Department of Political Science Political Science 248

University of California, Berkeley Wednesday, 4:00 – 6:00

Spring semester, 2011 Barrows Hall, rm. 291

Ruth Berins Collier Office Hours: Thurs. 4:00-6:00

This course offers a survey of the political science literature on Latin American politics. The
goal is to build on students’ empirical knowledge of Latin American countries, to explore the
central themes and issues that have animated the literature on Latin American politics, and to
encourage students to begin to think about how they might design and execute research that
would contribute to scholarship on the region. Most seminar discussions will be led by students,
and students are expected to prepare carefully and to participate actively in each of our
meetings.

During most of our meetings, two students will be responsible for leading the seminar. These
leaders will direct a critical discussion of the assigned readings that is focused on the chief
theoretical, conceptual, empirical and methodological contributions of these readings. All other
students will come to seminar prepared both to make their own critical comments and to
participate in the conversation generated by discussion leaders.

Over the course of the semester, students are expected to write 7 short response papers (3-4
pages each) on the assigned texts. Students enrolled in PhD programs should describe a
research project or research design based on a question that emerges from the substantive
issues of that week. The purpose of this assignment is to encourage students to avoid the
temptation to “consume” this literature passively, and to adopt instead a more active posture as
they familiarize themselves with key issues and debates. Students who are not enrolled in PhD
programs have the option of either describing a research project/research design or writing a
more traditional, synthetic response to the readings (i.e. one that does not pose a research
question or propose a research design). Students may choose the 7 weeks they wish for these
papers. Two hard copies of each paper are due at the beginning of the class with the
corresponding readings.

In these papers, students are not expected to go beyond the assigned readings. Although they
are free to do so, their papers must reflect a solid grounding in the assigned texts. In lieu of
writing a separate, stand-alone term paper, these short weekly papers will be graded together
as a single, cumulative, multi-part term paper at the end of the semester. Great care and effort
should be put into these papers, and students are encouraged to come to office hours to
discuss them. One such discussion is mandatory, and the student should choose the paper/s
that s/he would like to discuss.

Grades in the course are thus based on three components:

1) performance as discussion leader
2) participation in weekly discussions
3) weekly assignments, graded cumulatively as a seminar paper

Students should acquire a copy of Collier and Collier, Shaping the Political Arena, which is
available for purchase at the bookstore or online. All other readings are either journal articles
that students can access electronically or book chapters/unpublished manuscripts that will be
posted to bspace.

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Week 1 - January 19: Introduction: Research Choices in Political Science

Collier, Ruth Berins and Sebastián Mazzuca. 2006. “Does History Repeat?” In Robert E. Goodin
and Charles Tilly, eds.,The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis. Oxford: Oxford
University Press. pp. 472-489. On bSpace.

Mahoney, James and Richard Snyder. 1999. “Rethinking Agency and Structure in the Study of
Regime Change.” Studies in Comparative International Development 34(2): 3-32.

Week 2 - January 26: The Emergence of Mass Politics: Incorporation, Corporatism,

Populism

Collier, Ruth Berins and David Collier. 1991. Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the
Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America. Princeton: Princeton University
Press.
Overview, Chs. 1-2
Chs. 3-4: read chapter introductions and one country of your choice
Chs. 5-6: read chapter introductions, introduction to each pair of countries, and your
chosen country

Collier, Ruth Berins and David Collier. 1979. “Inducements versus Constraints: Disaggregating
‘Corporatism.’” American Political Science Review 73(4): 967-986.

Recommended:

Collier, Ruth Berins. 1993. “Combining Alternative Perspectives: Internal Trajectories versus
External Influences in Latin American Politics in the 1940s.” Comparative Politics 26(1): 1-29.

Malloy, James ed. 1977. Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Latin America. 1977. Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press.

Bergquist, Charles. 1986. Labor in Latin America: Comparative Essays on Chile, Argentina,
Venezuela and Colombia. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Schmitter, Philippe. 1979. “Still the Century of Corporatism?,” in Schmitter and Gerhard
Lehmbruch, eds., Trends Toward Corporatist Intermediation. London: Sage Publications.

Di Tella, Torcuato. 1965. “Populism and Reform in Latin America,” In Claudio Veliz, ed.,
Obstacles to Change in Latin America. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Germani, Gino. 1978. Authoritarianism, Fascism, and National Populism. New Brunswick, NJ:
Transaction, Inc.

Waisman, Carlos. 1987. The Reversal of Development in Argentina: Postwar

Counterrevolutionary Policies and their Structural Consequences. Princeton: Princeton
University Press.

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Erikson, Kenneth. 1977. “Populism and Political Control of the Working Class in Brazil,” In June
Nash, Juan Corradi and Hobart Spalding, eds., Ideology and Social Change in Latin America.
New York: Gordon and Breach. pp. 200-236.

Week 3 - February 2: Democratic Breakdown and Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism

Collier and Collier, Shaping the Political Arena, Chs. 7-8:

Read chapter introductions, introduction to each pair, and your chosen country

Collier, David. 1979. “Overview of the Bureaucratic-Authoritarian Model.” In David Collier, ed.,
The New Authoritarianism in Latin America. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 19-32.
On bSpace.

O’Donnell, Guillermo. 1979. “Tensions in the Bureaucratic-Authoritarian State and the Question
of Democracy.” In David Collier, ed., The New Authoritarianism in Latin America. Princeton:
Princeton University Press. pp. 285-318. On bSpace.

Schamis, Hector. 1991. “Reconceptualizing Latin American Authoritarianism in the 1970s: From
Bureaucratic Authoritarianism to Neoconservatism.” Comparative Politics 23(2): 201-220.

Recommended:

Linz, Juan and Alfred Stepan, eds. 1978. The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Crisis,
Breakdown, and Reequilibration. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

O’Donnell, Guillermo. 1973. Modernization and Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism: Studies in South

American Politics. Berkeley: The University of California/International and Area Studies.

Hirschman, Albert. 1979. “The Turn to Authoritarianism in Latin America and the Search for its
Economic Determinants,” In David Collier, ed., The New Authoritarianism in Latin America.
Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Villareal, Juan. 1987. “Changes in Argentine Society: The Heritage of Dictatorship,” In Monica
Peralta-Ramos and Carlos Waisman, eds., From Military Rule to Liberal Democracy in
Argentina. Boulder: Westview Press.

Lowenthal, Abraham. 1975. “Peru’s Ambiguous Revolution,” In Abraham Lowenthal, ed., The
Peruvian Experiment. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 3-20.

Lowenthal, Abraham. 1983. “The Peruvian Experiment Reconsidered,” In Abraham Lowenthal

and Cynthia McClintock, eds., The Peruvian Experiment Reconsidered. Princeton: Princeton
University Press. pp. 415-423.

Valenzuela, Arturo. 1995. "The Military in Power: The Consolidation of One-Man Rule,” In Paul
Drake and Iván Jaksic, eds., The Struggle for Democracy in Chile. Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press. pp. 21-72.

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Eaton, Kent. 2006. “Decentralization’s Non-democratic Roots: Authoritarianism and Subnational
Reform in South America.” Latin American Politics and Society 48(1): 1-26.

Hagopian, Frances. 1996. Traditional Politics and Regime Change in Brazil. Ch 1.

Stepan, Alfred. 1976. "The New Professionalism of Internal Warfare and Military Role
Expansion,” In Alfred Stepan, ed., Authoritarian Brazil: Origins, Policies, and Future. New
Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 47-65.

