PSC 331: ADVANCED THEORIES OF COMPARATIVE POLITICS

Fall 2005, Mondays 6:10-8:00

Professor Kimberly Morgan

e-mail: kjmorgan@gwu.edu // phone: 994-2809

Office: Old Main, 413D

Office hours: Mondays, 1-3 p.m. or by appointment

 

Overview

 

This course will introduce you to the field of comparative politics.  It will provide the basis for subsequent coursework and research in the comparative politics subfield.  Another important aim of the class is to help you prepare for the comprehensive general examination in comparative politics.

 

Requirements

 

(1) Two short papers.  You will write two, five-page papers that critically analyze the assigned reading for a particular week.  You can focus on any topic as long as you respond to the readings in some way.  You also do not have to cover all the readings in a particular week, but should identify and analyze a main theme, debate, or puzzle from at least some of those readings.  You need not do additional outside reading for these papers – instead, you should be development your reactions to the readings.

 

The papers are due by 9 a.m. on the day of class (Monday).  You can bring them to my office, put them in my mailbox, or send them as an email attachment.  Late papers will be penalized.

 

(2) One book review.  You will write one book review of any major work in comparative politics that is not covered in class, but is on the comparative politics reading list for the comprehensive exam.  If you want to review a book not on this list, please check with me first.  The review should be no more than five pages and follow the style of book reviews you’ll read in any major political science journal. You can turn in the review at any time during the semester, but you must turn it in by the last class.

 

(3) Class participation.  The quality of a seminar depends heavily on the participation of its members.  You are therefore expected to finish all assigned readings before class, and actively participate in discussion.

 

In addition, in the weeks that you do not write a paper (#1 above), you will submit three questions on that week’s readings.  One question may be a factual question, asking for clarification of a point that you did not understand.  The other questions must be analytical in nature, designed to promote class discussion. The questions are due by 9 a.m. the day of class, and you can put them in my mailbox and send them by e-mail.

 

(4) Final examination.  The final exam will simulate the comprehensive examination in comparative politics.  It will be a take-home exam, consisting of three questions.  More information will be provided about the exam during the class.

 

Grading

 

Short papers (10% each):                     20%

Book review                                         15%

Class participation                                25%

Final exam                                            40%

 

Reading

 

Books: The following books are available for purchase at the bookstore.  With the exception of the books by Tilly and Lichbach/Zuckerman, all of these books are on reserve, should you not wish to purchase them.

 

Nancy Bermeo, Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times (2003).

 

Valerie Bunce, Subversive Institutions: The Design and Destruction of Socialism and the State (1999).

 

Jeffrey Herbst, States and Power in Africa (2000).

 

Albert Hirschman, Exit, Voice & Loyalty (1970).

 

Mark Irving Lichbach and Alan S. Zuckerman, Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture and Structure (2002). 

 

Arend Lijphart, Patterns of Democracy (1999)

 

Barrington Moore, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (1993)

 

Robert Putnam, Making Democracy Work (1993)

 

James Scott, Weapons of the Weak (1985)

 

Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions (1979)

 

Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital & European States, AD 990-1990.

 

All other readings are available through blackboard (*), or are on reserve in Gelman library (R).

 

Schedule and Readings:

 

September 12

(1) What is Comparative Politics and How Should We Study It?

 

*Harry Eckstein, “Case Study and Theory in Political Science,” in Greenstein and Polsby, Handbook of Political Science.

 

*Arend Lijphart, “Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method,” American Political Science Review, vol. 45, no. 3 (September 1971), pp. 682-93.

 

Recommended

*Giovanni Sartori, “Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics,” American Political Science Review, Vol. 64 (Dec., 1970): 1033-1053.

 

Additional sources

David Collier and James E. Mahon, Jr., “Conceptual Stretching Revisited: Adapting Categories in Comparative Analysis,” American Political Science Review, vol. 87, no. 4 (December 1993), pp. 845-55.

David Collier, “The Comparative Method,” in Ada W. Finifter, ed., Political Science: The State of the Discipline (1993).

