Greg talks with Jennifer Piscopo, Assistant Professor of Politics at Occidental College and Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard. She is an expert on gender quotes and political representation of women in Latin America. How has representation improved over time? How did gender quotas get going in the first place? How has this changed sexist attitudes, if at all? You have to listen to find out.
News
Podcast 6: Women and Representation
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Podcast 5
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In Episode 5, Greg talks with Colin Snider, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Tyler, about Brazil. Did the country experience a coup? Can the PT recover from this? Was the World Cup a terrible idea or just a bad one?
Podcast 4
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In Episode 4 of Understanding Latin American Politics: The Podcast, Greg talks with Robert Karl, Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University, about the historical context of the failed referendum in Colombia. Note: go buy his book when it comes out next year.
Podcast 3
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In Episode 3, Greg discusses the Colombia peace agreement and upcoming referendum with Adam Isacson, Senior Associate for Regional Security Policy at the Washington Office on Latin America. It includes a bit of Thomas Friedman-like analysis. But only a bit.
Podcast 2
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In Episode 2, Greg talks to Mike Allison, who is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science at the University of Scranton. He also blogs at Central American Politics. The topic is Nicaraguan politics: what is Daniel Ortega doing and why is he doing it? Apologies for some audio problems as the bugs in this podcast continue to get worked out.
Podcast 1
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In this first episode, I discuss developments in Venezuela, which includes Chinese debt and bad jokes by Nicolás Maduro about the “Maduro diet.”
My Publications
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2011
Amy Kennemore and Gregory Weeks. “Twenty-First Century Socialism? The Elusive Search for a Post-Neoliberal Development Model in Bolivia and Ecuador,” Bulletin of Latin American Research 30, 3 (July 2011): 267-281.
2010
Gregory Weeks. “The Transition is Dead, Long Live the Transition: Civil-Military Relations and the Limits of Consensus.” In Silvia Borzutzky and Gregory B. Weeks, The Bachelet Government: Conflict and Consensus in Post-Pinochet Chile (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010): 67-84.
Gregory Weeks & Silvia Borzutzky. “Introduction.” In Silvia Borzutzky and Gregory B. Weeks, The Bachelet Government: Conflict and Consensus in Post-Pinochet Chile (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010): 1-23.
2008
Gregory Weeks. “A Preference for Deference: Reforming the Military’s Intelligence Role in Argentina, Chile and Peru,” Third World Quarterly 29, 1 (2008): 45-61.
2007
Gregory Weeks, John R. Weeks, and Amy J. Weeks. “Latino Immigration to the U.S.South: ‘Carolatinos’ and Public Policy in Charlotte, North Carolina,” Latino/a Research Review 6, 1-2 (2006-2007): 50-71.
2006
Gregory Weeks. “Inching Toward Democracy: President Lagos and the Chilean Armed Forces,” In Silvia Borzutzky and Lois Hecht Oppenheim (eds.). After Pinochet: The Chilean Road to Democracy and the Market (Gainesville: University Press ofFlorida, 2006): 26-41.
Gregory Weeks. “Facing Failure: The Use (and Abuse) of Rejection in Political Science,” PS: Political Science and Politics 39, 4 (October 2006): 879-882.
Gregory Weeks. “Fighting Terrorism While Promoting Democracy: Competing Priorities in U.S.Defense Policy Toward Latin America,” Journal of Third World Studies 23, 2 (Fall 2006): 59-77.
2004
Gregory Weeks. “The Military and Intelligence Reform in Chile,” Fuerzas Armadas y Sociedad 18, 3-4 (2004): 245-258.
Gregory Weeks. “The Military and Legalism: A Response to Paul Sigmund,” Revista de Ciencia Política 24, 1 (2004): 227-230.
Gregory Weeks. “Rethinking Historical Factors: The Military and Political Transitions in South America,” Politics & Policy 32, 1 (March 2004): 158-174.
2003
Gregory Weeks. “Fighting the Enemy Within: Terrorism, the School of the Americas, and the Military in Latin America,” Human Rights Review 5, 1 (October-December 2003): 12-27.
Gregory Weeks. “Is the Mold Being Broken? Defense Ministries and Democracy in Latin America,” Journal of Political and Military Sociology 31, 1 (Summer 2003): 23-37.
Gregory Weeks. “The Military and Democracy in Latin America: Chilein Comparative Perspective,” In Frank Columbus (ed.). Politics and Economics of Latin America. (Hauppauge,NY : Nova Science Publishers, 2003): 19-41.
2002
Gregory Weeks. “The ‘Lessons’ of Dictatorship: The Military and Political Learning in Chile,” Bulletin of Latin American Research 21, 3 (July 2002): 396-412.
2001
Gregory Weeks. “Almost Jeffersonian: U.S.Recognition Policy Toward Latin America,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 31, 3 (September 2001): 490-504.
Gregory Weeks. “Democratic Institutions and Civil-Military Relations: The Case of Chile,” Journal of Third World Studies 18, 1 (Spring 2001): 65-85.
2000
Gregory Weeks. “Waiting for Cincinnatus: The Role of Pinochet in Post-Authoritarian Chile,” Third World Quarterly 21, 5 (2000): 725-738.
Gregory Weeks. “The Long Road to Civilian Supremacy Over the Military: Chile, 1990-1998,” Studies in Comparative International Development 25, 2 (2000): 65-83.