Comparative Politics Outline

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 School of Politics and International Relations Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad Course Title: Comparative Politics Course Code: Pol-302 Course Instructor: Dr Muhammad Nadeem Mirza Semester: Spring 2014 Introduction This course deals with the principles, theories and the practice of Comparative Politics. Its focus will remain on two qu estions: what to compare and how to compare. It deals with the following main themes: theories of comparative politics, analytical and methodological approaches, political construct of states and nation states, political regimes, and political economy. Within these broad themes the debates   such as scienticity of social science, causes of development and underdevelopment, nations and nationalism, causes of social unrest and ethno-national movements, political institutions and regimes, political culture and behaviour, democratisation and authoritarianism  will be dealt. Teaching Duration: February 3, 2014 to May 23, 2014 Attendance: Class attendance is a MUST. According to the university policy, any student having less than 80% attendance will not be allowed to appear i n the terminal examination. Besides class attendance has fix marks. Faux Attendance: Class attendance will be randomly checked and any student having faux attendance will be penalised with three positive attendanc e and 10 marks. Make-up exams: Any student missing or failing any sessional exam or presentation or submission of the article review will be allowed to appear for the make-up exam, in which case they will lose 25% of the original marks dedicated for the said exams. Class Presentation: All the students will be required to choose one article from the reading list and it will be mandatory to present the article review in the form of presentation. Before the start of the class, ten minutes will be reserved for the student’s presentation. Students have the liberty to choose the article by themselves; otherwise they will be allotted the articles for review by the class instructor. Article Review Students are required to choose three a rticles (besides one article for presentation) for article review. Article reviews will be of about two to three pages, mentioning the main idea, theory being used, methodology being adopted, and whether the author has been successful in defending the hypothesis developed in the study or otherwise. A critical analysis of the authors’ point of view will earn you extra marks.

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  • School of Politics and International Relations

    Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad

    Course Title: Comparative Politics Course Code: Pol-302

    Course Instructor: Dr Muhammad Nadeem Mirza Semester: Spring 2014

    Introduction

    This course deals with the principles, theories and the practice of Comparative Politics. Its

    focus will remain on two questions: what to compare and how to compare. It deals with the

    following main themes: theories of comparative politics, analytical and methodological

    approaches, political construct of states and nation states, political regimes, and political

    economy. Within these broad themes the debates such as scienticity of social science,

    causes of development and underdevelopment, nations and nationalism, causes of social

    unrest and ethno-national movements, political institutions and regimes, political culture

    and behaviour, democratisation and authoritarianism will be dealt.

    Teaching Duration: February 3, 2014 to May 23, 2014

    Attendance: Class attendance is a MUST. According to the university policy, any student

    having less than 80% attendance will not be allowed to appear in the terminal examination.

    Besides class attendance has fix marks.

    Faux Attendance: Class attendance will be randomly checked and any student having faux

    attendance will be penalised with three positive attendance and 10 marks.

    Make-up exams: Any student missing or failing any sessional exam or presentation or

    submission of the article review will be allowed to appear for the make-up exam, in which

    case they will lose 25% of the original marks dedicated for the said exams.

    Class Presentation: All the students will be required to choose one article from the reading

    list and it will be mandatory to present the article review in the form of presentation. Before

    the start of the class, ten minutes will be reserved for the students presentation. Students

    have the liberty to choose the article by themselves; otherwise they will be allotted the

    articles for review by the class instructor.

    Article Review

    Students are required to choose three articles (besides one article for presentation) for

    article review. Article reviews will be of about two to three pages, mentioning the main

    idea, theory being used, methodology being adopted, and whether the author has been

    successful in defending the hypothesis developed in the study or otherwise. A critical

    analysis of the authors point of view will earn you extra marks.

  • Contact Information

    For any query or discussion about the study related problems, class instructor will be

    available in the office for 15 minutes after the end of the class. For exceptional discussion

    about the study, students can take appointment through the following email.

