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DEPARTMENT
OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
SEMESTER
1 – 2018/2019 ACADEMIC YEAR
COURSE SYLLABUS
POLI 639: Patterns of Politics in
Industrialized Societies
Democracy and Democratization
Instructor:
Hassan Wahab, PhD Lecture
Period: TUES: 10:00m - 12:00pm
Venue:
#N8 Office:
Political Science Department #13
This is a graduate level course on patterns of politics on
industrialized societies. The focus of the course will be on democracy and
democratization. One of the central endeavors in comparative political science
is to understand why countries have different regime types, and in particular
why some have democratic institutions while others do not. This course will
introduce students to the voluminous literature on democracy and
democratization. We will focus first on theories of democratization, drawing
from historical sociology, cultural theory, rational choice, structural and
economic explanations, and institutional theory. We will then broaden the focus
to the study of democratic consolidation and the rise of hybrid forms of
democracy. In the final few weeks of the course, we will concentrate on
contemporary issues of democratization in 5 world regions: Europe, Latin
America, Africa, the Middle East, and the countries of the Former Soviet Union.
a)
examine political party formation and party systems
in industrialized societies;
b)
examine interconnectedness of
political parties, democracy, political institutions and policy with special
emphasis on state welfare provision, and
c)
evaluate the quality and scope of research on
issues in international politics
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Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the course,
students are expected to:
a)
show understanding of theories on party formation
in industrialized societies
b)
demonstrate ability to analyze themes of the
courses
c)
present, in class, and submit for grading, a
publishable paper (5500-7500 words) on an
issue of student’s choosing.
Academic Honesty:
All University policies regarding
academic honesty will be strictly enforced. Plagiarism, cheating
or academic misconduct in any
manner will not be tolerated. While most examples of misconduct
are blatantly obvious (i.e., you
may not pay someone to take your final exam for you!), knowing
when and how to acknowledge and
appropriately cite sources is something you may have to learn.
For example, even if you
acknowledge the source, you cannot stay too close to the language of the
original source when
paraphrasing. If you are not sure about anything, please do not hesitate to see
me, and we can go over it
together. I would encourage you to familiarize yourselves with the
University’s policy regarding academic misconduct. This policy is available at
http://www.ug.edu.gh/aqau/policies-guidelines.
Students with Special Needs:
Students
with special needs should register with the Office of Students with Special
Needs, located in the University of Ghana Computing Services (UGCS) building,
next to the Student Financial Aid Office; Tel: +233-24-457-5177; E-mail:
ossnug@gmail.com. Please contact me as soon as possible so that appropriate
accommodation can be arranged. Course Requirements:
Students are required to:
a)
attend all classes;
b)
do all assigned readings;
c)
write weekly reading response papers, and
d)
participate energetically in class discussion.
Class Attendance and Participation. Attendance and participation is
obviously a critical component of this class. No matter what your background or
area of expertise, your participation is important and valued. Every one of us
needs to listen respectfully and tolerate the differences of
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opinion that will undoubtedly be present in our group. This mutual
respect and tolerance does not preclude lively debates, questions, and even
challenges, but all of this should be done appropriately—with respect for each
other.
For any
of this to happen, you must come to class PREPARED to discuss the readings.
While there are many, many more articles and books that I think are terrific, I
have tried very hard to trim the reading to several good pieces so that we can
better focus our time and effort. As you read, think about the following: 1)
What is the topic being covered? 2) What are the arguments put forth by the
authors? 3) What types of methods/data do the authors use to support their
arguments; 4) Is it convincing and why? Does it fit with what you thought or
know about the issue? 5) How does this compare to what we have read or seen
earlier in the course? 6) What are the policy implications emerging from the
analysis/arguments presented? Assessment:
There will be THREE main modes of assessment in this course: (1) Interim
Assessment, (2) Weekly Reading Responses, and (3) the Final Exams.
Interim Assessment (IA): Worth 20% of your final grade, your weekly
reading responses will be used as your IA.
Weekly Reading Responses: The above questions should help guide your
weekly reading response papers. My advice would be to take notes either in
EndNote or on the article itself that sum up in a few words your responses to
the above questions. Again, the idea is to create a record of your reading that
will be useful later when you are studying for your exams, writing your
proposal/dissertation, and, most especially, if you are writing, teaching, or
advising students long after grad school and this class is a distant memory!
Once you have read the collection of pieces, think about how the various pieces
differ in terms of theoretical/analytic approach, methodology, and argument.
