MODERN POLITICAL SCIENCE
2015/2016
Instructor: Ekim Arbatli
Course description and scope: The purpose of this course is to introduce graduate students
with the contemporary research and emerging topics in political science literature. The course
consists of eight overarching subfields, which in turn are divided into topics. The reading
material includes both extended literature reviews and empirical texts that show the
applications of theories in the field. The course will be designed in a graduate seminar format,
where the main focus is on active participation and discussion. Students will be asked to read
the required articles beforehand and be ready to discuss the material in class. They are also
encouraged to read as many of the recommended texts as possible.
LIST OF TOPICS
A. Methodological debates in the discipline
1. The qualitative-quantitative divide
2. Formal models and games
3. Experiments in political science
B. Political regimes and transitions
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7.
Democracies and democratization
Authoritarianism and autocratic survival
Hybrid regimes and regime classification debates
Civil-military relations, coups, and military rule
C. Political representation and voting behavior
8. Political parties, elections and representation
9. Structural determinants of voting behavior
10. Political clientelism
D. Institutional design and good governance
11. Executive-legislative relations
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12. Courts and the judicial system
13. Federalism
14. Quality of government and corruption
E. Comparative political economy
15. Inequality and redistribution
16. Business-state relations
17. FDI and political risk
18. Energy politics and the natural resource curse
F. Contentious politics and political violence
19. Social movements and protests
20. Civil war and ethnic conflict
21. Terrorism
G. Sociocultural variables in political analysis
22. Social capital and civil society
23. Religion in politics and the rise of political Islam
H. Contemporary topics in political science
24. The digital age: ICTs and politics
25. Environmental politics
COURSE SCHEDULE
Methodological debates in the discipline
1. Qualitative-quantitative divide
Required reading:
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Lieberman, E. S. (2010). Bridging the qualitative-quantitative divide: Best practices in the
development of historically oriented replication databases. Annual Review of Political
Science, 13, 37-59.
Goertz, G., & Mahoney, J. (2006). A tale of two cultures: Contrasting quantitative and
qualitative research, Political Analysis, 14, 227-249.
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Recommended:
Davies, M. B., & Hughes, N. (2014). Doing a successful research project: Using qualitative or
quantitative methods. Palgrave Macmillan.
Creswell, J. W. (2013). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods
approaches. Sage publications.
Glassner, B., & Moreno, J. (Eds.). (2013). The qualitative-quantitative distinction in the social
sciences (Vol. 112). Springer Science & Business Media.
Goertz, G., & Mahoney, J. (2012). A tale of two cultures: Qualitative and quantitative research in
the social sciences. Princeton University Press.
Brady, H. E., & Collier, D. (Eds.). (2010). Rethinking social inquiry: Diverse tools, shared
standards. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Ragin, C. C. (2008). Redesigning social inquiry: Fuzzy sets and beyond. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press.
Geddes, B. (2003). Paradigms and sand castles. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
King, G., Keohane, R. O., & Verba, S. (1994). Designing social inquiry: Scientific inference in
qualitative research. Princeton University Press.
2. Formal models and games
Required reading:
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Calvert, R. (2013). Models of imperfect information in politics (Vol. 6). Taylor & Francis.
Recommended:
Dunleavy, P. (2014). Democracy, bureaucracy and public choice: Economic approaches in
political science. Routledge.
Sloof, R. (2013). Game-theoretic models of the political influence of interest groups. Springer
Science & Business Media.
Clarke, K. A., & Primo, D. M. (2012). A model discipline: Political science and the logic of
representations. Oxford University Press.
3. Experiments in political science
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Required reading:
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Hyde, S. D. (2015). Experiments in International Relations: Lab, Survey and Field. Annual
Review of Political Science, 18, 403-424.
Recommended:
Gonzalez‐Ocantos, E., De Jonge, C. K., Meléndez, C., Osorio, J., & Nickerson, D. W. (2012). Vote
buying and social desirability bias: Experimental evidence from Nicaragua. American Journal of
Political Science, 56(1), 202-217.
