POLS 335- Pro-seminar in Comparative Politics
Fall 2002
Tuesday 1.30-4 HRM 112
Lyle Scruggs Office:
112 Monteith
Email: lyle.scruggs@uconn.edu Phone: 486-0409
Overview
This
course is an overview of major approaches and topics in comparative
politics. The class is designed to
introduce you to scholarly work in the subfield as well as helping prepare you
for exams. The reading load is
reasonably heavy: 250-400 pages a week.
The additional readings in each week that accompany the required
material provide a more complete (but by no means exhaustive) reading list that
you may find useful.
Assignments and Evaluation:
Preparation/Discussion (20%): The class is a student-oriented
seminar. Students are thus expected to
come prepared to critically discuss and evaluate the material. You are required to complete the reading and
writing assignments on time and to actively participate in seminar discussion
each week.
In doing the reading, it will always be useful to
identify:
1)
Problem: what is the main question the author wants
to answer, and why is it important?
2)
“Model”: what is the dependent variable (what the
author wants to explain) and what explains it
3)
Theoretical explanation: what are the causal
mechanisms in the story “explaining” the dependent variable.
4)
Research Design: What type of evidence does the
author use to test their explanation and how did they obtain their evidence
It will probably be impossible to read everything assigned
closely every week. Learning to skim
for answers to the above questions is an important professional skill you will
develop in this course.
Critical
papers: Students will sign-up for two “required
reading” and two “additional reading” assignments. Sign-up sheets will be distributed on the second week of
class. The first group of papers, etc.
will be for Week 3.
--All written assignments
should be distributed to the entire class by email no later than
noon on the Monday before class.
--All
students are expected to have read these papers before class.
--
My evaluations of these papers will be returned to you on two dates:
mid-semester and the last day of class.
2
“Required reading ” assignments: (10% each, 20% total ) You should prepare a synthetic
review of the required readings for the week (approximately 4-5 double-spaced
pages) and come to class prepared to lead discussion on this material.
2
“Additional reading” assignments (10% each, 20% total) Those signed up for
supplementary reading on a given week will provide a critical review of one
starred (*) book on the “Additional” list for that week, and present that
review in class. The review should
summarize/critique the book and discuss its relationship to the theme for that
week. (You may also choose readings that are not on the list, but please clear
them with me at least a week ahead.)
Your presentation should be 5-10 minutes, and you should be prepared to
address questions from students about the book and how it fits into the themes in
the course. (You might use the suggestions in the preparation section above as
a guide.) Please do not read your paper; think of it as a very concise
lecture.
Exam: (40%) A final take home exam will include questions
similar to those you might see on a comparative politics field exam. You will have three days to answer the
questions. The exam will be given out
on the last day of class.
Books
We
will read most or all of the following books.
They are not in the
Co-op, but can be purchased elsewhere (e.g., on line).[1]
* books are read in their
entirety by only part of the class (see Week
5 for details)
+ books are also available on
reserve in Babbidge Library.
+Tilly,
1993. Coercion Capital and European States ($38 new/$30 used) (week 3)
*+Luebbert, 1991. Liberalism,
Fascism or Social Democracy: Social Classes and the Political Origins of
Regimes in Interwar Europe. Oxford.
(30/20) (week 5)
*+ Moore, 1968. Social
Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Beacon (25/19) (week 5)
Diamond and Plattner, eds.
2001. Global Divergence of Democracies. JHopkins. (19/15) (week 6)
+Putnam, Making Democracy
Work. Princeton (21/15) (week 8)
+Hirschman, 1970. Exit
Voice and Loyalty. Harvard (17/13) (Note: only 162 pages) (week 9)
LeDuc,
Niemi and Norris, eds. 2002. Comparing Democracies. Second Edition. Sage
(32/--) (week 11)
+Lijphart,
1999 Patterns of Democracy, Yale.
(18/15) (week 14)
Bates, 2001. Prosperity
and Violence. The Political Economy of Development (17/12) (Note: only 140
pages) (week 15)
Though we do not read most of it, those interested in European politics or political parties more generally are encouraged to purchase the following, which contains excerpts from some classics.
