PSC 8331: ADVANCED THEORIES OF COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Fall 2011, Thursday 4:00-6:00 PM Monroe Hall 252
Professor Kimberly Morgan
Office: Hall of Government, Rm 418
Phone: 994-2809, email: kjmorgan@gwu.edu
Office Hours: www.tungle.me/kimberlymorgan
(usually Wednesday, Friday afternoons)
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.
Learning objectives
By the end of this class you should:
1. Understand the main theoretical approaches to the study of comparative politics.
2. Develop a general view of the main research areas of comparative politics.
3. Improve your ability to analyze and dissect empirical research in this field.
4. Start preparing for the comprehensive exam 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, as you should instead be developing your reactions to the readings.
The papers are due by noon on the day of class (Thursday). 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 either on the comparative politics reading list
for the comprehensive exam or might otherwise be defined as a “major work.” 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.
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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. These are the kind of questions
that, in the event you were leading the class, you might ask. The questions are due by
noon on the day of class, and you should send them to me 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):
Book review
Class participation
Final exam
20%
15%
25%
40%
Reading
Books: We will be reading portions of the following books. As a result, you may wish to
purchase them, although I have not ordered them through the GW bookstore. All of these
books are also on reserve, should you not wish to purchase them.
Jeffrey Herbst, States and Power in Africa.
Albert Hirschman, Exit, Voice & Loyalty.
Donald Horowitz, The Deadly Ethnic Riot.
Barrington Moore, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy.
Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action
Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our
Time
Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
James Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance
Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions
Dan Slater, Ordering Power
Lisa Wedeen, Peripheral Visions
All other readings (marked with an *) are available through Blackboard. The additional
sources (listed in small type) are mere suggestions for future reading.
Schedule and Readings:
(1) September 1: Introduction and overview
METHODS AND APPROACHES
(2) September 8: The Comparative Method
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* Hall, Peter A., “Aligning Ontology and Methodology in Comparative Research,” in
James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., Comparative Historical Analysis in
the Social Sciences (Princeton: Princeton University Press): 373-404.
* Harry Eckstein, “Case Study and Theory in Political Science,” in Greenstein and
Polsby, Handbook of Political Science, pp. 79-135.
* Arend Lijphart, “Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method,” American
Political Science Review, vol. 45, no. 3 (September 1971), pp. 682-93.
* Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba, Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific
Inference in Qualitative Research (Princeton University Press, 1994), chapter 6,
“Increasing the number of observations,” pp. 208-230.
* Alexander George and Andrew Bennett, “Process-Tracing and Historical Explanation,”
in Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences,” pp. 205-32.
* Giovanni Sartori, “Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics,” American Political
Science Review, Vol. 64 (Dec., 1970): 1033-1053.
Some 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.
-- Henry Brady and David Collier, eds., Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards
(Rowman & Littlefield Publ, 2004).
-- 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 D. Fearon, “Counterfactuals and Hypothesis Testing in Political Science,” World Politics 43, 2
(January 1991): 169-95.
-- 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.
-- Jackman, R. “Cross-National Statistical Research and the Study of Comparative Politics,” American
Journal of Political Science 29 (Feb. 1985): 161-182.
-- 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.
-- Craig Parsons, How to Map Arguments in Political Science (Oxford UP 2007).
-- Adam Przeworski and Harry Teune, The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry (1970).
--“The Role of Theory in Comparative Politics: A Symposium,” World Politics 48, 1 (October 1995): 1-49.
-- Theda Skocpol and Margaret Somers, “The Uses of Comparative History in Macrosocial Inquiry,”
Comparative Studies in Society and History 22, 2 (1980): 174-97.
(3) September 15: Political Culture
* Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba, “The Civic Culture and Democratic Stability,” in
Almond and Verba, The Civic Culture (Sage 1989), 337-74.
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* David J. Elkins and Richard E.B. Simeon, “A Cause in Search of Its Effect, or What
Does Political Culture Explain?” Comparative Politics, vol. 11, no. 2 (January 1979), pp.
127-45.
* Geertz, Clifford, “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture,” in
Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures (New York: Basic Books, 1973), pp. 3-30.
* Swidler, Ann, “Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies,” American Sociological
Review, 51 (April 1986), pp. 273-286.
Lisa Wedeen, Peripheral Visions, introduction and chps. 1-3 (pp. 1-147)
Some additional sources
-- Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba, eds., The Civic Culture Revisited (Little, Brown & Co: 1980).
-- Almond, Gabriel, and Sidney Verba, The Civic Culture (Boston: Little, Brown, 1963).
