WEEK 3: Dependency and Politics in Central America

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REQUIRED
  • Howard Wiarda, "Social Change, Political Development, and the Latin American Tradition," in Peter F. Klaren and Thomas J. Bossert, eds., Promise of Development: Theories of Change in Latin America (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1986).

  • Marc Lindenberg, "World Economic Cycles and Central American Political Instability," World Politics, April 1990, 42 (3):397-421.

  • Enrique A. Baloyra-Herp, "Reactionary Despotism in Central America," in Journal of Latin American Studies, 1983, 15 (2): 295-319.

  • Jeffrey M. Paige, "Coffee and Power in El Salvador," Latin American Research Review, 1993, 28 (3):7-40.

  • John A. Booth, "The Socioeconomic and Political Roots of National Revolts in Central America," Latin American Research Review, 1991, 26 (1):33-73.
RECOMMENDED
  • J. J. Johnson, Political Change in Latin America: The Emergence of the Middle Sectors (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1958), p. 1-14.

  • James M. Malloy, "Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Latin America: The Modal Pattern," in James M. Malloy, ed., Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Latin America (Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press, 1977), p. 3-19.

  • David G. Becker, "Development, democracy, and dependency in Latin America: 'Bonanza development' and the 'new bourgeoisie' in Postimperialism: international capitalism and development in the late twentieth century (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1987).

  • Michel S. Laguerre, The military and society in Haiti (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993).

  • Carlos R. Miranda, The Stroessner Era: Authoritarian Rule in Paraguay (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1990).

  • John A. Booth, Costa Rica: Questing for Democracy (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1998).

 

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