113 MAT Office Hours: R 9:30-11:30 SPECIAL TOPICS: THE POLITICS OF DEVELOPMENT

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1 POS6633 Michael Bernhard Fall Anderson 113 MAT Office Hours: R 9:30-11:30 T 8:30-11:30 bernhard@ufl.edu SPECIAL TOPICS: THE POLITICS OF DEVELOPMENT AUDIENCE: Open to all graduate students. Prerequisites: none. COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is intended to provide a long-term and in-depth guide to questions of development in a global perspective. It is meant to introduce students to wide range of literature on development, and the rise of modern societies in political science and neighboring disciplines in the social sciences. It is intended to develop familiarity with the literature and to help students formulate their own research questions. For students outside the comparative subfield, it is intended to help them to integrate a developmental perspective into their work in their major field. The first part of the course is a consideration of the rise of modernity in political, economic, and social terms in the West. It then looks at how modernity proliferated globally through interstate conflict, reform, revolution, colonialism, and decolonialization. It then turns to several central research topics in the study of development issues in the contemporary era. It begins with large-n statistical models about the sources of growth from economics. It then turns to a central concern of political science, the impact of regime on growth. We will then turn to issues general welfare, the legacies of colonialism, gender, varieties of capitalism, and development failure. REQUIREMENTS: Students are expected to do all readings, be prepared for class, and participate in discussion. All students will take responsibility for leading at least one class discussion. The major assignment for the course will be a research paper. Participation: Most weeks, we will read a book or five articles and book chapters. Careful reading and preparation for active and cogent participation in class discussions is essential. Discussant: This assignment entails leading a discussion of the week s reading. As discussant you will need to discuss the major research questions raised by the readings, the major theses of the authors, and their findings. The works of individual authors should be evaluated with respect to logic and cogency of argument, method, and evidence. The discussant is also responsible for providing an overview of the literature covered that week, raising topics for further discussion, and, if relevant, relating that week's readings to those of earlier weeks. Students who wish their participation grade to count less in their overall evaluation may volunteer to be discussant a second time. Students wishing to audit should be prepared to serve as discussant one week. Research paper: There are no strictures on the approach that you may take on the paper. It may be scientific or interpretative in approach. All methods are allowed from

2 large-n regression models to game theory to small-n cross-national, to individual case studies. All papers must pay attention to good theorizing (whatever the tradition) and marshalling compelling evidence in support of it. Often a normal science framework (introduction, literature review, theory, hypotheses, methods, variables, results, conclusions) can facilitate this. It is by no means required that you follow this format. Papers need to be well-organized, cogently argued, and well-written no matter how the work is presented. Obviously, the subject needs to be related to the themes raised in the course. If you are unsure about whether a topic pertains please see me as soon as possible. You will need to work on the paper in parallel to your coursework. By October 13, you need to be prepared to have substantive discussion we me on what your paper topic will be. I will expect you to have concrete ideas about theory, approach, and design. If you are interested in one of the topics covered later in the course, you should take a look at literature earlier rather than later in the semester on your own. You are encouraged to use my office hours to discuss research questions or to schedule appointments with me by . The last two class meetings will be devoted to research presentations. The course requirements will be weighted as follows: Option One Option Two research paper...50% research paper...50% participation...20% participation...10% discussant...20% discussant % October 10 meeting...5% October 10 meeting...5% research presentation -5% discussant % research presentation..5% When signing up for discussant duties, students will decide which option they wish to exercise. Readings Several of the required books are available for purchase at the bookstore. These include: Adam Przeworski et al. Democracy and Development. Atul Kohli. State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery. Barrington Moore. The Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Jonathan Krieckhaus. Dictating Development. David B. Abernethy. The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires. Gosta Esping-Andersen. The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism Robert H. Bates. When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa. Robert J. Barro. Determinants of Economic Growth. Theda Skocpol. States and Social Revolutions.

