The DSNG section had a successful LASA 2012 in San Francisco, having sponsored two panels and organized a third. At the business meeting, the section elected Laura Flamand as the new section chair. Laura will be assisted by Lorena Moscovich and outgoing officers Julian Durazo Herrmann and Tyler Dickovick.
Also at the meeting, it was announced that Imke Harbers had earned the section's best paper award for the previous LASA conference, for her paper entitled "Public Funding and the Dynamics of Electoral Competition in Mexican States".
Our current section membership is at just over 50 members, which means the section is entitled to a single panel at LASA 2013. Several current members, including those listed above, will be working to encourage new and former members to register. A total of more than 75 members results in a section having two sponsored panels at the (now annual) LASA conference.
Members can reach the section by contacting Laura directly (see webpage at left) or by writing to lasa.dsng@gmail.com. Many thanks for your continued interest and participation.
