Economics and Politics

LASA Economics and Politics Section
2025 Awards and Grants

In 2025, we made calls for a) the Best Article Award (no prize was given due to lack of submissions) and b) the Best Book Award (published in 2023 and 2024).

The Best Book Award Committee received six submissions.

These are the results: Winner (USD $150 Prize):

Belen Fernandez Milmanda, Trinity College, United States

Agrarian Elites and Democracy in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

Honorable Mentions

• Christopher Chambers-Ju, University of Texas, Arlington, United States

Mobilizing Teachers: Education Politics and New Labor Movement in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

• Juan A. Bogliaccini, Universidad Católica del Uruguay

Empowering Labor: Leftist Approaches to Wage Policy in Unequal Democracies (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

Travel Grants (USD $300 each)

Recipients:

• Neantro Saavedra, Universidade de Brasília (Brazil)
• Antonio José J. Botelho, IUPERJ/Universidade Candido Mendes (Brazil)
• Agnes Deak, Eotvos Lorand University (Hungary)
• Javier Perez Sandoval, Oxford University (United Kingdom)
• Jose Manuel Puente Camba, Escuela de Estudos Superiores de Administración (Venezuela)

LASA Economics and Politics Section
2023 Awards

Best Book Award

Winner:  Margarita Fajardo for her book:  The World that Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era, Harvard University Press (Feb 2022).

Best Article Award:

Winner: Luciana de Souza Leão for her article: " Optics of the State: The Politics of Making Poverty Visible in Brazil and Mexico," American Journal of Sociology, Volume 128, Number 1 (July 2022: 1-46).

Honorable Mention:  Paul Alexander Haslam for his article: "The micro-politics of corporate responsibility. How companies shape protest in communities affected by mining", World Development (no. 139, 2021)

Travel Grants are awarded to section members:

• Neantro Saavedra - Rivano
• Paula Luedy Mendes

 

LASA Economics and Politics Section
2020-2021 Awards

Best Book Award

Winner

Gabriel Ondetti
Property Threats and the Politics of Anti-Statism: The Historical Roots of Contemporary Tax Systems in Latin America
Cambridge University Press (2021)

Honourable Mention

Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
The Costs of Inequality in Latin America: Lessons and Warnings for the Rest of the World
Bloomsbury (2020)