Hyde, S. D. (2010). The future of field experiments in International Relations. The Annals of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science, 628(1), 72-84.
Political regimes and transitions
4. Democracies and democratization
Required reading:
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Hale, H. E. (2013). Regime Change Cascades: What We Have Learned from the 1848
Revolutions to the 2011 Arab Uprisings. Annual Review of Political Science, 16, 331-353.
Hadenius, A., & Teorell, J. (2007). Pathways from authoritarianism. Journal of
democracy, 18(1), 143-157.
Recommended:
Munck, G. L. (2013). Conceptualizing the Quality of Democracy: A Reconstruction, Critique and
Proposal. APSA 2013 Annual Meeting Paper.
Donno, D. (2013), Elections and Democratization in Authoritarian Regimes. American Journal of
Political Science, 57: 703–716.
Hale, H. E. (2013). Regime Change Cascades: What We Have Learned from the 1848 Revolutions
to the 2011 Arab Uprisings. Annual Review of Political Science, 16, 331-353.
Fortin, J. (2012). Is There a Necessary Condition for Democracy? The Role of State Capacity in
Postcommunist Countries. Comparative Political Studies,45(7), 903-930.
Elkink, J. A. (2011). The international diffusion of democracy. Comparative Political
Studies, 44(12), 1651-1674.
Alemán, J., & Yang, D. D. (2011). A Duration Analysis of Democratic Transitions and
Authoritarian Backslides. Comparative Political Studies, 44(9), 1123-1151.
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Bühlmann, M., Merkel, W., Müller, L., & Weßels, B. (2011). The democracy barometer: A new
instrument to measure the quality of democracy and its potential for comparative
research. European Political Science, 11(4), 519-536.
Capoccia, G., & Ziblatt, D. (2010). The historical turn in democratization studies: A new research
agenda for Europe and beyond. Comparative Political Studies, 43(8-9), 931-968.
Bueno de Mesquita, E. (2010). Regime Change and Revolutionary Entrepreneurs. American
Political Science Review, 104, pp 446-466.
Brownlee, J. (2009). Portents of pluralism: How hybrid regimes affect democratic
transitions. American Journal of Political Science, 53(3), 515-532.
Munck, G. (2009). Measuring Democracy: A Bridge Between Scholarship and Politics. Baltimore,
MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Pepinsky, T. B. (2009). Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes: Indonesia
and Malaysia in Comparative Perspective. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Sorensen, G. (2007). Democracy and Democratization: Processes and Prospects in a Changing
World Third Edition. Westview Press.
Geddes, B. (1999). What do we know about democratization after twenty years? Annual Review
of Political Science, 2(1), 115-144.
5. Authoritarianism and autocratic survival
Required reading:
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Brancati, D. (2014). Democratic Authoritarianism: Origins and Effects. Annual Review of
Political Science, 17, 313-326.
Bellin, E. (2012). Reconsidering the Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East:
Lessons from the Arab Spring. Comparative Politics, 44(2), 127-149.
Recommended:
Boix, C., & Svolik, M. W. (2013). The foundations of limited authoritarian government:
Institutions, commitment, and power-sharing in dictatorships. The Journal of Politics, 75(02),
300-316.
Albertus, M., & Menaldo, V. (2012). If You’re Against Them You’re With Us The Effect of
Expropriation on Autocratic Survival. Comparative Political Studies,45(8), 973-1003.
Herron, E. S. (2011). Measuring Dissent in Electoral Authoritarian Societies Lessons From
Azerbaijan’s 2008 Presidential Election and 2009 Referendum. Comparative Political
Studies, 44(11), 1557-1583.
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Gandhi, J., & Lust-Okar, E. (2009). Elections under authoritarianism. Annual Review of Political
Science, 12, 403-422.
King, S. (2009). The New Authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press.
