Maiah’s comments are in red.
[DK’s symbols:]
♪ - read
♫ - read and summarized/outlined
** - want to read in an ideal world
☼ - still outstanding, should read second time through
+ we should read a summary of it (per Diana)
$ very important (per Diana)
? (maybe read? Per Diana)
Read right away:
♫**(S)Mahoney, James and Richard Snyder.
1999. “Rethinking Agency and Structure in the
Study of Regime Change.” Studies in Comparative International Development. Vol. 34,
No. 2 (Summer), pp. 3-32. (DK has, Regimes binder.) [BRILLIANT. SMART. READ
IT RIGHT AWAY. This to me is more of an approaches article.]
Janos’s article or book—a good big picture of huge trends in political science. Not crucial, but
interesting, and it grounds you, I think.
In general, I would recommend that you begin with approaches as your first topic.
General Latin America
Skidmore, Thomas E. and Peter H. Smith. 1997. Modern Latin America. Fourth Edition. New
York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (DK has.) [for country-case details—you need
to show knowledge of 5 countries for the Latin American exam. This knowledge is
obviously also useful for the comparative exam.]
Shaping the Political Arena
Journal of Democracy and/or Current History articles.
II.
Development and Democracy – Reciprocal Relations
$Chaudhry, Kiren. “The Myths of the Market and Common History of Late Developers.” (DK
has, PED binder.)
**Huntington, Samuel. 1968. Political Order in Changing Societies. New Haven: Yale
University Press. (DK has; DK has 1-59 summary and Sally’s book review, Fish binder.)
$**Valenzuela, J. Samuel and Arturo Valenzuela. 1978. (Review essay.) “Modernization and
Dependency: Alternative Perspectives in the Study of Latin American
Underdevelopment.” Comparative Politics. (DK has, PED binder; DK has summary,
PED binder.)
III.
Regimes
Regime as DV
$♫**(S)Collier, Ruth Berins. 1999. Paths Toward Democracy: The Working Class and Elites
in Western Europe and South America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
(DK has) intro/concl
$**Collier and Collier. 1991. Shaping the Political Arena. (DV = evolution of national politics
through later 20th century in 8 Latin American countries.) (intro/concl)
**Luebbert. 1991. Liberalism, Fascism or Social Democracy (intro/concl) [very nice. Note the
crazy parallels between Luebbert and Collier and Collier 1991.]
$♫**Moore, Barrington. 1966. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and
Peasant in the Making of the Modern World. Boston: Beacon Press. (Macrostructural
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approach.) (DK has; DK has summary, Chapters 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, Fish binder.) [rely on
summaries and review articles. The best summaries I found are in:
Mahoney’s 1999, 2000, or 2001 article/chapter on path dependence (I can’t
remember the year of it, but he has a solid summary in one of the articles/chapters I
recommend you read);
Skocpol’s 1973 Politics and Society article.
The Mahoney and Skocpol articles are totally worth reading, and they also
provide clear summaries of Moore—as you’ll see, everyone has a slightly different
interpretation of Moore, but Mahoney and Skocpol’s interpretations are for sure highly
respected for getting it at least somewhat right!
You should also get ahold of Robert Adcock’s take on Moore—he has a very
interesting critique of Skocpol’s interpretation of Moore. I’ll bet Robert would be happy
to send you a summary of his take, or meet with you over lunch. Do you remember his
perspective that he presented last fall in David’s seminar? That’s what I’m talking about.
Katznelson’s chapter on structure and configuration in comparative politics, in
the Lichbach and Zuckerman Comparative Politics (1997). This chapter was assigned in
Fish’s class the year I took PS 200.
♫**Rueschemeyer, Dietrich, Evelyne Huber Stephens and John D. Stephens, Capitalist
Development and Democracy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992) (DK has.)
(intro/concl) [totally dense. I think the intro is sufficient.
Also, in Ruth’s Paths Toward Democracy in the intro, I believe, there is a good, concise
summary and critique of the Rueschemeyer et al.
Finally, Evelyne Huber (previously, Huber Stephens) wrote a short article in the APSACP Summer 2003 newsletter on the role of cross-regional comparison. I’ll bring a copy
for you when I come Friday.]
[The following three books are also very centered on the state—the type of state formation
process a country goes through determines the regime type.]
Tilly [he has a book from the 1970s and from the early 1990s—I think the intro/concl to one of
them is fine.]
Downing 1992
Ertman 1997. [Totally read his introduction. It is a great summary of Tilly, Downing, and
others—this really belongs in the state literature, but it is about state formation explaining
regime type, so it crosses into both categories.]
Breakdown of democracy 1960s, 1970s
**Linz, Juan J. and Alfred Stepan, eds. 1978. The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Latin
America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP. (DK has.) [In addition to the introductory essay
by Linz, which is about 100 pages and super famous, I would totally recommend reading
the Stepan piece on Brazil. It’s a great regime example, AND it is great for approaches.
