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Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL3180: Latin American Parties, Politics and Elections

This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

Whilst the module's precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:

1)    The idea and emergence of democracy

2)      State formation and authoritarian constraints

3)    Latin America and the 3rd wave of democratization

4)      Democratic transformation and transition

5)      Democratic transitions from above and from below

6)      Parties, electoral politics and party systems

7)      Latin America's 'left turn', 'right turn', or sticking to the middle?

8)      Exclusive-legislative relations and governability

9)      Populism versus party systems?

10)    Populist political projects, right and left

11)    Understanding the quality of democracy

12)    The imperfect rule of law

13)    Inequality, social exclusion and legitimacy

14)    Citizenship rights and social mobilization

15)    Economic development and comparative democratic performance

16)    Constitutional design and attempts to re-found the republic

17)    The accountability deficit

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

-          ELE – http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/

-      BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/latin_america/

-          Latinamerica Press: http://www.lapress.org/

-          MercoPress: http://en.mercopress.com/

-          Buenos Aires Herald: http://www.buenosairesherald.com/

-          LatinoBarometro: http://www.latinobarometro.org/latino/latinobarometro.jsp

-          Latin American Public Opinion Project: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/

How this Module is Assessed

In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.

Formative Assessment

A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.

Summative Assessment

A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.

...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.

Re-assessment

Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.

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