    [email protected]

    Dates of Submission of Article Reviews

    March 5, 2014: Submission of first Article Review April 2, 2014: Submission of Second Article Review May 14, 2014: Submission of Third Article Review

    Marks Division:

    Two Sessional exams: 15 Marks each Three Article Reviews: 10 marks each Presentation: 10 Class attendance and Discussion: 5 Final Exams: 75

    Course Structure

    Week 1-2 Introduction What is Comparative Politics? Why Study Comparative Politics? Evolution of Comparative Politics as a field of Study

    Suggested Readings

    Kopstein, Jeffrey, and Mark Irving Lichbach,. What Is Comparative Politics. In Comparative Politics: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in a Changing Global Order, edited by Jeffrey

    Kopstein and Mark Irving Lichbach. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 1-3 and

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    ONeil, Patrick H. What Is Comparative Politics? In Essentials of Comparative Politics. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2010.

    Daalder, Hans. The Development of the Study of Comparative Politics. In Comparative Democratic Politics: a Guide to Contemporary Theory and Research, edited by Hans Keman.

    London: SAGE, 2002.

    Newton, Kenneth, and Jan W. van Deth. Why Comparative Politics? In Foundations of Comparative Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

    Additional Readings

  • Munck, Gerardo L. The Past and Present of Comparative Politics. Working paper. Helen Kellogg

    Institute for International Studies, 2006.

    http://www3.nd.edu/~kellogg/publications/workingpapers/WPS/330.pdf.

    Landman, Todd. Why, How, and Problems of Comparison. In Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics: An Introduction. London: Routledge, 2003.

    Newton, Kenneth, and Jan W. van Deth. Why Comparative Politics? In Foundations of Comparative Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

    Dalton, Russell J, and G. Bingham, Strm, Kaare Powell. Comparative Politics Today: A World

    View. New York: Longman, 2012.

    Week 3-4 Theories, Methods, and Processes of Comparative Politics Concept of paradigm and paradigmatic shift Scienticity of Social Sciences Approaches to Comparative Politics: Institutional, Rational choice and Political culture approaches Methods: Which is preferable: Quantitative or Qualitative Research techniques, Cross national or case-study models? Approaches to International Relations

    Suggested Readings

    Thomas Kuhns concept of Paradigm

    King, Gary, Robert O Keohane, and Sidney Verba. The Science in Social Science. In Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton

    University Press, 1994.

    March, Andrew F. What Is Comparative Political Theory? The Review of Politics 71, no. 04 (2009): 531565.

    Chilcote, Ronald H. Theories of Comparative Politics: The Search for a Paradigm Reconsidered.

    Westview Press Boulder, Colorado, 1994. http://www.getcited.org/pub/103172538.

    Articles, Approaches to Comparative Politics

    Newton, Kenneth, and Jan W. van Deth. How and What to Compare? In Foundations of Comparative Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

    Kesselman, Mark, Joel Krieger, and William A. Joseph. Introducing Comparative Politics. In Introduction to Comparative Politics: Brief Edition. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.

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    Kopstein, Jeffrey, and Mark Irving Lichbach, eds. Tools of Analysis: Interests, Identities, and Institutions. In Comparative Politics: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in a Changing Global Order. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 4-8

    Pennings, Paul, Hans Keman, and J Kleinnijenhuis. The Comparative Approach: Theory and Method. In Doing Research in Political Science: An Introduction to Comparative Methods and Statistics. London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2006. 6-8

  • Additional Readings

    Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago press, 2012.

    http://books.google.com.pk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=3eP5Y_OOuzwC&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&dq=t

    homas+Kuhn+concept+of+paradigm&ots=xT4Lz8jQqL&sig=oYfDzgqQwsasDwRI0sb8891

    cpZY.

    . Second Thoughts on Paradigms. The Structure of Scientific Theories 2 (1974): 459482.

    Euben, Roxanne L. Comparative Political Theory: An Islamic Fundamentalist Critique of Rationalism. The Journal of Politics 59, no. 01 (1997): 2855.

    Godrej, Farah. Response to What Is Comparative Political Theory? The Review of Politics 71, no. 04 (2009): 567582.

    Dallmayr, Fred. Introduction: Toward a Comparative Political Theory. The Review of Politics 59, no. 03 (1997): 421428.

