About the REPAL Network
Welcome!
REPAL is a network of researchers (institutionally affiliated with universities in Latin America, North America, and Europe) interested in promoting and giving greater visibility to new studies in the political economy of Latin America. In thematic terms, we are interested in analyzing the interaction among economic, political, and social processes. We are particularly concerned with how the findings of such analyses further our understanding of development models, the socio-political institutions that sustain them, and the practical problems they face. In methodological terms, we seek to promote research that is empirically grounded and sensitive to context and that leads to new forms of description, concept formation, causal inference, and theoretical innovations that challenge the conventional wisdom on socially relevant phenomenon in the region. With respect to methods of research and analysis, our approach is open and eclectic, based on a simple premise that the methods should be selected as a function of the problem to be studied rather than the reverse. Institutionally, Repal is a network open to the research community and structured around the promotion of diverse, plural debate on the political economy of Latin America.
To join REPAL and get added to the mailing list, please send an email to repalconference@gmail.com expressing your interest.
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REPAL Institutional Host: The Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University is serving as REPAL’s institutional home from 2024 to 2026.
REPAL Steering Committee:
Chair: Juan Bogliaccini (Universidad Católica del Uruguay),
Aldo Madariaga (Universidad Diego Portales), Alisha Holland (Harvard University), Eduardo Dargent (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú), Gustavo Flores-Macías (Cornell University),
Ken Roberts (Cornell University), Matthew Carnes (Santa Clara University), Sara Niedzwiecki (University of California at Santa Cruz), and Silvia Otero-Bahamon (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia)