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News from 2011

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December

  • 12/04/2011: AmericasBarometer noted in Colombia in听
  • 12/01/2011: Dissemination of the Colombia 2011 report announced in Radio Super听听

November

  • 11/30/2011: AmericasBarometer data of Afro-Colombian survey 2011听cited in Colombia's
  • 11/29/2011: Conference on AmericasBarometer 2011 Colombia data announced in and
  • 11/20/2011: LAPOP data about crime and Elections cited in mexico in Sexenio Queretaro "
  • 11/16/2011: LAPOP听noted in Mexico in
  • 11/16/2011: AmericasBarometer 2012 announced in Mexico in Sexenio Queretaro:听"

October

  • 10/27/2011:
  • 10/24/2011: AmericasBarometer noted in El Salvador on Political Tolerance in Diario El Mundo:
  • 10/17/2011:听 by LAPOP's Amy Erica Smith and Matthew Layton about social assistance policies听and presidential vote听makes the news in

September

  • 09/26/2011: LAPOP 2011 听听
  • 09/21/2011: Press release: upcoming conference听"听听See
  • 09/18/2011: AmericasBarometer noted in Ecuador on crime in eldiario.ec:
  • 09/12/2011: A new book " by researcher Mary Fran T. Malone using LAPOP data forthcoming.

August

  • 08/30/2011: LAPOP 听by 国产原创 undergraduate students about political efficacy in the Americas cited in
  • 08/24/2011: LAPOP launches Spanish version of website at vanderbilt.edu/lapop-espanol
  • 08/02/2011: We are pleased to announce that the following LAPOP associates have been awarded a prestigious grant for $22,000 to carry out research and a seminar on behavioral experiments in Latin America: Mar铆a Fernanda Boidi (国产原创 鈥 Universidad de Montevideo), Ryan E. Carlin (Georgia State University), Abby C贸rdova (国产原创), Gregory J. Love (University of Mississippi), and Mar铆a del Rosario Queirolo (Universidad de Montevideo).

Their project is entitled, 鈥淓xperiments for Export? Assessing the Suitability of Behavioral Experiments in Latin America.鈥 The seminar will consist of a two-day workshop to be held in Atlanta, at Georgia State University during spring 2012. In this event, scholars from different disciplines and areas whose work relies on behavioral experiments will present their ongoing research and discuss the leverage ability of experimental methods.

  • 08/01/2011: LAPOP graduate student Arturo Maldonado quoted in

July

  • 07/18/2011: AmericasBarometer noted in Peru on crime in ElComercio.pe:
  • 07/18/2011: Colombia by LAPOP's Juan Camilo Plata about paying more taxes makes the news in and

June

  • 06/28/2011:
  • 06/23/2011: features LAPOP research in the undergraduate classroom
  • 06/14/2011: LAPOP and elite data for Chile regarding gay marriage cited in
  • 06/07/2011: A new article by LAPOP researcher Juan Pablo Luna using LAPOP data is published in Latin American Politics and Society's Summer issue: 鈥樷橴prooted but Stable: Chilean Parties and the Concept of Party System Institutionalization鈥欌 by Juan Pablo Luna and David Altman ( / on )

May

  • 05/24/2011: Research News at 国产原创 publishes story based on Haiti 2010 survey results:
  • 05/22/2011: LAPOP data on security/police cited in Colombia's and in Mexico's
  • 05/20/2011: Visit - many pictures from the 2010 round of the AmericasBarometer are available
  • 05/20/2011: Congratulations to LAPOP Co-director Elizabeth J. Zechmeister , who was appointed to the Peer Review Committee of the , the focus of which is on market access and increased political representation by Afro-Latino and indigenous populations. This is a project funded by the Ford Foundation. This fits right in with LAPOP's work in 2010 and 2012 on these same themes.
  • 05/19/2011: Dissemination of Haiti 2010 data set for May 25, 2011 -
  • 05/03/2011: Dissemination of set for May 5, 2011 -

April

  • LAPOP joins in mourning for Miguel G贸mez Barrantes, one of the key figures in Costa Rican political science research (/ )
  • 04/26/11: BID study using LAPOP data site in press and (Mexico)
  • 04/22/2011: LAPOP Spring Speaker series brings (April 28) and Dr. Manuel Alc谩ntara (May 2) to campus. Email Tina J. Bembry for details, or see upcoming events on the Political Science website.
  • 04/20/2011:
  • 04/19/2011: Upcoming publications using LAPOP data:
    • Upcoming publication:
      Garc铆a-S谩nchez, Miguel. 2011. Cultivos il铆citos, participaci贸n pol铆tica y confianza institucional. In D. Mej铆a and A. Gaviria (eds.) Pol铆ticas antidroga en Colombia: 茅xitos, fracasos y extrav铆os. Bogot谩: Universidad de Los Andes
    • Upcoming publication in the April 2011 issue.
  • 04/11/2011: April 22, 2011, in Washington, D.C.
  • 04/10/2011: Julio Carri贸n quoted in Wall Street Journal (; ) and about Peru's presidential elections
  • 04/07/2011:

March

February

  • 02/28/2011:
  • 02/25/2011: Panama special sample report published
  • 02/22/2011:
  • 02/14/2011: Observatorio de la Democracia, of the Department of Political Science at Universidad de los Andes (Bogot谩, Colombia), introduces the first issue of its series, devoted to the analysis of data from the Americas Barometer-LAPOP in Colombia and the hemisphere.
  • 02/01/2011:

January