American University School of Public Affairs Department of Government January 2005 GRADUATE READING LIST: COMPARATIVE POLITICS Designed to guide students in their preparation for comprehensive examinations See also the memorandum Guidelines for Preparation for Comparative Politics Comprehensive Examinations issued by the Government Department 1 January 2005 I. Research Methods and Field Overviews Bates, Robert H., et. al. 1998. Analytic Narrative. Princeton: Princeton University Press.. Chilcote, Ronald. Theories of Comparative Politics: The Search for a Paradigm Reconsidered. (Second Edition). Boulder: Westview Press 1994. Finifter, Ada W. (Ed.). Political Science: The State of the Discipline. Washington: American Political Science Association 1983. Finifter, Ada W. (Ed) Political Science: The State of the Discipline II. Washington: American Political Science Association 1993. Barbara Geddes. 2003. Paradigms and Sand Castles Theory Building and Research Design in Comparative Politics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan. Katznelson, Ira and Helen V. Milner, eds. 2002. Political Science: The State of the Discipline III. Washington: American Political Science Association. King, Gary; Keohane, Robert O. and Verba, Sidney. Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Lane, Ruth. The Art of Comparative Politics. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1997. Lichbach, Mark Irving and Alan Zuckerman (Eds.). Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture and Structure. Cambridge University Press, 1997. Przeworski, Adam and Henry Teune. The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry. New York: Wiley, 1970. Shepsle, Kenneth A. and Mark S. Bonchek. 1997. Analyzing Politics - Rationality, Behavior, and Institutions. New York: W.W. Norton Press. II. Background Classics Comparative Reading List January 2005 page 1
Comparative Reading List January 2005 page 2 Apter, David E. The Politics of Modernization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965. Banfield, Edward C. The Moral Basis of a Backward Society. Glencoe: Free Press, 1958. Dahl, Robert A. Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971. Dahrendorf, Rolf. Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1959. Downs, Anthony. An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper and Row 1957. Durkheim, Emile. The Division of Labour in Society, New York: Free Press 1933. Duverger, Maurice. Political Parties. Their Organization and Activity in the Modern State. New York: John Wiley 1954. Foucault, Michael. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977. New York: Pantheon 1977. Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books 1973. Hirschman, Albert. Exit, Voice and Loyalty. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1970. Huntington, Samuel P. Political Order in Changing Societies. New Haven: Yale, 1968. LaPalombara, Joseph, and Myron Weiner (Eds). Political Parties And Political Development. Princeton: Princeton University Press 1966. Mahoney, James, and Dietrich Rueschemeyer (Eds.) Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2003. Marx, Karl. Capital. New York: International Publishers, 1967. Also Robert Tucker, The Marx- Engels Reader New York: Norton 1972, 1978. Michels, Robert. Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern democracy (1915). New York: Dover, 1959. Moore, Barrington, Jr. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Boston: Beacon, 1966. Rorty, Richard. Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays 1972-1980. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1982. Schelling, Thomas. Strategy of Conflict. New York: Oxford Galaxy 1963. Skocpol, Theda. States and Social Revolutions. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
Comparative Reading List January 2005 page 3 Tilly, Charles. (Ed.). Formation of National States in Western Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. Wallerstein, Immanuel. Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of Nineteenth-Century Paradigms. Cambridge: Blackwell 1991. Weber, Max. The Theory of Social And Economic Organization. New York: Free Press, 1947. III. Special Topic Areas Political Culture and Public Opinion Almond, Gabriel A. and Sidney Verba. The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963. Almond, Gabriel A. and Sidney Verba (Eds.) The Civic Culture Revisited. Boston: Little Brown 1980. Inglehart, Ronald. Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. Inglehart, Ronald. Modernization and Postmodernization. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Lewis, Peter and Michael Bratton, 2003. Understanding Attitudes to Democracy and Markets in Nigeria in Philips and Seck, eds., Fixing African Economies: New Policy Research for Development, Lynne Rienner, 2003. Norton, Anne. 95 Theses on Politics, Culture, and Method. New Haven: Yale University Press 2004. Pye, Lucian W. and Sydney Verba (Eds.). Political Culture and Political Development. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965. IV. Special Topic Areas State and Society Anderson, Perry. Lineages of the Absolutist State. London, Verso 1979. Apter, David. Ghana in Transition. Princeton: Princeton University Press 1972. Berger, Suzanne (Ed.) Organizing Interest in Western Europe: Pluralism, Corporatism And the Transformation of Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Cardoso, Fernando E., and Enzo Foletto. Dependency and Development in Latin America. Berkeley: University of California Press 1979. Connor, Walker. Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding. Princeton: Princeton University
Comparative Reading List January 2005 page 4 Press, 1994. Elshtain, Jean Bethke. Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press 1981. Evans, Peter B., Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol (Eds). Bringing the State Back In. New York: Cambridge University Press 1985. Evans, Peter. Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Hutchison, John and Anthony D. Smith, eds. Nationalism. New York: Oxford University 1994. Katzenstein, Peter. Between Power And Plenty. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978. Linz, Juan and Alfred Stepan. Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation. Baltimore: johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Lipset, Seymour Martin. The First New Nation: The United States in Historical and Comparative Perspective. New York: Basic books, 1963. Marty, Martin E. Fundamentalism and the State. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Merkl, Peter H. (Ed.). Western Comparative Politics. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1970. Merritt Richard L. and Stein Rokkan (eds.). Comparing Nations. New Haven: Yale, 1966. Migdal, J.S. Strong Societies And Weak States. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. Mitchell, Timothy. The Limits of the State: Beyond Statist Approaches and Their Critics. American Political Science Review 85 (March 1991) 77-96. Pierson, Paul. Dismantling the Welfare State? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Poulantzas, Nicos. Political Power And Social Classes. London: New Left Books, 1973. Rose, Richard, and Ezra N. Suleiman (eds.). Presidents and Prime Ministers. Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1984. Schmitter, Philippe C. and Gerhard Lehnbruch (eds.). Trends Toward Corporatist Intermediation. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1979. Singerman, Diane. 1995. Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo (Princeton University Press, 1995). Stephan, Alfred (ed.). Authoritarian Brazil. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973.
