Instructor Room No. POL 320 Comparative Politics Fall 2017-18 Yunas Samad 120 Academic Block Office Hours TBC Email yunas.samad@lums.edu.pk Telephone 8108 Secretary/TA TBC TA Office Hours Course URL (if any) COURSE BASICS Credit Hours 4 Lecture(s) 2 Per Week Duration 1:50 hours Recitation/Lab (per None Duration week) Tutorial (per week) None Duration COURSE DESCRIPTION This course deals with a significant sub-discipline of political science, which relates to understanding the political dynamics of countries across the globe in a comparative perspective. It seeks to enhance the knowledge about both theoretical formulation and empirical reality of politics. The course includes discussion about conceptual and methodological issues of comparative politics, dynamics of state and its relations with social forces and multiple approaches to contemporary politics including modernization, neoinstitutionalism, civil society and collective action as well as the democratic theory and practice. It includes a wide range of topics from ethnic politics at the sub-national level to globalization at large. COURSE OBJECTIVES The course seeks to achieve the following goals: 1. Introduce students to the key concepts, theories and debates within the discipline 2. Training the students to critically evaluate various theories and frameworks 3. Enabling the students to develop causal understanding of various processes essential to the functioning of domestic political systems. GRADING Attendance 10% Class Participation 5% Group Presentation 15% Group Presentation 15% Assignment 25% Final Examination 30%
COURSE OUTLINE Session 1: Introduction: Introducing comparative politics Session 2 Perspectives On Comparative Politics Mair, Peter, Comparative Politics: An Overview, Robert E. Goodin and Hans-Dieter eds, A New Handbook of Political Science, Oxford University Press, 1998, 309-335 Kohli, Atul, et al. 1995. The Role of Theory in Comparative Politics, World Politics, 48 (1), pp. 1-49. Session 3 Method in Comparative Politics Hopkins, J. (2002) Comparative Method in D Marsh and G Stoker (eds.) Theory and Methods in Political Science p.249-267 Lijphart, A (1971) Comparative Politics and Comparative Method American Political Science Review, vol. 45 (3) p.682-93 Lieberson, S (1991) Small N s Big Conclusions: An Examination of the Reasoning Comparative Studies Based on Small Nunber of Cases, Social Forces, Vol 70 no 2. Session 4 Political Institutions: Nation State Skocpol, Theda, Bringing The State Back In: Strategies Of Analysis In Current Research. In Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol, Eds, Bringing The State Back In, London: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 1 Barkey, K & Parikh, S (1991) Comparative Perspective of the State, Annual Review Social, 17 523-49. Mitchel, T. (1992) Going Beyond the State? American Political Science Review, Vol 8 No 4. Session 5 Nationalism and National Identity Greenfield, L and Eastwood National identity in C Boix and S Stokes (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics Anderson, B (1991) Introduction, Imagined Communities Verso. Chatterjee, P (2010) Empire and Nation, Chapter 1, Columbia University Press. Session 6: Group presentations Session 7: Group presentations Session 8: Democracy Mair, P (2008) Democracies D Caramani Comparative Politics, Oxford University Press: Oxford Schmitter, Philippe, And Terry Lynn Karl, 1991, What Democracy Is...And Is Not, Journal Of Democracy Session 9: Democratisation Tilly, C. (2000) Processes and Mechanisms of democratisation, Sociological Theory 18(1) p.116 Remmer, Karen, 1995, New Theoretical Perspectives On Democratization, Comparative Politics, 28: 103-122
Samad, Yunas (2017) Elections and democratic transition in Pakistan: one step forward and two steps backwards, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 2017, Vol 55, No 4, 1-22 Session 10: Authoritarian Regimes Levitsky, Steven, And Lucan A. Way, 2002, Elections Without Democracy: The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism, Journal Of Democracy, Vol 13, No. 2, 51-65, G. Erdmann and U. Engel, 2006 Neopatrimonialism Revisited Beyond a Catch-All Concept, GIGA Working Papers No 16 Session 11: Democracy: The Sequencing Debate Dahl, Robert A. 1971. Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition, New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 17-46. Mansfield, E. & Snyder, J. (2007) The Sequencing Fallacy, The Journal of Democracy, Vol 18 No 3. Stinebrickner, B (2015) Robert A. Dahl and the essentials of Modern Political Analysis: politics, influence, power, and polyarchy Journal of Political Power, 8,2 Session 12: Institutions- I: The New Institutionalism Thelen, Kathleen, 1999. Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics, Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 2, pp. 369-404. Hall, Peter A. 1996. Political Science and the Three New Institutionalism, Political Studies, Vol. XLIV, pp. 936-957. Session 13: Institutions -II: Presidential and Parliamentary Forms of Government Cheibub, Jose and Limongi, Fernando. 2002. Democratic Institutions and Regime Survival: Parliamentarism and Presidentialism Revisited, Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 5, pp. 151-179. Elgie, Robert. (2005) From Linz to Tsebelis: Three Waves of Presidential/Parliamentary Studies, Democratization, 12:1, 106-122. Session 14: Institutions-III: Elections and Electoral Systems Norris, P. (1997) Choosing Electoral Systems: Proportional, Majoritarian and Mixed Systems, International Political Science Review, Vol 18, No 3. Bormann, N. Golder, M. (2013) Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946 2011. Electoral Studies, 32 360-369Cox, Gary W. 1997. Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World s Electoral Systems, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 37-68. Lijphart, Arendt and Grofman, Bernard. 1984. Choosing an Electoral System: Issues and Alternatives, New York: Praeger, pp. 3-12. Session 15: Institutions-IV: Political Parties Stokes, Susan C. 1999. Political Parties and Democracy, Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 2, pp. 243-267. Strom, Kaare. 1990. A Behavioral Theory of Competitive Political Parties, American Journal of Political Science, 34 (2), pp. 565-598. Session 16: Social Heterogeneity Lijphart, Arend. (1979) Consociation and Federation: Conceptual and Empirical Links Canadian Journal of Political Science, No 3 (Sep. 1979) 499-515.
