Classes

Provides an introduction to key concepts and theoretical approaches in comparative politics. Major themes include the causes of democratization, economic development, ethnic conflict, and social revolutions; as well as the role of the state, political institutions, and civil...

Examines dynamics of political and economic changes in modern Latin America, focusing on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela. Topics include the rise of populism and import-substituting industrialization, revolutions and revolutionary movements, the causes...

This course seeks to explain why some countries are democratic and others are not. It examines the emergence of liberal democracy in the West, its collapse in Europe in the 1930s and Latin America in the 1960s and 70s, and the extraordinary wave of democratization that began...