The course will study some of the most important political and social phenomena occurred in Latin America in the second half of 20th century. The course aims to provide students with theoretical and empirical knowledge necessary to understand the idiosyncrasies and particular issues affecting the region. Main issues included in our analysis are: the rise of populism, economic stagnation, the rise of the left during the 60's and 70's, dictatorship, democratization, the neoliberal model and current problems of democracy in the region. The course will focus on Argentina as its case study. Nevertheless, other countries in the region will be integrated in different units in order to provide a comparative framework.
Prerequisites:
None
Method of presentation:
The instructor will seek to address each issue not only from a theoretical approach, but also from a cultural and social point of view. Several Latin American films will be used for this purpose. A high degree of class participation is a strong requisite for the course. There will be just one lecture per week in order to leave wide room for class discussion over subjects worked in class and on screened films. There will also be a series of guest lecturers.
Required work and form of assessment:
Evaluation will be based on class participation, a critical analytical essay and two exams about literature, movies and the debates that took place during classes. The paper will have from 4 to 6 pages (double spaced) and it should focus in some of the weekly mandatory readings and link them with some issue that seemed interesting for the student. The paper cannot be a summary. It should be a critical analysis or essay linking the precise reading material of the chosen week with some topic of interest for the student. Plus, the student must deliver an oral presentation (about 5 minutes long) about the particular themes related to the readings he/she has chosen as main subject. The first day of class the student must choose which will be the subject of the paper.
Class participation: 15%, critical analytical paper: 20%, midterm: 25%, final exam: 40%.
content:
Week 1: Introduction. A first approach to the historical characteristics of Latin America. / Introduction to Populism in Latin America.
Mackinnon, María Moira y Petrone, Mario Alberto (1999): “Los Complejos de la Cenicienta”, in Mackinnon María Moira y Petrone Mario Alberto [comps.], Populismo y neopopulismo en América Latina: el problema de la Cenicienta, Eudeba, Buenos Aires
Week 2: Populism in Latin America 1.
Francisco Weffort (1999): “El Populismo en la Política Brasileña” , in Mackinnon María Moira y Petrone Mario Alberto [comps.], Populismo y neopopulismo en América Latina: el problema de la Cenicienta, Eudeba, Buenos Aires
Torre, Juan Carlos (1989): “Interpretando (una vez más) los orígenes del Peronismo”, in Desarrollo Económico, V. 28, N 112.
Alan Knight (1999): “Cardenismo: coloso o catramina”, in M. Moira Mackinnon y Mario Petrone (Comps.), Populismo y neopopulismo en América latina. El problema de la Cenicienta. Buenos Aires: EUDEBA
Week 3: Political instability during the 60´s and 70´s. Limits to economic growth. The bureaucratic-authoritarian State.
O'Donnell, Guillermo (1977): “Estado y alianzas en la política argentina”, in Desarrollo Económico, N°64.
Gerchunoff, Pablo Gerchunoff, P. (2006) “Requiem para el stop and go...Requiem para el stop and go?” Seminario GESE-IAE-U.Austral y Escuela de Política de la USAM, Septiembre
James, Daniel, Resistencia e integración. El peronismo y la clase trabajadora argentina (l946-l976), Sudamericana, Buenos Aires, 1990. cap. 7, La burocracia sindical: poder y política en los sindicatos peronistas, pags. 219 - 251.
Week 4: Film. / Revolution and emergence of the Left.
Pelicula: No Habrá Más Penas ni Olvidos
Angell, Alan (1993): Chile de Alessandri a Pinochet: En Busca de la Utopía, Editorial Andres Bello, Santiago, pp. 47-90
Mires, Fernando (1988): Las Revoluciones Sociales de América Latina, Siglo Veintiuno Editores, Mexico, pp. 279-331
Week 5: Revolution and the Left. / Military dictatorships.
Tortti M. C. (2000): “Protesta social y „Nueva Izquierda‟ en la Argentina del Gran Acuerdo Nacional”, in Camarero, H., Pozzi, P. y Schneider, A. (eds.), De la Revolución Libertadora al Menemismo, Imago Mundi, Buenos Aires.
Finchelstein, Federico (2008): La Argentina Fascista. Los Orígenes Ideológicos de la Dictadura, Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires, Cap. V, pp. 130-208.
Novaro, M., Palermo V., La Dictadura Militar 1976-1983. Del Golpe de Estado a la Restauración Democrática, Paidós, Buenos Aires, pp. 17-79
Week 6: Military dictatorships. / Film.
Anderson, Perry (1988): “Democracia y Dictadura en América Latina en la Década del '70”, in Cuadernos de Sociología Nº 2, Carrera de Sociología, UBA, 1988
Vergara, Pilar (1982): “Las transformaciones del Estado chileno bajo el régimen militar”, in Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Vol. 44, No. 2
Movie: Garage Olimpo
Week 7: Q & A / Mid-Term.
Week 8: Mid-Semester Break.
Week 9: Transitions to democracy.
Novaro, M., Palermo V., La Dictadura Militar 1976-1983. Del Golpe de Estado a la Restauración Democrática, Paidós, Buenos Aires, pp. 461-539
Garreton, Manuel (1996): “El segundo gobierno democrático en Chile. De la transición y consolidación a la profundización democrática?”, in Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Vol. 58, No. 1.
Week 10: What kind of democracy? Political systems and presidentialism in Latin America. / Neoliberalism and neopopulism in Latin American.
