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
Argentina’s Lessons for Greece
Wall Street Journal
As Central Banks Taper, Investors Should Take Cover, Oct 7, 2021
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
The United States Got the Pandemic Economic Response Right
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
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
A Warrant From Beyond the Grave
Nicolás Maduro’s Excellent Adventure
In Caracas, Death Doesn’t Discriminate According to Politics
Government-Sponsored Anti-Semitism
Sharing the Pain: A Cuban and a Venezuelan Compare Notes
Venezuela’s Protesters Are Learning to Live With Tear Gas
Can Venezuela’s Opposition Find Salvation in the Supernatural?
Nice Try, Venezuela, But Your Censorship Backfired
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
A tomb for the Pharaoh of Barinas
Can Santeria cure Hugo Chávez?
The Political Afterlife of Hugo Chavez
Five Voting Systems Even Worse than the Electoral College
Venezuela’s Magical Realist Voters
Forbes
How Brazil Wasted Its Olympic Moment
The National Interest
How Oil Killed Venezuela’s ‘Chavismo’
The New Republic
The New Yorker
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
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