641 RESEARCH SEMINAR IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS: DEMOCRATIZATION PROFESSOR WOODS FALL 2013

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1 641 RESEARCH SEMINAR IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS: DEMOCRATIZATION PROFESSOR WOODS FALL 2013 THIS RESEARCH SEMINAR HAS TWO OBJECTIVES. FIRST, IT IS TO SURVEY SOME OF THE VAST LITRATURE ON DEMOCRATIZATION AND DEMOCRATIC REGIMES -- WITH THE GOAL OF OBTAINING A GOOD GRASP OF THE THEORETICAL, CONCEPTUAL AND EMPIRICAL DIMENSIONS OF THE LITERATURE. SECOND, IT IS TO PROVIDE THE FRAMEWORK FOR THOSE IN THE SEMINAR TO UNDERTAKE A SIGNIFICANT RESEARCH PROJECT. THIS IS A RESEARCH SEMINAR. THUS, STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO EMBARK ON A RESEARCH PROJECT. EACH STUDENT IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE BY THE END OF THE SEMESTER A POTENTIALLY PUBLISHABLE PAPER. YOUR PAPER SHOULD BE WRITTEN ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT IT WILL BE PUBLISHED IN THE JOUNRAL DEMOCRATIZATION. THEREFORE, YOU NEED TO FAMIALIZE YOURSELF WITH THAT JOURNAL AND ADOPT ITS STYLE IN YOUR FINAL PAPER. THE SEMINAR IS ORGANIZED INTO THREE SECTIONS. IN THE FIRST SECTION, WE WILL SURVEY THE LITERATURE. SINCE THE LITERATURE IS VOLUMINOUS WE WILL NOT ATTEMPT TO READ EVERYTHING BUT FOCUS ON SOME KEY THEMATICS AND SEMINAL WORKS. ASSESSMENT BASIS OF SECTION 1. THERE WILL BE A TAKE HOME EXAM. IT WILL BE A MID-TERM EXAM THAT COVERS THE LITERATURE WE HAVE EXPLORED IN THE FIRST SECTION. IN THE SECOND SECTION, WE WILL REVIEW THE LITEATURE IN THE CONTEXT OF YOUR RESEARCH PROJECT. THIS SECTION IS MEANT AS A KIND OF LESSONS LEARNED AND WHAT I M I CONTRIBUTING TO THE LITERATURE TYPE OF REFLECTION. ASSESSMENT BASIS OF SECTION 2. EVALUATION OF RESEARCH DESIGN AND PRESENTATION OF HOW THE YOUR RESEARCH PROJECT FITS INTO THE DEMOCRATIZATION LITERATURE. IN THE FINAL SECTION, STUDENTS WILL WORK ON THE DRAFTING OF

2 THEIR RESEARCH PAPER. A RESEARCH DESIGN DRAFT OF THE PAPER WILL BE EXPECTED TOWARDS THE END OF THIS SECTION. ASSEMENT BASIS OF SECTION 3. STUDENTS WILL GIVE ME A DRAFT OF THEIR PAPER. I WILL PROVIDE QUICK FEEDBACK AND SUGGESTIONS ON THE DRAFT, WITH THE EXPECTATION THAT MY COMMENTS WILL HELP STUDENTS IMPROVE THE DRAFT AS THEY MOVE TOWARDS ITS FINAL VERSION. AT THE END OF THE SEMESTER, A FINAL RESEARCH PAPER MUST BE SUBMITTED. GRADING: 20 PERCENT PARTICIPATION/PRESENTATION. 25 PERCENT MID- TERM EXAM. 10 PERCENT RESEARCH DRAFT PROPOSAL AND 45 PERCENT FINAL RESEARCH PAPER. There are no required books for this course but I recommend the following three: Michael Coppedge (2012) Democratization and Research Methods. Cambridge University Press. Pippa Norris (2012) Making Democratic Governance Work: How Regimes Shape Prosperity, Welfare, and Peace. Cambridge University Press. Jan Teorell (2010) Determinants of Democratization: Explaining Regime Change in the World, August 22 nd - Modernization Lipset S.M. (1959) Some social requisites of democracy: Economic development and political legitimacy. The American political science review, 53(1), August 29 th Modernization Revisited Arat, Zehar F. (1988) Democracy and Economic Development: Modernization Theory Revisited, Comparative Politics 21, Limongi, F. & Przeworski, A. (1997) Modernization: Theories and facts. World politics, 49(2), Boix, Carles and Susan C. Stokes (2003) Endogenous Democratization, World Politics 55: Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S., Robinson, J. A., & Yared, P. (2009) Reevaluating the modernization hypothesis. Journal of Monetary Economics, 56(8),

