1 POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY Comprehensive Exam Reading List, 2010-11 Department of Sociology, University of Arizona Foundations (Diverse General Approaches to Power, Politics and the State) Bourdieu, Pierre. 1994. Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field. Sociological Theory 12(1): 1-18. Bourdieu, Pierre. 1993. Part III. Symbolic Power and the Political Field in Language and Symbolic Power. Harvard University Press. Foucault, Michel. 1991. Governmentality. Pp. 87-104 in The Foucault Effect. University of Chicago Press. Also read Colin Gordon s introductory essay in this book, Governmental Rationality: an Introduction. Foucault, Michel. 1990. Right of Death and Power over Life. Pp. 115-132 in The History of Sexuality, vol. 1 Vintage. Gramsci, Antonio. 1971. State and Civil Society. Pp. 206-276 in Selections from the Prison Notebooks. International Publishers. James, David and Kent Redding. 2005. Theories of Race and the State. Pp. 187-200 in The Handbook of Political Sociology, edited by T. Janowski, R. Alford, A. Hicks and M. Schwartz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kiser, Edgar and Shawn Bauldry. 2005. Rational Choice Theories in Political Sociology. Pp. 172-186 in The Handbook of Political Sociology, edited by T. Janowski, R. Alford, A. Hicks and M. Schwartz. Lukes, Steven. 2005 [1974]. Power: A Radical View. 2 nd Ed. MacMillan. Marx, Karl. 1978. The 18 th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. In The Marx-Engels Reader, edited by R. C. Tucker. Norton. McMichael, Philip. 2005. Globalization. Pp. 587-606 in The Handbook of Political Sociology, edited by T. Janowski, R. Alford, A. Hicks and M. Schwartz. Moaddel, Mansoor. 2002. Jordanian Exceptionalism: A Comparative Analysis of State Religion Relationships in Egypt, Iran, Jordan and Syria. Chapter 1, pp. 1-27, Conclusions, pp. 147-159. Palgrave-MacMillan. Piven, Frances and Richard Cloward. 2005. Rule-Making, Rule Breaking and Power. Pp. 33-53 in The Handbook of Political Sociology, edited by T. Janowski, R. Alford, A. Hicks and M. Schwartz. Polanyi, Karl. 1957. The Great Transformation. Beacon Press. O Connor, James. 1973. The Fiscal Crisis of the State. St. Martins Press. Orloff, Ann Shola. 1993. Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship: The Comparative Analysis of Gender Relations and Welfare States. American Sociological Review 58: 303-328. Przeworksi, Adam. 1985. Capitalism and Social Democracy. Chapters 1, 3-5.
2 Skocpol, Theda. 1985. Bringing the State Back In. In Bringing the State Back In, edited by Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol. Cambridge University Press. Skrentny, John D. 2006. Law and the American State. Annual Review of Sociology 32: 213-244. Streeck, Wolfgang and Lane Kenworthy. 2005. Theories and Practices of Neo-Corporatism. Pp. 441-460 in The Handbook of Political Sociology, edited by T. Janowski, R. Alford, A. Hicks and M. Schwartz. Weber. Max. 1978. Types of Legitimate Domination. Pp. 212-296 in Economy and Society, Vol. 1, edited by G. Roth and C. Wittich. University of California Press. Weber, Max. 1958. Bureaucracy in From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, edited by H. Gerth and C. W. Mills. Oxford University Press, pp. 196-244. State Formation, Revolution and State Disintegration Adams, Julia, Culture in Rational Choice Theories of State Formation. Pp. 98-122 in State/Culture: State Formation after the Cultural Turn, edited by G. Steinmetz. Cornell University Press. Bendix, Reinhard. 1969. Nation Building and Citizenship. Anchor Books. Boswell, Terry and William Dixon. 1993. Marx s Theory of Rebellion: A Cross National Analysis of Class Exploitation, Economic Development and Violent Revolt. American Sociological Review 58: 681-702. Brubaker, Rogers. 1996. Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe. Charrad, Mounira. 2001. States and Women s Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. Berkeley: University of California Press, Introductory Chapter, Chapters 7-9 (Part III) and Conclusion. detoqueville Alexis. 1955. The Old Regime and the French Revolution. Doubleday. Evans, Peter. 1997. The Eclipse of the State? Reflections on Stateness in an Era of Globalization. World Politics 50: 62-87. Flistein, Neil and Alec Stone Sweet. 2002. Constructing Politics and Markets: An Institutionalist Account of European Integration. American Journal of Sociology 107: 1206-1243. Goldstone, Jack. 2003. Comparative-Historical Analysis and Knowledge Accumulation in the Study of Revolutions. Pp. 41-90 in Comparative Historical Analyses in the Social Sciences, edited by James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer. Goodwin, Jeffrey. 2005. Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements. Pp. 4-4-422 in The Handbook of Political Sociology, edited by T. Janowski, R. Alford, A. Hicks and M. Schwartz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Gorski, Philip. 1999. Calvinism and State Formation in Early Modern Europe. Pp. 147-181 in State/Culture: State Formation after the Cultural Turn, edited by G. Steinmetz. Cornell University Press.
