Seminar in Comparative Politics

Weeks 1 & 2 : Comparing and Comparisons: New Directions in Comparative Politics Schmitter, P. (2016), “Comparative Politics: its Past, Present and Future”, Chinese Political Science Review, (1) (3) 397–411. Schmitter, P. (2009), “The Nature and Future of Comparative Politics”, European Political Science Review, 1 (1), 33-61. Munck, G.L. and Snyder, R. (2007) “Debating the Direction of Comparative Politics”, Comparative Political Studies, 40 (1), 5-31. Mahoney, J., (2007) “Debating the State of Comparative Politics”, Comparative Political Studies, 40 (1), 32-38. Wibbels, E., “No Method to the Comparative Politics Madness”, Comparative Political Studies, 40 (1), 39-44. Munck, G. L.; Snyder, R., (2007) “Visions of Comparative Politics,” Comparative Political Studies, 40 (1), 45-47. Lijphart, A(1971), “Comparative politics and the comparative method”, American Political Science Review, 682-693.

Weeks 1 & 2: Comparing and Comparisons: New Directions in Comparative Politics Schmitter, P. (2016), “Comparative Politics: its Past, Present and Future”, Chinese Political Science Review, (1) (3) 397–411. Schmitter, P. (2009), “The Nature and Future of Comparative Politics”, European Political Science Review, 1 (1), 33-61. Munck, G.L. and Snyder, R. (2007) “Debating the Direction of Comparative Politics”, Comparative Political Studies, 40 (1), 5-31. Mahoney, J., (2007) “Debating the State of Comparative Politics”, Comparative Political Studies, 40 (1), 32-38. Wibbels, E., “No Method to the Comparative Politics Madness”, Comparative Political Studies, 40 (1), 39-44. Munck, G. L.; Snyder, R., (2007) “Visions of Comparative Politics,” Comparative Political Studies, 40 (1), 45-47. Lijphart, A(1971), “Comparative politics and the comparative method”, American Political Science Review, 682-693.

Week 3:Thinking Comparatively through Case Studies Seawright, J. and Gerring, J. (2008) “Case Selection Techniques in Case Study Research: A Menu ofQualitative and Quantitative Options”, Political Research Quarterly, 61 (2), 294-308. Mahoney, J. and Goertz, (2007) “A Tale of Two Cultures: Contrasting Quantitative and Qualitative Research”,Political Analysis, 227-49. Lees, C. (2006) “We are All Comparativists Now: Why and How Single-Country Scholarship Must Adapt andIncorporate the Comparative Politics Approach”, Comparative Political Studies, 39, 1084-1106. Hall, P. (2003) “Aligning Ontology and Methodology in Comparative Politics” in J. Mahoney and D.Rueschemeyer (eds.) Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge UniversityPress, 373-404. Pierson, P. (2003) “Big, Slow-Moving…Invisible: Macrosocial Processes in the Study of Comparative Politics”in J. Mahoney and D. Rueschemeyer (eds.) Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences, New York, N.Y.:Cambridge University Press, 177-207. Rueschemeyer, D. (2003) “Can One or a Few Cases Yield Theoretical Gains?” in J. Mahoney and D.Rueschemeyer (eds.) Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge UniversityPress, 305-36.

Week 4: Theory Development Schmidt, Vivien A. (2010) “Taking Ideas and Discourse Seriously: Explaining Change through Discursive Institutionalism as the Fourth ‘New Institutionalism’.” European Political Science Review, 2 (1):1-25. Pierson, P. (2000) “Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics”, American Political Science Review, (94) (2) 251-267. Thelen, K. (1999) “Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics”, Annual Review of Political Science, (2) 369-404. Hall, P. and Taylor, R. (1996) “Political science and the three new institutionalisms”, Political Studies, (44) 936-957.

Week 5: Theory Development Cont. Lichbach, M. and Zuckerman, A. (2009) “Paradigms and Pragmatism: Comparative Politics During the PastDecade” in M.I. Lichbach and A.S. Zuckerman (eds.) Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure, NewYork: Cambridge University Press, 1-17. Zuckerman, A. (2009) “Advancing Explanations in Comparative Politics: Social Mechanisms, EndogenousProcesses, and Emprical Rigor” in M.I. Lichbach and A.S. Zuckerman (eds.) Comparative Politics: Rationality,Culture, and Structure, New York: Cambridge University Press, 72-95. Katznelson, I. (2009) “Strong Theory, Complex History: Structure and Configuration in Comparative PoliticsRevisited” in M.I. Lichbach and A.S. Zuckerman (eds.) Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure,New York: Cambridge University Press, 96-116. Levi, M. (2009) “Reconsiderations of Rational Choice in Comparative and Historical Analysis” in M.I.Lichbach and A.S. Zuckerman (eds.) Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure, New York: CambridgeUniversity Press, 117-133. Ross, M.H. (2009) “Culture in Comparative Political Analysis” in M.I. Lichbach and A.S. Zuckerman (eds.)Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure, New York: Cambridge University Press, 134-161.

Week 6:States in Comparative Historical Perspective Mann, M. (1997) “Has Globalization Ended the Rise and Rise of the Nation-State?’,Review of International Political Economy, 4(3), 472-96. Spruyt, H. (1994) The Sovereign State and its Competitors, Chps 2, 9. Tilly, C. (1985) “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime” in P. Evans, D. Rueshemeyerand T.Skocpol (eds.) Bringing the State Back In, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 169-91. Held, D. (1983) “Introduction: Central Perspectives on the Modern State”, in D.Held (ed.) States and Societies, New York University Press: New York, 1-55. Skocpol, T. (1979) States and Social Revolutions, Chp 1.

