Spring 2007

GOV 390L • Analytical Issues in Latin American Politics

Course Description

This course is a graduate-level introduction to Latin American politics. It is designed to provide students with the basic theoretical and analytical tools to engage in cross-national study and research of political processes in Latin America. It explores alternative theoretical approaches as well as substantive topics of major importance studied by scholars in the field. Priority will be placed on critically examining the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches to understanding political and economic change in the region. The debates and theoretical currents that we will examine have been central not only in the study of Latin American politics but also in the development of the sub-discipline of comparative politics over the last thirty years.

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