Professor Wendy Hunter Batts 3.138, , Office Hours: Tues 8:30 9:30, Thurs 11:00 1:00, and by appointment

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1 Analytical Issues in Latin American Politics Government 390L, Unique number LAS 384L, Unique number Tuesday, 12:30 3:30, Batts Spring 2012 Professor Wendy Hunter Batts 3.138, , Office Hours: Tues 8:30 9:30, Thurs 11:00 1:00, and by appointment Course Description This course is a graduate-level introduction to Latin American politics. It is designed to provide students with the 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. Book to Purchase Transitions from Authoritarian Rule. Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies, by Guillermo O'Donnell and Philippe C. Schmitter. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,1986. Leftist Governments in Latin America: Successes and Shortcomings, edited by Kurt Weyland, Raúl L. Madrid, and Wendy Hunter. New York: Cambridge University Press. All other readings have been posted on Blackboard. 1

2 Course Requirements 1. Seminar participation: The success of the seminar will depend first and foremost upon the active engagement of students. Barring extraordinary circumstances, students should always come prepared to discuss and debate the material. You must contact me ahead of time if you plan to miss a session. 2. Two position briefs. Twice during the semester students will write a brief (3-4 doublespaced pages in length) on the readings in response to questions that will be handed out. The same students who write for the week will lead off the class discussion. Students will sign up to select these days. 3. Two short essays. Students will be required to write two short essays (6 8 doublespaced pages) that critically analyze the readings around given questions. These essays must put forth and develop a thesis, not merely summarize/synthesize the readings. 4. Final Assignment: Students will be required to write a final integrative essay (10 12 double-spaced pages) in response to given questions OR come up with a research design for a proposed study. Instructions will follow on the latter. Doctoral students who plan on doing theses on Latin America are urged to consider the research design option. Deadlines and Grade Determination Seminar participation: 20 percent Position papers: 5 percent each (students will sign up for two specific dates) Two short essays: 20 percent each, due on February 29 and April 4 Final Essay: 30 percent, due on May 10 at 4PM You should the class your position papers by 8:00 am on the day you will present. Please submit the essays to my government department box by 4:00 of the day they are due. I will not accept papers via . Late papers will be penalized by 1/3 of a letter grade per day. Students with disabilities may request appropriate academic accommodations from the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, Services for Students with Disabilities, , A notice regarding academic dishonesty: You should all be familiar with the UT Honor Code (or statement of ethics) and an explanation or example of what constitutes plagiarism (see the University Honor Code: if you have any doubts about what constitutes cheating or plagiarism). 2

3 SCHEDULE OF TOPICS AND READINGS Week 1: 17 January INTRODUCTION No reading. Week 2: 24 January CULTURALISM Frederick Turner, Reassessing Political Culture In Peter Smith, ed. Latin America in Comparative Perspective. Carlos Alberto Montaner "Culture and the Behavior of Elites in Latin America." In Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress. Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington, eds. New York: Basic Books. Ronald Inglehart and Marita Carballo Does Latin America Exist? (And is there a Confucian Culture?): A Global Analysis of Cross-Cultural Differences. PS: Political Science and Politics (March): Mitchell A. Seligson "The Renaissance of Political Culture or the Renaissance of the Ecological Fallacy?" Comparative Politics (April): Michael Coppedge. Political Culture and Democratization. In Approaching Democracy: Theory and Methods in Comparative Politics (Cambridge University Press forthcoming). Week 3: 31 January - THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC SYSTEM Theotonio Dos Santos The Structure of Dependence. Chapter 22 in Mitchell A. Seligson and John T Passé-Smith eds Development and Underdevelopment. (second edition) Boulder: Lynne Rienner. Andre Gunder Frank The Development of Underdevelopment. Chapter 21 in Mitchell A. Seligson and John T Passé-Smith eds Development and Underdevelopment. (fourth edition) Boulder: Lynne Rienner. Fernando Henrique Cardoso New Paths: Globalization in Historical Perspective. Studies in Comparative International Development 44, 4 (December): Patrick Heller, Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Richard Snyder Dependency and Development in a Globalized World: Looking Back and Forward. 3

