209 Politics in Latin America
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Department of Politics and International Relations
Honour School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics Honour School of History and Politics
POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA
Course no. 209, academic Year 2014-15
Course provider
Dr. David Doyle, St Hugh’s College [email protected] [email protected]
Course aims and objectives
The course aims to introduce students to the main features of Latin American politics within a comparative perspective. By the end of the course students will be able to identify the main issues in the contemporary democratic politics of Latin America and use comparative methods to clarify and analyse them.
Course description
This course focuses on the politics of the major states of Latin America and the current challenges – economic, social and political - to their democratic governments. It is organized around key concepts and categories from mainstream comparative politics, and comparative methods will be used throughout to analyse the main issues. Yet the course also demonstrates the continuing relevance of the historical and cultural contexts of Latin American politics, and the main issues are placed in context by reference to the politics of particular countries, including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. In this way topical questions can be studied with reference to the enduring characteristics of the politics of the region.
Course structure
The course comprises weekly lectures in Michaelmas term (a total of eight lectures) accompanied by tutorials. Lectures will take place at 10.00am on Wednesday each week in the Latin American Centre. Students are expected to write six essays, of approximately 2,000 words in length for their tutorials. All essays must include page numbers, full references, and bibliography. References may be Harvard-style or in footnotes.1
Course Assessment
The course is assessed by a three-hour examination according to the provisions established in the Examination Decrees and Regulations.
1 If in doubt, please consult the APSA Style Manual for Political Science, revised edition, 2006.
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Recommended Reading
There are a number of general texts that give a good account of recent and contemporary political developments in the region. Two of the most comprehensive include:
Bethell, Leslie. 1995. The Cambridge History of Latin America. Volume 6: 1930 to the Present, Part 2: Politics and Society. Cambridge University Press (also Volumes 7, 8 and 9). Bulmer-Thomas, Victor. 2003. The Economic History of Latin America since Independence, 2nd ed, Cambridge University Press.
The following also provide good comparative, thematic and rounded overviews of the region:
Hellinger, Daniel C. 2011. Comparative Politics of Latin America: Democracy at last? Routledge. Kingstone, Peter and Deborah J. Yashar (eds.) 2012. Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics. Routledge. Santiso, Javier and Jeff Dayton-Johnson. 2012. The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Political Economy. Oxford University Press. Smith, Peter H. 2005. Democracy in Latin America: Political Change in Comparative Perspective. Oxford University Press. Skidmore, Thomas E. & Peter H. Smith. 2009. Modern Latin America, 7th ed. Oxford University Press. Vanden, Harry E. and Gary Provost. 2008. Politics of Latin America: The Power Game, 3rd ed. Oxford Univerity Press.
In addition, resources such as Latinobarómetro (http://www.latinobarometro.org/) may prove useful. This is the most comprehensive (free) source for public opinion/survey data on Latin America. Also, for data on political parties, elections and constitutions, I would recommend the Political Database of the Americas (http://pdba.georgetown.edu/Parties/parties.html). For cross-national, time-series economic data, CEPALSTAT (http://websie.eclac.cl/sisgen/ConsultaIntegrada.asp), run by the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC or, in Spanish, CEPAL), is very user-friendly.
I would also like you to keep track of current events in the region. Start to check BBC News Latin America on a regular basis. The Financial Times’ blog, ‘beyondbrics’ has good coverage of Central America and Mexico, the Andes, the Southern Cone and Brazil. Some good general English language blogs on Latin American politics include:
Two Weeks Notice: http://weeksnotice.blogspot.ie/ The Latin Americanist: http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.ie/ EconoMonitor Latin America: http://www.economonitor.com/channel/latin-america/ Central American Politics: http://centralamericanpolitics.blogspot.ie/ Bloggings by boz: http://www.bloggingsbyboz.com/ Tim’s El Salvador Blog: http://luterano.blogspot.ie/
Finally, I would encourage you all to engage with the literature and cinema of the region. To aid you in this, at the end of each topic below, I have listed a film and a work of fiction from the region, which are (very) roughly associated with that topic.
