PROGRAM [Preliminary]

FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2016

8:15
REGISTRATION
1st floor of building E51

9:00
WELCOME | Ben Ross Schneider (MIT) and M. Victoria Murillo (Columbia University)
Wong Auditorium (Building E51)

9:15
OPENING KEYNOTE | “China and Latin America,” Barbara Stallings (Brown University).
Wong Auditorium (Building E51)

10:30
ROOM E51-372
Chair: Kevin Gallagher (Boston University)
Ernesto Calvo (University of Maryland), Isabella Alcañiz University of Maryland, and Marcelo Escolar
(Universidad Nacional de San Martín). Blaming Local: A Survey Experiment on Close Networks and
Attribution of Responsibility

ROOM E51-376
Chair: Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro (Brown University)
Merike Bloefield (University of Miami). Moving Away from Maternalism? The Politics of Work and
Family in Latin America

ROOM E51-395
Chair: Aldo Musacchio (Harvard University)
Yanilda María Gonzalez (Harvard University). The Social Origins of Institutional Weakness and
Change
FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2016

11:00
ROOM E51-372
Chair: Kevin Gallagher
Matthew Amengual (MIT). Local Rent Distribution and Social Conflict

ROOM E51-376
Chair: Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro
Alisha Holland (Harvard University). The Forbearance Trap: Squatting and Housing Policy in Latin
America

ROOM E51-395
Chair: Aldo Musacchio
Santiago Lopez Cariboni (Universidad Católica del Uruguay). Illegal Service Access: Delivering
Counter-Cyclical Social Transfers in Pro-Cyclical Welfare States

11:30
COFFEE BREAK

12:00
ROOM E51-372
Chair: Kevin Gallagher
Andres Schipani (University of California at Berkeley). Left Governments and Social Policy

ROOM E51-376
Chair: Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro
José Carlos Oriheula (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú). The Political Economy of Translation:
Participatory Protected Areas in the Southern Peruvian Amazon

ROOM 205
Chair: Aldo Musacchio
Verónica Amarante (CEPAL Uruguay) and Cecilia Rossel (Universidad Católica del Uruguay). Poverty
and Inequality in Latin America: A Shift in the Research Agenda
FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2016

12:30
ROOM E51-372
Chair: Kevin Gallagher
Jazmin Sierra (University of Oxford). Global Champions are Made at Home: The Brazilian
Development Bank and State Support for Domestic Multinationals

ROOM E51-376
Chair: Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro
Maria Paula Saffon Sanin (Princeton University) and Juan F. Gonzalez Bertomeu (ITAM). The
Strength of Land Rights under the Porifiriato

ROOM E51-395
Chair: Aldo Musacchio
Eduardo Dargent (Universidad Católica del Perú) and Madai Urteaga (Universidad Católica del Perú).
Respuesta Estatal por Presiones Externas: Los Determinantes del Fortalecimiento Estatal frente al
Boom del Oro en el Perú, 2005-2015

13:00
LUNCH (MIT SLOAN Cafeteria)

14:30
ROOM E51-372
Chair: Candelaria Garay (Harvard University)
Renato Boschi (IESP-UERJ, INCT-PPED) and Flavio Gaitan (UNILA, INCT-PPED). ¿Variedades de
capitalismo o padrones de crecimiento? Análisis de los factores políticos en las dinámicas de
desarrollo en América Latina

ROOM E51-376
Chair: Steve Levitsky (Harvard University)
Kathryn Hochstetler (University of Waterloo). Electricity Consumption in Brazil and South Africa:
Distributive Coalitions and Consequences

ROOM E51-395
Chair: Eduardo Silva (Tulane University)
Diego Diaz (Brown University). Blessing and Curse: Oil and Subnational Politics in the Argentine
Provinces
FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2016

15:00
ROOM E51-372
Chair: Candelaria Garay
Luigi Manzetti (Southern Methodist University) and Carlos Rufín (Suffolk University). The Left and
Economic Policies

ROOM E51-376
Chair: Steve Levitsky
Mariana Mota Prado (University of Toronto. Using Institutional Redundancy to Fight Corruption: The
Brazilian Experience

