State Building in the Developing World: Latin America
February 10-11, 2012, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Agenda
Please find a PDF of the workshop agenda here.
Introductory Remarks
Maria Herminia Tavares de Almeida
Miguel Centeno
Session I: State Capacity: Concepts and Debates
Atul Kohli, Chair; Antoinette Handley, Discussant
Maria Victoria Murillo (co-authored with Steven Levitsky): Institutional Change and State Capacity in Weak Institutional Environments: Reflections on the Latin American Experience
Juan Pablo Luna(co-authored with Agustina Giraudy): A Typology of State’s Territorial Reach: State Challenges in Latin America
Matthew Taylor and Sérgio Praça: An Archipelago of Efficiency? Evaluating Agency Capacity in Brazil
Catalina Smulovitz: Federalism and Heterogeneity in State Bureaucratic Capacities
Session II: States and Development Revisited: Roundtable
Deborah Yashar, Chair; Yuen Yuen Ang, Discussant
Luis Carlos Bresser-Pereira
Peter Evans
Atul Kohli
Session III: States, Inclusion and Social Services
Jeremy Seekings, Chair and Discussant
Alberto Díaz-Cayeros:Governance and the Territorial Reach of the State
Marta Arretche: State Effectiveness and Service Provision in Contemporary Brazil
Tiana Paschel: State Capacity and Multicultural Reforms
Session IV: States and Violence
Miguel Centeno, Chair; Nancy Bermeo, Discussant
Hugo Frühling: State Capacity and Crime Control: The Case of Neighborhood Level Crime Control Policies in Latin America
Jose Miguel Cruz: Violence and the Law in the Central American Region
Daniel Brinks: State and the Law: Crafting the New ‘Estados de Derecho’ in Latin America
Closing Reflections
Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida
Jeremy Seekings
Deborah Yashar
Participants
A compilation of participant biographies is located here.