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Michaelmas Term: Topics and Readings
Week 1: The Creation of the Modern State: The Political Consequences of Primary Commodity Exporting and Import Substitution Industrialization
Recommended:
Bulmer, Thomas. 2003. The Economic History of Latin America Since Independence, Cambridge University Press. Chapters 4-9.
Kurtz, Marcus J. 2013. Latin American State Building in Comparative Perspective: Social Foundation of Institutional Order. Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1 and 2.
Whitehead, Laurence. 1994. “State development in Latin America since 1930” in Leslie Bethell (ed) The Cambridge History of Latin America, Vol. VI, Part 2, Cambridge University Press.
Further Reading:
Baer, Werner. 1972. “Import Substitution and Industrialization in Latin America: Experiences and Interpretations,” Latin American Research Review, 7 (1), pp. 95-111.
Brooks, Sarah M. and Marcus J. Kurtz. 2012. “Paths to Financial Policy Diffusion: Statist Legacies in Latin America’s Globalization.” International Organization, 66 (Winter), pp. 95- 128.
Cardoso, Fernando Henrique and Enzo Faletto. 1979. Dependency and Development in Latin America. University of California Press.
Dos Santos, Theotonio. 1979. “The Structure of Dependence,” The American Economic Review, 60 (2), pp. 231-236.
Hirschman, Alexander O. 1968. “The Political Economy of Import-Substituting Industrialization in Latin America.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 82 (1), pp. 1-32.
Malloy, James M. (ed). 1977. Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Latin America. University of Pittsburgh Press. Particularly Chapters 1 and 16.
O’Donnell, Guillermo. 1993. “On the State, Democratization, and Some Conceptual Problems: a Latin American View with Glances at Some Postcommunist Countries.” Helen Kellog Institute for International Studies, Working Paper, No. 192: http://kellogg.nd.edu/publications/workingpapers/WPS/192.pdf.
Panizza, Francisco. 2000. “Beyond ‘Delegative Democracy’: ‘Old Politics’ and ‘New Economics’ in Latin America.” Journal of Latin American Studies, 32 (2), pp. 737-763.
Prebisch, Raúl.1959. “International Trade and Payments in an Era of Coexistence: Commercial Policy in the Underdeveloped Countries,” The American Economic Review 49 (2), pp. 251-273.
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Valenzuela, Juan Samuel and Arturo Valenzuela. 1978. “Modernization and Dependency: Alternative Perspectives in the Study of Latin American Underdevelopment,” Comparative Politics, 10 (4), pp. 535-552.
Fiction: The Good Conscience by Carlos Fuentes; also In Evil Hour by Gabriel García Márquez
Film: Los Olvidados (1950)
Week 2: From Authoritarianism to the Third Wave of Democratization
Recommended:
Collier, Ruth Berins. 1999. Paths towards Democracy: the Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and South America. Cambridge University Press. Particularly chapters 1, 2 and 4.
Haggard, Stephan and Robert Kaufman. 1997. “The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions” Comparative Politics, 29 (3), pp. 285-303.
Hagopian, Frances. 1990. “Democracy by Undemocratic Means’? Elites, Political Pacts, and Regime Transition in Brazil.” Comparative Political Studies, 23 (2), pp. 147-166.
Hagopian Frances and Scott Mainwaring, 2005. The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America: Advances and setbacks. Cambridge University Press. Particularly the introduction and chapter 1.
Lagos, Marta. 2008. “Latin America’s Diversity of Views.” Journal of Democracy, 19 (1), pp. 111-125.
Mainwaring, Scott. 1992. "Transitions to Democracy and Democratic Consolidation: Theoretical and Comparative Issues" in Scott Mainwaring and Guillermo O’Donnell (eds.) Issues in Democratic Consolidation, University of Notre Dame Press.
O’Donnell, Guillermo, and Philippe Schmitter. 1986. Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
O’Donnell, Guillermo. 1994. “Delegative Democracy,” Journal of Democracy, 5(1), pp. 55- 69.
