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1 Comparative Electoral Politics Spring 2008 Professor Orit Kedar Tuesday, Thursday, 3-4:30 Room E Office hours: Wednesday, 3-4 or by appointment Office: E Course site: Course description The course discusses classic issues and current topics in electoral politics. The focus will be thematic, but the issues addressed will be also discussed in the context of particular case studies. Examples of the topics discussed are: party systems, old and new political cleavages, representation, electoral politics in divided societies, voter attitudes, immigration, the extreme right, and electoral politics in multi-level governance systems. Books and reading materials The following book is on reserve and available for purchase at the COOP: Gallagher, Michael, Michael Laver, and Peter Mair Representative Government in Modern Europe: Institutions, Parties, and Governments. New York: McGraw-Hill Fourth edition. In addition to this book, students will have to subscribe to the Financial Times. Although our class discussions will not be chats about politics, students will be expected to keep up with current events, which we will incorporate into our discussions. The Financial Times (see also: offers an excellent coverage of world politics. It does so in a concise and analytic fashion. If you are taking this class, you can get a student rate for either the on-line or the paper edition by filling out the form at: Assignments Attendance and participation: attendance, participation, and contribution to the discussions are an important part of the course requirements. You are expected to attend the session having done the readings and reflected upon them and to contribute to the discussion. Please let me know ahead of time if you have to miss a session. Midterm exam. In-class mid-term exam on April 3 rd. Details to follow. Two short response papers. Two short response papers (about two pages each), developing a theme in the relevant readings. Papers are due on Thursday, April 24 th, and Thursday, May 1 st at the beginning of class. Outline of research paper: By Friday, April 11 at 4PM please hand in one page of preliminary research about the topic of your research paper.
2 Final research paper: a research paper, due on the last day of class, May 15. Grading The grade will be a combination of attendance and participation (10%), mid-term exam (25%), response papers (20%), paper outline (10%), and final paper (35%). Additional resources: The following resources helpful for following international politics and recent elections: The Economist: International Herald Tribune: EU Observer: Lijphart s elections archive: Parliamentary elections around the world: The European Journal of Political Research publishes political data about elections from various democracies in its last issue every year. The journal s webpage is: Course plan Tuesday, February 5 th Introduction Electoral regimes and electoral laws Thursday, February Parliamentary and presidential democracy 7 th GLM, Chapters 2,3 Tuesday, February Executives, governments, cabinets, and coalitions 12 th GLM, Chapter 12 Thursday, February 14 th Electoral systems I Lijphart, Arend Patterns of Democracy. New Haven: Yale University Press. Chapter 8 (Pp ) Analysis of principles/cases: The UK The Netherlands Tuesday February 19 th Monday schedule, no class 2
3 Thursday, February 21 st Electoral systems II Analysis of principles/cases: Germany Ireland Switzerland Conclusion Representation and party systems Tuesday, February Electoral rules and representation 26 th Powell, G. Bingham Jr., and Georg S. Vanberg Election Laws, Disproportionality and Median Correspondence: Implications for Two Visions of Democracy. British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 30: Samuels, David and Richard Snyder The Value of a Vote: Malapportionment in Comparative Perspective. British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 31: Thursday, February 28 th Parties and party systems I Lijphart, Arend Patterns of Democracy. New Haven: Yale University Press. Chapter 5 (Pp ) Amorim Neto, Octavio, and Gary W. Cox Electoral Institutions, Cleavage Structures, and the Number of Parties. American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 41(1): Tuesday, March 4 th Parties and party systems II Kirchheimer, Otto. The Catch-All Party. In The West European Party System. Peter Mair, Ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp GLM chapter 7 selected pages GLM chapter 8 selected pages GLM chapter 10 Voter behavior Thursday, March 6 th Social class and the economy 3
