TR 8:30 9:20am + recitation Office Hours: TR 9:40-11:00 Weimer 1064 INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE POLITICS

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1 CPO 2001 Michael Bernhard Fall 2012 Office: 313 Anderson TR 8:30 9:20am + recitation Office Hours: TR 9:40-11:00 Weimer 1064 INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE POLITICS Description of the course: A general survey of the world's political systems, intended to introduce novice political science students to the study of the domestic politics of foreign countries. Prerequisites: none. Requirements: Attendance of all lectures and recitations, and the completion of all required readings and in class quizzes are mandatory. This in itself is not sufficient to do well in the course. Students must demonstrate mastery of the course material in two mid-terms and a final. Informed and intelligent class participation is encouraged. You may improve your grade by doing so. The Professor and Teaching Assistants Responsibilities: This course is team taught. Professor Bernhard lectures on Tuesday and Thursday. You also attend a recitation with a teaching assistant. They are responsible for the front-line administration and grading your exams and quizzes. In case of an administrative concern, contact them first. For questions concerning course content you may either contact your TA or the professor. If you have a problem with your TA, please contact the professor. Electronic Resources: Course materials will be posted to my webpage You are expected to regularly check your for communications from the teaching staff. Failure to check your is not a valid reason for failing to fulfill a course requirement. Some students have expectations of an instant response to . Remember that you are not texting with your boy- or girlfriend. Follow N-etiquette in your s. You will need to do this when you get a job anyway -- If you do not follow the procedures above for whom to contact, your may go unanswered. Office hours for the professor and TAs are posted on the webpage of the Department of Political Science and on our syllabi. Consult the syllabus before making an inquiry by . Grading Criteria: Attendance: 5% Participation: 10% 1

2 Quizzes: 15% Midterm 1: 20% Midterm 2: 20% Final Exam: 30% The following averages will earn you the following grades. A (95-100), A- (90-94), B+ (87-89), B (84-86), B- (80-83), C+ (77-79), C (74-76), C- (70-73), D+ (67-69), D (64-66), D- (60-63), E (0-59) Further information on grades and grading policies may be found here: Attendance Policy: You are expected to attend all lectures and recitation sections. Attendance will be taken regularly. Acceptable reasons for absence from class include illness, serious family emergencies, special curricular requirements, military obligations, religious holidays and participation in official university activities such as music performances. Inform your TA in advance if possible. Send an in the case of sickness or emergencies. Participation: Participation will be largely judged on the basis of discussion in recitation sections. However, lectures will be peppered with questions to the audience. Intelligent responses to those and the asking good questions of your own will also be taken into consideration. Taking a shot when you are unprepared will not contribute positively to your participation grade. Quizzes: Multiple choice quizzes on the readings will be regularly given both in lecture and in the recitations. Testing: You will have two midterms (marked clearly on the syllabus) and a final exam (tba: during finals week). The midterms will be short-answer in nature and will allow for a choice of questions to be answered. The final will include short-answer questions and a longer essay. The short-answer part of the final will only be on the last third of the course. The essay will be cumulative in nature, requiring you to synthesize material from the course as a whole. If you miss either midterm for a valid reason, a make-up will be scheduled. You need to come to the first lecture after that midterm to have a say in when the make-up is scheduled. Meet with me at the classroom podium following the lecture. Final Exam Conflicts: Course meeting times determine when final exams are held, except for certain large courses. No student is required to take more than three exams in one day. If you are scheduled for more than three exams in one day, assembly exams (multiple sections of a course that have a single exam time) take priority over time-of-class exams. When two assembly exams or two time-of-class exams conflict, the higher course number takes priority. Instructors giving make-up exams will make the necessary adjustments. 2

