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Incomplete Democracies: the (Un)Rule of Law in Latin America

INTSTDS 4242: Incomplete Democracies: the (Un)Rule of Law in Latin America

Explores various forms of violence including electoral violence and political assassination, organized crime, police brutality, and other human rights abuses in Latin America.
Prereq: Soph standing or above. Not open to students with credit for 542 or PoliSci 4242. Cross-listed in PoliSci 4242.
Credit Hours
3.0

This course explores recent trends to forge robust rule of law in Mexico and to combat various forms of political violence including electoral violence and political assassination, organized crime, police brutality, death squads, state-sanctioned violence against political opponents and other human rights abuses.  Examples of successes and failures from other Latin American nations in combating organized crime, reducing state-sanctioned violence and armed conflicts against the state are closely examined.

The inter-disciplinary readings for the course were selected to analyze the social and legal underpinnings of political violence in the transition from authoritarianism to electoral democracy.  We will pay particular attention to the transition in Mexico since 1988.

Prerequisites: Sophomore standing or higher.

Semester(s) Offered:

Autumn