Week 4 - February 9: Authoritarian Breakdown and Democratic Transitions

O'Donnell, Guillermo. 1989. "Transitions to Democracy: Some Navigation Instruments," In

Robert A. Pastor, ed. Democracy in the Americas: Stopping the Pendulum. New York: Holmes
& Meier Publishers. On bSpace.

Collier, Ruth Berins. 2001. “Democratic Transition,” In Paul Barry Clarke and Joe Foweraker,
eds., Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought. London and New York: Routledge. On bSpace.

Collier, Ruth Berins. 1999. Paths Toward Democracy: The Working Class and Elites in Western
Europe and South America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chs. 1, 4, 5.

Geddes, Barbara. 1999. “What do We Know about Democratization after 20 Years?” Annual
Review of Political Science 2: 115-144.

Greene, Kenneth. 2007. Why Do Dominant Parties Lose? Mexico’s Democratization in

Comparative Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 5-10; 35-47, chapter 6.
On bSpace.

Recommended:

Magaloni, Beatriz. 2006. Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in
Mexico. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Magaloni, Beatriz. 2005. “The Demise of Mexico’s One-Party Dominant Regime: Elite Choices
and the Masses in the Establishment of Democracy,” In Frances Hagopian and Scott
Mainwaring, eds., The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America. New York: Cambridge
University Press.

Munck, Gerardo. 2004. “Democracy Studies: Agendas, Findings, Challenges,” In Dick Berg-
Scholosser, ed., Democratization in Comparative Perspective: The State of the Art. Farmington
Hills, MI: Barbara Budrich Publishers. pp. 45-68.

Kaufman, Robert and Stephan Haggard. 1995. The Political Economy of Democratic
Transitions. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

O’Donnell, Guillermo, Philippe Schmitter and Laurence Whitehead. 1986. Transitions from
Authoritarian Rule: Latin America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

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O’Donnell, Guillermo, Philippe Schmitter and Laurence Whitehead. 1986. Transitions from
Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies. Baltimore: The Johns
Hopkins University Press.

Stepan, Alfred. 1986. “Paths Toward Democratization: Theoretical and Comparative

Considerations,” In Guillermo O’Donnell, Philippe Schmitter and Laurence Whitehead, eds.,
Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Comparative Perspectives. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins
University Press.

O’Donnell, Guillermo. 2001. “Democracy, Law and Comparative Politics.” Studies in

Comparative International Development 36(1): 7-36.

Boix, Charles and Susan Stokes. 2003. “Endogenous Democratization.” World Politics 55(4):
517-549.

Schedler, Andreas. 2001. “Measuring Democratic Consolidation.” Studies in Comparative

International Development 36(1): 66-92.

United Nations Development Programme. 2004. Democracy in Latin America: Towards a

Citizens’ Democracy. New York: UNDP.

Week 5 - February 16: Economic and Social Restructuring

Bulmer-Thomas, Victor. 1994. The Economic History of Latin America since Independence.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. chs. 9-11. On bSpace.

Williamson, John. 2000. “What Washington Means by Policy Reform,” In Jeffry Frieden, Manuel
Pastor and Michael Tomz, eds., Modern Political Economy and Latin America. Boulder:
Westview Press. On bSpace.

Stallings, Barbara and Wilson Peres. 2000. Growth, Employment and Equity: The Impact of
Economic Reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean. Washington: Brookings Institute.chs. 1,
3, 5 and pp. 202-210. On bSpace.

Sheahan, John. 1997. “Effects of Liberalization Programs on Poverty and Inequality: Chile,
Mexico, and Peru.” Latin American Research Review 32(3): 7-37.

Portes, Alejandro and Kelly Hoffman. 2003. “Latin American Class Structures: Their
Composition and Change during the Neoliberal Era.” Latin American Research Review 38(1):
41-82.

Schrank, Andrew and Marcus Kurtz. 2005. “Credit Where Credit Is Due: Open Economy
Industrial Policy and Export Diversification in Latin America and the Caribbean.” Politics &
Society 33(4): 671-702.

Recommended:

Lustig et. al power point presentation. On bSpace.

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Fraga, Arminio. 2004. “Latin America Since the 1990s: Rising from the Sickbed?” Journal of
Economic Perspectives 18(2): 29-106.

Ocampo, José Antonio. 2004. “Latin America’s Growth and Equity Frustrations during Structural
Reforms.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives 18(2): 67-88.

Week 6 - February 23: The Politics of Economic Reform

Geddes, Barbara. 1991. “A Game Theoretic Model of Reform in Latin American Democracies,”
American Political Science Review 85(2): 371-392.

Murillo, M. Victoria. 2001. Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policymaking in Latin

American Utilities. New York: Cambridge University Press. Ch 1 – pp. 16-51. On bSpace.

Etchemendy, Sebastian. Forthcoming (2011). Models of Economic Liberalization: Regime,

Power and Compensation in Latin America, Spain, and Portugal. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. Ch. 1, “Overview: Models of Economic Liberalization in ISI Economies.” On
bSpace

Weyland, Kurt. 1996. “Risk Taking in Latin American Economic Restructuring: Lessons from
Prospect Theory.” International Studies Quarterly 40: 185-208.

Gibson, Edward. 1997. “The Populist Road to Market Reform: Policy and Electoral Coalitions in
Mexico and Argentina.” World Politics 49(3): 339-370.

Remmer, Karen and Erik Wibbels. 2000. “The Subnational Politics of Economic Adjustment:
Provincial Politics and Fiscal Performance in Argentina.” Comparative Political Studies 33(4):
419-451.

Magaloni, Beatriz and Vidal Romero. 2008. “Partisan Cleavages, State Retrenchment and Free
Trade: Latin America in the 1990s.” Latin American Research Review 43(2): 107-135.

Kurtz, Marcus and Sarah Brooks. 2008. “Embedding Neoliberal Reform in Latin America.” World
Politics 60(2): 231-280.

Brooks, Sarah and Marcus Kurtz. 2007. “Capital, Trade and the Political Economies of Reform.”
American Journal of Political Science 51(4): 703-720.

Recommended:

Schamis, Hector. 1999. “Distributional Coalitions and the Politics of Economic Reform in Latin
America.” World Politics 51(2): 236-268.

Gibson, Edward. 1997. “The Populist Road to Market Reform: Policy and Electoral Coalitions in
Mexico and Argentina.” World Politics 49(3): 339-370.

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Huber, Evelyn and Fred Solt. 2004. “Successes and Failures of Neoliberalism.” Latin American
Research Review 39(3): 150-164

Weyland, Kurt. 1998. “Swallowing the Bitter Pill: Sources of Popular Support for Neoliberal
Reform in Latin America.” Comparative Political Studies 31(5): 539-568.

Etchemendy, Sebastián. 2001. “Constructing Reform Coalitions: The Politics of Compensations

in Argentina’s Economic Liberalization.” Latin American Politics and Society 43(3): 1-36.

Schneider, Ben Ross. 1998. “The Material Bases of Technocracy: Investor Confidence and
Neoliberalism in Latin America,” In Miguel Centeno and Patricio Silva, eds., The Politics of
Expertise in Latin America. New York: Palgrave-MacMillan.

Bresser Pereira, Luiz Carlos, José María Maravall, and Adam Przeworski. 1993. Economic
Reforms in New Democracies: A Social Democratic Approach. New York: Cambridge
University Press.