Michael Coppedge, “Thickening Thin Concepts and Theories: Combining Large N and Small in Comparative Politics,” Comparative Politics, vol. 31, no. 4 (July 1999).

James Fearon, “Counterfactuals and Hypothesis Testing in Political Science,” World Politics 43 (1991).

Jackman, R. “Cross-National Statistical Research and the Study of Comparative Politics,” American Journal of Political Science 29 (Feb. 1985): 161-182.

Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 1962

Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge, 1962.

Adam Przeworski and Harry Tuene, The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry (1970).

Charles Ragin, The Comparative Method.

“The Role of Theory in Comparative Politics: A Symposium,” World Politics 48, 1 (October 1995): 1-49.

 

September 19

(2) Methodological issues and debates

 

Margaret Levi, “A Model, A Method, and a Map,” in Lichbach and Zuckerman, pp. 19-41.

 

*Robert Bates, “Area Studies and the Discipline: A Useful Controversy?” in PS: Political Science and Politics, vol. 30, no. 2 (June 1997): 166-69.

 

*Chalmers Johnson, “Preconception vs. Observation, or the Contributions of Rational Choice Theory and Area Studies to Contemporary Political Science,” PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 30, No. 2. (June 1997): 170‑174.

 

*Theda Skocpol and Margaret Somers, “The Uses of Comparative History in Macrosocial Inquiry,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 22, 2 (1980): 174-97.

 

*Ian S. Lustick, “History, Historiography, and Political Science: Multiple Historical Records and the Problem of Selection Bias,” American Political Science Review 90, 3 (September 1996): 605-18.

 

Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba, Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research (Princeton University Press, 1994), pp. 3-33. Electronic book: you can access this through Aladin.

 

*Andrew Bennett, “Lost in the Translation: Big (N) Misinterpretations of Case Study Research.”

 

Additional Sources

R. Adcock and D. Collier, “Measurement Validity: A Shared Standard for Qualitative and Quantitative Research,” American Political Science Review 95 (Sept. 2001): 529-546.

James Alt and K. Shepsle, Perspectives on Positive Political Economy (1990): especially chapters by Bates,

Riker, and Ordeshook.

Robert Bates et al., Analytic Narratives (1998).

Robert Bates et al., “The Analytic Narratives Project,” American Political Science Review 94, 3 (September 2000): 696-702.

David Collier and James Mahoney, “Insights and Pitfalls: Selection Bias in Qualitative Research,” World Politics, vol. 49, no. 1 (October 1996), pp. 56-91.

Jon Elster, “Rational Choice History: A Case of Excessive Ambition,” American Political Science Review 94, 3 (September 2000): 685-95.

Barbara Geddes, “How the Cases You Choose Affect the Answers You Get: Selection Bias in Comparative Politics,” in Political Analysis vol 2, pp. 131-50.

Donald P. Green and Ian Shapiro, Pathologies of Rational Choice (1994).

Albert Hirschman, “The Concept of Interest: From Euphemism to Tautology,” in Hirschman, Rival Views of Market Society and other Recent Essays.

Edgar Kiser and Michael Hechter, “The Role of General Theory in Comparative-Historical Sociology,” American Journal of Sociology 97 (July 1991): 1-30

S. Lieberson, “Small N’s and Big Conclusions: An Examination of the Reasoning in Comparative Studies Based on a Small Number of Cases,” Social Forces 70 (Dec. 1991): 307-320.

“Quantitative-Quantitative Disputation: Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba’s Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Interference in Qualitative Research,” APSR 89, 2 (June 1995).

 

September 26

(3) The Origins and Nature of the Modern State

 

Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital and European States, chps. 1, 3-4.

 

*Peter B. Evans, et al., Bringing the State Back In, chp. 1.

 

(R) Jeffrey Herbst, States and Power in Africa, chps. 1, 4, 9.

 

Recommended

Joel S. Migdal, “Studying the State,” in Lichbach and Zuckerman, eds.