3 These books will also be places on reserve. Other required readings will be available through electronic databases at the UF libraries homepage or the worldwide web. OUTLINE Week 1: Introduction (August 25, 2009) Part One. Proliferation of Modernity on a Global Basis Week 2 (September 1, 2009). Barrington Moore The Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Boston, Beacon. Futher reading: Karl Polanyi The Great Transformation. Boston, Beacon. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto. London, Verso. Max Weber The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. London, Routledge. Emile Durkheim The Division of Labor. New York, The Free Albert O. Hirshman The Passions and the Interests. Princeton, Princeton University Joseph H. Schumpeter Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. New York, Harper Collophon. John D. Stephens Democratic Transition and Breakdown in Western Europe, : A Test of the Moore Thesis, The American Journal of Sociology 94: Mahoney, James Knowledge Accumulation in Comparative Historical Research: the Case of Democracy and Authoritarianism. In James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences. Cambridge, Cambridge University Pp Rueschemeyer, Dietrich, Evelene Huber Stephens, and John D. Stephens Capitalist Development and Democracy. Chicago, University of Chicago Luebbert Gregory Liberalism, Fascism, or Social Democracy: Social Classes and the Political Origin of Regimes in Interwar Europe. Oxford, Oxford University Kurth, James Industrial Change and Political Change. In The New Authoritarianism in Latin America, David Collier, ed. Princeton, Princeton University Press

4 Week 3 (September 8, 2009). Theda Skocpol States and Social Revolutions. Cambridge, Cambridge University Presss. Further reading: Ellen Kay Trimberger A Theory of Elite Revolutions, Studies in Comparative International Development 7: Theda Skocpol Social Revolution in the Modern World. Cambridge, Cambridge University Charles.Tilly European Revolutions, Oxford, Blackwell Samuel Huntington Political Order in Changing Societies. New Haven, Yale University Liah Greenfeld Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity. Cambridge, Harvard University Week 4 (September 15, 2009). David B. Abernethy The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires. New Haven, Yale University Further reading: Ruth Berens Collier and David Collier Shaping the Political Arena. Princeton, Princeton University Ruth Berens Collier Regimes in Tropical Africa: Changing Forms of Supremacy, Berkeley: University of California Immanuel Wallerstein The Capitalist World Economy. Cambridge, Cambridge University Week 5 (September 22, 2009). Atul Kohli State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery. Cambridge, Cambridge University Alice H. Amsden. 2003, The Rise of "the Rest": Challenges to the West from Late- Industrializing Economies. Oxford, Oxford University Peter Evans Embedded Autonomy. Princeton, Princeton University Stephan Haggard Pathways from the Periphery. The Politics of Growth in the Newly Industrializing Countries. Ithaca, Cornell University Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto State Dependency and Development in Latin America. Berkeley, University of California Joel S. Migdal, Atul Kohli, and Vivienne Shue, eds State Power and Social Forces : Domination and Transformation in the Third World. Cambridge, Cambridge University Hernando de Soto The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. New York, Basic Books.

5 Robert Wade Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization. Princeton. Princeton University Meredith Woo-Cumings, ed The Developmental State. Ithaca, Cornell University Part Two. Issues in Development Week 6 (September 29, 2009). Growth. Robert J. Barro Determinants of Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Empirical Study. Cambridge, MIT [e-book available through UF libraries] Robert E. Lucas Lectures on Economic Growth. Cambridge, Harvard University Philippe Aghion and Jeffrey G. Williamson Growth, Inequality, and Globalization: Theory, History, and Policy. Cambridge, Cambridge University Week 7 (October 6, 2009). Regimes and Development. Adam Przeworski et al Democracy and Development, Political Institutions and the Well-Being of the World, Cambridge, Cambridge University Chapter 3. Matthew A. Baum and David A. Lake The Political Economy of Growth: Democracy and Human Capital, American Journal of Political Science 47: John Gerring, Philip Bond, William T. Barndt, and Carola Moreno Democracy and Economic Growth: A Historical Perspective, World Politics 57: Jonathan Krieckhaus Democracy and Economic Growth: How Regional Context Influences Regime Effects, British Journal of Political Science 36: Evans, Peter B. and James Rauch "Bureaucracy and Growth: A Cross-national Analysis of the Effects of 'Weberian' State Structures on Economic Growth', American Sociological Review 64: Edward L Glaeser, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer Do Institutions Cause Growth? Journal of Economic Growth 9: Mark J. Gasiorowski, Democracy and Macroeconomic Performance in Underdeveloped Countries, Comparative Political Studies 34: [SAGE] Jonathan Krieckhaus, The Regime Debate Revisted: A Sensitivity Analysis of Democracy's Economic Effect, British Journal of Political Science, 34: Adam Przeworski and Fernando Limongi Political Regimes and Economic Growth, The Journal of Economic Perspectives 7:51-69.

