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A recent film about Argentina's disappeared during the military dictatorship will air on PBS on September 21. Our Disappeared follows director Juan Mandelbaum's personal investigation into the fates of friends and loved ones who were among those tortured, killed, and "disappeared" by the Argentine military during the 1976-1983 dictatorship. This might be something worthwhile for class use, if you're looking for something on Argentina's "dirty war" and its aftermath. The film also has a we… Continue

After some feedback from LAPIS members, and discussion within the executive committee, we're hoping to put together the following LAPIS panels for LASA 2010: • Presidentialism in Latin America Today: Still in Crisis? • Latin American Legislatures in a Time of Change • Latin American Judiciaries The first panel offers a chance for a reflection on the literature on the "perils of presidentialism" initiated in the 1990s, but looking at contemporary presidents following the re… Continue

The new Journal of Politics in Latin America (JPLA) just published its second issue. JPLA's second issue includes the following: "Evade, Corrupt, or Confront? Organized Crime and the State in Brazil and Mexico" by John Bailey and Matthew M. Taylor; "Failed Presidencies: Identifying and Explaining a South American Anomaly" by Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Edwards; "Institutional Reform and Rights Revolutions in Latin Am… Continue

Please take a look at the LASA 2010 LAPIS panel proposals discussion on this site. We are trying to coordinate individual paper proposals into full panel proposals, which will have a higher acceptance rate. Even if you only have an idea for a paper, please post that, along with a brief topic tag. Hopefully, we can organically put together panels/roundtables. Continue

We have (as a section) in the past discussed the need for an institutions-focused journal for Latin America. The Journal of Politics in Latin America (JPLA), recently launched by Hamburg's GIGA-ILAS is such a journal. I encourage all of you to submit articles, research notes, or review articles to what promises to be an interesting and useful new journal. The se… Continue

David Backer (William & Mary College) is looking for district-level election data for Latin America. I'm going to provide him with data for Bolivia (1985-2005), but he is looking for data from other countries. This is part of a larger project he is working on with Ken Kollman and Allen Hicken (University of Michigan) and Daniele Caramani (University of St. Gallen). The data will be made publicly available as part of the Constituency-Level Election Archive (CLEA) online at:… Continue