ROOM E51-395
Chair: Eduardo Silva
Marconi Aurelio Silva (Associacao Caruaruense de Ensino Superior e Técnico). Microfundamentos da
Ciencia, Tecnologia e Inovacao em Rede de Petroleo e Gas do Brasil: Uma Analise Sobre os Ativos
Relacionais

15:30
COFFEE BREAK

16:00
ROOM E51-372
Chair: Candelaria Garay
Santiago Anria (Tulane University) and Sara Niedzwiecki (University of New Mexico). The
Participatory Politics of Social Policies: The Cases of Bolivia and Brazil

ROOM E51-376
Chair: Steve Levitsky
Francisco Gonzalez (John Hopkins University). The Historical Origins of Open- and Limited Access
Orders

ROOM E51-395
Chair: Eduardo Silva
Peter Johannessen (Princeton University). Do Programmatic Parties Matter at the Local Level?
FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2016

16:30
ROOM E51-372
Chair: Candelaria Garay
Gonzalo Delamaza (Universidad de Los Lagos), Christian Martinez (Universidad de Los Lagos), and
Antoine Maillet (Universidad de Chile). Lo que los conflictos territoriales producen: Evidencias desde
Chile

ROOM E51-376
Chair: Steve Levitsky
James McGuire (Wesleyan University). Initial Conditions and Economic Development: The East Asian
“Tigers” and Cuba

ROOM E51-395
Chair: Eduardo Silva
Isik Ozel (Sabanci University) and Merve Sancak (University of Cambridge). Skill-Gap, Middle-Income
Trap, and the External Actors: A Comparative Look at Labor-Market Institutions in Turkey and Mexico

17:00
ROOM E51-372
Chair: Candelaria Garay
Noam Lupu (University of Wisconsin) and Zach Warner (University of Wisconsin). Class and
Congruence in Latin America

ROOM E51-376
Chair: Steve Levitsky
Christopher Chambers-Ju (University of California at Berkeley). Teachers, Unions, and Political
Parties: Education Politics in Latin America

ROOM E51-395
Chair: Eduardo Silva
Ralf Leiteritz (Universidad del Rosario) and Horacio Coral (Universidad del Rosario).Latin America-
China Relations
FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2016

17:30
ROOM E51-372
Chair: Candelaria Garay
Giancarlo Visconti (Columbia University). Political Preferences after Natural Disasters: Evidence from
the 2015 Floods in Northern Chile

ROOM E51-376
Chair: Steve Levitsky
Pablo Andrade (Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar) and Esteban Nicholls (Universidad Andina Simon
Bolivar). Towards a Novel Theory of State Behavior: Governmental Regimes and Institutional
Capacities in Processes of State Articulations

ROOM E51-395
Chair: Eduardo Silva
Renato Lima (MIT). From Geology to Public Policies: Explaining Institutional Change in Mexico’s Oil
Sector
SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 2016

9:00
DA-RT Panel Discussion | M. Victoria Murillo (chair), Juan Pablo Luna, and Diana Kapiszcewki
Room: E51-345

10:00
ROOM E51-372
Chair: Matthew Amengual (MIT)
Matthew Carnes (Georgetown University) and Isabel Mares (Columbia University). Changing
Preferences and Evolving Coalitions: Social Insurance Development and Reform in Latin America

ROOM E51-376
Chair: Paula Muñoz (Universidad del Pacífico)
Gustavo Flores-Macías (Cornell University). Financing Leviathan: Elite Taxation and Public Safety

ROOM E51-395
Chair: Isabella Alcañiz (University of Maryland)
Luis Schiumerini (University of Oxford). Is Incumbency a Blessing or a Curse for Politicians in
Developing Countries? Evidence from Brazil

10:30
ROOM E51-372
Chair: Matthew Amengual
Stephen Kaplan (George Washington University). Technocrats and Economic Policy in Latin America:
Fighting the Last Economic War

ROOM E51-376
Chair: Paula Muñoz
Lucas da Silva Tasquetto (Catholic University of Sao Paulo). Higher Education in Preferential Trade
Agreements: New Regulatory Patterns in the Agreements from Chile, Colombia, and Peru?

