Recent studies on voters' preference in competitive clientelistic settings rely on the crucial assumption that, in the absence of monitoring mechanisms, clients will choose to support candidates that they believe will be the best patrons. Based on ethnographic research in rural Brazil, this paper argues that voters leave their preferred choices aside to support likely winners even when they judge these as corrupt and unreliable patrons.

In this term’s inaugural session of the Global Thinkers of the International Discussion Series, Professor Leslie Bethell, a leading expert on 19th and 20th century Latin America, Emeritus Fellow of St Anthony's College and founder of the Centre for Brazilian Studies, Oxford, will trace the life and internationalist thought of Brazil’s Joaquim Nabuco (1849–1910).

A panel discussion to mark the publication of Richard Caplan's new book, Measuring Peace: Principles, Practices, and Politics (OUP).

Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”

The following seminars will be given at 2pm on Wednesdays, normally in the E P Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton College.
Convenor: Meera Selva