Selected Topics in the Political Economy of Latin America
Professor Philip Oxhorn
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Winter 2014
Peterson Hall, 3460 McTavish St. Rm 242
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Office Hours: Monday, 2:30-4:30; Wed., 2:00 -3:00 or by appointment.
The course explores changing patterns of social, economic and political relations in Latin
America. It will examine such topics as state formation and the development of political
institutions, the insertion of Latin American countries in the international capitalist economy, and
the nature of different political regimes and processes of regime transformation in order to better
understand the relationship between economic and political change. The course will pay
particular attention to the distinctive nature of processes of change which take place at the level
of civil society, such as the changing role of the Catholic Church, and their effect on processes of
regime change.
Course Requirements
Two critical review essays (3-5 pages, double-spaced) assessing the material assigned for a given
week. Each essay is worth 15 percent of the final grade and should be handed in on the day the
material is to be discussed in class. Each student is responsible for handing in at least one essay
by February 4. The second essay must be handed in no later than December 6. Late essays will
be marked down five points.
One 25 to 30 page research paper. Paper topics may include any issue relevant to Latin American
politics, but students are urged to discuss the selection of their topics with the instructor. Papers
must be handed in no later than April 8. Papers handed in after that date will be penalized. The
research paper is worth 40 percent of the final grade.
Participation in class discussions is required and students are expected to keep up with the
reading. Each student will be responsible for one seminar session and for preparing a
presentation dealing with the topic of his/her research paper. Class participation and the
presentation together are worth 30 percent of the final grade.
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In the event of extraordinary circumstances beyond the University’s control, the content
and/or evaluation scheme in this course is subject to change.
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“McGill University values academic integrity. Therefore, all students must understand
the meaning and consequences of cheating, plagiarism and other academic offences under
the Code of Student Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures (see www.mcgill.ca/integrity
for more information).”
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“In accord with McGill University’s Charter of Students’ Rights, students in this course
have the right to submit in English or in French any written work that is to be graded.”
Schedule and Reading Assignments
Books marked with an * are also available in the campus bookstore. A course pack containing all
other required readings that are not available online is available for purchase at the McGill
bookstore. To access readings available online, you must use either a McGill computer or VPN
connection to the McGill server. For instructions on how to setup a VPN connection, see
http://www.mcgill.ca/ics/tools/vpn/. All assigned readings are also available through Redpath
Reserves.
Week I (Jan. 6): Introduction
Oxhorn, Philip, 2011. Sustaining Civil Society: Economic Change, Democracy and the
Social Construction of Citizenship in Latin America (University Park: The Pennsylvania
State University Press): Chapter 1 (myCourses).
Week II (Jan. 14): The State and Bureaucratic Authoritarian Regimes
Required Readings:
Collier, D., ed., 1979. The New Authoritarianism in Latin America (Princeton: Princeton
University Press), pp. 61-98; 285-318 (course pack).
Cardoso, Fernando, Henrique, 1973. “Associated Dependent Development: Theoretical and
Practical Implications,” in A. Stepan, ed., Authoritarian Brazil (New Haven: Yale
University Press), pp. 142-176 (course pack).
Cardoso, Fernando, Henrique, 2009. “New Paths: Globalization in Historical Perspective,”
Studies in Comparative International Development, 44, pp. 296-317.
Garretón, M.A., 1989. The Chilean Political Process (Boston: Unwin Hyman), 45-114
(course pack).
Oszlak, O., 1981. "The Historical Formation of the State in Latin America: Some
Theoretical and Methodological Guidelines for Its Study," Latin American Research
Review, 16:2, pp. 3-32.
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Helmke, Gretchen, and Steven Levitsky, eds., 2006. “Introduction” and “Conclusions,” in
Gretchen Helmke and Steven Levitsky, eds., Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons
from Latin America (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press): 1-28; 274-284
(course pack).
Recommended Readings:
Cardoso, Fernando Enrique, and Enzo Faletto. 1970. Dependency and Development in Latin
America (Berkeley: University of California Press).
Evans, Peter B. 1979. Dependent Development: The Alliance of Multinational, State, and
Local Capital in Brazil (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press).
Wiarda, Howard, 1999. “Toward Consensus in Interpreting Latin American Politics:
Developmentalism, Dependency, and ‘The Latin American Tradition,’” Studies in
Comparative International Development, 34(Summer): 50-69.
O'Donnell, Guillermo, 1993. “On the State, Democratization and Some Conceptual
Problems: A Latin American View with Glances at Some Postcommunist Countries.” World
Development, 21 (8): 1355-69.
