PSC 331: ADVANCED THEORIES OF COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Fall 2008
Professor Bruce Dickson
ph: 994-4186; fax: 994-7743;
e-mail: bdickson@gwu.edu
office hours: Fridays, 10-12, and by appointment
Course Overview
This course is designed to introduce students to the main concepts, topics, and debates in
comparative politics. It will provide the basis for subsequent coursework and research in the
comparative politics subfield.
Requirements
(1) Two Short Papers. During the semester, you will write two five-page papers. Papers should
be critiques of the assigned readings; you are not expected or required to do additional outside
reading. There will be no assigned topics; instead, students will use their own discretion in
selecting paper topics, so long as they respond to the readings in some way. A good paper should
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it may compare and contrast several of the readings; provide an in-depth critique of just
one of the readings, or analyze a basic approach (e.g., the utility of rational choice versus
political culture in explaining political behavior).
it should not simply summarize the readings; your paper should make an argument and
convey a point of view.
it should give a good critique of the readings. A critique is not necessarily negative.
Whether or not you like an author’s argument, you still must critique it: is the argument
clearly stated? Is the evidence offered relevant to the argument and convincing, or is it
biased in some way? Are alternative explanations ignored or addressed? Are the cases
selected appropriate for the research question? etc.
it should give credit where credit is due: always cite the sources for key information, and
always provide page numbers for quotes.
it must be double spaced and no more than five pages long.
Your papers do not have to cover all the readings in a particular week, but they should identify
and analyze a main theme, debate, or puzzle from at least some of that week’s readings.
The papers are due by 9 a.m. the day of class. Out of fairness to your classmates, late papers
will be penalized. Your papers will also include a one-paragraph abstract of your main themes;
this abstract will be the basis of your class presentation. Both the paper and the abstract should be
posted to Blackboard.
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(2) Book review. You will also write one book review of any major work in comparative politics
that is not one of the required readings for this class. Examples of major works can be found in
the recommended readings for each week, as well as the comparative politics reading list for the
comprehensive exam. If you want to review a book not on this list, check with me first. The
review should be no more than five pages and follow the style of book reviews in any major
journal. You can turn in the review at any point in the semester, but by the last class at the latest.
(3) Class Participation. Active participation is a key requirement of this seminar, and you cannot
participate if you have not done the readings. You are therefore expected to have finished all the
readings before each week’s class, and come to class ready to participate in our discussion.
In weeks that you do not write a paper, 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. The questions are due by 9 a.m. the day of class. They will be posted on the
discussion board of Blackboard, and you are encouraged to read other students’
questions/comments before class.
(4) Final Exam. The final exam will be passed out the last day of class, and will be due one week
later (December 11). It will simulate the written portion of the comprehensive exam
Grading:
Short Papers:
2 @ 10% =
Book review
Class Participation and Presentations:
Take-home Final Exam:
20%
15%
25%
40%
Books: The following books are available for purchase at the bookstore.
Jeffrey Herbst, States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control
(Princeton University Press, 2000).
Albert Hirschman, Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and
States (Harvard University Press, 1970).
Peter Katzenstein, Small States in World Markets: Industrial Policy in Europe (Cornell
University Press, 1985).
Barrington Moore, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the
Making of the Modern World (Boston: Beacon Press, 1966).
Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action (Harvard University Press, 1971).
Robert Putnam, Making Democracy Work (Princeton University Press, 1993).
James Scott, Weapons of the Weak (Yale University Press, 1985).
Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital and European States (Blackwell, 1993)
Other readings (marked with a *) will be available on Blackboard.
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1.
September 4: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
I. THEORIES AND METHODS
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September 11: POLITICAL CULTURE
* Gabriel Almond, “The Study of Political Culture,” in A Discipline Divided: Schools and Sects
in Political Science (Newbury Park: Sage, 1990), pp. 138-156.
* 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.
* Max Weber, “The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism,” in Gerth and Mills, From Max
Weber (New York: Oxford University Press, 1946), pp. 302-322.
* Samuel Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations?” Foreign Affairs, vol. 72, no. 3, (Summer
1993), pp. 22-49.
* Ronald Inglehart, Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic, and Political
Change in 43 Societies (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997), chap. 6: “Economic
Development, Political Culture, and Democracy: Bringing the People Back In,” pp. 160-197,
(skim 197-215).
Methodology:
* Arend Lijphart, “Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method,” American Political
Science Review, vol. 45, no. 3 (September 1971), pp. 682-93.
