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Comparative Politics
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The general examination in comparative politics is based on a shared reading list. The
purpose of the list is to help identify the most important topic areas and theoretical debates in
comparative politics and provide a very basic “toolbox,” a repertoire of important intellectual
strategies. The list reflects the plurality of perspectives in the field. It is not meant to be
exhaustive. There are many good books and articles not on the list, of course, and we expect
students to take courses and read more broadly in the themes on which they focus. It is
thoroughly appropriate to mention these additional sources in answer to a general question, in
addition to showing familiarity with the ideas represented here.
To prepare for the exam, those for whom comparative politics is a major field should acquaint
themselves with “Paradigms & Research Methods” as well as four of the other six major sections.
(That is, each student may omit two of the major sections and still be adequately prepared.) It is worth
remembering that in real life/scholarship, as in the exam, most problems require integration of ideas
across sections. Many works cited in one section could easily have been listed under multiple sections on
this reading list.
To be “conversant” with the material means demonstrating the ability to compare and contrast
alternative plausible explanations/theories in answer to some of the important questions in the sub-field.
The format of the exam is similar to discussion papers in the gateway seminar, Politics 521. Central to
success are 1) capacity to identify and use theories relevant to the question posed, 2) specificity, including
ability to recount the “story line” that links causes to effects, and 3) originality. “Originality” may mean
many things, including demonstrated ability to integrate disparate material, to use explanations to help
understand a new problem (including your own research interests), or to extend and revise explanations in
the literature.
Graduate students have the option to take one of their additional examinations in the politics of a
region in which they will specialize. The reading lists for these exams are developed by faculty members
in the area of interest in conjunction with the student.
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CONTENTS
III. C) Bureaucracy 17
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SECTION VII. POLITICAL ECONOMY 32
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Section I: Paradigms & Research Methods
John Stuart Mill. “How We Compare,” in A System of Logic, Book VI, chapter
10, New York: Harper, 1846.
Adam Przeworski and Henry Teune. “Comparative Research and Social Science
Theory” from The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry. New York: Wiley
Scientific, 1970, pp. 17-30.
Jon Elster. Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. (Some students have indicated that
they find Daniel Little, Microfoundations, Method, and Causation more useful.)
Charles Judd, Eliot Smith, and Louise Kidder, “Maximizing Construct Validity” and
“Measurement: From Abstract Concepts to Concrete Representations,” in
Research Methods in Social Research.
Robert Adcock and David Collier. "Measurement Validity: A Shared Standard for
Qualitative and Quantitative Research." American Political Science Review 95,
no. 3 (2001): 529-47.
Graham Allison, “Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” American Political Science
Review, 63, 3 (1969): 689-718.
Kenneth A. Shepsle, "Studying Institutions: Some Lessons from the Rational Choice Approach,"
Journal of Theoretical Politics 1, 2 (April 1989), 131-147.
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Donald Green and Ian Shapiro, Pathologies of Rational Choice, chapter 5.
Theda Skocpol and Margaret Somers, “The Uses of Comparative History in Macrosocial
Inquiry,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 22, 2 (April 1980): 174-
197.
Sven Steinmo, Kathleen Thelen, and Frank Longstreth, eds., Structuring Politics: Historical
Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1992, ch. 1.
Peter Hall and Rosemary Taylor. “Political Science and the Three New
Institutionalisms,” Political Studies 44 (December 1996): 936-958.
Louis Mink, “The Autonomy of Historical Understanding,” History and Theory 5: 30-47 or
another selection that explains the difference between historical reasoning and social
science reasoning.
Earl Babbie, “Types of Study Design,” from Survey Research Methods or for a more
sustained and interesting discussion see Donald T. Campbell and Julian Stanley,
Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research, Houghton Mifflin,
first published 1963 and reissued as a reprint recently or Stephen van Evera.
Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science, Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 1997.
Donald Campbell & J.C. Stanley. 1966. Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs
for Research. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., pp.5-27; 31-4.
Gaines, BJ, JH Kuklinski, and PJ Quirk. 2007. "The logic of the survey experiment
reexamined." Political Analysis 15 (1):1-20.
Alexander L. George and Andrew Bennett. Case Studies and Theory Development
In the Social Sciences. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005, at least chapter 1, Part II,
and chapter 8.
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Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books: 3-30.
Elisabeth Jean Wood. 2007. "Field Research." In The Oxford handbook of comparative
politics, ed. C. Boix and S. C. Stokes. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University
Press.
Ruth Berins Collier and David Collier. Shaping the Political Arena. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, chapter one on critical junctures.
Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba. Designing Social Inquiry, pp. 185-196.
