised-crime syndicates...
Mariana Llanos, Latin America’s Search for Security: Between Repression and Dialogue. On 22 October, Argentines will elect a new president, half of the Chamber of Deputies, one-third of the Senate, and a few provincial...