The Mahoney and Snyder article on structure vs. agency uses the Stepan chapter as an
example of an interesting combination of both structure and agency, and if you read the
chapter, it becomes oh so much clearer.]
Collier, David, ed. 1979. The New Authoritarianism in Latin America. [If nothing else, definitely
read David’s introductory summary of O’Donnell. It is clearer than O’Donnell has ever
been, and it is important to know O’Donnell’s structural argument, at least for the Latin
American exam, but probably also for the Comparative, as it is so famous. If you have
time, the Serra chapter is also very good—it’s a convincing argument for why O’Donnell
was wrong.]
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Stepan’s 1978 book on Peru in comparative perspective.
A rational-choice approach: Cohen, Y. 1994. Radicals, Reformers, and Reactionaries. [about the
breakdown in Brazil and Chile. A good example of bad rat choice, I think. The book is
talked about quite a bit.]
Obviously, look for writings on other regions. There may be a literature out there on the
breakdown of the nascent democracies in Africa in the 1990s—ask Robin Turner, she
knows a ton about Africa. I’d bet there has been interesting work on military intervention
in Pakistan…maybe ask Naaz?
On non-democratic regimes:
Chehabi and Linz. 1998. Sultanistic Regimes.
I think Arendt is the one famous for conceiving of the totalitarian regime.
Linz adds authoritarianism to the democracy-totalitarian dichotomy: 1964. “An Authoritarian
Regime: Spain.” In Allardt and Littunan, eds. Cleavages, Ideologies, and Party Systems.
Extending Linz’s three-part typology: Linz and Stepan 1996. Problems of Democratic Transition
and Consolidation. Definitely worth reading. They have 5 types: democracy,
authoritarianism, totalitarianism, post-totalitarianism, and sultanism. In the Evelyne
Huber article I’ll pass you, she summarizes their argument nicely. But this is a good book
to have under your belt.
Malloy, James M., Ed. 1977. Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Latin America. [I would read
the introduction and the Colliers’ chapter. Maybe the Chalmers’ chapter, too.]
Transition to Democracy/Theories of Democratization/Breakdown of Auth Rule
General: [I would start with the Rustow, then move on to the O’Donnell/Schmitter, and
then move on to the other readings under “general”]
(S)Anderson, Lisa, ed. Transitions to Democracy. New York: Columbia University Press. (DK
has.) (read various chapters)
☼R **Geddes, Barbara. “What do we Know about Democratization after Twenty Years”
APSR, 1999. (DK has, Regimes binder.) [I’m not sure this was in APSR, for some
reason…but it was definitely 1999, and the title’s right.]
☼**Huntington, Samuel P. 1991. The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth
Century. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. (DK has.) (look at briefly) [I didn’t
even crack it, but I think it would have been helpful, from what others have said.]
♫**(S)Mahoney, James and Richard Snyder. 1999. “Rethinking Agency and Structure in the
Study of Regime Change.” Studies in Comparative International Development. Vol. 34,
No. 2 (Summer), pp. 3-32. (DK has, Regimes binder.) [BRILLIANT. SMART. READ
IT RIGHT AWAY. This to me is more of an approaches article.]
$♫**O’Donnell, Guillermo, Philippe C. Schmitter. Transitions from Authoritarian Rule:
Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1986. (DK has; DK has summary, Exam binder.) (get the gist of the
green one)
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$♫**Rustow, Dankwart.
1970. “Transitions to Democracy.” Comparative Politics. Vol. 2, pp.
337-63. (Also in Anderson, 1999, Transitions to Democracy.) (DK has, Fish reader; DK
has summary, Fish binder.)
Lat Am (including counter-cases of non-auth regression and non-transition)
♫**Karl, Terry Lynn. 1990. "Dilemmas of Democratization in Latin America." Comparative
Politics. Vol. 23, No. 1 (October), pp. 1-21. (DK has, Transitions pile.) (or 1991
Schmitter and Karl)
☼**(S)Anderson, Richard D.
2001. “The Discursive Origins of Russian Democratic Politics.”
in Anderson, Richard D. Jr., M. Steven Fish, Stephen E. Hanson, and Philip G. Roeder,
eds. Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University
Press. (DK has; DK has summary, Fish binder.) [this is a cultural argument—I have not
read much cultural stuff, so this was helpful, only because I happened to have already
read it in Fish’s class. I don’t think there was anything phenomenal about it, so if you
have not already read it and/or have plenty of examples of cultural arguments for the
approaches stuff, I wouldn’t really bother with it.]
♫**Bratton, Michael and Nicolas van de Walle. 1997. Democratic Experiments in Africa:
Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. (DK has; DK has summary of Chapters 1-5, Fish binder.) [definitely read at least
the first chapter to get their framework. Also, their concept of “neopatrimonialism], laid
out in the first chapter, is cited quite a bit and worth getting your head around.]
♫**Fukuyama, F.
1990. “Are We at the End of History?” Fortune. (DK has, EE binder) [I
didn’t look at this, but it is mentioned a lot, so it’s probably worth a glance, at least.]
