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PhD in Political Science

Comparative Politics Reading List

(Approved: January 2014)

1. METHODS

Required reading:

Robert H. Bates, “Area Studies and the Discipline: A Useful Controversy?” PS: Political Science

and Politics 30:2 (June 1997), pp. 166-169.

David Collier and Henry E. Brady, Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards

(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2004).

James Fearon, “Counterfactuals and Hypothesis Testing in Political Science,” World Politics 43:2

(January 1991), pp. 169-195.

Barbara Geddes, “How the Cases You Choose Affect the Answers You Get: Selection Bias in

Comparative Politics.” Political Analysis 2 (1990), pp.131-150.

Donald Green and Ian Shapiro, Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory: a Critique of

Applications in Political Science (Yale UP, 1994).

Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba. Designing Social Inquiry (Princeton, 1994), chs..

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Arend Lijphart, “Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method,” American Political Science

Review 65 (September, 1971), pp. 682-93.

James Mahoney and Dietrich Reuschemeyer, Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social

Sciences (Cambridge UP, 2003), chs. 1-3 and 8.

Perestroika Movement:

http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue32/Jacobsen32.htm

http://www.psci.unt.edu/enterline/mrperestroika.pdf

Adam Przeworski and Henry Teune,. The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry, (John Wiley &

Sons, 1970).

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Supplementary Reading:

James A. Caporaso, “Across the Great Divide: Integrating Comparative and International

Politics,” International Studies Quarterly 41:4 (December 1997), pp. 563-92.

David Collier and James Mahoney, "Research Note. Insights and Pitfalls: Selection Bias in

Qualitative Work,” World Politics 49:1 (October 1996), pp. 56-91

Atul Kohli et al, “The Role of Theory in Comparative Politics: A Symposium.” World Politics,

Vol. 48 (October 1995), pp. 1-49.

John. H. Goldthorpe, “Current Issues in Comparative Macrosociology: A Debate on

Methodological Issues,” Comparative Social Research Vol. 16 (1997), pp. 1-26.

Jack A. Goldstone, “Methodological Issues in Comparative Macrosociology,” Comparative

Social Research 16 (1997), pp. 107-120.

Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor, “„Soft‟ Area Studies versus „Hard‟ Social Science: A

False Opposition,” Slavic Review (Spring 2007).

James Mahoney, “Qualitative Methods and Comparative Politics,” Comparative Political Studies

40:2 (February 2007), pp. 122-144.

Helen V. Milner, “Rationalizing Politics: The Emerging Synthesis of International, American and

Comparative Politics,” International Organization 52:4 (Autumn 1998), pp. 759-786.

Carole Jean Uhlaner, “Political Participation, Rational Actors, and Rationality: A New

Approach” Political Psychology 7 (3) (September, 1986), pp. 551-573.

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2. STATES AND SOCIETY

Required reading:

Robert Bates, When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa (Cambridge UP,

2008)

Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol, Bringing the State Back In

(Cambridge UP, 1985), preface and chs. 1 and 11.

Peter B. Evans, Embedded Autonomy (Princeton UP, 1995).

Gourevitch, Peter, “The Second Image Reversed: The International Sources of Domestic Politics

International Organization, Vol. 32 (4) (1978), pp. 881-912

Jeffrey Herbst, States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and

Control (Princeton UP, 2000).

Joel Migdal, Strong Societies and Weak States: State-Society Relations and State Capabilities in

the Third World (Princeton UP, 1988).

Mancur Olson. “The Criminal Metaphor,” from Power and Prosperity (Basic Books,

2000), pp. 3-24.

Gianfranco Poggi, The Development of the Modern State: A Sociological Introduction (Stanford

UP, 1978).

James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition

Have Failed (Yale UP, 1999)

Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital and European States: AD 990 - 1992 (Blackwell, 2007).

Hendrick Spruyt, The Sovereign State and Its Competitors (Princeton UP, 1994).

Max Weber, “Politics As Vocation.”