Barbara Geddes, “How the Cases You Choose Affect the Answers You Get: Selection
Bias in Comparative Politics,” in Political Analysis, edited by James Stimson,
v. 2 Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990: 131-149. (optional)
Gary King, Robert Keohane and Sidney Verba, Designing Social Inquiry. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, pp. 129-132.
David Collier, James Mahoney, and Jason Seawright. “Claiming Too Much: Warnings
About Selection Bias,” in Henry Brady and David Collier, eds., Rethinking
Social Inquiry. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, pp. 85-86, 88-92, 94-5,
100-101.
c. Analytic Narratives
Robert Bates, et. al. Analytic Narratives. Princeton: Princeton University Press, chapter
One and conclusion plus Jon Elster, “Rational Choice History: A Case of
Excessive Ambition,” American Political Science Review, 94,3 (Sept. 2000),
Bates et. al. reply in same and/or Daniel Carpenter, “Commentary: What is the
Marginal value of Analytic Narratives?” Social Science History, 24, 4 (winter
2000).
d. Counter-factuals
James Fearon, “Counterfactuals and Hypothesis Testing in Political Science,” World
Politics
e. Comparative Method
David Collier, “Comparative Politics and Comparative Method,” in Dankwart
Rustow and Kenneth Paul Erickson, eds., Comparative Political Dynamics
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Gary King, Robert Keohane and Sidney Verba, Designing Social Inquiry. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1994, chapters 1-3 especially plus “Symposium on
Qualitative-Quantitative Disputation” (reviews of KKV) American Political
Science Review, June 1995.
Peter A. Hall and Sidney Tarrow, “Globalization and Area Studies: When Is Too
Broad Too Narrow?” Chronicle of Higher Education, January 23, 1998, B5.
Atul Kohli, et. al., “The Role of Theory in Comparative Politics: A Symposium, World Politics,
October 1995, pp. 1-15, 37-49.
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Section II : States & Regimes
A Useful Metaphor?
Charles Tilly, “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime, “in Bringing the
State Back In
Mancur Olson. “The Criminal Metaphor,” from Power and Prosperity. NY: Basic Books, 2000,
pp. 3-24.
Charles Tilly. The Formation of National States in Western Europe. (read enough to get the
basic ideas)
Hendrick Spruyt. The Sovereign State and Its Competitors. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1994.
Charles Tilly. Coercion, Capital, and the European States. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1990,
pp. 1-3, 16-23, 25-26, 28-32, 71-75, 94-95, 99-103, 187-191.
Stephen Krasner. Sovereignty. Princeton: Princeton University Press, chapters 1 and 2 or the
argument’s earlier manifestation in Stephen Krasner. “Approaches to the State:
Alternative Conceptions and Historical Dynamics,” Comparative Politics, 16, January
1984: 223-246.
Albert Hirschman, “Exit, Voice, and the State,” World Politics, 31, 1 (1978): 90-107.
Levi, Margaret. 1988. Of Rule and Revenue. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Weak States
Joel Migdal. “Strong States, Weak States,” in Myron Weiner and Samuel Huntington,
Understanding Political Development. Illinois: Scott Foresman/Little Brown, 1987.
Robert Jackman and Carl Rosberg, “Why Africa’s Weak States Persist: The Empirical and the
Juridical in Statehood,” World Politics, 1982: 1-24.
Jeffrey Herbst. States and Power in Africa. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
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II.B) Theories of Political Development
Modernization Theory
Daniel Lerner. The Passing of Traditional Society. Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1958, chapter 1.
Karl Deutsch, “Social Mobilization and Political Development,” in Jason Finkle and Richard
Gable, eds., Political Development and Social Change, 1971, pp. 384-401.
Seymour Martin Lipset. Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics. Garden City, N.Y.:
Doubleday, 1960, chapter 2.
Alex Inkeles, “The Modernization of Man,” in Myron Weiner, ed., Modernization, New York:
Basic Books, 1966: 138-150.
Critics Part 2: Marx and His Successors: Marxism and Dependency Theory as Alternative Theories of
Political Development
Karl Marx. The Communist Manifesto or some other version of Marx’s argument.
Fernando Henrique Cardozo and Enzo Faletto, Dependency and Development in Latin America,
University of California Press, 1979, pp. viii-xxv, 177-216.
Thomas Bierstecker. Distortion or Development? Cambridge: MIT Press, 1978 (chapter 1 and
summary charts…an effort to phrase dependency theory as a series of empirically testable
hypotheses)
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II.C) Political Regimes and Democratization
Regimes
Aristotle, from The Politics. Book 4, iv, x, xii and Book 5 vi.