Further Reading:
Altman, David and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, 2002. ‘Assessing the Quality of Democracy: Freedom, Competitiveness and Participation in Eighteen Latin American Countries,’ Democratization, 92 (2), pp. 85-100.
Booth, John A. and Mitchell A. Seligson. 2009. The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America: Political Support and Democracy in Eight Nations. Cambridge. Chapters 1 and 8.
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Foweraker, Joe. 2001. “Transformation, Transition, Consolidation: Democratization in Latin America.” in Kate Nash and Alan Scott (eds.) Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology. Blackwell Publishers
Gans Morse, Jordan and Nichter, Simeon. 2008. “Economic Reforms and Democracy: Evidence of a J-Curve in Latin America,” Comparative Political Studies, 41(10), pp. 1398- 1426.
Greene, Kenneth. 2007. Why Dominant Parties Lose: Mexico’s Democratization in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1, 2 and 3.
Schamis, Hector E. 1991. “Reconceptualizing Latin American Authoritarianism in the 1970s: From Bureaucratic Authoritarianism to Neoconservatism,” Comparative Politics, 23 (2), pp. 201-216.
The excellent UNDP report on the quality of democracy: UNDP. 2004. Democracy in Latin America: Towards a Citizens’ Democracy, UNDP, can be downloaded from http://democracia.undp.org/Informe/Default.asp?Menu=15&Idioma=2
Fiction: Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa
Film: No (2012)
Week 3: The Politics of Economic Reform
Recommended:
Baker, Andy. 2009. The Market and the Masses in Latin America: Policy Reform and Consumption in Liberalizing Economies. Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1 and 2.
Brooks, Sarah and Marcus Kurtz. 2012. “Paths to Financial Policy Diffusion: Statist Legacies in Latin America’s Globalization.” International Organization. 66, pp. 95-128.
Corrales, Javier. 2002. Presidents without Parties: The Politics of Economic Reform in Argentina and Venezuela in the 1990s. Penn State Press. Chapters 1 and 2.
Geddes, Barbara.1995. “The Politics of Economic Liberalization.” Latin American Research Review, 30 (2), pp. 195-214.
Kurtz, Marcus and Sarah Brooks. 2008. “Embedding Neoliberal Reform in Latin America,” World Politics, 60 (7), pp. 231-280.
Weyland, Kurt. 2002. The Politics of Market Reform in Fragile Democracies: Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Venezuela. Particularly chapters 1, 3, 4 and 5.
Weyland, Kurt, 2004. “Neoliberalism and Democracy in Latin America: A mixed record.” Latin American Politics and Society, 46(1), pp. 135-157.
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Further Reading:
Blejer, Mario and Adrienne Cheasty. 1988. “High Inflation, Heterodox Stabilization, and Fiscal Policy,” World Development, 16 (8), pp. 867-879.
Cardoso, Fernando Henrique. 2010. “Structural Reform and Governability: The Brazilian Experience in the 1990s.” in Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully (eds.) Democratic Governance in Latin America, Stanford University Press.
Eaton, Kent. 2002. Politicians and Economic Reform in New Democracies. Penn State Press. Chapters 1, 2 and 3.
Levitsky, Steven. 2003. Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge University Press. Chapter 1.
Schamis, Hector E. 1999. “Distributional Coalitions and the Politics of Economic Reform in Latin America.” World Politics, 2, pp. 236-268.
Schneider, Ben Ross. 2009. “Hierarchical Market Economies and Varieties of Capitalism in Latin America,” Journal of Latin American Studies, 41, pp. 553-575
Walton, Michael. 2004.”Neoliberalism in Latin America: Good, Bad or incomplete?” Latin American Research Review, 39(3), pp. 165-183.
Fiction: Shorts by Alberto Fuguet
Film: Mundo grúa (1999)
Week 4: Executive-Legislative Relations
Recommended:
Carroll, Royce. and Matthew Shugart. 2007. “Neo-Madisonian Theory and Latin American Institutions,” in Gerardo Munck (ed.) Regimes and Democracy in Latin America: Theories and Methods. Oxford University Press.