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Supplementary reading:

Miguel Angel Centeno, Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America (University

Park: Penn State Press, 2002).

Thomas Ertman, Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early

Modern Europe (Cambridge UP, 1997).

Peter Evans, “The Eclipse of the State? Reflections on Stateness in an Era of Globalization.”

World Politics 50:1 (1997), pp. 62–87.

Albert Hirschman, “Exit, Voice, and the State,” World Politics 31:1 (1978), pp. 90-107.

Chalmers Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy 1925-1975

(Stanford UP 1983).

Michael Mann, Sources of Social Power (Cambridge UP, 1986).

Douglas North and Robert Paul Thomas, The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic

History (Cambridge UP, 1976).

Alfred Stepan, State and Society: Peru in Comparative Perspective (Princeton UP, 1978).

Charles Tilly, The Formation of National States in Western Europe (Princeton UP, 1975)

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3. MODERNIZATION THEORY, DEVELOPMENT AND DEPENDENCY

Required reading:

Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done

About It (Oxford UP, 2007)

Robert Dahl, Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition (Yale UP, 1971), chps. 1,2,3,5.

Peter Evans, Dependent Development: The Alliance of Multinational, State, and Local

Capital in Brazil (Princeton UP, 1979).

Alexander Gerschenkron, Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective (Harvard,

1962), pp. 5-30.

Samuel Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies (Yale UP, 1968), pp. 1-92; 344-

461.

Daniel Lerner, The Passing of Traditional Society (Free Press, 1958), ch. 1.

Seymour Martin Lipset “Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and

Political Legitimacy,” APSR (1959), pp. 69-105.

Adam Przeworski et. al., Democracy and Development : Political Institutions and Material Well- Being

in the World, 1950-1990 (Cambridge UP, 2000).

Walt W. Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth (3rd Ed) (Cambridge UP, 1990), pp. ix-

xxxviii, and pp. 1-35.

J. Samuel Valenzuela and Arturo Valenzuela, “Modernization and Dependency: Alternative

Perspectives in the Study of Latin American Underdevelopment,” Comparative Politics

10:4 (July 1978), pp.535-552.

Supplementary reading:

William Easterly, The Elusive Quest for Growth (MIT Press, 1992).

Fernando Henrique Cardozo and Enzo Faletto, Dependency and Development in Latin America

(University of California Press, 1979), pp. viii-xxv, 177-216

Tony Smith, “The Underdevelopment of Development Literature: The Case of Dependency

Theory,” World Politics 31 (January 1979), pp. 247-288.

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4. INSTITUTIONS

Required Reading:

Peter Hall and Rosemary Taylor, “Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms,”

Political Studies 44 (December 1996), pp. 936-958.

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

Politics (Free Press, 1989).

Terry M. Moe, “Power and Political Institutions,” Perspectives on Politics 3:2 (June 2005), pp.

215-33.

Douglass C. North, Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance (Cambridge

UP, 1990).

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

(Cambridge UP, 1990), chs.1, 2, 6.

Paul Pierson, “Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics,” American

Political Science Review 94:2 (2000), pp. 251-67.

Kenneth A. Shepsle, "Studying Institutions: Some Lessons from the Rational Choice

Approach," Journal of Theoretical Politics (April 1989), pp. 131-147.

Kathleen Thelen, “Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics,” Annual Review of

Political Science 2 (1999), pp. 369-404.

Thelen, Kathlenn and James Mahoney. 2010. Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity,

Agency, and Power (co-edited with James Mahoney). New York: Cambridge University Press.

George Tsebelis, Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work (Princeton, 2002), introduction and

conclusion.

Supplementary reading:

Robert H. Bates, “Contra Contractarianism: Some Reflections on the New Institutionalism,”

Politics & Society 16:2-3 (1988), pp. 387-401.

James Mahoney, “Path Dependence in Historical Sociology,” Theory and Society 29:4 (2000), pp.

507-548.

