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.

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到统一佳能？拉丁美洲比较政治学研究生培训


在拉丁美洲的比较政治中，北美化和狭隘主义之间存在着紧张关系。虽然某些学术研究成果发表在涉及“主流”全球北方文学的 Scopus 索引期刊上，但其他作品则出现在非索引媒体上，只关注他们的祖国并培养狭隘的科学社区。为了评估研究生课程中的这种紧张关系，我们编制了一份来自 9 个拉丁美洲国家 21 所大学的比较政治学阅读的原始数据集。我们的网络分析揭示了受主流阅读影响的集中结构，挑战了狭隘主义的期望。除了主流内容外，大学还倾向于纳入地区期刊的阅读材料，以促进跨案例比较。但是，这些材料的共享不一致，导致拉丁美洲来源的内容碎片化。我们的研究结果有助于并挑战北美化与狭隘主义的辩论，表明未来的学者接受类似的主流培训，但在博士学习期间会遇到不同的区域材料。