Robert Dahl. Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition. New Haven: Yale University Press,
1971.
Carl Friedrich and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy. (1965), pp.
14-29.
Alfred Stepan. Rethinking Military Politics. (There is an extensive literature on military coups,
much of which is not reflected here)
Joseph Schumpeter. Capitalism, Socialism, & Democracy. New York: Harper &
Brothers, 1947
Democratization
Seymour Martin Lipset. “Some Social Requisites of Democracy,” American Political Science
Review, 1959.
Barrington Moore. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. 1968 (see also or as a
reader’s guide: Theda Skocpol, “A Critical Review of Barrington Moore’s Social
Politics and Society, fall 1973)
Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Evelyne Huber Stephens, and John Stephens. Capitalist Development
and Democracy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, chapters 1, 2, and 3.
Samuel Huntington. The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century.
Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991, pp. xiii-xv, chapters 1-4.*
Robert Bates, “The Impulse to Reform,” in Jennifer Widner, ed., Economic Change and
Political Liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1994.
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E.E., Schattschneider, The Semi-Sovereign People. Hinsdale, IL: Dreyden Press, 1960.
Carles Boix, Democracy and Redistribution. New York: Cambridge University Press,
2003.
Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. 2006. Economic origins of dictatorship and
democracy: Cambridge Univ Pr.
John Londregan. “Does High Income Promote Democracy?” World Politics, 49, 1
(1996): 1-30 (with Keith Poole)
Deborah Yashar. Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala.
Stanford University Press, 1997.
Nancy Bermeo. Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry and the Breakdown of
Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
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Ellen Lust-Okar and Amaney Jamal. “Regimes and Rules: Reassessing the Influence of Regime
Type on Electoral Law Formation,” Comparative Political Studies, 35, 3 (2002).
Dictatorships/Authoritarian Regimes
Myerson, Roger. 2008. “The Autocrat's Credibility Problem and Foundations of the
Constitutional State,” American Political Science Review 102 (February): 125-
139. Pages 133-137 only.
Kuran, Timur. 1991. “Now Out of Never: The Element of Surprise in the East European
Revolution of 1989 (in Liberalization and Democratization in the Soviet Union
and Eastern Europe),” World Politics 44 (October): 7-48.
Wintrobe, Ronald. 1990. “The Tinpot and the Totalitarian: An Economic Theory of
Dictatorship,” American Political Science Review 84 (September): 849-872.
Magaloni, Beatriz. 2006. Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in
Mexico. New York: Cambridge University Press. Introduction and chapter 1.
Jones, Benjamin F. and Olken, Benjamin A. 2006. “Do leaders matter? National leadership and
growth since World War II,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120(3): 835–864.
Accountability
Herbert Kitschelt & Steven I. Wilkinson. 2007. Patrons, Clients and Policies: Patterns of
Democratic Accountability and Political Competition. New York: Cambridge
University Press. Chapters 1 and 14.
Susan C. Stokes. 2005. “Perverse Accountability: A Formal Model of Machine Politics with
Evidence from Argentina,” American Political Science Review 99 (August): 315-
325.
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Section III: Institutions
Matthew Shugart and John Carey. Presidents and Assemblies. Cambridge University
Press.
Matthew Soberg Shugart and Stephan Haggard. “Institutions and Public Policy
In Presidential Systems,” from Stephan Haggard and Mathew McCubbins, eds.,
Presidents, Parliaments, and Policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
pp. 64-102.
Kenneth Shepsle and Barry Weingast (1987) "The Institutional Foundations of Committee
Power" American Political Science Review 81:85-104
Courts
John Ferejohn and Pasquale Pasquino. “The Rule of Democracy and the Rule of Law,” in
Jose Maria Maravall and Adam Przeworski, eds., Democracy and the Rule of Law.
Cambridge, 2003.
Jennifer Widner, Building the Rule of Law. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001.
Owen Fiss, “The Right Degree of Independence,” from Irwin Stotsky, The Transition to
Democracy in Latin America: The Role of the Judiciary
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Gretchen Helmke. 2002. "The Logic of Strategic Defection: Court-Executive Relations in
Argentina Under Dictatorship and Democracy." American Political Science Review 96 (02):291-
303.
William Landes and Richard Posner, The Independent Judiciary in an Interest Group
Perspective,” Journal of Law and Economics, 18, 3 (1975): 875-901.
Mark Ramseyer and Eric Rasmusen. “Why are Japanese Judges So Conservative in Politically
Charged Cases?” American Political Science Review, 95, 2 (June 2001): 331-44.