Alfred Stepan, Rethinking Military Politics: Brazil and the Southern Cone ( Princeton UP, 1988).

Barry R. Weingast, “Rational Choice Institutionalism,” in Ira Katznelson and Helen Milner, eds.,

Political Science: The State of the Discipline (W.W. Norton, 2002), pp. 660-692

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5. REVOLUTIONS

Required reading:

John Foran, Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions (Cambridge UP, 2005).

James DeFronzo, Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements (Westview Press, 1997).

Jack A. Goldstone, ed., Revolutions: Theoretical, Comparative, and Historical Studies,

3rd ed. (Thomson/Wadsworth, 2003).

Jeff Goodwin, No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991 (Cambridge

UP, 2001), chs. 1, 2, 9 and skim one of the following: Part 2, Part 3, or Part 4.

Stathis N. Kalyvas, The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Cambridge University Press,

2006).

Barrington Moore, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (Beacon Press, 1966).

Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions, (Cambridge UP, 1979).

Jeremy M. Weinstein, Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence (Cambridge

University Press, 2006).

Supplementary reading:

Crane Brinton, The Anatomy of Revolution (Vintage, 1965).

John Foran, ed., Theorizing Revolutions (Routledge, 1997).

Jack Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World (University of California

Press, 1993).

Ted Gurr, Why Men Rebel (Princeton, 1971).

Timur Kuran, “Now out of Never: The Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of

1989,” World Politics, (October 1991), pp. 7-48.

Samuel Popkin, The Rational Peasant. The political economy of rural society in Vietnam

(Berkeley : University of California Press, 1979).

James Scott, The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and subsistence in Southeast Asia.

(Yale UP, 1976).

Charles Tilly, The Politics of Collective Violence (Cambridge UP, 2003), chs.. 1, 3, and 10.

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6. POLITICAL CULTURE

Required reading:

Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba, The Civic Culture (Princeton UP, 1963), ch. 1, pp. 1-44.

David J. Elkins and Richard Simeon, “A Cause in Search of Its Effect, or What Does

Political Culture Explain?” Comparative Politics 11 (January 1979), pp. 127-146.

Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures (Basic Books, 1973).

Ronald Inglehart, Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic and Political

Change in 43 Societies (Princeton UP, 1997).

Ken Jowitt, "The Leninist Legacy," in Ivo Banac, ed., Eastern Europe in Revolution

(Cornell UP, 1992), pp. 207-24.

Robert Putnam, Making Democracy Work (Princeton UP, 1994).

Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

Supplementary reading:

Sheri Berman, “Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic,” World Politics

49:3 (April 1997), pp. 401-429.

Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks. (International Publishers, 9th ed. 1987).

Karl Marx, “The Eighteenth Brumaire.”

Mark Tessler. “Islam and Democracy in the Middle East: The Impact of Religious Orientations

on Attitudes Toward Democracy in Four Arab Countries.” Comparative Politics 34

(April 2002), pp. 337-354.

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7. TRANSITIONS AND DEMOCRATIZATION

Required reading:

Thomas Carothers, “The End of the Transition Paradigm,” Journal of Democracy 13:1 (2002),

pp. 5-21.

Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman, The Political Economy of Democratic

Transitions (Princeton UP, 1995).

Samuel P. Huntington, The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth

Century, (University of Oklahoma, 1991), pp. 3-108.

Barrington Moore, Jr., Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, pp. 413-32.

Guillermo O'Donnell and Philippe C. Schmitter, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule:

Tentative Conclusions and Uncertain Democracies, (Johns Hopkins, 1986).

Dankwart A. Rustow, “Transitions to Democracy: Toward a Dynamic Model,”

Comparative Politics, 2:3 (1970): 337-363.

Philippe Schmitter and Terry Karl, “What Democracy Is...and Is Not,” in Larry Diamond and

Marc. F.Planttner, The Global Resurgence of Democracy (Johns Hopkins,1996), pp. 49- 62.

Supplementary reading:

Ruth B. Collier and David Collier, Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the Labor

Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America (Princeton UP, 1991).