Brownlee, J. (2007). Authoritarianism in an Age of Democratization. Cambridge University
Press.
Gandhi, J., & Przeworski, A. (2007). Authoritarian institutions and the survival of
autocrats. Comparative Political Studies, 40(11), 1279-1301.
Bellin, Eva. (2004). "The robustness of authoritarianism in the Middle East: Exceptionalism in
comparative perspective." Comparative politics, 139-157.
6. Hybrid regimes and regime classification debates
Required reading:
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Morse, Y. L. (2012). The era of electoral authoritarianism. World Politics, 64(01), 161198.
Recommended:
Schedler, A. (2013). The politics of uncertainty: Sustaining and subverting electoral
authoritarianism. Oxford University Press.
Levitsky, S., & Way, L. A. (2010). Competitive authoritarianism: hybrid regimes after the cold
war. Cambridge University Press.
7. Civil-military relations, coups, and military rule
Required reading:
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Geddes, B., Frantz, E. and Wright, J. G. (2014). Military Rule. Annual Review of Political
Science, 17, 147-162.
Thyne, C. L., & Powell, J. M. (2014). Coup d’état or Coup d'Autocracy? How Coups
Impact Democratization, 1950–2008. Foreign Policy Analysis.
Recommended:
Böhmelt, T., & Pilster, U. (2015). The Impact of Institutional Coup-Proofing on Coup Attempts
and Coup Outcomes. International Interactions, 41(1), 158-182.
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Girod, D. M. (2015). Reducing postconflict coup risk: The low windfall coup-proofing
hypothesis. Conflict Management and Peace Science, 32(2), 153-174.
Stepan, A. C. (2015). The military in politics: changing patterns in Brazil. Princeton University
Press.
Arbatli, C. E., & Arbatli, E. (2014). External threats and political survival: Can dispute
involvement deter coup attempts? Conflict Management and Peace Science.
Casper, B. A., & Tyson, S. A. (2014). Popular Protest and Elite Coordination in a Coup d’état. The
Journal of Politics, 76(02), 548-564.
Wig, T., & Rød, E. G. (2014). Cues to Coup Plotters Elections as Coup Triggers in
Dictatorships. Journal of Conflict Resolution.
Croissant, A. (2013). Coups and post-coup politics in South-East Asia and the Pacific: conceptual
and comparative perspectives. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 67(3), 264-280.
Lehoucq, F., & Pérez-Liñán, A. (2013). Breaking Out of the Coup Trap Political Competition and
Military Coups in Latin America. Comparative Political Studies.
Bodea, C. (2012). Natural resources, weak states and civil war: can rents stabilize coup prone
regimes?. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, (6071).
Powell, J. (2012). Determinants of the Attempting and Outcome of Coups d’état. Journal of
Conflict Resolution, 56(6), 1017-1040.
Political representation and voting behavior
8. Political parties, elections and representation
Required reading:
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Harbers, I. (2010). Decentralization and the development of nationalized party systems
in new democracies: Evidence from Latin America. Comparative Political Studies, 43(5),
606-627.
Recommended:
McDonald, M. D., Budge, I., & Best, R. E. (2012). Electoral Majorities, Political Parties, and
Collective Representation. Comparative Political Studies, 45(9), 1104-1131.
Duch, R.M., May, J. and Armstrong D. A., II (2010). Coalition-directed Voting in Multiparty
Democracies. American Political Science Review, 104, pp 698-719.
Kim, H., Powell Jr, G. B., & Fording, R. C. (2010). Electoral systems, party systems, and
ideological representation: an analysis of distortion in western democracies. Comparative
Politics, 42(2), 167-185.
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9. Structural determinants of voting behavior
Required reading:
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Nadeau, R., Lewis-Beck, M. S., & Bélanger, É. (2013). Economics and elections
revisited. Comparative Political Studies, 46(5), 551-573.