Cox, Gary and Morgenstern, Scott. 2001. “Latin America’s Reactive Assemblies and Proactive Presidents.” Comparative Politics 33 (2), pp. 171-189.
Helmke, Gretchen and Steven Levitsky (eds.) 2006. Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America Johns Hopkins University Press. Chapters 1, 2 and 3.
Linz, Juan J. 1990. “The Perils of Presidentialism.” Journal of Democracy 1 (1), pp. 51-69.
Mainwaring, Scott and Matthew Soberg Shugart (eds.) 1997. Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America. Cambridge University Press. Chapter 1 and the conclusion.
Morgenstern, Scott and Benito Nacif (eds.) 2002. Legislative Politics in Latin America. Cambridge University Press. Chapter 1.
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Pérez-Liñán, Aníbal. 2007. Presidential Impeachment and the New Political Instability in Latin America. Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1 and 8.
Power, Timothy J. 2010. “Optimism, Pessimism, and Coalitional Presidentialism: Debating the Institutional Design of Brazilian Democracy.” Bulletin of Latin American Research, 29 (1), pp. 18-33.
Further Reading:
Amorim Neto, Octavio. 2006. “The Presidential Calculus: Executive Policy-Making and Cabinet Formation in the Americas.” Comparative Political Studies 39 (6), pp. 415-440.
Foweraker, Joe. 1998. “Institutional Design, Party Systems and Governability – Differentiating the Presidential Regimes of Latin America,” British Journal of Political Science, 28, pp. 651-676.
Hochstetler, Kathryn. 2006. “Rethinking Presidentialism: Challenges and Presidential Falls in South America,” Comparative Politics 38 (4), pp. 401-418.
Llanos, Mariana and Leiv Mainstrendet (eds). 2010. Presidential Breakdowns in Latin America. Causes and Outcomes of Executive Instability in Developing Democracies. Palgrave Macmillan. Particularly the introduction and chapters 1 and 2.
MacKinnon, Moira B. and Luovico Feoili (eds.) 2013. Representation and Effectiveness in Latin American Democracies: Congress, Judiciary and Civil Society. Routledge. Chapter 1-5.
Mainstrendet, Leiv. and Einar. Berntzen. 2008. “Reducing the Perils of Presidentialism in Latin America through Presidential Interruptions.” Comparative Politics, 41(1), pp. 83-101
Mainwaring, Scott. 1993 “Presidentialism, Multipartism and Democracy: the Difficult Combination.” Comparative Political Studies 26, 198-228.
Short Video: Part of a documentary, highlighting the corruption of the Fujimori regime in Peru: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0y5uXV11Os
Fiction: The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez
Film: City of God (2002)
Week 5: Party Politics Vs Populism
Recommended:
Coppedge, Michael. 1998. “The Evolution of Latin American Party Systems,” in Scott Mainwaring and Arturo Valenzuela (eds.) Politics, Society, and Democracy: Latin America, Westview Press.
Dix, Robert H. 1989. “Cleavage Structures and Party Systems in Latin America,” Comparative Politics, 22 (1), pp. 23-37.
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Doyle, David. 2011. “Explaining Contemporary Populism in Latin America.” Comparative Political Studies, 40(11), pp. 1447-1473.
Mainwaring, Scott and Timothy Scully (eds.). Building Democratic Institutions: Parties and Party Systems in Latin America, Stanford University Press. Introductory chapter.
Roberts, Kenneth, M., 1995. “Neoliberalism and the Transformation of Populism in Latin America,” World Politics, 48, pp. 82-116.
Roberts, Kenneth. 2002. “Party-Society Linkages and Democratic Representation in Latin America.” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 27 (53); pp. 9-34.
Roberts, Kenneth M., 2007. “Latin America’s Populist Revival,” SAIS Review, Vol. XXVII (1), pp. 3-15.
Roberts, Kenneth M. 2012. “Market Reform, Programmatic (de)alignment and Party System Stability in Latin America.” Comparative Political Studies. Published online first.
