Week 9: Political Legitimacy and Governance
Political Legitimacy and Governance: Liberalism
How was political legitimacy constructed? How did notions of good government change over time? How did understandings of rights change with changing political system change over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth century? How do ideas of state sovereignty relate to Human Rights?
Primary Sources:
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Core Reading:
Sikkink, Kathryn. 'International Organization, vol. 47, no. 3, 1993, pp. 411–441.
Tristan Platt. "", History Workshop Journal No. 17, (Spring 1984), 3-18.
Rodolfo Stavenhagen, 鈥溾�� in Rachel Sieder (ed). Multiculturalism in Latin America: Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy, Palgrave Press, 2002.
Further Reading:
Michael L. Conniff. Populism in Latin America. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press: 2012.
Todd A. Diacon. Stringing together a nation: C芒ndido Mariano Da Silva Rondon and the construction of a modern Brazil, 1906-1930. Durham/ London: Duke University Press: 2004.
Marshall Eakin, Becoming Brazilians: Race and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Nils Jacobsen and Crist贸bal Aljov铆n de Losada (eds.) Political cultures in the Andes, 1750-1950. Duke University Press | 2005.
Brooke Larson. , Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Florencia E. Mallon. Courage Tastes of Blood: the Mapuche community of Nicol谩s Ail铆o and the Chilean state, 1906-2001. Durham London: Duke, 2005
Florencia E. Mallon. The Defense of Community in Peru's Central Highlands : Peasant Struggle and Capitalist Transition, 1860-1940. Princeton, 2014.
Hilda S谩bato. 鈥極n Political Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Latin America鈥� The American Historical Review. 106:4 (2001), 1290–1315.
Sabato, Hilda. 2018. Republics of the New World: The Revolutionary Political Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Sikkink, Kathryn. 鈥淗uman Rights, Principled Issue-Networks, and Sovereignty in Latin America.鈥� International Organization, vol. 47, no. 3, 1993, pp. 411–441.,
Rodolfo Stavenhagen, 鈥淚ndigenous Peoples and the State in Latin America: An Ongoing Debate鈥� in Rachel Sieder (ed). Multiculturalism in Latin America: Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy, Palgrave Press, 2002.
Philip Oxhorn. 鈥淭he Social Foundations of Latin America鈥檚 Recurrent Populism: Problems of Class Formation and Collective Action.鈥� Journal of Historical Sociology. 1998.