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Political Science, Ph.D.Comparative Politics Reading ListApproved: Spring 20191.METHODSRequired Reading:Robert Adcock and David Collier, “Measurement Validity: A Shared Standard for Qualitative andQuantitative Research,” American Political Science Review 95 (2001), pp. 529–546.Henry E. Brady and David Collier, Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2004).John Elster, Explaining Social Behavior (Cambridge UP, 2007).James Fearon, “Counterfactuals and Hypothesis Testing in Political Science,” World Politics 43:2(January 1991), pp. 169-195.Barbara Geddes, “How the Cases You Choose Affect the Answers You Get: Selection Bias inComparative Politics,” Political Analysis 2 (1990), pp.131-150.Alexander L. George and Andrew Bennett, Case Studies and Theory Development in the SocialSciences (MIT Press, 2005).Donald Green and Ian Shapiro, Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory: A Critique of Applicationsin Political Science (Yale UP, 1994).Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba. Designing Social Inquiry (Princeton UP, 1994).Arend Lijphart, “Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method,” American Political ScienceReview 65 (September, 1971), pp. 682-693.James Mahoney and Dietrich Reuschemeyer, Comparative Historical Analysis in the SocialSciences (Cambridge UP, 2003).Adam Przeworski and Henry Teune, The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry (John Wiley &Sons, 1970).Comparative Politics Reading Listp. 1
Dawn Teele, ed., Field Experiments and their Critics (Yale UP, 2013).Supplementary Reading:James A. Caporaso, “Across the Great Divide: Integrating Comparative and International Politics,”International Studies Quarterly 41:4 (December 1997), pp. 563-592.David Collier and James Mahoney, "Research Note. Insights and Pitfalls: Selection Bias inQualitative Work,” World Politics 49:1 (October 1996), pp. 56-91.William Roberts Clark, Matt Golder, and Sona N. Golder, “The British Academy Brian Barry PrizeEssay: An Exit, Voice and Loyalty Model of Politics,” British Journal of Political Science47, 4 (October 2017), pp. 719–748.Atul Kohli et al, “The Role of Theory in Comparative Politics: A Symposium.” World Politics48 (October 1995), pp. 1-49.John. H. Goldthorpe, “Current Issues in Comparative Macrosociology: A Debate onMethodological Issues,” Comparative Social Research 16 (1997), pp. 1-26.Jack A. Goldstone, “Methodological Issues in Comparative Macrosociology,” ComparativeSocial Research 16 (1997), pp. 107-120.James Mahoney, “Qualitative Methods and Comparative Politics,” Comparative Political Studies40:2 (February 2007), pp. 122-144.Helen V. Milner, “Rationalizing Politics: The Emerging Synthesis of International, American andComparative Politics,” International Organization 52:4 (Autumn 1998), pp. 759-786.Elizabeth L. Paluck, “The Promising Integration of Qualitative Methods and Field Experiments,”The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 628 (February 2010),pp. 59–71.Comparative Politics Reading Listp. 2
2.STATESRequired Reading:Robert Bates, When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa (Cambridge UP, 2008).Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol, Bringing the State Back In (CambridgeUP, 1985).Peter B. Evans, Embedded Autonomy (Princeton UP, 1995).Francis Fukuyana, State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century (Cornell UP,2004).Peter Gourevitch, “The Second Image Reversed: The International Sources of Domestic Politics,”International Organization, Vol. 32 (4) (1978), pp. 881-912Jeffrey Herbst, States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control(Princeton UP, 2000).Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, and Arjan Schaekel. The Rise of Regional Authority: A ComparativeStudy of 42 Democracies (Routledge, 2010).Margaret Levi, Of Rule and Revenue (University of California Press, 1989).Michael Mann, “The Autonomous Power of the State: its Origins, Mechanisms and Results,”European Journal of Sociology, 25: 2 (1984), pp. 185-213.Joel Migdal, Strong Societies and Weak States: State-Society Relations and State Capabilities inthe Third World (Princeton UP, 1988).Mancur Olson, “The Criminal Metaphor,” from Power and Prosperity (Basic Books, 2000), pp. 324.James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human ConditionHave Failed (Yale UP, 1999).James C. Scott., The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia(Yale UP, 2010).Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital and European States: AD 990 - 1992 (Blackwell, 2007).Hendrick Spruyt, The Sovereign State and Its Competitors (Princeton UP, 1994).Max Weber, “Politics As Vocation.”Andreas Wimmer and Nina Glick Schiller, “Methodological Nationalism and Beyond: Nation-StateBuilding, Migration, and the Social Sciences,” Global Networks 2: 4 (2002), pp. 301-334.Comparative Politics Reading Listp. 3