3 Grundlach, Erich. and M Paldam. (2010) The agricultural, demographic and democratic transitions: Two estimation models giving reverse results. Working Paper. Che, Y., Lu, Y., Tao, Z., & Wang, P. (2012) The impact of income on democracy revisited. Journal of Comparative Economics. September 5 th - Models of Democratic Transitions Acemoglu, Daron and James Robinson (2000) A Theory of Political Transitions, AER, 115, Doorenspleet, R. (2002) Development, Class and Democracy: is there a Relationship? in Elgström, Ole and Goran Hyden, eds Development and Democracy - What Have We Learned and How? London: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science. Przeworski, A. (2005) Democracy as an Equilibrium. Public Choice, 123 (3-4), Acemoglu, D and James Robinson (2006) Economic Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship. Cambridge University Press. Ziblatt, Daniel (2006) How Did Europe Democratize? World Politics, 58/2, Ulfeider, Jay and Michael Lustik (2007) Modeling Transition to and from Democracy, Democratization, 14/3. Ansell, B., & Samuels, D. (2010) Inequality and democratization: A contractarian approach, Comparative Political Studies, 43(12), Miller, M. K. (2013) Electoral authoritarianism and democracy: A formal model of regime transitions. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 25(2), September 12 th - Variations Bunce, Valerie (2000) Comparative Democratization Big and Bounded Generalizations, Comparative Political Studies 33/6-7, Fish, M. S. (2002). Islam and authoritarianism. World politics, 55(01), Mainwaring, Scott, and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán. (2003) Level of Development and Democracy: Latin American Exceptionalism, , Comparative Political Studies 36 (9), Albrecht, H and O. Schlumberger, (2004) Waiting for Godot: Regime Change Without Democratization in the Middle East, International Political Science Review, 25/ 4:

4 Linder, Wolf and André Bächtiger (2005) What drives democratisation in Asia and Africa? European Journal of Political Research 44, Duncan, N. T., & Woods, D. (2007) What About Us? The Anglo-Caribbean Democratic Experience. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 45(2), Lynch, G & Gordon Crawford (2011) Democratization in Africa : an assessment, Democratization, 18(2). Mah, Jai S. (2011) Globalization, Democratization and Economic Growth of East Asia, International Area Studies Review, 14(3). Bates, R. H., Fayad, G., & Hoeffler, A. (2012) The state of democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa. International Area Studies Review, 15(4), September 19 th - External Dynamics Kopstein, J. S. and Reilly, D.A. (2000) Geographic diffusion and the transformation of the post-communist world, World Politics 53/1, Pevehouse, J. C. (2002) With a Little Help from My Friends? Regional Organizations and the Consolidation of Democracy," American Journal of Political Science 46/3, Coloresi, Michael, and William R. Thompson. (2003) The Economic Development- Democratization Relationship: Does the Outside World Matter? Comparative Political Studies 36 (4), Quan Li and Rafael Reuveny, (2003) Economic Globalization and Democracy: An Empirical Analysis. British Journal of Political Science, 33/1, Starr, Harvey and C. Lindborg (2003) Democratic Dominoes Revisited The Hazards of Governmental Transitions: , Journal of Conflict Resolution, 47/4: Rudra, Nita (2005) Globalization and the Strengthening of Democracy in the Developing World, American Journal of Political Science 49/ 4. Wejnert, Barbara. (2005) Diffusion, Development, and Democracy: , American Sociological Review 70/1 (February): Levitsky, S. and L. Way, (2006) Linkage versus Leverage: Rethinking the International Dimension of Regime Change, Comparative Politics 38/4 (July): Eichengreen, B. and David Leblant (2008) Democracy and Globalization, Economics and Politics, 20(3), September 26 th - Measurement Issues I

5 Bollen, Kenneth A. (1991) Political Democracy: Conceptual and Measurement Traps. In On Measuring Democracy. Alex Inkeles ed. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, Alvarez, M., J. A. Cheibub, et al. (1996) Classifying political regimes, Studies in Comparative International Development 31/2, Collier, David and Steven Levitsky (1997) Democracy with Adjectives: Conceptual innovation in Comparative Research, World Politics 49/4, Collier, David, and Robert Adcock (1999) Democracy and Dichotomies: A Pragmatic Approach to Choices About Concepts, Annual Review of Political Science (2), Elkins, Z. (2000) Gradations of Democracy? Empirical Test of Alternative Conceptualizations, American Journal of Political Science 44/2, Mainwaring, Scott, Daniel Brinks, and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán. (2001). Classifying Political Regimes in Latin America, Studies in Comparative International Development 36, Lindberg, Staffan (2002). Problems of Measuring Democracy: Illustrations from Africa in Elgström, Ole and Goran Hyden, eds. Development and Democracy - What Have We Learned and How? London: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science. Munck, Gerardo L., and Jay Verkuilen. (2002). Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: Evaluating Alternative Indices, Comparative Political Studies 35 (1), Matthijs Bogaards (2012). Where to draw the line? From degree to dichotomy in measures of democracy, Democratization, 19(4), October 3 rd - Measurement Issues II. Boix, C., Miller, M., & Rosato, S. (2012) A Complete Data Set of Political Regimes, , Comparative Political Studies. Cheibub, José Antonio J. Gandhi and J. R. Vreeland (2010) Democracy and dictatorship revisited, Public Choice, 143, Cappocia, G and Daniel Ziblatt (2010) The Historical Turn in Democratization Studies: A New Research Agenda for Europe and Beyond, Comparative Political Studies, 43(8/9): Brückner, M., Ciccone, A. & Tesei, A. (2012) Oil price shocks, income, and democracy. Review of Economics and Statistics, 94(2), October 10 TH - Democratic Regime Effects I.