* Harry Eckstein, “Case Study and Theory in Political Science,” in Greenstein and Polsby, eds.,
Handbook of Political Science, vol. 7 (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1975), pp. 79-138 (esp.
pp. 96-132).
* Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba, Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference
in Qualitative Research (Princeton University Press, 1994), pp. 3-33.
Recommended Readings:
Edward Banfield, The Moral Basis of a Backward Society, 1958.
Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba, The Civic Culture, 1963.
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 1976.
Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba, eds., The Civic Culture Revisited, 1980
Cynthia McClintock, Peasant Cooperatives and Political Change in Peru, 1981.
Adam Przeworski and Henry Teune, The Logic of Comparative Inquiry, 1982.
Laurence E. Harrison, Underdevelopment is a State of Mind, 1985.
Lucian Pye, Asian Power and Politics: The Cultural Dimensions of Authority, 1985
Charles C. Ragin, The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies, 1987.
Susan Pharr, Losing Face: Status Politics in Japan, 1990.
Ronald Inglehart, Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society, 1990.
Gary King, Robert Keohane and Sidney Verba, Designing Social Inquiry, 1994.
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September 18: RATIONAL CHOICE
Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action, pp. 1-65, 132-67.
* Barbara Geddes, “Uses and Limitations of Rational Choice,” in Peter Smith, ed., Latin America
in Comparative Perspective (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1995), pp. 81-108.
* Robert Bates, “Area Studies and the Discipline: A Useful Controversy?” PS: Political Science
and Politics, vol. 30, no. 2 (June 1997), pp. 166-69.
* Chalmers Johnson, “Preconception vs. Observation, or the Contributions of Rational Choice
Theory and Area Studies to Contemporary Political Science,” PS: Political Science and Politics,
Vol. 30, No. 2. (June 1997), pp. 170-174.
Methodology:
* Barbara Geddes, “How the Cases You Choose Affect the Answers You Get: Selection Bias in
Comparative Politics,” Political Analysis, vol. 2 (1990), pp. 131-150.
* David Collier and James Mahoney, “Insights and Pitfalls: Selection Bias in Qualitative
Research,” World Politics, vol. 49, no. 1 (October 1996), pp. 56-91.
Recommended Readings:
Anthony Downs, An Economic Theory of Democracy, 1957.
William Riker, The Theory of Political Coalitions, 1962.
Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action, 1971.
Thomas Schelling, Micromotives and Macrobehavior, 1978.
Jon Elster, ed., Rational Choice: Readings in Social and Political Theory, 1986.
Peter Ordeshook, Game Theory and Political Theory: An Introduction, 1986.
George Tsebelis, Nested Games: Rational Choice in Comparative Politics, 1990.
Karen Schweers Cook and Margaret Levi, eds., The Limits of Rationality, 1990.
Youssef Cohen, Radicals, Reformers, and Reactionaries: The Prisoner’s Dilemma and the Collapse of Democracy
in Latin America, 1994.
Barbara Geddes, Politician’s Dilemma: Building State Capacity in Latin America, 1994.
Donald Green and Ian Shapiro, Pathologies of Rational Choice: A Critique of Applications in Political Science,
1996.
Geraldo Munck, “Game Theory and Comparative Politics: New Perspectives and Old Concerns,” World Politics,
2001.
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September 25: INSTITUTIONS AND PATH DEPENDENCE
* David Apter, “Institutionalism Reconsidered,” International Social Science Journal, vol. 43, no.
3 (May 1991), 463-81.
* Peter Hall and Rosemary Taylor, “Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms”
Political Studies 44, 4 (December 1996): 936-57.
*Paul Pierson, “Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics,” American
Political Science Review 94, 2 (June 2000): 251-68.
*Kathleen Thelen, “How Institutions Evolve: Insights from Comparative Historical Analysis,” in
James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social
Sciences (Cambridge Univ Press: 2003): 208-240.
* Sheri Berman, “Ideas, Norms, and Culture in Political Analysis,” Comparative Politics, vol. 33,
no. 2 (January 2001), pp. 231-250.
Methodology:
* David Collier and James E. Mahon, Jr., “Conceptual Stretching Revisited: Adapting Categories
in Comparative Analysis,” American Political Science Review, vol. 87, no. 4 (December 1993),
pp. 845-55.
*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.
* Michael Coppedge, “Thickening Thin Concepts and Theories: Combining Large N and Small
in Comparative Politics,” Comparative Politics, vol. 31, no. 4 (July 1999), pp. 465-477.
Recommended Readings:
Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality, 1966.
James Q. Wilson, Political Organizations, 1973.
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.
Walter W. Powell and Paul DiMaggio, eds., The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis, 1991.