Supplementary Reading:The Oxford Handbook of the Transformation of the State (Oxford UP, 2015).Alexander Afonso, Social Concertation in Times of Austerity (Amsterdam UP, 2013).Miguel Angel Centeno, Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America (Penn StatePress, 2002).Thomas Ertman, Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and EarlyModern Europe (Cambridge UP, 1997).Albert Hirschman, “Exit, Voice, and the State,” World Politics 31:1 (1978), pp. 90-107.Michael Mann, Sources of Social Power (Cambridge UP, 1986).Migdal, Joel S. State in Society: Studying How States and Societies Transform and Constitute OneAnother (Cambridge UP, 2001), Chs. 2 and 3.Douglas North and Robert Paul Thomas, The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History(Cambridge UP, 1976).Gianfranco Poggi, The Development of the Modern State: A Sociological Introduction (StanfordUP, 1978).Alfred Stepan, State and Society: Peru in Comparative Perspective (Princeton UP, 1978).Charles Tilly, The Formation of National States in Western Europe (Princeton UP, 1975).Comparative Politics Reading Listp. 4
3.MODERNIZATION THEORY, DEVELOPMENT, AND DEPENDENCYRequired reading:Robert Dahl, Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition (Yale UP, 1971).Peter Evans, Dependent Development: The Alliance of Multinational, State, and Local Capital inBrazil (Princeton UP, 1979).Alexander Gerschenkron, Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective (Harvard, 1962), pp. 530.Samuel Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies (Yale UP, 1968).Seymour Martin Lipset “Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development andPolitical Legitimacy,” American Political Science Review (1959), pp. 69-105.Adam Przeworski et. al., Democracy and Development : Political Institutions and Material WellBeing in the World, 1950-1990 (Cambridge UP, 2000).Walt W. Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth (3rd Ed) (Cambridge UP, 1990).J. Samuel Valenzuela and Arturo Valenzuela, “Modernization and Dependency: AlternativePerspectives in the Study of Latin American Underdevelopment,” Comparative Politics10:4 (July 1978), pp. 535-552.Supplementary Reading:William Easterly, The Elusive Quest for Growth (MIT Press, 1992).Fernando Henrique Cardozo and Enzo Faletto, Dependency and Development in Latin America(University of California Press, 1979).Alex Inkeles, “The Modernization of Man,” in Myron Weiner, ed., Modernization (1966), pp. 138150.Adam Przeworski and Fernando Limongi, “Modernization: Theories and Facts.” World Politics49:2 (1997): pp. 155-183.Tony Smith, “The Underdevelopment of Development Literature: The Case of DependencyTheory,” World Politics 31 (January 1979), pp. 247-288.Comparative Politics Reading Listp. 5
4.INSTITUTIONSRequired Reading:Peter Hall and Rosemary Taylor, “Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms,” PoliticalStudies 44 (December 1996), pp. 936-958.James G. March and Johan Olsen, Rediscovering Institutions: The Organizational Basis of Politics(Free Press, 1989).Terry M. Moe, “Power and Political Institutions,” Perspectives on Politics 3:2 (June 2005), pp. 215233.Douglass C. North, Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance (Cambridge UP,1990).Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action(Cambridge UP, 1990).Paul Pierson, “Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics,” American PoliticalScience Review 94:2 (2000), pp. 251-267.Kenneth A. Shepsle, "Studying Institutions: Some Lessons from the Rational Choice Approach,"Journal of Theoretical Politics (April 1989), pp. 131-147.Kathleen Thelen, “Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics,” Annual Review of PoliticalScience 2 (1999), pp. 369- 404.Kathlenn Thelen and James Mahoney. 2010. Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency,and Power (Cambridge UP, 2010).George Tsebelis, Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work (Princeton UP, 2002).Supplementary Reading:Robert H. Bates, “Contra Contractarianism: Some Reflections on the New Institutionalism,” Politics& Society 16:2-3 (1988), pp. 387-401.James Mahoney, “Path Dependence in Historical Sociology,” Theory & Society 29:4 (2000), pp.507-548.Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast, “Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution ofInstitutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England,” The Journal ofEconomic History 49:4 (1989): pp. 803–832.Alfred Stepan, Rethinking Military Politics: Brazil and the Southern Cone (Princeton UP, 1988).Barry R. Weingast, “Rational Choice Institutionalism,” in Ira Katznelson and Helen Milner, eds.,Political Science: The State of the Discipline (W.W. Norton, 2002), pp. 660-692.Comparative Politics Reading Listp. 6
