POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN LATIN AMERICA

Syllabus POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN LATIN AMERICA - 56340 Last update 07-10-2013 HU Credits: 4 Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor) Responsible Department: Academic year: 0 Semester: Yearly Teaching Languages: Hebrew Campus: Mt. Scopus Course/Module Coordinator: Professor Mario Sznajder Coordinator Email: msmarios@huji.ac.il Coordinator Office Hours: Tuesday, 16.00-17.00 Office 4319 Social Sciences Teaching Staff: Prof Mario Sznajder page 1 / 6

Course/Module description: BA seminar, one weekly class. Introductory lectures, students presentations according to subjects and class discussions. A seminar paper has to be written and delivered until the end of classes. Course/Module aims: The objective of the seminar is to thoroughly analyze political and social issues in the Latin American countries. In order to bring the participants to a level of knowledge and understanding that will make possible to review the subject in a critical way the participants will have to confront a series of political and social phenomena characteristic of the area under study. The seminars agenda is divided onto 10 main subjects about which academic material will be read, discussions will be undertaken and position papers will be written. The seminar will analyze also materials that appear in films, documentaries, Internet, recordings and printed material beyond the courses bibliography. In every class we will try to link the academic-theoretical dimension to the empirical evolving reality during the courses length in the examined area and we will also try to reach theoretical conclusions from the empirical materials. Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: A wide conceptual infrastructure will be created during the year. This will allow the students to perform the tasks elaborated in the previous section. We will also work to enlarge the knowledge and analytic basis on the subjects being studied on Latin America, from a theoretical and an empirical point of view. Writing a good level seminar paper is another result of this course. Attendance requirements(%): 100%.Mandatory attendance to all classes. Non-attendance up to 25% of the classes with a justified reason (reserve army service, illness) and the presentation of an adequate document certifying the cause of non-attendance. Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Frontal classes. Presentations by the students. Films. Guest lectures. Active participation of the whole class in the discussions, on the basis of bibliography readings. Short comments on contemporary political and social news (electronic + printed) from Latin America, at the beginning of each class. Tutorials, in the teachers reception hour, about methodological issues related to the seminar paper. page 2 / 6

Course/Module Content: 1. Background on Politics and Society in Latin America. 2. Collective identities, nation-states, imperialism and nationalism. 3. Development models. 4. Constitutionalism, legal perceptions, institutionalization. 5. Contemporary socio-economic problems. 6. Revolutions in Latin America. 7. Populism and neo-populism. 8. Liberal democracy or other kind of democracies? 9. Dictatorships, human rights violations and political exile. 10. Democracy in Latin America? Problems and qualities. Required Reading: Bibliography: Background on Politics and Society in Latin America רחום, א., תת-יבשת בטלטלה. אמריקה הלטינית 1900-2000 (ירושלים: כרמל, 2003). Skidmore, Th., Smith, P. H., Green, J. M., Modern Latin America (New York: OUP, 2010). Bethell, L., (ed.) Ideas and ideologies in twentieth century Latin America (Cambridge: CUP, 1996). Idem, The Cambridge history of Latin America (Cambridge: CUP, 1984-2008). Collective identities, nation-states, imperialism and nationalism. Radcliffe, S. A., Remaking the nation : place, identity and politics in Latin America (London: Routledge, 1996) Roniger, L. Sznajder, M., Constructing collective identities and shaping public spheres: Latin American paths (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2000) Centeno, M.A., Blood and Debt. War and the nation state in Latin America (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University, 2002) Development models Cardoso, F. H., Faletto, E., Dependency and Development in Latin America (Berkeley, Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1979). Haggard, S., Kaufman, R. R., Development, democracy and welfare states: Latin America, East Asia, Eastern Europe (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008) Kaltwasser, C. R., "Toward Post-Neoliberalism in Latin America?" Latin American Research Review 46 (2) 2011. Waisman, C. H. "The Multiple Modernities Arguments and Societies in the page 3 / 6

Americas," in Roniger, L., Waisman, C. H. (eds.) Globality and Multiple Modernities" Comparative North American Perspectives (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2002) 106-114. Whitehead, L., "Latin America as a Mausoleum of Modernities, in Ibid., 29-65. Constitutionalism, legal perceptions, institutionalization. Schor, M., Constitutionalism through the Looking Glass of Latin America, 2005 Paper 579. http://law.bepress.com/expresso/eps/579 Mainwaring, S., Welna, C., Democratic Accountability in Latin America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). Mainwaring, S. "Party Systems in the Third Wave," Journal of Democracy 9 (3) 1998, 67-81. Contemporary socio-economic problems. Yashar, D. J., Contesting citizenship in Latin America: The rise of indigenous movements and postliberal changes (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge university Press, 2005) French, W. E., Bliss, K. E., Gender, Sexuality, and Power In Latin America since Independence (Lanham and Plymouth: Rowman &Littlefield Publishers, 2007) de Janvry, A., Sadoulet, E., Growth, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America: A Causal Analysis, 1970-1994," The Review of Income and Wealth April 2005. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-4991.2000.tb00843.x/pdf Revolutions in Latin America. Knight, A., "The Mexican revolution: bourgeois? nationalist? or just a "great rebellion"?" Bulletin of Latin American Research 4 (2) 1985, 1-38. Sweig, J., Cuba: what everyone needs to know (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) Zunes, S., he United States and Bolivia: The Taming of a Revolution 1952-1957," Latin American Perspectives 28 (5) 2001, 33-49. Dunkerley, J., "Evo Morales, the "Two Bolivias" and the Third Bolivia Revolution," Journal of Latin American Studies 39 (1) 2007, 133-166. Populism and neo-populism. Weyland, K., Clarifying a contested concept. Populism in the Study of Latin American Politics," Comparative Politics 34 (1) 2001. Seligson, M. A., "The Rise of Populism and the Left in Latin America," Journal of Democracy 18 (3) 2007. Sznajder, M., "Globalization and Populism in Latin America," in Yair, G., Gazit, O. (eds.) Collective Identities, States and Globalization (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2010) 153-171. page 4 / 6

Liberal democracy or other kind of democracies? ODonnell, G., "Delegative Democracy," Journal of Democracy 5 (1) 1994. Sznajder, M., Limited Democracy in South America, Democratization 3(3) 1996. Rahat, G., Sznajder, M., Electoral Engineering in Chile: The Electoral System and Limited Democracy, Electoral Studies, 17 (4) 1998. Dictatorships, human rights violations and political exile. Dix, R. H., Military Coups and Military Rule in Latin America," Armed Forces & Society 20 (3) 1994. Powell, J. M., Thyne, C. L., "Global instances of coups from 1950 to 2010: A new dataset," Journal of Peace Research 48 (2) 2011. Roniger, L., Sznajder, M., The Legacy of Human rights Violations in the Southern Cone (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999) Sznajder, M., Roniger, L., The politics of exile in Latin America (New York, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009) Democracy in Latin America? Problems and qualities. Hellinger, D., Comparative politics of Latin America: democracy at last? (New York: Routledge, 2011) Sznajder, M., Roniger, L., Forment, C. A. (eds.) Shifting Frontiers of Citizenship: The Latin American Experience (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2013). Additional Reading Material: The bibliography is not final. There may be changes along the year, according to the needs of the course. Course/Module evaluation: End of year written/oral examination 0 % Presentation 0 % Participation in Tutorials 20 % Project work 50 % Assignments 0 % Reports 10 % Research project 0 % Quizzes 0 % Other 20 % page 5 / 6