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III. B) Unitary Government, Federalism, & Decentralization
Jenna Bednar, William N. Eskridge, Jr., and John Ferejohn, “A Political Theory of
Federalism,” Constitutional Culture and Democratic Rule, edited by John
Ferejohn, John Riley, and Jack N. Rakove. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 223-267.
Jonathan Rodden and Erik Wibbels. “Beyond the Fiction of Federalism: Macroeconomic
Management in Multitiered Systems,” World Politics,
54, 4 (2002).
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III. C) Bureaucracy
Charles Lindblom. Politics and Markets. New York: Basic Books, 1977, 3-89, 161-200.
Variations in Form
Silberman. Cages of Reason. As much as necessary to get the argument.
Terry Moe. “The New Economics of Organization,” American Journal of Political Science, 28
(1984): 739-777.
Mat McCubbins, Roger Noll, and Barry Weingast, “Administrative Procedures as Instruments
of Political Control,” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (1990).
World Bank. World Development Report 2004. Delivering Services to the Poor.
John Huber and Charles Shipan, Deliberate Discretion: The Institutional Foundations of
Bureaucratic Autonomy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003, chapters 1,2,
and 4.
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Section IV : Participation, Collective Action, and Contentious Politics
James Fearon and David Laitin. 2003. “Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War,” American Political
Science Review 97 (February): 75-90.
Carles Boix. 2008. “Economic Roots of Civil Wars and Revolutions in the Contemporary World,”
World Politics 60 (April): 390-437. Only pages 390-393 & 401-433.
Stathis Kalyvas. The Logic of Violence in Civil War. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
The Scott-Popkin debate: James Scott, The Moral Economy of the Peasant and Samuel
Popkin, The Rational Peasant.
Paul Collier. “Doing Well Out of War: An Economic Perspective,” pp. 91-112 in Mats
Berdal and David M. Malone, eds. Greed & Greivance: Economic Agendas in
Civil Wars. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.
Albert Hirschman and Michael Rothschild. “The Changing Tolerance for Income
Inequality in the Course of Economic Development,” Quarterly Journal of
Economics, 87, 4 (1973): 544-566. (skip the formal model at the end; skim)
Revolution
Karl Marx. The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. (enough to get the idea)
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Theda Skocpol. States and Social Revolutions. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1979: 3-42, 161-171, and chapters 4, 5, or 6.
Timur Kuran. “Now Out of Never: The Element of Surprise in the East European
Revolution of 1989,” World Politics, 44, 1 (October 1991).
James C. Scott, Domination and the Arts of Resistance (1990), pp. 17-69, 183-201.
Mark Beissinger. Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 1-32, 104-146.
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IV. B) Participation, Collective Action & Social Movements
Who Votes?
John Aldrich. “Rational Choice and Turnout,” American Journal of Political Science, 37
(1993): 246-278 and on the turnout debate, Jackman, Robert W. 1987. “Political
Institutions and Voter Turnout in the Industrial Democracies.” American
Political Science Review Vol. 81:405-23 plus Powell, G Bingham. 1986.
“American Voter Turnout in Comparative Perspective.” American Political
Science Review Vol. 80 No. 1 (March):17-43.
Sidney Verba, Norman Nie and Jae-On Kim. Participation and Political Equality: A Seven
Nation Comparison (1978), chapters 1-7, 13, 14. (flawed but
important to know the main ideas)
Pamela Oliver and Gerald Marwell, The Critical Mass in Collective Action: A Microsocial
Theory (1993), pp. 1-13, 38-57.
Dennis Chong. Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1991.
Jeff Goodwin, No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991
(2001), pp. 3-64.
Social Movements
Doug McAdam, John D. McCarthy and Mayer Zald, eds., Comparative Perspectives on
Social Movements. Cambridge University Press, 1996 (suggested, not required; a good
Primer to start the debate on the social movements literature)
Sidney Tarrow. Power in Movement: Social Movements, Collective Action, and Politics.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward, Poor People’s Movements, pp. 1-37.
Herbert Kitschelt. “Political Opportunity Structure and Political Protest,” British Journal of Political
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Science, 16 (1986): 57-85.
Herbert Kitschelt and Anthony McGann, The Radical Right in Western Europe. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 1995, enough to get the argument. (interest group, party, or
social movement?)
Bashevkin, Sylvia, “Interest Groups and Social Movements,” in LeDuc, Niemi, and Norris, eds.,
Comparing Democracies: Elections and Voting in a Global Perspective, pp. 134-159.
