Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL3180: Latin American Parties, Politics and Elections

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

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Peter Kingstone and Deborah Yashar (2012) ­Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics contains detailed essays on a series of big topics (many of them covered in this module).

Thomas Skidmore, Peter Smith and James Green (2013) Modern Latin America 8th edition (OUP)

John Peeler (2009) Building Democracy in Latin America 3rd edition (Lynne Rienner)

Peter H. Smith (2005) Democracy in Latin America: Political Change in Comparative Perspective (OUP)

Joe Foweraker et al. (2003) Governing Latin America (Polity)

Barry Clarke and Joe Foweraker eds. (2001) Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought (Routledge

Robert Dahl (1998) On Democracy (Yale University Press).

R. Dahl, I. Shapiro and J. A. Cheibub (2002) Democracy Sourcebook (MIT Press).