OPINION – Latin American and Caribbean political systems facing the new wave of social mobilizations and protests
OPINION
The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (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”.
They were received 25 applications Complete. After the technical review, 18 of them were found to be in a condition to be evaluated by the International Committee. This Committee considered the quality, relevance and coherence of the projects according to the terms of the call for proposals.
The evaluation carried out showed the high quality and consistency of the proposals submitted, as well as valuing his competence 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 fourteen (14) evaluators experts nine (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:
| Team | CLACSO member center | Country of the institution | ALACIP Research Group | Title of the project |
| Juan Bautista Lucca (principal investigator), Renata Peixoto de Oliveira, José Francisco Puello Socarrás and María Angélica Gunturiz Rodríguez | Secretariat of Research and Postgraduate Studies – SIP / National University of Rosario | Argentina | Democratization in Latin America in Comparative Perspective | Protests in Times of Anger: Challenges to Neoliberalism and Liberal Democracy in the 2019 Latin American Demonstrations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia. |
This ruling is irrevocable and cannot be appealed.
Buenos Aires, July 20, 2020
