BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institutes' Program on Latin America and the Carib bean is proud to host \;María Victoria Murillo from Columbia Universit y. \;In the aftermath of the commodity boom\, declining fiscal windfal ls forced Latin American governments to implement economic adjustments ami d stagnant growth\, shattering citizens’ expectations of social improvemen t. This situation exposed the weakness of state capacity and the inability of democracies to fulfill their promises\, sparking a wave of protests an d anti-incumbent votes across the region. We propose a framework to unders tand the temporal emergence of political discontent\, highlighting two dis tinct patterns in how that discontent is expressed across countries. In pa rticular\, feelings of relative deprivation—rooted in the social expectati ons fostered by democracy combined with redistributive policies during the commodity boom—are key to understanding this surge in political dissatisf action.María Victoria Murillo is professor of political science and intern ational affairs and director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University. She received a B.A. at the Universidad de Buenos Air es and an M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University. She has published widely i n the U.S. and Latin America. Her most recent books include Non-Policy Pol itics: Richer Voter\, Poorer Voter and the Diversification of Parties Elec toral Strategies with Ernesto Calvo (Cambridge University Press\, 2019) an d Understanding Institutional Weakness: Power and Design in Latin American Institutions with Daniel Brinks and Steven Levitsky (Cambridge University Press 2019). DTEND:20250424T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260512T101506Z DTSTART:20250424T183000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Social Underpinnings of Political Discontent in Latin America UID:RFCALITEM639141633063394302 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Moynihan Institutes' Program on Latin A merica and the Caribbean is proud to host \;María Victoria Murillo fro m Columbia University. \;

In the aftermath of the commodity boom \, declining fiscal windfalls forced Latin American governments to impleme nt economic adjustments amid stagnant growth\, shattering citizens’ expect ations of social improvement. This situation exposed the weakness of state capacity and the inability of democracies to fulfill their promises\, spa rking a wave of protests and anti-incumbent votes across the region.

< p>We propose a framework to understand the temporal emergence of political discontent\, highlighting two distinct patterns in how that discontent is expressed across countries. In particular\, feelings of relative deprivat ion—rooted in the social expectations fostered by democracy combined with redistributive policies during the commodity boom—are key to understanding this surge in political dissatisfaction.

María Victoria Murillo is professor of political science and intern ational affairs and director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University. She received a B.A. at the Universidad de Buenos Air es and an M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University.

She has published w idely in the U.S. and Latin America. Her most recent books include Non -Policy Politics: Richer Voter\, Poorer Voter and the Diversification of P arties Electoral Strategies with Ernesto Calvo (Cambridge University Press\, 2019) and Understanding Institutional Weakness: Power and Desi gn in Latin American Institutions with Daniel Brinks and Steven Levit sky (Cambridge University Press 2019).

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