Studies of how previous political experience affects a candidate’s electoral success have overlooked the experience that candidates get from running campaigns even if they lose. This article argues that experience running for office, whether successfully or unsuccessfully, could give candidates several benefits, such as expertise in running strong campaigns, a network of connections, and visibility among the electorate. As a result, candidate experience, not just office-holding experience, should be positively correlated with electoral success. The article tests this expectation in Brazil using a database of candidates for seven types of elected offices between 1998 and 2018. It finds that candidates who ran for, but lost, elected offices are more likely to win when they run in future elections for the same and lower-ranked offices, compared to candidates with no experience running for office. Thus, candidate experience, not just office-holding experience, is important for explaining electoral success in politics.

Are women disproportionately more likely than men to have family ties in politics? We study this question in Latin America, where legacies have been historically common, and we focus specifically on legislatures, where women's representation has increased dramatically in many countries. We hypothesize that, counter to conventional wisdom, women should be no more likely than men to have ties to political families. However, this may vary across legislatures with and without gender quotas. Our empirical analysis uses data from the Parliamentary Elites of Latin America survey. We find more gender similarities than differences in legislators’ patterns of family ties both today and over the past 20 years. We also find that women are more likely to have family ties than men in legislatures without gender quotas, whereas this difference disappears in legislatures with quotas.

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Interrogarse acerca de las experiencias cinematográficas emergentes dentro del régimen de lo sensible de Córdoba durante el periodo 2010-2015 fue una tarea desafiante dado que durante los últimos años se desplegó un movimiento centrífugo que transformó el territorio audiovisual local. La explosión cuanti-cualitativa de filmografía que apostó al largometraje como un modo de expresar sus historias puede concebirse como un momento particular en la historia cinematográfica cordobesa que implicó el despliegue de procesos técnicos y narrativos de mayor envergadura a lo generado hasta entonces. Llevar adelante este tipo de ejercicio investigativo requería no sólo la exploración, recogida y construcción de datos, sino que para que fuera posible llevarlo a cabo era indispensable construir un entramado conceptualmente amplio y flexible acerca de los casos que podían ser incluidos en la lista. Un catálogo fílmico amplio en su número, lo cual pone en evidencia el volumen de la producción, como en la pluralidad estilística que se exhibió en diversas pantallas. Es por ello, parafraseando a Eco (2009), que se optó por organizar la información reconociendo su carácter abierto, lo cual implica que siempre puede enriquecerse con un nuevo elemento.

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