$☼**Munck, Gerardo L. 1997. “Bringing Postcommunist Societies into Democratization
Studies.” Slavic Review. Vol. 56, No. 3 (Fall), pp. 542-51. (DK has, Transitions pile.)
♫**(S)Roeder, Philip G. 2001. “The Rejection of Authoritarianism” in Anderson, Richard D.
Jr., M. Steven Fish, Stephen E. Hanson, and Philip G. Roeder, eds. Postcommunism and
the Theory of Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (DK has; DK has
summary, Fish binder.)
Mode of Transition
☼**Karl, Terry Lynn and Philippe C. Schmitter.
1991. “Modes of Transition in Latin America,
Southern and Eastern Europe.” International Social Science Journal. Vol. 128, pp. 26984. (DK has, Transitions pile.) [a lot of this is lifted straight from Karl’s 1990 article. But
this one brings in Eastern Europe, so it’s worth a glance, I think.]
♫**Munck, Gerardo L. and Carol Skalnik Leff. 1999. “Modes of Transition and
Democratization: South America and Eastern Europe in Comparative Perspective.” In
Anderson, Lisa, ed. Transition to Democracy. New York: Columbia University Press.
Some more applications of the mode of transition framework:
Pereira’s article on judicial reform that we read in Ruth’s seminar.
Kitschelt et al. 1999. ch. 1 to Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and
Inter-Party Cooperation.
Aguero, Felipe. 1995. book mostly on Spain, but also on Greece, Portugal, and South America.
[comparative approach to transitions to democracy and future regime type. Ends up
saying that not just the mode matters—a smart book, worth looking at the first chapter(s)
at least, to get the framework]
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In her Paths Toward Democracy intro and/or conclusion, Ruth criticizes the argument that the
mode of transition determines the future regime type.
Revolutions
$**Skocpol, Theda. 1979. States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France,
Russia and China. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press. (DK has; DK
has summary, Fish binder.) [for awesome summaries, see the two forthcoming articles by
Mahoney and Geertz.]
Wickham-Crowley, Timothy. 1991. “A Qualitative Comparative Approach to Latin American
Revolutions.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology. Vol. XXXII, No. 1-2.
(DK has, Sally Box #4.) [for methods: an application of Boolean Algebra. Also,
obviously a great revolutions piece, if you want to go there.]
Democracy/Democracy Theory/Democratic Theory
General
♫**Alvarez, Michael, José Antonio Cheibub, Fernando Limongi and Adam Przeworski. 1996.
“Classifying Political Regimes.” Studies in Comparative International Development,
Vol. 31, No. 2 (Summer), 3-36. (Large-N study of democracy.) (DK has, Democracy
pile.) (don’t read their book)
$♫ **Collier, David and Steven Levitsky. 1997. “Democracy with Adjectives: Conceptual
Innovation in Comparative Research.” World Politics, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 430-51. (DK
has two versions, Regimes binder.) (methods)
£**Dahl, Robert. 1971. Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition. New Haven: Yale UP. (get def
of polyarchy)
♫ **Elkins, Zachary. “Gradations of Democracy? Empirical Tests of Alternative
Conceptualizations.” American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 44, No. 2 (April), pp.
287-94. (DK has, Regimes binder.) (methods)
♫**Mazzuca, Sebastián. 2000. “Evolving Conceptions of Democracy: Access to Power
versus Exercise of Power.” Department of Political Science, University of California,
Berkeley. (DK has, Regimes binder.) (get from Sebas) [great for when you study both
the state and democratic consolidation. I would read this before you start either of those
topics.]
Munck, Gerardo and Jay Verkuilen. 2002. “Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy:
Evaluating Alternative Indices” and “Generating Better Data: A Response to
Discussants.” SCID. Vol. 36, No. 1, 37-65. [methods]
$R**O’Donnell, Guillermo. 1993. “On the State, Democratization, and Some Conceptual
Problems: A Latin American View with Glances at Some Postcommunist Countries.”
World Development. Vol. 21, No. 8, 1355-69. (DK has, Regimes binder.)
Lat Am
Consolidation of “Democracy”? What types of Regimes? Backsliding?
Governance vs. Consolidation? Alternate Frameworks?
General
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$♫**(S)Carothers, Thomas.
2002. “The End of the Transitions Paradigm.” Journal of
Democracy, Vol. 13, No. 1. (DK has, Consolidation pile; DK has summary, Diss
notebook.)
Latin America
♫**Agüero, Felipe and Jeffrey Stark, eds. 1998. Fault Lines of Democracy in Post-Transition
Latin America. North South Center Press of the University of Miami, distributed by
Lynne Rienner Publishers. (DK has, DK has summary, Diss binder.) [read the chapter by
Hagopian.]
$☼**Ellner, Steve. 2001. (Review.) “Latin American Democracy in ‘Post-Consolidation’
Literature: Optimism and Pessimism.” Latin American Politics and Society. Vol. 43,
No. 1 (Spring), 127-142. (DK has, Consolidation pile.)
