Ethics, Politics, and Economics program 2025 Litowitz lecture: “How to Confront Democratic Backsliding and Autocratization, Lessons from Mexico’s failed democratization”

The Ethics, Politics, and Economics program 2025 Litowitz lecture presents

Professor Alejandro Poiré, Distinguished Professor of Government and Public Transformation, ITESM, Mexico, and visiting research fellow, Center on Democracy, University of Chicago:

“How to Confront Democratic Backsliding and Autocratization, Lessons from Mexico’s failed democratization.”

In this talk, Professor Poiré will reflect upon the political narrative that underpins the wave of democratic erosion in many countries. He will also draw lessons from Mexico’s extraordinarily developed and highly commended electoral institutions, which, he will argue, counter-intuitively contributed to democratic backsliding.