+Mair,
1990. The West European Party System Oxford. (25/15) (week 11)
Other readings
Most
other readings from books can be found on reserve in the library. Most journal articles are available on-line
(e.g., JSTOR or Infotrac); others are available in the stacks. If an item is not available in the library
or on-line, I will arrange to have the material in the lounge, and you can make
copies in the office.
Please
remember that others also need the materials you copy, so please return items
to their appropriate places after use (lounge, stacks, shelves, etc.).
All
students are encouraged to obtain readings well ahead of time.
Another
valuable resource for becoming and keeping up-to-date on some central issues in
comparative politics is the newsletter of the comparative politics section of
the American Political Science Association. Archives are available at: http://www.shelley.polisci.ucla.edu/apsacp/
Course
Outline.
Week 1 (9/3) Introduction:
Overview
Sartori, "Comparing and
Miscomparing" Journal of Theoretical
Politics, 3 (3) 1991, 243-57
Week 2 (9/10) Comparative Theory and Method
Lijphart, “Comparative
Politics and Comparative Method," APSR
, 65 (3) 1971, 682-93. (JSTOR)
Eckstein, 1975 "Case
Study and Theory in Political Science" in Greenstein and Polsby, eds. Handbook of Political Science, 79-130 (vol 7).
Ragin, Comparative Method, Princeton, 1987, Ch. 3 and 4.
Przeworski and Tuene, The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry,
pp.17-30.
Tilly, 1984. Big
Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons. Sage. (about 140 pages)
Additional Reading
Overview
Barry, Sociologists, Economists and Democracy.
Brown and Macridis, ed. Comparative Politics: Notes
and Readings. 8th Edition. Prentice Hall.
Chilcote, Theories of Comparative Politics, Westview,
1994.
Kohli, et al. "The Role of Theory in Comparative
Politics", World Politics 48, 1995: 1-49.
Lapalombra "Macrotheories and Microapplications
in Comparative Politics: A Widening Chasm" Comparative Politics 1(1), 1968, 52-78.
Rogowski, "Comparative Politics" in
Finifter, ed. Political Science: The
State of the Discipline II, APSA, 1993.
Sartori, "From the Sociology of Politics to
Political Sociology" in Lipset, ed. Politics
and the Social Sciences.
Peters, Comparative
Politics: Theory and Methods. NYU Press, 1998.
Comparative
Method
Collier, 'New Perspectives on the Comparative
Method" in Rustow and Erikson, Comparative
Political Dynamics. Harper Collins, 1991.
Przeworski and Tuene, The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry, Krieger.
Pennings, Keman and Kleinnijenhuis, Doing Research
in Political Science: AN Introduction to Comparative Methods and Statistics.
Sage, 1999.
Ragin, Comparative
Method, Princeton, 1987.
Sartori, "Comparing and Miscomparing" Journal of Theoretical Politics, 3 (3)
1991, 243-57
Explanation
in Comparative Politics (and social science more generally)
Almond and Genco, “Clouds, Clocks and the Study of
Politics,” World Politics 28(4),
1977.
Bartonlini, "On Time and Comparative
Research," Journal of Theoretical
Politics, 5 (2), 1993, 131-67.
*Elster, Explaining
Technical Change, Cambridge, 1991, pp. 1-88.
Elster, "Marxism, Functionalism and Game Theory:
the Case for Methodological Individualism," Theory and Society, 453-82 (plus extended comments that follow)
Fearon, "Counterfactuals and Hypothesis-testing
in Political Science" World Politics,
43 (Jan.), 1991, 169-95.
Gourevitch, "The Second Image Reversed: The
International Sources of Domestic Politics" International Organization 32(4), 1978, 881-911
*King-Keohane and Verba. 1994. Designing Social Inquiry, Princeton
Lakatos, "Falsification and the Methodology of
Scientific Research Programs" in Lakatos and Musgrave, Criticism and the growth of Knowledge,
1970, pp.91-196
Miller, Fact and
Method Princeton, 1987, esp. 15-155
Review Symposium: The Qualitative-Quantitative
Disputation", APSR, 89 (2),
1995, 454-81.