Mainwaring, Scott, Guillermo O’Donnell and J. Samuel Valenzuela, eds. 1992. Issues in
Democratic Consolidation: The New South American Democracies in Comparative
Perspective. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. (DK has.) [Przeworski’s
chapter is worth looking over. It’s a game-theory application to transitions to
democracy—the same that is in his intro to his 1991-2 book. I also thought O’Donnell’s
chapter was pretty smart, at one point. And the Valenzuela chapter is okay, too.]
Other Regions (Eastern Europe – What type of regimes and What explains variation?)
♫**Jowitt, Ken. 1992. “The Leninist Legacy.” In Ivo Banac, ed. Eastern Europe in
Revolution. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, pp. 207-24. (DK has, Fish reader; DK
has summary, Fish binder.) [a cultural approach to transition in E. Europe.]
Parties
[I would start parties by reading some of the Sartori, the Lipset and Rokkan, and the Bertolini and
Mair. Then I would go on to Maire’s 1990 edited volume.]
General
Bartolini and Mair. 1990. “Cleavage Systems.” (from Ruth’s seminar—on Europe, really)
Read Mair, ed. 1990. The Western European Party System. It is a compilation of a bunch of
excerpts. You get the main writers in the party literature (until 1990), without having to
read their entire schtick. It’s the best thing to do to get a handle on parties in Europe.
Katz, Richard S. and Peter Mair. 1995. “Changing Models of Party Organization and Party
Democracy: The Emergence of the Cartel Party.” Party Politics, Vol. 1, No. 1
(January), pp. 5-28. (DK has, Parties binder.)
Read Kitschelt on parties, too. He has a rather complex but smart argument about the rise of a
new left (i.e., the left libertarians) in W. Europe. I read a couple sources where he lays it
out. I think the one that was easier to grasp was in the big purple book that he and
someone else edited. It was published in 1999. In general, Kitschelt is very smart. He’s a
political economy type, highly respected, and worth reading.]
Kitschelt, Herbert. 1994. The Transformation of European Socialist Democracy. Cambridge,
NY: Cambridge U. Press. (short article DK read for Zysman—ask her)
Mair, Peter. 2000. “Political Parties, the Left and Democracy: What Sort of Future?” (DK has,
Ruth 210 binder; DK has summary, Ruth 210 binder.)
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Sartori, Giovanni. 1976. Parties and Party Systems: A Framework for Analysis. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. (DK has Chapters 1-3, 5, 6; DK has summary Chapters 1-3,
Fish binder.)
Also read Lipset and Rokkan 1966/67 (it was first published as an article in 1966, then as an intro
to their book, I believe.)
Lat Am
[A lot of this we read in Ruth’s seminar. For the Latin America exam, definitely review those
articles.]
Cameron, M. 1994. [book on Peru, explaining the collapse of the party system, pretty much. Also
a good example of mixed methods: it’s a case study, but he uses game theory and
statistics, too.]
Gibson, Edward. 1992. “Conservative Electoral Movements and Democratic Politics: Core
Constituencies, Coalition Building, and the Latin American Electoral Right.” In Douglas
Chalmers, et al. The Right and Democracy in Latin America. (DK has, Ruth 210 binder;
DK has summary, Ruth 210 binder.)
(case) Levitsky, Steven. 1998. “Crisis, Party Adaptation and Regime Stability in Argentina: The
Case of Peronism, 1989-1995.” Party Politics 4: 445-70.
(case)Levitsky, Steven. 1999. “Fujimori and Post-Party Politics in Peru.” Journal of
Democracy, Volume 10, Issue 3. (DK has, Parties LA folder.)
(case) Levitsky and Cameron. 2002/3. on post-party politics in Peru. Interesting.
(case) McCoy, Jennifer. 1999. “Chávez and the End of Partyarchy in Venezuela.” Journal of
Democracy. Vol. 10, No. 3. (DK has, Parties LA folder.)
(case) Mainwaring and Scully. 2003. an article in a European journal on cleavages in Chile.
Interesting.
I would also recommend revisiting the Roberts forthcoming chapter we read on Venezuela and
Chavez for Ruth’s class last fall—it’s on new ideological cleavages and populism. Hot.
Awesome, clear, short article I came across comparing Fujimori and Chavez as two different
types of populism: Ellner in J. of Lat Am Studies, 2004.
LBPs/LA LBPs
(case) Burgess, Katrina. 1999. “Loyalty dilemmas and market reform; party-union alliances
under stress in Mexico, Spain, and Venezuela.” World Politics, 52, no. 1, pp. 105-134.
(DK has, Parties LA folder.)
IV.
COMPARATIVE POLITICAL ECONOMY
Approaches
Classics
Polanyi, The Great Transformation (CC has)
Modernization/Dependency
Valenzuela, “Modernization and Dependency,” Comparative Politics, July 1978.
Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies, Yale, 1968.
Chaudhry, “The Myths of the Market and the Common History of Late Developers,” Politics and
Society, September, 1993.
