This course starts with the principal concepts od Polity, Politics ands Policies. After that there is a introduction to main subjects of Democracy and Quality of Democracy. The mid part will develop the methodology about Comparative Politics. The third section will study Latin American politics by drawing primarily from political science research in comparative politics, based on historical studies from XIX century to nowdays, divided in three periods of democratization, also called ¨democratic waves". The themes of globalization and democratization are central to understand the links between Latin America to other regions in the world.