Weyland, Kurt, 2002. “Limitations of Rational-Choice Institutionalism for the Study of
Latin American Politics,” Studies in Comparative International Development, 37:1 (Spring):
57-85.
Week III (Jan. 21): Economics and Democracy in Latin America
Required Readings:
Oxhorn, Philip, 2011. Sustaining Civil Society: Economic Change, Democracy and the
Social Construction of Citizenship in Latin America (University Park: The Pennsylvania
State University Press): Chapter 2 (myCourses).
Karl, Terry Lynn, 2003. “The Vicious Cycle of Inequality in Latin America,” in Susan
Eckstein and Timothy Wickham-Crawley, eds., What Justice? Whose Justice? Fighting for
Fairness in Latin America, (Berkeley: University of California): 133-157 (course pack).
Mainwaring, Scott, and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, 2003. “Level of Development and Democracy:
Latin American Exceptionalism, 1945-1996,” Comparative Political Studies, 36:9
(November): 1031-1067.
Kohli, Atul, 2009. “Nationalist Versus Dependent Capitalist Development: Alternate
Pathways of Asia and Latin America,” in Studies in Comparative International
Development, 44, pp. 386-410.
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Williamson, John, 2003. “Overview: Agenda for Restarting Growth and Reform,” in PedroPablo Kuczynski and John Williamson, 2003. After the Washington Consensus: Restarting
Growth and Reform in Latin America (Washington, DC: Institute for Interntional
Economics): 1-19 (course pack).
Schneider, Ben Ross, 2004. Business Politics and the State in Twentieth-Century Latin
America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press): 241-261 (course pack).
Kurtz, Marcus, 2004. “The Dilemmas of Democracy in the Open Economy: Lessons from
Latin America,” World Politics, 56(January): 262-302.
Gallagher, Kevin, and Roberto Porzecanski, 2008. “China Matters: China’s Economic
Impact in Latin America,” Latin American Research Review, 43:2, pp. 179-194.
Recommended Readings:
Oxhorn, P. and P. Starr, eds.,1998. Democracy or the Market? Economic Change and
Democratic Consolidation in Latin America (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers): 13-59.
Various, 2004. “From the Marginality of the 1960s to the “New Poverty” of Today: A
LARR Research Forum,” Latin American Research Review, 39:1 (February): 183-204.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/latin_american_research_review/v039/39.1ward.pdf,
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/latin_american_research_review/v039/39.1safa.pdf,
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/latin_american_research_review/v039/39.1perlman.pdf,
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/latin_american_research_review/v039/39.1roberts.pdf
Various, 2004. “Research Reports and Notes: Assessing Latin American Neoliberalism,”
Latin American Research Review, 39:3 (October): 143-183.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/latin_american_research_review/v039/39.3weyland.pdf,
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/latin_american_research_review/v039/39.3huber.pdf,
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/latin_american_research_review/v039/39.3walton.pdf
Koreniewicz, R., and W. Smith, 2000. “Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Latin America:
Searching for the High Road to Globalization,” Latin American Research Review, 35:3, pp.
7-54.
Philippe C. Schmitter and Terry Lynn Karl, 1991. “What Democracy Is . . . and Is Not,”
Journal of Democracy, 2 (Summer): 75–88.
Karl, T., 1990. "Dilemmas of Democratization in Latin America," Comparative Politics,
23(Oct.), 1-21.
ECLAC, 2000. Equity, Development and Citizenship: Highlights. Santiago: United Nations.
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Rueschemeyer, D., E. Stephens and J. Stephens, Capitalist Development and Democracy
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).
Weyland, Kurt, 2004. “Threats to Latin America’s Market Model?” Political Science
Quarterly, 119:2(Summer): 291-313.
Week IV (Jan. 28): Transitions to Democracy
Required Readings:
Schmitter, P. and T. Karl, 1991. "What Democracy Is...And What It Is Not," (Stanford
University, mimeo, Feb.), pp. 1-49 (course pack).
Karl, T., 1990. "Dilemmas of Democratization in Latin America," Comparative Politics,
23(Oct.), 1-21.
Przeworski, Adam, 1986. “Some Problems in the Study of the Transition to Democracy,” in
G. O'Donnell, P.C. Schmitter and L. Whitehead, eds., Transitions from Authoritarian Rule:
Comparative Perspectives (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press,), 47-63 (course
pack).
*O'Donnell, G. and P. Schmitter, 1986. Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative
Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University
Press): 3-72.
Levine, D., 1988. “Paradigm Lost: Dependence To Democracy,” World Politics, XL(April),
377-394.
MacEwan, A., 1988. “Transitions from Authoritarian Rule,” Latin American Perspectives,
15(Summer): 115-130.