    Grofman, Bernard. Toward a Science of Politics? European Political Science 6, no. 2 (June 2007): 143155. doi:10.1057/palgrave.eps.2210123.

    Moon, J. Donald. The Logic of Political Inquiry: A Synthesis of Opposed Perspectives Addison-Wesley, 1975.

    Lichbach, Mark Irving, and Alan S Zuckerman. Research Traditions and Theory in Comparative Politics: An Introduction. In Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009.

    Rogowski, Ronald. How Inference in the Social (But Not the Physical) Sciences Neglects Theoretical Anomaly. In Rethinking Social Inquiry Diverse Tools, Shared Standards, edited by Henry E Brady and David Collier. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010.

    . The Role of Theory and Anomaly in Social-Scientific Inference. The American Political Science Review 89, no. 2 (June 1995): 467. doi:10.2307/2082443.

    Bhattacherjee, Anol. Science and Scientific Research. In Social Science Research: Principles, Methods, and Practices. Tampa, FL: Open Access Textbooks, 2012. 5-13.

    . Social Science Research: Principles, Methods, and Practices. Tampa, FL: Open Access Textbooks, 2012.

    Hall, Peter A., and Rosemary CR Taylor. Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms. Political Studies 44, no. 5 (1996): 936957.

    Brady, Henry E, and David Collier, eds. Some Unfulfilled Promises of Quantitative Imperialism. In Rethinking Social Inquiry Diverse Tools, Shared Standards. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010.

    Geddes, Barbara. Research Design and Accumulation of Knowledge. In Paradigms and Sand Castles: Theory Building and Research Design in Comparative Politics. Ann Arbor:

    University of Michigan Press, 2003.

    Kaufmann, Gtz. School of Methods: The Qualitative and Quantitative Approach. In Series of Papers: Methods of Field Res. Berlin: Free University, 2012.

    Pennings, Paul, Hans Keman, and J Kleinnijenhuis. Doing Research in Political Science. In Doing Research in Political Science: An Introduction to Comparative Methods and Statistics.

    London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2006.

  • . Comparative Methodology and Statistics in Political Science. In Doing Research in Political Science: An Introduction to Comparative Methods and Statistics. London; Thousand

    Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2006.

    Weber, Max. Methods of Social Science. In From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Oxford University Press, 1946.

    Week 5-6 What we compare? What is State-nation and Nation-state? What is Political Culture? What is Constitution? Political Institutions Decision making

    First Sessional (on the last day of week)

    Suggested Readings

    Newton, Kenneth, and Jan W. van Deth. What is state and emergence of modern state. In Foundations of Comparative Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 11-28

    . State Theories. In Foundations of Comparative Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 29-31

    Krasner, Stephen D. Sovereignty. Foreign Policy no. 122 (January 2001): 20. doi:10.2307/3183223.

    Ghani, Ashraf, and Clare Lockhart. The Framework: Ten Functions of the States. In Fixing Failed States. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

    Ethridge, Marcus E, and Howard Handelman. Kinds of Government. In Politics in a Changing World: A Comparative Introduction to Political Science. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2010.

    11-14

    Newton, Kenneth, and Jan W. van Deth. What a Constitution Is, and Why We Have Them.(separation of power) In Foundations of Comparative Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 71-88

    Waluchow, Wil. Constitutionalism. Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 2012. http://stanford.library.usyd.edu.au/entries/constitutionalism/.

    Vedantam, Shankar. Who Are the Better Managers -- Political Appointees or Career Bureaucrats? The Washington Post, November 24, 2008, sec. Nation. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-

    dyn/content/article/2008/11/23/AR2008112302485.html?sub=AR.

    Additional Readings

    Formisano, Ronald P. The Concept of Political Culture. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 31, no. 3 (2001): 393426.

    Kim, Young C. The Concept of Political Culture in Comparative Politics. The Journal of Politics 26, no. 02 (1964): 313336.

  • Fukuyama, Francis. The Necessity of Politics. In The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. London: Profile Books, 2011.

