Dr Francesco Panizza

For MSc Comparative Politics (Latin America stream), MSc Global Politics and MPA Public and Economic Policy/MPA Public Policy and Management/MPA International Development/MPA European Public and Economic Policy. Other graduate students may follow the course with permission.

To study the relationship between political and economic change in contemporary Latin America.

The crisis of the 'old model'; the politics of policy change, external influences on economic reform; trading blocks and regional integration; poverty and inequality; the informal sector; beyond the Washington Consensus, the good governance debate; the second generation reforms.

10 lectures (GV444.1) and (GV444.2) 10 seminars in the LT and one revision seminar in the second week of the ST.

All students are expected to submit at least one non-assessed essay. To be confirmed in class.

R Gawynne & C Kay, Latin America Transformed: Globalization and Modernity; S Haggard & R Kaufman, The Politics of Economic Adjustment; W Smith, Democracy, Markets and Structural Reform in Contemporary Latin America; J Nelson & S Eqlinton, Global Goals, Contentious Means; The World Bank, World Development Report 2000/2001. Attacking Poverty; H De Soto, The Other Path: the Invisible Revolution in the Third World; S Edwards, Crisis and Reform in Latin America: From Despair to Hope; P Oxhorn & P Starr, Markets and Democracy in Latin America: Conflict or Convergence? H Veltmeyer, J Petras & S Vieux Neoliberalism and Class Conflict in Latin America; J Stiglitz, Globalization and its DisContents.

Two-hour unseen written examination in the ST.