Latin American and Caribbean political systems facing the new wave of social mobilizations and protests

CLACSO and the Latin American Association of Political Science (ALACIP) announce the results of the call for research grants “Latin American and Caribbean political systems in the face of the new wave of social mobilizations and protests”.

Twenty-five complete applications were received. After technical review, eighteen were deemed eligible for evaluation by the International Committee. The Committee considered the quality, relevance, and coherence of the projects in accordance with the call for proposals.

The evaluation carried out showed the high quality and consistency of the proposals presented, as well as valuing their solvency and intellectual contribution to the problem of the call, which made the selection process very difficult.

The evaluation was carried out by an International Committee composed of 14 expert evaluators from 9 countries: Fernando Mayorga (Bolivia), Adriana Urrutia Pozzi-Escot (Peru), German Bidegain (Uruguay), Nicolás Somma (Chile), Daniela Perrotta (Argentina), Gonzalo de la Maza (Chile), Carolina Bautista (Colombia), Antoine Maillet (Chile), Anahí Durand (Peru), Rodolfo Disi Pavlic (Chile), Victoria Darling (Brazil), Franklin Ramírez Gallegos (Ecuador), Maira Machado (Brazil) and Marielle Palau (Paraguay).

According to the evaluation carried out, the winning project is the following:

Project Title: Protests in Times of Anger. Challenges to Neoliberalism and Liberal Democracy in the 2019 Latin American Demonstrations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia.

Team: Juan Bautista Lucca (principal investigator), Renata Peixoto de Oliveira, José Francisco Puello Socarrás and María Angélica Gunturiz Rodríguez      

CLACSO Member Center: Secretariat of Research and Postgraduate Studies – SIP / National University of Rosario

Country of the institution: Argentina

ALACIP Research Group: Democratization in Latin America in Comparative Perspective.

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