Robert Grafstein, Institutional Realism: Social and Political Constraints on Rational Actors, 1992.
Sven Steinmo, Kathleen Thelen, and Longstreth, eds., Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in
Comparative Analysis, 1992.
R. Kent Weaver and Bert A. Rockman, eds., Do Institutions Matter? Government Capabilities in the United States
and Abroad, 1993.
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II. MAIN RESEARCH TOPICS AND THEMES
5.
October 2: THE ORIGINS AND NATURE OF THE MODERN STATE
Barrington Moore, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, preface and chps. 7-9.
Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital and European States, chps. 1, 3-4.
Jeffrey Herbst, States and Power in Africa, chps. 1, 4, 9.
Recommended Readings:
Alfred Stepan, The State and Society: Peru in Comparative Perspective, 1978.
Ruth Berins Collier and David Collier, Shaping the Political Arena, 1991.
Joel Migdal, Atul Kohli, and Vivienne Shue, eds., State Power and Social Forces: Domination and Transformation
in the Third World, 1994.
Gregory Kasza, The Conscription Society: Administered Mass Organizations, 1995.
Jane S. Jaquette and Sharon L. Wolchik, eds., Women and Democracy: Latin America and Central and Eastern
Europe, 1998.
Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism, 1983.
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, 1991.
Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Program, Myth, Reality, 1990.
Michael Hechter, Containing Nationalism, 2000.
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6.
October 9: MODERNIZATION, DEVELOPMENT, AND DEPENDENCY
* 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.
* Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes, “Endogenous Democratization,” World Politics, vol. 55, no.
4 (July 2003), pp. 517-549.
* Samuel P. Huntington, “Political Development and Political Decay,” World Politics, Vol. 17,
No. 3. (Apr., 1965), pp. 386-430.
* 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.
* Andres Velasco, “The Dustbin of History: Dependency Theory,” Foreign Policy
(November/December 2002), pp. 44-45.
* Francis Hagopian, “Political Development, Revisited,” Comparative Political Studies, vol. 33,
nos. 6/7 (August/September 2000), pp. 880-911.
Recommended Readings:
Daniel Lerner, The Passing of Traditional Society: Modernizing the Middle East, 1958.
Seymour Martin Lipset, Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics, 1960.
Samuel P. Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies, 1968.
Leonard Binder, et. al., Crises and Sequences in Political Development, 1971.
Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World System, 1974.
Samuel Huntington and Joan Nelson, No Easy Choice: Political Participation in Developing Countries, 1976.
Guillermo O’Donnell, Modernization and Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism, 1978.
David Collier, ed., The New Authoritarianism in Latin America, 1979.
Peter Evans, Dependent Development: The Alliance of Multinational, State, and Local Capital in Brazil, 1979.
Fernando Henrique Cardozo and Enzo Faletto, Dependency and Development in Latin America, 1979.
Myron Weiner and Samuel P. Huntington, eds., Understanding Political Development: An Analytic Study, 1987.
Robert Packenham, The Dependency Movement: Scholarship and Politics in Development Studies, 1992.
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October 16: POLITICAL ECONOMY, I: THE ROLE OF THE STATE
* Alexander Gershenkron, Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective (Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1966), pp. 5-30.
* Robert Bates, “Governments and Agricultural Markets in Africa,” in Bates, ed., Toward a
Political Economy of Development (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), pp. 331-358.
* Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Peter B. Evans, “The State and Economic Transformation: Toward
an Analysis of the Conditions Underlying Effective Intervention,” in Evans, Rueschemeyer, and
Skocpol, eds., Bringing the State Back In, pp. 44-77.
* Meredith Woo-Cumings, “Introduction: Chalmers Johnson and the Politics of Nationalism and
Develoment,” in Woo-Cumings, ed., The Developmental State (Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
1999), pp. 1-31.
* Peter Evans, “The State as Problem and Solution: Predation, Embedded Autonomy and
Adjustment,” in Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman (eds.) The Politics of Economic
Adjustment: International Constraints, Distributive Politics, and the State (Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 1992), pp. 139-81.
Recommended Readings:
Robert Bates, Markets and States in Tropical Africa, 1981.
Anthony D. Smith, The Ethnic Origins of Nations, 1986.
Charles Tilly, ed., The Formation of National States in Western Europe, 1986.
Frederic Deyo, The Political Economy of the New Asian Industrialism, 1987.
Robert Wade, Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization,
1990.
Stephen Haggard, Pathways from the Periphery: The Politics of Growth in the Newly Industrializing Countries,
1990.
