News from 2012

Quick links to 2012:
January February March April May June July August September October
November December

December

• 12/20/2012: LAPOP Director, Mitchell A. Seligson, quoted in Los Angeles Times on happiness research
• 12/15/2012: BBC Brazil report on AmericasBarometer 2012
• 12/12/2012: IDB's seminar on corruption media coverage
• 12/12/12 on PaginaSiete.bo: "Bolivia es uno de los 3 países donde se paga soborno"
• 12/12/12 on La Hora.com: "Ecuador entre los países con más sobornos en América"
• 12/12/12 on Terra.com: "Dos de cada 10 ciudadanos en América dicen haber sido víctimas de corrupción"
• 12/11/12 on Vistazo.com: "Dos de cada 10 ciudadanos en América dicen haber sido víctimas de corrupción"
• 12/11/2012: LAPOP data presented at IDB's seminar on corruption
• 12/10/2012: New release: The AmericasBarometer regional, comparative report 2012 (Preliminary version)
  The Political Culture of Democracy in the Americas, 2012: Towards Equality of Opportunity
• 12/02/2012: AmericasBarometer 2012 data cited in Paraguay

November

• 11/18/2012: Findings from Argentina 2012 cited in Página 12
• 11/12/2012: Press coverage of the LAPOP Chile 2012 oversample results
• 11/12/2012: Americas Quarterly article on the middle class by Zechmeister, Sellers and Seligson
• 11/12/2012: Preview of Canada 2012 results in The Globe and Mail
• 11/09/2012: New article in Comparative Political Studies based on LAPOP data
• 11/07/2012: Findings from Costa Rica 2012 cited in Semanario Universitario
• 11/06/2012: AmericasBarometer data on Costa Rica's decline in El Financiero 
• 11/06/2012: LAPOP pigmentocracy findings picked up in Mexico in SDPnoticias 
• 11/06/2012: AmericasBarometer 2012 findings from Chile in El Austral de la Araucanía
• 11/02/2012: Brookings Institution paper by Brian Faughnan comparing the U.S to Colombia using 2012 LAPOP data

October

• 10/19/2012: Professor Elizabeth Zechmeister, LAPOP Associate Director, has been awarded the Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by the College of Arts and Science
• 10/17/2012: AmericasBarometer - Nicaragua 2012 data released. See invitation
• 10/11/2012: Americas Barometer - El Salvador 2012 preliminary presentation
• 10/08/2012: AmericasBarometer - Bolivia 2012 Report will be released on October 8 - 12, 2012. See invitation
• 10/01/2012: LAPOP data on El Salvador and Guatemala in the news

September

• 9/28/2012: Article on electoral participation using LAPOP data will be published in Comparative Political Studies
• 9/24/2012: New article using LAPOP data just published in Política y Gobierno
• 9/20/2012: Tonya Mills, LAPOP Grants Manager, wins the 2012 Vanderbilt University Commodore Award
• 9/20/2012: AmericasBarometer findings from Bolivia in the news
• 9/20/2012: LAPOP Bolivia 2012 data cited in La Razon
• 9/09/2012: Comparative Political Studies article on ideology  based on LAPOP data published this month
• 9/05/2012: AmericasBarometer for 2010 reported in Colombia in Revista Gobierno

August

•  8/31/2012: Colombia LAPOP data cited in Vanguardia
• 8/23/2012: LAPOP's multiple participation in  the V Latin American WAPOR Congress to be conducted in Colombia (see program)
• 8/23/2012: Another leading journal, Comparative Political Studies,  publishes article using LAPOP data
• 8/10/2012: AmericasBarometer crime victimization data used in article published in American Political Science Review

July

• 7/27/2012: LAPOP data used in study on Guatemala published by Revista Actualidad Politica
• 7/25/2012: Paraguay cites AmericasBarometer data in La Nacion
• 7/16/2012: LAPOP cited in Costa Rica in El Pais
• 7/11/2012: AmericasBarometer findings from Colombia survey cited in Revista Nuestra Huella Digital de la Registraduria Nacional de Colombia
• 7/11/2012: AmericasBarometer data on Mexico cited in La Republica
• 7/09/2012: LAPOP cited on Mexico
• 7/08/2012: Article using AmericasBarometer data published in La Gaceta de Ciencia Politica
• 7/08/2012: New study using LAPOP data on crime victimization in Uruguay
• 7/01/2012: AmericasBarometer data focus on Mexican election-day article in Reforma