Haggard, Stephan and Robert Kaufman. 1992. “Institutions and Economic Adjustment,” In
Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman, eds., The Politics of Economic Adjustment:
International Constraints, Distributive Conflicts and the State. Princeton: Princeton University
Press.

Boas, Taylor and Jordan Gans-Morse. 2009. “Neoliberalism: From New Liberal Philosophy to
Anti-Liberal Slogan.” Studies in Comparative International Development 44(2): 137-161.

Lora, Eduardo and Mauricio Olivera. 2005. “The Electoral Consequences of the Washington
Consensus.” Economía 5(2): 1-61.

Weyland, Kurt. 2004. “Assessing Latin American Neoliberalism: Introduction to a Debate.” Latin
American Research Review 39(3): 143-149.

Murillo, M. Victoria. 2002. “Political Bias in Policy Convergence: Privatization Choice in Latin
America.” World Politics 54(4): 462-493.

Corrales, Javier. 2003. “Market Reforms,” In Jorge Dominguez and Michael Shifter, eds.,
Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins
University Press. pp. 74-99.

Schneider, Ben Ross. 2004. “Organizing Interests and Coalitions in the Politics of Market
Reform in Latin America.” World Politics 56(3): 456-479.

Week 7 - March 2: Decentralization and Subnational Politics

Montero, Alfred and David Samuels. 2004. “The Political Determinants of Decentralization in
Latin America: Causes and Consequences,” In Alfred Montero and David Samuels, eds.,
Decentralization and Democracy in Latin America. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press.
On bSpace.

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Willis, Eliza, Christopher Garman and Stephan Haggard. 1999. "The Politics of Decentralization
in Latin America." Latin American Research Review 34(1): 7-56.

O’Neill, Kathleen. 2003. “Decentralization as an Electoral Strategy.” Comparative Political

Studies 36(9): 1068-1091.

Gibson, Edward. 2004. “Federalism and Democracy: Theoretical Connections and Cautionary
Insights,” In Edward Gibson, ed., Federalism and Democracy in Latin America. Baltimore: The
Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1-28. On bSpace.

Samuels, David and Scott Mainwaring. 2004. “Strong Federalism, Constraints on the Central
Government, and Economic Reform in Brazil,” In Edward Gibson, ed., Federalism and
Democracy in Latin America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. On bSpace.

Snyder, Richard and David Samuels. 2004. “Legislative Malapportionment in Latin America:
Historical and Comparative Perspectives,” In Edward Gibson, ed., Federalism and Democracy
in Latin America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. On bSpace.

Tendler, Judith. 1997. Good Government in the Tropics. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins
University Press. pp. 142-157. On bSpace.

Snyder, Richard. 1999. “After Neoliberalism: The Politics of Reregulation in Mexico.” World
Politics 51(2): 173-204.

Gibson, Edward and Ernesto Calvo. 2000. “Federalism and Low Maintenance Constituencies:
Territorial Dimensions of Economic Reform in Argentina.” Studies in Comparative International
Development 35(3): 32-55.

Eaton, Kent and Tyler Dickovick. 2004. “The Politics of Re-centralization in Argentina and
Brazil.” Latin American Research Review 39(1): 90-122.

Recommended:

Faletti, Tulia. 2005. “A Sequential Theory of Decentralization: Latin American Cases in

Comparative Perspective.” American Political Science Review 99(3): 327-346.

Wibbels, Erik. 2005. Federalism and the Market: Intergovernmental Conflict and Economic
Reform in the Developing World. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Diaz-Cayeros, Alberto. 2006. Federalism, Fiscal Authority, and Centralization in Latin America.
New York: Cambridge University Press.

Fox, Jonathan. 2007. “Rural Democratization and Decentralization at the State/Society

Interface: What Counts as ‘Local’ Government in the Mexican Countryside?” Journal of Peasant
Society 34(3/4): 527-559.

Gibson, Edward. 2005. “Boundary Control: Subnational Authoritarianism in Democratic

Countries.” World Politics 58(1): 101-132.

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Eaton, Kent. 2004. “Risky Business: Decentralization from Above in Chile and Uruguay.”
Comparative Politics 37(1): 1-22.

Grindle, Merilee. 2007. Going Local: Decentralization, Democratization and the Promise of
Good Governance. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Hiskey, Jonathan and Mitchell Seligson. 2003. “Decentralization, Local Government

Performance and System Support: A Study of Bolivia.” Studies in Comparative International
Development 37(4): 64-88.

Kaufman, Robert and Guillermo Trejo. 1997. “Regionalism, Regime Transformation and
Pronasol: The Politics of the National Solidarity Programme in Four Mexican States.” Journal of
Latin American Studies 29: 717-745.

Snyder, Richard. 2001. “Scaling Down: The Subnational Comparative Method.” Studies in
Comparative International Development 36(1): 93-110.

Week 8 - March 9: Political Institutions: Electoral Systems, Legislatures, and Federalism

Carey, John and Peter Siavelis. 2005. “Insurance for Good Losers and the Survival of Chile's
Concertacion.” Latin American Politics & Society 47(2): 1-22.

Zucco, Cesar. 2007. "Where's the Bias: A Reassessment of the Chilean Electoral System.''
Electoral Studies 26: 303-14

Ames, Barry. 1995. “Electoral Strategy under Open-List Proportional Representation.” American
Journal of Political Science 39(2): 406-433.

Cheibub, Jose Antonio, Argelina Figueiredo and Fernando Limongi. 2009. “Political Parties and
Governors as Determinants of the Behavior of Brazilian Legislators.” Latin American Politics and
Society 51(1): 1-30.

Garland, Marshall, and Glen Biglaiser. 2009. “Do Electoral Rules Matter? Political Institutions
and Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America.” Comparative Political Studies 42 (2): 224-251.

Crisp, Brian, Nathan Jansen, Guillermo Rosas, and Thomas Zeitzoff. 2010. “Vote-Seeking
Incentives and Investment Environments: The Need for Credit Claiming and the Provision of
Protectionism”. Electoral Studies 29 (2): 221-226

Alemán, Eduardo. 2006. “Policy Gatekeepers in Latin American Legislatures.” Latin American
Politics and Society 48(3): 125-155.

Calvo, Ernesto. 2007. “The Responsive Legislature: Public Opinion and Law Making in a Highly
Disciplined Legislature,” British Journal of Political Science (BJPS) 37 (2): 263-280.

Recommended:

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Shugart, Matthew S. and John Carey. 1992. Presidents and Assemblies. New York: Cambridge
University Press.

Carey, John and Matthew S. Shugart, eds. 1998. Executive Decree Authority. New York:
Cambridge University Press

Shugart, Matthew and Martin P. Wattenberg, eds. 2003. Mixed-Member Electoral Systems: The
Best of Both Worlds? Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Electoral Rules:

Jones, Mark. 1995. “A Guide to Electoral Systems of the Americas.” Electoral Studies 14(1): 5-
21. And Mark Jones. 1997. "A Guide to the Electoral Systems of the Americas: An Update."
Electoral Studies 16(1): 13-15.

Carey, John and Matthew Shugart. 1995. “Incentives to Cultivate a Personal Vote: A Rank
Ordering of Electoral Formulas.” Electoral Studies 14 (4): 417-439.

Crisp, Brian F. 2008. "Incentives in Mixed-Member Electoral Systems: General Election Laws,
Candidate Selection Procedures, and Cameral Rules." Comparative Political Studies 41(8):
1460-1485.