Alasdair Bowie, Crossing the Industrial Divide: State, Society, and the Politics of Economic Transformation in
Malaysia, 1991.
Barbara Geddes, Politician’s Dilemma: Building State Capacity in Latin America, 1994.
Peter Evans, Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation, 1995.
James Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, 1998.
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October 23: POLITICAL ECONOMY, II: ADVANCED INDUSTRIALIZED
COUNTRIES
* Phillippe C. Schmitter, “Still the Century of Corporatism?” Review of Politics, vol. 36, no. 1
(January 1974), pp. 85-131.
Peter Gourevitch, Politics in Hard Times: Comparing Responses to International Economic
Crises, 1986, chps. 1-2.
Peter Katzenstein, Small States in World Markets: Industrial Policy in Europe (Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1985), chps. 1, 3.
* Peter Hall and David Soskice, Varieties of Capitalism, introduction (especially sections on
government-business interactions).
Recommended Readings:
Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, 1942
Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation, 1944.
Charles Lindblom, Politics and Markets, 1977.
Chalmers Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle, 1982.
Harvey Feigenbaum, The Politics of Public Enterprise: Oil and the French State, 1985.
Peter Hall, Governing the Economy: The Politics of State Intervention in Britain and France, 1986.
Sven Steinmo, Taxation and Democracy: Swedish, British, and American Approaches to Financing the Modern
State, 1993.
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October 30: PARTIES AND PARTY SYSTEMS
* 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.
* Gary Cox, Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems,
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 13-33.
* Sheri Berman, “Life of the Party (Review Article),” Comparative Politics, vol. 30, no. 1
(October 1997), pp. 101-122.
* Thomas Koelble, “Recasting Social Democracy in Europe: A Nested Games Explanation of
Strategic Adjustment in Political Parties,” Politics and Society, vol. 20, no. 1 (March 1992), pp.
51-69.
* Michael McFaul, “Explaining Party Formation and Nonformation in Russia: Actors,
Institutions, and Chance,” Comparative Political Studies, vol. 34, no. 10 (December 2001), pp.
1159-1187.
* 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.
* Bruce J. Dickson, “Cooptation and Corporatism in China: The Logic of Party Adaptation,”
Political Science Quarterly, vol. 115, no. 4 (Winter 2000-2001), pp. 517-540.
Recommended Readings:
Maurice Duverger, Political Parties, 1954.
Robert Michels, Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchic Tendencies of Modern Democracy, 1959.
Joseph LaPalombara and Myron Weiner, eds., Political Parties and Political Development, 1966.
Robert Dahl, ed. Political Oppositions in Western Democracies, 1966.
Seymour Martin Lipset and Stein Rokkan, eds., Party Systems and Voter Alignments, 1967.
Giovanni Sartori, Parties and Party Systems,1976.
G. Bingham Powell, Jr., Contemporary Democracies: Participation, Stability and Violence, 1982.
Russell J. Dalton, Scott Flanagan, and Paul Beck, eds., Electoral Change: Realignment and Realignment in
Advanced Industrial Societies, 1984.
Arend Lijphart, Electoral Systems and Party Systems, 1994.
Bruce Dickson, Democratization in China and Taiwan: The Adaptability of Leninist Parties, 1997.
Gary Cox, Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems, 1997.
Herbert Kitschelt, et al, Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation,
1999.
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November 6: CIVIL SOCIETY
Robert Putnam, Making Democracy Work
* Michael W. Foley and Bob Edwards, “The Paradox of Civil Society,” Journal of Democracy,
vol. 7, no. 3 (July 1996), pp. 38-52.
Read at least one review:
* Sidney Tarrow, “Making Social Science Work across Space and Time: A Critical Reflection on
Robert Putnam’s Making Democracy Work,” American Political Science Review, vol. 90, no. 2
(June 1996), pp. 389-97.
* Margaret Levi, “Social and Unsocial Capital: A Review Essay of Robert Putnam’s Making
Democracy Work,” Politics and Society, vol. 24, no. 1 (March 1996), pp. 45-56.
* Margaret Kohn, “Civic Republicanism versus Social Struggle: A Gramscian Approach to
Associationalism in Italy,” Political Power and Social Theory vol. 13 (1999).
Recommended Readings:
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1954.
Robert Dahl, Who Governs?, 1961.
Robert Putnam, The Comparative Study of Elites, 1976.
James S. Coleman, Foundations of Social Theory, 1990.
Adam Seligman, The Idea of Civil Society, 1992.
Jean L. Cohen and Andrew Arato, Civil Society and Political Theory, 1992.