Then, instead of spending most of your time deconstructing the different pieces
(which we are sure we’ll do plenty of in class without provocation), take a few
minutes to write about where YOU might take a stand amongst the competing
points of view. Alternatively, you may prefer to focus on what the policy
implications of the various pieces are and how you might reconcile the
different points of view as a policymaker/practitioner on the ground. These
papers should be short and sweet (2 pages max.). They are not designed to be
overly burdensome but to give you a way to organize your thoughts ahead of
class and for later in life. This is worth 20% of your final grade.
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Final Exam: Worth 60% of the final grade, this exam will be based on the
content of the readings, lectures, and discussions covered over the entire
course. The format of the exam will be essay-type questions.
Grading Scale: Please refer to
the Graduate Handbook
Disclaimer:
I reserve the right to change any readings, dates and requirements listed in
this syllabus. If this occurs, every effort will be made to announce the
changes well in advance. You are responsible for any changes made and announced
in class. Course Policies
Regular attendance is a key determinant of success in this course and is
required. While students are expected, nay, required, to do their readings
before they come to class, the readings serve as a background, not as a
substitute, for the lectures and class discussions. Not only do I expect
students to attend classes, I also expect students to ask questions and
participate in class discussions. I strongly encourage students to ask
questions during class. I will not entertain students who come to me
immediately after a class session to ask questions pertaining to that class
when they could have asked those questions during the class to the benefit of
all students. Before class begins, please turn off your cell phones, MP3
players, etc. You may use laptops and tablets to take notes during class. If
you choose to do so, you MUST ask permission from me.
The use of cell phones in my class is PROHIBITED. If your cell phones
rings/vibrates up to three times in class during the course of the semester,
you will be asked to leave my class for DISRUPTION. Additionally, please
refrain from: frequently arriving late for class; talking, sleeping, texting,
or studying other materials in class; and leaving class early. In general,
please be polite and respectful to everyone in this class. I reserve the right
to apply appropriate sanctions for consistently discourteous classroom behavior
in accordance with the University of Ghana policies. During the final
examinations, please note that you may NOT be allowed to leave the examination
room until you have submitted your exam.
NOTE: I
have indicated my office hours above. Please respect that. I reserve the right
to NOT see any student who shows up in my office outside my office hours and
without appointment. Course Materials:
Your
course schedule shows your readings for each week. While you are responsible
for finding and reading the materials, l will do my best to provide you with
most of the readings. You are
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expected
to complement the readings with your own research. Important: You are expected
to complete the readings before class, and you must be ready to participate in
class discussions.
Course Readings and Schedule:
Textbooks:
Acemoglu and Robinson. 2006. Economic Origins of Dictatorship and
Democracy.
Almond, Gabriel, and Sidney
Verba. 1963. The Civic Culture.
Boix, Carles. 2003. Democracy and Redistribution.
Collier, Ruth. Paths Towards Democracy.
Dahl, Robert. 1971. Polyarchy.
Huntington, Sam. 1991. The Third Wave of Democratization.
Inglehart
and Welzel. 2005. Modernization, Cultural
Change, and Democracy: The Human Development
Sequence.
Linz Juan J. and Alfred Stepan.
1996. Problems of Democratic Transition
and Consolidation.
O’Donnell, Guillermo, and
Phillippe Schmitter. 1986. Transitions
from Authoritarian Rule.
Przeworski, Adam. 1991. Democracy and the Market.
Weekly Schedule
Week 1: August 20 The State of the Discipline; Concepts
Collier,
David, and Steve Levitsky. 1997. “Democracy with Adjectives - Conceptual Innovation
in Comparative Research.” World Politics
49:3, pp.430-451.
Munck, Gerardo, and Jay Verkuilen. 2002. “Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy:
Evaluating Alternative Indices.” Comparative Political Studies 35:1,
pp.5-34.
Linz,
Juan J. and Alfred Stepan. 1996. “Democracy and Its Arenas,” ch. 1 of Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation, pp.3-15.
Coppedge,
Michael, and John Gerring. 2011. “Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: a
New Approach,” Perspectives on Politics
9:2, pp.247-267.
Barbara
Geddes, Joseph Wright, and Erica Frantz. 2014. “Autocratic Breakdown and Regime
Transitions: A New Data Set.” Perspectives
on Politics 12:2, pp.313-331. Further Reading:
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Elkins, Zachary. 2000. “Gradations of Democracy? Empirical Tests of
Alternative Conceptualizations.” American
Journal of Political Science, 44:2, pp. 293-300.
