Associations, Networks, and Trust in the Realm of Politics
Political Science 347 $ Fall 2006
University of Iowa
Prof. Benjamin L. Read
office: 308 SH, 335-1923
benjamin-read@uiowa.edu
http://myweb.uiowa.edu/bread
Syllabus date: August 18, 2006
Overview:
Researchers in political science and related disciplines have in recent years made renewed efforts to
explore the role in politics of associational life, interpersonal networks, trust, and related concepts. The
questions raised in this literature are many, including: How might citizens= organizations enhance the
quality of democratic governance, or bring about change within authoritarian systems? How useful are
concepts like Acivil society@ and Asocial capital,@ and do they function similarly or differently in varied
cultural and institutional contexts? In what ways, if any, are non-governmental and non-profit
organizations reshaping the political landscape domestically and internationally? Our goals in this
graduate seminar are to familiarize ourselves with the main currents and contributions within these
debates and to assess them critically, identifying avenues for future research. We will be broadly
comparative in our approach, considering evidence from many parts of the world. We will read work
within our own discipline as well as others while maintaining a general focus on political outcomes.
Assignments:
$ Do the required readings
$ Participate actively in discussion (18% of course grade)
$ Complete six reading responses, 2-3 pages each (42%). You may choose the weeks you wish to
address; on those weeks, turn in your response paper by 6 p.m. the Sunday before class, via email
attachment (WordPerfect, Word, or PDF format).
$ Choose (after consulting with me early in the semester) and carry out a research-oriented project.
The main possibilities are writing either a paper based on original research, or a thorough review of an
issue related to the course coupled with a research design. Students will also give presentations of their
work on the final day of class. The length of the paper should be on the order of 12-15 pages (40%).
WEEK ONE C INTRODUCTION
Monday, August 21
Required Reading
$ Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II, Part II, chapters 1-8 [web]
$ Craig Calhoun, AIntroduction: Habermas and the Public Sphere,@ in Calhoun, ed., Habermas and the
Public Sphere (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993) [icon]
$ Larry Diamond, ACivil Society,@ chapter six of Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation
(Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), pp. 218-260 [icon]
$ Jessica Mathews, APower Shift,@ Foreign Affairs, Jan-Feb 1997, pp. 50-61 [e-journals]
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WEEK TWO C CONCEPTS I: ASSOCIATIONS / CIVIL SOCIETY
Monday, August 28
Required Reading
$ Michael W. Foley and Virginia A. Hodgkinson, AIntroduction,@ in The Civil Society Reader (Tufts:
2003), pp. vii-xxiv [icon]
$ Nancy L. Rosenblum, ACivil Society: Getting the Dangers Right,@ chapter one of Membership and
Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), pp. 2546 [icon or reserves]
$ Mark E. Warren, AThe Democratic Effects of Association,@ chapter four of Democracy and Association
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. 60-93 [icon or reserves]
$ Muthiah Alagappa, introduction and chapter 1 of Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding
and Contracting Democratic Space (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004), pp. 1-57 [icon or
reserves]
$ Sheri Berman, ACivil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic,@ World Politics, vol. 49, no. 3
(April 1997), pp. 401-429 [e-journals]
$ Volkhart F. Heinrich, AStudying Civil Society Across the World: Exploring the Thorny Issues of
Conceptualization and Measurement,@ plus responses by Marc Morjé Howard, S. Wojciech Sokolowski
and Lester M. Salamon, and Helmut K. Anheier, Journal of Civil Society Vol. 1 No. 3 (2005), pp. 211245 [e-journals, but available as a single file on icon]
Further Reading
$ Adam B. Seligman, The Idea of Civil Society (New York: The Free Press, 1992)
$ John Keane, Civil Society and the State: New European Perspectives (London: Verso, 1988)
$ Michael Walzer, AThe Civil Society Argument,@ Theorizing Citizenship, ed. Ronald Beiner (Albany:
State University of New York, 1995)
$ Charles Taylor, AInvoking Civil Society,@ in Robert E. Goodin and Philip Pettit, eds., Contemporary
Political Philosophy
$ Ernest Gellner, Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals (Allen Lane, Penguin Press, 1994)
$ John A. Hall, AIn Search of Civil Society@ in John A. Hall, ed., Civil Society: Theory, History, and
Comparison (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995), pp. 1-31.