-- Sheri Berman, “Ideas, Norms, and Culture in Political Analysis,” Comparative Politics, vol. 33, no. 2
(January 2001), pp. 231-250.
-- Pierre Bourdieu, The Logic of Practice (Stanford: Stanford Press, 1990).
-- Hartz, Louis, ed., The Founding of New Societies: Studies in the History of the United
States, Latin America, South Africa, Canada, and Australia (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964).
-- Huntington, Samuel P., The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996), pp. 56-78.
-- 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.
-- Inglehart, Ronald, “The Renaissance of Political Culture,” American Political Science
Review 82 (December 1988), pp. 1203-1230.
-- 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).
-- Laitin, David, Hegemony and Culture: Politics and Religious Change among the Yoruba
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986).
-- Aaron Wildavsky, “Choosing Preferences by Constructing Institutions: A Cultural Theory of Preference
Formation,” American Political Science Review 81, 1 (March 1987).
(4) September 22: The Rational Actor Approach
* William H. Riker, “Political Science and Rational Choice,” pp. 163-81 in Perspectives
on Positive Political Economy eds. Alt and Shepsle (Cambridge 1990).
* Barbara Geddes, “Uses and Limitations of Rational Choice,” in Peter Smith, ed., Latin
America in Comparative Perspective (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1995), pp. 81-108.
Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action, pp. 1-65, 132-167.
* Stathis Kalyvas, “Wanton and Senseless? The Logic of Massacres in Algeria,”
Rationality and Society (1999): 243-278.
Some additional sources
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-- James Alt and Kenneth Shepsle, Perspectives on Positive Political Economy (1990).
-- Robert Bates et al., Analytic Narratives (Princeton University Press 1998).
-- Robert Bates et al., “The Analytic Narratives Project,” American Political Science Review 94, 3
(September 2000): 696-702.
-- Youssef Cohen, Radicals, Reformers, and Reactionaries: The Prisoner’s Dilemma and the Collapse of
Democracy in Latin America, 1994.
-- Anthony Downs, An Economic Theory of Democracy, 1957.
-- Gary Cox, Making Votes Count (NY: Cambridge U. Pres, 1997).
-- Jon Elster, “Rational Choice History: A Case of Excessive Ambition,” American Political Science
Review 94, 3 (September 2000): 685-95.
-- Jon Elster, ed., Rational Choice: Readings in Social and Political Theory, 1986.
-- Margaret Levi, “Model, A Method, and a Map,” in Lichbach and Zuckerman, eds., Comparative Politics,
pp. 19-41.
-- Geraldo Munck, “Game Theory and Comparative Politics: New Perspectives and Old Concerns,” World
Politics, 2001.
-- Peter Ordeshook, Game Theory and Political Theory: An Introduction, 1986.
-- William Riker, The Theory of Political Coalitions, 1962.
-- Thomas Schelling, Micromotives and Macrobehavior, 1978.
-- Karen Schweers Cook and Margaret Levi, eds., The Limits of Rationality, 1990.
-- George Tsebelis, Nested Games: Rational Choice in Comparative Politics, 1990.
-- James Q. Wilson, Political Organizations, 1973.
(5) September 29: Institutions, Path Dependence, and Institutional Change
* Peter Hall and Rosemary Taylor, “Political Science and the Three New
Institutionalisms” Political Studies 44, 4 (December 1996): 936-57.
Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions, chps. 1-3 (pp. 3-157).
* Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast, “Constitutions and Commitment: The
Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England.”
Journal of Economic History (1989): 803-32.
* Paul Pierson, “Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics,”
American Political Science Review 94, 2 (June 2000): 251-68.
* James Mahoney and Kathleen Thelen, “A Theory of Gradual Institutional Change,” pp.
1-37 in Mahoney and Thelen, eds., Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency,
and Power (Cambridge: 2010).
Some additional sources
-- David Apter, “Institutionalism Reconsidered,” International Social Science Journal, vol. 43, no. 3 (May
1991), 463-81.
-- James March and Johan Olsen, Rediscovering Institutions: The Organizational Basis of Politics, 1989.
-- Douglass North, Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance, 1990.
-- Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, 1990.
-- Paul Pierson, Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis (Princeton University Press
2004).
-- Walter W. Powell and Paul DiMaggio, eds., The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis, 1991.
-- Vivien Schmidt, “Discursive Institutionalism: The Explanatory Power of Ideas and Discourse,” Annual
Review of Political Science Vol. 11: 303-326 (June 2008): 303-26.
