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Isabel Laterzo-Tingley @isabellatingley.bsky.social · 7d

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 👇

Isabel Laterzo-Tingley @isabellatingley.bsky.social · Sep 5

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 🌎

Diego Romero @diegoromero.bsky.social · Sep 5

📢 Call for Papers! Building Democratic Resilience workshop — Mar 6, 2026 at The LBJ School, UT Austin. Organized by @isabellatingley.bsky.social & me. Seeking work on democracy, backsliding/resilience, institutions, attitudes & civic engagement. Apply by Oct 15: tinyurl.com/BDRLatAm

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Latin American Political Institutions Section (LAPIS) @lapislasa.bsky.social · 29d

🌟 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 · Sep 5

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 🌎

Diego Romero @diegoromero.bsky.social · Sep 5

📢 Call for Papers! Building Democratic Resilience workshop — Mar 6, 2026 at The LBJ School, UT Austin. Organized by @isabellatingley.bsky.social & me. Seeking work on democracy, backsliding/resilience, institutions, attitudes & civic engagement. Apply by Oct 15: tinyurl.com/BDRLatAm

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Isabel Laterzo-Tingley @isabellatingley.bsky.social · Aug 12

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.

Anna Gunderson @annagunderson.bsky.social · Aug 12

Attention #polisky! Apply for
@utaustin.bsky.social LBJ School of Public Affairs with a focus on American Political Institutions. I'm on the committee, so please reach out with questions. See below: apply.interfolio.com/170943

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Nicolás de la Cerda @ndelacerda.bsky.social · Jun 26

🚨 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...

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, ...

doi.org

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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · Jun 19

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.

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

Author: Max Méndez Beck

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Comparative Political Studies @cpsjournal.bsky.social · Jun 18

(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 · May 21

Also thanks to the team @lawfaremedia.org and @tylermcbrien.com for giving us a space to talk about this paper! Fun to work with another @claremontmckenna.bsky.social alum after almost 10 years out!

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Isabel Laterzo-Tingley @isabellatingley.bsky.social · May 21

You can find our working paper at @apsa-preprints.bsky.social here: cup.org/43y0dBt

Democratic Accountability and Support for Democracy: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Following attempts to undermine democracy, institutions can withstand these challenges by holding anti-democratic actors accountable. How do such accountability measures shape public democratic suppor...

cup.org

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Isabel Laterzo-Tingley @isabellatingley.bsky.social · May 21

These findings suggest a more optimistic view of public responses to institutional accountability: rather than triggering backlash, formal legal action against powerful political figures can reinforce democratic values

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Isabel Laterzo-Tingley @isabellatingley.bsky.social · May 21

Among Bolsonaro voters (first round) we found no discernible changes in support for democracy.

These results are robust across a variety of estimation strategies, and when considering second round Bolsonaro voters instead of first round.

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Isabel Laterzo-Tingley @isabellatingley.bsky.social · May 21

We found that individuals interviewed after the charges were announced were more supportive of democracy. This is particularly true for those who did not vote for Bolsonaro in the past Brazilian presidential election.

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Isabel Laterzo-Tingley @isabellatingley.bsky.social · May 21

These charges were announced 8 days after we began our survey, creating a natural experiment that allowed us to establish the causal effect of institutional accountability measures on democratic attitudes.

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Isabel Laterzo-Tingley @isabellatingley.bsky.social · May 21

On Feb 18 the PGR charged Bolsonaro with orchestrating a coup attempt to remain in power and prevent his successor (Lula) from taking office. The indictment included allegations of a plot to poison Lula and assassinate a Supreme Court Justice (Moraes)

apnews.com/article/bols...

Brazil’s former President Bolsonaro charged over alleged coup that included a plan to poison Lula

Brazil’s top prosecutor Paulo Gonet has formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat.

apnews.com

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Isabel Laterzo-Tingley @isabellatingley.bsky.social · May 21

We explore how criminal proceedings against democratically elected executives influence citizen’s support for democracy using the fortuitous timing of Brazilian Prosecutor General’s (PGR) announcement of the indictment against Bolsonaro during our online survey

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Isabel Laterzo-Tingley @isabellatingley.bsky.social · May 21

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.

Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · May 21

Using recent survey data, @ndelacerda.bsky.social, @isabellatingley.bsky.social, and Ayelén Vanegas found that the charges against Jair Bolsanaro for his 2023 coup attempt didn't shake support for democracy among his backers and bolstered democratic support among those who did not vote for him.

Is Accountability Polarizing? What Bolsonaro’s Indictment Can Tell Us

Holding anti-democratic leaders accountable is often seen as a risky endeavor. But a recent study in Brazil complicates that assumption.

www.lawfaremedia.org

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Isabel Laterzo-Tingley @isabellatingley.bsky.social · May 16

Thanks so much Gabby! Hope to catch up at APSA.

Isabel Laterzo-Tingley @isabellatingley.bsky.social · May 12

Thankful for my diss committee at UNC + for the award committee!

Isabel Laterzo-Tingley @isabellatingley.bsky.social · May 12

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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Isabel Laterzo-Tingley @isabellatingley.bsky.social · Mar 27

Great paper just out!

Nicolás de la Cerda @ndelacerda.bsky.social · Mar 27

Our paper with @samjfuller.bsky.social and @jrametta.bsky.social is finally out at @polbehavior.bsky.social! You can find it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Affect, Not Ideology: The Heterogeneous Effects of Partisan Cues on Policy Support - Political Behavior

How do individuals process political information? What behavioral mechanisms drive partisan bias? In this paper, we evaluate the extent to which partisan bias is driven by affect or ideology in a thre...

link.springer.com

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Omar García-Ponce @garciaponce.bsky.social · Jan 16

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 · Dec 20

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!

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...

www.annualreviews.org

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Isabel Laterzo-Tingley @isabellatingley.bsky.social · Dec 18

thanks for sharing this! I'm curious re your data/time period for some of the stats for homicide and police fatalities. Some of the countries in lat am seem to be in surprising places (e.g., uruguay)

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Isabel Laterzo-Tingley @isabellatingley.bsky.social · Dec 18

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

Emily Ommundsen @emilyommundsen.bsky.social · May 15

With the 2024-2025 job-market season approaching,
Isabel Laterzo and I put together a guide to help poli sci PhD candidates navigate the often uncertain and confusing landscape.

This is certainly not mean to be an authoritative guide, but we hope it can be a useful resource! #polisky

www.dropbox.com

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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · Dec 18

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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