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1 1 University of Calgary Department of Political Science The Comprehensive Exam in Comparative Politics The Comparative Politics comprehensive exam will consist of three sections of questions, written over a period of three hours. Students will be expected to answer one question from each section. The first section will include questions on general theoretical and methodological problems. The second section will include questions on specific thematic issues in the sub-field. The material for each of these two sections will be related to the items in this reading list, and to the material covered in POLI 671 and POLI 673. The third section will include questions relating to the student s particular area of specialization. In the case of students whose principal focus is Comparative Politics, this will ideally involve specialization in a particular region of the world. In the case of students for whom Comparative Politics is not their principal focus, a thematic specialization may be appropriate. This can include, among others: political parties, civil-military relations, democratization, political institutions, etc. If a student chooses to specialize on one of the themes already listed in the reading list (e.g. ideas, norms, and culture; or modernization and development), he or she will be expected to master it in more depth than what the reading list contains. The student s supervisor will be responsible for drafting a reading list for the particular specialization, in consultation with the members of the caucus and with the student, if one is not already available. Approved by the Graduate Committee on 25 May 25, 2005

2 2 University of Calgary Department of Political Science Reading List for Comprehensive Examination in Comparative Politics * General Reference Works PART I Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Institutions. Edited by Vernon Bogdanor. Oxford and New York: Blackwell Reference, Chilcote, Ronald, Theories of Comparative Politics: The Search for a Paradigm Reconsidered (Westview, 2000) Collier, David, The Comparative Method. In Political Science: The State of the Discipline II, edited by Ada W. Finifter, Washington, D.C.: American Political Science Association, Goodin, Robert E., and Hans-Dieter Klingemann, eds. A New Handbook of Political Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Part IV: "Comparative Politics," pp Polsby, Nelson W., ed. Annual Review of Political Science: Volume 1, Palo Alto, California: Annual Reviews, And subsequent volumes. Blakely, Georgina, and Valerie Bryson, eds. Contemporary Political Concepts: A Critical Introduction. London and Sterling, Virginia: Plato Press, Paradigms and Frameworks Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962 (1996). Lakatos, Imre, and Alan Musgrave, eds. Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Hirschman, Albert O. Paradigms as a Hindrance to Understanding. World Politics 22, no. 3 (1970): Eckstein, Harry. "Authority Patterns: A Structural Basis for Political Inquiry." American Political Science Review 67, no. 4 (December 1973): Janos, Andrew C. Politics and Paradigms: Changing Theories of Change in Social Science. Stanford: Stanford University Press, Unger, Roberto Mangabeira. Social Theory: Its Situation and its Task. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Rule, James B. Theory and Progress in Social Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Methods * Approved by the Graduate Committee on 25 May 2005.

3 Aristotle, Politics. Mill, John Stuart. How we Compare. In A System of Logic: Raciocinative and Inductive. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1843/1874, Book VI Chapter 10. Weber, Max. The Theory of Social and Economic Organization. Translated by A. M. Henderson and Talcott Parsons. Edited by Talcott Parsons. New York: Free Press; London: Collier Macmillan, 1964 (orig. pub. 1947). Hempel, Carl G. Aspects of Scientific Explanation and Other Essays. New York: Free Press, Verba, Sidney. Some Dilemmas in Comparative Research. World Politics 20 (October, 1967): Przeworski, Adam, and Henry Teune. The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry. New York: John Wiley, Lijphart, Arend. Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method. American Political Science Review 65, no. 3 (1971): Popper, Karl. Objective Knowledge. Oxford: Clarendon Press, Stinchcombe, Arthur L. The Logic of Scientific Inference. In Constructing Social Theories, New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 19. Eckstein, Harry. "Case Study and Theory in Political Science." In Handbook of Political Science, edited by Fred I. Greenstein and Nelson W. Polsby, Vol. 7, Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, Skocpol, Theda, and Margaret Somers. The Uses of Comparative History in Macrosocial Inquiry. Comparative Studies in Society and History 22, no. 2 (1980): Ragin, Charles C. The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies. Berkeley: University of California Press, Ragin, Charles, and Howard Becker, eds. What is a Case? Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, King, Gary, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba. Designing Social Inquiry. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, Especially chapters 1 and 4. Van Evera, Steven. Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science. Lichbach, Mark Irving, and Alan S. Zuckerman, eds. Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Lane, Ruth. The Art of Comparative Politics. Boston: Allyn and Unwin, Bates, Robert H. et al. Analytic Narratives. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, Mahoney, James. Nominal, Ordinal, and Narrative Appraisal in Macro-Causal Analysis. American Journal of Sociology 104, no. 3 (January 1999): Mahoney, James. Strategies of Causal Inference in Small-N Research. Sociological Methods and Research 28, no. 4 (May 2000): Pierson, Paul. Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics. American Political Science Review 94, no. 2 (June 2000): Adcock, Robert, and David Collier. Measurement Validity: A Shared Standard for Qualitative and Quantitative Research. American Political Science Review 95, no. 3 (September 2001):