Charles Epp. The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in
Comparative Perspective. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998,
Chapters 1, 2, and 11 plus at least 2 of the case studies. (optional)
Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow, and Charles Tilly, Dynamics of Contention. Cambridge,
2001 (read just enough to get the main argument)
Joan Nelson. “Political Participation,” in Myron Weiner and Samuel P. Huntington, eds.
Understanding Political Development, 1987, pp. 103-159.
Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders. Cornell, 1998
(opening and concluding chapters)
Sidney Tarrow, The New Transnational Activism (2005), pp. 15-56, 77-179.
Mark Beissinger. Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State. 2001.
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IV.C) Interest Groups and Interest Intermediation
Patterns
Suzanne Berger, ed., Organizing Interests in Western Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1981 pp. 1-26 (Berger).
Ruth Berins Collier and David Collier, “Inducements versus Constraints: Disaggregating
Corporatism,” American Political Science Review, 73 (1979): 967-986 and chapter
2 of Shaping the Political Arena (same authors).
Adam Przeworski and Michael Wallerstein, “The Structure of Class Conflict in Democratic
Capitalist Societies,” American Political Science Review, 76, 1982.
Ken Kollman. Outside Lobbying: Public Opinion and Interest Group Strategies. Princeton
University Press, 1998 (theoretical overview only…American example)
William Odom, “A Dissenting View on the Group Approach to Soviet Politics,” World Politics
28 (1976): 542-547.
Mancur Olson. The Rise and Decline of Nations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
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Section V: Electoral Politics
Representation
(An erudite scholar will know Hanna Fenichel Pitkin. The Concept of Representation.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.)
Bernard Manin, Adam Przeworski, and Susan Stokes, “Introduction” and “Elections and
Representation” in Manin, Przeworski, and Stokes, eds., Democracy, Accountability, and
Representation (Cambridge University Press, 1999).*
James Fearon, “Electoral Accountability and the Control of Politicians: Selecting Good Types
Versus Sanctioning Poor Performance,” in Manin, Przeworski, and Stokes, eds.
Democracy, Accountability, and Representation (Cambridge University Press, 1999).
James Stimson, “Party Government and Responsiveness,” in Manin, Przeworski, and Stokes,
eds., Democracy, Accountability, and Representation (Cambridge University Press,
1999).
Forms
Peter Mair, ed., The West European Party System. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1990, chapters 1, 5, 24 (classic essays by several authors)*
André Blais and Louis Massicotte, “Electoral Systems,” in LeDuc, Niemi, and Norris, eds.,
Comparing Democracies: Elections and Voting in a Global Perspective, pp. 49-81 and
understand the material in Gallagher, Laver, Mair, Representative Government in Modern
Europe: Institutions, Parties, and Governments, 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001,
chapter 7,8,10, pp. 171-233, 271-99.
Gary W. Cox, "Centripetal and Centrifugal Incentives in Electoral Systems," American Journal of
Political Science 34, 4 (November 1990), 903-935.
Cox, Gary W. 1997. Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's
Electoral Systems. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.,
Chapters 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 11 (p.1-69, 139-150, 181-224)
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Roger Meyerson, “Incentives to Cultivate Favored Minorities Under Alternative
Electoral Systems,” American Political Science Review, 87 (1993): 856-
869.
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V.B) Voting & Party Systems
Who Votes?
John Aldrich. “Rational Choice and Turnout,” American Journal of Political Science, 37
(1993): 246-278 and on the turnout debate, Jackman, Robert W. 1987. “Political
Institutions and Voter Turnout in the Industrial Democracies.” American
Political Science Review Vol. 81:405-23 plus Powell, G Bingham. 1986.
“American Voter Turnout in Comparative Perspective.” American Political
Science Review Vol. 80 No. 1 (March):17-43.
Sidney Verba, Norman Nie and Jae-On Kim. Participation and Political Equality: A Seven
Nation Comparison (1978), chapters 1-7, 13, 14. (flawed but important to know the main
ideas)
Steven Rosenstone and Ray Wolfinger, Who Votes? New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980.
Campbell, Angus et al. “The Impact and Development of Party Identification” in Classics
in Voting Behavior, eds Richard G. Niemi, Herbert F. Weisberg. Washington,
DC : CQ Press, 1992, ch.22, p.224-34.
Dalton, Russell J. 2002. Citizen Politics: Public Opinion and Political Parties in
Advanced Industrial Democracies. 3rd ed. New York: Chatham House
Publishers/Seven Bridges Press, ch.9 “Partisanship and Electoral Behavior”
Anthony Downs. An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper and Row,
1957, chapters 7 and 8.*
Bruce Cain, John Ferejohn, and Morris Fiorina. The Personal Vote: Constituency
Service and Electoral Independence. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1997 (selections in consultation with faculty).
