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香港六合彩 Americas Public Seminar Series: Roundtable on Uruguayan Elections 2024
30 October 2024, 4:30 pm鈥�6:00 pm
On October 27, 2024, Uruguayans will be casting their vote in presidential elections. In this roundtable, our analysis will focus both on understanding the outcome in Uruguay and placing it in the broader regional context of a key electoral year across the Americas.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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Sudershana Dave
Location
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Clarke Hall (Level 3)20 Bedford WayLondonWC1H 0ALUnited Kingdom
This election is significant both locally and regionally. On the one hand, it takes place forty years since the elections held in late November 1984 ushered the return of democracy to the country after 12 years of dictatorship and terror. Whilst often considered a beacon of democracy, stability, and security, Uruguay has recently seen rising crime rates and several corruption scandals rocking the country.
On the other, numerous other countries in the Americas have had or are about to vote in tight and contested elections. The regional backdrop is one of both democratic innovations and setbacks, ranging from Claudia Sheinbaum recently becoming Mexico's first female president, to the fraudulent vote in Venezuela, and the forthcoming contest between Trump and Harris in the United States.
Panellists:
- Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos, Professor of Comparative and Judicial Politics, and Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
- Francisco Panizza, Professor in Latin American and Comparative Politics, LSE.
- Rosario Queirolo, Professor and Director of the Department of Social Sciences, Catholic University of Uruguay.
Chaired by
About the Speaker
Doug Rossinow is professor in the Department of Ethnic, Gender, Historical, and Philosophical Studies at Metro State University in St. Paul, Minnesota (USA). The author of several books, he is composing Promised Land: The Worlds of American Zionism, 1942鈥�2024, which will be published by Oxford University Press.