$ Don E. Eberly, AThe Meanings, Origins, and Applications of Civil Society,@ in Don E. Eberly, ed., The
Essential Civil Society Reader (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000), pp. 3-32.
$ Lester M. Salamon and S. Wojciech Sokolowski, eds., Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit
Sector Vol. 2 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 2004)
$ Helmut K. Anheier, Civil Society: Measurement, Evaluation, Policy (London: Civicus, 2004)
$ Chris Hann and Elizabeth Dunn, eds., Civil Society: Challenging Western Models (London: Routledge,
1996)
$ Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers, ASecondary Associations in Democratic Governance,@ Politics and
Society 20 (1992), pp. 393-472
$ David Horton Smith, Grassroots Associations (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2000)
*** Monday, September 4: No meeting, University holiday ***
WEEK THREE C CONCEPTS II: NETWORKS / SOCIAL CAPITAL
Monday, September 11
Required Reading
$ Mark Granovetter, AThe Strength of Weak Ties,@ American Journal of Sociology vol. 78 (1973) pp.
1360-1380 [e-journals]
$ James S. Coleman, ASocial Capital in the Creation of Human Capital,@ American Journal of Sociology
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vol. 94, supplement (1988), pp. S95-S120 [e-journals]
$ Robert D. Putnam, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1993), chapters 4 and 6; you may wish to skim the other chapters [reserves]
$ Christiaan Grootaert, ASocial Capital: The Missing Link?@ World Bank, Social Capital Initiative
Working Paper No. 3 (April 1998) [icon]
$ Alejandro Portes and Patricia Landolt, AThe Downside of Social Capital,@ The American Prospect Vol.
26 (1996), pp. 18-21 [icon]
$ James C. Scott, APatron-Client Politics and Political Change in Southeast Asia,@ in Steffen W. Schmidt
et al., eds, Friends, Followers, and Factions: A Reader in Political Clientelism (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1977) [icon]
$ Michael W. Foley and Bob Edwards, AEscape from Politics? Social Theory and the Social Capital
Debate,@ American Behavioral Scientist vol. 40, no. 5 (March/April 1997), pp. 550-561 [e-journals]
Further Reading
$ Pierre Bourdieu, AThe Forms of Capital,@ in John G. Richardson, ed., Handbook of Theory and
Research for the Sociology of Education (1986)
$ Nan Lin, Karen Cook, and Ronald S. Burt, eds., Social Capital: Theory and Research (New York: Aldine
de Gruyter, 2001)
$ Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (New York: Random House, 1961) [A
stimulating book in general; see specifically chapter 6 for her use of the term Asocial capital.@]
$ Note that both the March/April 1997 and September 1998 editions of American Behavioral Scientist
were dedicated to social capital and civil society; many of the articles are reprinted in Beyond
Tocqueville: Civil Society and the Social Capital Debate in Comparative Perspective (2001)
$ Barry Wellman et al., ADoes the Internet Increase, Decrease, or Supplement Social Capital? Social
Networks, Participation, and Community Commitment,@ American Behavioral Scientist Vol. 45 No. 3
(2001), pp. 436-55
WEEK FOUR C CONCEPTS III: TRUST
Monday, September 18
Required Reading
$ Edward C. Banfield with the assistance of Laura Fasano Banfield, The Moral Basis of a Backward
Society (Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1958), pp. 7-31, 85-104 [icon]
$ Francis Fukuyama, ASocial Capital and the Global Economy,@ Foreign Affairs vol. 74, no. 5
(September/October 1995) [e-journals]
$ Valerie Braithwaite and Margaret Levi, eds., Trust and Governance (New York: Russell Sage
Foundation, 1998): chapters 1, 4, 11, 14, by Russell Hardin, Margaret Levi, Tom R. Tyler, and John
Braithwaite [icon]
$ Richard Rose, William Mishler, and Christian Haerpfer, ASocial Capital in Civic and Stressful
Societies,@ Studies in Comparative International Development vol. 32, no. 3 (1997): 85-111 [e-journals]
$ Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002), pages to be
announced [icon]
$ Wendy M. Rahn and Thomas J. Rudolph, AA Tale of Political Trust in American Cities,@ Public Opinion
Quarterly Vol. 69 No. 4 (Winter 2005), pp. 530-560 [e-journals]
Further Reading
$ Alvin W. Gouldner, AThe Norm of Reciprocity: A Preliminary Statement,@ American Sociological
Review vol. 25, no. 2 (1960)
$ Francis Fukuyama, Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity (New York: The Free Press,
1995)
$ Janos Kornai and Susan Rose-Ackerman, eds., Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition
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(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
$ Janos Kornai, Susan Rose-Ackerman, and Bo Rothstein, eds., Creating Social Trust in Post-Socialist
Transition (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
WEEK FIVE C CONCEPTS IV: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Monday, September 25
Required Reading
$ Doug McAdam, John D. McCarthy, and Mayer N. Zald, eds., Comparative Perspectives on Social
Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings (New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1996), pp. 1-20 [icon]
$ Sidney Tarrow, Power in Movement: Social Movements, Collective Action and Politics (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1994), ch. 1, ACollective Action and Social Movements,@ ch. 5, ASeizing
and Making Opportunities,@ and ch. 8, AMobilizing Structures,@ pp. 9-27, 81-99, 135-150 [icon]
$ Mark R. Warren, Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to Revitalize American Democracy
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. 3-71 [icon]
$ J. Craig Jenkins, AChanneling Social Protest: Foundation Patronage of Contemporary Social
Movements,@ in Private Action and the Public Good, eds. Walter W. Powell and Elisabeth S. Clemens
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998), pp. 206-216 [icon]
$ Robert J. Sampson, Doug McAdam, Heather MacIndoe, and Simón Weffer-Elizondo, ACivil Society
Reconsidered: The Durable Nature and Community Structure of Collective Civic Action,@ American
Journal of Sociology (2005), pp. 673-714 [e-journals]
WEEK SIX C ASSOCIATIONS, CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY I
Monday, October 2
Required Reading
$ Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (New York:
Simon and Schuster, 2000), chapters 1-3, 6, 8, 14-15, 20-22 [reserves]
$ Bowling Alone generated much debate. By noon on Saturday before class, you are required to find a
review of this book that you think makes one or more important points, and distribute it to the group
as an email attachment. You must choose a review that no one else has sent to the group yet, and then
at least skim the reviews that others send.
$ John Brehm and Wendy Rahn, AIndividual-Level Evidence for the Causes and Consequences of Social
Capital,@ American Journal of Political Science vol. 41, no. 3 (July 1997) [e-journals]
$ Tom W. Rice, ASocial Capital and Government Performance in Iowa Communities,@ Journal of Urban
Affairs Vol. 23 No. 3-4 (2001), pp. 375-89 [e-journals]
$ Jason Kaufman, For the Common Good? American Civic Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity (New
York: Oxford University Press, 2002), introduction, chapters 1 and 9, conclusion [icon]
Further Reading
$ Pamela Paxton, AIs Social Capital Declining in the United States? A Multiple Indicator Assessment@
American Journal of Sociology 105:1 (July 1999)
$ Elijah Anderson, Street Wise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1990)
WEEK SEVEN C ASSOCIATIONS, CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY II
Monday, October 9
Required Reading
$ Theda Skocpol, Marshall Ganz, and Ziad Munson, "A Nation of Organizers: The Institutional Origins
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of Civic Voluntarism in the United States," American Political Science Review Vol. 94 No. 3 (2000), pp.