Magar, Eric, Marc Rosenblum and David Samuels. 1998. ”On the Absence of Centripetal
Incentives in Double-Member Districts: The Case of Chile.” Comparative Political Studies 31(6):
714-739.

Htun, Mala and Mark Jones. 2000. "Quotas and the Election of Women in Latin America: The
Crucial Intervening Role of Electoral Systems," In Paloma Saavedra Ruiz, ed., Parity
Democracy in the Construction of Europe. Madrid: CELEM. pp. 35-46.

Crisp, Brian, Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon, Bradford S. Jones, Mark Jones, and Michelle M.
Taylor-Robinson. 2004. “Vote-Seeking Incentives and Legislative Representation in Six
Presidential Democracies.” The Journal of Politics 66(3): 823-846.

Jones, Mark. 2004. "Electoral Institutions, Social Cleavages, and Candidate Competition in
Presidential Elections." Electoral Studies 23(1): 73-106.

Jones, Mark, Sebastian Saiegh, Pablo T. Spiller, and Mariano Tomassi. 2002. "Amateur
Legislators-Professional Politicians: The Consequences of Party-Centered Electoral Rules in a
Federal System." American Journal of Political Science 46(3): 356-69.

Remmer, Karen. 2008. “The Politics of Institutional Change: Electoral Reform in Latin America:
1978-2002.” Party Politics 14(1): 5-30.

Presidents and Assemblies—Executive-Legislative Relations

Morgenstern, Scott and Benito Nacif, eds. 2005. Legislative Politics in Latin America. New York:
Cambridge University Press. “Introduction,” “Conclusions” and “Epiloque” (with Cox).

Tsebelis, George and Eduardo Alemán. 2005. “Presidential Conditional Agenda Setting Power
in Latin America.” World Politics 57(3): 396-420.

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Crisp, Brian, Scott Desposato and Kristin Kanthak. 2009. “Legislative Pivots, Presidential
Powers, and Policy Stability.” Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 26(3): 1-27.

Ames, Barry. 2001. The Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press. Chs. 6 and 7.

Cheibub, Jose Antonio. 2002. “Minority Governments, Deadlock Situations, and the Survival of
Presidential Democracies.” Comparative Political Studies 35(3): 284-312.

Samuels, David. 2000. “Concurrent Elections, Discordant Results: Presidentialism, Federalism

and Governance in Brazil.” Comparative Politics 33(1): 1-20.

Jones, Mark, Wonjae Hwang and Juan Pablo Micozzi. 2009. "Government and Opposition in the
Argentine Congress, 1989-2007: Understanding Inter-Party Dynamics Through Roll Call Vote
Analysis." Journal of Politics in Latin America 1(1): 67-96.

Jones, Mark, Wonjae Hwang. 2005. "Party Government in Presidential Democracies: Extending
Cartel Theory Beyond the U.S. Congress." American Journal of Political Science 49(2): 267-82.

Cheibub, Jose Antonio and Fernando Limongi. 2002. “Democratic Institutions and Regime
Survival: Parliamentarism and Presidentialism Reconsidered.” Annual Review of Political
Science 5: 151-179.

Eaton, Kent. 2000. “Presidentialism vs. Parliamentarism in the Policy Arena.” Comparative
Politics 32(3): 355-374. (review article)

Valenzuela, Arturo. 2004. “Latin American Presidencies Interrupted.” Journal of Democracy

14(4): 5-19.

Hochstetler, Kathryn. 2006. “Rethinking Presidentialism: Challenges and Presidential Falls in

South America.” Comparative Politics 38(4): 401-418.

Legislative Voting

Zucco, Cesar and Benjamin Lauderdale. Forthcoming (2011). “Distinguishing Between

Influences on Brazilian Legislative Behavior.” Legislative Studies Quarterly.

Amorim Neto, Octavio. 2002. “The Puzzle of Party Discipline in Brazil.” Latin American Politics
and Society 44(1): 127-144.

Ames, Barry. 1995. “Electoral Rules, Constituency Pressures, and Pork Barrel: Bases of Voting
in the Brazilian Congress.” The Journal of Politics 57(2): 324-343.

Carey, John. 2007. “Competing Principals, Political Institutions, and Party Unity in Legislative
Voting.” American Journal of Political Science 51(1): 92-107.

Carey, John and Gina Yannitell Reinhardt. 2004. “State-Level Institutional Effects on Legislative
Coalition Unity in Brazil.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 29(1): 23-47.

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Alemán, Eduardo. 2009. “Institutions, Political Conflict, and the Cohesion of Policy Networks in
the Chilean Congress, 1961-2006,” Journal of Latin American Studies, 41(3): 467-491.

Alemán, Eduardo and Sebastián M. Saiegh. 2007. “Legislative Preferences, Political Parties
and Coalition Unity in Chile.” Comparative Politics 39(3): 253-272.

Samuels, David. 2002. "Pork-Barreling is Not Credit-Claiming or Advertising: Campaign Finance

and the Sources of the Personal Vote in Brazil." The Journal of Politics 64(3): 845-863.

Legislative Production

Alemán, Eduardo and Patricio Navia. 2009. “Institutions and the Legislative Success of ‘Strong’
Presidents: An Analysis of Government Bills in Chile.” Journal of Legislative Studies 15(4): 401-
419.

Alemán, Eduardo and Ernesto Calvo. 2010. “Unified Government, Bill Approval, and the
Legislative Weight of the President,” Comparative Political Studies, 43(4): 511-534.

Cheibub, Jose Antonio, Adam Przeworski and Sebastian Saiegh. 2004. “Government Coalitions
and Legislative Success Under Parliamentarism and Presidentialism.” British Journal of Political
Science 34: 565-84.

Jones, Mark. 2001. "Political Institutions and Public Policy in Argentina: An Overview of the
Formation and Execution of the National Budget," In Stephan Haggard and Mathew D.
McCubbins, eds., Presidents, Parliaments, and Policy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
pp. 149- 82.

Accountability and Representation

Carey, John. 2009. Legislative Voting and Accountability. New York: Cambridge University
Press.

Others

Weyland, Kurt. 2002. “Limitations of Rational-Choice Institutionalism for the Study of Latin
American Politics.” Studies in Comparative International Development 37(1): 57-85.

Munck, Gerardo. 2004. “Democratic Politics in Latin America: New Debates and Research
Frontiers.” Annual Review of Political Science 7: 437-462.

Levitsky, Steven and M. Victoria Murillo. 2009. “The Causes and Implications of Variation in
Institutional Strength.” Annual Review of Political Science 12: 115-133.

Helmke, Gretchen and Steven Levitsky. 2004. “Informal Institutions and Comparative Politics: A
Research Agenda.” Perspectives on Politics 2(4): 725-740.

Avelar, Lúcia and Antônio Octávio Cintra. 2007. Sistema Político Brasileiro: Uma Introdução.
Rio de Janeiro: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. This is an encyclopedia of sorts of Brazilian politics
and institutions – a helpful resource for any Brazilianist.

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Week 9 - March 16: Political Parties and Party Systems

Levitsky, Steven. 2003. Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press. Ch 1. On bSpace.

Luna, Juan Pablo. 2010. “Segmented Party-Voter Linkages in Latin America: The Case of the
UDI.” Journal of Latin American Studies 42: 325-356.

Calvo, Ernesto and M. Victoria Murillo. 2004. “Who Delivers? Partisan Clients in the Argentine
Electoral Market.” American Journal of Political Science 48(4): 742-757.

