Dr Francisco 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/MPA Public and Social Policy. Other graduate students may follow the course with permission.

To study the relationship between political and economic change in Latin America from c1980 to the present.

Main Topics

What was the Washington Consensus? The politics of economic reform: ideas, actors and institutions; international institutions and policy making; trading blocks and regional integration; the social dimensions of democracy and development; the Washington Consensus revisited; the policies and politics of the post-Washington Consensus and the rise of the left.

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 two non-assessed essays and make at least one seminar presentation.

D. Green, Silent Revolution. The Rise and Crisis of Market Economics in Latin America, S. Haggard & R Kaufman, The Politics of Economic Adjustment; W Smith, Democracy, Markets and Structural Reform in Contemporary Latin America; ;  Edwards, Crisis and Reform in Latin America: From Despair to Hope?; J. Burdick, P. Oxhorn and K. M. Roberts, Beyond Neoliberalism in Latin America? Societies and Politics at the Crossroads.  F. Panizza, Contemporary Latin America: Development and Democracy Beyond the Washington Consensus.

Two-hour unseen written examination in the ST.