Epperly, B. (2011). Institutions and legacies: electoral volatility in the postcommunist
world. Comparative Political Studies, 44(7), 829-853.
Recommended:
Yap, O. F. (2013). Economic Performance and Democratic Support in Asia’s Emergent
Democracies. Comparative Political Studies, 46(4), 486-512.
10. Political clientelism
Required reading:
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Robinson, J. A., & Verdier, T. (2013). The Political Economy of Clientelism*.The
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 115(2), 260-291.
Hicken, A. (2011). Clientelism. Annual Review of Political Science, 14, 289-310.
Recommended:
Protsyk, O., & Matichescu, M. L. (2011). Clientelism and Political Recruitment in Democratic
Transition: Evidence from Romania. Comparative Politics, 43(2), 207-224.
Stokes, S. (2007). Political clientelism. The Oxford handbook of comparative politics, 604-627.
Wantchekon, L. (2003). Clientelism and voting behavior: Evidence from a field experiment in
Benin. World Politics, 55(3), 399-422.
Institutional design and governance
11. Executive-legislative relations
Recommended:
Hicken, A., & Stoll, H. (2011). Presidents and parties: How presidential elections shape
coordination in legislative elections. Comparative Political Studies, 44(7), 854-883.
12. Courts and the judicial system
13. Federalism
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Erk, J., & Koning, E. (2010). New structuralism and institutional change: Federalism between
centralization and decentralization. Comparative Political Studies, 43(3), 353-378.
14. Quality of government and corruption
Required reading:
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Ashworth, S. (2012). Electoral accountability: recent theoretical and empirical
work. Annual Review of Political Science, 15, 183-201.
Sun, Y., & Johnston, M. (2009). Does democracy check corruption? Insights from China
and India. Comparative Politics, 1-19.
Holmberg, S., Rothstein, B., & Nasiritousi, N. (2009). Quality of government: what you
get. Annual Review of Political Science, 12, 135-161.
Recommended:
Agnafors, M. (2013). Quality of Government: Toward a More Complex Definition. American
Political Science Review, 107, pp 433-445.
Rose-Ackerman, S. (2013). Corruption: A study in political economy. Academic Press.
Yadav, V. (2012). Legislative Institutions and Corruption
Democracies. Comparative Political Studies, 45(8), 1027-1058.
in
Developing
Country
Rothstein, B. (2011). The quality of government: Corruption, social trust, and inequality in
international perspective. University of Chicago Press.
Charron, N., & Lapuente, V. (2010). Does democracy produce quality of government? European
Journal of Political Research, 49(4), 443-470.
Morris, S. D., & Klesner, J. L. (2010). Corruption and trust: Theoretical considerations and
evidence from Mexico. Comparative Political Studies, 43(10), 1258-1285.
Heidenheimer, A. J., Johnston, M., & LeVine, V. T. (Eds.). (2009). Political corruption: A
handbook. Transaction Publishers.
Alesina, A., & Zhuravskaya, E. (2008). Segregation and the Quality of Government in a CrossSection of Countries (No. w14316). National Bureau of Economic Research.
Svensson, J. (2005). Eight
Perspectives, 19(3), 19-42.
questions
about
corruption. The
Journal
of
Economic
Adsera, A., Boix, C., & Payne, M. (2003). Are you being served? Political accountability and
quality of government. Journal of Law, Economics, and organization, 19(2), 445-490.
Rose-Ackerman, S. (2003). Corruption. The Encyclopedia of Public Choice, 67-76.
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Fisman, R., & Gatti, R. (2002). Decentralization and corruption: evidence across
countries. Journal of Public Economics, 83(3), 325-345.
Jain, A. K. (2001). Corruption: a review. Journal of economic surveys, 15(1), 71-121.
Treisman, D. (2000). The causes of corruption: a cross-national study. Journal of public
economics, 76(3), 399-457.
La Porta, R., Lopez-de-Silanes, F., Shleifer, A., & Vishny, R. (1999). The quality of
government. Journal of Law, Economics, and organization, 15(1), 222-279.