5.REVOLUTIONSRequired Reading:Crane Brinton, The Anatomy of Revolution, 3rd ed. (Vintage, 1965).James DeFronzo, Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements, 4th ed. (Westview Press, 2014).John Foran, Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions (Cambridge UP, 2005).Jack A. Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World (University of CaliforniaPress, 1993).Jack A. Goldstone, “Toward a Fourth Generation of Revolutionary Theory,” Annual Review ofPolitical Science 4, pp. 139-187.Jeff Goodwin, No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991 (CambridgeUP, 2001).Stathis N. Kalyvas, The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Cambridge UP, 2006).Joel Migdal, Peasants, Politics and Revolutions: Pressures toward Political and Social Change inthe Third World (Princeton UP, 1974).Barrington Moore, The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (Beacon Press, 1966).Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions (Cambridge UP, 1979).Theda Skocpol, Social Revolutions in the Modern World (Cambridge UP, 1994).Barany Zoltan, How Armies Respond to Revolutions and Why (Princeton UP, 2016).Supplementary Reading:Asef Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring (Stanford UP,2017).John Foran, ed., Theorizing Revolutions (Routledge, 1997).Ted Robert Gurr, Why Men Rebel (Princeton UP, 1971).Nikki Keddie, ed., Debating Revolutions (New York UP, 1995).Michael E. Latham, The Right Kind of Revolution: Modernization, Development, and U.S. ForeignPolicy from the Cold War to the Present (Cornell UP, 2011).Cynthia McClintock, Revolutionary Movements in Latin America: El Salvador’s FMLN and Peru’sShining Path (U.S. Institute of Peace, 1998).Lincoln A. Mitchell, The Color Revolutions (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).Comparative Politics Reading Listp. 7
Eric Selbin, Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance: The Power of Story (Zed Books, 2010).Comparative Politics Reading Listp. 8
6.POLITICAL CULTURERequired Reading:Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba, The Civic Culture (Princeton UP, 1963).David J. Elkins and Richard Simeon, “A Cause in Search of Its Effect, or What Does PoliticalCulture Explain?” Comparative Politics 11 (January 1979), pp. 127-146.Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures (Basic Books, 1973).Ronald Inglehart, Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic and Political Changein 43 Societies (Princeton UP, 1997).Ronald Inglehart, “The Renaissance of Political Culture,” American Political Science Review 82:4(1998), pp. 1203–1230.Robert Putnam, Making Democracy Work (Princeton UP, 1994).Ann Swidler. “Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies,” American Sociological Review 51:2(1986), pp. 273–286.Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.Lisa Wedeen. “Conceptualizing Culture: Possibilities for Political Science," American PoliticalScience Review 96:4 (December 2002), pp. 713-728.Supplementary Reading:Sheri Berman, “Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic,” World Politics 49:3 (April1997), pp. 401-429.Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks (International Publishers, 9th ed. 1987).Karl Marx, “The Eighteenth Brumaire.”Mark Tessler. “Islam and Democracy in the Middle East: The Impact of Religious Orientations onAttitudes Toward Democracy in Four Arab Countries.” Comparative Politics 34 (April2002), pp. 337-354.Comparative Politics Reading Listp. 9
