Mål og innhald
Objectives: The huge variety of regime types both past and present turns Latin America into a laboratory for the study of political regimes. The course aims to use fundamental theoretical and conceptual understandings of various democratic and non-democratic regime types to discuss and analyse the range of empirical variety in political regime development in Latin America.
Content: The course is divided into four sections. The first section provides theoretical and conceptual as well as analytical tools for the empirical study of different political regime types. The second section provides an overview of political regime development in 19th century Latin America. The third section is devoted to varieties of non-democratic regimes in Latin America, whereas the fourth section concerns varieties of democratic regimes in Latin America. The course emphasizes temporal variations as well as intraregional differences and similarities between countries.
Læringsutbyte/resultat
Upon completion of the course the student should be able to:
o Analyse empirical regime developments by using the theoretical conceptualizations of different political regime types
o Describe the main temporal and intraregional variations in Latin American political regime development since independence
o Compare and discuss differences and similarities between empirical cases of the various Latin American regime types
Undervisningssemester
Spring
Institutt
Department of Comparative Politics
Krav til studierett
Open for all students at the University of Bergen.
Krav til forkunnskapar
Fulfilment of general admission requirements
Fagleg overlapp
Full credit reduction with SAMPOL220
Undervisning og omfang
Form: Lectures
Number of weeks: 10
Obligatoriske arbeidskrav
None
Vurderingsformer
6 hour desk exam
Karakterskala
Grading A-F
Emneevaluering
The course is evaluated regularly
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