AMER0041: Challenges to Development in Brazil
***NOT RUNNING IN 2025/26***
Module convenor: Dr Malu A. C. Gatto
This module seeks to introduce students to modern Brazilian politics, while emphasizing how institutions have worked to promote or undermine economic and social development. The first two parts of the course focus on institutions and policy during the military regime and post-transition periods, highlighting how institutions and actors have at times contributed to or prevented development. The third part of the course then turns to some of Brazil’s most salient social themes- poverty and education; public security; racial and gender inequalities; and, deforestation and the environment-and examines whether and how they have been addressed by the government.
Assessment mode:
A 1000-word policy recommendation document + a 3000-word essay.
UCL+
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