Chasquetti, Daniel “Democracia, Multipartidismo y coaliciones en América Latina: evaluando la difícil combinación”, in Lanzaro, Jorge (comp.), Tipos de presidencialismo y modos de gobierno en América Latina, (Buenos Aires: CLACSO, 2001) pp. 15-35.
O'Donnell, Guillermo (1992): “Democracia Delegativa”, Cuadernos del CLAEH.
Haggard, Stephan and Kaufman, Robert (1995): “Estado y Reforma Económica: la Iniciación y
Consolidación de las Políticas de Mercado”, in Desarrollo Económico, N° 139, vol 35.
Week 11: Neoliberalism and neopopulism in Latin American.
Centeno, Miguel Angel (1997): “La revolución salinista. La crisis de la tecnocracia en México”, in Nueva Sociedad Nro. 152, Noviembre-Diciembre, pp. 78-92
Torre, J. y Gerchunoff, P. (1996): “La política de liberalización económica en la administración de Menem”, in Desarrollo Económico, Nı 143, Bs.As., Octubre -Diciembre 1996.
Roberts, Keneth (1998). "El neoliberalismo y la transformación del populismo en América Latina. El caso peruano", in Mackinnon María Moira y Petrone Mario Alberto [comps.], Populismo y neopopulismo en América Latina: el problema de la Cenicienta, Eudeba, Buenos Aires.
Week 12: Political problems in Democracy 1 – Political clientelism and corruption.
Levitsky, S., “Del sindicalismo al clientelismo: La transformación de los vínculos partido-sindicatos en el peronismo, 1983-1999", in Desarrollo Económico, Volumen Nº 44, Número 173, 2004.
Aureano, Guillermo R. y Ducatenzeiler, Graciela (2002): “Corrupción y democracia: algunas consideraciones a partir del caso argentino”, in Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 67-98
Week 13: Political problems in Democracy 2- Political disenchantment and social exclusion. The (re) emergence of the (new) left in Latin America.
Pucciarelli, Alfredo (2002): La Democracia que Tenemos. Declinación Económica, Decadencia Social y Degradación en la Argentina Actual, Eudeba-Libros del Rojas.
“Exclusión Social y Movilización de los Movimientos Indígenas en América Latina”: Lic. Inés Finchelstein (Oficial del Foro Internacional de Mujeres Indígenas – Naciones Unidas).
Week 14: (R-) emergence of the (new) left in Latin America.
Paramio, Ludolfo (2006): “Giro a la izquierda y regreso del populismo”, in Nueva Sociedad Nº 205, Buenos Aires, septiembre-octubre
Laclau, Ernesto (2006): “La deriva populista y la centroizquierda latinoamericana”, in Nueva Sociedad Nº 205, Buenos Aires, septiembre-octubre
Touraine, Alan (2006): “Entre Bachelet y Morales, ¿existe una izquierda en América Latina?”, in Nueva Sociedad Nº 205, Buenos Aires, septiembre-octubre
Movie: Charlas con Presidentes de Latinoamérica – Canal Encuentro.
Argentine Politics And Government In Comparative Perspective
The course will study some of the most important political and social phenomena occurred in Latin America in the second half of 20th century. The course aims to provide students with theoretical and empirical knowledge necessary to understand the idiosyncrasies and particular issues affecting the region. Main issues included in our analysis are: the rise of populism, economic stagnation, the rise of the left during the 60's and 70's, dictatorship, democratization, the neoliberal model and current problems of democracy in the region. The course will focus on Argentina as its case study. Nevertheless, other countries in the region will be integrated in different units in order to provide a comparative framework.
None
The instructor will seek to address each issue not only from a theoretical approach, but also from a cultural and social point of view. Several Latin American films will be used for this purpose. A high degree of class participation is a strong requisite for the course. There will be just one lecture per week in order to leave wide room for class discussion over subjects worked in class and on screened films. There will also be a series of guest lecturers.
Evaluation will be based on class participation, a critical analytical essay and two exams about literature, movies and the debates that took place during classes. The paper will have from 4 to 6 pages (double spaced) and it should focus in some of the weekly mandatory readings and link them with some issue that seemed interesting for the student. The paper cannot be a summary. It should be a critical analysis or essay linking the precise reading material of the chosen week with some topic of interest for the student. Plus, the student must deliver an oral presentation (about 5 minutes long) about the particular themes related to the readings he/she has chosen as main subject. The first day of class the student must choose which will be the subject of the paper.
Class participation: 15%, critical analytical paper: 20%, midterm: 25%, final exam: 40%.
Week 1: Introduction. A first approach to the historical characteristics of Latin America. / Introduction to Populism in Latin America.
Week 2: Populism in Latin America 1.
Week 3: Political instability during the 60´s and 70´s. Limits to economic growth. The bureaucratic-authoritarian State.
Week 4: Film. / Revolution and emergence of the Left.
Week 5: Revolution and the Left. / Military dictatorships.
Week 6: Military dictatorships. / Film.
Week 7: Q & A / Mid-Term.
Week 8: Mid-Semester Break.
Week 9: Transitions to democracy.
Week 10: What kind of democracy? Political systems and presidentialism in Latin America. / Neoliberalism and neopopulism in Latin American.
Week 11: Neoliberalism and neopopulism in Latin American.
Week 12: Political problems in Democracy 1 – Political clientelism and corruption.
Week 13: Political problems in Democracy 2- Political disenchantment and social exclusion. The (re) emergence of the (new) left in Latin America.
Week 14: (R-) emergence of the (new) left in Latin America.
Week 15: Final Exam.