Rosas, Guillermo. 2010. “Issues, Ideologies, and Partisan Divides: Imprints of Programmatic
Structure in Latin American Legislatures,” In Herbert Kitschelt et al., eds., Latin American Party
Systems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 70-95. On bSpace

Hagopian, Frances, Carlos Gervasoni, and Juan Andrés Moraes. 2009. “From Patronage to
Program: The Emergence of Party-Oriented Legislators in Brazil.” Comparative Political Studies
42(3): 360-391.

Roberts, Kenneth. Forthcoming. Changing Course: Parties, Populism and Political

Representation in Latin America’s Neoliberal Era (manuscript). Ch. 8 pp. 237-248, plus country
of your choice, Ch. 9, pp. 329-322, Ch. 10. On bSpace

Roberts, Kenneth. 2002. “Social Inequalities Without Class Cleavages in Latin America’s
Neoliberal Era.” Studies in Comparative International Development 36(4): 3-33.

Samuels, David. 2004. “From Socialism to Social Democracy: Party Organization and the
Transformation of the Worker’s Party in Brazil.” Comparative Political Studies 37(9): 999-1024.

Recommended:

Mair, Peter. 2000. “Political Parties, The Left, and Democracy: What Sort of Future?”

Katz, Richard and Peter Mair. 1995. “Changing Models of Party Organization and Party
Democracy: The Emergence of the Cartel Party.” Party Politics 1(1): 5-28.

Mair, Peter. 1998. Party System Change: Approaches and Interpretations. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.

Kitschelt, Herbert. 2000. “Linkages between Citizens Politicians in Democratic Polities.”

Comparative Political Studies 33(6/7): 845-879.

Gibson, Edward. 1992. “Conservative Electoral Movements and Democratic Politics: Core
Constituencies, Coalition Building, and the Latin American Right,” In Douglas Chalmers, Maria
do Campello de Souza, Atilio Boron, eds., The Right and Democracy in Latin America. New
York: Praeger.

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Middlebrook, Kevin. 2000. “Introduction,” In Kevin Middlebrook, ed., Conservative Parties, the
Right and Democracy in Latin America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1-
50.

Jones, Mark and Scott Mainwaring. 2003. “The Nationalization of Parties and Party Systems: An
Empirical Measure and Application to the Americas.” Party Politics 9(2): 139-166.

Coppedge, Michael. 1998. “The Dynamic Diversity of Latin American Party Systems.” Party
Politics 4(4): 547-568.

Coppedge, Michael. 1997. “District Magnitude, Economic Performance and Party-System

Fragmentation in Five Latin American Countries.” Comparative Political Studies 30(1): 156-185.

Sabatini, Christopher. 2003. “Decentralization and Political Parties.” Journal of Democracy

14(2): 138-150.

Schedler, Andreas. 1996. “Anti-Political-Establishment Parties.” Party Politics 2(3): 291-312.

Mainwaring, Scott and Mariano Torcal. 2003. “The Political Recrafting of Social Bases of Party
Competition: Chile, 1973-1995.” British Journal of Political Science 33(1): 55-84.

Roberts, Kenneth and Erik Wibbels. 1999. “Party Systems and Electoral Volatility in Latin
America: A Test of Economic, Institutional and Structural Explanations.” American Political
Science Review 93(3): 575-590.

Nichter, Simeon. 2008. “Vote Buying or Turnout Buying? Machine Politics and the Secret
Ballot.” American Political Science Review 102(1): 19-31.

Kitschelt, Herbert, Kirk Hawkins, Juan Pablo Luna, Guillermo Rosas, and Elizabeth
Zechmeister. 2010. Latin American Party Systems. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Benton, Allyson Lucinda. 2007. “Strategic Struggle for Patronage: Political Careers, State
Largesse, and Factionalism in Latin American Parties.” Journal of Theoretical Politics 19(1): 55-
82.

Collier, Ruth Berins. 1992. The Contradictory Alliance: State-Labor Relations and Regime
Change in Mexico. Berkeley: University of California. Chs. 1,4,6.

Collier, Ruth Berins. 2000. “The Transformation of Labor-based One-Partyism at the End of the
Twentieth Century: The Case of Mexico,” In James Frank Hollifield and Calvin Jillson, eds.,
Pathways to Democracy: The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions. Boulder: Routledge
Press.

Greene, Kenneth. 2002. “Opposition Party Strategy and Spatial Competition in Dominant Party
Systems: A Theory and the Case of Mexico.” Comparative Political Studies 35(7): 755-783.

Langston, Joy. 2006. “The Changing Party of the Institutional Revolution: Electoral Competition
and Decentralized Candidate Selection.” Party Politics 12(3): 395-413.

Mizrahi, Yemile. 2003. From Martyrdom to Power: The Partido Acción Nacional in Mexico. Notre
Dame: The University of Notre Dame Press.

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Bruhn, Kathleen. 1997. Taking on Goliath: The Emergence of a New Left Party and the Struggle
for Democracy in Mexico. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press.

Keck, Margaret. 1992. The Workers’ Party and Democratization in Brazil. New Haven: Yale
University Press. pp. 61-85.

Hunter, Wendy. Forthcoming. The Transformation of the Workers’ Party in Brazil, 1989-2009.
New York: Cambridge University Press. Ch 5 – pp. 106-145.

Mainwaring, Scott. 1999. Rethinking Party Systems in the Third Wave of Democratization: The
Case of Brazil. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Ch 2.

Gibson, Edward. 1996. Class and Conservative Parties: Argentina in Comparative Perspective.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Ch 1.

McGuire, James. 1997. Peronism without Perón: Unions, Parties and Democracy in Argentina.
Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Levitsky, Steven. 2001. “An ‘Organised Disorganisation’: Informal Organisation and the
Persistence of Local Party Structures in Argentine Peronism.” Journal of Latin American Studies
33(1): 29-66.

Levitsky, Steven. 2003. “From Labor Politics to Machine Politics: The Transformation of Party-
Union Linkages in Argentine Peronism 1983-1999.” Latin American Research Review 38(3): 3-
36.

Levitsky, Steven and Katrina Burgess. 2003. “Explaining Populist Party Adaptation in Latin
America: Environmental and Organizational Determinants of party Change in Argentina, Mexico,
Peru and Venezuela.” Comparative Political Studies 36(8): 859-880.

Tanaka, Martin. 2006. “From Crisis to Collapse of the Party Systems and Dilemmas of
Democratic Representation: Peru and Venezuela,” In Scott Mainwaring et. al., The Crisis of
Democratic Representation in the Andes. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Burgess, Katrina. 1999. “Loyalty Dilemmas And Market Reform: Party-Union Alliances Under
Stress in Mexico, Spain, and Venezuela." World Politics 52(1): 105-134.

Week 10 - March 30 Business Politics

Schneider, Ben Ross. 2004. Business Politics and the State in Twentieth-Century Latin
America. New York: Cambridge University Press. Ch 2. On bSpace

Schneider, Ben Ross. Forthcoming. “Business Politics in Latin America: Patterns of

Fragmentation and Centralization,” Chapter 13 for the Oxford Handbook of Business and
Government, edited by David Coen, Graham Wilson, and Wyn Grant. New York: Oxford
University Press. On bSpace

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Schneider, Ben Ross. 2008. "Economic Liberalization and Corporate Governance: The
Resilience of Business Groups in Latin America.” Comparative Politics 40(4): 379-397.