7.DEMOCRATIZATIONRequired Reading:Daron Acemouglu and James A. Robinson, The Economic Origins of Dictatorship andDemocracy (Cambridge UP, 2009).Carles Boix, Democracy and Redistribution (Cambridge UP, 2003).Thomas Carothers, “The End of the Transition Paradigm,” Journal of Democracy 13:1 (2002),pp. 5-21.Larry Diamond, “Elections Without Democracy: Thinking About Hybrid Regimes.” Journal ofDemocracy 13, 2 (2002), pp. 21-35.Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman, The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions(Princeton UP, 1995).Samuel P. Huntington, The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (Universityof Oklahoma, 1991).Guillermo O’Donnell and Philippe C. Schmitter, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: TentativeConclusions and Uncertain Democracies (Johns Hopkins, 1986).Dankwart A. Rustow, “Transitions to Democracy: Toward a Dynamic Model,” ComparativePolitics, 2:3 (1970), pp. 337-363.Supplementary Reading:Ruth B. Collier and David Collier, Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the LaborMovement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America (Princeton UP, 1991).Donald L. Horowitz, “Democracy in Divided Societies,” in Larry Diamond and Marc. F. Planttner,Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Democracy (Johns Hopkins UP, 1993), pp. 35-55.Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation (JohnHopkins UP, 1996).Michael McFaul, “Transitions from Postcommunism,” Journal of Democracy 16: 3 (2005), pp. 519.Guillermo O’Donnell, “Delegative Democracy,” in Larry Diamond and Marc. F. Planttner, TheGlobal Resurgence of Democracy (Johns Hopkins, 1996), pp. 94-108.Richard Youngs, The Puzzle of Non-Western Democracy (Carnegie Endowment for InternationalPeace, 2015).Comparative Politics Reading Listp. 10
8.AUTHORITARIANISMRequired Reading:Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1958).Eva Bellin, “Contingent Democrats: Industrialists, Labor, and Democratization in Late DevelopingCountries,” World Politics 52:1 (January 2000), pp. 175-205.Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith, Randolph M. Siverson, and James D. Morrow. TheLogic of Political Survival (MIT Press, 2003).José Antonio Cheibub, Jennifer Gandhi, and James Raymond Vreeland. “Democracy andDictatorship Revisited.” Public Choice 143: 1–2 (2009), pp. 67–101.David Collier, ed., The New Authoritarianism in Latin America (Princeton UP, 1979).Henry E. Hale, Patronal Politics (Cambridge UP, 2015).Stephen Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman, Dictators and Democrats: Masses, Elites, and RegimeChange (Princeton UP, 2016).Guillermo O’Donnell, “Reflections on the Patterns of Change in the Bureaucratic-AuthoritarianState.” Latin American Research Review 13:1 (1978), pp. 3-38.Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way, Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the ColdWar (Cambridge UP, 2010).Juan J. Linz. Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000 [1978]).Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan, The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes (Johns Hopkins UP, 1978).Mancur Olson, “Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development.” The American Political ScienceReview 87, 3 (1993), pp. 567–576.Daniel Philpott, “Explaining the Political Ambivalence of Religion,” American Political ScienceReview 101, 3 (August 2007), pp. 505–525.Michael Ross. The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations(Princeton UP, 2012).Milan Svolik. The Politics of Authoritarian Rule (Cambridge UP, 2012).Supplementary Reading:Eva Bellin, “The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Exceptionalism in ComparativePerspective,” Comparative Politics 36:2 (2004), pp. 139–157.Carl Friedrich and Zbigniew Brzezinski, Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy (1965).Comparative Politics Reading Listp. 11
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die (Crown, 2018)Comparative Politics Reading Listp. 12
9.AGENCY, COLLECTIVE ACTION, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTSRequired Reading:Henry E. Brady, Kay Lehman Schlozman and Sidney Verba, “Participation is Not a Paradox: TheView From American Activists,” British Journal of Political Science 25 (1995), pp. 1-36.Ted Robert Gurr, Why Men Rebel? (Princeton UP, 1970).Albert Hirschman, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (Harvard UP, 1970).Doug McAdam, Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency,1930-1970(University of Chicago Press, 1982).Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow, and Charles Tilly, Dynamics of Contention (Cambridge UP,2001).Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups (HarvardUP, 1965).Mancur Olson, The Rise and Decline of Nations (Yale UP, 1982).Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action(Cambridge UP, 1990).James C. Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (Yale UP, 1985).Sidney Tarrow, Power in Movement: Social Movements, Collective Action, and Politics(Cambridge UP, 1994).Supplementary Reading:Grzegorz Ekiert and Jan Kubik, “Contentious Politics in New Democracies: East Germany,Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, 1989-93,” World Politics 50 (1998): pp. 547-581.Craig J. Jenkins, “Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements,” AnnualReview of Sociology 9 (1983), pp. 527-553.Doug McAdam, John D. McCarthy and Mayer N. Zald, eds., Comparative Perspectives on SocialMovements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings(Cambridge UP, 1996)Comparative Politics Reading Listp. 13
