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GIGA Focus | Latin America | Number 1 | January 2025 | ISSN 1862-3573. A Stand-Off between Unequal Partners: What Trump Means for Mexico / Jonas von Hoffmann. When Donald Trump begins his second...
GIGA Berlin Office, Friedrichstraße 206, 10969 Berlin, and online. Monday, 13 January 2025 | 4:30–6:00 p.m. (CET). When the United States sneezes, the world catches a cold they say. But no country in the...
Journal of Politics in Latin America Vol. 16, No. 3 (2024) Research Articles Diego Luján, Federico Acosta y Lara: Assessing Electoral Personalism in Latin American Presidential ElectionsAbstract | PDF George Tsebelis, Edwin Atilano-Robles: Why Are Constitutional...
GIGA Focus | Latin America | Number 6 | November 2024 | ISSN 1862-3573. Brazil G20 Summit 2024: The Global South Takes Centre Stage / Tomás Costa de Azevedo Marques, Nátaly Guilmo. The G20...
GIGA Focus | Latin America | Number 5 | October 2024 | ISSN 1862-3573. As Brazil prepares for mid-term elections on 6 October 2024, far-right leaders are competing for leadership. All eyes are on...
Aline-Sophia Hirseland. Much Ado about Islam: The Political Integration of Muslim Minorities in Guyana and Suriname. GIGA Working Paper | No. 341 | September 2024. Abstract. Differently to large parts of the scholarship assessing...
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...