 

Additional sources:

Robert Bates, “The Centralization of African Societies,” in Robert Bates, Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa (Cambridge: 1983).

S.N. Eisenstadt, “Comparative Analysis of State Formation in Historical Contexts,” International Social Science Journal, 32, 4 (1980).

Thomas Ertman, Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1997).

Jeffrey Herbst, “War and the State in Africa,” International Security 14 (Spring 1990).

Robert Jackson and Carl Rosberg, “Why Africa’s Weak States Persist,” World Politics (1982).

“Japan’s Emergence as a Modern State,” in John W. Dower, ed. Origins of the Modern Japanese State: Selected Writings of E.H. Norman.

Stephen Krasner, “Approaches to the State: Alternative Conceptions and Historical Dynamics,” Comparative Politics 16 (January 1984): 223-46.

Joel Migdal, Strong Societies and Weak States (1988).

Timothy Mitchell, “The Limits of the State: Beyond Statist Approaches and their Critics,” APSR 85, 1 (March 1991).

J.P. Nettl, “The State as a Conceptual Variable,” World Politics (1968).

Guillermo O’Donnell, “Comparative Historical Formations of the State Apparatus,” International Social Science Journal, 32, 4 (1980).

Stephen Skowronek, Building the New American State (1982).

Hendrik Spruyt, The Sovereign State and Its Competitors (1994).

Joseph Strayer, On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State.

Charles Tilly, The Formation of National States in Western Europe (1986).

Max Weber, “Bureaucracy,” and “Politics as a Vocation,” in Gerth and Mills eds., From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (1958).

Jennifer Widner, “States and Statelessness in 20th century Africa,” Daedalus 124, 3 (1995).

 

October 3

(4)  Political modernization and development

 

*Seymour Martin Lipset, “Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy,” American Political Science Review, vol. 53, no. 1 (March 1959), pp. 69-105.

 

*Adam Przeworski and Fernando Limongi, “Modernization: Theories and Facts,” World Politics, vol. 49, no. 2 (January 1997), pp. 155-83.

 

*Samuel Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies, chp. 1.

 

*Francis Hagopian, “Political Development, Revisited,” Comparative Political Studies, vol. 33, nos. 6/7 (August/September 2000), pp. 880-911.

 

Additional Sources

 

Karl Deutsch, “Social Mobilization and Political Development,” APSR 55, 3 (September 1961): 493-514.

Harry Eckstein, “The Idea of Political Development: From Dignity to Efficiency,” World Politics 34, 4 (July 1982): 451-86.

Samuel Huntington and Jorge I. Domínguez, “Political Development,” in Fred Greenstein and Nelson Polsby, eds., Handbook of Political Science vol 3 (1975): 1-98.

Daniel Lerner, The Passing of Traditional Society (1958), chapter 1.

S. M. Lipset, “The Social Requisites of Democracy Revisited,” American Sociological Review: 59 (Feb., 1994): 1-22.

S.M. Lipset, Political Man (1960).

Lucien Pye, “Political Modernization: Gaps Between Theory and Reality,” Annals, AAPSS 442 (March 1979): 28-39.

 

October 10

(5) Democratic Transitions

 

(R)Valerie Bunce, Subversive Institutions: The Design and Destruction of Socialism and the State (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999), chps. 1, 2, 4, 5.

 

*D. A. Rustow, “Transitions to Democracy: Toward a Dynamic Model,” Comparative Politics 2 (Apr., 1970): 337-363.

 

Debate about the study of transitions:

*Philippe C. Schmitter with Terry Lynn Karl, “The Conceptual Travels of Transitologists and Consolidologists: How Far to the East Should They Attempt to Go?” Slavic Review, vol. 53, no. 1 (Spring 1994), pp. 173-185.

 

*Valerie Bunce, “Should Transitologists be Grounded?” Slavic Review, vol. 54, no. 1 (Spring 1995), pp. 111-27.

 

*Terry Lynn Karl and Philippe C. Schmitter, “From an Iron Curtain to a Paper Curtain: Grounding Transitologists or Students of Post-Communism?” Slavic Review, vol. 54, no. 4 (Winter 1995), pp. 965-78.

