Comparative Politics Reading List - Rochelle Terman



Comparative Politics Reading ListVogel, Wittenberg, Lee (remember to cite where appropriate)State of the Field**Causal Inference CrapBrady, Henry & Collier, David, eds. (2000). Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards.King, Gary, Keohane, Robert, & Verba, Sidney. (1994). Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. Geddes, Barbara. (1990). How the Cases you Choose Affect the Answers you Get: Selection Bias in Comparative Politics, Political Analysis, 2, 131-50.Mahoney, James. (2003). Strategies of Causal Assessment in Comparative Historical Analysis. In Mahoney, James & Rueschemeyer, Dietrich eds., Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences, (pp. 337-72). Pierson, Paul. (2007). The Costs of Marginalization: Qualitative Methods in the Study of American Politics. Comparative Political Studies, 40(2), 145-169.Przeworski, Adam. (2007). Is the Science of Comparative Politics Possible? In Boix, Carles & Stokes, Susan C. (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics. New York: Oxford University Press.Green, Donald and Ian Shapiro. Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory: A Critique of Applications in Political Science (1994)Bates, Robert. “Area Studies and the Discipline: A Useful Controversy?” PS: Political Science and Politics, pp. 166-169Johnson, Charles. “Controversy and the Discipline: Area Studies and Comparative Politics.” PS: Political Science and Politics 30(2): 170-174Pye, Lucian (2001). “Area Studies and the Discipline” PS: Political Science and Politics 34(4) 805-807Collier, David and Ruth. Shaping the Political Arena. (ch. 1 on critical junctures)Lieberman, Evan, “Nested Analysis as a Mixed Method Strategy for Comparative Research” APSR 99:3State, Regimes, and Regime Change**Jason’s SyllabusConflict and Regime ChangeFearon, James & Laitin, David. (1996, December). Explaining Ethnic Cooperation, American Politica Science Review, 90, 715-735.Horowitz, Donald. (1985). Ethnic Groups in Conflict. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.Huntington, Samuel P. (1968). Political Order in Changing Societies. New Haven: Yale University Press.Wood, Elisabeth. (2003). Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador. New York: Cambridge University Press.Kalyvas, Stathis. (2006). The Logic of Violence in Civil Wars. New York: Cambridge University Press.Kuran, Timur. (1991, October). Now Out of Never: The Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989, World Politics, 44, 7-48.Anderson, Benedict. (1983). Imagined Communities. London: Verso.Skocpol, Theda, (1979). States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Wilkinson, Steven. (2004). Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Mahoney and Snyder. “Rethinking Agency and Structure in the Study of Regime Change.” SCID 1999Fish. Democracy Derailed in Russia State BuildingTilly, Charles. (1992). Coercion, Capital and European States. Oxford: Blackwell Press.Olson, Mancur. Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development (1993)Levi, Margaret. (1988). Of Rule and Revenue. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.Migdal Joel. (1998). Strong Societies and Weak States. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Scott, James. (1998). Seeing like a State. New Haven: Yale University Press.Political RegimesAcemoglu, Daron & Robinson, James. (2006). Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press.Dahl, Robert. Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition. 1971De Mesquita, Smith, et al. The Logic of Political SurvivalBoix, Carles. Democracy and Redistribution 2003Diamond, Larry. Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation. 1999Boix, Carles. (2003). Democracy and Redistribution. New York: Cambridge University Press.Dahl, Robert A. (1971). Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition. New Haven: Yale University Press.Lijphart, Arend. (1977). Democracy in Plural Societies: A Comparative Exploration. New Haven: Yale University Press.Lijphart. Patterns of Democracy 1999 (ch. 1-4, 8, 10, 11, 16, 17)Linz, Juan. (2000). Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.Luebbert, Gregory M. (1987). Social Foundations of Political Order in Interwar Europe, World Politics, 39(4), 449-478.Moore, Barrington, Jr. (1966). Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World. Cambridge: Beacon Press.North, Douglass & Weingast, Barry. (1989). Constitutions and Commitment: Evolution of the Institutions Governing Public Choice in 17th Century England. Journal of Economic History, 49, 803-832.Gandhi, Jennifer & Przeworski, Adam. (2007). Authoritarian Institutions and the Survival of Autocrats. Comparative Political Studies, 40(11), 1279-1301.Gandhi, Jennifer & Lust-Okar, Ellen. (2009). Elections under Authoritarianism. Annual Review of PoliticalScience, 12, 403-422.Political InstitutionsNorth, Douglas. (1990). Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Hall and Taylor. Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms. 1996Pierson, Path DependencyMoe, Terry, “The New Economics of Organization” AJPS 28 (1984)Pierson and Skocpol “Historical Institutionalism in Contemporary Political Science.” In Political Science: The State of the Discipline> 2002Mahoney and Thelen “Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency, and Power” 2010Zysman. “How Institutions Create Historically Rooted Trajectories of Growth”Putnam, Robert with Leonardi, Robert & Nanetti, Raffaella. (1993). Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Parties, Interest Groups, and Social Movements**Kevin’s Protest Movements SyllabusPartiesCox, Gary. (1997). Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems. New York: Cambridge University Press.Downs, Anthony. An Economic Theory of Democracy. 1957Chhibber, Pradeep, & Kollman, Ken. (2004). The Formation of National Party Systems: Federalism and Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Strom, Kaare. (1990). Minority Government and Majority Rule. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Stokes, Susan. (2005). Perverse Accountability. American Political Science Review, 99(3), 315-325.Tsebelis, George. (1995). Decision Making in Political Systems: Veto Players in Presidentialism,Parliamentarism, Multicameralism and Multipartyism. British Journal of Political Science, 25, 289-325.Wittenberg, Jason. (2006). Crucibles of Political Loyalty: Church Institutions and Electoral Continuity in Hungary. New York: Cambridge University Press.Levitsky “Organization and Labor Based Party Adaptation: The Transformation of Argentine Peronism in Comparative Politics” World Politics 2001Magaloni, Beatriz. (2006). Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Kitschelt, Herbert. (1992). The Formation of Party Systems in East Central Europe. Politics and Society, 20, 7-50.Iversen, Torben. “The Logics of Electoral Politics” 1994Lipset and Rokkan 1967. Cleavage Structures, Party Systems, and Voter AlignmentsInterest Groups and Social MovementsO’Brien and Li. Rightful Resistance 2006Tarrow. “Power in Movement” 1994Tilly. The politics of Collective Violence 2003Weber. “Status Groups and Classes” “Ethnic Groups” and “Political Communities” in Economy and Society 1922Aldrich, John. “Rational Choice and Turnout”.” AJPS 1993Lohmann, Susanne. “The Dynamics of Information Cascades” World Politics 1994Olson, Mancur. “The Logic of Collective Action” 1965Almond and Verba. The Civic Culture. 1963Scott, James. (1977) The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia.New Haven: Yale University Press.Scott, James. (1987) Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven: YaleUniversity Press.Popkin, Samuel. (1979) The Rational Peasant: The Political Economy of Rural Society in Vietnam.Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.CPESteve’s SyllabusPeter’s China PE syllabus ................
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