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K-12 Outreach > Educator Workshops > Election Workshop

Dictators, Democrats and Demonstrators: Elections in Latin America and the Middle East

Saturday, October 18th, 2008
10am to 3pm (including a working lunch)

This workshop featured four speakers: one on recent Israeli elections, one on elections in Iran, and two on elections in Latin America. There was a working lunch in which teachers worked in groups discussing classroom applications of the material.  Teachers received 5 professional development credits, lunch, and a packet of resources for use in their classrooms.

The Program Featured:

• Quality program sessions by excellent professors and teachers
• A resource packet provided free to all participants
• Lunch provided free of charge
• 5 professional development hours

Workshop Resource Packet:

A workshop resource packet was provided free of charge during the workshop. Below is a listing of the articles which were included.

Lust-Okar, Ellen. "Elections under Authoritarianism: Preliminary Lesson from Jordan" Democratization 13:3 (2006), 456-471.

Aronson, Shlomo. Notes on Israeli Elections (2008). [produced for this workshop]

Brown, Nathan J. and Amr Hamzawy. "Can Egypt's Troubled Elections Produce a More Democratic Future?" Policy Outlook: Democracy and Rule of Law, Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, December 2005.

Takeyk, Ray. "Iran's Orchestrated Elections." International Herald Tribune. 13 March (2008).

Slackman, Michael. "Elections in Middle East not alway symbol of democracy." International Herald Tribune. 6 June (2007).

Workshop Powerpoint Presentations:

• From Dictatorships to Democracies: The Latin American Transition by Colin Deeds, Center for Latin American Studies Outreach Coordinator
• The Political Structure of Iran by Parvaneh Hosseini, PhD student in the Department Near Eastern Studies
• The Enhanced (and Underdeveloped) Democracies of Latin America by Dr. Ramiro Berardo, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science

Photo Credit: Tamarack Little 2005