    Boyte, Harry C. The Necessity of Politics. Journal of Public Affairs 7, no. 1 (2004): 7585.

    Weber, Max. Modern State. In From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Oxford University Press, 1946.

    Krasner, Stephen D. An Orienting Principle for Foreign Policy. Policy Review no. 163 (2010): 312.

    Wendt, Alexander. Anarchy Is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics. International Organization 46, no. 2 (April 1, 1992): 391425.

    Wimmer, Andreas, and Yuval Feinstein. The Rise of the Nation-State across the World, 1816 to 2001. American Sociological Review 75, no. 5 (2010): 764790.

    Rotberg, Robert I. Failed States, Collapsed States, Weak States: Causes and Indicators. In State Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror. Cambridge, Mass.: World Peace

    Foundation; Brookings Institution Press, 2003.

    . State Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror. Cambridge, Mass.: World Peace Foundation; Brookings Institution Press, 2003.

    Rotberg, Robert I. The New Nature of Nation-State Failure. Washington Quarterly 25, no. 3 (2002): 8396.

    Potter, Donald W. State Responsibility, Sovereignty, and Failed States. In Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, Adelaide. Vol. 29, 2004.

    https://www.adelaide.edu.au/apsa/docs_papers/Others/potter.pdf.

    Brooks, Rosa Ehrenreich. Failed States, or the State as Failure? The University of Chicago Law Review (2005): 11591196.

    Hadenius, Axel, and Jan Teorell. Authoritarian Regimes: Stability, Change, and Pathways to

    Democracy, 1972-2003. Notre Dame, USA: Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies,

    2006. http://kellogg.nd.edu/publications/workingpapers/WPS/331.pdf.

    Weber, Max. Bureaucracy. In From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Oxford University Press, 1946.

    . Characteristics of Bureaucracy and The Power Position of Bureaucracy. In From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Oxford University Press, 1946.

    Unknown. Legislative Chambers: Unicameral or Bicameral? United Nations Development Programme, n.d.

    http://mirror.undp.org/magnet/Docs/parliaments/Legislative%20Chambers.htm.

    Cameron, Maxwell A., and Tulia G. Falleti. Federalism and the Subnational Separation of Powers. Publius: The Journal of Federalism 35, no. 2 (2005): 245271.

    Ethridge, Marcus E, and Howard Handelman. Political Institutions. In Politics in a Changing World: A Comparative Introduction to Political Science. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2010.

    Unknown. What Political Institutions Does Large-Scale Democracy Require? in Annual Additions, Comparative Politics.

    Unknown. Judicial Review: The Gavel and the Robe. in Annual Additions, Comparative Politics.

    Odoki, Justice B.J. The Nature and Purpose of National Constitution. Soroti, 1991.

  • Unknow. Public Opinion, Political Parties, Interest Groups: Ex Uno, Plures. in Annual Additions, Comparative Politics.

    Newton, Kenneth, and Jan W. van Deth. Decision Making. In Foundations of Comparative Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

    Week 7 Nationalism and ethno-nationalism Guest Lecture by Dr Muhammad Umer Hayat on ethnicity

    Suggested Readings

    Reich, Robert B. What Is a Nation? Political Science Quarterly 106, no. 2 (1991): 193209.

    Haas, Ernst B. What Is Nationalism and Why Should We Study It? International Organization 40, no. 03 (1986): 707744.

    Additional Readings

    Barrington, Lowell W. Nation and nationalism: The Misuse of Key Concepts in Political Science. PS: Political Science & Politics 30, no. 04 (1997): 712716.

    Calhoun, Craig. Nationalism and Ethnicity. Annual Review of Sociology 19 (1993): 211239.

    Bhavnani, Ravi, and Dan Miodownik. Ethnic Polarization, Ethnic Salience, and Civil War. Journal of Conflict Resolution 53, no. 1 (2009): 3049.

    Renan, Ernest. What Is a Nation? Nation and Narration 11 (1996). http://ig.cs.tu-berlin.de/oldstatic/w2001/eu1/dokumente/Basistexte/Renan1882EN-Nation.pdf.