Schmitter, Philippe C. and Terry Lynn Karl. 1991. “What Democracy Is . .
. and Is Not.” Journal of Democracy 2:3, pp. 75-88.
Geddes, Barbara. 2007. “What Causes Democratization,” in Boix and
Stokes, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics,
pp.317-339.
The issue of Comparative Political
Studies (35:1) with the article by Munck and Verkuilen includes three
rejoinders and a response from the authors:
Coppedge, Michael. “Democracy and Dimensions: Comments on Munck and
Verkuilen,” pp.35-39.
Marshall, Monty, Ted Robert Gurr, Christian Davenport, and Keith
Jaggers. “Polity IV, 1800-1999: Comments on Munck and Verkuilen,” pp.40-45.
Ward, Michael. “Green Binders in
Cyberspace: A Modest Proposal,” pp.46-51.
Munck, Gerardo, and Jay Verkuilen. “Generating Better Data: A Response
to Discussants,” pp.52-57.
Week 2: August 27 Classic Overviews
Dahl, Robert. 1971. Polyarchy, esp. Chs. 1-6.
Huntington, Samuel. 1991. The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late
20th Century.
Week 3: September 3 Historical Sociology
Moore, Barrington. 1966. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy,
chapters 7-9.
Skocpol, Theda. 1973. “A Critical Review of Barrington Moore’s Social
Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy” Politics
and Society, 4(1):1-34
Evelyne
Huber, Dietrich Rueschemeyer and John D. Stephens. 1993. “The Impact of
Economic Development on Democracy.” The
Journal of Economic Perspectives 7(3):71-86. Collier, Ruth Berins. 1999. Paths Toward Democracy, esp. Chs 1 and
5.
Mahoney, James. 2003. “Knowledge Accumulation in Comparative Historical
Research: the Case of Democracy and Authoritarianism,” in Mahoney and
Rueschemeyer, Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences.
Further Reading:
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Luebbert,
Gregory M. 1991. Liberalism, Fascism, or
Social Democracy: Social Classes and the Political Origins of Regimes in Interwar Europe, esp. Chs. 1 and 9.
Rueschemeyer,
Deitrich, Evelyn Huber Stephens, and John D. Stephens. 1992. Capitalist Development and Democracy.
Collier,
David, and Ruth Berins Collier. 1991. Shaping
the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America.
Week 4: September 10 Political Culture
Almond,
Gabriel, and Sidney Verba. 1963. The
Civic Culture. Read chapters 1 and 13; skim a few other chapters like 2, 3,
8, 10, 11, or others.
Inglehart,
Ronald. 1988. “The Renaissance of Political Culture.” American Political Science Review
82 (4): 1203-30.
Muller, Edward N., and Mitchell
A. Seligson. 1994. “Civic Culture and Democracy: The Question
of Causal Relationships.” American Political Science Review 88
(3): 635-652.
Jackman,
Robert W. and Ross A. Miller. 1996. “A Renaissance of Political Culture?” American Journal of Political Science 40:3, pp.632-659.
Inglehart
and Welzel. 2005. Modernization, Cultural
Change, and Democracy: The Human Development
Sequence.
Fish, M. Steven. 2002. “Islam and Authoritarianism” World Politics 55(1):4-37. Donno, Daniela, and Bruce Russett. 2004.
“Islam, Authoritarianism, and Female Empowerment: What Are the Linkages?” World Politics 56:582–607. Further
Reading:
The article by Jackman and Miller listed above is part of a mini-debate
that was published in the same issue of American
Journal of Political Science in 1996. Much of it concerns the effect of
culture on economic development rather than democratization, but the outlines
of the debate are still important for understanding the debate over the
cultural approach to democracy. The other relevant pieces are:
Granato, Jim, Ronald Inglehart, and David Leblang. “The Effect of
Cultural Values on Economic Development: Theory, Hypotheses, and Some Empirical
Tests,” pp.607-631.
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Swank,
Duane. “Culture, Institutions, and Economic Growth: Theory, Recent Evidence,
and the Role of Communitarian Polities,” pp.660-679.
Granato
et. al. “Cultural Values, Stable Democracy, and Economic Developmpent: A Reply,”
pp.680-696.
Jackman and Miller, “The Poverty
of Political Culture,” pp.697-716.