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-- Sven Steinmo, Kathleen Thelen, and Longstreth, eds., Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in
Comparative Analysis, 1992.
-- Kathleen Thelen, How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the
United States, and Japan (Cambridge University Press 2004).
-- Tsebelis, George. (1995). “Decision Making in Political Systems: Veto Players in Presidentialism,
Parliamentarism, Multicameralism and Multipartyism.” British Journal of Political Science, 25, 289-325.
-- R. Kent Weaver and Bert A. Rockman, eds., Do Institutions Matter? Government Capabilities in the
United States and Abroad, 1993.
TOPICAL RESEARCH AREAS
(6) October 6: The Origins and Nature of States
* Theda Skocpol, “Introduction: Bringing the State Back In.” In Peter Evans et al.,
Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge: 1985), pp. 3-38.
* Max Weber, “Politics as a Vocation,” in Gerth and Mills eds., From Max Weber:
Essays in Sociology (1958): pp. 77-128.
* Charles Tilly, “State building as organized crime,” in Bringing the State Back In
(Cambridge: 1985), pp. 169-186. (20 p)
Jeffrey Herbst, States and Power in Africa, chps. 1-4, 9.
Some additional sources
-- Alfred Stepan, The State and Society: Peru in Comparative Perspective, 1978.
-- Robert Bates, When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late Century Africa (2008).
-- 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).
-- Barbara Geddes, Politician’s Dilemma: Building State Capacity in Latin America, 1994.
-- 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.
-- Desmond King and Robert C. Lieberman, “Ironies of State Building: A Comparative Perspective on the
American State.” World Politics 61, 3 (July 2009): 547-88.
-- Stephen Krasner, “Approaches to the State: Alternative Conceptions and Historical Dynamics,”
Comparative Politics 16 (January 1984): 223-46.
-- Joel Migdal, Atul Kohli, and Vivienne Shue, eds., State Power and Social Forces: Domination and
Transformation in the Third World, 1994.
-- 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).
-- Guillermo O’Donnell, “Comparative Historical Formations of the State Apparatus,” International Social
Science Journal, 32, 4 (1980).
-- James Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed,
1998.
-- 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).
-- Jennifer Widner, “States and Statelessness in 20th century Africa,” Daedalus 124, 3 (1995).
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(7) October 13: Modernization and Political 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 Development and Political Decay,” World Politics, Vol.
17, No. 3. (Apr., 1965), pp. 386-430.
Barrington Moore, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, preface and chps. 1, 7,
8, 9.
Some additional sources
--Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes, “Endogenous Democratization,” World Politics, vol. 55, no. 4 (July
2003), pp. 517-549.
-- Eisenstadt, S. N., Modernization: Protest and Change (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: PrenticeHall, 1966).
--Samuel Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies.
-- Huntington, Samuel P., and Jorge I. Domínguez, “Political Development,” in Fred
Greenstein and Nelson Polsby, eds., Handbook of Political Science, vol. 3 (Reading, MA:
Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1975), pp. 1-98.
-- Inkeles, Alex, “The Modernization of Man,” in Modernization: The Dynamics of Growth, ed. Myron
Weiner (New York: Basic Books, 1966), pp. 138-150.
-- 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.
-- Francis Hagopian, “Political Development, Revisited,” Comparative Political Studies, vol. 33, nos. 6/7
(August/September 2000), pp. 880-911.
-- Daniel Lerner, The Passing of Traditional Society: Modernizing the Middle East, 1958.
-- Seymour Martin Lipset, Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics, 1960.
-- Seymour Martin Lipset, “The Social Requisites of Democracy Revisited: 1993 Presidential Address,”
American Sociological Review 59, 1 (Feb 1994): 1-22.
-- Rostow, W. W., Politics and the Stages of Growth (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1971).
Rudolph, Lloyd, and Susanne Rudolph, The Modernity of Tradition: Political
Development in India, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967).
-- Theda Skocpol, “A Critical Review of Barrington Moore’s Social Origins of Dictatorship and
Democracy,” Politics and Society, vol. 4, no. 1 (1973), pp.1-34.
-- Stark, Rodney, “Secularization, RIP,” Sociology of Religion, 60, no. 3 (1999): 249-273.
-- Myron Weiner and Samuel P. Huntington, eds., Understanding Political Development: An Analytic
Study, 1987.
(8) October 20: Regime Types and Transitions
Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, chps. 21-22 (pp. 250-83).