Petras, J. and S. Vieux, 1994. “The Transition to Authoritarian Electoral Rule,” Latin
American Perspectives, 21(Fall): 5-20.
Recommended Readings:
Linz, Juan J., and Alfred Stepan. 1996. Problems of Democratic Transition and
Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe (Baltimore:
The John Hopkins University Press).
Brachet-Marquez, V., 1997. “Democratic Transition and Consolidation in Latin America:
Steps Toward a New Theory of Democratization,” Current Sociology, 45(January): 15-53.
Carothers, Thomas, 2004. Critical Mission: Essays on Democracy Promotion (Washington,
DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace): 167-217.
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Week V (Feb. 4): The Challenges of Consolidating of New Democracies
Required Readings:
Oxhorn, Philip, 2011. Sustaining Civil Society: Economic Change, Democracy and the
Social Construction of Citizenship in Latin America (University Park: The Pennsylvania
State University Press): Chapter 3 (myCourses).
Oxhorn, P., and G. Ducatenzeiler, eds., 1998. What Kind of Democracy? What Kind of
Market? Latin America in the Age of Neoliberalism (University Park: The Pennsylvania
State University Press): 21-41 (course pack).
O’Donnell, G., 1996. “Illusions About Consolidation,” Journal of Democracy, 7(April):3451.
O’Donnell, G., 1994. “Delegative Democracy,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 5, No. 1,
January, pp. 56-69 (course pack).
Roberts, M. Kenneth, 2013. “Market Reform, Programmatic (De) alignment, and Party
System Stability in Latin America, Comparative Political Studies, 46:11 (Nov.): 1422-1452
Pion-Berlin, David, and Harold Trinkunas, 2010. “Civilian Praetorianism and Military
Shirking During Constitutional Crises in Latin America,” Comparative Politics, 42: 4 (July):
396-411.
Brinks, Daniel M., 2012. “‘A Tales of Two Cities’: The Judiciary and Rule of Law in Latin
America, in Peter Kingstone and Deborah J. Yashar, eds., Routledge Handbook of Latin
American Politics (New York: Routledge): 61-75 (course pack).
Arnson, Cynthia J,. and Carlos De La Torre, eds., 2013.” Conclusion: The Meaning and
Future of Latin American Populism,” Latin American Populism in the Twenty-First
Century (Washington DC: The Woodrow Wilson Center Press) (myCourses).
Levitsky, Steven, and Kennth M. Roberts, eds., 2011. The Resurgence of the Latin American
Left (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press): 71-92; 184-210; 399-427 (course
pack).
Arditi, Benjamin, 2008. “Arguments about the Left Turns in Latin America: A Post-Liberal
Politics?” Latin American Research Review, 43:3, pp. 59-81.
Recommended Readings:
Weyland, Kurt, Raúl L. Madrid, and Wendy Hunter, eds., 2010. Leftist Governments in
Latin America: Successes and Shortcomings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
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Davis, Diane E., 2010. “The Political and Economic Origins of Violence and Insecurity in
Latin America,” in Enrique Desmond Arias and Daniel M. Goldstein, eds., Violent
Democracies in Latin America (Durham: Duke University Press): 35-62.
Garretón, Manuel Antonio, 2003. Incomplete Democracy: Political Democratization in
Chile (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press).
Hagopian, Frances, and Scott P. Mainwaring, eds., 2005. The Third Wave of
Democratization in Latin America: Advances and Setbacks (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press).
Cleary, Matthew R,, 2006. “A Left Turn in Latin America? Explaining The Left's
Resurgence,” Journal of Democracy, 17:4 (October): 35-49.
Hershberg, Eric, and Fred Rosen, eds., 2006. Latin America After Neoliberalism: Turning
the Tide in the 21st Century? (New York: The New Press).
Agüero, F., and F. Stark, 1998. Fault Lines of Democracy in Post-Transition Latin America
(Miami: North-South Center Press, University of Miami).
Mainwaring, Scott, and Timothy Skully, eds. 1995. Building Democratic Institutions: Party
Systems in Latin America (Stanford: Stanford University Press).
Oxhorn, Philip, 2006. “Neopluralism and the Challenges for Citizenship in Latin America,”
in Joseph S. Tulchin and Margaret Ruthenberg, eds., Citizenship in Latin America (Boulder:
Lynne Rienner Publishers): 123-147.
Oxhorn, Philip, 2001. When Democracy Isn't All That Democratic: Social Exclusion and the
Limits of the Public Sphere in Latin America. North South Agenda Paper 44. Coral Gables,
Fla.: North South Center at the University of Miami (April).