Varieties of Capitalism
Hall and Soskice, Varieties of Capitalism, Oxford, 2001. (if Ziegler or any of MIT crowd is on
committee)
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Economic Institutionalism—ask Mauricio
Bates, Markets and States in Tropical Africa (CC has) [I would read a summary of this. Chris
Cardona wrote an awesome one, which is in Diana’s exam binder. I can’t remember
where it is—could be in the state, political economy, or approaches. I think it is in
approaches, under rat choice.]
Empirical Aspects
Haggard, Stephan. 1990. Pathways from the Periphery: The Politics of Growth in the Newly
Industrializing Countries. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (DK has.)
Haggard, Stephan and Robert Kaufman. 1995. The Political Economy of Democratic
Transitions. Princeton: Princeton University Press. [e-mail Mauricio about how best to
get their argument. There is a Haggard and Kaufman chapter in Lisa Anderson’s 1999
edited volume. I think Mauricio told me that that chapter was a good summary of their
book argument. But I think he also might have sent me to a different source, perhaps an
article by the two of them before the book came out. In any case, Mauricio really knows
the book’s argument, and can tell you where to go to get it. The intro to the book may or
may not be enough. I think I read both the intro and the chapter in the Anderson volume,
but I can’t remember. In any case, the book is super famous, and it’s worth it to get the
gist of their main argument.]
Katzenstein, Peter. Small States in World Markets. (DK has.) (get general idea)
Marshall, T. H. 1963. Class, Citizenship and Social Development. Doubleday. (DK has
Chapter 4, “Citizenship and Social Class” (1949), PolSocio binder; DK has summary,
Chapter 4, PolSocio binder. (get the order of rights)
de Soto, Hernando. 1989. The Other Path. New York: Harper and Row. [interesting, b/c it is
about transaction costs keeping people in the informal economy in Peru. Also, about the
state and bureaucracy. Just get the general idea, maybe.] HD2346.P4 56713 1989 (DK
has summary, Exam binder.) (get very general idea)
Labor/Labor Relations/Unions/ADD A FEW CLASS THINGS.
Lat Am
Collins, Ruth Berins and David Collier. 1991. Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures,
the Labor Movement and Regime Dynamics in Latin America. Princeton: Princeton
University Press. (Critical Juncture framework) (DK has.)
Murillo, María Victoria. 2000. “From populism to neoliberalism: labor unions and market
reforms in Latin America.” World Politics 52(2): 135-176. (DK has, Labor LA folder.)
Roberts, Kenneth M. 1998. “Labor and capital in Latin America's changing social landscape.”
Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs v. 40, n. 2, p.101 (16 pages),
Summer, 1998
Social programs/policy—just go from R. Collier’s fall 2002 syllabus
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East Asian Boom and Crisis—how to think about it, and in relation to Latin
America
Evans, Peter. 1987 (?). “Class, state, and dependence in East Asia: lessons for Latin
Americanists.” In Frederic Deyo’s edited volume.
Wade, Robert. 1990. “Industrial Policy in East Asia: Does it Lead or Follow the
Market?” In Geraffi and Wyman, eds.
Haggard, Stephan, and Tun-jen Cheng. 1987 (?). “State and foreign capital in the East
Asian NICs.” In Deyo’s edited volume.
Wade, Robert. 1998. “From ‘miracle’ to ‘cronyism’: explaining the Great Asian Slump.”
Cambridge Journal of Economics.
Neoliberal reform/economic model
[definitely go to Tasha for suggestions on neoliberalism, too.]
[see Ruth’s syllabus.]
Etchemende’s article that we read for Ruth’s class.
Stokes, Susan Carol. 2001. Mandates and democracy : neoliberalism by surprise in Latin
America. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press. Get general argument
[in addition to being about political economy, also a good example of mixed methods:
combines process tracing with large-n stuff. It’s a “nested” research design: she looks at a
trend that many countries follow, then picks three cases (Venezuela, Peru, and Argentina,
I think) and traces out the events there.]
Weyland, Kurth. 2002. [book on neoliberalism. Very interesting.]
Democracy/development link (regime-type/economic performance link)
Rueschemeyer, Dietrich, Evelyne Huber Stephens, and John D. Stephens. 1992. Capitalist
Development and Democracy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Stephen Haggard and Robert Kaufman, The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995).
Kurt Weyland, "Neoliberal Populism in Latin America and Eastern Europe. Comparative Politics
31, no. 4 (July 1999), pp. 379-401.
III.
THE STATE
Issues
State-Building
Downing. 1992.
Ertman. 1997. Birth of the Leviathan.
Herbst, Jeffrey. 2000. States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and
Control. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (DK has; DK has summary, Fish
binder; DK has Robinson Review Essay, Fish binder.) (also recommended by Chris)
Evans, Embedded Autonomy (CC has) (also recommended by Chris)
O’Donnell, Guillermo. “On the State, Democratization and Some Conceptual Problems: A Latin
American View with Glances at Some Postcommunist Countries.” World Development,
Vol. 21, No. 8 (August), 1355-1369. (DK has.) (also recommended by Chris)
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Tilly, Charles, ed. 1975. The Formation of national States in Western Europe. Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press. (DK has Chapters 1, 8 and 9, Sally Box #2.) (read
something to get Tilly’s argument)
Tilly, Charles. 1992. Coercion, Capital and European States, AD 990-1992. Blackwell. (DK
has.)
