UCSB Department of Political Science - Kathleen Bruhn, Professor

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Department of Political Science
Mailcode #9420
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9420

Phone: (805) 893-3432
Advising: (805) 893-4192
Fax: (805) 893-3309

Kathleen Bruhn, Professor

Comparative Politics, Identity, Latin American Studies
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Ph.D., Stanford University, 1993
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Professor Bruhn's research interests concern issues of democratization, political parties and social mobilization. Her most recent book, Urban Protest in Mexico and Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 2008), discusses the causes of protest and the implications of Left party victories for protest. She is also the author of Taking on Goliath (1997), about the formation of the political Left and party system change in Mexico, and with Dan Levy, has published two editions of Mexico: The Struggle for Democratic Development (UC Press).

Courses Taught:

Undergraduate
PS 6	Introduction to Comparative Politics
PS 101	Mexican Politics
PS 134	Relations between the United States and Mexico
PS 147	Third World Politics
Graduate
PS 231	Comparative Methods
PS 236	Democratization
PS 282A	Democratic Consolidation in Latin America
PS 288	Revolution and Political Violence

Selected Recent Publications:
Urban Protest in Mexico and Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 2008).

"The Evolution of the Mexican Left." In Leftovers: Tales of the Latin American Left. Edited by Jorge G. Castaneda and Marco A. Morales (Routledge, 2008).

Mexico: The Struggle for Democratic Development (with Dan Levy), 2nd. ed. UC Press, 2006.

"Elite Polarization Meets Mass Moderation in Mexico's 2006 Elections" (with Kenneth F. Greene). PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 40, No. 1 (January 2007), pp. 33-38.