Week 3 (9/17) States and Regimes
Olson,
1993. “Dictatorship, Democracy and Development” APSR. 87 567-76.
Almond,
“The Return to the State” and rejoinders, APSR. 82 (Sept), 1988,
853-901.
Tilly, Coercion Capital and European States, Basil Blackwell, 1990.
Weber,
Economy and Society, 901-40 (vol.
2, U. of Cal Press edition)
*Anderson, Lineages
of the Absolutist State, New Left Books, 1974.
Bendix, Kings or
People, California, 1978
Ertman, Birth of
Leviathan. Cambridge
*Levi, 1997. Consent,
Dissent and Patriotism. Cambridge.
*Silberman, 1993. Cages of Reason: The Rise of the
Rational State in France, Japan, the United States and Great Britain.
U of Chicago Press.
Tilly,
1986 The Formation of States in Western Europe, Princeton, esp. Ch.1
Week 4 (9/24) Modernization and
Political Development
Deutsch, Social Mobilization
and Political Development, APSR,
55:493-514 (JSTOR)
Inglehart, Modernization and Post-Modernization,
ch. 1-3 (3-107)
Huntington, "Political
Development and Political Decay" World
Politics, 17 (1965): 486-530. (JSTOR)
Lerner, The Passing of
Traditional Society. Glencoe Press. Ch 1.
Lipset, Political Man.
Ch, 2
Przeworksi and Limongi,
1997. “Modernization: Theories and Facts” World Politics. 49. (JSTOR)
Additional
Almond and Coleman, Politics of the Developing Areas
*Huntington, Political
Order in Changing Societies Harvard, 1968
*Rostow, The Stages
of Economic Growth: A Non-communist
Manifesto. Cambridge, 1960.
*Lipset, Political Man. Johns Hopkins (reissued
edition)
Finkle and Gable, eds. Political
Development and Social Change. Esp. chapters by Gusfield, Black, and Pye.
Bates, ed. 1988. Towards
a Political Economy of Development: A Rational Choice Perspective. 80-130, 239-44
Additional
Reading: Dependency Theory and Radical Critiques
Frank, "The Development of Underdevelopment"
in Latin America: Underdevelopment of
Revolution. 1969, pp. 103-113.
Wallerstein, "The Rise and Future Demise of the
World Capitalist System" Comparative
Studies in Society and History.
16(1974): 387-415.
Chilcote, in Theories
of Comparative Politics, pp. 215-84
*Chase-Dunn, Global
Formation: Structures of the World Economy, Rowman and Littlefield, 1998.
Chirot and Hall, "World Systems Theory" Annual Review of Sociology, 8 (1982):
81-106.
Evans, Dependent
Development, Princeton, 1979
Packingham. 1992. The Dependency Movement: Scholarship
and Politics in Development Studies. Harvard.
Palma, "Dependency: A Formal Theory or a
Methodology…", World Development,
6 (1978): 881-924.
Valenzuela and Valenzuela. 1978 “Modernization and
Dependency: Alternative Perspectives in the Study of Latin American
Underdevelopment.” Comparative Politics. 10. 535-52.
Wallerstein, The
Modern World System: Capitalist Agriculture and and the Origins of the European
World Economy in the Sixteenth Century. Academic Press, 1974.
Wallerstein, "The Concept of National
Development, 1917-1989 Eligy and Requiem" American Behavioral Scientist. 35 (1992): 517-29.
Week 5 (10/1) Democracy and
Society
Luebbert, Liberalism, Fascism, or Social Democracy,
Oxford, 1991 (all read 1-11, 306-315, half read all)
Moore, Social Origins of
Dictatorship and Democracy. (all read 413-508, half read all)
Additional:
*Collier. 2000. Paths toward Democracy: The Working
Class and Elites in Western Europe and South America. Cambridge.
Skocpol, 1973. “A critical review of Barrington Moore…”
Politics and Society. 4:1-34.