Avritzer, Leonardo. 2002. Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America (Princeton:
Princeton University Press).
Bresser Pereira, L.C., J.M. Maravall and A. Przeworski, , 1993. Economic Reforms in New
Democracies: A Social Democratic Approach (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Gibson, Edward L., 2005. “Boundary Control: Subnational Authoritarianism in Democratic
Countries,” World Politics, 58(October): 101-32.
Week VI (Feb. 11): Brazil
Required Readings:
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*Hunter, Wendy, 2010. The Transformation of the Workers' Party in Brazil, 1989-2009
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Hagopian, F., 1990. “Democracy by Undemocratic Means: Elites, Political Pacts, and
Regime Transition in Brazil,” Comparative Political Studies, 23(July), 147-170.
Skidmore, Thomas E., 1989. “Brazil’s Slow Road to Democratization: 1974-1985,” in
Alfred Stepan, ed., Democratizing Brazil (New York: Oxford University Press): 5-42
(course pack).
Power, Timothy J., 2010. “Brazilian Democracy as a Late Bloomer: Reevaluating the
Regime in the Cardoso-Lula Era,” Latin American Research Review, 45: Special Issue, pp.
218-247.
Carter, Miguel, 2010. “The Landless Rural Workers Movement and Democracy in Brazil,”
Latin American Research Review, 45: Special Issue, pp. 186-217.
Tarlau, Rebecca, 2013. “Coproducing Rural Public Schools in Brazil: Contestation,
Clientelism, and the Landless Workers’ Movement,” Politics & Society, 41:3, pp. 395-424.
Montero, Alfred P., 2011.”Brazil: The Persistence of Oligarchy,” Daniel H. Levine and José
E. Molina, eds., The Quality of Democracy in Latin America (Boulder: Lynne Rienner
Publishers): 111-136 (course pack).
Borges Sugiyama, Natasha, and Wendy Hunter, 2013. “Whither Clientelism? Good
Governance and Brazil’s Bolsa Família Program,” Comparative Politics, 46: 1 (October):
43-62.
Soares, Fábio Veras, Perez Ribas and Ravael Guerreiro Osório, 2010. “Evaluating the
Impact of Brazil’s Bolsa Família: Cash Transfer Programs in Comparative Perspective,”
Latin American Research Review, 45:2, pp. 173-190.
dos Santos, Sales Augusto, 2006. “Who Is Black in Brazil? A Timely or a False Question in
Brazilian Race Relations in the Era of Affirmative Action?” Latin American Perspectives,
33:4 (July): 30-48.
Recommended Readings:
Boulding, Carew, and Brian Wampler, 2010. “Voice, Votes, and Resources: Evaluating the
Effect of Participatory Democracy on Well-being,” World Development, 38:1, pp. 125-135.
Holston, James, 2007. Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in
Brazil (Princeton: Princeton University Press).
Weyland, Kurt, 1996. Democracy Without Equity : Failures of Reform in Brazil. Pittsburgh:
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University of Pittsburgh Press.
Caldeira, Teresa. 2000. City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paulo
(Berkeley: University of California Press).
Montero, Alfred, 2006. Brazilian Politics: Reforming a Democratic State in a Changing
World (Cambridge, Polity Press).
Stepan, Alfred, ed. 1989. Democratizing Brazil (New York: Oxford University Press).
Stepan, Alfred, ed. 1973. Authoritarian Brazil (New Haven: Yale University Press).
Kingstone, Peter R. and Timothy J. Power, 2000. Democratic Brazil: Actors, Institutions,
and Processes (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press).
Weyland, Kurt, 2005. “The Growing Sustainability of Brazil’s Low-Quality Democracy,” in
Frances Hagopian and Scott P. Mainwaring, eds., The Third Wave of Democratization in
Latin America: Advances and Setbacks (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press): 90-120.
Wampler, Brian and Leonardo Avritzer, 2004. “Participatory Publics: Civil Society and
New Institutions in Democratic Brazil,” Comparative Politics, 36:3 (April): 291-312
Wolford, Wendy, 2006. “Sem Reforma Agrária, Não Ha Democracia: Deepening
Democracy and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil,” in Richard Feinberg, Carlos H.
Waisman, and Leon Zamosc,eds., Civil Society and Democracy in Latin America (New
York: Palgrave MacMillan): 139-168.
Burity, Joanildo, 2006. “Reform of the State and the New Discourse on Social Policy in
Brazil,” Latin American Perspectives, 33:3 (May): 67-88.