Week 5: September 17 The Modernization Debate
Lipset, Seymour Martin. 1959. “Some
Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development
and Political Legitimacy.” American Political Science Review 53
(1): 69-105.
Przeworski, Adam, and Fernando
Limongi. 1997. “Modernization: Theories and Facts.” World
Politics 49 (2): 155-183.
Boix,
Carles and Susan Stokes. 2003. “Endogenous Democratization.” World Politics 55(4):517-549.
Epstein,
David, et al. 2006. “Democratic transitions,” American Journal of Political Science 50(3):551-569.
Svolik,
Milan. 2008. “Authoritarian Reversals and Democratic Consolidation” American Political Science Review 102(2):153-168.
Olson, Mancur. 1993. “Dictatorship,
Democracy, and Development,” American
Political Science
Review 87(3):567-576.
Further Reading:
Przeworski, Adam, et. al. 2000. Democracy and Development.
Week 6: September 24 Political Economy
Haggard,
Stephan, and Robert Kaufman. 1995. The
Political Economy of Democratic Transitions, Introduction and Chapter 1.
Ross, Michael. 2001. “Does Oil
Hinder Democracy?” World Politics 53(3):325-361.
Boix, Carles. 2003. Democracy and Redistribution, Chs. 1,
2, 7.
Acemoglu and Robinson. 2006. Economic Origins of Dictatorship and
Democracy
Houle,
Christian. 2009. “Inequality and Democracy: Why Inequality Harms Consolidation
but Does Not Affect Democratization.” World
Politics 61(4):589-622.
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Annual Review of Political Science 12:163-181.
Further Reading:
Dunning,
Thad. 2008. Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes.
Ross, Michael. 2008. “Oil, Islam, and Women.” American Political Science Review 102(1):1-17. Ansell, Ben, and
David Samuels. 2010. “Inequality and Democratization: A Contractarian Approach.”
Comparative Political Studies 43(12):1543-74.
Week 7: Oct 1 Institutions
Przeworski,
Adam. 1991. Democracy and the Market.
New York: Cambridge University Press, Chs. 1-2.
Przeworski,
Adam. 2004. “Institutions Matter?” Government
and Opposition 39(4):527-40. Cheibub, Jose Antonio, and Fernando Limongi.
2002. “Democratic Institutions and Regime Survival: Parliamentary and
Presidential Democracies Reconsidered.” Annual
Review of Political Science 5:151–79.
Lijphart, Arend. 1969. “Consociational
Democracy” World Politics 21(2):207-225.
Lijphart,
Arend. 2004. “Constitutional Design for Divided Societies,” Journal of Democracy 15(2):96-109.
Hartzell,
Caroline and Matthew Hoddie. 2003. “Institutionalizing Peace: Power Sharing and
Post-Civil War Conflict Management.” American
Journal of Political Science 47(2):318-332. Chapman, Thomas, and Philip
Roeder. 2007. “Partition as a Solution to Wars of Nationalism: The Importance
of Institutions.” American Political
Science Review 101(4):677-691. Further Reading:
Juan J. Linz (1994). “Presidential or Parliamentary Democracy: Does It
Make a Difference?”, in The Failure of
Presidential Democracy, Juan J. Linz and Arturo Valenzuela, eds., Johns
Hopkins University Press., pp.3-87.
(read 3-22, 62-70).
Scott Mainwaring and Matthew S.
Shugart (1997). “Juan Linz, Presidentialism, and Democracy:
A Critical Appraisal.” Comparative Politics 29(4):449-471.
Sangmpam, S. N. 2007. “Politics Rules: The False Primacy of Institutions
in Developing Countries.” Political
Studies 55:201-24.
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Chandra, Kanchan. 2008. “Ethnic Invention: A New Principle for
Institutional Design in Ethnically Divided Democracies,” in Margaret Levi, James
Johnson, Jack Knight, and Susan Stokes, eds., Designing Democratic Government: Making Institutions Work,
pp.89-113.
Week 8: Oct 8 International Factors
Levitsky, Steven, and Lucan Way. 2006. “Linkage versus leverage:
rethinking the international dimension of regime change.” Comparative Politics 38(4):379-400
Pevehouse, Jon. 2002. “Democracy from the Outside-In? International
Organizations and Democratization,” International
Organization 56(3):515-549.
Knack, Stephen. 2004. “Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy?” International Studies Quarterly
48(1):251-66.
Wright, Joseph. 2009. “How Foreign Aid Can Foster Democratization in
Authoritarian Regimes” American Journal
of Political Science 53(3):552-571.
