Análise L21 | A crise da democracia. A verdadeira ameaça à democracia não é o populismo. É a oligarquia.

More than 20 NGOs said that the decree granting broad discretion to intelligence services could become ‘a tool for massive surveillance’

Analysis L21 | The crisis of democracy. The true threat to democracy is not populism: It is oligarchy.

The LASA 2026 Call for Papers invoked the republican tradition and its revolutionary implications as a way to foreground the underappreciated contributions of Latin America and the Caribbean to global transformations that have occurred over several centuries. These transformations, which continue to shape the contemporary world, entail what Guillermo O’Donnell (1998, 113) called an “uneasy synthesis” of republican, liberal, and democratic thought and action. Although each taps into pre-modern undercurrents, springing from ancient Greek, republican Roman, and medieval sources, they nonetheless crystallized in the institutions and practices that emerged out of the Glorious Revolution, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, the insurrection of Tupac Amaru II, and Hispanic-American struggles for independence.

(DEADLINE for submission of proposals EXTENDED) Cartographies of Platform Labour in the Digital City 5th–7th November 2025Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED, Madrid, Spain) Conference Theme Over the past decade, platform capitalism has profoundly reshaped the organisation of labour, the infrastructures of urban life, and the conditions of social reproduction. From food delivery workers […]

Los modos de gobernar que se entrecruzan en la historia continental crean híbridos con tintes oligárquicos y democráticos. Como tales, representan pujas entre sectores, pudiendo transicionar a formas más estables con coaliciones duraderas que sostienen una articulación de lo social, lo político y lo económico (véanse los excelentes análisis de Cameron 2020 y Foweraker 2021).

Capitulation, a Peruvian retablo created by Jesús Urbano Cárdenas, Master Amauta of Peruvian Folk Art.

“Ciclos de incorporación e inclusión social: una teoría sobre la economía política de las luchas de los sectores populares por expandir la arena sociopolítica”, Conferencia Magistral de…

Call for Abstracts - International Workshop on Contentious Politics in Spain, November 20-21 at @UNED_POLISOCI @GrupoEstudios. Submit your abstract (max. 300 words) by September 30, 2025. Full details in the attached call. https://t.co/pIqWBeAygn