Comparative political economy
15. Inequality and redistribution
Recommended:
Lupu, N. and Pontusson, J. (2011). The Structure of Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution.
American Political Science Review, (105), 316-336.
16. Business-state relations
17. FDI and political risk
Recommended:
Jensen, N., Biglaiser, G., Li, Q., & Malesky, E. (2012). Politics and foreign direct investment.
University of Michigan Press.
Weymouth, S. (2011). Political institutions and property rights: veto players and foreign
exchange commitments in 127 countries. Comparative Political Studies,44(2), 211-240.
Bayulgen, O. (2010). Foreign Investment and political regimes: The oil sector in Azerbaijan,
Russia, and Norway. Cambridge University Press.
Click, R. W., & Weiner, R. J. (2010). Resource nationalism meets the market: Political risk and
the value of petroleum reserves. Journal of International Business Studies, 41(5), 783-803.
Li, Q. (2009). Democracy, autocracy,
investment. Comparative Political Studies.
and
expropriation
of
foreign
direct
Jensen, N. (2008). Political risk, democratic institutions, and foreign direct investment. The
Journal of Politics, 70(04), 1040-1052.
18. Energy politics and the natural resource curse
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Required reading:
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Ross, M. L. (2015) What Have We Learned about the Resource Curse? Annual Review of
Political Science, 18, 239-259.
Hughes, L., & Lipscy, P. Y. (2013). The Politics of Energy. Annual Review of Political
Science, 16, 449-469.
Recommended reading:
Ross, Michael L. (2012). The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of
Nations. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Jensen, N. M., & Johnston, N. P. (2011). Political risk, reputation, and the resource
curse. Comparative Political Studies, 44(6), 662-688.
Haber, S. and Menaldo, V. (2011). Do Natural Resources Fuel Authoritarianism? A Reappraisal
of the Resource Curse. American Political Science Review, 105, pp 1-26.
Ramsay, K. W. (2011). Revisiting the resource curse: natural disasters, the price of oil, and
democracy. International Organization, 65(03), 507-529.
Ross, M. L. (2011). Will Oil Drown the Arab Spring: Democracy and the Resource Curse. Foreign
Aff., 90, 2.
Frankel, J. A. (2010). The natural resource curse: a survey (No. w15836). National Bureau of
Economic Research.
Luong, Pauline Jones and Weinthal, Erika. (2010). Oil is not a Curse: Ownership Structure and
Institutions in Soviet Successor States. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Stevens, P. (2008). National oil companies and international oil companies in the Middle East:
Under the shadow of government and the resource nationalism cycle. The Journal of World
Energy Law & Business, 1(1), 5-30.
Dunning, Thad. (2008). Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rosser, A. (2006). The political economy of the resource curse: A literature survey (Vol. 268).
Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies.
Karl, Terry Lynn. (1997). The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States. Berkeley: University
of California Press.
Contentious politics and political violence
19. Social movements and protests
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Required reading:
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Jasper, J. M. (2011). Emotions and social movements: Twenty years of theory and
research. Annual Review of Sociology, 37, 285-303.
McAdam, D., Tarrow, S., & Tilly, C. (2008). Methods for measuring mechanisms of
contention. Qualitative Sociology, 31(4), 307-331.
Recommended:
Della Porta, D. (2015). Social movements in times of austerity: bringing capitalism back into
protest analysis.
Schuurman, F., & Van Naerssen, T. (Eds.). (2013). Urban social movements in the Third World.
Routledge.
Moghadam, V. (2012). Globalization and social movements: Islamism, feminism, and the global
justice movement. Rowman & Littlefield.
Kern, H. L. (2011). Foreign Media and Protest Diffusion in Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of
the 1989 East German Revolution. Comparative Political Studies, 44(9), 1179-1205.