Brinks, Daniel, and Michael Coppedge. 2006. “Diffusion is no illusion:
Neighbor Emulation in the Third Wave of Democracy.” Comparative Political Studies 39(4):463-489.
Leeson,
Peter, and Andrea Dean. 2009. “The Democratic Domino Theory: An Empirical
Investigation” American Journal of
Political Science 53(3):533-551. Further Reading:
Pevehouse,
Jon. 2005. Democracy from Above: Regional
Organizations and Democratization. Orenstein, Mitchell and Hans Peter
Schmitz. 2007. “The New Transnationalism and Comparative Politics.” Comparative Politics 38(4):479-500.
[book review essay] Carothers, Thomas. 1999. Aiding Democracy Abroad.
Carothers, Thomas. 2004. Critical Mission: Essays on Democracy
Promotion.
Week 9: Oct 15 The Transitions Paradigm and Hybrid Regimes
Guillermo O’Donnell and Philippe Schmitter. 1986. Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies. [read either the
little green book, or Part IV of the
big book]
Linz Juan J. and Alfred Stepan.
1996. Problems of Democratic Transition
and Consolidation.
Chapters 1-5.
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Burton, Michael, Richard Gunther, and John Higley. 1992. “Introduction:
elite transformations and democratic regimes,” Ch. 1 in Higley and Gunther,
eds., Elites and Democratic Consolidation
in Latin America and Southern Europe,
pp.1-37.
Guillermo
O’Donnell (1994). “Delegative Democracy?” Journal
of Democracy 5(1):55-69. Levitsky, Steve, and Lucian Way (2002). “The Rise
of Competitive Authoritarianism” Journal
of Democracy 13(2):51-65.
Thomas Carothers (2002). “The End of the Transition Paradigm.” Journal of Democracy 13(1):5-21.
Further Reading:
Higley, John, and Michael Burton.
2006. Elite Foundations of Liberal
Democracy.
Week 10: Oct 22 Comparative Authoritarianism
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, James D. Morrow, Randolph M. Siverson and
Alastair Smith. 2002. “Political Institutions, Policy Choice and the Survival
of Leaders.” British Journal of Political
Science 32(4):559-590.
Barbara
Geddes, Joseph Wright, and Erica Frantz. 2014. “Autocratic Breakdown and Regime
Transitions: A New Data Set.” Perspectives
on Politics 12(2):313-331. Magaloni, Beatriz. 2006. Voting for Autocracy, chapter 1.
Brownlee, Jason. 2007. Authoritarianism in an Age of
Democratization.
Brownlee, Jason. 2009. “Portents of Pluralism: How Hybrid Regimes Affect
Democratic Transitions.” American Journal
of Political Science 53(3):515-532.
Gandhi, Jennifer, and Ellen Lust-Okar. 2009. “Elections Under
Authoritarianism” Annual Review of
Political Science 12:403-422.
Pepinsky, Thomas. 2014. “The
Institutional Turn in Comparative Authoritarianism.” British
Journal of Political Science 44: 631-653.
Further Reading:
Schedler, Andreas, ed. 2006. Electoral authoritarianism: The Dynamics of
Unfree Competition.
Svolik, Milan. 2012. The Politics of Authoritarian Rule.
Week 11: Oct 29 Europe
Moore, Barrington. 1966. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy,
Chs. 1-2.
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Luebbert,
Gregory M. 1987. “Social Foundations of Political Order in Interwar Europe.” World Politics 39(4):449-478.
Collier, Ruth Berins. 1999. Paths Toward Democracy. [focus on the
European case material].
Linz Juan J. and Alfred Stepan.
1996. Problems of Democratic Transition
and Consolidation.
Chapter 6 on Spain.
Boix, Carles. 2003. Democracy and Redistribution. Chapter 3.
Capoccia, Giovanni, and Daniel Ziblatt. 2010. “The Historical Turn in
Democratization Studies: A New Research Agenda for Europe and Beyond.” Comparative Political Studies
43(8/9):931-968.
Further Reading:
Ziblatt, Daniel. 2006. “How Did
Europe Democratize?” World Politics
58(2):311-338.
Luebbert, Gregory M. 1991. Liberalism,
Fascism, or Social Democracy: Social Classes and the Political Origins of Regimes in Interwar Europe.