Kingstone, Peter R., 2003. “Privatizing Telebrás: Brazilian Political Institutions and Policy
Performance,” Comparative Politics, 36:1 (October): 21-40
Sader, Emir, 2005. “Taking Lula’s Measure,” New Left Review, 33(May June): 59-80.
Week VII (Feb. 18): Chile
Required Readings:
Oxhorn, Philip, 2011. Sustaining Civil Society: Economic Change, Democracy and the
Social Construction of Citizenship in Latin America (University Park: The Pennsylvania
State University Press): Chapter 4 (myCourses).
Navia, Patricio, 2010. “Living in Actually Existing Democracies: Democracy to the Extent
Possible in Chile,” Latin American Research Review, 45: Special Issue, pp. 298-328.
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Garretón, Manuel Antonio, 1999. “Chile 1997-1998: the revenge of incomplete
democratization,” International Affairs, 75:2, pp, 259-267.
Silva, Eduardo, 1996. “From Dictatorship to Democracy: The Business-State Nexus in
Chile's Economic Transformation 1975-1994,” Comparative Politics, 28 (April): 299-320.
Walsh, Denise M., 2012. “Does Quality Matter? Just Debate and Democratic Transition in
Chile and South Africa,” Comparative Political Studies, XX(X): 1-28. Available Online
Dammert, Lucía, and Mary Fran T. Malone. 2003. "Fear of Crime or Fear of Life? Public
Insecurities in Chile." Bulletin of Latin American Research, 22 (1): 79-101.
Kubal, Mary Rose. 2006. "Contradictions and Constraints in Chile’s Health Care and
Education Decentralization." Latin American Politics and Society, 48 (4): 105-35.
Recommended Readings:
Agüero, Felipe, 2003. “Chile: Unfinished Transition and Increased Political Competition,”
in Jorge I. Domínguez and Michael Shifter, eds., Constructing Democratic Governance in
Latin America, 2nd ed. (Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press): 292-320.
Garretón, Manuel Antonio, 2003. Incomplete Democracy: Political Democratization in
Chile (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press).
Roberts, K., 1998. Deepening Democracy? The Modern Left and Social Movements in Chile
and Peru. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Oxhorn, P., 1995. Organizing Civil Society: The Popular Sectors and the Struggle for
Democracy in Chile (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press).
Garretón, Manuel Antonio. 1989. The Chilean Political Process (Boston: Unwin Hyman).
Fleet, Michael, 1985. The Rise and Fall of Chilean Christian Democracy (Princeton:
Princeton University Press).
Scully, Timothy, 1992. Rethinking the Center: Party Politics in Nineteenth & Twentieth
Century Chile (Stanford: Stanford University Press).
Valenzuela, Arturo, 1978. The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Chile. Baltimore (The
Johns Hopkins University Press).
Navia, Patricio, 2009. “The Chilean Left: Socialist and Neo-Liberal,” in Kenneth Roberts,
Philip Oxhorn and John Burdick, eds., Beyond Neoliberalism? Patterns, Responses, and
New Directions in Latin America and the Caribbean (New York: Palgrave Macmillan): 1710
41.
Siavelis, Peter M., 2007. “How New Is Bachelet’s Chile?” Current History (February): 7076.
Various authors, 2000. Journal of Democracy, 11(April): 70-84.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/v011/11.2fontaine_talavera.pdf
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/v011/11.2garreton.pdf
Franceschet, Susan, 2004. “Explaining Social Movement Outcomes: Collective Action
Frames and Strategic Choices in First- and Second-Wave Feminism in Chile,” Comparative
Political Studies, 37:5 (June): 499-530.
W. Smith et al, eds., 1994. Democracy, Markets, and Structural Reform in Latin America:
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico, (Miami: University of Miami North-South
Center), 237-261.
Week VIII (Feb.25) Argentina
Required Readings:
*Levitsky, Steven and Maria Victoria Murillo, 2006. The Politics of Institutional
Weakening: Argentine Democracy (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University
Press): introduction, chapters 1, 2, 3, 7-11, conclusions.
O'Donnell, G., 1988. “State and Alliances in Argentina, 1956-1976,” in R. Bates, ed.,
Toward a Political Economy of Development (Berkeley: University of California Press),
176-205.
Waisman, C., 1999. “Argentina: Capitalism and Democracy,” in L. Diamond, J. Hartlyn, J.
Linz and S.M. Lipset, eds., Democracy in Developing Countries: Latin America, 2nd
edition. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, pp. 71-129 (course pack).
Oxhorn and G. Ducatenzeiler, eds., What Kind of Democracy? What Kind of Market? Latin
America in the Age of Neoliberalism (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University
Press): 61-88 (course pack).