Approaches—Overviews
Evans, Peter. 1989. “Predatory, Developmental, and Other Apparatuses: A Comparative
Political Economy Perspective on the Third World State. Sociological Forum, Vol. 4,
No. 4. (DK has, Sally Box #1, NICs folder.) (also recommended by Chris)
Krasner, Stephen D. 1984. (Review Article.) “Approaches to the State: Alternative
Conceptions and Historical Dynamics.” Comparative Politics. (DK has, Sally Box #2.)
(also recommended by Chris)
Stepan, Alfred. 2001. “Liberal-Pluralist, Classic Marxist, and “Organic Statist” Approaches to
the State.” In Stepan, Alfred. Arguing Comparative Politics. Oxford: OUP. (DK has;
DK has summary, Fish binder.) (also recommended by Chris)
19th century classics
Weber, Economy and Society, Vol. 1, pp. 53-56 (CC has)
Hintze
Pluralism
Dahl, Who Governs? [read a review article]
Structural-Functionalism
David Easton [read something of his on his systems theory.]
Skocpol/BSBI
Evans, Peter B., Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Theda Skocpol. 1985. Bringing the State Back In.
Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press. (DK has Chapter 1, PolSocio
binder.) (also recommended by Chris)
Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions
Sewell critique and Skocpol reply, included in her Social Revolutions in the Modern World,
Cambridge, 1994 (also recommended by Chris)
Krasner, Stephen, Defending the National Interest, 1978 [just read a review article, I think.]
Stepan, Alfred, State and Society: Peru in Comparative Perspective [AWESOME. Here is where
he first sets up his organic statist concept. His first few chapters compare many Latin
American countries and sets up a great comparative framework. I would put this book in
states, but also in regimes, as it is all about explaining democratic breakdown, the type of
military authoritarian regime that takes power, and whether it is successful in
consolidating (though the last point is not a huge focus). I just read it and totally wish I
had read it for the exam. In general, Stepan is a very smart, clear writer. Totally worth
your time.]
Nordlinger, Eric, On the Autonomy of the Democratic State, 1981 [a review article should
suffice.]
Katzenstein, Peter, Between Power and Plenty [a review article might be enough.]
Institutionalist critiques
Almond, Gabriel, APSR 1988 [AWESOME.]
Immergut, Ellen, “The Theoretical Core of the New Institutionalism,” Politics and Society 26(1):
5-34.
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Migdal, Joel S. 1988. Strong Societies and Weak States: State-Society Relations and State
Capacities in the Third World. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (also
recommended by Chris)
Levy, Jonah, Tocqueville’s Revenge,pp. 1-56, 234-292 (CC has) [if Jonah’s on the committee,
you might read his intro. Or, better yet, talk to Toby Schulze-Clevend, who knows the
argument backward and forward. He explained it to me, so I didn’t bother with the book.
He gave me a clear, 3-sentence summary. That was it!]
Alternative conceptualizations
Geertz, Negara( Hildred?): The Theater State in 19th-Century Bali [Everyone seems to talk about
this. You might read the intro, or a review of the book. It’s not only a state book, but also
an example of a cultural argument.]
Mitchell, Timothy, “The Limits of the State: Beyond Statist Approaches and Their Critics,” APSR
85(1), 1991. (also recommended by Chris)
Regions
LatAm
Mazzuca, Sebas. “Southern Cone Leviathans: State Formation in Argentina and Brazil.” (Plus
his SSRC proposal.) (also recommended by Chris)
Centeno. 2001/2. Blood and Debt. [it’s about state building in Latin America.]
López-Alvez, Fernando. 2000. [on state formation in Latin America]
Geddes, Barbara. 1994. Politician's Dilemma: Building State Capacity in Latin America.
Berkeley : University of California Press. [get the main argument. The book—from her
Berkeley dissertation—is about Brazil, but in the conclusion she looks at 2-4 other
countries.]
Holdings: Main Stack JL958; .G44 1994
DK Suggestions to various categories within The State—pull some Africa pieces
Herbst, Jeffrey. 2000. States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and
Control. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (DK has; DK has summary, Fish
binder; DK has Robinson Review Essay, Fish binder.)
Migdal, Joel S. 1988. Strong Societies and Weak States: State-Society Relations and State
Capacities in the Third World. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (DK has some
summary notes, Exam binder.)
Stepan, Alfred. 2001. “Liberal-Pluralist, Classic Marxist, and “Organic Statist” Approaches to
the State.” In Stepan, Alfred. Arguing Comparative Politics. Oxford: OUP. (DK has;
DK has summary, Fish binder.) [also: a chapter in Stepan’s 1978 book on Peru in
Comparative Perspective.]
