WFU Conference | Political Recruitment and Democracy in Latin America

Political scientists who study Latin America spent much of the 1980’s and 1990’s analyzing democratic transitions. With the consolidation of democratic regimes across the region, scholars recently turned their attention to the actual processes of democratic politics, and in particular, democratic institutions, in order to analyze the actual functioning of democratic systems in Latin America. The research symposium “Pathways to Power: Political Recruitment and Democracy in Latin America” will bring together a group of leading scholars working in the institutional tradition in an attempt to fill a gap in our understanding of political recruitment in the Americas. In doing so, it will help redirect scholarship toward a sharper understanding of the incentives shaping political choice that are tied to processes of political recruitment in the region. The research symposium will take place on April 3 & 4, 2004 at the Graylyn International Conference Center of Wake Forest University.