10.NATIONALISM AND ETHNICITYRequired Reading:Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (revised edition, 1991).Mark Beissinger, Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State (CambridgeUP, 2001).Walker Connor, “Man is a National Animal,” in Walker Connor, ed. Ethnonationalism: The Questfor Understanding (Princeton UP, 1994), pp. 195-209James D. Fearon, and David D. Laitin. “Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War.” American PoliticalScience Review 97:1 (2003), pp. 75-90.James D. Fearon and David Laitin, “Explaining Ethnic Cooperation,” American Political ScienceReview 90:4 (1996), pp. 715-35.Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (Oxford: Blackwell, 1983).Donald Horowitz, Ethnic Groups in Conflict (University of California Press, 2000).Daniel Posner, Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa, (Cambridge UP, 2005).Anthony Smith, The Ethnic Origins of Nations (Basil Blackwell, 1988).Andreas Wimmer, Waves of War: Nationalism, State Formation, and the Ethnic Exclusion in theEarly Modern World (Cambridge UP, 2013).Suggested Source:Dr. Butt’s GOVT 741 syllabus: tudents/Courses/Spring ve Politics Reading Listp. 14
11.STATES AND MARKETSRequired Reading:Robert Bates, Markets and States in Tropical Africa (University of California Press, 1983).Gøsta Esping-Andersen. The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (Princeton UP, 1990).Peter A. Hall and David Soskice, eds., V
Comparative Politics Reading List p. 7 5. REVOLUTIONS Required Reading: Crane Brinton, The Anatomy of Revolution, 3rd ed. (Vintage, 1965). James DeFronzo, Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements, 4th ed. (Westview Press, 2014). John Foran, Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions (Cambridge UP, 2005). Jack A. Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World .
1.1 Definition, Meaning, Nature and Scope of Comparative Politics 1.2 Development of Comparative Politics 1.3 Comparative Politics and Comparative Government 1.4 Summary 1.5 Key-Words 1.6 Review Questions 1.7 Further Readings Objectives After studying this unit students will be able to: Explain the definition of Comparative Politics.
comparative Politics can be defined as the subject that compare the political systems in various parts of the globe, with a view to comprehend and define the nature of politics and to devise a scientific theory of politics. Some popular definitions of comparative politics are given below:
On the other hand, Jean Blondel noted that a primary object of comparative politics is public policy or outcomes of political action. Why we need to study comparative politics? According to Sodaro (2008: 28–29) the main purposes of studying comparative politics are as follows:
Comparative Politics is changing. If you would like to cite this, or any other, issue of the Comparative Politics Newsletter, we suggest using a variant of the following citation: Finkel, Eugene, Adria Lawrence and Andrew Mertha (eds.). 2021. "Transitions." Newsletter of the Organized Section in Comparative Politics of the American .
politics as a case within comparative politics. In this book I share that European perspective, and consider the United States as one of the cases among many we investigate for comparative purposes. There have been many different defi nitions of comparative politics offered by a variety of political science scholars. These can be divided
Paper 5 Introduction to Comparative Government and Politics This is a foundational course in comparative politics. The purpose is to familiarize students with the basic concepts and approaches to the study of comparative politics. More specifically the course will focus on examining politics in a historical framework while engaging with various .
various facets of politics — the Indian Constitution, politics in India, and political theory. Contemporary World Politics enlar ges the scope of politics to the world stage. The new Political Science syllabus has finally given space to world politics. This is a vital development. As India becomes more prominent in international politics and as
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