    Hobsbawm, E. J. Introduction. Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

    Fearon, James D., and David D. Laitin. Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War. American Political Science Review 97, no. 1 (2003): 7590.

    Quinn, Kevin, Michael Hechter, and Erik Wibbels. Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War Revisited. Unpublished Paper (May 6 Version) (2003). http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/ocvprogram/licep/7/hechter/hechter.pdf.

    Wood, Elisabeth Jean. Review Essay: Civil Wars: What We Dont Know. Global Governance no. 9 (2003): 247260.

    Montalvo, Jose G., and Marta Reynal-Querol. Ethnic Diversity and Economic Development. Journal of Development Economics 76, no. 2 (2005): 293323.

    Baldwin, Kate, and John D. Huber. Economic versus Cultural Differences: Forms of Ethnic Diversity and Public Goods Provision. American Political Science Review 104, no. 4 (2010): 644662.

    Opello, Walter C., and Stephen J. Rosow. A Historical Approach to the State and Global Order. In The Nation-State and Global Order: A Historical Introduction to Contemporary Politics.

    Lynne Rienner, 1999. https://www.rienner.com/uploads/47dea53755704.pdf.

    Walby, Sylvia. The Myth of the Nation-State: Theorizing Society and Polities in a Global Era. Sociology 37, no. 3 (2003): 529546.

    Week 8

  • Political Economy

    Suggested Readings

    Mankiw, N. Gregory. The Trilemma of International Finance. The New York Times, July 10, 2010, sec. Business / Economy.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/business/economy/11view.html.

    ONeil, Patrick H. Political-Economic Systems In Essentials of Comparative Politics. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2010.

    North, Douglas C. Institutions. Journal of Economic Perspectives 5, no. 1 (Winter 1991): 97112.

    Additional Readings

    Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. A. and C. Black,

    1863.

    Acemoglu, Daron. Root Causes: A historical view of the role of the institutions in economic development. Finance & Development 40, no. 2 (2003): 2743.

    Banerjee, Abhijit, and L. Lyer. History, Institutions, and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India. The American Economic Review 95 (2005): 4.

    Mann, Michael. Has Globalization Ended the Rise and Rise of the Nation-State? Review of International Political Economy 4, no. 3 (1997): 472496.

    Week 9-10 Democratisation and Democratic regimes

    Second Sessional (last class)

    Suggested Readings

    Schmitter, Philippe C., and Terry Lynn Karl. What Democracy Is... and Is Not. Journal of Democracy 2, no. 3 (1991): 7588.

    Sitrin, Marina. What Does Democracy Look Like? The Nation, March 14, 2012. http://www.thenation.com/article/166824/what-does-democracy-look.

    Zakaria, Fareed. The Rise of Illiberal Democracy. Foreign Affairs 76 (1997): 22.

    Diskin, Abraham, Hanna Diskin, and Reuven Y. Hazan. Why Democracies Collapse: The Reasons for Democratic Failure and Success. International Political Science Review 26, no. 3 (2005): 291309.

    Additional Readings

    Waseem, Mohammad. Causes of Democratic Downslide. Economic and Political Weekly 37, no. 44 (2002): 45324538.

  • Haugaard, Mark. Democracy, Political Power, and Authority. Social Research: An International Quarterly 77, no. 4 (2010): 10491074.

    Zakaria, Fareed. A Brief History of Human Liberty. In The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003.

    Lijphart, Arend. Constitutional Choices for New Democracies. Journal of Democracy 2, no. 1 (1991): 7284.

    Putnam, Robert D. Tuning In, Tuning out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America. PS-WASHINGTON- 28 (1995): 664664.

    Schmitter, Philippe C., and Javier Santiso. Three Temporal Dimensions to the Consolidation of Democracy. International Political Science Review 19, no. 1 (1998): 6992.

    Rejai, Mostafa, and Cynthia H. Enloe. Nation-States and State-Nations. International Studies Quarterly 13, no. 2 (1969): 140158.

    Stepan, Alfred C., and Juan Jos Linz. Toward Consolidated Democracies. Journal of Democracy 7, no. 2 (1996): 1433.