Schneider, Ben Ross. 2009. "Hierarchical Market Economies and Varieties of Capitalism in
Latin America.” Journal of Latin American Studies 41: 553-575.

Shrank, Andrew. 2009. “Understanding Latin American Political Economy: Varieties of

Capitalism or Fiscal Sociology?” Economy and Society 38(1): 53-61.

Wibbels, Erik and Moisés Arce. 2003. “Globalization, Taxation, and Burden-Shifting in Latin
America.” International Organization 57: 111-136.

Shadlen, Ken. 2002. “Orphaned by Democracy: Small Industry in Contemporary Mexico.”

Comparative Politics 35(1): 43-62.

Bull, Benedicte. 2008. “Policy Networks and Business Participation in Free Trade Negotiations
in Chile.” Journal of Latin American Studies 40: 95-224.

Grabel, Ilene. 1996. “Marketing the Third World: The Contradictions of Portfolio Investment in
the Global Economy.” World Development 24(11): 1761-1776.

Recommended:

Eaton, Kent. 2007. “Backlash in Bolivia: Regional Autonomy as a Reaction against Indigenous
Mobilization.” Politics and Society 35(1): 71-102.

Martínez, Juan, and Javier Santiso. 2003. “Financial Markets and Politics: The Confidence
Game in Latin American Emerging Economies.” International Political Science Review 24(3):
363-395.

Stallings, Barbara. 2006. Finance for Development: Latin America in Comparative Perspective.
Washington: Brookings Institution Press.

Silva, Eduardo and Francisco Durand. 1997. “Organized Business and Politics in Latin
America,” In Francisco Durand and Eduardo Silva, eds., Organized Business, Economic
Change and Democracy in Latin America. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers. pp. 1-29.

Silva, Eduardo. 1996. The State and Capital in Chile. Boulder: Westview Press.

Biglaiser, Glen, and Joseph Staats. 2010. “Do Political Institutions Affect Foreign Direct
Investment? A Survey of U.S. Corporations in Latin America.” Political Research Quarterly 63
(3): 508-522.

Week 11 - March 30: Social Programs

Huber, Evelyn, Tom Mustillo and John D. Stephens. 2008. “Politics and Social Spending in Latin
America.” The Journal of Politics 70(2): 420-436.

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Rudra, Nita. 2007. “Welfare States in Developing Countries: Unique or Universal?” The Journal
of Politics 69(2): 378-396.

Garay, Candelaria. 2010. Including Outsiders: Social Policy Expansion in Latin America.
University of California at Berkeley, Department of Political Science, Ph.D. Dissertation.
Chapters 1 and 2. On bSpace.

Pribble, Jennifer. 2010. “Universalizing Healthcare Policy in Latin America’s Advanced Social
Protection States: Lessons from Chile and Uruguay.” Duke Workshop on Social Policy in
Developing Countries. May 7-8, 2010. On bSpace.

Penfold-Becerra, Michael. 2007. “Clientelism and Social Funds: Evidence from Chavez’s
Misiones.” Latin American Politics and Society 49(4): 63-84.

Diaz-Cayeros, Alberto and Beatriz Magaloni. 2009. “Aiding Latin America’s Poor.” Journal of
Democracy 20(4): 36-49.

Fernandez Martínez, Marco Antonio. 2010. “Teachers, Unions, and Students: The Political
Determinants of the Distribution of Education Spending.” Duke Workshop on Social Policy in
Developing Countries. May 7-8, 2010. On bSpace.

Haggard, Stephan and Robert Kaufman. 2010. “Inequality and Preferences for Redistribution:
Some Preliminary Notes.” Duke Workshop on Social Policy in Developing Countries. May 7-8,
2010. On bSpace.

Recommended:

Kurtz, Marcus. 2004. Free Market Democracy and the Chilean and Mexican Countryside. New
York: Cambridge University Press.

Carnes, Matthew and Isabela Mares, 2010. “Deindustrialization and the Rise of Non-
contributory Social Programs in Latin America.” Duke Workshop on Social Policy in Developing
Countries. May 7-8, 2010.

Hunter, Wendy. 2010. “Building Citizenship or Reinforcing Clientelism?” Contributions of Brazil’s

Bolsa Familia.” Duke Workshop on Social Policy in Developing Countries. May 7-8, 2010.

Wibbels, Erik. 2006. “Dependency Revisited: International Markets, Business Cycles, and Social
Spending in the Developing World.” International Organization 60(2): 433-468.

Huber, Evelyn, Francois Nielsen, Jenny Pribble, and John D. Stephens. 2006. “Politics and
Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean.” American Sociological Review 71(6): 943-963.

Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History. 2010. Special issue on Latin American
Income Inequality. Vol 48, issue 2.

McGuire, James. 2010. Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America. New
York: Cambridge University Press.

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López Calva, Luis F. and Nora Lustig. 2009. The Recent Decline of Inequality In Latin America:
Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Peru. ECINEQ Working Paper # 140.

Aliaga, Lissette, Carolina Flores and Bryan Roberts. 2003. Employment, Earnings and Class
Structures: Selected Latin American Cities During the 1990s. Center for the Study of
Urbanization and Internal Migration in Developing Countries (CSUIM), University of Texas at
Austin. Working Paper # ST-1.

Week 12 - April 6: Rule of Law and the Courts, Violence and Police

O’Donnell, Guillermo. 1993. “On the State, Democratization and Some Conceptual Problems: A
Latin American View with Glances at Some Postcommunist Countries.” World Development
21(8): 1355-1369.

Brinks, Daniel. 2008. “Inequality, Institutions, and the Rule of Law: The Social and Institutional
Bases of Rights.” University of Notre Dame, Kellogg Institute for International Studies Working
Paper #351. On bSpace.

Yashar, Deborah. “Institutions and Citizenship: Reflections on the Illicit.” (unpublished paper)
On bSpace

Snyder, Richard and Angelica Durán-Martínez. 2009. “Does Illegality Breed Violence? Drug
Trafficking and State-sponsored Protection Rackets.” Crime, Law and Social Change 52(3):
253-273.

Eaton, Kent. 2008. “Paradoxes of Police Reform: Federalism, Parties and Civil Society in
Argentina’s Public Security Crisis.” Latin American Research Review 43(3): 5-32.

Smulovitz, Catalina and Enrique Peruzzotti. 2000. “Societal Accountability in Latin America.”
Journal of Democracy 11(4): 147-158.

Smulovitz, Catalina. 2008. “Legal Mobilization and Judicialization in Latin America: Political
Consequences of a Newly Discovered Tool.” Working Paper. On bSpace.

Sieder, Rachel, Line Schjolden and Alan Angell. 2009. “Introduction: The Judicialization of
Politics in Latin America,” In Rachel Sieder, Line Schjolden, and Alan Angell, eds., The
Judicializiation of Politics in Latin America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 1-20. On
bSpace.

O’Donnell, Guillermo. 2009. “Afterword,” In Rachel Sieder, Line Schjolden, and Alan Angell,
eds., The Judicializiation of Politics in Latin America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 293-
298. On bSpace.

Taylor, Matthew. 2006. “Veto and Voice in the Courts: Policy Implications of Institutional Design
in the Brazilian Judiciary.” Comparative Politics 38(3): 337-355.

Recommended:

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Eaton, Kent. 2006. "The Downside of Decentralization: Armed Clientelism in Colombia."
Security Studies 48(1): 533-562.

