Thought Leadership

Discover our team's thought leadership in action through various media appearances, interviews, and articles from major publications.

New York Times

Exit the Dragon: Why China Should Stop Supporting Venezuela

Stealth Censorship in Venezuela

We Had Our Tamarrod, and Failed

Victims, Victims Everywhere

Argentina’s Lessons for Greece 

Wall Street Journal

As Central Banks Taper, Investors Should Take Cover, Oct 7, 2021

For Party and Power

Washington Post

Why one man's bizarre attack on the government is reverberating

Trump has sanctioned Venezuela's president. Let's hope he leaves the people alone

Preventing a presidential tragedy

South China Morning Post

Coronavirus recovery: why non-US central banks must protect countries from rates cycle

Foreign Policy

COVID-19’s Baby Bust

The United States Got the Pandemic Economic Response Right

Green Deal, Greener World

What’s Good for Maduro Is Bad for Chavismo

How a Nicaraguan Priest Made a Deal With the Devil

Mexico’s New Boss Looks the Same as Its Old Bosses

Venezuela’s Long-suffering Opposition Finally Gets a Win

A Democracy Lab Contributor Is Venezuela’s Latest Political Prisoner

Facing Headwinds, Referendum to Recall Venezuela’s President Moves Forward

Getting Sick in Venezuela Has Become a Death Sentence

Why Venezuela Needs an Exorcism

Are Venezuelans at the Breaking Point?

Venezuela’s Supreme Court Suspends the Opposition-Dominated Parliament

President Maduro and His Imaginary Parliament

The Slow Death of Chavismo

Latin America’s Leftists Get a Wake-Up Call

The President’s Birther Problem

How Colombians Are Paying to Save the Venezuelan Regime

Election Monitoring With a Wink and a Nod

An Oil Strike in No Man’s Land

In Venezuela, One President Too Many

Nicolás Maduro Versus the Ex-Presidents

Coup Fatigue in Caracas

A Warrant From Beyond the Grave

Proof of Narco-State?

Nicolás Maduro’s Excellent Adventure

Cuba’s Christmas Surprise

In Caracas, Death Doesn’t Discriminate According to Politics

Government-Sponsored Anti-Semitism

Venezuela’s Latest Victory

Sharing the Pain: A Cuban and a Venezuelan Compare Notes

Thailand Needs to Talk

Venezuela’s Protesters Are Learning to Live With Tear Gas

Can Venezuela’s Opposition Find Salvation in the Supernatural?

Old Soldiers Never Die

Nice Try, Venezuela, But Your Censorship Backfired

Egypt’s Women Fight Back

Ticked Off at ‘Homeland’

Everything You Wanted to Know about Constitutions but Were Afraid to Ask

The Constitution as Graphic Novel

An Obituary for the Egyptian Constitution, Dec. 26, 2012-July 3, 2013

The Constitutional Aftereffects of Egypt’s Great Escape

Four Arab Democrats and a Constitutional Scholar Walk Into a Bar

Game of Thrones, Caracas edition

The showdown in Caracas

A tomb for the Pharaoh of Barinas

How Chávez changed my life

Can Santeria cure Hugo Chávez?

The Political Afterlife of Hugo Chavez

Five Voting Systems Even Worse than the Electoral College

To Leave or Not to Leave

No Exit

Venezuela’s Magical Realist Voters

Forbes

How Brazil Wasted Its Olympic Moment

 The National Interest

How Oil Killed Venezuela’s ‘Chavismo’

The New Republic

Wiki-Constitutionalism

 The New Yorker

Comedians Waiting for Cars and Coffee

Select Television and Radio: 

How Currency Becomes Worthless, April 8, 2019, All Things Considered, NPR

Running Out Of Food, Medicine And Patience, June 26, 2016, All Things Considered, NPR

A Closer Look at Venezuela, November 28, 2018, Real Vision

State of Disaster, October 31, 2018, Real Vision

A Debate on How to Resolve Venezuela’s Political & Economic Crisis, 2018, Democracy Now

Could Crisis Lead To Civil War In Venezuela?, 2017, 1A, NPR

Episode 731: How Venezuela Imploded, October 21, 2016, Planet Money, NPR

Various FRANCE 24 Interviews

Various CNN Interviews: 1   2   3

Think Tanks

The European Union Will Survive COVID-19

Academic

Life after Populism? Reforms in the Wake of the Receding Pink Tide.Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 17, no. 2 (2016): 56–65.

The Constitution of Disposability, Niall Ferguson and Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez, FPP, 2017

Doctrines of Convenience: Judicial Review following Periods of Extra-Legality, 6 Indian J. Const. L. 13 (2013)

"When to Overthrow your Government: The Right to Resist in the World's Constitutions," Tom Ginsburg, Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez & Mila Versteeg, 60 UCLA Law Review 1184 (2013)

Select Interviews and Quotations:

El Libero, Chile’s Constitutional Reform

April 11, 2022

Bloomberg

Bloomberg

NYT Interviews

Institutional Investor

Forbes

Valor Interviews

WSJ Interviews