Donald L. Horowitz, "Democracy in Divided Societies," in Larry Diamond and Marc. F.

Planttner, Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Democracy, (Johns Hopkins UP, 1993), pp.

35-55.

Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: (John

Hopkins UP, 1996).

Michael McFaul, “Transitions from Postcommunism,” Journal of Democracy (July 2005).

Guillermo O‟Donnell, “Delegative Democracy,” in Larry Diamond and Marc.

F. Planttner, The Global Resurgence of Democracy (Johns Hopkins, 1996), pp.

94-108.

Marsha Pripstein Posusney and Michele Penner Angrist (eds), Authoritarianism in the Middle

East, Regimes and Resistance (Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2005).

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Alfred Stepan, “Federalism and Democracy: Beyond the U.S. Model,” in Larry Diamond and

Marc F. Plattner The Global Divergence of Democracies (Johns Hopkins,

2001), pp. 215-230.

Mark Tessler. “Islam and Democracy in the Middle East: The Impact of Religious Orientations

on Attitudes Toward Democracy in Four Arab Countries.” Comparative Politics 34

(April 2002), pp. 337-354.

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8. AUTHORITARIANISM

Required reading:

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1958)

Eva Bellin, “Contingent Democrats: Industrialists, Labor, and Democratization in Late

Developing Countries,” World Politics 52:1 (January 2000), pp. 175-205.

David Collier, ed., The New Authoritarianism in Latin America (Princeton, 1979).

Steven Heydemann, “Upgrading Authoritarianism in the Arab World,” The Saban Center for

Middle East Studies at the Brookings Institution, Analysis Paper, Number 13 (October

2007).

Juan Linz, “Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes,” in Fred Greenstein and Nelson Polsby, eds.,

Handbook of Political Science, 3 (1975), pp. 191-357.

Guillermo O‟Donnell, “Reflections on the Patterns of Change in the Bureaucratic-Authoritarian

State.” Latin American Research Review 13:1 (1978) 3-38.

Ross, Michael. 2012. The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations.

Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Nicolas van de Walle, “Africa‟s Range of Regimes,”Journal of Democracy, 13:2 (April 2002).

Supplementary reading:

Larry Diamond, “Is the Third Wave Over?” Journal of Democracy 7:3 (1996) pp. 20-37.

Carl Friedrich and Zbigniew Brzezinski, Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy (1965),

pp. 14-29.

Ross, Michael and Jørgen Juel Andersen.2014. “The Big Oil Change: a closer look at the

Haber-Menaldo analysis.” Comparative Political Studies.

Following Article from Special Edition: “Elections without Democracy,” Journal of Democracy,

13:2 (April 2002):

Larry Diamond, “Thinking About Hybrid Regimes”

Andreas Schedler, “The Menu of Manipulation”

Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way, “The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism”

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9. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Required Reading:

Albert Hirschman, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (Harvard UP, 1970), chs. 1-4.

Doug McAdam, Political process and the Development of Black Insurgency,1930-1970.

(University of Chicago Press, 1982).

Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow, and Charles Tilly, Dynamics of Contention. (New York:

Cambridge UP, 2001).

Mancur Olson, The Rise and Decline of Nations, (Yale UP, 1982), chs.1-3, pp. 1-74.

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

(Cambridge UP, 1990), chs. 1, 2, 6.

James C. Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (Yale UP, 1985).

Sidney Tarrow, Power in Movement: Social Movements, Collective Action, and Politics

(Cambridge UP, 1994).

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10. NATIONALISM AND ETHNICITY

Required reading:

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (revised edition, 1991), pp. 1-65, skim ch. 5.

Mark Beissinger, Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State (Cambridge

2001).

Walker Connor, “Man is a National Animal,” in Walker Connor, ed. Ethnonationalism: The

Quest for Understanding (Princeton UP, 1994), pp. 195-209

James D. Fearon, and David D. Laitin. “Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War.” The American

Political Science Review 97:1 (2003): 75-90. Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (Oxford: Blackwell, 1983).