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* D. A. Rustow, “Transitions to Democracy: Toward a Dynamic Model,” Comparative
Politics 2 (Apr., 1970): 337-363.
* Valerie Bunce, “Rethinking Recent Democratization: Lessons from the Postcommunist
Experience, World Politics 55, 2 (January 2003): 167-192.
* Michael Bratton and Nicolas Van de Walle, “Neopatrimonial Regimes and Political
Transitions in Africa,” World Politics 46, 4 (July 1994): 453-89.
* David Collier, “An Overview of the Bureaucratic Authoritarian Model” in Collier, ed.,
The New Authoritarianism in Latin America (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1979), pp. 19-32.
Dan Slater, Ordering Power (Cambridge 2010), chps. 1, 2, 6, 7. Skim chps. 3-5 as
needed to flesh out your understanding of the argument.
Some additional sources
-- Lisa Anderson, ed., Transitions to Democracy, 1999.
-- Eva Bellin, Stalled Democracy: Capital, Labor, and the Paradox of State-Sponsored Development, 2002.
-- Nancy Bermeo, “Rethinking Regime Change,” Comparative Politics vol. 22, no. 3 (April 1990), pp. 35977.
-- Nancy Bermeo, Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry and the Breakdown of
Democracy, 2003.
-- Valerie Bunce, Subversive Institutions: The Design and Destruction of Socialism and the State, 1999.
-- David Collier, ed., The New Authoritarianism in Latin America, 1979.
-- David Collier and Steven Levitsky, “Democracy with Adjectives,” World Politics.
-- Robert Dahl, Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition. Yale University Press, 1971.
-- Barbara Geddes, “What do we know after 20 years of Democratization studies?” Annual Review of
Political Science 2 (1999): 115-144.
-- Samuel Huntington, The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late 20th Century. Oklahoma University
Press, 1991.
-- Jane S. Jaquette and Sharon L. Wolchik, eds., Women and Democracy: Latin America and Central and
Eastern Europe, 1998.
-- Terry Lynn Karl and Philippe Schmitter, “What Democracy Is…and Is Not,” Journal of Democracy 3
(1991): 75-88.
-- Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, “The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism,” Journal of Democracy,
vol. 13, no. 2 (April 2002), pp. 51-65.
-- Juan Linz, The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Crisis, Breakdown, & Reequilibration, 1978.
-- Juan Linz, Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes, 2000.
-- Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation, Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1996.
-- Michael McFaul, “The Fourth Wave of Democracy and Dictatorship: Noncooperative Transitions in the
Post-Communist World,” World Politics, vol. 54, no. 2 (January 2002), pp. 212-244.
-- Guillermo O’Donnell, Modernization and Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism, 1978.
-- Guillermo O’Donnell, Philippe Schmitter, and Laurence Whitehead, eds., Transitions from Authoritarian
Rule: Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies, 1986.
-- Adam Przeworski, Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and
Latin America, 1992.
(9) October 27: Forms of Political Participation and Action
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Albert O. Hirschman, Exit, Voice and Loyalty (1970), chs. 1-3 (pp. 1-43).
* 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.
* Kevin O’Brien, “Rightful Resistance,” World Politics, 49.1 (1996), pp. 31-55.
James C. Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, preface,
chps. 1-3, 7, 8.
* Tarrow, Sidney, chp. 1 in Power in Movement. Second edition (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1996), pp. 9-27.
Some additional sources
-- Crane Brinton, The Anatomy of Revolution, 1952.
-- Nathan J. Brown, Peasant Politics in Modern Egypt: The Struggle Against the State, 1990.
-- Bruce Cumings, “Interests and Ideology in the Study of Agrarian Politics,” Politics and Society, vol. 10,
no. 4 (1981), pp. 467-495.
-- James DeNardo, Power in Numbers, 1985.
-- Jack A. Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World, 1991.
-- Ted Robert Gurr, Why Men Rebel, 1970.
-- Mark Lichbach, The Rebel’s Dilemma: Economics, Cognition, and Society, 1998.
-- 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).
-- Doug McAdam, Sydney Tarrow, and Charles Tilly, Dynamics of Contention, 2001.
-- Cynthia McClintock, Revolutionary Movements in Latin America, 1998.
-- Cynthia McClintock, “Why Peasants Rebel: The Case of Peru's Sendero Luminoso,” World Politics, vol.
37, no. 1 (October 1984), pp. 48-84.
-- Joel Migdal, Peasants, Politics, and Revolution: Pressures Toward Social and Political Change in the
Third World, 1974.
-- Elizabeth J. Perry, Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945, 1980.
