A Unified Canon? Latin American Graduate Training in Comparative Politics

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ID2952297
AuthorsNicolás Taccone (0000-0002-3362-7307, Brown University, corresponding author), Inés Fynn (0000-0001-8032-8409, Universidad Católica del Uruguay), Ignacio Borba (0000-0003-1115-5887, University of Illinois Chicago)
Year2025
Volume67
Issue2
Pages98-123
Publication date2025-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Politics and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1531-426X • E-ISSN: 1548-2456
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/lap.2024.42
OpenAlexW4404116636
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited26

In Latin American comparative politics, a tension exists between North Americanization and parochialism. While certain academic scholarship is published in Scopus-indexed journals that engage with "mainstream" Global North literature, other works are found in non-indexed outlets, focusing solely on their home countries and fostering parochial scientific communities. To assess this tension in graduate program curricula, we compiled an original dataset of comparative politics readings from 21 universities across nine Latin American countries. Our network analysis reveals a centralized structure influenced by mainstream readings, challenging the expectation of parochialism. In addition to the mainstream content, universities tend to incorporate readings from regional journals to facilitate cross-case comparisons. However, these materials are inconsistently shared, resulting in fragmentation of content from Latin American sources. Our findings contribute to and challenge the North Americanization versus parochialism debate, showing that future scholars receive similar mainstream training but encounter diverse regional materials during their PhD studies

Art · Canon · Geography · Latin Americans · Literature · Medical education · Political science · Politics · Law · Medicine · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Political Science Research and Education · Politics and Society in Latin America

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