3 Meyer, John. The Changing Cultural Content of the Nation State: A World Society Perspective. Pp. 123-144 in State/Culture: State Formation after the Cultural Turn, edited by G. Steinmetz. Cornell University Press. Rodrik, Dani. 2000. How Far Will International Economic Integration Go? Journal of Economic Perspectives 14 (Winter): 177-186. Sohrabi, Nader. 1995. Historicizing Revolutions: Constitutional Revolutions in the Ottoman Empire, Iran and Russia, 1905-1906. American Journal of Sociology 100: 1393- Skocpol, Theda. 1979. States and Revolutions. Tilly, Charles. 1990. Coercion, Capital and European States. A.D. 900-1900. Basil Blackwell. Wimmer, Andreas, Brian Min and Lars Erik Cedeman. 2009. Ethnic Politics and Armed Conflict: A Configurational Analysis of a New Global Data Set. American Sociological Review 74: 316-37. Mobilization, Voting and Representation Almond, Gabriel and Sidney Verba. 1963. The Civic Culture. Princeton University Press. Berezin, Mabel. 1999. Political Belonging: Emotion, Nation and Identity in Fascist Italy Pp. 355-377 in State/Culture: State Formation after the Cultural Turn, edited by George Steinmetz. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. Brooks, Clem and Jeff Manza. 1999. Social Cleavages and Political Change: Voter Alignments and US Party Coalitions. Oxford University Press. Bozendahl, Catherine and Clem Brooks. 2007. Women s Political Representation and Welfare Spending in 12 Capitalist Democracies. Social Forces 85: 1509-1534. Downs, Anthony. 1998. An Economic Theory of Political Action in Democracy. Political Theory: Public Choice. Harper. Pp. 1-16. Hirschman, Albert O. 1970. Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations and States. Harvard University Press. Jackman, Robert W. 1987. Political Institutions and Voter Turnout in Industrial Democracies. American Political Science Review 81: 405-423. Lipset, Seymour Martin. 1960. Political Man. Anchor. Chapters 2 and 6.. Manza, Jeff, Clem Brooks and Michael Sauder. 2005. Money, Participation and Votes: Social Cleavages and Electoral Politics. Pp. 201-226 in The Handbook of Political Sociology, edited by T. Janowski, R. Alford, A. Hicks and M. Schwartz. Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1992. Geopolitics and Geoculture. Cambridge University, Chapter 5, pp. 65-83. States and Policy (Social and Economic) Amenta, Edwin and Drew Halfmann. 2000. Wage Wars: Institutional Politics, WPA Wages and the Struggle for US Social Policy. American Sociological Review 65: 506-528. Amenta, Edwin, Neil Caren and Sheera Joy Olasky. 2005. Age for Leisure? Political Mediation and the Impact of the Pension Movement on U.S. Old Age Policy. American Sociological Review 70: 516-539.
