Friday, November 1 - 9:00am to 2:15pm


9:00am–11:00am
Panel I: International Factors
“Effects of U.S. Foreign Assistance on Democracy Building, 1990-2014: An Update”
Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Steven E. Finkel, Michael Neureiter, and Chris A. Belasco
“International Influences on Democratization”
Michael Coppedge, Benjamin Denison, Paul Friesen, Lucia Tiscornia
“The Measure of CEDAW: Religion, Religious Freedom, and the Rights of Women”Barbara Walters
“International Norms”
Samuel Valenzuela

11:15am–12:30pm
Panel II: Activism
“Subterranean and Public Activism: Anti-Corruption Reform in Brazil”
Luiz Vilaça
"The Rise of the Contentious Right: Conceptualizing and Explaining Strategies of Conservative Partisan Mobilization in Latin America (2012-2016)"
Tomás Gold
"What Do We Know about Resistance to Democratic Subversion?"
Andreas Schedler

12:30pm–1:00 pm
Lunch Served

1:00pm–2:15pm
Panel III: Methods
“Dictators’ Quandary: Party Pluralism and Regime Change”
Natán Skigin and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán
“From Regime Preference to Democratic Suitability: Revisiting Public Support for Democratization in China”
Zhongyun Zhang
“Developing a Theoretical Imagination: In Defense of Methodological Promiscuity”
Thomas Mustillo