4 Lewis-Beck, Michael S., and Richard Nadeau. National Economic Voting in US Presidential Elections. In Controversies in Voting Behavior, Niemi and Weisberg, eds Pp: comparative evidence. Class voting in the UK. TBA Tuesday, March 11 th Party attachment Schickler, Eric, and Donald Green The Stability of Party Identification in Western Democracies. Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 30: Thursday, March 13 th Cleavage structure, voting patterns and partisan change I GLM, chapter 9 Dalton, Russell J Citizen Politics: Public Opinion and Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies. New York: Chatham House, chapters 5, 8. Tuesday, March 18th Cleavage structure, voting patterns and partisan change II Inglehart, Ronald. The Nature of Value Change. In The West European Party System. Peter Mair, Ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp: Flanagan, Scott C Changing Values in Advanced Industrial Societies. Comparative Political Studies 14(4): analysis of attitudes of young Americans Thursday, March 20 th Voting and divided government Elections, participation, and society Fiorina, Morris Divided Government. Allyn and Bacon. Chapter 5. The US and other presidential democracies. Tuesday, March 25 th Thursday, March 27 th No class, spring break No class, spring break 4
5 Tuesday, April 1 st Immigration, elections, and the extreme right I Van der Brug, Wouter, and Meindert Fennnema, and J. Tillie Anti-Immigrant Parties in Europe: Ideological or Protest Vote? European Journal of Political Research, Vol. 37: Joel S. Fetzer Public Attitudes toward Immigration in the United States, France, and Germany. Chapters 8-9, pp Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Thursday, April 3 rd Tuesday, April 8 th In-class midterm exam Immigration, elections, and the extreme right II Schain, Martin S The National Front and the Legislative Elections of In How France Votes, Michael S. Lewis- Beck, ed. Pp New York: Chatham House Publishers, Seven Bridges Press. Case study analysis: France/Switzerland/Austria Thursday, April 10 th Referendums and participation The Economist Politics brief: The people's voice. August 14, Hug, Simon, and Pascal Sciarini Referendums on European Integration: Do Institutions Matter in the Voter s Decision? Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 33(1): Tuesday, April 15 th Turnout: who votes? Does it matter? Rosenstone, Steven J., and John Mark Hansen. Solving the Puzzle of Participation in Electoral Politics. In Controversies in Voting Behavior, Niemi and Weisberg, eds Pp: Colomer, Joseph M., Political Institutions. Oxford University Press. Chapter 2. Thursday, April 17 th Elections for the European Parliament I GLM, Chapter 5 Cees van der Eijk and Mark N. Franklin Choosing 5
6 Europe? The University of Michigan Press. Chapter 2 Tuesday, April 22 nd Thursday, April 24 th No class, Patriot Day Elections for the European Parliament II Reif, Karlheinz, and Hermann Schmitt Nine 2nd-Order National Elections A Conceptual Framework for the Analysis of European Election Results. European Journal of Political Research Vol. 8(1): analyzing the last EP elections Tuesday, April 29 th Electoral cycles and elections in federations Paldam, Martin Is There An Electional Cycle? A Comparative Study of National Accounts. The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 81(2): Lohman, Suzanne, David W. Brady, and Doug Rivers Party Identification, Retrospective Voting, and Moderating Elections in A Federal System: West Germany, Comparative Political Studies Vol. 30 (4): Thursday, May 1 st Elections in divided societies Lijphart, Arend Constitutional Design for Divided Societies. Journal of Democracy, Vol. 15(2): Reilly, Benjamin Electoral Systems for Divided Societies. Journal of Democracy, Vol. 13(2): Case study: Belgium Tuesday May 6 th Elections in divided societies case study Fraenkel, Jon, and Bernard Grofman Does The Alternative Vote Foster Moderation in Ethnically Divided Societies? Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 39(5): Response: Horowitz, Donald L Strategy Takes a Holiday. Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 39(5):
7 Electoral reform and electoral engineering Rejoinder: Fraenkel, Jon, and Bernard Grofman The Failure of The Alternative Vote As A Tool for Ethnic Moderation in Fiji Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 39(5): Thursday, May 8 th Electoral Reform Shugart, Matthew Soberg Electoral Efficiency and the Move to Mixed-Member Systems. Electoral Studies, Vol. 20: The UK: The Jenkins Commission Report. Selected sections. Tuesday, May 13 th Redistricting Toobin, Jeffrey. The Great Election Grab Annals of Law. The New Yorker, December 8, Vol. 79(38). TBA Thursday, May 15 th Conclusion TBA 7
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