4 Brady, David, Martin Seelieb Kiser and Jason Beckfield 2005. Economic Globalization and the Welfare State in Affluent Democracies, 1970-2000. American Sociological Review 70: 921-948. Dobbin, Frank and John Sutton. 1998. The Strength of a Weak State: The Rights Revolution and the Rise of Human Resource Management Divisions. American Journal of Sociology 194: 441-476. Domhoff, G. William. 1990. The Power Elite and the State: How Policy is Made in America. Aldine de Gruyter. Chapters 1-3. Esping-Andersen, Gõsta. 1990. The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Princeton University Press, pp. 1-138. Evans, Peter. 1989. Predatory, Developmental and Other Apparatuses. Sociological Forum 4: 561-587. Hacker, Jacob S. and Paul Pierson. 2010. Winner-Take-All Politics: Public Policy, Political Organization and the Precipitous Rise of Top Incomes in the United States. Politics & Society 38: 152-304. Huber, Evelyne and John D. Stephens. 2001. Development and Crisis of the Welfare State: Parties and Politics in Global Markets. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chapters 1-4, 6-8. Kenworthy, Lane and Jonas Pontusson 2005. Rising Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Affluent Democracies. Perspectives on Politics 3: 449-471. Korpi, Walter and Joachim Palme. 2003. New Politics and Class Politics in the Context of Austerity and Globalization. Welfare State Regress in 18 Countries. American Political Science Review 97: 425-46. Majone, Giandomenico. 1994. The Rise of the Regulatory State in Europe. West European Politics 17: 77-101.7 616-34. Myles, John and Jill Quadagno. 2002. Political Theories of the Welfare State. Social Service Review March 2002: 35-57. Pedriana, Nicholas and Robin Stryker. 1997. Political Culture Wars 1960s Style: Equal Employment Opportunity-Affirmative Action Law and the Philadelphia Plan. American Journal of Sociology 103: 633-691. Pedriana, Nicholas and Robin Stryker. 2004. The Strength of a Weak Agency: Early Enforcement of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Expansion of State Capacity, 1965-1971. American Journal of Sociology 110: 709-760. Pierson, Paul. 1996. The New Politics of the Welfare State. World Politics 48: 143-179. Piven, Frances Fox and Richard Cloward. 1972. Regulating the Poor. Random House. Quadagno, Jill. 1990. Race, Class and Gender in the US Welfare State: Nixon s Failed Family Assistance Plan. American Sociological Review 55: 11-28. Quadagno, Jill. 1992. Social Movements and State Transformation: Labor Unions and Racial Conflict in the War on Poverty. American Sociological Review 57: 616-34. Sabatier, Paul 1975. Social Movements and Regulatory Agencies; Toward a More Adequate and Less Pessimistic Theory of Clientele Capture. Policy Sciences 6: 301-41.
5 Skocpol, Theda. 1980. Political Responses to Capitalist Crisis: Neo-Marxist Theories of the State and the Case of the New Deal. Politics & Society 10: 155-201. Steensland, Brian. 2006. Cultural Categories and the American Welfare State: The Case of Guaranteed Income Policy. American Journal of Sociology 111: 1273-1326. Stryker, Robin. 2000. Government Regulation. Pp. 1089-1111 in Encyclopedia or Sociology, 2 nd Ed, edited by E. F. Borgatta and R. J. V. Montgomery. New York: MacMillan. Swensen, Peter. 1991. Bringing Capital Back In, or Social Democracy Reconsidered: Employer Power, Cross-Class Alliances and Centralization of Industrial Relations in Denmark and Sweden. World Politics 43: 513-44. Democracy and Democratic Transitions Hirschman, Albert O. 1980. The Turn to Authoritarianism in Latin America and the Search for its Economic Determinants. Pp. 61-89 in The New Authoritarianism in Latin America, edited by D. Collier. Princeton University Press. Lipset, Seymour Martin. 1994. The Social Requisites of Democracy Revisited: 1993 Presidential Address. American Sociological Review 59:1-22. Mahoney, James. 2002. The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University. Moore, Barrrington. 1966. The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Beacon Press. Part III: 413-508. O Donnell, Guilleremo and Philippe C. Schmitter. 1991. Transitions from Authoritarian Rule. John Hopkins University Press. Przeworski, Adam and Fernando Limongi. 1997. Modernization: Theories and Facts World Politics 49: 253-73. Robinson, William. 1996. Promoting Polyarchy. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-116. Rueschemeyer, Dietrich, Evelyne Huber Stephens and John Stephens. 1992. Capitalist Development and Democracy. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. Chapters 1-3, 7. Schwartzman, Kathleen. 1998. Globalization and Democracy. Annual Review of Sociology 24: 159-181. Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1992. Geopolitics and Geoculture. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-15.