CAREER: Social Bases of Politics in Latin America

该学院早期职业发展（Career）计划奖将研究与强化的教学课程相结合，强调学生早期接触领域和主要研究活动。总体计划有两个基本组成部分：1)五年研究计划，包括出版一本单独撰写的书和一本编辑卷；2)教学计划强调实地经验、研究训练和课堂作业之间的互动。该研究计划从理论上阐明了大规模社会变革与拉丁美洲最近的体制变革和政治调整之间的联系。它还促进了关于社会变革与政治变革之间联系的实证研究议程。这项研究包括对拉丁美洲民粹主义政党的重塑，以及对过去几十年社会变革和民主政治的更广泛层面的探索。该教育计划基于这样一种理念，即学生的学习经验可以通过对他们正在学习的背景和问题的第一手和实际接触而大大增强，而且早期的实地研究机会对培养未来的奖学金至关重要。通过研究者自己的研究活动和教学课程的创新，本科生和研究生的研究和实地经验的机会将会扩大，学生将获得更多的接触到他们正在学习的实际背景。根据该计划，主要的接触类型是通过将出国留学与实地研究机会联系起来的实地研究经验，以及将对初级研究的支持整合到定期的本科研讨会和独立项目中。学生在课堂上与积极分子和实践者的接触，以及学生参与个人和合作研究活动，都包括在这项研究教育活动中。

This Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award integrates research with an enhanced teaching curriculum that stresses early exposure of students to filed and primary research activities. The overall plan has two basic components: 1) a five year research plan involving the production of a single-authored book and an edited volume; and, 2) a teaching plan which stresses interaction between field experience, research training, and classroom work. The research plan sheds theoretical light on the links between large-scale social changes and recent institutional changes and political realignments in Latin America. It also promotes and empirically-grounded agenda of research on the links between social change and political change. The research involves work on the recasting of populist parties in Latin America, as well as research exploring the broader dimensions of social change and democratic politics in past decades. The education plan is based on the notion that students' learning experience can be greatly enhanced by first-hand and practical exposure to the contexts and issues they are studying, and that early opportunities for field research are vital to training for future scholarship. Through the investigator's own research activities and teaching curriculum innovations, research and field experience opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students will be expanded, and students will gain greater exposure to the practical contexts they are studying. The main types of exposure under this plan are field research experience through the linking of study abroad with field research opportunities, as well as integration of support for primary research into regular undergraduate seminars and independent projects. Student contact with activists and practitioners in the classroom, and student participation in individual and collaborative research activities, are included in this research-education activity.