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Political Violence
PhD Comprehensive Exam Reading List
The following readings are in addition to those required by the core concentration courses.
1.
Studying Political Violence
Kalyvas, Stathis. (2003).
The Ontology of Political Violence
.
Perspectives
on Politics
,
1:3
,
pp.
475
494.
Galtung
, Johan
. (1969)
.
Violence, Peace, and Peace Research.
Journal of Peace Research
,6
:
3
,
pp.
167
191.
Tilly
, Charles. (1998, Fall).
Contentious conversation
.
Social Research
,
65
:
3
.
Tilly
, Charles
.
(2004).
Terror, Terrorism, Terrorists
.
Sociological Theory
,
22:1
.
Davenport, Christian.
(2007).
State repression and political order.
Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci.
,
10
,
pp.
1
23.
Geertz, Clifford.
(
1973
)
. The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments & Civil
Politics in
the New States
. In
The Interpretation of Cultures
(pp. 255
310).
New York: Basic Books.
Mazower,
Mark.
(2002).
Violence and the State in the Twentieth Century
.
American Historical
Review
,
107:4
, pp.
1158
1178.
2.
States, Violence & Human
Rights
Gurr, Ted Robert.
(
1988
)
. War, Revolution, and the Growth of the Coercive State
.
Co
mparative
Political Studies
, 21, pp.
45
65.
Earl, Jennifer.
(
2003
)
. Tanks, Tear Gas and Taxes: Toward a Theory of Movement Repression
.
Sociological Theory
,
21
:
1
,
pp
.
44
68.
Ron, James.
(
1997
)
. Varying methods of state violence
.
International Organization
, 51
:
2
,
pp.
275
300.
Pion
Berlin, David &
Lopez,
George A.
(
1991
)
. Of Victims and Executioners: Argentine State
Terror, 1975
1979
.
International Studies Quarterly
,
pp. 63
86.
Poe, Steven C.
&
Tate,
Neal C.
(
1994
)
. Repression of Human Rights to Personal Integrity in the
1980s: A Global Analysis
.
American Political Science Review
, 88:8
, pp.
53
72.
2
McCormick, James M.
&
Mitchell,
Neil J.
(1997).
Human rights violatio
ns, umbrella co
ncepts,
and empirical analysis.
World Politics
, 49:
04
,
pp.
510
525.
Rejali, Darius.
(
2007
)
.
Torture and Democracy
(
chap. 2, pp. 11
60
). Princeton,
U
niversity Press.
Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce
.
et al. (
2003
)
.
The Logic of Political Survival
(pp. 1
75). Cambridge:
MIT Press.
Fein, Helen
.
(
1995
)
. More Murder in the Middle: Life
Integrity Violations and Democracy in the
W
orld.
Human Rights Quarterly
,
17
, pp.
170
191.
Hafner
Burton, Emilie.
(
2008
)
. Sticks and Stones: Naming and Shaming the Hu
ma
n Rights
Enforcement Problem.
International Organization
, 62:
4
, pp.
689
–
716.
Harff, Barbara.
(
2003
)
. No Lessons Learned from the Holocaust? Assessing Risks of Genocide
and P
olitical Mass Murder since 1955.
American Political Science Review
, 97
:
1
, pp.
57
7
3.
Downes, Alexander B.
(
2006
)
. Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: The Causes of Civilian
Victimization in War
.
International Security
, 30
:
4
,
pp.
152
195.
Tilly,
Charles.
(2003).
The Politics of Collective Violence
.
Cambridge: C
ambridge University
Press.
Mason
, T. David
&
Krane
, A. Dale. (1989, June).
The Political Economy of Death Squads:
Toward a Theory of the Impact of State
Sanctioned Terror
.
International Studies Quarterly
,
33
:
2
,
pp. 175
198.
Davenport, Christian.
(
2005
)
. Understanding Covert Repressive Action: The Case of the U.S.
Government against the Republic of New Africa.
Journal of Conflict Resolution
, 49:1,
pp.
120
140.
3.
Weak States and State Building
Rotberg,
Robert I. (2004).
Chapter 1:
The Failure and
Collapse of Nation
States
. In
When States
Fail
: Causes and Consequences
(
pp. 1
30).
Princeton: Princeton Univer
sity Press
.
Tilly,
Charles. (1975).
Reflections on the History of European State
Making
.
In Charles Tilly,
(E
d.
)
,
The Formation of National Sta
tes in Western Europe
(pp. 3
83).
Princeton: Pri
nceton
University Press.
Tilly, Charles. (1975). Western State
Making and Theories of Political Transformation. In
Charles Tilly, (Ed.),
The Formation of National States in Western Europe
(pp. 3
83). Princeton:
Princeton University Press.
3
Reno,
William. (1999).
Warlord Politics in African States
(pp.
147
182)
. Boulde
r: Lynne
Rienner.
Tilly,
Charles. (2002).
Chapter 4:
War Making and State Making as Organized Crime
.I
n
Catherine Bateman,
(Ed.),
Violence: A Reade
r
(pp. 35
60).
New York University Press
.
Tilly
, Charles. (1993).
Coercion Capital and European States 990
–
1992
. London: Wiley
Blackwell.
Jackson
, Robert &
Rosberg,
Carl. (1982, Oct.).
Why Africa’s Weak States Persist
.
World
Politics
,
35
:
1,
pp.
1
24.
Herbst,
Jeffery. (2000).
States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and
Control
.
Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Bates,
Robert H. (2008).
When Things Fall Apart: State Failure in Late
Century Africa
.
Cam
bridge: Cambridge University Press.
Thies,
Cameron G. (2004, March).
State Building, Interstate and Intrastate Rivalry: A Study of
Post
Colonial Developing Countr
y Extractive Efforts, 1975
2000.
International Studies
Quarterly
, 48
:
1
, pp.
53
72.
Hironaka,
Ann. (2005).
Neverending Wars: the International Community, Weak States, and the
Perpetuation of Civil War
.
Harvard University Press.
Atzili, Boaz.
(2011).
Good Fences, Bad Neighbors: Border Fixity and International Conflict.
University of Chicago Press.
Singer,
Peter.
(2007).
Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
.
Cornell
University Press.
Ayoob,
Mohammed. (1995).
The Third World Security Predicament: State Making, Regional
Conflict and the International System
. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.
4.
Why Rebel?
Gurr, Ted Robert.
(
1970
)
.
Why Men Rebel
. Princeton: Princeton University Press
.
Gaventa, John.
(
1980
)
.
Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Ap
palaichan Valley
.
Champaign: University of
Illinois Press.
Wood, Elisabeth Jean.
(
2003
)
.
Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador
.
New
York: Cambridge.
Goodwin
, Jeff
. (2001).
No Other Way Out: States & Revolutionary Movements, 1945
1991
.
CUP
.