PSC 342 - Challenges to Democracy in Latin America

Course Units: 1

Democracies in Latin America confront a number of challenges, obstacles, and dilemmas that frequently put their continuity at risk. With the format of a research seminar, this course will explore five thematic clusters. Social indicators on rights and inequality, political identities and citizenship, political and legal institutions, life and economic growth after Neoliberalism, and public safety, crime, and state violence. A preoccupation with some of the most urgent challenges faced by democratization in the region will also lead us to assess actual and potential alternatives.

Prerequisite(s): PSC 111 or PSC 112 or sophomore standing CQ: LCC