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| Latin America has experienced dramatic political and economic changes over the past 50 years. Politically, it has witnessed swings between democratic and military rule. Economically, it has moved from state-led to market-driven development policies. Socially, it has evolved from a society with strong and powerful labor unions and even revolutionary movements, to one in which traditional social movements have lost much of their momentum but ethnic movements have become increasingly consequential. This course will analyze and explain these political, economic, and social developments by focusing on two themes – democracy and development. We will evaluate competing theoretical approaches to the region by analyzing these theories in light of the political trajectories of six Latin American cases: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, and Peru. | |
| WWS 561/POL 523: Comparative Political Economy of Development |
This is a graduate-level course on the comparative political economy of development. The class is organized around three main questions: Part I: Concepts: What is Development?
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WWS 527d/POL 524: Ethnic Politics and Citizenship |
Ethnicity and citizenship are commonly discussed as both sources of pride and of conflict. This course explores the intersection of ethnic politics and citizenship. It analyzes the different ways in which states have granted citizenship, catalogued membership, and structured social relations along ethno-national lines. Moreover, it compares state efforts to prevent or accommodate ethnic conflict through various institutional and policy reforms – including federalism, affirmative action, and autonomy arrangements. |
| The twentieth century witnessed dramatic swings in regime change: including the collapse of European democracies in the interwar period; the turn to military rule in Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s; and the subsequent wave of democratization in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s in many parts of the world, with the striking exception of the Middle East. This course analyzes competing theoretical approaches to regime politics. Structural, agency, and cultural theories will be evaluated against processes of regime change in Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Africa. The course ends with a discussion of the new democracies and the challenges that they face (i.e., economic reform, institutional design, transitional justice, and multiethnic populations) |