SAMPOL 306 Master s Seminar in Comparative Politics Autumn Required Readings

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1 SAMPOL 306 Master s Seminar in Comparative Politics Autumn 2017 Michael Alvarez (lecturer and course director) Michael.Alvarez@uib.no Leiv Marsteintredet (lecturer) Leiv.Marsteintredet@ilos.uio.no Stine Soltvedt (program/student advisor): Studieveileder@isp.uib.no Required Readings Books (available for purchase at Akademika or on loan in electronic format, UiB library): Albertus, Michael Autocracy and Redistribution: The Politics of Land Reform. Cambridge Alter, Karen J The New Terrain of International Law: Courts, Politics, Rights. Princeton Blyth, Mark Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea. Oxford Centeno, Miguel A., Atul Kohli, and Deborah J. Yashar States in the Developing World. Cambridge Cox, Gary Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World s Electoral Systems. Cambridge Dahl, Robert Polyarchy. New Haven: Yale. Dryzek, John S., and Patrick Dunleavy Theories of the Democratic State. Palgrave Macmillan. Elkins, Zachary, Tom Ginsburg, and James Melton The Endurance of National Constitutions. Cambridge Esping-Andersen, Gøsta The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Princeton University Press. 1

2 Greene, Edward F Why Dominant Parties Lose: Mexico s Democratization in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge Hayek, Friedrich A The Road to Serfdom. University of Chicago Press. Huber, Evelyne, and John D. Stephens Development and Crisis of the Welfare State: Parties and Policies in Global Markets. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Kalyvas, Stahis N The Logic of Violence in Civil War. Cambridge Kitschelt, Herbert The Transformation of European Social Democracy. Cambridge Kohli, Atul State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery. Cambridge Moses, Jonathon W. and Torbjørn L. Knutsen Ways of Knowing: Competing Methodologies of Social and Political Research. 2 nd ed. Palgrave Macmillan. Mudde, Cas Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe. Cambridge Norris, Pippa Democratic Deficit: Critical Citizens Revisited. Cambridge University Press. Ostrom, Ellinor Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge Pierson, Paul Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis. Princeton Piketty, Thomas Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Harvard Posner, Eric A The Twilight of Human Rights Law. Oxford Przeworski, Adam Democracy and the Limits of Self-Government. Cambridge Przeworski, Adam, Michael E. Alvarez, José Antonia Cheibub, Fernando Limongi Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, Cambridge Rodrik, Dani The Globalization Paradox: Why Global Markets, States, and Democracy Can t Coexist. Oxford Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America. Edited by J.P. Mayer. Translated by George Lawrence. (HarperCollins First Perennial Classics edition published in 2000). 2

3 Tudor, Maya The Promise of Power: The Origins of Democracy in India and Autocracy in Pakistan. Cambridge Yashar, Deborah J Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge. Cambridge Electronic Compendium (litteraturkiosken.no) Downs, Anthony An Economic Theory of Democracy, New York: Harper. Chapters 7 and 8. Elster, Jon Introduction. In Jon Elster, ed., Rational Choice. New York University Press. Elster, Jon, and Rune Slagstad, eds Constitutionalism and Democracy. Cambridge Introduction and Chapter 11. Elster, Jon Marx, Revolution and Rational Choice. In Michael Taylor, ed., Rationality and Revolution. Cambridge University Press, Epp, Charles R The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective. University of Chicago Press. Introduction and Chapter 2. Inglehart, Ronald and Christian Welzel Modernization, Cultural Change and Democracy: The Human Development Sequence. Cambridge Chapters 1 and 7. King, Gary, Robert O. Keohane, and Sidney Verba Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. Princeton Chapter 1: The Science in Social Science. Laitin, David D Comparative Politics: The State of the Subdiscipline. In Ira Katznelson and Helen V. Milner eds., Political Science: State of the Discipline. New York: W.W. Norton, Lipset, Seymour, and Stein Rokkan Cleavage Structures, Party Systems, and Voter Aligments: An Introduction, in Seymor Lipset and Stein Rokkan, eds., Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-National Perspectives: pp Mahoney, James, and Kathleen Thelen, ed Advances in Comparative-Historical Analysis. Cambridge Chapter 1: Thelen and Mahoney; Chapter 4: Levitsky and Way. Møller, Jørgen, and Svend-Erik Skaaning Autocracies, Democracies and the Violation of Civil Liberties. Democratization 20 (1):