Week 7: States in Political Economy of Development (Submission of Research Ideas) Acemoglu, D. and Robinson, J.A. (2012) “Why Nations Fail?”, London, Profile Books, Chps.2,3. Schwarz, R. and Miguel de Corral. (2011) “States Do Not Just Fail and Collapse: Rethinking States in the Middle East,” Democracy and Security, (7) (3), 209-226. Chibber, V. (2002) “Bureaucratic Rationality and the Developmental State”, American Journal of Sociology, (107) (4), 951-989. Leftwich, A. (1995) - "Bringing Politics Back In: Towards a Model of the Developmental State", TheJournal of Development Studies, 31(3), 400-427. Wade, R. (1992) “East Asia's Economic Success: Conflicting Perspectives, Partial Insights, Shaky Evidence”, World Politics, 44 (2), 270-320. Evans, P. (1989) “Predatory, Developmental, and Other Apparatuses: A Comparative Political EconomyPerspective on the Third World State” Sociological Forum. 4(4): 561-587.

Week 8: Economic Development and Democracy Jones, Benjamin F., and Benjamin A. Olken. (2005) “Do leaders matter? National leadership and growth since World War II.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 120(3), 835- 864. Haggard, S., and Kaufman, R. (1997). “The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions,” Comparative Politics, (29) (3), 263-83. Przeworski, A. and Limongi, F. (1997) “Modernization: Facts and theories” World Politics, (49) (2), 155-183. Available at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/world_politics/v049/49.2przeworski.html Rueschemeyer, D. Stephens, J. and Stephens, (1992), E.H. Capitalist Development and Democracy, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Chps. 1 and 2. Seymour M. L., (1959) "Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy," American Political Science Review, (53), 69-105.

Week 9: Democratic Transitions and Consolidation in Comparative Perspective (Submission of research paper proposal) Coppedge, M., Gerring, J. et al, (2011) “Conceptualizing and Measuring democracy: A New Approach” , Perspectives on Politics, (9)(2), 247-267. Gerardo L. Munck (2007), “Arend Lijphart: Political Institutions, Divided Societies, and Consociational Democracy,” in Gerardo L. Munck and Richard Snyder, eds., Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 234-72. Mair, P. (2005) “Popular Democracy and the European Union Polity”, European Governance Papers No. C-05-03 Foweraker, J. and Landman, T. (2002) ‘Constitutional Design and Democratic Performance’, Democratization,(9)(2), 43-66. Diamond, L. (1999) Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,Chapter 1. Collier, D. and Levitsky, S. (1997) “Democracy with adjectives: Conceptual innovation in comparative politics”, World Politics (49), 430-451. (Available at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/world_politics/v049/49.3collier.html)

Week 10: From Studying State-Society Relations to Civil Society and Social Capital Vu, Tuong. (2010) “Studying the State through State Formation,” World Politics, (62) (1): 148-75. Boix, C., and Posner, D. (1998)"Social Capital: Explaining its Origins and Effects on Government Performance." British Journal of Political Science (28), 686-693. Evans, P. (1996). “Government Action, Social Capital and Development: Reviewing the Evidence on Synergy” in World Development, (24) (6), 1119-1132. Migdal, J.S. (1994) “The state in society: An Approach to struggles for domination” in J. Migdal,, A. Kohli,and V. Shue (eds) Power and Social Forces: Domination and Transformation in the Third World. Cambridge, UK; NewYork, NY: Cambridge University Press. Skocpol, T., (1985) “Bringing the State Back In: Strategies of Analysis in Current Research” in. P. Evans, D. Rueshemeyer and T. Skocpol (eds.) Bringing the State Back In, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 3-37.

Week 11: Nationalism, Nations, and States *Breuilly J. (2016) "Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities: a symposium", Nations and Nationalism, (22) (4) 625–659. (Recommended Reading) *Hall J. A. (2016) “An Intellectual Journey Anthony D. Smith”, Nations and Nationalism, (22)(1) 6–19. (Recommended Reading) Smith, A. D. (2000) The Nation in History, Historiographic Debates about Ethnicity and Nationalism, Cambridge: Polity Press. Hall, J. (1993) “Nationalisms Classified and Explained” Daedalus. (122), 1-28. Anderson, B. (1991) Imagined Communities, London, New York: Verso, Chps 1-3. Hobsbawm, E. (1990) Nations and Nationalism Since 1780, Cambridge University Press, Introduction and Chp 1 Gellner, E. (1983) Nations and Nationalism, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, Chps 1,4,5, and 10

Week 12: Citizenship and Migration Joppke, C. (1999), ‘How Immigration is Changing Citizenship: A Comparative View’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 22(4), 629-652. Favell, A. (1997) ‘Citizenship and immigration: Pathologies of a Progressive Philosophy’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 23(2): 173-195. Soysal, YN (2012) 'Citizenship, immigration, and the European social project: Rights and obligations of individuality.' British Journal of Sociology, 63 (1): 1 - 21. Ager, A. & Strang, A. (2008) ‘Understanding Integration: A Conceptual Framework’, Journal of Refugee Studies, 21(2), pp.170

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