 

*Valerie Bunce, “Paper Curtains and Paper Tigers,” Slavic Review, vol. 54, no. 4 (Winter 1995), pp. 979-87.

 

Additional sources:

M. Bratton and N. Van de Walle, “Neopatrimonial Regimes and Political Transitions in Africa,” World Politics 46 (July 1994): 453-489.

M. Bratton and N. Van de Walle, Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press (1997).

Ruth Collier, Pathways to Democracy (1999).

Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner, ed., The Global Resurgence of Democracy (1993).

Larry Diamond et al., Democracy in Developing Countries (1988), 4 volumes.

Giuseppe Di Palma, To Craft Democracies: An Essay on Democratic Transitions (1990).

Stephen Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman, The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions (1999).

Samuel Huntington, The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late 20th Century (1991).

Barbara Geddes, “What Do We Know about Democratization After 20 Years?” Annual Review of Political Science, vol 2 (1999).

Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-communist Europe (1996).

Guillermo O’Donnell and Philippe Schmitter Transitions from Authoritarian Rule (1986) all volumes.

Adam Przeworski et al., Democracy and Development (2000).

P. Roeder, “Varieties of Post-Soviet Authoritarian Regimes,” Post-Soviet Affairs 10 (Jan.-Mar 1994): 61-101.

Jennifer Widner, Economic Change and Political Liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa (1994).

 

October 17

(6) Authoritarianism

 

*Eva Bellin, “The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East,” Comparative Politics, 2003.

 

*David Collier, “An Overview of the Bureaucratic Authoritarian Model” in Collier, ed., The New Authoritarianism in Latin America.

 

*Larry Diamond, “Thinking about Hybrid Regimes,” in Journal of Democracy 13, 2 (April 2002): 21-49.

 

(R)Nancy Bermeo, Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times, chps. 1, 2, 7.

 

Recommended

Bermeo, Ordinary People, chp. 3-6.

 

Andreas Schedler, “The Menu of Manipulation,” Stevan Levitsky and Lucan Way, “The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism,” and Nicolas Van de Walle, “Africa’s Range of Regimes,” in Journal of Democracy 13, 2 (April 2002).  Available through Project Muse.

 

Additional sources

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism.

Paul Brooker, Defiant Dictatorships: Communist and Middle-Eastern Dictatorships in a Democratic Age (1997).

Bruce J. Dickson, Democratization in China and Taiwan: The Adaptability of Leninist Parties (1997).

Mary Gallagher, “Reform and Openness: Why China’s Economic Reforms Have Delayed Democracy,” World Politics 54, 3 (April 2002): 338-72.

Huntington, Samuel P., “Social and Institutional Dynamics of One-Party Systems,” in Samuel P. Huntington and Clement H. Moore, eds., Authoritarian Politics in Modern Society: The Dynamics of Established One-Party Systems (New York: Basic Books, 1970), pp. 3-47.

Juan Linz, The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes.

John Londregan and Keith Poole, “Poverty, the Coup Trap, and the Seizure of Executive Power,” World Politics 42, 2 (January 1990): 151-83.

Adam Przeworksi and Fernando Limongi, “Political Regimes and Economic Growth,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 7, 3 (1993): 51-69.

Michael Ross, “Does Oil Hinder Democracy?” World Politics 53, 3 (April 2001): 325-61.

Alfred Stepan, Rethinking Military Politics (1988).

 

October 24

(7)  Political institutions and path dependency

 

*James G. March and Johan P. Olsen, “Institutional Perspectives on Political Institutions” Governance 9, 3 (July 1996): 247-64.

 

*Peter Hall and Rosemary Taylor, “Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms” Political Studies 44, 4 (December 1996): 936-57.

 

Ira Katznelson, “Structure and Configuration in Comparative Politics,” in Lichbach and Zuckerman, pp. 81-112.

