MID-TERM STUDY GUIDE

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MID-TERM STUDY GUIDE

• PS 134AA/Winter 2010

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TIME AND PLACE

• Wednesday, February 10
• PCH 109
• 500-630 p.m.
• Closed-book exam
• Bring blue books and pens/pencils
• Write legibly!

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SCOPE OF MATERIAL

• Themes Evolution Quality of Democracy
• Lectures
• Smith, Democracy in Latin America, intro and chs.
  1-8
• Modern Latin America, chs. 1-3, 5-6, 9, 11-13
• Videos Missing, A Hazy Transparency, Garden
  of the Forking Paths

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DISCUSSION ITEMS

• Falkland/Malvinas Islands
• Charles Horman
• Salvador Allende
• César Gaviria
• MRO
• Delegative democracy
• Vlademiro Montesinos
• Bolsa Família

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SAMPLE ESSAY QUESTIONS

• Compare three 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 politicsor push
  them into politics? Why?
• Analyze key institutional components of
  presidentialist democracy in Latin America.

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ESSAYS (cont.)

• Compare revolutionary movements in Mexico
  (1910-17) and Cuba (1959).
• What led to Alberto Fujimoris ouster in Peru?
• Compare the evolution of strategies for economic
  development in Argentina and Brazil.
• What does Magalonis essay on Mexico suggest
  about authoritarian elections?