Carlos Waisman, Professor
Ph.D. - Harvard, 1977

Areas of Specialization: Political Sociology, Development, Theory

Email Address:  cwaisman@ucsd.edu
Phone number:    858-534-4759
Office location:  466 Social Science Building

Office Hours

Biography:

Carlos Waisman received his Ph.D. from Harvard. His field is comparative political sociology. He has worked on the incorporation of the working class in the political system in different countries, the causes of diverse elite strategies toward labor, the development of Argentina, the consolidation of new democracies, and the transitions to open-market capitalism in the Southern Cone of Latin America and Central/Eastern Europe. He has published Modernization and the Working Class: The Politics of Legitimacy (University of Texas Press, 1982), Reversal of Development in Argentina: Postwar Counterrevolutionary Policies and their Political Consequences (Princeton University Press, 1987), winner of the Hubert Herring Award for the best book of the year in Latin American studies), From Military Rule to Liberal Democracy in Argentina (Westview Press, 1987), and Institutional Design in New Democracies: Eastern Europe and Latin America (Westview Press, 1996).

Classes to be taught in 2007/08:

Winter 2008
SOCC 121 - Economy and Society
SOCC 148 - Political Sociology

Spring 2008
SOCD 179 - Social Change
SOCD 181 - Modern Western Society

Books:
*Arend Lijphart and Carlos H. Waisman (eds.): Institutional Design in New Democracies: Eastern Europe and Latin America, Boulder: Westview Press, 1996.

*Carlos H. Waisman: Reversal of Development in Argentina: Postwar Counterrevolutionary Policies and their Political Consequences, Princeton University Press, 1987.
         Winner of the Hubert C. Herring Award for
         the best book in Latin American studies.

*Monica Peralta-Ramos and Carlos H. Waisman eds.: From Military Rule to Liberal Democracy in Argentina, Boulder: Westview Press, 1987.

*Carlos H. Waisman: Modernization and the Working Class: The Politics of Legitimacy, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982.

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