Comparative Politics: Notes and Readings
INTRODUCTION: ON COMPARING NATIONS. 1. How and Why Compare. Roy C. Macridis, The Search for Focus. Robert H. Bates, Area Studies and the Discipline. Mark Blyth, Interests and Ideas. Robert D. Putnam, The Public Role of Political Science. PART ONE. POLITICAL CHANGE AND THE STATE. 2. Modernization/Globalization. Karl Marx, British Rule in India. Samuel H. Beer, Dynamics of Modernization. Ronald Inglehart, Modernization and Postmodernization. H. V. Savitch, What is New About Globalization? 3. State and Identity. Max Weber, What is a State? Theda Skocpol, Bringing the State Back In Liah Greenfeld, Varieties of Nationalism Donald L. Horowitz, A Right to Secede? 4. Governing Globalization. John Gerard Ruggie, Territoriality and Beyond. Jurgen Habermas, Nation-State or Global State? Anne-Marie Slaughter, Everyday Global Governance. Marc F. Plattner, Sovereignty and Democracy. 5. Revolution and Protest. S. N. Eisenstadt, Frameworks of the Great Revolutions. Francois Furet, On Revolutions: French, American, and Russian. Kurt Schock, Nonviolent Action. Bernard E. Brown Revolution and Anomie. PART TWO. PATTERNS OF LEGITIMACY. 6. Democracies. Susan J. Pharr, Robert D. Putnam, and Russell J. Dalton, Trouble in the Advanced Democracies? Russell J. Dalton, Susan E. Scarrow, and Bruce E. Cain, The New Politics in Advanced Democracies. Bernard E. Brown, Worker Democracy: A Test Case 7. Transition to Democracy. Guillermo O?Donnell, Horizontal Accountability in New Democracies. Thomas Carothers, The End of the Transition Paradigm. Larry Diamond, Universal Democracy? 8. Authoritarianism: Old and New. Aristotle, On Democracy and Tyranny. Andrew C. Janos, What Was Communism? Lilia Shevtsova, Bureaucratic Authoritarianism in Russia. Andrew J. Nathan, Authoritarian Resilience in China. 9. The Challenge of Islamism. Lisa Wedeen, Beyond the Crusades. Walter Laqueur, The Terrorism to Come. Fareed Zakaria, Islam, Democracy, and Constitutional Liberalism. PART THREE. POLITICAL DYNAMICS, DECISIONS, AND EFFICACY. 10. Political Parties. Robert Michels, The Iron Law of Oligarchy. Richard Gunther and Larry Diamond, Species of Political Parties. Seymour Martin Lipset, The Americanization of the European Left. Piero Ignazi, The Rise of New Political Parties. 11. Do Institutions Matter? James March and Johan Olsen, Institutional Perspectives. Arend Lijphart, Constitutional Design for Divided Societies. Nathan J. Brown, Judicial Review. 12. Political Performance. Joel D. Abernach and Bert A. Rockman, Governance and Outcomes. Herbert Simon, Organizations and Markets. Graham Wilson, In a State? Robert A. Dahl, Equality vs. Inequality.