This course is designed to provide students with the major theories, analytical approaches, and case studies of the evolution and development of Latin American politics. Analytical written assignments required.
I. Introduction II. Theories of Latin American Development and Democracy III. The Social Question: Legacies of Populism and Corporatism IV. The Revolutionary Alternative V. Democratic Breakdown in the 1950s and 1960s VI. Military Rule and its Legacies VII. Transitions from Authoritarian Rule VIII. Issues of Democratic Consolidation IX. Economic Liberalization and Socio-Economic Crisis X. Parties and Party Systems: Crises of Representation