    Lehoucq, Fabrice. The Third Wave of Democracy: Findings and Implications. Latin American Research Review 43, no. 1 (2008): 245254.

    Schedler, Andreas. Concepts of Democratic Consolidation. In Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara. Guadalajara, Mexico, 1997.

    . What Is Democratic Consolidation? Journal of Democracy 9, no. 2 (1998): 91107.

    Bunce, Valerie J., and Sharon L. Wolchik. Breakthrough Elections: Mixed Regimes, Democracy Assistance, and International Diffusion AND Electoral Stability and Change in Mixed

    Regimes. In Defeating Authoritarian Leaders in Postcommunist Countries. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

    Carothers, Thomas. The End of the Transition Paradigm. Journal of Democracy 13, no. 1 (2002): 521.

    Collier, David, and Steven Levitsky. Democracy with Adjectives. World Politics 49, no. 3 (1997): 430451.

    Dix, Robert H. Why Revolutions Succeed & Fail. Polity (1984): 423446.

    Advanced Democracies US, France,

    Suggested Readings

    Tocqueville, Alexis de. Authors Introduction. In Democracy in America, translated by J. P Mayer and George Lawrence. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006.

    Ethridge, Marcus E, and Howard Handelman. Politics in Selected Nations. In Politics in a Changing World: A Comparative Introduction to Political Science. Belmont, CA:

    Wadsworth, 2010.

    Additional Readings

    Robinson, James A., Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and Pierre Yared. Income and Democracy. American Economic Review 98, no. 3 (1969).

  • Przeworski, Adam. Conquered or Granted? A History of Suffrage Extensions. British Journal of Political Science 39, no. 2 (2009): 291321.

    . Granted or Conquered: A History of Franchise Extensions. British Journal of Political Science (2007). http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/politics/seminars/suffrage_ext.pdf.

    Duverger, Maurice. The Number of Parties. In Political Parties: Their Organization and Activity in the Modern State. Methuen, 1959.

    Estevez-Abe, M., and T. Iversen. Social Protection and the Formation of Skills: A Reinterpretation of the Welfare State. In Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundation of Comparative Advantage, 14583. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

    Iversen, Torben, and David Soskice. Electoral Institutions and the Politics of Coalitions: Why Some Democracies Redistribute More than Others. American Political Science Review 100, no. 02 (2006): 165181.

    Week 11 Political Violence

    Suggested Readings

    Skocpol, Theda. France, Russia, China: A Structural Analysis of Social Revolutions. Comparative Studies in Society and History 18, no. 02 (1976): 175210.

    Crenshaw, Martha. The Causes of Terrorism. Comparative Politics 13, no. 4 (1981): 379399.

    Additional Readings

    Kuran, Timur. Now out of Never: The Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989. World Politics 44, no. 1 (1991): 748.

    Goldstone, Jack A. Understanding the Revolutions of 2011: Weakness and Resilience in Middle Eastern Autocracies. Foreign Affairs 90 (2011): 8.

    Abrahms, Max. What Terrorists Really Want: Terrorist Motives and Counterterrorism Strategy. International Security 32, no. 4 (2008): 78105.

    Management, COT Institute for Safety, Security and Crisis. Concepts of Terrorism: Analysis of the

    Rise, Decline, Trends and Risk. COT Institute for Safety, Security and Crisis Management,

    2008.

    Bjrgo, Tore. Root Causes of Terrorism: Myths, Reality and Ways Forward. Routledge, 2005.

    Noricks, Darcy ME. The Root Causes of Terrorism. Social Science for Counterterrorism 74, no. 06C (2009): 11.

    Pilat, Joseph F. The Causes of Terrorism. Journal of Organisational Transformation & Social Change 6, no. 2 (2009): 171182.

    Week 12-13 Non Democratic and Hybrid regimes Pakistan, China, India

  • Suggested Readings

    Linz, Juan J, and Alfred C Stepan. Modern Nondemocratic Regimes. In Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-

    Communist Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

    Levitsky, Steven, and Lucan Way. The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism. Journal of Democracy 13, no. 2 (2002): 5165.