Donald Horowitz, Ethnic Groups in Conflict (University of California Press, 2000).

Daniel Posner, Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa, (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

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11. STATES AND MARKETS

Required reading:

Robert Bates, Markets and States in Tropical Africa (University of California Press, 1983).

Esping-Andersen, Gøsta. 1990. The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Princeton: Princeton

University Press.

Peter A. Hall and David Soskice, eds., Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of

Comparative Advantages (Oxford UP, 2001), ch. 1.

Adam Przeworski, States and Markets: A Primer in Political Economy (Cambridge UP, 2003).

Ronald Rogowski, “Political Cleavages and Changing Exposure to Trade,” American Political

Science Review, 81 (1987).

Jose Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942).

Susan Strange, The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy

(Cambridge UP, 1996).

Robert Wade, Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East

Asian Industrialization (Princeton UP, 1990).

Supplementary reading: Alesina, Alberto and Robert Glaeser. 2008. Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe: A World of

Difference. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Estevez-Abe, Margarita. 2008. Welfare Capitalism in Postwar Japan (Cambridge University

Press).

Peter Katzenstein, Small States in World Markets: Industrial Policy in Europe (Cornell UP,

1985), chs. 1, 2, 5.

Wolfgang Streeck and Kozo Yamamura, The Origins of Nonliberal Capitalism: Germany and

Japan in Comparison (Cornell UP, 2001).

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12. PRESIDENTS, PARLIAMENTS, PARTIES AND ELECTORAL SYSTEMS

Required reading:

Pradeep Chhibber and Ken Kollman, The Formation of National Party Systems: Federalism and

Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States. (Princeton:

Princeton University Press, 2004).

Gary W. Cox, Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World’s Electoral Systems

(Cambridge UP, 1997).

Anthony Downs, An Economic Theory of Democracy (Harper and Row, 1957).

Mark Franklin, Voter Turnout and the Dynamics of Electoral Competition in Established

Democracies since 1945 (New York: Cambridge UP).

Stephen Haggard and Michael McCubbins. Presidents, Parliaments and Policy (Cambridge UP

2001), Chs. 1-3.

Katz, Richard and Mair, Peter. 1995. “Changing Models of Party Organization and Party

Democracy: The Emergence of the Cartel Party.” Party Politics 1.1: 5‐28.

Laver, Michael and Kenneth A. Shepsle. Making and Breaking Governments: Cabinets and

Legislatures in Parliamentary Democracies.

Arend Lijphart, Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six

Countries (Yale UP, 1999).

Peter Mair, ed., The West European Party System (Oxford UP, 1990).

Joseph LaPalombara and Myron Weiner, “The Origin of Political Parties,” pp. 25-30

Otto Kircheimer, “The Catch-all Party,” pp. 50-60

Lijphart, Arend. “Dimensions of Ideology in European Party Systems” (p. 253-265).

Martin Lipset and Stein Rokkan “Cleavege Structures, Party Systems and Voter Alignment,” pp. 91-138

Maurice Duverger, “The Two-Party System and the Multiparty System,” pp. 285-95

Alfred Stepan, “Federalism and Democracy: Beyond the U.S. Model,” in Journal of Democracy

10:4 (1999), pp. 19-34.

Alfred Stepan and Cindy Skach. “Constitutional Frameworks and Democratic Consolidation:

Presidentialism versus Parliamentarism,” World Politics 46:1 (October 1993), pp. 1-22.

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Supplementary reading:

Herbert Kitschelt. “The Formation of Party Systems in East Central Europe.” Politics and Society

20:1 (1992), pp. 7-50.

Herbert Kitschelt. The Radical Right in Western Europe, (University of Michigan Press, 1995).

Arend Lijphart, Electoral Systems and Party Systems: A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies,

1945-1990 (Oxford UP, 1995).

Juan Linz “The Perils of Presidentialism” Journal of Democracy 1:1 (1990).