Kitschelt, Herbert, Kirk A. Hawkins, Juan Pablo Luna, Guillermo Rosas and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister. 2010. Latin American Party Systems. Cambridge University Press. Particularly chapter 1.
Weyland, Kurt. 2001. “Clarifying a Contested Concept: Populism in the Study of Latin American Politics,” Comparative Politics, 34 (1), pp.1-22.
Further Reading:
Dornbusch, R., and Edwards, S. 1990. “Macroeconomic Populism,” Journal of Development Economics, 32, pp. 247-275.
Hagopian, Frances. 1998. “Democracy and Political Representation in Latin America in the 1990s: Pause, Reorganization, or Decline?” in Felipe Agüero and Jeffrey Stark (eds.). Fault Lines of Democracy in Post-Transition Latin America, North-South Center Press.
Handlin, Samuel. 2013. “Social Protection and the Politicization of Class Cleavages during Latin America’s Left Turn,” Comparative Political Studies. Published online first.
Knight, Alan, 1998. “Populism and Neopopulism in Latin America, especially Mexico.” Journal of Latin American Studies, 30(2), pp. 223-248.
Luna, Juan. Pablo and David Altman. 2011. “Uprooted but Stable: Chilean Parties and the Concept of Party System Institutionalization,” Latin American Politics and Society, 53 (2), pp. 1-28.
Lupu, Noam. 2013. “Brand Dilution and the Breakdown of Political Parties in Latin America.” Unpublished paper, available at: http://www.noamlupu.com/breakdown.pdf.
Lupu, Noam and Rachel Beatty Riedl. 2012. “Political Parties and Uncertainty in Developing Democracies.” Comparative Political Studies. Published online first.
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Madrid, Raúl. 2008. “The Rise of Ethnopopulism in Latin America,” World Politics, 60 (3), pp. 475-508.
Morgan, Jana. 2011. Bankrupt Representation and Party System Collapse. Pennsylvania State University Press. Chapters 1, 2 and 3.
Rovira Kaltwasser, Critóbal. 2012. ‘The Ambivalence of Populism: threat and corrective for democracy.’ Democratization, 19(2), pp. 184-208.
Samuels, David J. and Matthew S. Shugart. 2010. Presidents, Parties and Prime Ministers: How the separation of powers affects party organization and behavior. Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1 and 2.
Seawright, Jason. 2012. Party System Collapse: The roots of crisis in Peru and Venezuela. Stanford University Press. Chapter 1.
Tanaka, Martín. 2006. “From Crisis to Collapse of the Party System and Dilemmas of Democratic Representation: Peru and Venezuela,” in Scott Mainwaring et al. (eds) The Crisis of Democratic Representation in the Andes, Stanford University Press.
Weyland, Kurt. 1996. “Neopopulism and Neoliberalism in Latin America: Unexpected Affinities.” Studies in Comparative International Development., 31 (3), pp. 3-31.
Fiction: The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Film: Our Brand is Crisis (2005)
Week 6: The International Political Economy of Domestic Policy and Politics
Recommended:
Avelino, George, David Brown and Wendy Hunter. 2005. “The Effects of Capital Mobility, Trade Openness, and Democracy on Social Spending in Latin America, 1980- 1999,” American Journal of Political Science, 49(3), pp. 625-641
Kaplan, Stephen B. 2013. Globalization and the Austerity Politics in Latin America. Cambridge University Press. Particularly chapters 1 and 2.
Kaufman, Robert R. and Alex Segura-Ubiergo. 2001. “Globalization, Domestic Politics, and Social Spending in Latin America: A Time-Series Cross-Section Analysis,” World Politics, 53, pp. 553-587
Singer, David Andrew. 2010. "Migrant Remittances and Exchange Rate Regimes in the Developing World." American Political Science Review, 104 (2), pp. 307-323.
Wibbels, Erik. 2006. “Dependency Revisited: International Markets, Business Cycles, and Social Spending in the Developing World,” International Organization, 60, pp. 433-468.