6 Mancur Olson Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development, The American Political Science Review 87: John F. Helliwell, Empirical Linkages between Democracy and Economic Growth, British Journal of Political Science 24: Dennis P. Quinn and John T. Woolley Democracy and National Economic Performance: The Preference for Stability, American Journal of Political Science 45: Dimitri Landa and Ethan B. Kapstein Inequality, Growth, and Democracy, World Politics 53: David A. Leblang, 1996, Property Rights, Democracy and Economic Growth, Political Research Quarterly 49:5-26. David A. Leblang, Political Democracy and Economic Growth: Pooled Cross- Sectional and Time-Series Evidence, British Journal of Political Science 27: Karen Remmer Democracy and Economic Crisis: The Latin American Experience, World Politics 42: Adam Przeworski, et al. Democracy and Development, Political Institutions and the Well-Being of the World, Cambridge, Cambridge University Chapter 4. Yi Feng Democracy, Political Stability and Economic Growth, British Journal of Political Science 27: Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini The Economic Effects of Constitutions. Cambridge, MIT Week 8 (October 13, 2009). No Class. Meetings in office to discuss paper topics. Week 9 (October 20, 2009). Socioeconomic Equality and Welfare. Glenn Firebaugh and Brian Goesling Accounting for the Recent Decline in Global Income Inequality, American Journal of Sociology 110: Philip Keefer and Stephen Knack Polarization, Politics and Property Rights: Links between Inequality and Growth. Public Choice 111 : Michael Ross, Is Democracy Good for the Poor? American Journal of Political Science 50: Nita Rudra and Stephan Haggard.2006, Globalization, Democracy, and Effective Welfare Spending in the Developing World, Comparative Political Studies 39: Simone Dietrich and Michael Bernhard State or Regime? The Impact of Political Institutions on Welfare Outcomes, (manuscript). Lane Kenworthy and Jonas Pontusson Rising Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Affluent Countries, Perspectives on Politics 3:

7 Glenn Firebaugh and Frank D. Beck Does Economic Growth Benefit the Masses? Growth, Dependence, and Welfare in the Third World, American Sociological Review 59: Simon Kuznets Economic Growth and Income Inequality, American Economic Review 45: Christopher Chase-Dunn The Effects of International Economic Dependence on Development and Inequality: A Cross-National Study, American Sociological Review 40: Glenn Firebaugh The New Geography of Global Income Inequality. Harvard, Harvard University Ethan B. Kapstein Economic Justice in an Unfair World: Toward a Level Playing Field. Princeton, Princeton University Evelyne Huber and John Stephens, Development and Crisis of the Welfare State: Parties and Policies in Global Markets. Chicago, University of Chicago Rubinson, Richard and Dan Quinlan Democracy and Social Equality, American Sociological Review 42: Kristin Forbes A Reassessment of the Relationship Between Inequality and Growth. American Economic Review 90: Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini Is Inequality Harmful for Growth? American Economic Review Bruce E. Moon and William J. Dixon Basic Needs and Growth-Welfare Trade- Offs, International Studies Quarterly 36: Loren A. King, Economic Growth and Basic Human Needs, International Studies Quarterly 42: Week 10 (October 27, 2009) Colonial Legacies Jonathan Krieckhaus Dictating Development: How Europe Shaped the Global Periphery. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation. The American Economic Review 91: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117: Robert R. Kaufman, Harry I. Chernotsky and Daniel S. Geller A Preliminary Test of the Theory of Dependency, Comparative Politics, 7: J. Samuel Valenzuela, and Arturo Valenzuela Modernization and Dependency: Alternative Perspectives in the Study of Latin American Development. Comparative Politics, 10: Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto Dependency and Development in Latin America. Berkeley: University of California James Mahoney Long Run Development and the Legacy of Spanish Colonialism, American Journal of Sociology 103:

8 Week 11 (November 3, 2009). Gender Inequality and Development Elizabeth M King, Andrew D.Mason, eds Engendering Development: Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice. New York, Washington, D.C.; Oxford University Available on line at: the World Bank. Background Papers to the Report Week 12 (November 10, 2009). Varieties of Capitalism Gosta Esping-Andersen The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Princeton, Princeton University Mark Blyth Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Cambridge University Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman Development, Democracy, and Welfare States: Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. Princeton, Princeton University Bruno Amable The Diversity of Modern Capitalism. Oxford: Oxford University Hall, Peter A. and David Soskice, eds Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. New York, Oxford. Huber, Evelyne, Charles E., Ragin, and John D. Stephens, Social Democracy, Christian Democracy, Constitutional Structure and the Welfare State, American Journal of Sociology, 99: Paul Pierson, "The New Politics of the Welfare State." World Politics 48: Wolfgang Streeck and Kozo Yamamura, eds The Origins of Nonliberal Capitalism: Germany And Japan In Comparison. Cornell, Cornell University David Rueda and Jonas Pontusson Wage Inequality and Varieties of Capitalism, World Politics 52: Week 13 (November 17, 2009). Development Failure Albert Hirschman Political Economy of Import Substituting Industrialization in Latin America. Quarterly Journal of Economics 82: 1-32 Adam Przeworski et al Democracy and Development, Political Institutions and the Well-Being of the World, Cambridge, Cambridge University Chapter 5. Kenneth L. Sokoloff and Stanley L. Engermann Institutions, Factor Endowments, and Paths of Development in the New World, Journal of Economic Perspectives 14: Sachs, Jeffrey D., and Andrew M. Warner The Curse of Natural Resources. European Economic Review 45(4):

9 Keefer, Philip and Stephen Knack Why Don t Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National Test of an Institutional Explanation. Economic Inquiry 35: Richard Snyder Does Lootable Wealth Breed Disorder? A Political Economy of Extraction Framework, Comparative Political Studies 40: Week 14 (November 24, 2009). Development Failure II Robert H. Bates When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa. Cambridge, Cambridge University Additional Reading: Lisa Anderson The State in the Middle East and North Africa, Comparative Politics 20:1-18. Terry Karl The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and the Petro-State. Berkeley, University of California Kiren Aziz Chaudhry. The Price of Wealth: Economics and Institutions in the Middle East. Ithaca, Cornell University Gwen Okrulhik Rentier Wealth, Unruly Law, and the Rise of Opposition: The Political Economy of Rentier States, Comparative Politics 31: H.E. Chehabi and Juan J. Linz, eds Sultanistic Regimes. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Richard Snyder and Ravi Bhavnani Diamonds, Blood, and Taxes: A Revenue- Centered Framework for Explaining Political Order, Journal Of Conflict Resolution 49: Michael Herb No Representation without Taxation? Rents, Development, and Democracy, Comparative Politics 37: William Easterly and Ross Levine Africas Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 112: Paul Collier Ethnicity, Politics and Economic Performance. Economics and Politics 12: William Easterly, Jozef Ritzen, and Michael Woolcock Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth. Economics and Politics 18: Alberto Alesina and Dani Rodrik Distributive Politics and Economic Growth. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 109: Daniel Treisman The Causes of Corruption: a Cross-national Study. Journal of Public Economics 76: Week 15 (December 1, 2009). Research Reports. Week 16 (December 8, 2009). Research Reports.