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Experiment in Benin,” World Politics 55, 3 (2003): 399-422.
Economic Voting
G. Bingham Powell and Guy Whitten, “A Cross-National Analysis of Economic Voting:
Taking Account of the Political Context,” American Journal of Political Science,
37, 2 (1993): 391-414.
Wilkin, Sam, Brandon Haller and Helmut Norpoth (1997). “From Argentina to Zambia: a
World-Wide Test of Economic Voting.” Electoral Studies 16 (3): 301-316.
Duch, Raymond, and Randy Stevenson. 2005. "Context and the Economic Vote: A
Multi-Level Analysis." Political Analysis 13 (4).
Herbert Kitschelt. “The Formation of Party Systems in East Central Europe.” Politics and
Society, 20, 1 (1992): 7-50.
Herbert Kitschelt with Zdenka Mansfeldova, Radoslaw Markoswki, and Gabor Toka.
Post-Communist Party Systems. New York: Cambridge University Press,
1999, chapters 2 and 11.
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Section VI: Political Culture and Identity/Ethnic Politics
David J. Elkins and Richard E.B. Simeon, “A Cause in Search of Its Effect, or What Does
Political Culture Explain?” Comparative Politics, 11 (January 1979): 127-146.
Ann Swidler. “Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies,” American Sociological Review, 51
(April 1986): 273-286.
Stanley Feldman. “Structure and Consistency in Public Opinion: The Role of Core Beliefs
And Values,” AJPS (1988).
Robert W. Jackman and Ross A Miller. “A Renaissance of Political Culture?” American Journal
of Political Science 40 (1996): 632-659.
Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba, eds. The Civic Culture Revisited, 1980, especially chapters 1,
2, and 10.
Robert Putnam, The Beliefs of Politicians. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973.
Susan Pharr. Losing Face: Status Politics in Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1990.
Alastair Ian Johnston. Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese
History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995, project design and enough to
capture argument.
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Trust and Social Capital
Edward Banfield. The Moral Basis of a Backward Society, pp. 17-24 and 83-109.
Margaret Levi. “A State of Trust,” in Braithwaite, Valerie and Levi, eds., Trust and Governance.
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998.
Tom R. Tyler. “Trust and Democratic Governance,” in Braithwaite, Valerie, and Levi, eds. Trust
and Governance. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998.
Peter Evans. “Government Action, Social Capital and Development: Reviewing the
Evidence on Synergy,” World Development, 24, 6 (1996).
Robert Axelrod, “The Dissemination of Culture: A Model with Local Convergence and Global
Polarization,” Journal of Conflict Resolution, 41 (April 1997): 203-26.
Peter Hall. “The Politics of Keynesian Ideas,” in The Political Power of Economic Ideas:
Keynesianism Across Nations. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989, Intro &
Conclusion pp. 1-XXX, 361-391.
Amaney Jamal. Barriers to Democracy: The Other Side of Social Capital in Palestine
and the Arab World. Princeton University Press, 2007.
Amaney Jamal and Irfan Nooruddin. "The Democratic Utility of Trust: A Cross-National
Analysis." The Journal of Politics 72 (01):45-59.
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VI.B) Ethnicity, Identity Politics and Nationalism
Walker Connor. “Man is a National Animal,” in Walker Connor, ed. Ethnonationalism: The
Quest for Understanding. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, pp. 195-209.
Anthony Smith essay in John Hutchinson and Anthony D. Smith, eds. Ethnicity. London: Oxford
University Press, 1996.
Kanchan Chandra, “What is Ethnic Identity and Does It Matter?” Annual Review of
Political Science, 9 (2006), pp. 397-424.
Ethnic mobilization/salience
David D. Laitin, “Hegemony and Religious Conflict: British Imperial Control and Political
Cleavages in Yorubaland,” in Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol,
eds., Bringing the State Back In (1985), pp. 285-316.
Michael Hechter, “Group Formation and the Cultural Division of Labor,” American Journal of
Sociology vol. 84, no. 2 (1978), pp. 293-318.
Alvin Rabushka and Kenneth Shepsle, Politics in Plural Societies (1972), pp. 62-92.
Daniel Posner, “The Political Salience of Cultural Difference: Why Chewas and
Tumbukas are Allies in Zambia and Adversaries in Malawi,” American Political
Science Review 98, 4: 529-545.
Anthony W. Marx, Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South
Africa, and Brazil (1998), pp. 1-25.