Dellasoppa, Emilio Enrique and Zoraia Saint’Clair Branco. 2006. “Brazil’s Public-Security
Plans,” In John Bailey and Lucía Dammert, eds., Public Security and Police Reform in the
Americas. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 24-43.

de Mesquita Neto, Paulo. 2006. “Public-Private Partnerships for Police Reform in Brazil,” In
John Bailey and Lucía Dammert, eds., Public Security and Police Reform in the Americas.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 44-57.

Dammert, Lucía. 2006. “From Public Security to Citizen Security in Chile,” In John Bailey and
Lucía Dammert, eds., Public Security and Police Reform in the Americas. Pittsburgh: University
of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 58-73.

Kapiszewski, Diana and Matthew Taylor. 2008. “Doing Courts Justice? Studying Judicial Politics
in Latin America.” Perspectives on Politics 6: 741-767.

Finkel, Jodi. 2005. “Judicial Reform as Insurance Policy: Mexico in the 1990s: A Supreme Court
Willing and Able to Enter the Political Fray.” Latin American Politics and Society 47(1): 87-113.

Brinks, Daniel and Abby Blass. 2010. “New Courts for New Democracies: Judicial Changes in
Latin America from 1975 to 2009.” Paper prepared for the Spring Speaker Series, Center for the
Study of Law, Politics, and Economics, Emory University, Jan. 25.

Bill Chavez, Rebecca. 2004. The Rule of Law in Nascent Democracies. Stanford: Stanford
University Press.

Cepeda Espinosa, Manuel José. 2009. “The Judicialization of Politics in Colombia: The Old and
the New,” In Rachel Sieder, Line Schjolden, and Alan Angell, The Judicializiation of Politics in
Latin America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Staton, Jeffrey. 2004. “Judicial Policy Implementation in Mexico City and Mérida.” Comparative
Politics 37(1): 41-60.

Fox, Jonathan. 2007. Accountability Politics: Power and Voice in Rural Mexico. Ch. 1.

Davis, Diane. 2006. “Undermining the Rule of Law: Democratization and the Dark Side of Police
Reform in Mexico.” Latin American Politics and Society 48(1): 55-86.

Brinks, Daniel. 2003. “Informal Institutions and the Rule of Law: The Judicial Response to State
Killings in Buenos Aires and São Paulo in the 1990s.” Comparative Politics 36(1): 1-19.

Pereira, Anthony. 2001. “Virtual Legality: Authoritarian Legacies and the Reform of Military
Justice in Brazil, the Southern Cone, and Mexico.” Comparative Political Studies 34(5): 555-
574.

Ungar, Mark. 2004. “Human Rights in the Andes: the Defensoría del Pueblo,” In Jo-Marie Burt
and Philip Mauceri, eds., Politics in the Andes: Identity, Conflict, Reform. Pittsburgh: University
of Pittsburgh Press.

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Helmke, Gretchen. 2002. “The Logic of Strategic Defection: Court-Executive Relations in
Argentina.” American Political Science Review 34(1): 291-303.

Schedler, Andreas, Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner, eds. 2002. The Self-Restraining State:
Power and Accountability in New Democracies. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Rowland, Alison. 2006. “Local Responses to Public Insecurity in Mexico,” In John Bailey and
Lucía Dammert, eds., Public Security and Police Reform in the Americas. Pittsburgh: University
of Pittsburgh Press.

Ferreyra, Aleida and Renata Segura. 2000. “Examining the Military in the Local Sphere:
Colombia and Mexico.” Latin American Perspectives 27(2): 18-35.

Ungar, Mark. 2002. Elusive Reform: Democracy and the Rule of Law in Latin America. Boulder:
Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Hilbink, Lisa. 2007. Judges beyond Politics in Democracy and Dictatorships: Lessons from
Chile. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Fuentes, Claudio. 2005. Contesting the Iron Fist: Advocacy Networks and Police Violence in
Democratic Argentina and Chile. New York: Routledge.

Call, Charles. 2001. “War Transitions and the New Civilian Security in Latin America.”
Comparative Politics 35(1): 1-20.

Pereira, Anthony and Mark Ungar. 2005. “The Persistence of the Mano Dura: Authoritarian
Legacies and Policing in Brazil and the Southern Cone,” in Katherine Hite and Paola Cesarini,
eds., Authoritarian Legacies and Democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe. Notre
Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.

Zaverucha, Jorge. 1999. “Military Justice in the State of Pernambuco after the Military Regime:
An Authoritarian Legacy.” Latin American Research Review 34(2): 43-73.

Prillaman, William. 2000. The Judiciary and Democratic Decay in Latin America: Declining
Confidence in the Rule of Law. Westport, CT: Prager Publishers. Chs. 1, 2, 7.

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Week 13 - April 13: Popular Interests: Labor, the Rural Sector, and Indigenous
Movements

Kurtz, Marcus and Peter Houtzager. 2000. “The Institutional Roots of Popular Mobilization:
State Transformation and Rural Politics in Brazil and Chile.” Comparative Studies in Society and
History 42(2): 394-424.

Murillo, M. Victoria and Andrew Schrank. 2005. “With a Little Help from My Friends: Partisan
Politics, Transnational Alliances, and Labor Rights in Latin America.” Comparative Political
Studies 38(8): 971-999.

Van Cott, Donna Lee and Roberta Rice. 2006. “The Emergence and Performance of Indigenous
People’s Party: A Subnational Statistical Analysis.” Comparative Political Studies 39(6): 709-
732.

Yashar, Deborah. 2006. “Indigenous Politics in the Andes: Changing Patterns of Recognition,
Reform, and Representation,” In Mainwaring, Scott, Ana María Bejarano and Eduardo Pizarro
Leongómez, eds., The Crisis of Democratic Representation in the Andes. Stanford: Stanford
University Press. On bSpace

Garay, Candelaria. 2007. “Social Policy and Collective Action: Unemployed Workers,
Community Associations, and Protest in Argentina.” Politics & Society 35(2): 301-328.

Etchemendy, Sebastián. 2004. “Repression, Exclusion and Inclusion: Government-Union

Relations and Patterns of Labor Reform in Liberalizing Economies.” Comparative Politics 36(3):
273-290.

Schrank, Andrew and M. Victoria Murillo. Forthcoming. “Labor Unions in the Policymaking
Process in Latin America,” In Ernesto Stein and Mariano Tommasi, eds., Actors in Latin
American Policymaking. Washington: Inter-american Development Bank. On bSpace.

Carnes, Matthew. 2009. “Labor Markets, Worker Organization, and Variation in Labor Codes in
Latin America.” American Political Science Association Annual Meetings. On bSpace.

Collier, Ruth Berins and Samuel Handlin, eds. 2009. Reorganizing Popular Politics:
Participation and the New Interest Regime in Latin America. University Park: The Pennsylvania
State University Press. pp. 3-8, 48-92, 293-307. On bSpace.

Recommended:

Murillo, M. Victoria. 2005. “Partisanship amidst Convergence: The Politics of Labor Reform in
Latin America.” Comparative Politics 37(4): 441-458.

Kurtz, Marcus. 1999. “Free Markets and Democratic Consolidation in Chile: The National
Politics of Rural Transformation.” Politics & Society 27(2): 275-301.

Patroni, Viviana. 2001. “The Decline and Fall of Corporatism? Labour Legislation Reform in
Mexico and Argentina during the 1990s.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 34(2): 249-272.

