UF Center for Latin American Studies
Day: Thursdays
Time: 8:30 - 11:30 am
Location: Matherly 0014
In the past thirty years, the study of Latin America has moved from being considered exotic to becoming mainstream. This change has brought positive and negative ramifications. On the one hand, some of the newest literature resembles other, older fields of study like American politics. On the other hand, the field is somewhat more in dialogue with major questions of political science more generally. Along the way, scholarship on Latin America has moved from being the study of dictatorship, repression, popular protest and revolution to asking many of the questions currently of interest in Western Europe and the United States: questions about democracy, democratic survivability, democratization and democratic decline, elections and electoral rules, and institutions.
This course is an introductory graduate seminar on Latin American politics. In Political Science it fulfills the requirement of an area studies or regional seminar. In Latin American Studies it fulfills other requirements. My aim is to introduce some of the newest scholarly studies and some of the most contemporary concerns in the study of this important region.
Leslie Anderson
Professor, Political Science
Center for Latin American Studies
Email: landerso@.ufl.edu
Phone: (352) 485-1971
Mailing address:
Department of Political Science
University of Florida
P.O. Box 117325
Gainesville, FL 32611-7325
Research Interest: Popular politics and citizen empowerment | Development of democracy
Geographic Expertise: Central America, Argentina