3 Academic Integrity: Students are required to be honest in all of their university class work. In the fall of 1995, the UF student body enacted a new honor code and voluntarily committed itself to the highest standards of honesty and integrity. (See UF Rule 6C ). On all work submitted by students at the university, the following pledge is either required or implied: On my honor, I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid in doing this assignment. Dishonesty of any kind will not be tolerated in this course. Dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, cheating, plagiarizing, fabricating information or citations, facilitating acts of academic dishonesty by others, having unauthorized possession of examinations, submitting work of another person or work previously used without informing the instructor, or tampering with the academic work of other students. Students who are found to be dishonest will receive academic sanctions and will be reported for possible further disciplinary sanction. Disability Access: Support services for students with disabilities are coordinated by the Disability Resource Center in the Dean of Students Office. All support services provided for University of Florida students are individualized to meet the needs of students with disabilities. To obtain individual support services, each student must meet with one of the support coordinators in the Disability Resources Program and collaboratively develop appropriate support strategies. Appropriate documentation regarding the student's disability is necessary to obtain any reasonable accommodation or support service. The Disability Resource Center maintains a website at which helps students understand how to receive the services they need. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation in this course or have questions about physical access, please tell the instructor as soon as possible. Required A Newspaper: All students are expected to read The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, or Washington Post (or another newspaper with quality international coverage) on a daily basis to keep track of current developments in politics. The week's comparative politics related news stories will periodically be discussed in recitation. Any and all material of this type discussed in class is fair-game for the exams. Students will be expected to have read that week's news prior to recitation. There are no textbooks for this course. Selections to be read have been listed under topics on the syllabus. They have been put on electronic reserve on the UF Library Automating Reserves System (ARES) [ Students are required to have a TurningPoint ResponseCard RF clicker. These are available at local bookstores. There are applications to use your smartphone or laptop in place of a clicker. If you choose this option, you are responsible for making sure that the application works correctly. A substantial part of your grade, both attendance and quizzes (20%), will necessitate a functional clicker. 3

4 Course Outline Week I Section A -- Introduction R/8/23 -- Procedures, Readings, and Requirements F/8/24 -- Recitation, Introductory Meeting Week II T/8/28 -- Introduction: What is Comparative Politics? David Collier, The Comparative Method: Two Decades of Change, In Dankwart A. Rustow and Kenneth Paul Erick-son, eds., Comparative Political Dynamics: Global Research Perspectives (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), R/8/30 Special Topic Lecture. Library Resources for Political Science 1. F/8/31 -- Recitation, How to Compare? Giovanni Sartori, Comparing and Miscomparing, Journal of Theoretical Politics 3:3 (1991), Week III Section B -- Power T/9/4 -- Power, the State, and Domination Max Weber, "Politics as a Vocation," in From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, Hans Gerth and C. Wright Mills, eds (end of first paragraph). Max Weber, "Power and Domination" and "Political and Hierocratic Organizations," in Economy and Society, Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich, eds R/9/6 -- The State as Sovereign Power Gianfranco Poggi, The Development of the Modern State, [JN5.P63] F/9/7 -- Recitation, State in Society Joel Migdal, The State in Society: an Approach to Struggles for Domination, in State Power and Social Forces, Joel Migdal, Atul Kohli, and Vivienne Shue, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994),

5 Week IV T/9/11 -- The Exercise of Power Amatai Etzioni, "Classification of Means of Control," Modern Organizations, [HM131.E83] Amatai Etzioni, "A Classification of Power," The Active Society, [HM101.E77] R/9/13 -- The Legitimation of Domination (I) Max Weber, "Domination and Legitimacy," "The Three Pure Types of Authority," "Legal Authority: The Pure Type," "Legal Authority: The Pure Type -- (continued)," "Traditional Authority, The Pure Type, The Pure Type (continued)," "Charismatic Authority and the Charismatic Community," Economy and Society, , , F/9/14 -- Recitation, Review of First Three Weeks of Material Week V T/9/18 -- The Legitimation of Domination (ii) Section C -- Types of States: Regimes R/9/20 -- Polyarchy (I) Robert Dahl, Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition, F/9/21 -- Recitation, What is democracy? Philippe C. Schmitter and Terry Lynn Karl, What Democracy is and What It Is Not, Journal of Democracy 2:3 (1991), Week VI T/9/25 -- Review Session for Midterm 1 R/9/27 -- Midterm 1 (Sections A & B) F/9/28 -- Recitation, Go over Midterm 1 Week VII T/10/2 -- Polyarchy (ii) R/10/4 -- Varieties of Executive Power in Polyarchies 5