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Piore, Michael and Andrew Schrank. 2006. “Trading Up: An Embryonic Model for Easing the
Human Costs of the Free Market.” Boston Review (Sept/Oct).

Buchanan, Paul. “Preauthoritarian institutions and Postauthoritarian Legacies: Labor Politics in

Chile and Uruguay.” Latin American Politics and Society 50(1): 59-89.

Madrid, Raúl. 2003. “Labouring Against Neoliberalism: Unions and Patterns of Reform in Latin
America.” Journal of Latin American Studies 35(1): 53-88.

Etchemendy, Sebastián and Ruth Berins Collier. “Down but Not Out: Union Resurgence and
Segmented Neocorporatism in Argentina (2003–2007),” Politics & Society 35(3): 623-651.

Van Cott, Donna Lee. 2003. “Institutional Change and Ethnic Parties in South America.” Latin
American Politics and Society 45(2): 1-39.

Fox, Jonathan. 1996. “How Does Civil Society Thicken? The Political Construction of Social
Capital in Rural Mexico.” World Development 24(6): 1089-1103.

Armony, Ariel. 2004. The Dubious Link: Civic Engagement and Democratization. Stanford:
Stanford University Press. ch. 1.

Friedman, Elisabeth Jay and Kathryn Hochstetler. 2002. “Assessing the ‘Third Transition’ in
Latin American Democratization: Representational Regimes and Civil Society in Brazil and
Argentina.” Comparative Politics 35(1): 21-42.

Htun, Mala. 2003. Sex and the State: Abortion, Divorce and the Family Under Latin American
Dictatorships and Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Baldez, Lisa. 2002. Why Women Protest: Women’s Movements in Chile. New York:
Cambridge University Press. pp. 49-75, 168-195.

Maybury-Lewis, David, ed. 2002. The Politics of Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples in Latin
American States. Cambridge: Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American
Studies.

Warren, Kay and Jean Jackson, eds. 2002. Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and
the State in Latin America. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Weyland, Kurt. 1996. “Neoliberalism and Neopopulism in Latin America: Unexpected Affinities.”
Studies in Comparative International Development 31(3): 3-31.

Collier, Ruth Berins. 2001. “Populism.” In International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral
Sciences.

Murillo, M. Victoria. 2000. “From Populism to Neoliberalism: Labor Unions and Market Reforms
in Latin America.” World Politics 52(2): 135-174.

Oxhorn, Philip. 1998. “The Social Foundations of Latin America’s Recurrent Populism: Problems
of Popular Sector Class Formation and Collective Action.” Journal of Historical Sociology 11(2):
212-246.

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Foweraker, Joe and Todd Landmann. 2000. Citizenship Rights and Social Movements. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.

Madrid, Raúl. 2008. “The Rise of Ethnopopulism in Latin America.” World Politics 60(3): 475-
508.

Yashar, Deborah. 2005. Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The Rise of Indigenous
Movements and the Postliberal Challenge. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Van Cott, Donna Lee. 2005. From Movements to Parties in Latin America: The Evolution of
Ethnic Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Lucero, José Antonio. 2006. “Representing ‘Real Indians’: The Challenges of Indigenous
Authenticity and Strategic Constructivism in Ecuador and Bolivia.” Latin American Research
Review 41(2): 31-56.

Weber, Jeffrey. 2007. “Indigenous Struggles in Latin America: The Perilous Invisibility of Capital
and Class.” Latin American Politics and Society 49(3): 191-205. (review article)

Rice, Roberta and Donna Lee Van Cott. 2006. “The Emergence and Performance of Indigenous
Peoples’ Parties in South America: A Subnational Statistical Analysis.” Comparative Political
Studies 39(6): 709-732.

Week 14 - April 20: The Left in Government and Participatory Institutions

Stokes, Susan. 2009. “Globalization and the Rise of the Left in Latin America.” On bSpace.

Weyland, Kurt. 2010. “The Performance of Leftist Governments in Latin America: Conceptual
and Theoretical Issues,” In Kurt Weyland, Raúl Madrid, and Wendy Hunter, eds., Leftist
Governments in Latin America: Successes and Shortcomings. New York: Cambridge University
Press. On bSpace.

Madrid, Raúl, Wendy Hunter and Kurt Weyland. 2010. “The Policies and Performance of the
Contestatory and Moderate Left,” In Kurt Weyland, Raúl Madrid, and Wendy Hunter, eds.,
Leftist Governments in Latin America: Successes and Shortcomings. New York: Cambridge
University Press. On bSpace.

Weyland, Kurt. Forthcoming. “The Latin American Left: Destroyer or Savior of the Market
Model?” In Steven Levitsky and Kenneth Roberts, eds., The Resurgence of the Latin American
Left. On bSpace.

Kaufman, Robert. Forthcoming. “The Political Left, the Export Boom, and the Populist
Temptation,” In Steven Levitsky and Kenneth Roberts, eds., The Resurgence of the Latin
American Left. On bSpace.

Goldfrank, Benjamin. Forthcoming. “The Left and Participatory Democracy,” In Steven Levitsky
and Kenneth Roberts, eds., The Resurgence of the Latin American Left. On bSpace.

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Cameron, Maxwell. Forthcoming. “The Dog that Did Not Bark – Twice: Peru’s Frustrated Left
Turn.” In Steven Levitsky and Kenneth Roberts, eds., The Resurgence of the Latin American
Left. On bSpace.

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).

Recommended:

Reygadas, Luis and Fernando Filgueira. 2010. “Inequality and the Incorporation Crisis: The
Left’s Social Policy Toolkit,” In Maxwell Cameron and Eric Herschberg, Latin America’s Left
Turns: Politics, Policies, and Trajectories of Change. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Dagnino, Evelina, Alberto J. Olvera and Aldo Panfichi, eds. 2006. A Disputa pela Construção
Democrática na América Latina (In Spanish: La Disputa por la Construcción Democrática en
América Latina). São Paulo: Paz e Terra. Especially ch 1

Olvera, Alberto, ed. 2002. Sociedad civil, esfera pública y democratización en América Latina:
México. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura.

Dagnino, Evelina, ed. 2002. Sociedad civil, esfera pública y democratización en América Latina:
Brasil. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura.

Panfichi, Aldo and Diana Tussie, eds. 2002. Sociedad civil, esfera pública y democratización en
América Latina: Andes y Cono Sur. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura.

Avritzer, Leonardo. 2009. Participatory Institutions in Democratic Brazil. Baltimore: The Johns
Hopkins University Press.

Dagnino, Evelina. 2004. “¿Sociedade civil, participação e cidadania: de que estamos falando?”
In Daniel Mato, ed., Políticas de ciudadanía y sociedad civil en tiempos de globalización.
Caracas: FACES, Universidad Central de Venezuela. pp. 95-110.

Dagnino, Evelina and Luciana Tatagiba, eds. 2007. Democracia, Sociedade Civil e
Participação. Chapecó, Brazil: Argos Editora Universitâria.

Isunza Vera, Ernesto and Alberto Olvera Rivera, eds. 2006. Democratización, Rendición de
Cuentas y Sociedad Civil: Participación Ciudadana y Control Social. Mexico City: CIESAS.

Velásquez, Fabio and Esperanza González. 2003. ¿Qué Ha Pasado con la Participación
Ciudadana en Colombia? Bogotá: Fundación Corona.

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