Tilly, Charles, ed. 1975. The Formation of national States in Western Europe. Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press. (DK has Chapters 1, PED binder and Chapters 8 and 9, Sally
Box #2; DK has summary of Chapter 1, PED binder.) (read one of the 2 Tillys)
Tilly, Charles. 1992. Coercion, Capital and European States, AD 990-1992. Blackwell. (DK
has; DK has summary notes, Exam binder.)
I.
Social Organization and State-Society Relations (DK)
Representation
General
Schmitter, Philippe C. 1992. “Interest Systems and the Consolidation of Democracies.”
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In Reexamining Democracy: Essays in Honor of Seymour Martin Lipset, ed. Gary Marks
and Larry Diamond. London: Sage Publications. (DK has, Ruth 210 binder and Regimes
binder; DK has summary, Ruth 210 binder.) (Ruth loves the article)
Lat Am
$Hagopian, Francis. 1998. “Democracy and Political Representation in Latin Amercia in the
1990s: Pause, Reorganization or Decline?” in Felipe Aguero and Jeffrey Stark, eds.
Fault Lines of Democracy in Post-Transition Latin America. Coral Gables, FL : NorthSouth Center Press/University of Miami. (DK has; DK has summary, Diss binder.)
(great)
$NSF Proposal. (DK can send) [this is Ruth’s NSF proposal for the CIRELA project. Definitely
check it out.]
Civil society
General—
Carothers, Thomas. 1999. “The Concept of Civil Society is a Recent Invention.” Foreign Policy
117. (DK has, Ruth 210 binder.) [I think this is what we read for Ruth’s seminar in fall
2002. That’s the one I mean—the article by Carothers on civil society.]
II.
Theoretical Approaches/Major Paradigms (CC)—ask Chris about these
General overviews/comparisons/debates/theory building/accumulation of knowledge
APSA-CP. Articles from 1996-1999. [Read the articles that David wrote while he was President
of the Section.]
Eckstein, Harry. 1975. “Case Study and Theory in Political Science.” Handbook of
Political Science.
Lichbach, Mark Irving and Alan S. Zuckerman, eds. 1997. Comparative Politics: Rationality,
Culture, and Structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (DK has; see also
preview in LandZ intro in APSA-CP, Winter 1997, Approaches folder.)
Lichbach and Zuckerman. “Research Traditions and Theory in Comparative
Politics: An Introduction.”
Margaret Levi’s chapter
Ross’s chapter
Katznelson’s chapter
It may be worth it to read the whole book, actually.
Lichbach. “Social Theory and Comparative Politics
Zuckerman. “Reformulating Explanatory Standards and Advancing Theory in
Comparative Politics.”
Rat Choice
Bates, Robert H. 1997. “Comparative Politics and Rational Choice: A Review Essay.” The
American Political Science Review.” Vol. 91, Issue 3, 699-704. (DK has, Approaches
folder.)
Geddes, Barbara. 1995. “Uses and Limitations of Rational Choice. In Peter Smith, ed., Latin
America in Comparative Perspective: New Approaches to Analysis and Methods,
Westview Press. (DK has, in Approaches folder.)
Levi, Margaret. 1997. “A Model, a Method, a Map: Rational Choice in Comparative and
Historical Analysis.” In Lichbach, Mark Irving and Alan S. Zuckerman, eds.
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Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. (DK has; DK has summary, Fish binder.)
Bates, de Figueiredo, Wingast. 1998. “The Politics of Interpretation: Rationality, Culture,
and Transition.” Politics and Society.
* Tsebelis, George. 1990. Chs. 1-2 in his Nested Games: Rational Choice in Comparative
Politics. Berkeley: UC Press, pp. 1-51.
Hall and Taylor. 1996. “Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms.”
Huber, Evelyne, and Michelle Dion. 2002. “Revolution or Contribution? Rational Choice
Approaches in the Study of Latin American Politics.” LA Politics and Society.
Mahoney, James. 2000. (Review Article.) “Rational Choice Theory and the Comparative
Method: An Emerging Synthesis?” SCID, Vol. 35, Issue 2. (DK has, Approaches
folder.)
Munck, Gerardo L. 2001. “Game Theory and Comparative Politics: New Perspectives
and Old Concerns.” World Politics.
Political Culture/Sociological
Ross, Marc Howard. 1997. “Culture and Identity in Comparative Political Analysis.” In
Lichbach, Mark Irving and Alan S. Zuckerman, eds. Comparative Politics: Rationality,
Culture, and Structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Macropolitical/Macrostructural
Katznelson, Ira. 1997. “Structure and Configuration in Comparative Politics.” In Lichbach,
Mark Irving and Alan S. Zuckerman, eds. Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture,
and Structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (DK has, DK has summary,
Fish binder.)
The Institutionalisms
$Hall, Peter and Rosemary C. R. Taylor. “Political Science and the Three New
Institutionalisms.” Political Studies, Vol. 44, No. 5, pp. 936-57. (DK has, PolSocio
binder.)
