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¿Qué nos dicen los nuevos datos del #BarómetroDeLasAméricas sobre la democracia en 🇨🇴?
Acompáñanos en Bogotá para conocer los hallazgos de 2026 junto a @NoamLupu, director de @VU_CGD.
📅 29 de octubre | 9:30 a. m.
🔗 forms.gle/xwbCnSbYpjQ15n
@KelloggInst @KeoughGlobalND
🤔 ¿Cómo está la democracia en Colombia?
Los datos del nuevo Barómetro de las Américas 2026 tienen mucho que decirnos frente al futuro institucional del país y el estado de la democracia de cara a las próximas elecciones.
Acompáñanos a analizar los resultados junto a Noam Lupu, director del Centro para la Democracia Global @VU_CGD de la Universidad de Vanderbilt.
📅 Jueves 29 de octubre
🕒 9:30 a. m.
📍 Auditorio de la Registraduría Nacional (Av. Calle 26 # 51-50, Bogotá)
Entrada libre con inscripción previa.
🔗 Inscríbete aquí: forms.gle/xwbCnSbYpjQ15n1W6
#SemanaDeLaDemocracia
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🇧🇷 Reminder! Join us this Thursday, Oct. 22, for a discussion of new #AmericasBarometer findings on democracy in Brazil.
In partnership with @usponline, @KelloggInst and @KeoughGlobal.
🔴 Tune in live! Details below 👇
🇧🇷 Ahead of a presidential runoff, what do Brazilians think about democracy?
Join us Thurs., Oct. 22 at @usponline for new #AmericasBarometer findings with @RobbVidi, Marta Arretche, & Nara Pavão.
🕠 5:30 p.m. Brasília | 4:30 p.m. ET
🔴 Watch live: piped.video/live/PSfw6ewSzvE
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📢 Join us this Wednesday, Oct. 21, for our next #WISM!
🎤 @lschiume (University of Notre Dame)
🕚 11 a.m. CT
💻 Free & virtual via Zoom
Sign up to receive the Zoom invitation and join the conversation on international survey methods!
🔗 vanderbilt.edu/cgd/workshop-…
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New in @ForeignAffairs: Will Freeman draws on 2026 #AmericasBarometer data to examine Cuba’s deepening economic and institutional crisis.
This is the first AmericasBarometer round to include Cuba, offering new insight into public opinion on the island.
“Repression is the only thing the Cuban state still does well,” writes @WillGFreeman. “This owes less to any apparent abundance of resources than to the leadership’s entirely rational unity.”
foreignaffairs.com/cuba/cuba…
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📢CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue
LATIN AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION TOWARDS THE UNITED STATES: Patterns, Determinants & Consequences
CO-EDITORS
Orlando J. Pérez @Perez1oj
Dinorah Azpuru
Gerardo Maldonado @yogerardomh
Federico Merke
Proposal deadline 1 Dec 2026 rlop.usal.es/index.php/2026/…
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Cuba’s future was debated intensely at the UN General Assembly, with fiery comments from Washington and Havana dominating the exchange.
Each camp claims to speak for a Cuban public that has rarely been asked what it wants. Meanwhile, the island is enduring its biggest economic crisis since independence, as crippling fuel shortages overlap with a historic collapse of an already derelict public infrastructure.
What are Cubans actually asking for?
Read Orlando Perez's analysis in Americas Quarterly.
@AmerQuarterly @Perez1oj
#Cuba #CubanPeople #LatinAmerica #USCuba
americasquarterly.org/articl…
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What do Cubans themselves want for their country’s future?
New in @AmerQuarterly, Orlando J. Pérez draws on 2026 #AmericasBarometer data from Cuba to explore views on the economy, political change, sovereignty & who holds power on the island.
Read more 👇
As Washington and Havana spar over Cuba's future, its citizens demand a solution to more pressing problems.
americasquarterly.org/articl…
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📚 New from CGD Director @NoamLupu & Nick Carnes!