 

*Paul Pierson, “Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics,” American Political Science Review 94, 2 (June 2000): 251-68.

 

*Kathleen Thelen, “How Institutions Evolve: Insights from Comparative Historical Analysis,” in James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences (Cambridge Univ Press: 2003): 208-240.

 

Additional sources:

David Apter, “Institutionalism Reconsidered,” International Social Science Journal, vol. 43, no. 3 (May 1991), 463-81.

Thomas A. Koelble, “The New Institutionalism in Political Science and Sociology,” Comparative Politics, vol. 27, no. 2 (January 1995), pp. 231-43.

James March and Johan Olsen, Rediscovering Institutions: The Organizational Basis of Politics, 1989.

Douglass C. North, Structure and Change in Economic History (Norton: 1981).

Elinor Ostrom.  Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, 1990.

Walter W. Powell and Paul DiMaggio, eds., The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis, 1991.

Karen L. Remmer, “Theoretical Decay and Theoretical Development: The Resurgence of Institutional Analysis,” World Politics 50 (October 1997): 34-61.

Kenneth A. Shepsle, “Studying Institutions: Some Lessons from the Rational Choice Approach,” Journal of Theoretical Politics 1, 2 (April 1989): 131-47.

Kathleen Thelen and Sven Steinmo, “Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics,” in Steinmo, Thelen, and Longstreth, eds., Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 1-32.

Kathleen Thelen, “Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics,” Annual Review of Political Science 2 (1999): 369-404.

R. Kent Weaver and Bert A. Rockman, eds., Do Institutions Matter? Government Capabilities in the United States and Abroad, 1993.

 

October 31

(8) Electoral and Party Systems

 

*Gary Cox, “Electoral Rules and Electoral Coordination,” Annual Review of Political Science 2 (1999): 145-61.

 

(R)Arend Lijphart, Patterns of Democracy, chps. 1-3, 14-16.

 

*Maurice Duverger, “The Two-Party System and the Multi-party System,” in Peter Mair, ed., The West European Party System (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990).

 

*Jack Bielasiak, “The Institutionalization of Electoral and Party Systems in Post-Communist States,” Comparative Politics, vol. 34, no. 2 (January 2002), pp. 189-210.

 

Bruce J. Dickson, “Cooptation and Corporatism in China: The Logic of Party *Adaptation,” Political Science Quarterly, vol. 115, no. 4 (Winter 2000-2001), pp. 517-540.

 

Additional sources:

John Aldrich, Why Parties? The Origins and Transformation of Party Politics in America.

Pradeep K. Chhibber and Ken Kollman, The Formation of National Party Systems: Federalism and Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States (2004).

Anthony Downs, An Economic Theory of Democracy.

Maurice Duverger.  Political Parties, 1954.

Henry Hale, “Why Not Parties? Electoral Markets, Party Substitutes, and Stalled Democratization in Russia,” Comparative Politics (January 2005): 147-66.

Herbert Kitschelt et al., Post-Communist Party Systems (1999).

Michelle Kuenzi and Gina Lambright, “Party Systems and Democratic Consolidation in Africa’s Electoral Regimes,” Party Politics 11, 4 (July 2005): 423-46.

Seymour Martin Lipset and Stein Rokkan, “Cleavage Structure, Party Systems, and Voter Alignments: An Introduction,” in Lipset and Rokkan, eds., Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-National Perspectives (Free Press: 1967).

Scott Mainwaring and Timothy Scully, “Party Systems in Latin America,” in Mainwaring and Scully, eds., Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America (1995).

Michael McFaul, “Explaining Party Formation and Nonformation in Russia: Actors, Institutions, and Chance,” Comparative Political Studies, vol. 34, no. 10 (December 2001), pp. 1159-1187.

Robert Michels.  Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchic Tendencies of Modern Democracy (1959).

Pippa Norris, Electoral Engineering: Voting Rules and Political Behavior (2004).

Adam Przeworski and John Sprague, Paper Stones: A History of Electoral Socialism (1986).