Richardson, Neal P., 2009. “Export-Oriented Populism: Commodities and Coalitions in
Argentina,” Studies in Comparative International Development, 44, pp. 228-255.
Auyero, Javier, 2011. “Patients of the State: An Ethnographic Account of Poor People’s
Waiting,” Latin American Research Review, 46:1, pp. 5-29. Available Online
Hirtz, Natalia Vanesa, 2013. “The Recovered Companies Workers’ Struggle in Argentina:
Between Autonomy and New Forms of Control, Latin American Perspectives, 40:4 (July):
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88-100. Available Online
*Eckstein, S., ed., 2001. Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements, 2nd
ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press):241-258 (course pack).
Recommended Readings:
Abal Medina, Paula, 2011.. “Thoughts on the Visual Aspect of the Neoliberal Order and the
Piquetero Movement in Argentina,” Latin American Perspectives, 176: 1 (January): 88-101.
McGuire, James, 1999. Peronism Without Peron : Unions, Parties and Democracy in
Argentina (Stanford: Stanford University Press).
Levitsky, Steven, 2003. Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press).
Munck, Geraldo, 1998. Authoritarianism and Democratization: Soldiers and Workers in
Argentina, 1976-1983 (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press).
Gibson, E., Class & Conservative Parties: Argentina in Comparative Perspective
(Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).
Friedman, Elisabeth J., and Kathryn Hochstetler, 2002. “Assessing the Third Transition in
Latin America: Representational Regimes and Civil Society in Argentina and Brazil,”
Comparative Politics, 35(October): 21-41.
Epstein, Edward, 2006. “The Piquetero Movement in Greater Buenos Aires: Political
Protests by the Unemployed Poor During the Crisis,” in Edward Epstein and David PionBerlin,eds., Broken Promises? The Argentine Crisis and Argentine Democracy (Oxford:
Lexington Books): 95-115.
Oxhorn, Philip, 2002. “History Catching Up with the Present? State-Society elations and the
Argentine Crisis,” Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 15:3, pp. 499-514.
Levitsky, Steven, 2000. “The ‘Normalization’ of Argentine Politics,” Journal of
Democracy, 11(April): 56-69.
Cheresky, Isidoro, 2006. “Citizenship and Civil Society in Renascent Argentina” in Richard
Feinberg, Carlos H. Waisman, and Leon Zamosc,eds., Civil Society and Democracy in Latin
America (New York: Palgrave MacMillan): 87-120.
Gerchunoff and J.C. Torres, 1998. “Argentina: The Politics of Economic Liberalization,” in
M. Vellinga, ed., The Changing Role of the State in Latin America (Boulder: Westview):
115-48.
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Mora y Araujo, Manuel, 2006. “Argentina after the Nineties: Changes in Social
Structure and Political Behavior,” in Richard Feinberg, Carlos H. Waisman, and Leon
Zamosc,eds., Civil Society and Democracy in Latin America (New York: Palgrave
MacMillan): 121-38.
Reading Week (Mar. 4)
Week IX (Mar. 11): Peru
Required Readings:
*Carrión, Julio F., 2006. The Fujimori Legacy: The Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism in
Peru ((University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press): 1-60; 81-177; 242-267:
294-318.
Levitsky, S., 1999. “Fujimori and Post-Party Politics in Peru,” Journal of Democracy,
10(July): 78-92.
Stokes, S., 1991. “Hegemony, Consciousness, and Political Change in Peru,” Politics and
Society, 19(September): 265-290.
Roberts, K., 1995. “Neoliberalism and the Transformation of Populism in Latin America:
The Peruvian Case,” World Politics, 48(October): 82-116.
Panfichi, A., 1997. “The Authoritarian Alternative: ‘Anti-Politics’ in the Popular Sectors of
Lima,” in D. Chalmers, C. Vilas, K. Hite, S. Martin, K. Piester and M. Segarra, eds., The
New Politics of Inequality in Latin America: Rethinking Participation and Representation.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 217-236 (course pack).
Arnson, Cynthia J,. and Carlos De La Torre, eds., 2013. Latin American Populism in the
Twenty-First Century (Washington DC: The Woodrow Wilson Center Press).
Arce, Moisé, 2008. “The Politicization of Collective Action After Neoliberalism in Peru,”
Latin American Politics and Society, 50:3 (Fall): 37-62.
Degregori, Carlos Iván, 1998. “Ethnicity and Democratic Governability in Latin America:
Reflections from Two Central Andean Countries,” in Felipe Aügero and Jeffrey Stark, Fault
lines of Democracy in Post-Transition Latin America, (Miami: North-South Center Press,
University of Miami): 203-234: (course pack).