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Further Reading:
Bogliaccini, Juan Ariel. 2013. “Trade Liberalization, Deindustrialization, and Inequality: Evidence from Middle-Income Latin American Countries.” Latin American Research Review, 48(2), pp. 79-105.
Edwards, Sebastian. 2010. Left Behind: Latin America and the False Promise of Populism. Chicago University Press. Chapters 1, 4 and 10.
Hart, Austin. 2010. “Death of the Partisan? Globalization and Taxation in South America, 1990-2006.” Comparative Political Studies, 43(3), pp. 304-328.
Nissanke, Machiko and Erik Thorbecke. 2010. “Globalization, Poverty and Inequality in Latin America: Findings from case studies.” World Development, 38(6), pp. 797-802.
Pinto, Pablo M. 2013. Partisan Investment in the Global Economy: Why the Left Loves Foreign Direct Investment and FDI Loves the Left. Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1 and 2.
Rudra, Nita. 2008. Globalization and the Race to the Bottom in Developing Countries: Who Really Gets Hurt? Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1, 2 and 3.
Sánchez-Ancochea, Diego. 2006. "Development Trajectories and New Comparative Advantages: Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic under Globalization”, World Development, 34(6), pp. 996-1115.
Segura-Ubiergo, Alex. 2007. The Political Economy of the Welfare State in Latin America. Cambridge University Press. Chapter 3.
Wibbels, Erik and Moisés Arce. 2003. “Globalization and Burden-Shifting in Latin America.” International Organization, 57, pp. 111-136.
Fiction: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Film: Sin Nombre (2009)
Week 7: The Left Turn
Recommended:
Baker, Andy & Kenneth F. Greene, 2011. “The Latin American Left’s Mandate: Free Market Policies, and Issue Voting in New Democracies,” World Politics, 63 (1), pp. 43-77.
Cleary, Matthew R., 2006. “Explaining the Left’s Resurgence,” Journal of Democracy, 17 (4), pp. 35-49.
Levitsky, Steven and Kenneth Roberts (eds.) 2011. The Resurgence of the Latin American Left, John Hopkins University Press. Particularly the introduction, chapter 1 and the conclusion.
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Panizza, Francisco. 2005. “Unarmed Utopia Revisited: The Resurgence of Left-of-Centre Politics in Latin America,” Political Studies, 53, pp. 716-734.
Seligson, Mitchell A. 2007. “The Rise of Populism and the Left in Latin America,” Journal of Democracy, 18 (3), pp. 81-95.
Stokes, Susan, 2009. “Globalization and the Left in Latin America,” unpublished manuscript, Department of Political Science, Yale University.
Weyland, Kurt, Raúl Madrid and Wendy Hunter (eds.) 2010. Leftist Governments in Latin America. Cambridge University Press. Particularly chapters 1 and 7.
Wiesehomeier, Nina and David Doyle. 2013. “Discontent and the Left Turn in Latin America.” Political Science Research and Methods, forthcoming.
Further Reading:
Arnson, Cynthia and José Raúl Perales (eds.) 2007. The New Left and Democratic Governance in Latin America, Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars.
Castañeda, Jorge. G. 2006. “Latin America’s Left Turn.” Foreign Affairs 85 (3), pp. 28-43.
Castañeda, Jorge G. and Marco Morales (eds.) 2008. Leftovers: Tales of the Latin American Left. Routledge. Chapters 1 and 2.
Cameron, Maxwell and Eric Hershberg (eds.) 2010. Latin America’s Left Turns: Politics, Policies, and Trajectories of Change. Lynne Rienner. Particularly chapters 1 and 2.
Debs, Alexander & Gretchen Helmke, 2010. “Inequality under Democracy: Explaining “The Left Decade,” Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 5(3), pp. 209-241.
Flores-Macías, Gustavo. 2010. “Statist vs. Pro-Market: Explaining Leftist Governments’ Economic Policies in Latin America.” Comparative Politics, 42(4); pp. 413-433.
Madrid, Raúl. 2012. The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Latin America. Cambridge University Press. Chapter 1.
