COMPARATIVE POLITICAL ECONOMY (PSC 288-10) Seminar: Tuesday Emmanuel J. Teitelbaum 6:10-8:00 p.m. Assistant Professor Rome Hall Monroe/Government Room 206 Room 411 ejt@gwu.edu Office Hours: By Appointment (202) 994-9125 This is a survey course in contemporary comparative political economy. The course emphasizes current research agendas in the field and issues of research design will feature prominently in our discussions. The course divides into to parts: the political economy of the OECD and the political economy of development. Within those two major divisions, we explore a variety of themes, including varieties of capitalism, the politics of the welfare state, inequality and redistribution, the politics of macroeconomic management, the political economy of wage bargaining, the developmental state, institutions and development, regime type and development, the political economy of investment and economic reform. Course Requirements 1) Option of two argumentative essays, a mock research proposal or an original research paper (70%) 2) Weekly memos and class participation (30%) Readings Readings will be available online or will be placed on reserve. However, you may want to purchase the following books, of which we will read substantial portions: Carles Boix. 2003. Democracy and Redistribution. Geoffrey Garrett. 1998. Partisan Politics in the Global Economy. Haggard and Kaufman. 2008. Development, Democracy and Welfare States. Torben Iversen. 1999. Contested Economic Institutions. Atul Kohli. 2004. State-Directed Development. Przeworski et. al. 2000. Democracy and Development Nita Rudra. 2008. Globalization and the Race to the Bottom in Developing Countries.
Writing assignment Students have three options for their major writing assignment: two argumentative essays; one mock research proposal or one term paper. The two argumentative essays will correspond to each of the two major sections of the course the PE of the OECD and the PE of development. The essays should be approximately 15 to 20 double-spaced pages in length and should provide substantial responses to questions formulated by the professor. I will circulate the questions on the last day of each major section, and your essays will be due two weeks later. For example, the section on the OECD ends on October 14, and the argumentative essays for this section will be due in class on October 28. The purpose of the mock research proposal is to develop a competitive funding proposal for dissertation field research should you want to write a dissertation on political economy. The proposal should meet the guidelines and requirements of a funding agency to which you wish to apply. By default, this organization is the NSF. You must submit two drafts of your proposal. Your first draft will be due on Friday, November 7 and your final draft on Monday, December 15. Your goal should be to submit your proposal for an actual funding competition. As extra incentive, I would suggest that you challenge yourself to submit for the NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, which has a deadline of January 15. Students will present their proposals on the last day of class (December 2). The term paper will be an original research paper of approximately 25 to 30 pages in length, although the length of the paper is much less important than the quality of your research and argumentation. If you decide to write the research paper, I will work closely with you to define the paper s scope and a research strategy. Your goal should be to write a paper good enough to send to a professional academic journal for peer review and, hopefully, publication. Students will present their research papers on the last day of class (December 2). The deadline for your final draft is Monday, December 15. Memos and class participation You are required to submit a 250 to 500-word memo on the readings, which will be based on questions that I email to you each week. The primary purpose of the memos is to prepare you to discuss the readings in class. Please circulate your memos via e- mail to the class list no later than midnight the day before class. Memos will be evaluated on a simple three-point scale ( -,, +) and will form a primary basis for your class participation score.