Giovanni Sartori, “A Typology of Party Systems,” in Peter Mair, ed., The West European Party System (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. 316-347.

 

November 7

(9)  Political culture and civil society

 

*Gabriel Almond, “The Intellectual History of the Civic Culture Concept,” from Almond and Verba, eds., The Civic Culture Revisited (Little, Brown & Co: 1980), 1-36.

 

*Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba, “The Civic Culture and Democratic Stability,” in Almond and Verba, The Civic Culture (Sage 1989), 337-74.

 

(R)Robert Putnam, Making Democracy Work, chps. 1, 3-4, 6.

 

Marc Howard Ross, “Culture and Identity in Comparative Political Analysis,” in Lichbach and Zuckerman, eds.

 

Additional sources

Ariel C. Armory, The Dubious Link: Civic Engagement and Democratization (2004).

Sheri Berman, “Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic,” World Politics 49, 3 (April 1997).

Sheri Berman, “Ideas, Norms, and Culture in Political Analysis,” Comparative Politics, vol. 33, no. 2 (January 2001), pp. 231-250.

Jean L. Cohen and Andrew Arato, Civil Society and Political Theory, 1992.

Larry Diamond, ed., Political Culture and Democracy in Developing Countries (1994).

David J. Elkins and Richard E.B. Simeon, “A Cause in Search of Its Effect, Or What Does Political Culture Explain?” Comparative Politics 11, 2 (January 1979).

Michael W. Foley and Bob Edwards, “The Paradox of Civil Society,” Journal of Democracy, vol. 7, no. 3 (July 1996), pp. 38‑52.

Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures (Harper & Row: 1973).

Ronald Inglehart, Culture Shift (Princeton Univ. Press: 1990).

R. Inglehart, “The Silent Revolution in Europe: Intergenerational Change in Post-Industrial Societies,” American Political Science Review, Vol. 65 (Dec., 1971): 991-1017.

R. W. Jackman and R. A. Miller, “A Renaissance of Political Culture?” American Journal of Political Science 40 (August 1996): 632-659.

David Laitin and Aaron Wildavsky, “Political Culture and Political Preferences,” American Political Science Review 82, 2 (June 1988).

Jan-Erik Lane and Svante Ersson, Culture and Politics: A Comparative Approach (2002).

Margaret Levi, “Social and Unsocial Capital: A Review Essay of Robert Putnam’s Making Democracy Work,” Politics and Society, vol. 24, no. 1 (March 1996), pp. 45-56.

Edward D. Muller and Mitchell A. Seligson, “Civic Culture and Democracy: The Question of Causal Relationships,” American Political Science Review 88, 3 (September 1994).

Robert Putnam, “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital,” Journal of Democracy 6, 1 (January 1997).

Ann Swidler, “Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies,” American Sociological Review 51, 2 (April 1986): 273-86.

Sidney Tarrow, “Making Social Science Work across Space and Time: A Critical Reflection on Robert Putnam’s Making Democracy Work,” American Political Science Review, vol. 90, no. 2 (June 1996), pp. 389-97.

Max Weber, “The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism,” in Gerth and Mills, From Max Weber (1946).

Aaron Wildavsky, “Choosing Preferences by Constructing Institutions: A Cultural Theory of Preference Formation,” American Political Science Review 81, 1 (March 1987).

 

November 14

(10)  Identities: ethnicity, race, and gender

 

*Donald Horowitz, Ethnic Groups in Conflict  chp. 1.

 

*James D. Fearon and David D. Laitin, “Violence and the Social Construction of Ethnic Identity,” International Organization 54, 4 (Autumn 2000): 845-77.

 

*Anthony Marx, “Race Making and the Nation-State,” World Politics 48, 2 (1996): 180-208.

 

*R.W. Connell, “The State, Gender, and Sexual Politics: Theory and Re-appraisal,” in Radtke and Stam, eds., Power/Gender: Social Relations in Theory and Practice (Sage Publications: 1994), 136-73.