Ernest Gellner, Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals, 1994.
John Hall, ed., Civil Society: Theory, History, Comparison, 1995.
Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone : the Collapse and Revival of American Community, 2001.
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November 13: POPULAR PROTEST
Albert Hirschman, Exit, Voice and Loyalty, chps. 1-4, 7, 9.
James Scott, Weapons of the Weak, chps. 1-2, 7-8.
* Doug McAdam, John D. McCarthy and Mayer N. Zald, “Introduction,” in McAdams,
McCarthy, and Zald, eds., Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements: Political
Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1996).
Recommended Readings:
James Scott, The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia, 1976.
Samuel Popkin, The Rational Peasant, 1979.
Nathan J. Brown, Peasant Politics in Modern Egypt: The Struggle Against the State, 1990.
Gay Seidman, Manufacturing Militance: Workers’ Movements in Brazil and South Africa, 1970-1985, 1994.
Donatella Della Porta, Social Movements, Political Violence and the State: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and
Germany, 1995.
Mark Lichbach, The Rebel’s Dilemma: Economics, Cognition, and Society, 1998.
Sidney Tarrow, Power in Movement: Social Movements, Collective Action, and Politics, 1998.
Doug McAdam, Sydney Tarrow, and Charles Tilly, Dynamics of Contention, 2001.
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November 20: THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
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November 27: REBELLION AND REVOLUTION
* 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.
* Bruce Cumings, “Interests and Ideology in the Study of Agrarian Politics,” Politics and Society,
vol. 10, no. 4 (1981), pp. 467-495.
* Cynthia McClintock, “Why Peasants Rebel: The Case of Peru's Sendero Luminoso,” World
Politics, vol. 37, no. 1 (October 1984), pp. 48-84.
* 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 J. O’Brien, “Rightful Resistance,” World Politics, vol. 49, no. 1 (October 1996), pp.
31-55.
*James D. Fearon and David D. Laitin, “Violence and the Social Construction of Ethnic
Identity,” International Organization 54, 4 (Autumn 2000): 845-77.
* Henry E. Hale, “Divided We Stand: Institutional Sources of Ethnofederal State Survival and
Collapse,” World Politics, vol. 56, no. 2 (January 2004), pp. 165-193.
Recommended Readings:
Crane Brinton, The Anatomy of Revolution, 1952.
Eric Wolf, Peasant Wars in the Twentieth Century, 1969.
Ted Robert Gurr, Why Men Rebel, 1970.
Joel Migdal, Peasants, Politics, and Revolution: Pressures Toward Social and Political Change in the Third World,
1974.
Kay Trimberger, Revolution from Above: Military Bureaucrats in Development in Japan, Turkey, Egypt, and Peru,
1978.
Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1979.
Elizabeth J. Perry, Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945, 1980.
James DeNardo, Power in Numbers, 1985.
Jack A. Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World, 1991.
Cynthia McClintock, Revolutionary Movements in Latin America, 1998.
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14. December 4: REGIMES AND REGIME CHANGE
*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.
* Nancy Bermeo, “Rethinking Regime Change,” Comparative Politics vol. 22, no. 3 (April
1990), pp. 359-77.
* Valerie Bunce, “Subversive Institutions: The End of the Soviet State in Comparative
Perspective,” Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 14, No. 4 (October-December 1998), pp. 323-354.
* David Collier and Steven Levitsky, “Democracy with Adjectives: Conceptual Innovation in
Comparative Research,” World Politics, vol. 49, no. 3 (April 1997), pp. 430-451.
* 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.
*Larry Diamond, “Thinking about Hybrid Regimes,” Journal of Democracy, vol. 13, no. 2 (April
2002), pp. 21-35.
* Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, “The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism,” Journal of
Democracy, vol. 13, no. 2 (April 2002), pp. 51-65.
* Eva Bellin, “The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East,” Comparative Politics,
vol. 36, no. 2 (January 2004), pp. 139-157.
Recommended Readings:
Juan Linz, The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Crisis, Breakdown, & Reequilibration, 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.
Kenneth Jowitt, New World Disorder: The Leninist Extinction, 1992.
Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South
America, and Post-communist Europe, 1996.
Lisa Anderson, ed., Transitions to Democracy, 1999.
Valerie Bunce, Subversive Institutions: The Design and Destruction of Socialism and the State, 1999.
Juan Linz, Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes, 2000.
Eva Bellin, Stalled Democracy: Capital, Labor, and the Paradox of State-Sponsored Development, 2002.
Nancy Bermeo, Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry and the Breakdown of Democracy, 2003.
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