527-46 [e-journals]
$ Theda Skocpol and Morris P. Fiorina, eds., Civic Engagement in American Democracy (Washington,
D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1999), the following chapters: [reserves]
" Jeffrey M. Berry, AThe Rise of Citizen Groups,@ ch. 10
" Morris P. Fiorina, AExtreme Voices: A Dark Side of Civic Engagement,@ ch. 11
" Theda Skocpol, AAdvocates without Members: The Recent Transformation of American Civic
Life,@ ch. 13
$ Sidney Verba, Kay Lehman Schlozman, and Henry E. Brady, Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in
American Politics (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995), chapters 9-13 [icon]
$ David Campbell, ACommunity Heterogeneity and Participation,@ paper based on part of his 2006
book: Why We Vote: How Schools and Communities Shape Our Civic Life [icon]
WEEK EIGHT C ESTABLISHED DEMOCRACIES
Monday, October 16
Required Reading
$ Frank J. Schwartz, AIntroduction: Recognizing Civil Society in Japan,@ and Patricia Maclachlan, AThe
Struggle for an Independent Consumer Society: Consumer Activism and the State=s Response in
Postwar Japan,@ in Schwartz and Susan J. Pharr, eds., The State of Civil Society in Japan (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 1-19, 214-232 [icon]
$ Helen Hardacre, AJapan: The Public Sphere in a Non-Western Setting,@ in Between States and Markets:
The Voluntary Sphere in Comparative Perspective, ed. Robert Wuthnow (Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1991), pp. 217-242 [icon]
$ Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas and Evan Schofer, AThe Structural Contexts of Civic Engagement:
Voluntary Association Membership in Comparative Perspective,@ American Sociological Review vol. 66,
no. 6 (December 2001), pp. 806-828 [e-journals]
$ Peter A. Hall, AGreat Britain: The Role of Government and the Distribution of Social Capital,@ in
Robert D. Putnam, ed., Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 21-57 [icon]
$ Will Kymlicka, AEthnic Associations and Democratic Citizenship,@ in Freedom of Association, ed. Amy
Gutmann (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), pp. 177-213 [icon]
$ Ashutosh Varshney, AEthnic Conflict and Civil Society: India and Beyond,@ World Politics Vol. 53 No.
3 (2001), pp. 362-98 [e-journals]
Further Reading
$ Jonah D. Levy, Tocqueville=s Revenge: State, Society, and Economy in Contemporary France
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999), pp. 1-16 and 284-318
WEEK NINE C NON-DEMOCRACIES
Monday, October 23
Required Reading
$ Robert A. Senser, AHow Poland=s Solidarity Won Freedom of Association,@ Monthly Labor Review
(September 1989), pp. 34-38 [icon]
$ Nancy Bermeo, and Philip Nord, eds., Civil Society Before Democracy: Lessons From Nineteenth-Century
Europe (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000), introduction and chapters 5, 11, pp. xiiixxxiii, 83-108, 237-260 [icon]
$ Marc Morjé Howard, AThe Weakness of Postcommunist Civil Society,@ Journal of Democracy vol. 13,
no. 1 (January 2002), pp. 157-169 [e-journals]
$ Suzaina Kadir, ASingapore: Engagement and Autonomy within the Political Status Quo,@ in Muthiah
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Alagappa, ed., Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004), pp. 324-354 [icon or reserves]
$ Thomas Gold, ABases for Civil Society in Reform China,@ in Reconstructing Twentieth-Century China:
State Control, Civil Society, and National Identity, eds. Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard and David Strand (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1998), pp. 163-88 [icon]
$ Lily L. Tsai, ASolidary Groups and Informal Institutions of Accountability in Rural China,@ paper from
2005 Shambaugh Conference at University of Iowa [icon]
Further Reading
$ Augustus Richard Norton, ed., Civil Society in the Middle East (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995)
$ Robert P. Weller, Alternate Civilities: Democracy and Culture in China and Taiwan (Boulder: Westview
Press, 1999), pp. 1-39, 135-147 [library reserve]
WEEK TEN C REGIME TRANSITIONS
Monday, October 30
$ Guillermo O'Donnell and Philippe C. Schmitter, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Prospects for
Democracy, Part IV: Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1986), pp. 48-56 [icon]
$ Jan Kubic, ABetween the State and Networks of >Cousins=: The Role of Civil Society and Noncivil
Associations in the Democratization of Poland,@ in Nancy Bermeo and Philip Nord, eds., Civil Society
Before Democracy: Lessons From Nineteenth-Century Europe (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield,
2000), pp. 181-207 [icon]
$ Edward Aspinall, AIndonesia: Transformation of Civil Society and Democratic Breakthrough,@ and
Muthiah Alagappa, AThe Nonstate Public Sphere in Asia: Dynamic Growth, Institutionalization Lag,@
and ACivil Society and Democratic Change: Indeterminate Connection, Transforming Relations,@ ch. 2,
14-15 of Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004), pp. 61-96, 455-506 [icon or reserves]
$ Craig Calhoun, Neither Gods Nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), chapter 4-5, pp. 155-212 [icon]
$ Hagen Koo, AStrong State and Contentious Society,@ in Koo, ed., State and Society in Contemporary
Korea (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993), pp. 231-249 [icon]
Further Reading
$ Grzegorz Ekiert and Jan Kubik, Rebellious Civil Society (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,
1999)
$ Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless (New York: Sharpe, 1985)
$ Gordon H. Skilling, Samizdat and an Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe, Part III:
Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1989), pp.
