Module POL3180 for 2022/3
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POL3180: Latin American Parties, Politics and Elections
This module descriptor refers to the 2022/3 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) Introduction: Political Science and Latin American Studies
2) The historical path: major political developments, 1950 – 2012
3) The current "state" of democracy in in Latin America:
4) Political Institutions and Institutional Design in Latin America:
5) Parties, Politics and Elections
6) Latin America in the Global System:
7) Social Movements
8) Case Studies
9) Review Session
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
---|---|---|
44 | 256 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 44 | Seminars led by the lecturer (22 weeks, x 2 hours each seminar). |
Guided independent study | 155 | Reading and preparation for seminars and presentations |
Guided independent study | 55 | Writing up 2 essays and a film review based on the topics/materials covered in class. |
Guided independent study | 46 | Web-based activities preparation for seminars and presentations. |
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/
Other Learning Resources
Videos: The Battle of Chile, Missing, State of Siege, Castro, Evita, The Revolution will not be
Televised, Our Brand is In Crisis, South of the Border, Even the Rain, Cuba Va: The
Challenge of the Next Generation
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.
- Baker, Andy, and Kenneth Greene. 2011. "The Latin American Left’s Mandate: Free-Market Policies and Issue Voting in New Democracies." World Politics 63(1): 43-77.
- Booth, John A. and Mitchell A. Seligson. 2009. The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America - Political Support and Democracy in Eight Nations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Coppedge, Michael. 1998. "The Dynamic Diversity of Latin American Party Systems". Party Politics 4(4): 547-568.
- Hagopian, Frances, and Scott Mainwaring. 2005. Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Klesner, Joseph L. 2001. "The End of Mexico’s One-Party Regime" Political Science & Politics 34(1): 107-114.
- Remmer, Karen L. 1990. "Democracy and Economic Crisis: The Latin American Experience." World Politics 42(3):315-335.
- Skidmore, Thomas E., and Peter E. Smith. 2000. Modern Latin America, pp.1-12; 42-67. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Wiarda, Howard J. The Soul of Latin America: The Cultural and Political Tradition. New Haven: Yale University Press 2001.
- Wright, Thomas. 2001. Latin America in the Era of the Cuban Revolution, pp. 39-72. Westport: Praeger.