*Rueschemeyer, Huber and Stephens. 1992. Capitalist
Development and Democracy. (Chicago)
Rothman. 1970. “Barrington Moore and the Dialectics of
Revolution.” APSR. 64: 61-85 (include reply and rejoinder)
Laitin and Fearon, 1996. “Explaining Ethnic
Cooperation.” APSR. 90: 715-35.
Week 6 (10/8) Political Regimes
and the Transition to Democracy
Schmitter and Karl, “What
Democracy Is … and Is not” J. or Democracy. 2:75-88.
Diamond and Plattner, eds.,
2001 Global Divergence of Democracies. Johns Hopkins.
Geddes, "What Do We
Know About Democratization?" mimeo of 1998 APSA paper.
Additional
Burkhart and Lewis-Beck, "Comparative Democracy:
The Economic Development Thesis" APSR,
88(1994):903-10.
*Collier, Paths to Democracy. Cambridge, 1999
Gasiorowski, "Economic Crisis and Political
Regime Change: An Event History Analysis" APSR, 89 (4) 1995, 882-97.
*Huntington, The Third Wave. Oklahoma, 1991.
O’Donnell, Schmitter, and Whitehead, Transitions
from Authoritarian Rule.
*Rueschemeyer, Stephens and Stephens, Capitalist Development and Democracy,
Chicago, 1992
*Przeworski, Democracy
and the Market, Cambridge, 1991
*Przeworski, et al., 2000. Democracy and Development: Political
Institutions and Well-being in the World: 1950-1990. Cambridge
Week 7 (10/15) Political
Violence and Revolution
Goldstone, Revolutions in
the Late 20th Century, 20-36.
Gurr, “The Revolution-Social
Change Nexus” Comparative Politics. 5: 359-92
Skocpol, States and
Social Revolutions. 3-42, 161-171, and chapter 4, 5, or 6.
Motyl, 1992. “Concepts and
Skocpol: Ambiguity and Vagueness in the Study of Revolution” J. of
Theoretical Politics. 4:93-112.
Popkin, Rational Peasant,
Ch. 1-2, 6
Scott, Moral Economy of
the Peasant. Ch. 1-2, 7
Additional
Brinton, Anatomy of a Revolution. Prentice
Hall. 1952.
*DeNardo, Power in Numbers.
*Fish, Democracy from Scratch: Opposition and
Regime in the New Russian Revolution. (Princeton, 1996)
Goldstone. 1991. Revolution and Rebellion in the
Early Modern World. California.
Gurr, 1970. Why Men Rebel? Princeton.
Hibbs. 1973. Mass Political Violence.
Horowitz. 1985. Ethnic Groups in Conflict.
California.
Kimmel, Revolution.
*Lichbach, 1995.
The Rebel’s Dilemma. Michigan
Paige, Agrarian
Revolution Free Press, 1975
*Parsa, States Ideologies and Social Revolutions: A
Comparative Analysis of Iran, Nicaragua and the Philippines. Cambridge
University Press (2000).
*Tilly, From Mobilization to Revolution
Wolf. 1969. Peasant Wars in the Twentieth Century.
Harper and Row
Week 8 (10/22) Political
Attitudes and Political Culture
Putnam, 1993. Making
Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton. 1993.
Levi,
"Social and Unsocial Capital…", Politics
and Society, 24 (1), 1996, 44-55.
Granato, et al. 1996
"The Effect of Cultural Values on Economic Development" AJPS 40 (3), 607-716 (read all of the
articles). (JSTOR)
Elkins and Simeon, 1979.
"A Cause in Search of an Effect, or What Does Political Culture
Explain," Comparative Politics,
Jan. 127-145.
Additional
* Almond and Verba, The Civic Culture. All but pay particular attention to Ch.
1,5,6,13 (or 1,6,7,15 in hardback)
*_______________, 1980. The Civic Culture Revisited.
Banfield, 1958. The Moral Basis of Backward Society.
Free Press.
*Barry, Sociologists, Economists and Democracy.