Comparative Reading List January 2005 page 5 Suleiman, Ezra N. Elites in French Society: The Politics of Survival. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. Tilly, Charles. From Mobilization to Revolution. Reading: Addison Wesley, 1978. Wolf, E. Peasant wars of The Twentieth Century. New York: Harper and Row, 1969. V. Special Topic Areas Institutions Bratton, Michael, and Nicolas van de Walle. 1997. Democratic Experiments in Africa Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press. Eisenstadt, Todd A. 2003. Thinking Outside the (Ballot) Box: Informal Electoral Institutions and Mexico s Political Opening. Latin American Politics and Society 45, 1 (spring). Hall, Peter A. and Rosemary C. R. Taylor, Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms, In Karol Soltan, Eric M. Uslaner, and Virginia Haufler, eds., Institutions and Social Order. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. Hay, Colin and Daniel Wincott. 1998. Structure, Agency, and Historical Institutionalism. Political Studies 46. Horowitz, Donald, Juan Linz, and S. M. Lipset. 2001. Debate, "Presidents vs. Parliaments," The Global Resurgence of Democracy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Kiewiet, D. Roderick, and Mathew D. McCubbins. 1991. The Logic of Delegation Congressional parties and the Appropriations Process. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Knight, Jack. 1998. Models, Interpretations, and Theories: Constructing Explanations of Institutional Emergence and Change, in Jack Knight and Itai Sened, eds. Explaining Social Institutions. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan. 95-120. Laver, Michael, and Kenneth A. Shapsle (Eds). Cabinet Ministers and Parliamentary Government. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1994. Linz, Juan. 2001. "The Perils of Presidentialism," The Global Resurgence of Democracy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 124-142. Lijphardt, Arendt. 1999. Patterms of Democracy - Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries. New Haven: Yale University Press. Mainwaring, Scott and Matthew Soberg Shugart. 1997. Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America: Rethinking the Terms of the Debate, in Scott Mainwaring and Matthew Soberg Shugart, eds. Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Comparative Reading List January 2005 page 6 Powell, G. Bingham Jr. 2000. Elections as Instruments of Democracy Majoritarian and Proportional Visions. New Haven: Yale University Press. Thelen, Kathleen. 2000. Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics, in Annual Review of Political Science 2.. VI. Special Topic Areas Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Identity Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso, 1991. Coleman, James S. Nigeria: Background to Nationalism. Berkeley: University of California Press 1958. Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983. Harding, Sandra. Introduction: Is There a Feminist Method? In Feminism & Methodology, Sandra Harding, ed., 1-14. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. Marx, Anthony W. Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa and Brazil. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998 Nader, Laura. "The Subordination of Women in Comparative Perspective." Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 15 (Fall-Winter 1986): 377-397. Newman, Saul. Nationalism in Post-Industrial Societies: Why States Still Matter, Comparative Politics, 33:1 (October 2000): 21-41. Newman, Saul. 1991. Does Modernization Breed Ethnic Political Conflict? World Politics 43:3 (April 1991): 451-478. Okin, Susan. Gender, The Public and the Private. In Political Theory Today, David Held, ed., 67-90, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991. Pateman, Carole. Feminist Critiques of the Public/Private Dichotomy. In Public and Private in Social Life, S.I. Benn and G.F. Gaus, eds., 281-303, Croom Helm, 1983. Pierson, Paul. Dismantling the Welfare State? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Reilly, Benjamin. 2001. Democracy in Divided Societies Electoral Engineering for Conflict. New York: Cambridge University Smith, Anthony D. Nationalism and Modernism: A Critical Survey of Recent Theories of Nations and Nationalism. London: Routledge, 1999. VII. Special Topic Areas Parties and Social Movements Ekiert, Grzegorz and Jan Kubik. 2002. Rebellious Civil Society Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland, 1989-1993. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 181-199.