June

• 6/19/2012: AmericasBarometer data on Jamaica cited in The Gleaner
• 6/07/2012: LAPOP data on elections published in Brazil in Debate
• 6/05/2012: LAPOP skin tone results for Mexico published in a leading Sociology Journal

May

• 5/31/2012: The new Social Inclusion Index uses AmericasBarometer data (see Americas Quarterly article)
• 5/31/2012: AmericasBarometer data on "Mano Dura" cited in La Nacion
• 5/29/2012: LAPOP Insights report on crime gets picked up in the press (see Insights reports)
• 5/28/2012: LAPOP and PERLA Pricenton project data on color/ethnicity cited in Universia
• 5/27/2012:  AmericasBarometer data on same sex marriage cited in La Republica - Peru
• 5/25/2012: LAPOP data cited in El Caribe
• 5/18/2012: AmericasBarometer data on trust in political parties cited in El Colombiano
• 5/17/2012: LAPOP data on same sex marriage cited in Brazil
• 5/15/2012: LAPOP  Insights report by Brandon Bell on corruption cited in ABCColor
• 5/10/2012: LAPOP Insights study by Margarita Corral and Germán Lodola on same sex marriage makes the Christian Science Monitor
• 5/08/2012: Press article on Argentina cites LAPOP data: "Percepción argentina sobre el retorno del Estado"
• 5/07/2012: Insights report by LAPOP's Camilo Plata about  corruption cited in FCPA-Blog
• 5/06/2012: AmericasBarometer findings from Colombia survey cited in La Silla Vacía

April

• 4/30/2012: AmericasBarometer Insights issue on women gets picked up in the press (see Insights report)
• 4/26/2012: Blog using LAPOP data
• 4/24/2012: AmericasBarometer cited in Peru in La Republica
• 4/20/2012: Article discussing LAPOP
• 4/16/2012: LAPOP data featured in Guyana news story
• 4/12/2012: LAPOP data on citizen security noted in Ecuador - El Comercio
• 4/10/2012: LAPOP data cited in Bolivia on same sex marriage in La Razon
• 4/10/2012: LAPOP's multiple roles in  Mellon/LASA Conference on Experiments in Latin America

• 4/7/2012: Voting preferences from AmericasBarometer reported in Milenio Semanal
• 4/4/2012: Book using AmericasBarometer data presented in Brazil: "Legitimidade E Qualidade Da Democracia No Brasil"
• 4/2/2012: LAPOP Afro-Colombian data cited in Agencia de Noticias UN.

March

• 3/26/2012: AmericasBarometer data cited in El Salvador in El Faro
• 3/23/2012: LAPOP data quoted in El Salvador in La Prensa Gráfica
• 3/22/2012: AmericasBarometer data cited in Colombia in Congreso Visible - UNIANDES
• 3/20/2012: AmericasBarometer data cited in Paraguay in abc Digital: "Más paraguayos culpan a países ricos que al gobierno actual por crisis económica global"
• 3/15/2012: LAPOP Associate Jose Miguel Cruz publishes in latin American Politics and Society
• 3/14/2012: LAPOP quoted in Chile - El Ciudadano
• 3/5/2012: Reference to AmericasBarometer data regarding crime in El Tiempo

February

• 2/28/2012: CSIS Study on Police Reform sites several LAPOP studies
• 2/24/2012: LAPOP's researcher, Julio Carrion, makes the news
• 2/22/2012: Insights report by Edward Telles and Liza Steel about skin color research cited in El Espectador
• 2/21/2012: Americas Quaterly picks up this week's LAPOP Insights on Color
• 2/20/2012: LAPOP data on Venezuelan crime cited in El Tiempo 
• 2/6/2012: Insights report by LAPOP's Camilo Plata about  corruption makes the news in Terra and Los Angeles Times
• 2/6/2012: LAPOP researcher, Lucio Renno, publishes a piece on trust using 2008 and 2010 AmericasBarometer data
• 2/3/2012: Brookings Institution cites LAPOP data

January

• 1/13/2012: Conference on AmericasBarometer - Colombia 2011 data announced
• 1/08/2012: AmericasBarometer findings from Bolivia survey cited in La Razon: "Ser o no ser mestizo, un debate de nunca acabar"