4 Olson, Mancur The Logic of Collective Action. Introduction and Chapter 1. Rosenberg, Gerald The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? University of Chicago Press. Chapter 1. Sikkink Kathryn The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics. W.W. Norton & Co. Chapters 1 and 6. Skocpol, Theda States and Social Revolutions. Chapter 1 and Conclusion. Sweezy. Paul M Marx and the Proletariat. In Paul M. Sweezy, Modern Capitalism and Other Esssays. New York: Monthly Review Press, Electronic Articles (oria.no): Babb, Sarah The Washington Consensus as Transnational Policy Paradigm: Its Origins, Trajectory and Likely Successor. Review of International Political Economy 20 (2). Bernhard, Michael The Moore thesis: what's left after 1989? Democratization 23(1): van Bienzen, Ingrid, Peter Mair, and Thomas Poguntke Going, Going Gone? The Decline of Party Membership in Contemporary Europe. European Journal of Political Research 51 (1): Brysk, Alison From Above and Below: Social Movements, the International System, and Human Rights in Argentina. Comparative Political Studies 26 (3), Cusack, Thomas R., Torben Iversen, and David Soskice Economic Interests and the Origins of Electoral Systems. American Political Science Review 101: Dahl, Robert The Behavioral Approach in Political Science: Epitaph for a Monument to a Successful Protest. American Political Science Review 55 (4). Diamond, Martin Democracy and the Federalist: A Reconsideration of the Framers Intent. American Political Science Review 53 (1): Fukuyama, Francis Macro Theory and the Study of Political Development. Scandinavian Political Studies 39 (3): Geddes, Barbara, et al Military Rule. Annual Review of Political Science 17: Haggard, Stephan, and Robert R. Kaufman Inequality and Regime Change: Democratic Transitions and the Stability. American Political Science Review 106 (3):

5 Hagopian, Frances Political Development, Revisited. Comparative Political Studies 33 (6-7). Huang, Yasheng How Did China Take Off? Journal of Economic Perspectives 26-4: Kraay, Art, and David McKenzie Do Poverty Traps Exist? Assessing the Evidence. Journal of Economic Perspectives 28 (3): Mkandawire, Thankdika Neopatrimonialism and the Political Economy of Economic Performance in Africa: Critical Reflections. World Politics 67 (3): Munck, Gerardo L Building Democracy... Which Democracy? Ideology and Models of Democracy in Post-Transition Latin America. Government and Opposition 50 (3): Møller, Jørgen, and Svend-Erik Skaaning Autocracies, Democracies and the Violation of Civil Liberties. Democratization 20 (1): Persson, Anna, and Bo Rothstein Why Big Government May Be Good Government. Comparative Politics (January): Putnam, Robert D Bowling Alone: America s Declining Social Capital. Journal of Democracy 6 (1): Reyntjens, Filip A New Look at the Evidence. Journal of Democracy 27 (3): Roberts, Kenneth M Democracy in the Developing World: Challenges of Survival and Significance. Studies in Comparative International Development 51: Slater, Dan, and Erica Simmons Informative Regress: Critical Antecedents in Comparative Politics. Comparative Political Studies 43 (7): Stars, Sean American Economic Power Hasn t Declined It Globalized! Summoning the Data and Taking Globalization Seriously. International Studies Quarterly 57: Stewart, Frances Changing Perspectives on Inequality and Development. Studies in Comparative International Development 51: Swank, Duane The New Political Economy of Taxation in the Developing World. Review of International Political Economy 23 (2): Walt, Stephen M Rigor or Rigor Mortis? Rational Choice and Security Studies. International Security 23/4. 5

6 Whiteley, Paul F Is the party over? The decline of party activism and membership across the democratic world. Party Politics 17 (1). Wibbels, Erik Dependency Revisited: International Markets, Business Cycles, and Social Spending in the Developing World. International Organization 60 (2):