4 4 Brady, Henry, and David Collier, eds. Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Public Policy Press, University of California; Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield, Mahoney, James, and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds. Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Munck, Gerardo. Canons of Research Design in Qualitative Analysis. Studies in Comparative Institutional Development 33 (): Geddes, Barbara. Paradigms and Sand Castles: Theory Building and Research Design in Comparative Politics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, Hall, Peter. Adapting Methodology to Ontology in Comparative Politics. The Political Economist 11 (2003): 1-7. Rational Choice Olson, Mancur. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, Green, Donald P., and Ian Shapiro. Pathologies of Rational Choice: A Critique of Applications in Political Science. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Friedman, Jeffrey, ed. The Rational Choice Controversy: Economic Models of Politics Reconsidered. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Bates, Robert H. "Comparative Politics and Rational Choice: A Review Essay." American Political Science Review 91, no. 3 (September 1997): Lichbach, Mark Irving. The Rebel's Dilemma. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, Shapiro, Ian. "Can the Rational Choice Framework Cope with Culture?" PS: Political Science & Politics 31, no. 1 (March 1998): Ostrom, Elinor. "A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action." American Political Science Review 92, no. 1 (March 1998): Boniface, Dexter, and J. Sharman. "An Analytic Revolution in Comparative Politics? Review Article." Comparative Politics 33, no. 4 (July 2001): Amadae, S. M. Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, PART II States, Institutions, and Macrohistorical Forces Moore, Barrington. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World. Boston: Beacon Press, Nettl, J. P. "The State as a Conceptual Variable." World Politics 20 (1968): Stepan, Alfred. The State and Society: Peru in Comparative Perspective. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, Poggi, Gianfranco. The Development of the Modern State: A Sociological Introduction. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1978.

5 5 Evans, Peter, Dietrich Rueschmeyer, and Theda Skocpol, eds. Bringing the State Back In. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Migdal, Joel. Strong Societies and Weak States: State-Society Relations and State Capabilities in the Third World. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, Shepsle, Kenneth A. Studying Institutions: Some Lessons from the Rational Choice Approach. Journal of Theoretical Politics 1, no. 2 (April 1989): Poggi, Gianfranco. The State: Its Nature, Development and Prospects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, North, Douglass C. Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance. New York: Cambridge University Press, Shugart, Matthew Soberg, and John M. Carey. Presidents and Assemblies: Constitutional Design and Electoral Dynamics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Steinmo, Sven, Kathleen Thelen, and Frank Longstreth, eds. Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, March, James G., and Johan P. Olsen. Institutional Perspectives on Political Institutions. Governance 9, no. 3 (July 1996): Immergut, Ellen M. "The Theoretical Core of the New Institutionalism." Politics & Society 26, no. 1 (March 1998): Krasner, Stephen. Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, Scott, James C. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed. New Haven: Yale University Press, Rotberg, Robert I., ed. When States Fail: Causes and Consequences. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, Pierson, Paul. Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, Tsebelis, George, Veto Players and Institutional Analysis, Governance 13 (4): Ideas, norms, culture Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, Almond, Gabriel, and Sidney Verba. The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, Almond, Gabriel, and Sidney Verba, eds. The Civic Culture Revisited. Boston: Little, Brown, Inglehart, Ronald. "The Renaissance of Political Culture." American Political Science Review 82, no. 4 (December 1988): Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Revised edition. London and New Haven: Verso, Putnam, Robert D. Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1993.

