🗓️Join us for an informal Land Politics happy hour at the APSA Annual Meeting next Thursday, September 3 at 6:00 pm (location TBD)!
My colleagues Clara Bicalho, Débora Duque & I are organizing this gathering to build a network for collaboration and intellectual exchange

#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social -

When Reformers Become Spoilers: Discretionary Implementation of Extraordinary Restitution Reform under Extractivism in Colombia - https://cup.org/4vdduvj

- Laura García-Montoya, @isabelguiza.bsky.social & Ana Montoya

#FirstView

Happy to share this paper on policy conflicts between extraordinary institutional reform & previous rules and interests. Taking the case of Colombia’s land restitution program, we show how governments use discretionary implementation to uphold commitment while accommodating competing priorities

From our FirstView article: Land, Power, and Property Rights: The Political Economy of Land Titling in Sub-Saharan Africa by @mattkribar.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

🚨 New Cambridge Element 🚨

"The Transformation of Protest Politics" by Marco Giugni and Maria Grasso is out now and free to read for the next 2 weeks!

https://cup.org/4rye2tJ

#Sociology #PoliSci 🗺️ #Politics #PoliSky

Honored to share: Isabel Güiza-Gómez (PhD ’25) wins Kellogg’s 2025 Award for Distinguished Dissertation for her research on how unarmed rural movements spark peace & land reform after conflict. Full story here: https://bit.ly/3LxNhFc Congrats, @isabelguiza.bsky.social!

Thank you to the @repalconference.bsky.social awards committee for selecting our work-in-progress with Madai Urteaga for this honorable mention! Such a honor to collect great feedback from this vibrant community of scholars! @kellogginstitute.bsky.social

Congratulations to isabelguiza.bsky.social on receiving the 2025 Outstanding Graduate Student Contributions Award from the Kellogg Institute! Read more about her important contributions to the Institute's research agenda, programming, and community: bit.ly/4lU5YAN

The latest episode of our Global Stage podcast features @raschwartz.bsky.social discussing state-building, corruption, and accountability in post-war Central America with @isabelguiza.bsky.social. Listen in English or Spanish at bit.ly/42QqMS4 or wherever you get your podcasts.

Interested in post-war state reconstruction? Listen to our latest @kellogginstitute.bsky.social Global Stage podcast! @raschwartz.bsky.social discusses her fantastic work on the state, corruption & human rights in Guatemala and Nicaragua podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

New article on Fast Track by Laura García-Montoya, Isabel Güiza-Gómez, and María Paula Saffon, “Entering the Political Arena in Exclusionary Settings: A Grassroots-Led Turn to the Left in Colombia,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

Very pleased to see this work out with awesome co-authors @arturochang.bsky.social & Laura García-Montoya! Here is a full-text view-only version of the paper: rdcu.be/ecZL3