-- Samuel Popkin, The Rational Peasant, 1979.
-- Gay Seidman, Manufacturing Militance: Workers’ Movements in Brazil and South Africa, 1970-1985,
1994.
-- Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1979.
-- Kay Trimberger, Revolution from Above: Military Bureaucrats in Development in Japan, Turkey, Egypt,
and Peru, 1978.
-- Eric Wolf, Peasant Wars in the Twentieth Century, 1969.
(10) November 3: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Violence
* Rogers M. Smith, “Identities, Interests, and the Future of Political Science,”
Perspectives on Politics 2 (2004): 301-312.
* Anthony D. Smith, The Ethnic Origins of Nations, chp. 6, “The Formation of Nations,”
pp. 129-152.
* Walker Connor, “Beyond Reason: The Nature of the Ethnonational Bond,” Ethnic and
Racial Studies 16:3 (July 1993), pp. 373-89.
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* James D. Fearon and David D. Laitin, “Violence and the Social Construction of Ethnic
Identity,” International Organization 54, 4 (Autumn 2000): 845-77.
* David Laitin, Identity in Formation (Cornell University Press 1998), chp. 1 (pp. 3-35).
Donald L. Horowitz, The Deadly Ethnic Riot, chps. 1-3, 13.
Some additional sources
-- Fearon, James, and David Laitin, “Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War.” American Political Science
Review. 97(1), 2003, pp. 75-90.
-- Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism, 1983.
-- Michael Hechter, Containing Nationalism, 2000.
-- Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Program, Myth, Reality, 1990.
-- Horowitz, Donald L., Ethnic Groups in Conflict (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985).
-- Htun, Mala, “Is Gender Like Ethnicity? The Political Representation of Identity Groups,”Perspectives on
Politics 2:3 (September 2004): 439-458.
-- Kalyvas Stathis N. and Matthew A. Kocher. 2007. "Ethnic Cleavages and Irregular War: Iraq and
Vietnam," Politics & Society, 35:2 (June), pp. 183-223.
-- Kalyvas, Stathis N, “The Ontology of ‘Political Violence’: Action and Identity in Civil Wars.”
Perspectives on Politics, 1(3), 2003, pp. 475-94.
-- Laitin, David, “Hegemony and Religious Conflict,” in Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and
Theda Skocpol, eds., Bringing the State Back In (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985).
-- Lijphart, Arend, Democracy in Plural Societies: A Comparative Exploration (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1977), chapters 1-2 (pp. 1-52).
-- Daniel N. Posner, Institutions and Ethnic Identities in Africa
-- Varshney, Ashutosh, Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India (Second edition. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), pp. 3-52, 281-300.
(11) November 10: Parties and Party Systems
* Robert Michels, “Democracy and the Iron Law of Oligarchy,” Political Parties
(Transaction: 1999), pp. 342-56.
* Seymour Martin Lipset and Stein Rokkan, “Cleavage Structure, Party Systems, and
Voter Alignments,” in Peter Mair, ed., The West European Party System (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. 91-138.
* 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.
* Herbert Kitschelt, “Linkages between Citizens and Politicians in Democratic Polities.”
Comparative Political Studies 33:6/7 (2000): 845-879.
* Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully, “Introduction,” In Mainwaring & Scully,
eds., Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America (Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 1995), pp. 1-34.
* Anna Grzymala-Busse, “Political Competition and the Politicization of the State,”
Comparative Political Studies, 36, 10 (December 2003): 1123-47.
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Some additional sources
-- Sheri Berman, “Life of the Party (Review Article),” Comparative Politics, vol. 30, no. 1 (October 1997),
pp. 101-122.
-- Chhibber, Pradeep, & Kollman, Ken. (2004). The Formation of National Party Systems: Federalism and
Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States (Princeton)
-- Gary Cox, Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems, (New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 13-33.
-- Robert Dahl, ed. Political Oppositions in Western Democracies, 1966.
-- Russell J. Dalton, Scott Flanagan, and Paul Beck, eds., Electoral Change: Realignment and Realignment
in Advanced Industrial Societies, 1984.
-- Bruce Dickson, Democratization in China and Taiwan: The Adaptability of Leninist Parties, 1997.
-- Maurice Duverger, Political Parties, 1954.
-- Samuel P. Huntington, “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.
- Herbert Kitschelt, et al, Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party
Cooperation, 1999.
-- Thomas Koelble, “Recasting Social Democracy in Europe: A Nested Games Explanation of Strategic
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(13) November 24 Thanksgiving, NO CLASS
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