MID-TERM STUDY GUIDE

PS 134AA/Spring 2014

TIME AND PLACE

• Wednesday, May 7

• Classroom

• 5:00-6:30 p.m.

• Closed-book exam

• Bring blue books and pens/pencils

• Write legibly!

SCOPE OF MATERIAL

• Themes: Evolution of Democracy

• Class lectures• Smith, Democracy in Latin America, intro and chs. 1-6,

8• Modern Latin America, chs. 1, 3, 5-6, 9, 11-13 • Magaloni, “Demise of Mexico’s One-Party Regime”• Videos: “Battle of Chile,” “No,” and “Garden of the

Forking Paths”

DISCUSSION ITEMS

• Falkland/Malvinas Islands

• Salvador Allende

• Open-list ballots

• MRO

• “Delegative democracy”

• Instituto Federal Electoral

• Bolsa Família

• Evo Morales

SAMPLE ESSAY QUESTIONS

• Compare broad phases of political change in Latin America during the course of the twentieth century.

• Does professionalization of the military tend to keep the armed forces out of politics—or push them into politics? Why?

• Analyze key institutional components of “presidentialist” democracy in Latin America.

ESSAYS (cont.)

• Compare revolutionary movements in Mexico (1910-17) and Cuba (1959+).

• Compare political party systems in Argentina and Brazil.

• What does Magaloni’s essay on Mexico suggest about “authoritarian elections”?