Donald Horowitz. Ethnic Groups in Conflict. Berkeley: University of California Press, new
edition 2000-2001.
James D. Fearon and David D. Laitin. “Explaining Interethnic Cooperation,” American Political
Science Review 90 (4): 715-735 plus review article “Ethnic Mobilization and Ethnic
Violence,” chapter in Handbook of Political Science, 2006.
Ashutosh Varshney. Ethnic Conflict and Civil Strife: Hindus and Muslims in India. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 2002, especially chapters 1, 2 and 12.
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Sniderman, Paul M., Pierangelo Peri, Rui J. P. de Figueiredo Jr., and Thomas Piazza. 2000. The
Outsider: Prejudice and Politics in Italy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
David Laitin. Identity in Formation: The Russian Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad.
Cornell, 1998 (just enough to get the argument).
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics 112 (4) (1997), pp. 1203-50.
Eduard Miguel, “Tribe or Nation? Nation Building and Public Goods in Kenya versus Tanzania,”
World Politics 56 (2004), pp. 327-62.
Alberto Alesina, Reza Baqir, and William Russell Easterly, “Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions,”
Quarterly Journal of Economics 114 (4) (1999), pp. 1243-84.
James Habyarimana, Macartan Humphreys, Daniel Posner, and Jeremy M. Weinstein, “Why
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Ethnic Violence
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Petersen, Roger. Understanding Ethnic Violence: Fear, Hatred, and Resentment in
Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe. Cambridge University Press.
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pp. 3-22, 87-148.
Steven Wilkinson, Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India
(2004), pp. 1-18, 137-171.
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A Theoretical and Empirical Inquiry,” Journal of Conflict Resolution (June), pp.
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Section VII. Political Economy
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Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini, Political Economics: Explaining Economic Policy.
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000, parts I and II.
James Caporaso and David Levine. Theories of Political Economy. Cambridge University Press.
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VII.B) Political Economy of Advanced Industrial Societies
Peter Hall and Rosemary Taylor. “Political Science and the Three New
Institutionalisms,” Political Studies 44 (December 1996): 936-958.
John Zysman. Governments, Markets, Growth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
At least chs. 1-2.
Peter Katzenstein. Small States in World Markets. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
1985.
Peter Hall. Governing the Economy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Sven Steinmo. Taxation and Democracy: Swedish, British, and American Approaches to
Financing the Modern State. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
Peter Hall and David Soskice, eds. Varieties of Capitalism: Institutional Foundations of
Comparative Advantage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, especially
introductory chapter.
Wolfgang Streeck and Kathleen Thelen, eds. Beyond Continuity: Institutional Change in
Advanced Political Economies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005,
especially introductory chapter.
Michael Alvarez, Geoffrey Garrett and Peter Lange. 1991. “Government Partisanship,
Labor Organization and Macroeconomic Performance,” APSR 85:539-556.
Geoffrey Garrett. Partisan Politics in the Global Economy. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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Torben Iversen. Contested Institutions. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Isabela Mares. 2004. "Wage Bargaining in the Presence of Social Services and
Transfers,” World Politics, 57(1), 99-142.
Paul Pierson, Dismantling the Welfare State. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Press, 1994,
Chapters 1,2, 3, 4 or 5, 7
Alexander Hicks. Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism: A Century of Income Security
Policies. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.
Evelyne Huber and John Stephens. Development and Crisis of the Welfare State.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Ellen Immergut, “Institutions, Veto Points, and Policy Results: A Comparative Analysis of
Health Care,” Journal of Public Policy, 10, 4.
Isabela Mares. “The sources of business interest in social insurance: sectoral versus
national differences,” World Politics, 55(2003): 229-258. Or Isabela Mares, The
Politics of Social Risk, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Alan Meltzer and Scott Richard. “A Rational Theory of the Size of Government,”
Journal of Political Economy, 89 (1981): 914-927.
Karl Ove Moene and Michael Wallerstein. “Earnings Inequality and Welfare Spending,”
World Politics 55(2003):485-516.
Torben Iversen and David Soskice, “Electoral Systems and the Politics of Coalitions,”
APSR, 100(2006):165-181.
Barry Weingast and Kenneth Shepsle, “The Political Economy of Benefits and Costs: A
Neoclassical Approach to Distributive Politics,” Journal of Political Economy,
89 (1981): 642-664.
Jonas Pontusson. Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe versus Liberal America.
Cornell University Press, 2005.
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Lane Kenworthy and Jonas Pontusson. “Rising Inequality and the Politics of
Redistribution in Affluent Countries,” Perspectives on Politics, 3(2005):449-
471.
