CIDE-5104 Government and Democracy

Provide conceptual tools that allow to learn and understand political, institutional and economical conditions necessary to consolidate modern large scale democracies. Provide conceptual tools and historical analysis allowing  to reflect upon the significance that institutions and political culture have over democratic governance in Latin America and that enable us to understand and identify advances and problems of the third democratic wave in the region. Provide analytical and conceptual tools and submit studies that explain democracy´s progressive erosion in Colombia, reflect upon the causes of the armed conflict and learn about some of the institutional changes and public policies implemented during the past decade so as to solve violence in Colombia and mitigate the erosion of democracy.

Credits

3

Instructor

Hernandez Qui?Ones Andres