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March News 2019
Currently @ LATINNO This month, we take a closer look at the developments in Mexico, as the newly elected President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), completed his first 100 days in office. While opinions regarding AMLO's performance so far have been diverse, his administration has pushed for a new national project known as the “Fourth Transformation”, which has signaled a clear desire to break established practices from past administrations and make the new leftist President distinguishable ...
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January News 2019
Currently @ LATINNO Even though it is unclear what 2019 will bring to Latin America in the current convoluted political landscape, the resilience of organized citizenry offers a glimpse of hope to the future of democracy in the region. This month, we have addressed some of these concerns and prospects at King's College London. Opening the University's Brazil Week, LATINNO's project coordinator, Thamy Pogrebinschi talked about how challenges to democracy in Brazil derive from a misalignment ...
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Winter News 2018
Happy Holidays from the LATINNO team! Despite current challenges to democracy, 2018 has been a thriving year for citizen participation in Latin America. As we kept track of how democratic innovations evolved across the region, we updated our database and published some of our findings. We also presented our research at several places, for example, Columbia University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Latin American Studies Association Congress, the American Political Science Association Conference, the Research Group In Government, Administration And ...
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October News 2018
Currently @ LATINNO The receding political landscape in Latin America and its still unclear consequences for democracy in the continent couldn’t keep citizen-driven innovations from multiplying opportunities to participate, impact, and monitor politics. The recent Brazilian election has borne witness to the mobilizing capacity of civil society and its readiness to take a role in the political process. Despite the uncertain scenario for the future of democracy and democratic innovations, this month brings new and promising ...
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September News 2018
Currently @ LATINNO This month, as the massive mobilizations against the far-right, authoritarian candidate Jair Bolsonaro highlighted the importance of an active civil society and the role of women within Brazil's upcoming elections, other forms of citizen organization showed the extent to which political experimentalism can influence election cycles. One of these forms of experimentation was the project "Drugs are a case for Policy", in which a group of citizens decided to map the political ...
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August News
Currently @ LATINNO This month, an overwhelming majority of voters supported the seven proposals to strengthen anti-graft measures during the anti-corruption referendum in Colombia. Even though the referendum failed to meet the quorum (1/3 of eligible voters), and is now in the hands of the Congress and President Duque, several lessons can be drawn from the participatory process that brought these proposals to the public agenda. In addition to sharing with you where have we been sharing the results of the LATINNO ...
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July News 2018
Currently @ LATINNO This month, Mexico's historical turnout in its general elections was accompanied by various forms of participation that went well beyond attendance to the polls. Besides presenting you our favorite democratic innovation during the country's 2018 elections, this newsletter will talk about how participatory spaces that engage citizens in the electoral process have been present across the entire region. They mainly consist of oversight bodies that supervise campaigns, political promises, and transparency during elections through digital and non-digital means, but other ...
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June News 2018
Currently @ LATINNO This month, our newsletter will focus on participatory innovations that aim to engage children and teenagers in policymaking processes in Latin America. These new spaces seek to create a dialogue between governments and the youth, identify the needs of often vulnerable social groups, and improve their representation. LATINNO at the Annual Meeting of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation On June 28th, LATINNO's coordinator Thamy Pogrebinschi, who was an Alexander von Humboldt’s Georg Forster ...
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May News 2018
Currently @ LATINNO It has been a busy month for LATINNO! While continuing to update our database with new cases of democratic innovation in Latin America, we shared our results at the International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in Barcelona and exchanged some insights regarding digital participation at the #Innovapol debate "The Limits of Political Innovation.". In this newsletter, we will focus on the participatory innovations that aim to create more inclusive processes within local and national healthcare ...
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April News 2018
Currently @ LATINNO This month, we've continued to update our democratic innovations' database with the latest forms of political experimentation implemented in Latin America. In this newsletter, we'd like to share with you some of the different participatory innovations created with the aim of deliberating and implementing sports and cultural policies: collaboratively mapping and identifying cultural initiatives, implementing artistic interventions as a way of vindicating the right to the city, and using digital tools to protect Latin America's intangible cultural heritage. LATINNO @ International Congress ...
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