Latin American Politics
Syllabus
Schedule
Assignments
Study guides
Class materials
Informality
Class materials
Hello
Crash course on Latin America
Race and identity
Poverty and inequality
Crime
State capacity
Informality
Clientelism
Corruption and public trust
Democratic erosion, populism
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Readings
Required
Personal recommendations
Slides
Informality
Readings
Required
Chapters 2 and 3 in
Mike Davis
Planet of Slums
(
London
:
Verso Books
, 2006).
Personal recommendations
Vanda Felbab-Brown
“Bringing the
State
to the
Slum
:
Confronting
Organized Crime and Urban Violence in
Latin America
,”
Brookings Institution, December
(2011).
Slides
Slides