 

*Lisa Baldez, “Women’s Movements and Democratic Transition in Chile, Brazil, East Germany, and Poland,” Comparative Politics 35, 3 (April 2003): 253-72.

 

Additional sources:

Sonia E. Alvarez, Engendering Democracy in Brazil: Women’s Movements in Transition Politics.

Lisa Baldez, Why Women Protest: Women’s Movements in Chile (2002).

Amrita Basu, ed., The Challenge of Local Feminisms (1995).

J. Fearon and D. Laitin, “Explaining Interethnic Cooperation,” American Political Science Review 90 (Dec. 1996): 715-735.

James Fearon and David Laitin, “Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War,” APSR (February 2003).

Mala Htun, Sex and the State: Abortion, Divorce, and Family under Latin American Dictatorships and Democracies (2004).

Jane Jacquette, ed., The Women’s Movement in Latin America (1994).

Jane S. Jaquette and Sharon L. Wolchik, eds., Women and Democracy: Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe, 1998.

Evan S. Lieberman, Race and Regionalism in the Politics of Taxation in Brazil and South Africa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2003).

Anthony Marx, Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil (1998).

Joan W. Scott, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis,” American Historical Review 91:5 (1986): 1053-1075

Edward E. Telles, Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil (2004).

Crawford Young, “The Temple of Ethnicity,” World Politics 35, 4 (July 1983)

 

November 21

(11) Collective action and social movements

 

(R)James Scott, Weapons of the Weak, chps. 1,2,8  (skim others if you wish).

 

(R)Albert Hirschman, Exit, Voice and Loyalty, chps. 1-4, 7.

 

Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow, and Charles Tilly, “Toward an Integrated Perspective on Social Movements and Revolution,” in Lichbach and Zuckerman, eds., Comparative Politics, pp. 142-173.

 

Additional sources:

Nathan J. Brown, Peasant Politics in Modern Egypt: The Struggle against the State, 1990.

Forrest Colburn, ed., Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (1989).

Craig Jenkins, “Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements,” Annual Review of Sociology 9 (1983).

Herbert Kitschelt, “Political Opportunity Structures and Political Protest,” British Journal of Political Science 16 (1986).

Doug McAdam, Sydney Tarrow, and Charles Tilly, Dynamics of Contention (2001).

Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action (1971).

Samuel Popkin, The Rational Peasant (Berkeley: 1979).

James Scott, The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia (1976).

Sidney Tarrow, Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics (1998).

Charles Tilly, Social Movements, 1768-2004 (2004).

Mayer N. Zald and John D. McCarthy, eds., The Dynamics of Social Movements: Resource Mobilization, Social Control, and Tactics (1979).

 

November 28

(12) Revolutions: causes and consequences

 

(R)Barrington Moore, Jr., Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (Beacon, 1966), chps. 1-2, 7-9.  Note: You need not read every detail of chps. 1-2; read enough to grasp the main argument.

 

(R)Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions (Cambridge, 1979), pp. 3-43; 47-67; 112-28; 161-205.

 

Additional sources:

Robert Bates, Prosperity and Violence (W.W. Norton: 2000).

Crane Brinton, The Anatomy of Revolution (1952).

James DeNardo, Power in Numbers (1985).

Jack A. Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World (1991).

Ted Gurr, “The Revolution-Social Change Nexus,” Comparative Politics 25, 3 (April 1973).

Ted Gurr, Why Men Rebel (1970).

Timur Kuran, “Now Out of Never: The Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989,” World Politics, vol. 44, no. 1 (October 1991), pp. 7-48.

Timur Kuran, “Why Revolutions are Better Understood than Predicted,” in Debating Revolutions (1995).

Cynthia McClintock, “Why Peasants Rebel: The Case of Peru's Sendero Luminoso,” World Politics, vol. 37, no. 1 (October 1984).

Cynthia McClintock, Revolutionary Movements in Latin America, 1998.

Joel Migdal, Peasants, Politics, and Revolution: Pressures towards Social and Political Change in the Third World (Princeton, 1974).

Elizabeth J. Perry, Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945, 1980.

