Political Science 340 - Latin American Politics
Spring
2026
01
3.00
Santiago Virguez Ruiz
TU TH 10:00AM 11:15AM
UMass Amherst
84866
Machmer Hall room W-27
svirguezruiz@umass.edu
Overview of major approaches to the study of Latin American politics and survey of historical and contemporary democratic, populist, authoritarian, and revolutionary regimes. Special attention to local, national and global forces shaping development strategies and public policies; changing institutional arrangements and shifting discourses of domination; and, social movements and strategies of resistance among subaltern social groups and classes.
Open to junior and senior Political Science majors and minors.