ROOM E51-395
Chair: Isabella Alcañiz
Brian Palmer-Rubin (Harvard University). The New Kid in Town: Party-Building and Policymaking in
Post-Transition Mexico
SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 2016

11:00
COFFEE BREAK

11:30
ROOM E51-372
Chair: Matthew Amengual
Katharina Stepping (German Development Institute). It’s politics, stupid! Drivers of and Obstacles to
Wastewater Treatment in Urban Areas in Brazil

ROOM E51-376
Chair: Paula Muñoz
Oliver Kaplan (University of Denver). Shootings and Shamans: Local Civilian Authority Structures and
Civil Was Violence in Colombia

ROOM E51-395
Chair: Isabella Alcañiz
Horacio Larreguy (Harvard University), John Marshall (Harvard University), and Laura Trucco
(Harvard University). Programmatic Policies and Clientelist Politics

12:00
ROOM E51-372
Chair: Matthew Amengual
Aldo Madariaga (Universidad Diego Portales and Max Planck Institute). Explaining Neoliberal
Continuity: A Systematic Process Analysis of Chile’s Economic Policy Model

ROOM E51-376
Chair: Paula Muñoz
Clarice Melamed (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation). The Theoretical Debate on Brazilian Welfare (1995-
2015) and the Developmental Project Failure

ROOM E51-395
Chair: Isabella Alcañiz
Maritza Paredes (Universidad Católica del Perú). The Political Economy of State-Making in Coca
Fields: A Comparative Subnational Analysis of the Alto Huallaga Valley in Peru
SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 2016

12:30
ROOM E51-372
Chair: Matthew Amengual
Alejandro Bonvecchi (Universidad Torcuato di Tella) and Emilia Simison (Universidad Torcuato di
Tella). Business and Lawmaking in Authoritarian Regimes: Policy Networks Business Influence in
Argentina’s Last Military Dictatorship

ROOM E51-376
Chair: Paula Muñoz
Andrew Schrank (Brown University). From “Competencia Desleal” to Continuous Improvement: The
“Farmacias del Pueblo” in the Dominican Republic

ROOM E51-395
Chair: Isabella Alcañiz
Ismail Seyrek (University of Necmettin Erbakan Konya). Central Banking in Emerging Countries: A
Comparative Analysis

13:00
LUNCH (3rd Floor Building E51)

14:00
ROOM E51-372
Chair: Eduardo Dargent (Universidad Católica del Perú)
Alberto Fuentes (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Seth Pipkin (University of California at Irvine).
The Runner or the Course? Impacts of Industrial Policy Approaches on Responses to Vulnerabilities in
Brazil and Mexico

ROOM E51-376
Chair: Rich Snyder (Brown University)
Matias Lopez (Universidad Católica de Chile), Rodrigo Espinoza (Universidad Católica de Chile), and
Marcel Mejía (Universidad Católica de Chile). Inequality, Revolutionary Threats, and Regime Change:
A Design-Based Recondiseration
SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 2016

14:00
ROOM E51-395
Chair: Andrew Schrank (Brown University)
BOOK PRESENTATION | Isabella Alcañiz (University of Maryland). Environmental and Nuclear
Networks in the Global South: How Skills Shape International Cooperation
Discussants: Matthew Amengual and Eduardo Dargent

14:30
ROOM E51-372
Chair: Eduardo Dargent
Ricardo Fort Meyer (GRADE), Miguel Jaramillo Baanante (GRADE), and Héctor Paredes Castro
(GRADE). Economía política de la desigualdad territorial en el Perú: una mirada de largo plazo

ROOM E51-376
Chair: Rich Snyder
Steven Samford (University of Toronto) and Dan Breznitz (University of Toronto). Business Networks
and the Failure of Maquiladora Model in Jalisco, Mexico

ROOM E51-395
Chair: Andrew Schrank
BOOK PRESENTATION | Michael Albertus (University of Chicago). Autocracy and Redistribution: The
Politics of Land Reform
Discussants: Maria Paula Saffon Sanin and Gustavo Flores-Macías

15:00
ROOM E51-372
Chair: Eduardo Dargent
Yuri Kasahara (Norwegian Institute of Urban and Regional Research), Antonio José Junqueira
Botelho (IUPERJ/UCAM), and Marcelo Caetano Correa Simas (IUPERJ/UCAM). Through the tiers of a
supply-chain: Survey-based evidence about the Brazilian local content policy in the oil and gas sector