Comparative Reading List January 2005 page 7 Goodman, Louis, William LeoGrande, and Johanna Mendelson Forman (Eds.). 1992. Political Parties and Democracy in Central America. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1992. LeoGrande, William. 2002. The Cuban Communist Party and Electoral Politics: Adaptation, Succession and Transition. Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami, 2002. McFaul, Michael. 2001. Explaining Party Formation and Non-Formation in Russia: Actors, Institutions, and Chance, in Comparative Political Studies 34 (10), 1159-1187. Oberschall, Anthony, Social Movements and the Transition to Democracy, in Democratization Vol (3) Autumn 2000: 25-45. Olson, Mancur. 1965. The Logic of Collective Action, Public Goods, and the Theory of Groups. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 5-16, 33-36, 46-48, 132-135, 165-167. Samuels, David. 2002. Pork Barreling Is Not Credit Claiming or Advertising: Campaign Finance and the Sources of the Personal Vote in Brazil, in The Journal of Politics, 64(3): 845-863. Schmitter, Philippe. 2001. Parties Are Not What They Once Were, in Larry Diamond and Richard Gunther, eds. Political Parties and Democracy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 67-89. Strom, Kaare. 1990. "A Behavioral Theory of Competitive Political Parties" American Journal of Political Science, 34: 565-98. Tarrow, Sidney. Power in Movements. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. VIII. Special Topic Areas Democracy and Democratization Barkan, Joel D. 2000. Protracted Transitions Among Africa s New Democracies, in Democratization 7, No. 3 (Autumn 2000), 227-243. Bellin, Eva. 2004. The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective, in Comparative Politics 36 (2), January 2004. Bermeo, Nancy. 1997. Myths of Moderation: Confrontation and Conflict During Democratic Transitions, in Comparative Politics 293, No. 3: 305-322. Bollen, Kenneth, "Political Democracy: Conceptual and Measurement Traps." In Alex Inkeles, ed., On Measuring Democracy. New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1993. Bratton, Michael. 1999. "Political Participation in a New Democracy: Institutional Considerations from Zambia." Comparative Political Studies 32(5):549-588 (August 1999). Collier, David and Steven Levistky, Democracy With Adjectives: Conceptual Innovation in Comparative Research in World Politics, 1997 Diamond, Larry and Plattner, Marc F. The Global Resurgence of Democracy (Second Edition). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Diamond, Larry. Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Comparative Reading List January 2005 page 8 Diamond, Larry and Marc F. Plattner. The Global Resurgence of Democracy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Di Palma, Guiseppe. To Craft Democracies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Dahl, Robert A. Polyarchy. New Haven: Yale University Press 1966. Eisenstadt, Todd A. 2004. Courting Democracy in Mexico: Party Strategies and Electoral Institutions. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1-59, 162-292. Gibson, James L. 2003. Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation: Judging the Fairness of Amnesty in South Africa, in the American Journal of Political Science 46, No. 3 (July 2002): 540-556. Gunther, Richard: Diamadouros, P. Nikiforos, and Hans Jurgen Puhle, eds. The Politics of Democratic Consolidation: Southern Europe in Comparative Perspective. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Higley, John and Richard Gunther. Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 1992. Huntington, Samuel The Third Wave. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991 McFaul, Michael, The Fourth Wave of Democracy and Dictatorship Noncooperative Transitions in the Postcommunist World, in World Politics 54 (January 2002), 212-44. Mahoney, James. 2003. Knowledge Accumulation in Comparative Historical Research: The Case of Democracy and Authoritarianism, in Mahoney, James, and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds. Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences. New York: Cambridge University Press. 131-176. Przeworski, Adam. Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Putnam, Robert D. Making Democracy Work. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Rueschemeyer, Dietrich; Stephens, Evelyne Huber and John Stephens. Capitalist Development and Democracy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. IX. Special Topic Areas Political Economy Alt, James E., and Kenneth A. Shapsle (Eds.) Perspectives on Positive Political Economy. New York: Cambridge University Press 1990. Barry, Brian. Sociologists, Economists and Democracy. London: Collier Macmillan 1970. Bates, Robert H. Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies. Berkeley: University of California Press 1981.
Comparative Reading List January 2005 page 9 Evans, P. Dependent Development: The Alliance of Multinational, State And Local Capital. Princeton: Princeton University Press 1979. Gerschenkron, Alexander. Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1962. Gourevitch, Peter. Politics in Hard Times. Itahaca: Cornell University Press, 1986. Haggard, Stephen and Robert J. Kaufman. The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Hall, Peter. Governing the Economy: The Politics of State Intervention in Britain and France. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Miliband, R.. The State in Capitalist Society. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. O Donnell, Guillermo. Modernization And Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism: Studies in South America Politics. Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, 1973. Olson, Mancur. The Rise And Decline of Nations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982. Popkin, Samuel L. The Rational Peasant: the Political Economy of Rural Society in Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. Rogowski, Ronald. Commerce And Coalitions: How Trade Affects Domestic Political Alignments. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. Schumpeter, Joseph A. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1942). Third edition (1950) New York: Harper Torchbook, 1962. Scott, James C. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. Tufte, Edward R. Political Control of the Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980. Wallerstein, Immanuel. The Capitalist World Economy. New York: Cambridge University 1975. saved as memos\cpreadlist