Keeping Workers Off the Ballot examines why working-class people make up much of the labor force, yet remain dramatically underrepresented in democracies around the world.
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/ha…
It's finally publication day for this decade-in-the-making book.
Nick Carnes and I explain why working-class jobs make up 70% of the average democracy's labor force, but only 2% of the average democracy's national lawmakers had working-class jobs when they got into politics.
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🇧🇷 Ahead of a presidential runoff, what do Brazilians think about democracy?
Join us Thurs., Oct. 22 at @usponline for new #AmericasBarometer findings with @RobbVidi, Marta Arretche, & Nara Pavão.
🕠 5:30 p.m. Brasília | 4:30 p.m. ET
🔴 Watch live: piped.video/live/PSfw6ewSzvE
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🏆 Congratulations to @RyanECarlin1 and Shane P/ Singh, recipients of the 2026 Seligson Prize!
Their paper, "The Pigmentocracy of Executive Approval," was selected as this year's winning work for its outstanding use of #AmericasBarometer data.
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The Seligson Prize is awarded annually by @LAPOP_Lab to recognize outstanding scholarship using AmericasBarometer data.
The prize honors the legacy of the late Mitchell A. Seligson, founder of LAPOP and a pioneer in the study of public opinion in Latin America.
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This year's selection committee, @AmyEricaSmith, @TaylorBoas, and @yogerardomh, recognized the paper's important contribution to the study of democracy, governance, and public opinion in the Americas.
📖 Read the award-winning article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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⏰ Reminder: The deadline to submit proposals for the 2027 #AmericasBarometer is 1 WEEK away - May 25, 2026!
With @KelloggInst, we invite proposals for survey questions, modules, & experiments on democracy & political behavior across the Americas.
📄:
vanderbilt.edu/lapop/2027Ame…
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1/ If you work with #AmericasBarometer data in R, you’ve probably rebuilt the same workflow over & over: labels, weights, rescaling, plots, exports.
We built the lapop R package to make these workflows faster, cleaner, & reproducible.
Now on CRAN: install.packages("lapop") 🧵
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3/ The lapop_ functions* handle visualization:
– Cross-country comparisons
– Time series
– Coefficient plots
– Americas maps & dumbbells
– Exporting publication-ready graphics
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🔁 Updated link — please see below
📢 Call for Proposals: 2027 #AmericasBarometer
Submit survey questions for a leading cross-national study of democracy & public opinion across the Americas.
📅 Deadline: May 25, 2026
🔗 Learn more & apply: vanderbilt.edu/lapop/2027Ame…
📢 Call for Proposals: 2027 #AmericasBarometer
Submit survey questions for a leading cross-national study of democracy & public opinion across the Americas.
📅 Deadline: May 25, 2026
🔗 Learn more & apply: vanderbilt.edu/lapop/untitle…
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⏰ Reminder: Nominations for the 2026 Seligson Prize close April 15.
Honor outstanding scholarship using #AmericasBarometer data & celebrate the legacy of Mitchell A. Seligson, founder of @LAPOP_Lab & pioneer in public opinion research.
Submit here:
vanderbilt.edu/lapop/seligso…
📢 Premio Seligson 2026: Convocatoria para nominaciones
Nomina trabajos que usen el #BarómeterodelasAméricas. El premio honra el legado de Mitchell A. Seligson, fundador de @LAPOP_Lab y pionero en estudios de opinión pública.
⏳ Deadline: 15 de abril
ℹ️ vanderbilt.edu/lapop/seligso…
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@lapop_lab - @VU_CGD - #InstitutoBicentenario - @KelloggInst - @ieperuanos
Este martes 24 de marzo, a las 11:00 a.m., se presentarán los resultados del #BarómetrodelasAméricas en Perú 2025.
Exponen: Julio Carrión y Patricia Zárate
Comentan: Gabriela Vega y Rodrigo Gil
Lugar: IEP
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