157-176
$ Omar G. Encarnacion, ACivil Society and the Consolidation of Democracy in Spain,@ Political Science
Quarterly vol. 116 , no. 1 (2001), pp. 53-79
$ Sang-Jin Han, AThe Public Sphere and Democracy in Korea: A Debate on Civil Society,@ Korea Journal
vol. 37, no. 4 (1997), pp. 78-97
$ Victor M. Perez-Diaz, The Return of Civil Society: The Emergence of Democratic Spain (Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1993)
WEEK ELEVEN C DEVELOPMENT AND THE DEVELOPING WORLD
Monday, November 6
Required Reading
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$ Michael Woolcock, ASocial Capital and Economic Development: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis and
Policy Framework@ Theory and Society vol. 27 (1998), pp. 151-208 [e-journals]
$ Helmut K. Anheier and Lester M. Salamon, The Nonprofit Sector in the Developing World: A
Comparative Analysis (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998), pp. 1-50 [icon]
$ UNAIDS, AThe Essential Role of Civil Society,@ chapter 9 of UNAIDS General Report 2006 [icon]
$ Deepa Narayan and Lant Pritchett, ACents and Sociability: Household Income and Social Capital in
Rural Tanzania,@ Economic Development and Cultural Change vol. 47, no. 4 (1999), pp. 871-897 [ejournals]
$ Anthony Bebbington and Roger Riddell, AHeavy Hands, Hidden Hands, Holding Hands? Donors,
Intermediary NGOs and Civil Society Organisations,@ and conclusion, in David Hulme and Michael
Edwards, eds., NGOs, States, and Donors: Too Close for Comfort? (Houndsmills: MacMillan Press, 1997)
[icon]
$ Ben Fine, ASocial Capital: The World Bank=s Fungible Friend,@ Journal of Agrarian Change Vol. 3, No.
4 (October 2003), pp. 586-603 [icon]
Further Reading
$ Christiaan Grootaert, ASocial Capital, Household Welfare and Poverty in Indonesia,@ World Bank
paper, n.d.
$ Ashutosh Varshney, Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2002)
$ Anirudh Krishna, Norman Uphoff, and Milton Esman, eds., Reasons for Hope (West Hartford, Conn.:
Kumarian Press, 1997)
$ Brian H. Smith, ANonprofit Organizations in International Development: Agents of Empowerment or
Preservers of Stability?@ in Private Action and the Public Good, eds. Walter W. Powell and Elisabeth S.
Clemens (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998)
$ Darcy Ashman, AStrengthening North-South Partnerships for Sustainable Development,@ Nonprofit
and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 1 (2001) pp. 74-98
$ Louis Putterman, ASocial Capital and Development Capacity: The Example of Rural Tanzania,@
Development Policy Review vol. 13, no. 1 (1995), pp. 5-22
$ Jonathan Fox, AHow Does Civil Society Thicken? The Political Construction of Social Capital in Rural
Mexico,@ World Development vol. 24, no. 6 (1996), pp. 1089-1103 [e-Journals]
$ Amanda Bernard, Henny Helmich, and Percy B. Lehning, eds. Civil Society and International
Development (Paris: OECD, 1998)
$ L. David Brown, ACreating Social Capital: Nongovernmental Development Organizations and
Intersectoral Problem Solving,@ Private Action and the Public Good, eds. Walter W. Powell and Elisabeth
S. Clemens (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998)
$ Volkart Finn Heinrich, AThe Role of NGOs in Strengthening the Foundations of South African
Democracy,@ Voluntas vol. 12, no. 1 (March 2001), pp. 1-16
WEEK TWELVE C STATE-SOCIETY FUSION: SYNERGY OR DYSTOPIA?