Theda Skocpol, “A Critical Review of Barrington Moore’s Social Origins,” Politics and Society 4 (Fall 1973): 1-34.

Charles Tilly, “Revolutions and Collective Violence,” in Greenstein and Polsby, eds., Handbook of Political Science.

Charles Tilly, From Mobilization to Revolution.

Kay Ellen Trimberger, Revolution from Above: Military Bureaucrats in Development in Japan, Turkey, Egypt and Peru (1978).

 

December 5

(13) Political economy: advanced industrialized states

 

*Schmitter, “Still the Century of Corporatism?” in Pike and Stritch, eds., The New Corporatism pp. 85-131.

 

(R) Olson, The Rise and Decline of Nations, chps. 2-3.

 

*Gøsta Esping-Andersen, “The Three Political Economies of the Welfare State,” Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 26/2, 1989: 10-36.

 

Peter Hall and David Soskice, Varieties of Capitalism, introduction (feel free to skim after p. 44).

 

Recommended

Chapter by Peter Hall in Lichbach and Zuckerman

 

Additional sources:

 

Carles Boix, Political Parties, Growth, and Equality (1998).

Gøsta Esping-Andersen, The Social Foundations of Post-Industrial Economies (1999).

Gøsta Esping-Andersen, The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (1990).

Henry Farrell, “Trust and Political Economy,” Comparative Political Studies 38, 5 (June 2005): 459-83.

Harvey Feigenbaum and Jeffrey Henig, “The Political Underpinnings of Privatization: A Typology,” World Politics 46, 2 (January 1994).

Geoffrey Garrett, Partisan Politics in the Global Economy (1998).

Peter Gourevitch, Politics in Hard Times (1986).

Peter Hall, Governing the Economy (1986)

Peter Hall, ed., The Political Power of Economic Ideas (1989).

Torben Iversen and Anne Wren, “Equality, Employment, and Budgetary Restraint: The Trilemma of the Service Economy” World Politics 50 (July 1998): 507‑46

Peter B. Katzenstein, Small States in World Markets (1985).

Herbert Kitschelt et al. eds., Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism (1999).

Paul Pierson, ed., The New Politics of the Welfare State (2001).

Karl Polyani, The Great Transformation.

Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.

Peter A. Swenson, Capitalists against Markets: The Making of Labor Markets and Welfare States in the United States and Sweden (2002).

 

December 7 (Wednesday)

(14) Political economy: (formerly) developing countries

 

*Alexander Gerschenkron, “Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective,” in Gerschenkron, Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective.

 

Peter Evans, Embedded Autonomy, chps. 1-3.  Electronic book: available through Aladin.

 

*J. Samuel Valenzuela and Arturo Valenzuela, “Modernization and Dependency: Alternative Perspectives in the Study of Latin American Underdevelopment,” Comparative Politics, vol. 10, no. 4 (July 1978), pp. 543-557.

 

*Andres Velasco, “The Dustbin of History: Dependency Theory,” Foreign Policy (November/December 2002), pp. 44-45.

 

Additional sources:

Alice H. Amsden, Asia’s Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization (1989).

Robert H. Bates, Markets and States in Tropical Africa (1981).

Alasdair Bowie and Danny Unger, The Politics of Open Economies: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand (1997).

Alasdair Bowie, Crossing the Industrial Divide: State, Society, and the Politics of Economic Transformation in Malaysia (1991).

Fernando Enrique Cardozo and Enzo Faletto, Dependency and Development in Latin America (1979).

Peter Evans, Dependent Development: The Alliance of Multinational, State, and Local Capital in Brazil (1979).

Stephen Haggard, Pathways from the Periphery: The Politics of Growth in Newly Industrializing Countries (1990).

Chalmers Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy 1925-75 (1982).

Atul Kohli, State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery (2004).

Matthew Lange and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, States and Development: Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance (2005).

Robert Packenham, The Dependency Movement: Scholarship and Politics in Development Studies (1992).

James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed (1998).

Robert Wade, Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization (1990).