Mobilizing Law: Emerging Norms for Latin America’s Informal Workers

Diana Kapiszewski is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests include public law and comparative politics (with an emphasis on comparative judicial politics, comparative democratization, and a regional focus on Latin America) and methodology (focusing on qualitative methods and field research methodology). She is currently completing a book manuscript examining high court-elected branch interactions in the realm of economic governance in Argentina and Brazil. She is also co-authoring a book on field research in political science (with Lauren MacLean and Benjamin Read). She is beginning two new projects: one explores the role of electoral courts and councils in politics in Brazil and Mexico, and the other analyzes how the relationship between informal workers and the legal system is negotiated and defined in Latin America. Finally, she is co-editor of a volume on comparative courts linked to a Sawyer Seminar on comparative judicial power, and co-PI on an initiative to create a Qualitative Data Repository. Her work has appeared in Perspectives on Politics and PS: Political Science and Politics.

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