6 6 "Special Section: Critique of Robert Putnam's Making Democracy Work." Politics & Society 24, no. 1 (March 1995): Inglehart, Ronald. Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, Schaeffer, Frederic. Democracy in Translation: Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Culture. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, Berman, Sheri. "Ideas, Norms, and Culture in Political Analysis: Review Article." Comparative Politics 33, no. 2 (January 2001): Motyl, Alexander J. "Imagined Communities, Rational Choosers, Invented Ethnies." Comparative Politics 34, no. 2 (January 2002): Seligson, Mitchell A. "The Renaissance of Political Culture or the Renaissance of the Ecological Fallacy?" Comparative Politics 34, no. 3 (April 2002): Hanson, Stephen E. "From Culture to Ideology in Comparative Politics: Review Article." Comparative Politics 35, no. 3 (April 2003): Modernization, Development, and Gender Durkheim, Emile. Suicide: A Study in Sociology. New York: Free Press, 1966 (1951). Durkheim, Emile. The Division of Labor in Society. Translated by George Simpson. New York: Free Press, Lerner, Daniel. The Passing of Traditional Society. New York: Free Press, Lipset, Seymour Martin. "Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy." American Political Science Review 53 (1959): Coleman, James S., et al. The Politics of the Developing Areas. Edited by Gabriel A. Almond and James S. Coleman. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, Huntington, Samuel P. "Political Development and Political Decay." World Politics 17 (1965):. Apter, David E. The Politics of Modernization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Pye, Lucien W. Aspects of Political Development. Boston: Little, Brown, Horowitz, Irving Louis. Three Worlds of Development: The Theory and Practice of International Stratification. New York: Oxford University Press, Rustow, Dankwart A. "Modernization and Comparative Politics." Comparative Politics 1, no. 1 (1968):. Huntington, Samuel P. Political Order in Changing Societies. New Haven: Yale University Press, Roxborough, Ian. "Modernization Theory Revisited: A Review Essay." Comparative Studies in Society and History 30 (1988): Bates, Robert H., ed. Toward a Political Economy of Development: A Rational Choice Perspective. Berkeley: University of California Press, Ruttan, Vernon. "What Happened to Political Development?" Economic Development and Cultural Change 39, no. 2 (1991):

7 7 Chilcote, Ronald H. Theories of Comparative Politics: The Search for a Paradigm Reconsidered. Przeworski, Adam, et al. Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well Being in the World, New York: Cambridge University Press, De Rivero, Oswaldo. The Myth of Development. London and New York: Zed Books, Samir Amin, The Liberal Virus: Permanent War and the Americanization of the World. New York: Monthly Review Press, Nalini Visvamathan, Lynn Duggan, Laurie Nisonoff and Nan Wiegersma, eds. The Women, Gender and Development Reader, London and New Jersey: Z Books, Revolutions Tilley, Charles. From Mobilization to Revolution. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, Skocpol, Theda. States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Johnson, Chalmers. Revolutionary Change. 2d ed. Stanford: Stanford University Press, Greene, Thomas H. Comparative Revolutionary Movements: Search for Theory and Justice. 2d ed. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Goldstone, Jack A., Ted Robert Gurr, and Farrokh Moshiri, eds. Revolutions of the Late Twentieth Century. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, Skocpol, Theda. Social Revolutions in the Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Goldstone, Jack A., ed. Revolutions: Theoretical, Comparative, and Historical Studies. 2d ed. Fort Worth, Texas: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, Kamrava, Mehran. "Revolution Revisited: The Structuralist-Voluntarist Debate." Canadian Journal of Political Science 32, no. 2 (June 1999): Political economy Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. 2vols. Edited by R. H. Campbell and A. S. Skinner. Oxford: Clarendon Press, Weber, Max. Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretative Sociology. 3 vols. Edited by Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich. N.p., n.d. Polanyi, Karl. The Great Transformation. Boston: Beacon Press, 1957 (1944). Gerschenkron, Alexander. Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective: A Book of Essays. N.p., North, Douglass C. Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance. New York: Cambridge University Press, Haggard, Stephan. The Political Economy Of Democratic Transitions. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, Chilcote, Ronald H. Comparative Inquiry in Politics and Political Economy: Theories and Issues. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 2000.