    Diamond, Larry Jay. Thinking about Hybrid Regimes. Journal of Democracy 13, no. 2 (2002): 2135.

    Additional Readings

    Weinthal, Erika, and Pauline Jones Luong. Combating the Resource Curse: An Alternative Solution to Managing Mineral Wealth. Perspectives on Politics 4, no. 01 (2006): 3553.

    Das, Runa. Nationalism, Communalism, and Nuclearism in South Asia. Conference Papers -- International Studies Association (Annual Meeting 2008): 126.

    Waseem, Mohammad. Judging Democracy in Pakistan: Conflict between the Executive and Judiciary. Contemporary South Asia 20, no. 1 (March 2012): 1931. doi:10.1080/09584935.2011.646077.

    Waseem, Mohammad. Origins and Growth Patterns of Islamic Organizations in Pakistan. Religious Radicalism and Security in South Asia. Honolulu: Asia-Pacific Center for Security

    Studies (2004): 33.

    Waseem, Mohammad, Pakistans Lingering Crisis of Dyarchy

    Democracies, Bours Laborin M. Mock. Mock Democracies: Authoritarian Cover-Ups. Journal of International Affairs (2011): 254256.

    Art, David. What Do We Know about Authoritarianism after Ten Years? Comparative Politics 44, no. 3 (2012): 351373.

    Montinola, Gabriella R., and Robert W. Jackman. Sources of Corruption: A Cross-Country Study. British Journal of Political Science 32, no. 1 (2002): 147170.

    Katz, Mark N. Democratic Revolutions: Why Some Succeed, Why Others Fail. World Affairs 166, no. 3 (2004): 163170.

    Mainwaring, Scott. Transitions to Democracy and Democratic Consolidation: Theoretical and

    Comparative Issues. Working paper. University of Notre Dame, Helen Kellogg Institute for

    International Studies, 1989. https://kellogg.nd.edu/publications/workingpapers/WPS/130.pdf.

    Jalal, Ayesha. Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia: A Comparative and Historical

    Perspective. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

    Brownlee, Jason. Authoritarianism in an Age of Democratization. Cambridge [England]; New

    York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

    Jalal, Ayesha. State Formation and Political Processes in India and Pakistan. In Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia: A Comparative and Historical Perspective. Cambridge; New

    York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

    Malik, Iftikhar H. The State and Civil Society in Pakistan: From Crisis to Crisis. Asian Survey (1996): 673690.

  • Leib, Ethan J. The Chinese Communist Party and Deliberative Democracy. Journal of Public Deliberation 1, no. 1 (2005): 1.

    MacKinnon, Rebecca. Chinas Networked Authoritarianism. Journal of Democracy 22, no. 2 (2011): 3246.

    . Networked Authoritarianism in China and beyond: Implications for Global Internet Freedom. Liberation Technology in Authoritarian Regimes, Stanford University (2010). http://iis-db.stanford.edu/evnts/6349/MacKinnon_Libtech.pdf.

    Terrill, Ross. What Does China Want? Wilson Quarterly 29, no. 4 (2005): 5061.

    Week 14 Communism and Post-communism

    Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. Manifesto of the Communist Party. CH Kerr & Company, 1906.

    Darden, Keith, and Anna Grzymala-Busse. The Great Divide: Literacy, Nationalism, and the Communist Collapse. World Politics 59, no. 1 (2006): 83115.

    Bunce, Valerie, and Sharon L Wolchik. Conclusions: Democratizing Elections, International Diffusion, and U.S. Democracy Assistance. In Defeating Authoritarian Leaders in Postcommunist Countries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

    Krastev, Ivan. Paradoxes of the New Authoritarianism. Journal of Democracy 22, no. 2 (2011): 516.

    He, Baogang, and Mark E. Warren. Authoritarian Deliberation: The Deliberative Turn in Chinese Political Development. Perspectives on Politics 9, no. 2 (2011): 269289.

    Gat, Azar. The Return of Authoritarian Great Powers. Foreign Affairs 86, no. 4 (2007): 5969.

    Week 15 Less-Developed and Newly Industrializing Countries

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    Week 16 Globalization

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