6 Diamond, Larry (2002) Thinking About Hybrid Regimes, Journal of Democracy 13(2), Przeworski, Adam and Fernando Limongi (1993) Political Regimes and Economic Growth, Journal of Economic Literature, 7 (3), Feng, Yi. (1997) Democracy, Political Stability and Economic Growth, British Journal of Political Science 27( 3), Feng, Yi Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press. Krieckhaus, Jonathan The Regime Debate Revisited: A Sensitivity Analysis of Democracy's Economic Effect, British Journal of Political Science 34 (October), Carbonne, G. (2008) Do All Good Things Go Together? Exploring the Political, Social and Economic Consequences of Democratization. Working Paper 3/08. Haggard, S., & Kaufman, R. R. (2012) Inequality and regime change: Democratic transitions and the stability of democratic rule, American Political Science Review, 1(1), Pippa Norris (2012) Making Democratic Governance Work. Cambridge University Press. October 17 th - Democratic Regime Effects II. Przeworski, Adam, Michael E. Alvarez, José Antonio Cheibub, and Fernando Limongi (2000) Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Material Well-Being in the World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Lake, David A. and Matthew A. Baum (2001) The Invisible Hand of Democracy: Political Control and the Provision of Public Services, Comparative Political Studies 34(6), Zweifel, Thomas D. and Patricio Navia (2003) Democracy, Dictatorship, and Infant Mortality, Journal of Democracy 14(3), Mulligan, Casey B., Ricard Gil and Xavier Sala-i-Martin (2004) Do Democracies Have Different Public Policies than Non-democracies, The Journal of Economics Perspectives 18(1), Keefer, P. (2007) Clientelism, Credibility and the Policy Choices of Young Democracies, American Journal of Political Science 51(4), Ross, Michael (2006) Is Democracy Good for the Poor, American Journal of Political Science 50(4), Stasavage, Davi. (2005) Democracy and Education Spending in Africa, American Journal of Political Science 49(2):

7 Thyne, Clayton and Erika Moreno (2007) Squeaky Wheels and Unequal Policy: Executive Authority and Education Reform in Latin America, Comparative Political Studies 41(7): Mani, Anandi and Sharun Mukand Democracy, visibility, and public good provision, Journal of Development Economics 83, Nelson, Joan M. (2007) Elections, Democracy, and Social Services, Studies in Comparative International Development 41(4), Mares, Isabela and Matthew E. Carnes (2009) Social Policy in Developing Countries, Annual Review Political Science, 12, Moser, Christine (2008) Poverty Reduction, Patronage, or Vote Buying? The Allocation of Public Goods and the 2001 Election in Madagascar, Economic Development and Cultural Change 57(1): Timmons, J.F. (2010) Does Democracy Reduce Economic Inequality? British Journal of Political Science, 40: October 24 th Democratization: Case Studies Jonas, S. (2000) Democratization through Peace: The Difficult Case of Guatemala, Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs, 42(4): Good, K and Ian Taylor (2008) Botswana: A Minimalist Democracy, Democratization, 15(4): Ginsburg, Tom (2008) Lessons for Democratic Transitions: Case Studies from Asia, ORBIS, A Journal for World Affairs. Tudo, Maya (2013) Explaining Democracy s Origins: Lessons from South Asia, Comparative Politics. Mid-Term Exam will be posted on October 25 th and will be due on October 28 th at 1:00 P.M. October 31 and November 7 th No class November 14 th - Lessons Learned in the Context of Research Paper. Each Student is expected to give 15minute presentation on his/her research paper. At this stage, the assumption is that a working draft of the paper has been completed. Therefore, this is not meant as a presentation of preliminary research idea to be fleshed out later. You are expected to present the paper s core thesis (or hypotheses), the empirics and a strong indication of how it fits into a specific body of literature on democratization and what s your contribution to it! November 21 st - a draft of the research has to be submitted to me online. It will be returned by November 22 nd with comments. The final paper will be due on December 6 (NO EXCEPTIONS!!!!)