Week 1: Introduction (Sept 2) PART I: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE OECD Week 2: The Varieties of Capitalism Approach (Sept 9) Peter Hall and David Soskice. 2001. Introduction in Hall and Soskice, eds., Varieties of Capitalism, 1-70. Soskice. 1999. Divergent Production Regimes in Herbert Kitschelt et al, eds., Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism, 101-134. Peter Hall. 2008. The Evolution of Varieties of Capitalism in Europe in Bob Hancke et al, eds., Beyond Varieties of Capitalism. Margarita Estevez-Abe, Torben Iversen and David Soskice. 2001. Social Protection and the Formation of Skills in Hall and Soskice, 145-183. Jonas Pontusson. 2005. Varieties and Commonalities of Capitalism. In David Coates, ed., Varieties of Capitalism, Varieties of Approaches, 163-188. VofC debate in Comparative European Politics 1 (2), 2003. Week 3: Welfare State Regimes (Sept 16) Gösta Esping-Andersen. 1990. The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, chs. 1-5. Esping-Andersen. 1999. Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies, ch. 5. Gregory Kasza. 2002. The Illusion of Welfare Regimes, Journal of Social Policy 31(2): 271-287. Alexander Hicks and Lane Kenworthy. 2003. Varieties of Welfare Capitalism, Socio-Economic Review 1 (1): 27-61. Francis Castles and Deborah Mitchell. 1992. Identifying welfare state regimes, Governance 5(1): 1-26.
Week 4: Partisan Politics and the Welfare State (Sept 23) Geoffrey Garrett. 1998. Partisan Politics in the Global Economy, chs. 2, 3 & 5. Evelyne Huber and John Stephens. 2001. Development and Crisis of the Welfare State, chs. 3 and 6 Walter Korpi and Joakim Palme. 2003. New Politics and Class Politics in the Context of Austerity and Globalization, APSR, 97: 425-446. David Rueda. 2005. Insider-Outsider Politics in Industrialized Democracies, APSR 99(1):61-74. James Allen and Lyle Scruggs. 2004. Political Partisanship and Welfare State Reform in Advanced Industrial Societies, AJPS, 48(3): 496-512. Week 5: Politics of redistribution and social insurance (Sept 30) Allan Melzer and Scott Richard. 1981. A Rational Theory of the Size of Government, Journal of Political Economy, 89(5): 914-927. Torben Iversen and David Soskice. 2001. An Asset Theory of Social Policy Preferences, APSR, 95: 875-893. Moene and Wallerstein. 2003. Earnings Inequality and Welfare Spending, World Politics 55: 485-516. Torben Iversen and David Soskice, Electoral Systems and the Politics of Coalitions, APSR, 100(2): 165-181. Lane Kenworthy and Jonas Pontusson. 2005. Rising Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Affluent Countries, Perspectives on Politics, 3(3): 449-471. David Rueda and Jonas Pontusson. 2008. The Political Consequences of Inequality (ms). Week 6: Macro-economic management and electoral politics (Oct 7) Douglas Hibbs. 1977. Political Parties and Macroeconomic Policy, APSR, 71: 1467-1487. David Soskice. 2000. Macroeconomic Analysis and the Political Economy of Unemployment. In Iversen, Pontusson and Soskice, eds., Unions, Employers and Central Banks, 38-76.
Bingham Powell and Guy Whitten. 1993. A Cross-National Analysis of Economic Voting, APSR, 86(3): 597-611. Kenneth Schultz. 1995. The Politics of the Business Cycle, BJPS 25: 79-99. Robert Franzese. 2002. Electoral and Partisan Cycles in Economic Policies and Outcomes, Annual Review of Political Science, 5: 369-421. Michael Lewis-Beck and Mary Stegmaier. 2000. Economic Determinants of Electoral Outcomes. Annual Review of Political Science, 3: 183-219. William Keech. 1995. Economic Politics, chs. 2-4. Week 7: The political economy of wage bargaining (Oct 14) Michael Alvarez, Geoffrey Garrett and Peter Lange. 1991. Government Partisanship, Labor Organization and Macroeconomic Performance, APSR 85: 539-556. Peter Hall and Robert Franzese. 1998. Mixed Signals, International Organization, 52(3): 505-535. Torben Iversen. 1999. Contested Economic Institutions (selections tba). Isabela Mares. 2004. "Wage Bargaining in the Presence of Social Services and Transfers, World Politics, 57(1), 99-142. David Rueda and Jonas Pontusson. 2000. Wage Inequality and Varieties of Capitalism, World Politics, 55: 350-383. Geoffrey Garrett and Christopher Way. 1999. Public Sector Unions, Corporatism and Macroeconomic Performance, Comparative Political Studies, 33: 196-224. Pontusson, Rueda and Way. 2002. Comparative Political Economy of Wage Distribution: The Role of Partisanship and Labor Market Institutions," British Journal of Political Science, 32 (April 2002), 281-303.