David Rueda and Jonas Pontusson. “Wage Inequality and Varieties of Capitalism,”
World Politics, 52(2000):350-383.
Avinash Dixit and John Londregan. “The Determinants of Success of Special Interests in
Redistributive Politics,” Journal of Politics, 58 (1996): 1132-55.
William Nordhaus. “The Political Business Cycle,” Review of Economic Studies, 22,
April 1975, pp. 169-90. (electoral cycles)
Edward Tufte, Political Control of the Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1978. (electoral cycles)
Kenneth Schultz. 1995. “The Politics of the Business Cycle,” BJPS 25:79-99.
Alberto Alesina and Nouriel Roubini with Gerald Cohen, Political Cycles and the
Macroeconomy, 1997 and Robert Franzese review in Journal of Policy
Analysis and Management 19, 3 (2000): 501-9.
Alberto Alesina et al. 1997. Political Cycles and the Macroeconomy. Cambridge, Mass:
The MIT Press. Pages 1-110, 141-209. (B)
Stephen Krasner, “State Power and the Structure of International Trade,” World
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There is an overview of Nordhaus, Tufte, Rogoff, Hibbs, and Alesina in the Annual Review of Political
Science. You may wish to read the overview plus Tufte and Hibbs.
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Politics, 28, 3 (1976): 317-43.
Jeffrey Frieden and Ronald Rogowski, “The Impact of the International Economy on
National Policies: An Analytical Overview,” in Keohane and Miller, eds,
Internationalization and Domestic Politics, 1996: 25-47.
James Alt and Michael Gilligan, “The Political Economy of Trading States: Factor
Specificity, Collective Action Problems, and Domestic Political Institutions,”
Journal of Political Philosophy, 2, 2 (1994): 165-192.
Hanson, Gordon, Kenneth F. Scheve, and Matthew J. Slaughter. 2007. “Public Finance
and Individual Preferences over Globalization Strategies.” Economics and
Politics 19 (1):1-33.
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VII.C) Political Economy of Development
Shahid Yusuf and Joseph Stiglitz, “Development Issues: Settled and Open,” in Meier
and Stiglitz, eds., Frontiers of Development Economics, pp. 227-268.
Karl Polanyi, “The Economy as Instituted Process,” ch. 13 in Polanyi et al. Trade
And Market in the Early Empires
Chalmers Johnson. From MITI and the Japanese Miracle. Chapters 1,2,7 and 9.
Robert Wade, “East Asia’s Economic Success,” World Politics, April 1992: 270-320.
2
A good overview of the history of the idea of development appears in H. W. Arndt. Economic
Development: The History of an Idea. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987, chapters 3-4.
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Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson and Simon Johnson. “The Colonial
Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical
Investigation.”
December 2001, American Economic Review, volume 91, pp. 1369-1401.
Carles Boix. Political Parties, Growth and Equality. New York: Cambridge, 1998, pp.
1-11 and chapters 2 and 3.
Pranab Bardan. Security, Conflicts, and Cooperation. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995,
chapter one (a nice review essay)
North, Douglass C. And Barry R. Weingast, 1989. “Constitutions and Commitment: The
Evolution of Institutional Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century
England,” The Journal of Economic History 49, (December): 803-832.
David Stasavage. 2002. “Credible Commitment in Early Modern Europe: North and
Weingast Revisited,” Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 18(1): 155-
186.
Elisa Mariscal and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. 2000. “Schooling, Suffrage, and the Persistence
of Inequality in the Americas, 1800-1945,” in Stephen Harber, ed. Political
Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America. Essays in Policy, History,
and Political Economy. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press. Chapter 5, pp. 159-
217.
William Easterly. The Elusive Quest for Growth. MIT Press, 2001,
Chapters 1-8 and 11.
Adam Przeworski, “The Political Dynamics of Economic Reform,” Democracy and the
Market. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991: 136-191.
Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman, The Politics of Economic Adjustment. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1992, introduction.
Georard Roland. Transition and Economics: Politics, Markets, and Firms. Cambridge:
MIT Press, 2000.
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Yingyi Qian, “Government Control in Corporate Governance as a Transitional
Institution: Lessons from China,” in Rethinking the East Asian Miracle, Stiglitz
and Yusuf, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000: 295-321.
Nicolas van de Walle. African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. (chapters 2-4)
Grigore Pop-Eleches, G. 2008. From economic crisis to reform: IMF programs in Latin
America and Eastern Europe: Princeton Univ Pr.
Jennifer Widner. “Single Party States and Agricultural Policies,” Comparative Politics,
26, 2 (January 1994): 127-148.
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