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COURSE SYLLABUS: POLITICAL SYSTEMS: POPULISM IN LATIN AMERICA

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Partner Institution: University of Belgrano

Course Title (English): Political Systems: Populism in Latin America

Course Title (Spanish): Sistemas políticos: los populismos latinoamericanos

Sessions Offered: Fall Semester, Spring Semester

Instructional in: Spanish

Classroom Contact Hours: 45 contact hours

College Credit (Semester Credit Hours): 3 credit hours

College Credit (Quarter Units): 4.5 quarter units

Prerequisites: Intermediate II Spanish Level if taught in Spanish

Local Department: Programa de estudios argentinos y latinoamericanos (PEAL)

Course Code: PEAL 455

Course Description

After the breakdown of the so-called ‘colonial pact’, new political elites imposed variations of the available organizational model on their societies. This republican, representative, and often federal model had emerged from the American War of Independence and the French Revolution. However, the contradiction between an archaic social and cultural structure and a modernizing political project was to produce political tensions in Latin America. One result of all this was the emergence of a vague and indeterminate political movement known as populism in the twentieth century. This seminar course redefines the populist phenomenon in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico as a "popular national policy" with elements common to all of Latin America.

Program Schedule

Week 1: Unit I

Presentation of the material:

“Frívola y casquivana, mano de hierro en guante de seda. Una propuesta para conceptualizar el término oligarquía en América Latina” Waldo Ansaldi

Argentina:

“El crecimiento de la economía argentina, c. 1870-1914” Roberto Cortés Conde

“Política y sociedad en argentina, 1870-1916” Ezequiel Gallo

Week 2: Unit I

“Argentina in 1914: the pampas, the interior, Buenos Aires” David Rock

“Argentina, de la Primera Guerra Mundial a la Revolución de 1930” David Rock

Week 3: Unit I

Brazil:

“La economía brasileña, 1870-1930” Warren Dean

Presentación oral de “Brasil: la era de la reforma, 1870-1889” Emilia Viotti

Week 4: Unit I

 “Brasil: estructura social y política de la Primera República, 1889-1930” (b) Boris Fausto

Oral presentation on Mexico: “México: la restauración de la República y el Porfiriato, 1867-1910” Friedrich Katz


Week 5: Unit 2

Mexico: “La Revolución mexicana, 1910-1920” John Womack, Jr.

Oral presentation of Mexico: “Revolution and reconstruction in the 1920s” Jean Meyer

Week 6: Unit 2

Brazil

Oral presentation on “El Estado getulista (1930-1945)” (a) Boris Fausto

Week 7:

Midterm

Unit 2

“Ideologías políticas y debate cívico” Carlos Altamirano

Week 8: Unit 3

 “Los complejos de la Cenicienta” María Moira Mackinnon y Mario Alberto Petrone

Oral presentation of “Introducción a los años peronistas” Juan Carlos

Oral presentation of  “Hacia una historia del populismo” Horacio Legras

Week 9:

Oral presentationi of  Plotkin, Mariano. “Primero de mayo y 17 de octubre” (chapters 3 and 4) of “Mañana es San Perón”

Week 10: Unit 3

Brazil: “La experiencia democrática (1945-1964)” Boris Fausto (a)

Oral presentation of  “Las políticas de seguridad social de los populismos latinoamericanos en clave comparada. El desarrollo de la previsión social en los tiempos de Vargas y de Perón” Patricia Flier

Week 11: Unit 3

Argentina: “Las políticas nacional-populares” Alain Touraine

Oral presentation of “La formación del sindicalismo peronista” Louise Doyon

Oral presentation of  “Consideraciones sociológicas sobre las relaciones entre el peronismo y la clase obrera en la Argentina, 1943-1955” Ricardo Sidicaro

Week 12: Unit 3

Brazil “El populismo en la política brasileña” Francisco Weffort

Oral presentation of “El populismo como alianza policlasista” Carlos Moscoso Perea y presentación oral de “Una nueva era de Vargas, 1951- 1954” Thomas Skidmore

Week 13: Unit 3

Mexico: “México, c. 1930-1946” (a) Alan Knight

Oral presentation of “Cardenismo: ¿coloso o catramina?”

Oral presentation on Alan Knight “El cardenismo revisado: la tercera vía y otrasutopías inciertas” Ilán Semo

Week 14:

Conclusions on populism

Reading of current newspaper articles

Debate on the governments of Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil. Are they populists?

Discussion on final projects

Turn in final projects

Week 15:

Final exam

Course Evaluation

In agreement with the policies of the University of Belgrano the student can only have a 25% absence rate. The percentage of attendance that is required in order to take the final exam is 75%. Any trip or excursion that is not planned in the calendar is part of the 25% absence.

Bibliography (Text and Materials)

Course Reader. Ed. Nestor Legnani. (required textbook)

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