Chilcote, Theories of Comparative Politics,
177-214
Eckstein, "A Cultural Theory of Political
Change," APSR, 82 (3), 1988,
789-804.
Eckstein, "Culture as a Foundation Concept for
the Social Sciences" Journal of
Theoretical Politics, 8 (1996): 471-97
*Geertz, 1973. The Interpretation of Cultures.
Harper and Row.
*Inglehart, 1999. Modernization
and Postmodernization, Princeton, (Ch 4-end)
*Inglehart and Jackman, et al. exchange in "The Renaissance of
Political Culture" APSR 82 (4)
1988, 1203-29
Laitin, 1997. “The Cultural Identities of a European
State” Politics and Society. 25: 277-302.
Scott, The Moral
Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia. Yale,
1976.
Thompson, Ellis and Wildavsky, Cultural Theory Westview, 1990.
*Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of
Capitalism.
"Choosing Preferences by Constituting
Institutions; A Cultural Theory of Preference formation," APSR, 81, 1987, 3-21.)
Week 9 (10/29) Collective Action and Social Movements
Tilly,
From Mobilization to Revolution,
pp12-51.
Hirschman,
Exit Voice and Loyalty
Olson,
The Rise and Decline of Nations, Ch.1, (summary of Logic of Collective
Action)
Other
readings TBA.
Additional
*McAdam, et al., Comparative
Perspectives on Social Movements. Cambridge, 1996.
Piven and Cloward, Poor
People's Movements.
*Tarrow, Democracy
and Disorder
Week 10 (11/12) Comparative
Public Policy
Peters, 1977. “Types of
Democratic Systems and Types of Public Policy.” Comparative Politics.
9:327-55.
Steinmo and Swank, 2002.
“The New Political Economy of Taxation” AJPS 46: 642
Steinmo, 1989. “Political
Institutions and Tax Policy Choices in Britain, Sweden and the United States.” World
Politics 41: 500.
Cameron, 1978. “The Expansion
of the Public Economy: A Comparative Analysis” APSR. 72: 1243-61
Additional
Adolino and Blake, 2001. Comparing Public Policies
Congressional Quarterly Press.
*Baldwin, 1990. Politics of Social Solidarity:
Class Basis of the European Welfare State.
Cambridge
*De Swann, 1988. In
Care of the State: Healthcare,
Education and Welfare in Europe and the USA, , Oxford
*Esping-Andersen, Three
Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
*Hall,
1986. Governing the Economy.
*Hall,
ed. The Political Power of Economic Ideas.
*Hicks.
1999. Social Democracy and Welfare
Capitalism: A Century of Income Security. Cornell.
Peters.
The Politics of Bureaucracy (5th edition) Longman
*Pierson,
1995. New Politics of the Welfare State.
*Skocpol,
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in
the United States.
Castles,
Comparative Public Policy
*Huber
and Stephens. 2001 Development and Crisis of the Welfare State. Chicago
Mair, The West European
Party System. Ch. 3,5,9,11, 13, 16, 19, 20, 24 (about 200 pages)
LeDuc, Niemi, and Norris, Comparing
Democracies 2, Ch. TBA
Additional
*Kalyvas, 1996. The Rise of Christian Democracy in
Europe. Cornell.
*Przeworski and Sprague, 1986. Paper Stones: A
History of Electoral Socialism
*Kitschelt, 1999. Post-Communist Party Systems:
Competition, Representation and
Inter-party Cooperation. Cambridge.
*Downs, 1957 An Economic Theory of Democracy
*Cox, 1997. Making Votes Count. Strategic
Coordination in the World’s Electoral Systems
*Powell, Elections as Institutions of Democracy.
Yale
Week 12 (11/26): No Class (Classes follow a Friday
Schedule)
Week 13 (12/3) Institutions:
Types of Regimes
Linz, 1975. “Totalitarian
and Authoritarian Regimes. In Greenstein and Polsby, eds. Handbook of
Political Science Addison Wesley, Vol. 3, pp. 191-357. (much of this can be
skimmed.)
