Tyrants, Smugglers, and Hostile Takeovers: US-Venezuela Relations

The OLLI Distinguished Speakers Series presents:

Tyrants, Smugglers, and Hostile Takeovers: 

US-Venezuela Relations

with Professor Javier Corrales

Wednesday, February 18 at 7:00 p.m. ET

Online via Zoom

Sponsored by Kimball Farms Life Care

Javier Corrales is the Dwight W. Morrow 1895 professor of Political Science at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He obtained his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University in 1996.

Corrales's research focuses on democratization, presidential powers, ruling parties, democratic backsliding, populism, political economy of development, oil and energy, the incumbent's advantage, foreign policies, and sexuality. He has published extensively on Latin America and the Caribbean.

His latest book, Autocracy Rising (Brookings Institution Press, 2022), discusses the transition to authoritarianism in Venezuela since the 2010s, with comparisons to Colombia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua. It argues that deep democratic backsliding is determined by party system features, variations in autocratic legalism, institutional capture, and innovations in the use of coercion.

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