Robertson, Graeme B. (2011). The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes: Managing dissent in
post-communist Russia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
McAdam, D., & Tarrow, S. (2011). Introduction: Dynamics of Contention Ten Years
On. Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 16(1), 1-10.
Staniland, P. (2010). Cities on fire: social mobilization, state policy, and urban
insurgency. Comparative Political Studies, 43(12), 1623-1649.
Kuntz, P., & Thompson, M. R. (2009). More than just the final straw: Stolen elections as
revolutionary triggers. Comparative Politics, 253-272.
Tilly, C., & Tarrow, S. (2006). Contentious politics. Oxford University Press.
McAdam, D., Tarrow, S., & Tilly, C. (2003). Dynamics of contention. Social Movement
Studies, 2(1), 99-102.
20. Civil war and ethnic conflict
Required reading:
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Valentino, B. A. (2014). Why We Kill: The Political Science of Political Violence. Annual
Review of Political Science, 17, 89-104.
Ross, M. (2006). A closer look at oil, diamonds, and civil war. Annual Review of Political
Science, 9, 265-300.
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Fearon, J. D., & Laitin, D. D. (2003). Ethnicity, insurgency, and civil war. American
political science review, 97(1), 75-90.
Recommended:
Cederman, L. E., Gleditsch, K. S., & Hug, S. (2013). Elections and Ethnic Civil War. Comparative
Political Studies, 46(3), 387-417.
Sambanis, N. and Shayo, M. (2013). Social Identification and Ethnic Conflict. American Political
Science Review, 107, pp 294-325.
McGarry, J., & O'leary, B. (Eds.). (2013). The politics of ethnic conflict regulation: Case studies of
protracted ethnic conflicts. Routledge.
Esteban, J., Mayoral, L., & Ray, D. (2012). Ethnicity and conflict: An empirical study. The
American Economic Review, 102(4), 1310-1342.
Day, C. R. (2011). The Fates of Rebels: Insurgencies in Uganda. Comparative Politics, 43(4), 439458.
Bhavnani, R., D. Miodownik and H. Choi. (2011). “Violence and Control in
Civil Conflict: Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza.” Comparative Politics, 44(10), 61-80.
Metelits, C. (2009). Inside insurgency: violence, civilians, and revolutionary group behavior. NYU
Press.
Salehyan, I. (2009). Rebels Without Borders: Transnational Insurgencies in World Politics.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Valentino, B. (2004). Final Solutions: Mass Killings and Genocide in the 20th Century. Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press.
Collier, P., & Hoeffler, A. (2004). Greed and grievance in civil war. Oxford economic
papers, 56(4), 563-595.
Ross, M. L. (2004). What do we know about natural resources and civil war? Journal of Peace
Research, 41(3), 337-356.
Collier, P., & Hoeffler, A. (1998). On economic causes of civil war. Oxford economic
papers, 50(4), 563-573.
21. Terrorism
Required reading:
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Horowitz, M.C. (2015). The Rise and Spread of Suicide Bombing. Annual Review of
Political Science, 18, 69-84.
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Abrahms, M. (2012). The political effectiveness of terrorism revisited. Comparative
Political Studies, 45(3), 366-393.
Walsh, J. I., & Piazza, J. A. (2010). Why respecting physical integrity rights reduces
terrorism. Comparative Political Studies, 43(5), 551-577.
Recommended:
Norris, P., Kern, M., & Just, M. (Eds.). (2013). Framing terrorism: The news media, the
government and the public. Routledge.
Enders, W., Sandler, T., & Gaibulloev, K. (2011). Domestic versus transnational terrorism: Data,
decomposition, and dynamics. Journal of Peace Research,48(3), 319-337.
Wilkinson, P. (2011). Terrorism versus democracy: The liberal state response. Taylor & Francis.
Gould, E. D., & Klor, E. F. (2010). Does Terrorism Work?. The Quarterly Journal of
Economics, 125(4), 1459-1510.