Andeweg, R.B. (2000) Consociational Democracy, Annual Review Political Science, 3 509-36. Session 17: Group presentations Session 18: Group presentations Session 19: Social Movements I Tarrow, S. & Tilly, C. (2007) Contentious Politics and Social Movements, C Boix and S Stokes (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics pp.435-460 Jenkins, J. Craig, Resource Mobilization Theory And The Study Of Social Movements, Annual Review Of Sociology, Vol. 9, 1983, 527-553 Session 20: Social Movements II Crossley, N (2002)Making Sense of Social Movements, chapter 3 Porta, D.D. and Diani, M. (2006) Social Movements: An Introduction, Blackwell Publishing, pp1-29 Session 21: Political Instability: Revolutions Pincus, S Revolutions in C Boix and S Stokes (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics Snyder, Robert S., The End Of Revolution? The Review Of Politics, Vol. 61, No.1 (Winter 1999), 5-28 Session 22: Ethnic Conflict-I Chandra, Kanchan. 2006. Ethnic Parties and Democratic Stability, Perspectives on Politics, 3 (2), pp. 235-52. Madrid, Raul. 2008. The Rise of Ethnopopulism in Latin America, World Politics, 60 (3), pp. 475-508. Smith, A.D. (1996) Culture, Community and Territory: The Politics of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Vol. 72, No 3 pp. 445-458. Session 23: Ethnic Conflict-II: Ethnic Violence Brubaker Rogers and Laitin, David D. 1998. Ethnic and Nationalist Violence, Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 24, pp. 423-52. Kaufman, S. (2006) Symbolic Politics or Rational Choice? Testing Theories of Extreme Ethnic Violence, International Security, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Spring, 2006), pp. 45-86 Varsney, A. (2007) Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict C Boix and S Stokes (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics pp. 274-294. Session24: Ethnic Conflict-III: Conflict Management Lake and Rothchild, 1996. Containing Fear: The Origins and Management of Ethnic Conflict, International Security, 21 (2), pp. 41-75. Lustick, Ian. 1979. Stability in Deeply Divided Societies: Consociationalism vs. Control, World Politics, 31 (3), pp. 325-44. Samad, Yunas (2011) The Pakistan-US Conundrum: Jihadist, the Military and the People- The Struggle for Control, Columbia University Press, New York, chapter 9: Managing Ethnic Difference. Session 25: Religion In Contemporary Politics Wiktorowicz, Quintan, 2004, Introduction in Islamic Activism and Social Movement Theory, Quintan Wiktorowicz, Indiana University Press, Bloomington & Indianpolis, 2-20 Waseem, Mohammad, 2007, Islam And The West: A Perspective From Pakistan, In Peacock, James
L, Patricia M. Thornton And Patrick B. Inman Eds, Identity Matters, Berghahn Books, New York, 190-204. Samad, Yunas (2011) The Pakistan-US Conundrum: Jihadist, the Military and the People- The Struggle for Control, Columbia University Press, New York, chapter 7Emergence of Islamic Social Movements. Session 26 Globalization Evans, Peter, 1997, The Eclipse Of The State? Reflection On The Stateness In An Era Of Globalization, World Politics 50: 62-87 Gelinas, Jacques B., 2003, Juggernaut Politics: Understanding Predatory Globalization, Zed Books, New York, 98-112 Sassen, S. (2001) The State and Globalization, in Mark Kenelman (ed) Politics of Globalization, Boston, Houghton Miffin. Session 27 Diaspora and Transnationalism Portes, A et al (1999). The study of transnationalism: pitfalls and promise of an emergent research field. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 22(2), 217233 Samad. Y (2012) Diaspora in the Global City, in Transnationalism in the global city, edited by Gerry Boucher, Annette Grinsted and Trinidad L. Vicente Session 28: Review of the major themes in Comparative Politics