226 Research Items Found
October 16, 2019
Costa Rica’s bid to join the U.N. Human Rights Council demonstrates that Venezuela’s ongoing disintegration is challenging regional unity in …
August 23, 2019
Latin America has been characterized by variation in how each country approaches oil taxation. Structural factors, such as characteristics of …
August 13, 2019
Unless President Mauricio Macri stages a comeback before Oct. 27, the presidential ticket of Alberto Fernández and Cristina Fernández de …
August 01, 2019
While Argentina's presidential election does not start until Oct. 27, the country's unusual primaries could actually determine the next president, …
July 16, 2019
By Paul Lagunes, Baker Institute for Public Policy; Xiaoxuan Yang, Columbia University; and Andrés Castro, Columbia University. Corruption is a …
Leslie Schwindt-Bayer, Ph.D., is a Rice faculty scholar at the Baker Institute’s Latin America Initiative and a professor of political science at Rice University. She conducts research on an array of topics in comparative and Latin American politics, including …
Nancy Hernández López is a justice in the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Costa Rica and a nonresident scholar for the Baker Institute Latin America Initiative. She is also a professor of law at the Universidad …