8 8 Hall, Peter, and David Soskice, eds. Varieties of Capitalism: Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Blyth, Mark. Great Transformations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Democracy and Democratization Schumpeter, Joseph, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (Unwin, 1943). Dahl, Robert, Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition (Yale University Press, 1971). Rustow, Dankwart A. Transitions to Democracy: Toward a Dynamic Model. Comparative Politics 2, no. 3 (1970): O Donnell, Guillermo, and Philippe Schmitter. Transitions from Authoritarian Rule. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, DiPalma, Giuseppe. To Craft Democracies: An Essay on Democratic Transitions. Berkeley: University of California Press, Przeworski, Adam. Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Huntington, Samuel P. The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century. Oklahoma City: University of Oklahoma Press, O Donnell, Guillermo. On the State, Democratization and Some Conceptual Problems. World Development 27, no. 8 ( 1993): Muller, Edward N., and Mitchell A. Seligson. "Civic Culture and Democracy: The Question of Causal Relationships." American Political Science Review 88, no. 3 (September 1994): Gunther, Richard, et al., eds. The Politics of Democratic Consolidation: Southern Europe in Comparative Perspective. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, Linz, Juan, and Alfred Stepan. Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America and Post-Communist Europe. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, Collier, David, and Steven Levitsky. Democracy with Adjectives: Conceptual Innovation in Comparative Research. World Politics 49 (April 1997): Snyder, Richard, and James Mahoney. The Missing Variable: Institutions and the Study of Regime Change. Comparative Politics 32, no. 1 (October 1999): Anderson, Lisa, ed. Transitions to Democracy. New York: Columbia University Press, Przeworski, Adam. Democracy and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Hollifield, James F., and Calvin Jillson, eds. Pathways to Democracy: The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions. New York and London: Routledge, Bermeo, Nancy. Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry and the Breakdown of Democracy. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, Ottaway, Marina. Democracy Challenged: The Rise of Semi-Authoritarianism. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003.

9 9 Rabb, Theodore K., and Ezra N. Suleiman, eds. The Making and Unmaking of Democracy: Lessons from History and World Politics. New York and London: Routledge, Lijphart, Arend, Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty- Six Countries (Yale University Press, 1999). Identities, Order, and Violence Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Edited by Richard Tuck. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Deutsch, Karl. Nationalism and Social Communication; An Inquiry into the Foundations of Nationality. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, Coser, Lewis A. The Functions of Social Conflict. New York: Free Press; London: Collier-Macmillan, Bendix, Reinhard. Nation-Building and Citizenship. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Migdal, Joel S. Peasants, Politics and Revolution: Pressures Toward Political and Social Change in the Third World. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, Rothschild, Joseph. Ethnopolitics: A Conceptual Framework. New York: Columbia University Pres, Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Horowitz, Donald. Ethnic Groups in Conflict. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, Scott, James. Weapons of the Weak. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, Greenfield, Leah. Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Della Porta, Donatella. Social Movements, Political Violence, and the State: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Fearon, James, and David Laitin. "Explaining Ethnic Cooperation." American Political Science Review 90, no. 4 (December 1996): Brubaker, Rogers, and David Laitin. "Ethnic and Nationalist Violence." Annual Review of Sociology, 24 (1998): Hechter, Michael. Containing Nationalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Kaufman, Stuart J. Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, Fearon, James, and David Laitin. "Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War." American Political Science Review 97, no. 1 (2003): Elites Mosca, Gaetano. The Ruling Class (Elementi di Scienza Politica). Translated by Hannah D. Kahn. Edited and Revised, with an introduction by Arthur Livingstone. New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1939.

10 10 Bottomore, Thomas B. Elites and Society. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, Putnam, Robert D. The Comparative Study of Political Elites. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Wilner, Ann Ruth. The Spellbinders: Charismatic Political Leadership. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Higley, John, and Richard Gunther, eds. Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Etzioni-Halévy, Eva. The Elite Connection: Problems and Potential of Western Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Bunce, Valerie. "Comparative Democratization: Big and Bounded Generalizations." Comparative Political Studies 33, nos. 6/7 (August/September 2000): Higley, John, and Gyorgy Lengyel, eds. Elites After State Socialism: Theories and Analysis. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, Parties and Party Systems Michels, Robert. Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy. Trans. by Eden and Cedar Paul. New York: Free Press; London: Collier-Macmillan, Duverger, Maurice. Political Parties: Their Organization and Activity in the Modern State. Trans. by Barbara and Robert North, with a foreword by D. W. Brogan. London: Methuen, LaPalombara, Joseph, and Myron Weiner, eds. Political Parties and Political Development. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, Sartori, Giovanni. Parties and Party Systems: A Framework for Analysis. Vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Panebianco, Angelo. Political Parties: Organization and Power. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Mair, Peter, ed. The West European Party System. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Dalton, Russell J., and Martin P. Wattenburg, eds. Parties Without Partisans: Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Diamond, Larry, and Richard Gunther, eds. Political Parties and Democracy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Gunther, Richard, José Ramón-Montéro, and Juan J. Linz, eds. Political Parties: Old Concepts and New Challenges. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Goldstone, Jack A., ed. States, Parties, and Social Movements. New York: Cambridge University Press, Caramani, Danièle. The Nationalization of Politics: The Formation of National Electorates in Western Europe. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.