Monday, November 13
Required Reading
$ Jennifer M. Coston, AA Model and Typology of Government-NGO Relationships,@ Nonprofit and
Voluntary Sector Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 3 (September 1998), pp. 358-382 [e-journals]
$ Stephen Rathgeb Smith and Michael Lipsky, Nonprofits for Hire: The Welfare State in the Age of
Contracting (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993), chapter 7 [icon]
$ Peter Evans, AIntroduction: Development Strategies Across the Public-Private Divide,@ and Wai Fung
Lam, AInstitutional Design of Public Agencies and Coproduction: A Study of Irrigation Associations in
Taiwan,@ in World Development vol. 24, no. 6 (June 1996) [e-journals]
$ Theodore C. Bestor, Neighborhood Tokyo (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989), chapter 3
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[icon]
$ Tony Saich, ANegotiating the State: The Development of Social Organizations in China,@ The China
Quarterly 161 (March 2000) [e-journals]
$ Joseph Hannah, A>Autonomous,= >Ambiguous= or >Amphibious=: The Cross-Colonization of State and
Civil Society Organizations in Vietnam,@ revised paper from 2005 Shambaugh Conference at University
of Iowa [icon]
$ Benjamin L. Read, paper on Beijing and Taipei [icon]
Further Reading
$ Derick Brinkerhoff, AExploring State-Civil Society Collaboration,@ Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector
Quarterly, vol. 28 (1999), pp. 59-86
$ Mildred Warner, ASocial Capital Construction and the Role of the Local State,@ Rural Sociology vol.
64, no. 3 (1999), pp. 373-93
$ Rajesh Tandon, "Breath of Life or Kiss of Death? NGO Relations with Governments" (New Delhi:
PRIA, 1989)
$ X. L. Ding, AInstitutional Amphibiousness and the Transition from Communism: The Case of China,@
British Journal of Political Science vol. 24 (1994), pp. 293-318
$ Lester M. Salamon, Partners in Public Service: Government-Nonprofit Relations in the Modern Welfare
State (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995)
*** November 20: No meeting, Thanksgiving break ***
WEEK THIRTEEN C TRANS-NATIONAL PHENOMENA
Monday, November 27
Required Reading
$ Sanjeev Khagram, James V. Riker, and Kathryn Sikkink, eds., Restructuring World Politics:
Transnational Social Movements, Networks, and Norms (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2002),
chapters 1, 10 [reserves]
$ Fredrik Galtung, AA Global Network to Curb Corruption: The Experience of Transparency
International,@ and Thomas Risse, AThe Power of Norms versus the Norms of Power: Transnational Civil
Society and Human Rights,@ in Ann M. Florini, ed., The Third Force: The Rise of Transnational Civil
Society (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000) [icon]
$ Alexander Cooley and James Ron, AThe NGO Scramble: Organizational Insecurity and the Political
Economy of Transnational Action,@ International Security Vol. 27 No. 1 (2002), pp. 5-39 [e-journals]
$ Jonathan A. Fox and L. David Brown, eds., The Struggle for Accountability: The World Bank, NGOs,
and Grassroots Movements (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998), chapters 1, 13 [icon]
$ John Gerard Ruggie, ATaking Embedded Liberalism Global: The Corporate Connection,@ in Taming
Globalization: Frontiers of Governance ed. David Held and Mathias Koenig-Archibugi (Cambridge: Polity
Press, 2003) [icon]
Further Reading
$ Peter Evans, AFighting Marginalization with Transnational Networks: Counter-Hegemonic
Globalization,@ Contemporary Sociology vol. 29, no. 1 (January 2000), pp. 230-241
$ Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International
Politics (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998)
$ Sidney Tarrow, ARooted Cosmopolitans: Towards a Sociology of Transnational Contention,@
unpublished paper, 2002
$ Matthew Evangelista, AThe Paradox of State Strength: Transnational Relations, Domestic Structures,
and Security Policy in Russia and the Soviet Union,@ International Organization 49:1 (Winter 1995), pp.
1-38
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$ Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, ATransnational Advocacy Networks and the Movement Society@
in The Social Movement Society: Contentious Politics for a New Century, edited by David Mayer and
Sidney Tarrow, 1998
$ John W. Meyer, John Boli, George M. Thomas, and Francisco O. Ramirez, AWorld Society and the
Nation-State,@ American Journal of Sociology vol. 103, no. 1 (July 1997), pp. 144-81
WEEK FOURTEEN C STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
Monday, December 4
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