TUESDAY (11/6)
IN CLASS:
Impediments to reform in Brazil and elsewhere (Rodden)
THURSDAY (11/8)
IN CLASS:
"The country of the future and always will be" (Lawson)
READINGS FOR WEEK 10
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Article on cross-national budget deficits, TBA.
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Juarez Brandao Lopes, "Obstacles to Economic Reform in Brazil,"
in Arend Lijphart and Carlos H. Waisman, eds., Institutional
Design in New Democracies: Eastern Europe and Latin America:
195-218.
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Scott Mainwaring, "Presidentialism in Latin America,"
in Arend Lijphart, ed., Parliamentary versus Presidential Government:
111-117.
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Barry Ames, "Electoral Rules, Constituency Pressures, and
Pork Barrel: Basses of Voting in the Brazilian Congress," Journal
of Politics 57(2), 1995: 324-343.
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The Economist, "Country Survey of Brazil," March
27-April 2, 1999; "The Devaluing of a Presidency," p.
3-5; "Democracy's Diufficulties," p. 7-9; " A Sorry
State," p. 9-12; "A federation in Dispute," p. 13-18.
Web Links:
Second Paper Due at the end of the week
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Top: Map of Brazil
Middle: Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Bottom: A large rally in Brazil.
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