Reading List for Political Economy of Developing Countries
Aug, 2009
1. Atul Kohli, State-Directed Development (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002),
pp. 1-25, 84-117, 367-426.
2. Alexander Gerschenkron, Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective (Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1962), pp. 5-30.
3. Douglass C. North, "Institutions and Economic Growth: An Historical Introduction," World Development,
Vol. 17, No. 9 (1989), pp. 1319-1332.
4. Peter Gourevitch, "The Second Image Reversed," International Organization, Vol. 32,
No.4 (1978), pp. 881-912.
5. Robert Wade, Governing the Market (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990), pp.
8-112.
6. James Scott, Seeing Like a State (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998) pp.193-222.
7. Robert Barro, Determinants of Economic Growth (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997).
8. Adam Przeworski, Democracy and the Market (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press,1991).
9. Nick Van De Walle, African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis (New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 64-112.
10. Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 1-47, 153-320.
11. Peter Evans, Embedded Autonomy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 195), pp. 3-73.
12. Nita Rudra 2008. Globalization and the Race to the Bottom in Developing Countries: Who
Really Gets Hurt? Cambridge University Press
13. Vreeland, James Raymond. 2003. The IMF and Economic Development. New York:
Cambridge University Press
14. Helen V. Milner and Keiko Kubota, “Why the Move to Free Trade? Democracy and Trade
Policy in the Developing Countries,” International Organization 59 (Winter 2005), 157-193.
15. Wibbels, Erik. 2006. “Dependency Revisited: International Markets, Business Cycles, and
Social Spending in the Developing World.” International Organization 60 (2): 433-468
16. Barbara Geddes. “The Great Transformation in the Study of Politics in Developing
Countries,” in Ira Katznelson and Helen Milner, eds., Political Science: The State of the
Discipline, Norton and APSA, 2002.
17. Daniel Treisman 2007 “What Have We Learned About the Causes of Corruption from Ten
Years of Cross-National Empirical Research?” Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 10:
211-244