PART II: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVELOPMENT Week 8: The Developmental State Approach (Oct 21) Atul Kohli. 2004. State-Directed Development, chs. 1-2 (skim), 3, 6 & 7 Gary Fields, 1994. Changing Labor Market Conditions and Economic Development in Hong Kong, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan, China, World Bank Economic Review, 8(3): 395-415. Robert Wade. 1990. Governing the Market, chs. 1, 2-3 (skim)& 4 World Bank, 1993. The East Asian Miracle, ch 3. Stephen Haggard.1990. Pathways from the Periphery, Chapter 10. Meredith Woo-Cumings. 1999. Introduction; Chalmers Johnson and the Politics of Nationalism and Development. In Meredith Woo-Cumings, ed. The Developmental State. Week 9: Institutions and development (Oct 28) Kurtz and Schrank. 2007. Growth and Governance: Models, Measures and Mechanisms, JOP 69(2): 538-554. Kaufmann, Kraay and Mastruzzi. 2007. Growth and Governance: A Reply, JOP 69(2): 555-562. Edward Glaeser. 2004. Do Institutions Cause Growth? Journal of Economic Growth 9(3): 271-303. Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson. 2001. The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation, American Economic Review 91(5): 1369-1401. Botero, et. al. 2004. The Regulation of Labor, Quarterly Journal of Economics (November): 1339-1382. Remainder of Growth and Governance Debate, JOP, 69 (2), 2007. Douglas North. 1990. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
Week 10: Regime type and development (Nov 4) Przeworski et. al. 2000. Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990, chs 1-3. John Gerring, 2005. Democracy and Economic Growth: A Historical Perspective, World Politics 57 (2), 323-64. Reuschemeyer, Stephens and Stephens. Capitalist Democracy and Development, Chapters 3-5. Carles Boix. 2003. Democracy and Redistribution, selections tba. Week 11: The political economy of investment flows (Nov 11) Li and Resnik. 2003. Reversal of Fortunes: Democratic Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to Developing Countries, International Organization 57(1): 175-211. Nathan Jensen. 2003. Democratic Governance and Multinational Corporations: Political Regimes and Inflows of Foreign Direct Investment, International Organization 57(3): 587-616. Busse and Hefeker. 2007. Political Risk, Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment, European Journal of Political Economy 23: 397-415. Bussman and Schneider. 2007. When Globalization Discontent Turns Violent: Foreign Economic Liberalization and Internal War, International Studies Quarterly 51(1): 71-97. Robertson and Teitelbaum. 2008. Foreign Direct Investment and Labor Protest (ms) Week 12: The political economy of economic reform (Nov 18) Hector Schamis. 1999. Distributional Coalitions and the Politics of Economic Reform in Latin America, World Politics, 51(2), 236-268. Victoria Murillo. 2000. From Populism to Neoliberalism: Labor Unions and Market Reforms in Latin America, World Politics, 52 (2), 135-174.
Murillo and Martinez Gallardo. 2007. Political Competition and Policy Adoption: Market Reforms in Latin American Public Utilities, American Journal of Political Science, 51(1), 120-139. Rob Jenkins. 1999. Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in India. (selections tba). Teitelbaum. 2008. Mobilizing Restraint: Unions and the Politics of Reform in South Asia (ms) Pranab Bardhan. The Political Economy of Development in India. Mancur Olson. 1982. Rise and Decline of Nations. Week 13: Development and the welfare state (Nov 25) Nita Rudra. 2008. Globalization and the Race to the Bottom in Developing Countries. (selections tba) Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman. 2008. Development, Democracy and Welfare States. (selections tba) Week 14: Discussion of student papers (Dec 2)