Przeworski and Limongi,
1993. “Political Regimes and Economic Growth” Journal of Economic
Perspectives. 7: 51-69
Held,
Models of Democracy (2nd edition), Ch. 5,6.
Additonal
Collier,
ed. 1979. The New Authoritarianism in Latin America. (Princeton)
*Wintrobe,
1998 The Political Economy of Dictatorship. Cambridge
*Held,
1996. Models of Democracy (2nd edition) (remaining)
Week 14 (12/10) Institutions: Democratic Constitutional
Arrangements
Shugart and Carey, 1992. Presidents
and Assemblies. Ch. 1
Powell, Contemporary
Democracies. “The Constitutional Setting”
North and Weingast, 1989
“Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public
Choice in Seventeenth Century England.” Journal of Economic History. 49:
803-832.
Laver and Schofield. 1990. Multiparty
Government. Oxford. Ch. 1, 3, 6
Additional
*Buchanan
and Tulloch. 1962. The Calculus of Consent. Michigan
*Shugart
and Carey, 1992. Presidents and Assemblies
Powell,
1982. Contemporary Democracies. Harvard.
*Powell.
1999. Elections as Institutions of Democracy.
Yale.
Lijphart.
1992. Presidential vs. Parliamentary Government. Oxford. Intro, Ch.
14,31
Powell and Whitten, “A Cross-national Analysis of
Economic Voting: taking Account of the Political Context” AJPS. 37:
391-414.
*De
Tocqueville, Democracy in America.
Manin,
1997. Principles of Representative Government. Cambridge. Ch. 6,7
Downs,
1957. An Economic Theory of Democracy. Ch. 7-8.
Persson
and Tabellini, 2000. Political Economics. MIT
Schmitter
and Lehmbruch, eds. 1979. Trends towards Corporatist Intermediation. 7-48, 231-70
Sartori,
Comparative Constitutional Engineering. NYU Press.
Berger,
ed. Organizing Interests in Western Europe. Esp 1-62, 123-58, 285-327.
Week 15 Comparative
Political Economy
Bates,
Prosperity and Violence.
Gershenkron,
“Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective”
Lindblom.
Politics and Markets. 3-89, 161-200
Wade, Governing the
Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian
Industrialization (ch. 10-11)
Rogowski. “Political
Cleavages and Changing Exposure to Trade” American Political Science Review.
81: 1121-37.
Additional
*Polanyi, The
Great Transformation, 1944. Beacon.
*Hall and Soskice, ed. Varieties of Capitalism.
Oxford.
*Katzenstein. 1985., Small States in World Markets.
Cornell
*Kitschelt, et al, eds. Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism, Cambridge, 1999
*Gourevitch, Politics
in Hard times, Cornell, 1986
Haggard, Pathways
from the Periphery. Cornell, 1990
*Hall, Governing
the Economy, 1986.
Political Power of Economic Ideas, 1989.
*Garrett, Partisan Politics in the Global Economy
Cambridge, 1998.
*Boix, Political Parties, growth and Equality.
Cambridge, 1998.
*Iverson, Pontusson and Soskice, eds. Unions,
Employers and Central Bankers, Cambridge, 2000.
*Hall and Soskice, eds 2001. Varieties of Capitalism , Oxford
Zysman, “How Institutions Create Historically Rooted
Trajectories of Growth” Industrial and Corporate Change 3 (1) 1994,
243-83.
Many readings from the comparative public policy
section may also fit here.
[1] Amazon.com, bn.com, powells.com, ecampus.com are a few well-known places. (You can search for low prices at bigwords.com.) Prices for books vary greatly, as do the shipping deals from the sellers. Amazon.com has a facility to allow you to purchase used books from the same location as new ones and to pay for them through Amazon. Though these used books are shipped and received via third parties (like Ebay), they are usually trustworthy, though they often take a few days longer to ship. (Barnes and Noble’s site has some used books, too.) Generally, shipping costs provide strong incentives to order books more than one at a time. Most companies are now providing free shipping on orders over certain dollar amounts, or on selected books. If full price is too expensive, shop around.