*Eckstein, S., ed., 2001. Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements, 2nd
ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press): 61-101.
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Recommended Readings:
Dosh, Paul, 2007. “Incremental Gains: Lima's Tenacious Squatters' Movement,” NACLA
Report on the Americas (July/August): 30-33.
Roberts, K., 1998. Deepening Democracy? The Modern Left and Social Movements in Chile
and Peru. Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 201-281.
Cameron, M., and P. Mauceri, eds., 1997. The Peruvian Labyrinth (University Park: The
Pennsylvania State University Press).
Conaghan, Catherine, 2005. Fujimori's Peru : Deception in the Public Sphere (Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press).
Kenny, Charles D., 2003. “The Death and Rebirth of a Party System, Peru 1978-2001,”
Comparative Political Studies, 36:10(December): 1210-1239.
Degregori, Carlos Iván, 2003. “Peru: The Vanishing of a Regime and the Challenge of
Demoratic Rebuilding,” in in Jorge I. Domínguez and Michael Shifter, eds., Constructing
Democratic Governance in Latin America, 2nd ed. (Baltimore: The John Hopkins
University Press): 220-243.
Week X (Mar. 18): Mexico
Required Readings:
Oxhorn, Philip, 2011. Sustaining Civil Society: Economic Change, Democracy and the
Social Construction of Citizenship in Latin America (University Park: The Pennsylvania
State University Press): Chapter 6 (myCourses).
Di´Az-Cayeros, Alberto, Beatriz Magaloni, and Alexander Ruiz-Euler, 2014. “Traditional
Governance, Citizen Engagement, and Local Public Goods: Evidence from Mexico.” World
Development, 53 (January): 80-93.
Olvera, Alberto J., 2010. “The Elusive Democracy: Political Parties, Democratic Institutions
and Civil Society in Mexico,” Latin American Research Review, 45: Special Issue, pp. 79107.
Tulchin, Joseph, and Andrew Selee, eds., 2002. Mexico’s Politics and Society in Transition
(Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press): 109-126; 143-175 (course pack).
Montambeault, Françoise, 2011. “Overcoming Clientelism Through Local Participatory
Institutions in Mexico: What Type of Participation?” Latin American Politics and Society,
53:1 (Spring): 91-124.
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Various authors, 2000. Journal of Democracy, 11(Oct.): 5-36.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/v011/11.4schedler.pdf
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/v011/11.4pastor.pdf
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/v011/11.4shirk.pdf
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/v011/11.4aguayo.pdf
Oxhorn, P., and G. Ducatenzeiler, eds., 1998. What Kind of Democracy? What Kind of
Market? Latin America in the Age of Neoliberalism (University Park: The Pennsylvania
State University Press): 151-168 (course pack).
Benessaieh, Afef, 2011. “Global Civil Society: Speaking in Northern Tongues?” Latin
American Perspectives, 38:6 (November): 69-90. Available Online
Stavenhagen, Rodolfo, 2010. “Struggle and Resistance: The Nation’s Indians in Transition,”
in Andrew Selee and Jacqueline Peschard, eds., Mexico’s Democratic Challenges: Politics,
Government, and Society (Stanford and Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
and Stanford University): 251-267 (course pack).
Recommended Readings:
Moreno-Jaimes, Carlos, 2007. “Do Competitive Elections Produce Better-Quality
Governments?” Latin America Research Review, 42:2(June): 137-153.
Stolle-McAllister, John, 2005. “What Does Democracy Look Like? Local Movements
Challenge the Mexican Transition,” Latin American Perspectives, 32:4 (July): 15-35.
Burgess, Katrina, 2004. Parties and Unions in the New Global Economy (Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburg Press).
Bruhn, K., 1997. Taking on Goliath : the Emergence of a New Left Party and the Struggle
for Democracy in Mexico (University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press).
Middlebrook, Kevin, 1995. The Paradox of Revolution: Labor, the State, and
Authoritarianism in Mexico (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press).
Hamilton, Nora, 1985. The Limits of State Autonomy: Post Revolutionary Mexico
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985).
Levy, Daniel C., Kathleen Bruhn, Emilio Zebadua and Lorenzo Meyer, 2001. Mexico: The
Struggle for Democratic Development (Berkeley: University of California).
Levi, Jerome, 2002. “A New Dawn or a Cycle Restored? Regional Dynamics and Cultural
Politics in Indigenous Mexico, 1978-2001” in David Maybury-Lewis, ed., The Politics of
Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples in Latin American States (Cambridge: David Rockefeller
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Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University): 3-49.
