Program

II International Conference on Comparative Presidential Studies and Presidentialism

Belo Horizonte, 13-14 November 2014

 

Venue

Auditório da FACE
Openning Speech: Auditório da Reitoria

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – Campus Pampulha
Av. Antônio Carlos, 6.627, Pampulha
31270-901, Belo Horizonte – MG – Brasil
+55 31 3409 5195 | cel@fafich.ufmg.br

 

Thursday, 13 November, 09:30-10:00

Openning Cerimony
Magna Inácio (Coordinator/Coordenadora) – (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UFMG)

 

Thursday, 13 November, 10:00-12:00

Panel 1
Presidency and the challenges of coordinating the Executive Branch
Chair:
Daniel Chasquetti (Universidad de la Republica)
Discussant:
Carlos Pereira (Fundação Getúlio Vargas – FGV)
Presenters:
Antônio Lassance (Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada – Ipea)
Alejandro Bonvecchi (Universidad Torquato Di Tella)
Marcelo Vieira (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UFMG)
Felix Lopez (Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada – Ipea)

 

Thursday, 13 November, 14:00-16:00

Panel 2
Presidential Elections
Chair:
Fatima Anastasia (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UFMG and/e PUC-Minas)
Discussant:
Rachel Meneguello (Universidade Estadual de Campinas – Unicamp)
Presenters:
Carlos Ranulfo Felix de Melo (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UFMG)
Felipe Nunes (University of California, Los Angeles – UCLA)
Adrian Albala (Universidade de São Paulo – USP)
Cesar Zucco (Fundação Getúlio Vargas – FGV)

 

Thursday, 13 November, 16:15-18:15

Panel 3
The Presidency and the Government Coalition
Chair:
Manoel Santos (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UFMG)
Discussant:
Fabiano Santos (Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Políticos – IESP/UERJ)
Presenters:
Marcelo Leiras (Universidad de San Andrés)
Magna Inácio (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UFMG)
Royce Carroll (Rice University)
Mariana Batista (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco – UFPE)

 

Thursday, 13 November, 18:45-19:45

Openning Speech
Chair:
Magna Inácio (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UFMG)
Keynote Speaker:
B. Dan Wood (Texas A&M University)
Presidents and the Politics of Administrative Design

 

Friday, 14 November 2014 , 10:00-12:00

Panel 4
Cabinet Formation and Stability
Chair:
Leany Lemos (Senado Federal)
Discussant:
Octavio Amorim Neto (Fundação Getúlio Vargas – FGV)
Presenters:
Cecilia Martinez-Gallardo (University of North Carolina)
Marcelo Camerlo (Universidade de Lisboa)
Daniel Chasquetti (Universidad de la República)
Svitlana Chernykh (Australian National University)

 

Friday, 14 November 2014 ,  14:00-16:00

Panel 5
The Presidency – case studies
Chair:
Laurence Whitehead (University of Oxford)
Discussant:
Lúcio Rennó (Universidade de Brasília – UnB)
Presenters:
Jose Luis Méndez (El Colegio de México)
Monica Pachon (Universidad de los Andes)
Mariana Llanos (German Institute of Global and Area Studies -GIGA)
Peter Siavelis (Wake Forest University)

 

Friday, 14 November 2014 , 16:15-18:15

Panel 6
Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective
Chair:
Detlef Nolte (German Institute of Global and Area Studies -GIGA)
Discussant:
Timothy Power (University of Oxford)
Presenters:
Jorge Lanzaro (Universidad de la República)
Manoel Alcântara (Universidad de Salamanca)
David Doyle (University of Oxford)

 

Friday, 14 November 2014 , 18:15-19:15

Closing Speech
Keynote Speaker:
Lanny Martin (Rice University)