ROOM E51-376
Chair: Rich Snyder
Nicolás Cherny (CONICET). Governing the Crisis: The Politics of Economic Policy in Argentina (1995-
2009)
SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 2017

15:00
ROOM E51-395
Chair: Andrew Schrank
BOOK MANUSCRIPT PRESENTATION | Paula Muñoz (Universidad del Pacífico). Buying Audiences in
Peru: An Informational Theory of Campaign Clientelism
Discussants: Juan Pablo Luna and Alisha Holland

15:30
COFFEE BREAK

16:00
FINAL PLENARY PANEL
Chair: Matthew Amengual (MIT)
Tom Kochan (MIT). Overview of US Labor Markets and Inequality
Jorge Dominguez (Harvard). US-Cuba Thaw and Overall Overview of US-Latin America Relations
Chappell Lawson (MIT). Rethinking Homeland Security: Homeland Security and US Drug,
Immigration, and Border Policies
Charles Stewart (MIT). US Presidential Election
Room: E51-345
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Juan Pablo Luna (Universidad Católica de Chile) and M. Victoria Murillo (Columbia University)

LOCAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Ben Ross Schneider (MIT), Candelaria Garay (Harvard), Matthew Amengual (MIT)

OUR SPONSORS
Center for Inter-American Policy and Research (CIPR) at Tulane is devoted to inter-hemispheric exchanges that
will advance the production and dissemination of knowledge about critical policy issues facing the Americas as
well as the deepening of academic research in these areas. Its aim is to stimulate contact between scholars and
decision-makers working on the region at different locations and in different languages, enriching their
production by enabling the confluence of multiple perspectives.

MIT Sloan Latin America Office. Located in Santiago, Chile, the mission of the MIT Sloan Latin America office is to
develop and nurture meaningful activities throughout Latin America that benefits the region, the School and the
Institute, and supports the advancement of management education and practice. This will be accomplished by
enhancing admissions activities, providing new opportunities for Action Learning for MIT students, support
increased research for faculty and students, and prompt the activities of MIT throughout the region.

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the international aspects of these fields as they relate both to policy and practice, and focusing on those issues
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faculty and staff, mainly drawn from the departments of political science and urban studies, and visiting scholars
from around the world. CIS sponsors formal programs, multidisciplinary working groups and numerous public
events.

INDEX
Name Institution Day Time Room
Albertus, Michael University of Chicago Saturday 14:30 E51-395

Alcañiz, Isabella University of Maryland Saturday 14:00 E51-395

Amengual, Matthew MIT Friday 11:00 E51-372

Andrade, Pablo Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar Friday 17:30 E51-376

Anria, Santiago Tulane University Friday 16:00 E51-372

Amarante, Verónica CEPAL Uruguay Friday 12:00 E51-395

Associacao Caruaruense de Ensino Superior e
Aurelio Silva, Marconi Friday 15:00 E51-395
Tecnico
Bloefield, Merike University of Miami Friday 10:30 E51-376

Bonvecchi, Alejandro Universidad Torcuato di Tella Saturday 12:30 E51-372

Boschi, Renato IESP-UERJ, INCT-PPED Friday 14:30 E51-372

Breznitz, Dan University of Toronto Saturday 14:30 E51-376

Calvo, Ernesto University of Maryland Friday 10:30 E51-372

Carnes, Matthew Georgetown University Saturday 10:00 E51-372

Chambers-Ju, Christopher University of California at Berkeley Friday 17:00 E51-376

Cherny, Nicolás CONICET Saturday 15:00 E51-376

Coral, Horacio Universidad del Rosario Friday 17:00 E51-395

Correa Simas, Marcelo IUPERJ/UCAM Saturday 15:00 E51-372

Da Silva Tasquetto, Lucas Catholic University of Sao Paulo Saturday 10:30 E51-376

Dargent, Eduardo Universidad Católica del Perú Friday 12:30 E51-395

Delamaza, Gonzalo Universidad de Los Lagos Friday 16:30 E51-372

Diaz, Diego Brown University Friday 14:30 E51-395

Espinoza, Rodrigo Universidad Católica de Chile Saturday 14:00 E51-376

Flores-Macías, Gustavo Cornell University Saturday 10:00 E51-376

Fort Meyer, Ricardo GRADE Saturday 14:30 E51-372

Fuentes, Alberto Georgia Institute of Technology Saturday 14:00 E51-372

Gaitan, Flavio UNILA, INCT-PPED Friday 14:30 E51-372

Gonzalez Bertomeu, Juan F. ITAM Friday 12:30 E51-376

Gonzalez, Yanilda María Harvard University Friday 10:30 E51-395

González, Francisco Johns Hopkins University Friday 16:00 E51-376

Holland, Alisha Harvard University Friday 11:00 E51-376

Hochstetler, Kathryn University of Waterloo Friday 14:30 E51-376

Jaramillo Baanante, Miguel GRADE Saturday 14:30 E51-372

Johannessen, Peter Princeton University Friday 16:00 E51-395

Junqueira Botelho, Antonio IUPERJ/UCAM Saturday 15:00 E51-372
Kaplan, Oliver University of Denver Saturday 11:30 E51-376

Kaplan, Stephen George Washington University Saturday 10:30 E51-372

Norwegian Institute of Urban and Regional
Kasahara, Yuri Saturday 15:00 E51-372
Research
Larreguy, Horacio Harvard University Saturday 11:30 E51-395

Leiteritz, Ralph Universidad del Rosario Friday 17:00 E51-395

Lima, Renato MIT Friday 17:30 E51-395

López , Matías Universidad Católica de Chile Saturday 14:00 E51-376

López Cariboni, Santiago Unviersidad Católica del Uruguay Friday 11:00 E51-395

Lupu, Noam University of Wisconsin Friday 17:00 E51-372

Universidad de Diego Portales, Max Planck
Madariaga, Aldo Saturday 12:00 E51-372
Institute
Maillet,Antoine Universidad de Chile Friday 16:30 E51-372
Mares, Isabella Columbia University Saturday 10:00 E51-372

Marshall, John Harvard University Saturday 11:30 E51-395

Martinez,Christian Universidad de Los Lagos Friday 16:30 E51-372

Mejía, Marcel Universidad Católica de Chile Saturday 14:00 E51-376

Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazilian Health
Melamed, Clarice Saturday 12:00 E51-376
Ministry
McGuire, James Wesleyan University Friday 16:30 E51-376

Mota Prado, Mariana University of Toronto Friday 15:00 E51-376

Muñoz, Paula Universidad del Pacífco Saturday 15:00 E51-395

Manzetti, Luigi Southern Methodist University Friday 15:00 E51-372

Nicholls, Esteban Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar Friday 17:30 E51-376

Niedzwiecki, Sara University of New Mexico Friday 16:00 E51-372

Orihuela, Jose Carlos Universidad Católica del Perú Friday 12:00 E51-376

Ozel, Isik Sabancı University Friday 16:30 E51-395

Palmer-Rubin, Brian Harvard University Saturday 10:30 E51-395

Paredes, Maritza Universidad Católica del Perú Saturday 12:00 E51-395

Paredes Castro Héctor GRADE Saturday 14:30 E51-372

Pipkin, Seth University of California at Irvine Saturday 14:00 E51-372

Rossel, Cecilia Universidad de los Andes Friday 12:00 E51-395

Rossel, Cecilia Universidad Católica del Uruguay Friday 12:00 E51-395

Rufín, Carlos Suffolk University Friday 15:00 E51-372

Saffon Sanin, Maria Paula Princeton University Friday 12:30 E51-376

Samford, Steve University of Toronto Saturday 14:30 E51-376

Sancak, Merve University of Cambridge Friday 16:30 E51-395

Schipani, Andres University of California at Berkeley Friday 12:00 E51-372
Schiumerini, Luis University of Oxford Saturday 10:00 E51-395

Schrank, Andrew Brown University Saturday 12:30 E51-376

Seyrek, Ismail University of Necmettin Erbakan Konya Saturday 12:30 E51-395

Sierra, Jazmin University of Oxford Friday 12:30 E51-372

Simison, Emilia Universidad Torcuato di Tella Saturday 12:30 E51-372

Stepping, Katharina German Development Institute Saturday 11:30 E51-372

Trucco, Laura Harvard University Saturday 11:30 E51-395

Urteaga, Madai Universidad Católica del Perú Friday 12:30 E51-395

Visconti, Giancarlo Columbia University Friday 17:30 E51-372

Warner, Zach University of Wisconsin Friday 17:00 E51-372