4 Studies in Comparative International Development 44,4 (December) Atul Kohli Nationalist Versus Dependent Capitalist Development: Alternative Pathways of Asia and Latin America in a Globalized World. Studies in Comparative International Development 44, 4, (December): Erik Wibbels "Cores, Peripheries and Contemporary Political Economy." Studies in Comparative International Development 44, 4 (December): Barbara Stallings International Influence on Economic Policy: Debt, Stabilization, and Structural Reform. In Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman, eds., The Politics of Economic Adjustment. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Wendy Hunter and David Brown World Bank Directives, Domestic Interests, and the Politics of Human Capital Investment in Latin America. Comparative Political Studies 33,1 (February): Erich Weede "Why People Stay Poor Elsewhere," in Mitchell Seligson and John T. Passé-Smith, eds., Development and Under-Development: The Political Economy of Global Inequality. Boulder: Lynne Rienner: Week 4: 7 February INTERNATIONAL DIFFUSION OF IDEAS AND POLICIES Stephen M. Walt Fads, Fevers, and Firestorms. Foreign Policy (November/December): Mitchell A. Orenstein Mapping the Diffusion of Pension Innovation, in Robert Holzmann, Mitchell Orenstein, and Michal Rutkowski, eds. Pension Reform in Europe: Process and Progress, Washington: World Bank. Kurt Weyland The Diffusion of Revolution: 1848 in Europe and Latin America. International Organization 63, 3: Beth A. Simmons and Zachary Elkins The Globalization of Liberalization: Policy Diffusion in the International Political Economy. American Political Science Review 98, 1 (February): Daniel Brinks and Michael Coppedge "Diffusion is No Illusion: Neighbor Emulation in the Third Wave of Democracy." Comparative Political Studies 39: 4 (May):

5 Week 5: 14 February - RATIONAL CHOICE Barbara Geddes Uses and Limitations of Rational Choice. In Peter Smith, ed. Latin America in Comparative Perspective. Barry Ames The Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil. Ann Arbor. The University of Michigan Press. Introduction and Chapter 1. Scott Desposato "Parties for Rent? Careerism, Ideology, and Party Switching in Brazil's Chamber of Deputies." American Journal of Political Science 50,1 (January): Kurt Weyland Limitations of Rational-Choice Institutionalism for the Study of Latin American Politics. Studies in Comparative International Development 37, 1 (January): Merilee S. Grindle Audacious Reforms. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Chapters 1 and 2. Week 6: 21 February HISTORICAL INSTITUTIONALISM Kathleen Thelen and Sven Steinmo Historical institutionalism in comparative politics. In Sven Steinmo, Kathleen Thelen, and Frank Longstreth eds. Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis. New York: Cambridge University Press. Kathleen Thelen Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics. Annual Review of Political Science 2: Ruth Berins Collier Popular Sector Incorporation and Political Supremacy: Regime Evolution in Brazil and Mexico. In Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Richard S. Weinert, eds., Brazil and Mexico: Patterns in Late Development. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues. Kenneth F. Greene How Dominant Parties Lose: Mexico s Democratization in Comparative Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press. Skim Chapter 1 and read Chapter 6 carefully. (pp.1-29; ). Wendy Hunter "The Normalization of an Anomaly: The Workers' Party in Brazil." World Politics 59 (April):

6 Week 7: 28 February PATHS TO AUTHORITARIANISM David Collier The Bureaucratic-Authoritarian Model: Synthesis and Priorities for Future Research. In David Collier, ed., The New Authoritarianism in Latin America. Princeton: Princeton University Press: Alfred Stepan The New Professionalism of Internal Warfare and Military Role Expansion. In Authoritarian Brazil: Origins, Policies and Future. Alfred Stepan, ed., New Haven: Yale University Press. Kenneth F. Greene How Dominant Parties Lose: Mexico s Democratization in Comparative Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 2. Corrales, J., and Penfold, M., Venezuela: Crowding Out the Opposition, Journal of Democracy 18:2 (April 2007): Kenneth Roberts. Forthcoming. Populism and Democracy in Venezuela under Hugo Chavez. In Populism in Europe and the Americas: Threat or Corrective for Democracy? Cas Mudde and Cristobal Kaltwasser, eds., Cambridge University Press. Week 8: 6 March DEMOCRATIZATION Guillermo O Donnell and Philippe C. Schmitter Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press (entire book). Barbara Geddes What Causes Democratization? in Carles Boix and Susan Stokes, eds., Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press: Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way Linkage versus Leverage: Rethinking the International Dimension of Regime Change. Comparative Politics 38,4: Week 9: SPRING BREAK NO CLASS Week 10: 20 March THE CONSOLIDATION AND QUALITY OF DEMOCRACY Guillermo O Donnell Illusions about consolidation. Journal of Democracy 7, 2: Andreas Schedler Measuring Democratic Consolidation. Studies in Comparative 6

7 International Development 36, 1 (Spring): Corporación Latinobarómetro Satisfaction with Democracy: The Case of Chile. In Latinobarómetro Report Santiago: Corporación Latinobarómetro. Richard Snyder and David Samuels Legislative Malapportionment in Latin America. In Federalism and Democracy in Latin America, edited by Edward L. Gibson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Daniel M. Brinks and Sandra Botero Inequality and the rule of law: Ineffective rights in Latin American democracies. Unpublished paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2-5 in Washington, D.C. Week 11: 27 March MARKET REFORMS Javier Corrales Neoliberalism and its Alternatives. In Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics. Forthcoming. Barbara Geddes "Challenging the Conventional Wisdom." Journal of Democracy 5, 4 (October): Kurt Weyland Swallowing the Bitter Pill: Sources of Popular Support for Neoliberal Reforms in Latin America, Comparative Political Studies 31, 5 (October): Kenneth Roberts The Mobilization of Opposition to Economic Liberalization. The Annual Review of Political Science 11: Andy Baker. "Why is Trade Reform so Popular in Latin America? A Consumption Based Theory of Trade Policy Preferences." World Politics 55 (April): Week 12: 3 April CHALLENGES OF POVERTY AND INEQUALITY: SOCIAL POLICY AND CLIENTELISM Fernando Filgueira Fault Lines in Latin American Social Development and Welfare Regime Challenges. In Merike Blofield ed. The Great Gap: Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Latin America. University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press. James McGuire Social Policies in Latin America: Causes, Characteristics, and Consequences. In Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics. Forthcoming:

8 Nora Lustig Poverty, Inequality and the New Left in Latin America. Woodrow Wilson Center Update on the Americas: Democratic Governance and the New Left (5): Take a brief look at the numbers. Evelyne Huber Politics and Inequality in Latin America in New Approaches to the Politics of Inequality in Developing Countries. Political Science and Politics 42(4) (October): Robert Kaufman Inequality and Redistribution: Some Continuing Puzzles in New Approaches to the Politics of Inequality in Developing Countries. Political Science and Politics 42(4) (October): James Mahon, Jr Tax Reforms and Income Redistribution in Latin America. In Merike Blofield ed. The Great Gap: Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Latin America: University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press. Matthew Layton and Amy Smith Social Assistance Policies and the Presidential Vote in Latin America. In AmericasBarometer Insights: : Brian Faughman and Elizabeth Zechmeister Vote Buying in the Americas. In AmericasBarometer Insights: :1-8. Javier Auyero From the Clients Point(s) of View: How Poor People Perceive and Evaluate Political Clientelism. Theory and Society 28: Week 13: 10 April POLITICAL PARTIES Kenneth M. Roberts Parties, Party Systems, and Political Representation. In Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics. Forthcoming: Michael Coppedge Continuity and change in Latin American party systems. Taiwan Journal of Democracy 3, 2 (December): Kenneth M. Roberts Social Inequalities without Class Cleavages in Latin America s Neoliberal Era. Studies in Comparative International Development 36, 4 (Winter): Margarita Corral Do Parties Listen to the People? Views from the Americas. In AmericasBarometer Insights 12: 1-5. Scott Mainwaring The Crisis of Representation in the Andes. Journal of Democracy 17, 3 (July): David Doyle The legitimacy of political institutions: Explaining contemporary 8

9 populism in Latin America. Comparative Political Studies 44, 11: Raúl Madrid The rise of ethnopopulism in Latin America. World Politics 60, 3 (April): Week 14: 17 April REPRESENTATION OUTSIDE OF PARTIES Guillermo O Donnell Delegative Democracy. Journal of Democracy 5: 1 (January): Kathryn Hochstetler Social Movements in Latin America. In Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics. Forthcoming: Maria Cook Labor. In Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics. Forthcoming: Sebastian Karcher and Ben Schneider Business Politics in Latin America: Investigating Structures, Preferences, and Influence. In Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics. Forthcoming: Lisa Baldez Gender. In Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics. Forthcoming: Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Chapter 1. Beth A. Conklin and Laura R. Graham The Shifting Middle Ground: Amazonian Indians and Eco Politics. American Anthropologist 97:4(December): Week 15: 24 April RISE OF THE LEFT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES Kurt Weyland The Performance of Leftist Governments in Latin America: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues. In Kurt Weyland, Raúl L. Madrid, and Wendy Hunter, eds. Leftist Governments in Latin America: Successes and Shortcomings. New York: Cambridge University Press. Javier Corrales The Repeating Revolution: Chavez s New Politics and Old Economics. In Kurt Weyland, Raúl L. Madrid, and Wendy Hunter, eds. Leftist Governments in Latin America: Successes and Shortcomings. New York: Cambridge University Press. Evelyne Huber, Jennifer Pribble, and John D. Stephens The Chilean Left in Power: Achievements, Failures, and Omissions. In Kurt Weyland, Raúl L. 9

10 Madrid, and Wendy Hunter, eds. Leftist Governments in Latin America: Successes and Shortcomings. New York: Cambridge University Press. Raúl Madrid, Wendy Hunter, and Kurt Weyland The Policies and Performance of the Contestatory and Moderate Left. In Kurt Weyland, Raúl L. Madrid, and Wendy Hunter, eds Leftist Governments in Latin America: Successes and Shortcomings. New York: Cambridge University Press. Andy Baker and Kenneth Greene The Latin American Left s Mandate: Free Market Policies and Issue Voting in New Democracies. World Politics 63, 1: Skim. Week 16: 1 May FINAL REFLECTIONS Barry Ames, Miguel Carreras, and Cassilde Schwartz What s Next? Reflections on the Future of Latin American Political Science. In Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics. Forthcoming: Jorge Dominguez The Blessings of Troubles: Scholarly Innovation in Response to Latin America s Challenges. In Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics. Forthcoming: