WEEK 11: Reforming the State in Peru and Elsewhere

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REQUIRED
  • Forrest D. Colburn, "Crime in Latin America," Dissent, Summer 1998, 45 (3): 27-30.

  • Lawrence Whitehead, "State Organization in Latin America since 1930," in Leslie Bethell, ed., The Cambridge History of Latin America, Volume VI (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994): 3-95.

  • Hernando de Soto, The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World (New York: Harper & Row, 1989), p. 3-15, 33-57, 131-51, 244-55.

  • Philip Mauceri, "State Reform, Coalitions, and the Neoliberal 'Autogolpe' in Peru," Latin American Research Review, Winter 1995, 30 (1):7-37.

  • Barbara Geddes, "A Game Theoretic Model of Reform in Latin American Democracies," American Political Science Review, June 1991, 85 (2):371-89
RECOMMENDED
  • Barbara Geddes, "Building 'State' Autonomy in Brazil: 1930-64," Comparative Politics, January 1990, 22 (2): 217-35.

  • Guillermo O'Donnell, "Delegative Democracy," in Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner, eds., The Global Resurgence of Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996): 94-108.

  • Kurt Weyland, "The Brazilian State in the New Democracy," Journal of Interamerican Studies and World-Affairs, Winter 1997-98, 39 (4):63-94.

  • Oscar Oszlak, "Historical Formation of the State in Latin America," Latin American Research Review, 1981, 16 (2): 3-32.

  • Inter-American Development Bank, "Taxation," Economic and Social Progress in Latin America: 1998-99 Report (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), p. 179-202.

  • Ben Ross Schneider, "The Career Connection: A Comparative Analysis of Bureaucratic Preferences and Insulation," Comparative Politics, April 1993, 25 (3):331-50.

  • Richard M. Bird, "Tax Reform in Latin America: A Review of Some Recent Experiences," Latin American Research Review, 1992 (27):7-37.

  • Peter H. Smith, "The rise and fall of the developmental state," in Menno Vellinga, ed., The Changing Role of the State in Latin America (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1998), p. 51-74.

  • Jan Rus, "The 'Comunidad Revolucionaria Institucional,'" in Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniel Nugent, eds., Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Latin America (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994), p. 265-300.

  • Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman, eds., The Politics of Economic Adjustment: Iinternational Constraints, Distributive Conflicts, and the State (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1992), p. 139-49, 163-72.

  • Marcelo Cavarozzi, "Beyond transitions to democracy in Latin America," Journal of Latin American Studies, October 1992, 24 (3):665-84.

  • Andres Oppenheimer, Bordering on Chaos: Guerrillas, Stockbrokers, Politicians, and Mexico's Road to Prosperity (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1996), p. 83-110.

  • Kurt Weyland, "The Politics of Corruption in Latin America," Journal of Democracy, April 1998, 9 (2):108-21.

  • Terry L. Karl, The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).

  • Silvia Colazingari and Susan Rose-Ackerman, "Corruption in paternalistic democracy: lessons from Italy for Latin America," Political Science Quarterly, Fall 1998, 113 (3): 447-470.

  • Hugo Frohling, "Judicial Reform and Democratization in Latin America," in Fault lines of democracy in post-transition Latin America, edited by Felipe Aguero and Jeffrey Stark (Coral Gables, FL: North-South Center Press/University of Miami; Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998).

  • Walter Little and Eduardo Posada Carbo, eds., Political corruption in Europe and Latin America (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996), p. 9-14, 195-295.

  • Stephen D. Morris, Corruption & politics in contemporary Mexico (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1991), p. 21-82.

  • Peter H. Smith, "Drug Trafficking in Mexico," and "Comment" by Maria Celia Toro, in Barry P. Bosworth, Susan M. Collins, and Nora Claudia Lustig, eds., Coming Together? Mexico-U.S. Relations (Washington, D.C.:Brookings, 1997).
LITERARY OVERLAY
  • Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, News of a Kidnapping (New York: Knopf/Random House, 1997).

 

Map of Peru

The skyline of Lima, Peru.

Peruvian president Fujimori

Memebers of the MRTA, Peru's terrorist/guerrila group.

Peruvian general next to cocaine catpured from drug dealers.

   

 

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