Merolla, J. L., & Zechmeister, E. J. (2009). Democracy at Risk: How Terrorist Threats Affect the
Public. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Sociocultural variables in political analysis
22. Social capital and civil society
Required reading:
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Paraskevopoulos, C. J. (2010). Social capital: summing up the debate on a conceptual
tool of comparative politics and public policy. Comparative Politics,42(4), 475-494.
Recommended:
Bayulgen, O. (2008). Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank and the Nobel Peace Prize: What
political science can contribute to and learn from the study of microcredit. International Studies
Review, 10(3), 525-547.
Lin, N. (2002). Social capital: A theory of social structure and action (Vol. 19). Cambridge
university press.
Arrow, K. J. (2000). Observations on social capital. Social capital: A multifaceted perspective, 35.
Berman, S. (1997). Civil society and the collapse of the Weimar Republic.World politics, 49(03),
401-429.
Putnam, R. D. (1995). Bowling alone: America's declining social capital. Journal of
democracy, 6(1), 65-78.
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23. Religion in politics and the rise of political Islam
Required reading:
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March, A. F. (2015). Political Islam: Theory. Annual Review of Political Science, 18.
Grzymala-Busse, A. (2012). Why comparative politics should take religion (more)
seriously. Annual Review of Political Science, 15, 421-442.
Patten, A. (2011). Rethinking Culture: The Social Lineage Account. American Political
Science Review, 105, pp 735-749.
Recommended:
Ciftci, S. (2010). Modernization, Islam, or social capital: What explains attitudes toward
democracy in the Muslim world?. Comparative Political Studies, 43(11), 1442-1470.
Fish, M. S., Jensenius, F. R., & Michel, K. E. (2010). Islam and Large-Scale Political Violence: Is
There a Connection?. Comparative Political Studies,43(11), 1327-1362.
Gumuscu, S. (2010). Class, status, and party: the changing face of political Islam in Turkey and
Egypt. Comparative Political Studies, 43(7), 835-861.
Means, G. P. (2009). Political Islam in Southeast Asia. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.
Fish, M. Steven. "Islam and authoritarianism." World politics 55.01 (2002): 4-37.
Contemporary topics in political science
24. The digital age: ICTs and politics
Required reading:
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Farrell, H. (2012). The consequences of the internet for politics. Annual Review of
Political Science, 15, 35-52.
Recommended:
Morozov, E. (2012). The net delusion: The dark side of Internet freedom. PublicAffairs Store.
Stepanova, E. (2011). The role of information communication technologies in the ‘Arab
Spring’. Ponars Eurasia, (15), 1-6.
Chadwick, A., & Howard, P. N. (Eds.). (2010). Routledge handbook of Internet politics. Taylor &
Francis.
Mueller, M. L. (2010). Networks and states: the global politics of Internet governance. The MIT
Press.
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Morozov, E. (2009). Iran: Downside to the" Twitter Revolution". Dissent, 56(4), 10-14.
Chadwick, A., & Howard, P. (2009). New directions in internet politics research. Handbook of
Internet Politics. London: Routledge, 1-9.
Kahn, R., & Kellner, D. (2005). Oppositional politics and the Internet: A critical/reconstructive
approach. Cultural Politics, 1(1), 75-100.
Oates, S., Owen, D., & Gibson, R. K. (Eds.). (2004). The Internet and politics: citizens, voters and
activists. Routledge.
Ferdinand, P. (2000). The Internet, democracy and democratization. Democratization, 7(1), 117.
25. Environmental politics
Required reading:
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Tang, C. P., Tang, S. Y., & Chiu, C. Y. (2011). Inclusion, Identity, and Environmental Justice
in New Democracies: The Politics of Pollution Remediation in Taiwan. Comparative
Politics, 43(3), 333-350.
Blühdorn, I., & Welsh, I. (2007). Eco-politics beyond the paradigm of sustainability: a
conceptual framework and research agenda. Environmental politics, 16(2), 185-205.
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