Immergut, Ellen. 1998. “The Theoretical Core of the New Institutionalism.” Politics and
Society. (DK has, PED binder; DK has summary, PED binder.)
III.
Methodology (DK)
Comparative Method(s) [there is definitely overlap between methods and approaches,
especially in the Mahoney and Rueschemeyer volume cited below.]
Research Design, Case Studies, Game Theory/Modeling/Agent-centered approaches,
Comparative Historical Analysis, Critical juncture/path dependence approach
♫**Almond, Gabriel A. and Stephen Genco. 1990. “Clouds, Clocks, and the Study of Politics,”
in Gabriel A. Almond, A Discipline Divided: Schools and Sects in Political Science.
Newbury Park, CA: Sage, p. 32-65. (DK has, Fish reader; DK has summary, Exam
binder.)
**Boas, Taylor. Path Dependency Paper. (DK has, Methods II folder.)
♫**Brady, Henry and David Collier. Forthcoming. Rethinking Social Inquiry. (DK has most
chapters.) (maybe ch. 1 and ch. 12)
♫**Collier, David. 1998 and 1999. Letters from the President: “Comparative Method in the
1990s,” “Comparative-Historical Analysis: Where Do We Stand?” “Data, Field Work
and Extracting New Ideas at Close Range,” “Building a Disciplined, Rigorous Center in
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Comparative Politics.” Newsletter of the APSA Organized Section in Comparative
Politics. Vol. 9 and 10, No. 1 and 2 (DK has, Methods II folder; DK has summary,
Exam binder.) (DK did not check this one, but said we need to keep in mind the
phrase “disciplined, rigorous center.”)
☼♫**Lijphart, Arend. 1971. “Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method.” APSR. Vol.
65, pp. 682-693.
♫**Mahoney, James. 2000. “Path Dependence in Historical Sociology.” Theory and Society.
Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 507-48.
Definitely also read Mahoney’s article that summarizes his book on Central America: 2001.
“Path-Dependent Explanations of Regime Change: central America in Comparative
Perspective.” SCID.
[in both of the following articles there are awesome summaries of Skocpol’s States and
Social Revolutions]
James Mahoney and Gary Goertz, “The Possibility Principle: Choosing Negative Cases
in Qualitative Research.” American Political Science Review, forthcoming.
[Tasha has this]
Gary Goertz and James Mahoney, “Two-Level Theories and Fuzzy-Set Analysis.”
Sociological Methods and Research, forthcoming. [Tasha has this]
Mahoney, James and Dietrick Rueschemeyer, eds. Forthcoming. Comparative-Historical
Analysis in the Social Sciences. Cambridge University Press. (DK has all chapters
below, Methods III – Mahoney and Rueschemeyer folder.) (ask Maiah or Mauricio
about useful chapters)
Thelen’s chapter, which is actually on path dependence.
I think it is Pierson’s chapter: the Big, Slow-Moving one. Read it.
James Mahoney, “Knowledge Accumulation in Comparative Historical
Analysis: The Case of Democracy and Authoritarianism,”
☼♫**Pierson, Paul. 2000. “Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics.”
American Political Science Review. Vol. 94, Issue 2. (DK has, Methods II folder.)
♫**Skocpol, Theda and Margaret Somers. 1980. “The Uses of Comparative History in
Macrosocial Inquiry. Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp.
174-97. (DK has, Fish reader; DK has summary, Fish binder.)
Challenges/Issues
(Concept Formation and Conceptual Stretching, Case Selection and Selection Bias, Process
tracing, Multiple conjunctural causation, Measurement, Validity, Causal Assessment,
Explanation, Testing, Cross-Regional Comparisons.)
On single case studies
Gerring, John. 2004. “What is a Case Study and What is it Good For?” APSR. [This one just came
out, but I read a draft of it for the exam, and it was useful. He’s smart.]
Debates
(Structure vs. Agency, Case Studies vs. Small N vs. Large N, Inductive vs. Deductive Logic -theory-driven research vs. inductive learning from individual case studies, problem-driven
research vs. method-driven research, Mill’s Methods, Qualitative vs. Quantitative methods)
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Studying Lat Am
Cumulative contribution of LAS to CHA, and vice versa; strengths/weaknesses of LAS and area
studies in general vs. comparative politics, obsolescence of area studies obsolete on
theoretical/methodological grounds and theoretical/methodological defense
APSA-CP, Newsletter of the Comparative Politics Section of the APSA. Selected articles from
1996 to 1999 on the role of theory and area studies in Comparative Politics.
♪**Bates, Robert H. 1996. "Area Studies and the Discipline." APSA-CP: Newsletter of the
APSA Organized Section in Comparative Politics 7:1 (Winter). (DK has whole
newsletter, Methods II folder.)
♪**Smith, Peter H., ed. 1995. Latin America in Comparative Perspective: New Approaches to
Methods and Analysis. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. (DK has) [very worth your time.]
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