Gilbreth, Chris, and Gerado Otero, 2001. “Democratization in Mexico: The Zapatista
Uprising and Civil Society,” Latin American Perspectives, 28(July): 7-29.
Zugman, Kara Ann, 2005. “Zapatismo and Urban Political Practice,” Latin American
Perspectives, 32:4 (July): 133-47.
Week XI (Mar. 25): Social Movements and Popular Protest
Required Readings:
Castells, M., 1983. The City and the Grassroots (Berkeley: University of California), 173212.
Oxhorn, Philip, 2011. Sustaining Civil Society: Economic Change, Democracy and the
Social Construction of Citizenship in Latin America (University Park: The Pennsylvania
State University Press): Chapter 7 (myCourses).
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Hochstetler, Kathryn, and Elisabeth Friedmen, 2008. “Can Civil Society Organizations
Solve the Crisis of Representation in Latin America?” Latin American Politics and Society,
50:2 (Summer): 1-32.
*Eckstein, S., ed., 2001. Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements, 2nd
ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press): 1-60, 203-240; 351-406.
Chinchilla, Norma, and Liesl Haas, 2006. “De Protesta a Propuesta: The Contributions and
Challenges of Latin American Feminism,” in Eric Hershberg and Fred Rosen, eds., Latin
America After Neoliberalism: Turning the Tide in the 21st Century? (New York: The New
Press): 252-275.
Escobar, A. and S. Alvarez, eds., 1992. The Making of Social Movements in Latin America:
Identity, Strategy and Democracy (Boulder: Westview): 52-61; 171-184.
Hellman, J.A., 1997. “Social Movements: Revolution, Reform and Reaction,” NACLA
Report on the Americas, XXX(May/June): 13-18.
Martí i Puig, Salvador, 2010. “The Emergence of Indigenous Movements in Latin America
and Their Impact on the Latin American Political Scene Interpretive Tools at the Local and
Global Levels,” Latin American Perspectives, 175:6 (November): 74-92.
Zamosc, Leon, 2007. “The Indian Movement and Political Democracy in Ecuador,” Latin
American Politics and Society, 49:3 (Fall): 1-34.
Yashar, D., 1998. “Contesting Citizenship: Indigenous Movements and Democracy in Latin
America,” Comparative Politics 31(October): 23-42.
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Pallister, Kevin, 2013. “Why No Mayan Party? Indigenous
Movements and National Politics in Guatemala,” Latin American
Politics and Society, 55:3 (Fall): 117-38.
Recommended Readings:
Carey, David, Jr., 2004. “Maya Perspectives on the 1999 Referendum in Guatemala: Ethnic
Equality Rejected?” Latin American Perspectives, 31:6(November): 69-95.
Chalmers, Douglas, Carlos Vilas, Katherine Hite, S. Martin, Kerianne Piester and Monique
Manue Segarra, eds., The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America: Rethinking
Participation and Representation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Jelin, Elizabeth, and Eric Hershberg, eds. 1996. Constructing Democracy: Human Rights,
Citizenship and Society in Latin America (Boulder: Westview Press).
Andersson, Krister, and Frank van Laerhoven, 2007. “From Local Strongman to Facilitator:
Institutional Incentives for Participatory Municipal Governance in Latin America,”
Comparative Political Studies, 40:9 (September): 1085-1111.
Waylen, G., 1994. “Women and Democratization: Conceptualizing Gender Relations in
Transition Politics,” World Politics, 46(April), 327-354.
Foweraker, Joe, “Social Movements and Citizenship Rights in Latin America,” in M.
Vellinga, ed., The Changing Role of the State in Latin America (Boulder: Westview): 27197.
Davis, Diane E. 1999. “The Power of Distance: Re-Theorizing Social Movements in Latin
America” Theory and Society, 28 (August): 583-638.
Foweraker, Joe, and Ann L. Craig, eds. 1990. Popular Movements and Political Change in
Mexico (Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers).
Htun, Mala, and Timothy J. Power, 2006. “Gender, Parties, and Support for Equal Rights in
the Brazilian Congress,” Latin American Politics and Society, 48:4(Winter):83-104.
Nobles, Melissa, 2005. “The myth of Latin American multiracialism,” Dædalus (Winter):
82-7.
Huiskamp, G., 2000. “Identity Politics and democratic transitions in Latin America:
(Re)organizing women’s strategic interests through community activism,” Theory and
Society, 29(June): 385-424.
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Barrig, Maruja, 2001. “Latin American Feminism: Gains, Losses and Hard Times,” NACLA
Report on the Americas, XXXIV (March/April): 29-45.
Week XII (April 1): Student Presentations
Week XIII (April 8): Student Presentations
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