6 Douglas Verney, Parliamentary Government and Presidential Government, in Presidential vs. Parliamentary Government, Arend Lijhart, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), Maurice Duverger, A New Political System Model: Semi-Presidential Government, European Journal of Political Research 8:2 (1980), F/10/5 -- Recitation, Which is Better? Juan Linz, The Perils of Presidentialism, Journal of Democracy 1:1 (1990), Juan Linz, The Virtues of Parliamentarism, Journal of Democracy 1:4 (1990), Week VIII T/10/9 -- Party and Voting Systems Giovanni Sartori, Comparative Constitutional Engineering, (New York: NYU Press, 1997), 3-14 (Chapter one). Kenneth Benoit, Duverger s Law and the Study of Electoral Systems. French Politics 4:1(2006), R/10/11 -- Modern Dictatorships (I) Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), (Chapter 3). F/10/12 -- Recitation, review polyarchy sections Week IX T/10/16 -- Modern Dictatorships (ii) / Totalitarian Regimes (I) Carl J. Friedrich and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy, (New York: Prager, 1968), R/10/18 -- Totalitarian Regimes (ii) F/10/19 -- Recitation, Revolution, Autocratic Old Regimes, and Modern Dictatorships Samuel Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968), Week X 6

7 T/10/23 -- Authoritarian Regimes (I) Paul Brooker, Non-Democratic Regimes (New York: St. Martins, 2000), (Chapter 2). R/10/25-- Authoritarian Regimes (ii) Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, "The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism." Journal of Democracy 13:2 (2002), F/10/26 Recitation, Review non-democratic regimes Week X1 Section D: Politics and Economics T/10/30 -- Development Gunnar Myrdal, What is Development? Journal of Economic Issues 8:4 (1974), Jeffrey Sachs, The Spread of Economic Prosperity, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time. (New York: Penguin 2005), R/11/1 -- Development/Underdevelopment and Regime-type Adam Przeworski and Fernando Limongi Political Regimes and Economic Growth, The Journal of Economic Perspectives 7: F/11/2 -- Recitation, Review for Midterm 2 Week XIl T/11/6 -- Capitalist Systems, Main features Robert A. Dahl, Why All Democratic Countries Have Mixed Economies, in Democratic Community: Nomos XXXV, John W. Chapman and Ian Shapiro, eds. (New York: NYU Press, 1995), Charles Lindblom, The Market System: What it is, How it Works, and What to Make of it? (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), 4-10, R/11/8 -- Midterm 2 (Section C) F/11/9 No Recitation, homecoming. Week XIII T/11/13 -- Market, Capitalism, and Democracy 7

8 Charles Lindblom, The Market System: What it is, How it Works, and What to Make of it? (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), R/11/15 -- Communism as a Failed Form of Modernity Robert C. Allen, From Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003), Daniel Chirot, "The Eastern European Revolutions of 1989," in Revolutions: Theoretical, Comparative and Historical Studies, Jack A. Goldstone (ed), F/11/16 Recitation, Go over midterm 2 Week XIV T/11/20 Second Special Section on Information Resources in Political Science. Thanksgiving Week XV Section E -- Regime Change R/11/27 -- The Search for Democratic Prerequisites (i) Alfred C. Stepan, Religion, Democracy, and the Twin Tolerations, Journal of Democracy 11:4 (2000), Jose Antonio Cheibub, Adam Przeworski, Fernando Limongi, and Michael Alvarez, What Makes Democracies Endure? Journal of Democracy 7:1 (1996), R/11/29 -- The Search for Democratic Prerequisites (ii)/ Processes of Regime Change: Breakdown, Liberalization, Transition, and Consolidation (i) Juan Linz, Transitions to Democracy, The Washington Quarterly 13:3 (1990), Andreas Schedler, What is Democratic Consolidation? Journal of Democracy 9:2 (1998), F/11/30 -- Recitation, Review for Final Week XV T/12/4 -- Processes of Regime Change: Breakdown, Liberalization, Transition, and Consolidation (ii); Evaluation, Exam Procedures, Review 12/6-12/7/2012 Reading Days 8

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