Philip, George and Francisco Panizza. 2011. The Triumph of Politics: The Return of the Left in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador. Particularly the introduction.
Weyland, Kurt, 2009. “The Rise of Latin America's Two Lefts? Insights from Rentier State Theory,” Comparative Politics, 44 (2), pp. 145-164.
Special issue of Journal of Democracy on the new left, Volume 17 (4), 2006.
Short Video: Prof. Susan Stokes (Yale University) discusses the left turn in Latin America and its relationship with globalization: http://www.yale.edu/macmillanreport/ep12- stokes-030409.html
Fiction: The Matter of Desire by Edmundo Paz Soldán
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Film: The Revolution will not be Televised (2003)
Week 8: Voters and Elections – Changing Perspectives?
Recommended:
De la O, Ana L. 2013. “Do Conditional Cash Transfers Affect Electoral Behavior? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mexico,” American Journal of Political Science, 57 (1), pp. 1-14.
Ferreira, Francisco, Julian Messina, Jamele Rigolini, Luis-Felipe López-Calva, Maria Ana Lugo and Renos Vakis. 2013. Economic Mobility and the Rise of the Latin American Middle Class. The World Bank. Particularly chapters 1, 3 and 6.
Lupu, Noam. 2013. “Party Brands and Partisanship: Theory with evidence from a survey experiment in Argentina.” American Journal of Political Science, 57 (1), pp. 49-64.
Pfutze, Tobias. 2013. “Clientelism Versus Social Learning: The Electoral Effects of International Migration.” International Studies Quarterly. Published online first.
Stokes, Susan. 2001. Mandates and Democracy: Neoliberalism by Surprise in Latin America. Cambridge University Press. Chapter 5.
Zechmeister, Elizabeth and Margarita Corral. 2013. “Individual and Contextual Constraints on Ideological Labels in Latin America.” Comparative Political Studies, 46(6), pp. 675-701.
Zucco, Cesar and Timothy Power. 2013. "Bolsa Família and the Shift in Lula's Electoral Base, 2002-2006." Latin American Research Review, 48(2), pp3-24.
Further Reading:
Benton, Allyson. 2005. “Dissatisfied Democrats or Retrospective Voters? Economic Hardship, Political Institutions, and Voting Behavior in Latin America.” Comparative Political Studies. 38 (4), pp. 417-42.
Calvo, Ernesto and Maria Victoria Murillo. 2004. “Who Delivers? Partisan Clients in the Argentine Electoral Market,” American Journal of Political Science, 48 (4), pp. 742-757.
Kaufman, Robert R. 2009. “The Political Effects of Inequality in Latin America: Some Inconvenient Facts.” Comparative Politics, 41 (3), pp. 359-379.
Luna, Juan P., and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister. 2005. “Political Representation in Latin America. A Study of Elite-Mass Congruence in Nine Countries.” Comparative Political Studies 38(4), pp. 388-416.
Murillo, Maria Victoria, Virginia Oliveros and Milan Vaishnav. 2010. “Electoral Revolution or Democratic Alternation?” Latin American Research Review 45 (3), pp. 87-114.
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Tyburski, Michael D. 2012. “The Resource Curse Revisited? Remittances and Corruption in Mexico.” International Studies Quarterly, 56(2), pp. 339-350.
Weisehomeier, Nina and David Doyle. 2012. “Attitudes, Ideological Associations and the Left-Right Divide in Latin America.” Journal of Politics in Latin America, 4(1), pp: 3-33.
Weitz-Shapiro, Rebecca. 2012. "What Wins Votes: Why Some Politicians Opt Out of Clientelism." American Journal of Political Science, 56(3), pp. 568-583.
Zechmeister, Elizabeth J. 2006. “What’s Left and Who’s Right? A Q-Method Study of Individual and Contextual Influences on the Meaning of Ideological Labels.” Political Behavior, 28(2), pp. 151-173
Fiction: Blindness by José Saramago (not from Latin America, but relevant nonetheless)
Film: Lula’s Brazil: The Management of Hope (2005)
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