Linz,
Juan J. and Alfred Stepan, eds. 1978. The
Breakdown of Democratic Regimes, esp. Part II. Stephens, John D. 1989. “Democratic
Transition and Breakdown in Western Europe, 1870-1939: A Test of the Moore
Thesis,” American Journal of Sociology
94(5):1019-1077.
Rueschemeyer, Deitrich, Evelyne Huber Stephens, and John D. Stephens.
1992. Capitalist Development and Democracy.
Week 12: Nov 5 Latin America
Review Huntington’s Third Wave as it applies to Latin
America.
Karl, Terry Lynn. 1990. “Dilemmas of Democratization in Latin America.” Comparative Politics 23(1):1-21.
Remmer, Karen. 1992. “The Process of Democratization in Latin-America.” Studies in Comparative International Development 27(4)3-24.
Hagopian, Frances. 1990. “Democracy by Undemocratic Means - Elites,
Political Pacts, and Regime Transition in Brazil.” Comparative Political Studies 23(2):147-170.
Loveman, Brian. 1994. “Protected Democracies and Military Guardianship:
Political Transitions in Latin-America, 1978-1993.” Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 36(2):105-189.
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Hagopian, Frances, and Scott Mainwaring, eds. 2005. The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America: Advances and Setbacks. Introduction and Chapter 1.
Mainwaring, Scott, and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán. 2013. Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America: Emergence, Survival, and Fall.
Further Reading:
Remmer, Karen. 1991. “The Political Impact of Economic Crisis in Latin
America in the 1980s” American Political
Science Review 85(3):777-800
Hirschman, Albert O. (1979). “The Turn to Authoritarianism in Latin
America and the Search for Its Economic Determinants” in David Collier, ed., The New Authoritarianism in Latin America,
pp.61-98.
Valenzuela, Arturo (1978). The
Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Chile
Collier,
David, and Ruth Berins Collier. 1991. Shaping
the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, The Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America. Mahoney, James. 2001. Legacies of Liberalism.
Week 13: Nov 12 Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
McFaul, Michael. 2002. “The Fourth Wave of Democracy and Dictatorship:
Noncooperative Transitions in the Postcommunist World” World Politics 54(2):212-244.
Kopstein, Jeffery and David Reilly. 2000. “Geographic diffusion and the
transformation of the postcommunist world,” World
Politics 53(1):1-37.
Bunce, Valerie. 2003. “Rethinking Recent Democratization: Lessons from
the Postcommunist Experience.” World
Politics 55(2):.167-192
Fish, M. Steven. 2005. Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of
Open Politics.
Anderson, Richard, et al. 2001. Postcommunism
and the Theory of Democracy. Focus on Introduction, Chapter 3, and
Conclusion.
Pridham,
Geoffrey. 2006. “European Union Accession Dynamics and Democratization in
Central and Eastern Europe: Past and Future Perspectives,” Government and Opposition 41(3):373-400. Vachudova, Milana Anna.
2005. Europe Undivided: Democracy, Leverage, and Integration after Communism.
Week 14: Nov 19 REVISION WEEK
Africa and the Middle East [Extra
Readings in case you are interested in Africa
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Bratton,
Michael, and Nicolas van de Walle. 1997. Democratic experiments in Africa:
Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective.
Lindberg, Staffan. 2006. Democracy and Elections in Africa.
Jensen,
Nathan and Leonard Wantchekon. 2004. “Resource wealth and political regimes in
Africa.” Comparative Political Studies
37(7):816-841.
Snyder,
Rich. 2006. “Does Lootable Wealth Breed Disorder? A Political Economy of
Extraction Framework.” Comparative
Political Studies 39(8):943-968.
Tripp,
Aili Mari. 2004. “The Changing Face of Authoritarianism in Africa: The Case of
Uganda.” Africa Today 50(3):.3-26.
Bates, Robert. 2008. When Things
Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa. Further Reading
Joseph,
Richard, ed. 1999. State, Conflict, and
Democracy in Africa. Several good theoretical chapters.
Posusney,
Marsha, and Michele Angrist, eds. 2005. Authoritarianism
in the Middle East: Regimes and
Resistance, especially chapters 1, 3, 4, 9.
Tessler,
Mark and Eleanor Gao. 2005. “Gauging Arab Support for Democracy.” Journal of Democracy 16(3):83-97.
Anderson,
Lisa. 2006. “Searching Where the Light Shines: Studying Democratization in the
Middle East.” Annual Review of Political
Science 9:189-214.
Bellin,
Eva. 2004. “The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East:
Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective” Comparative
Politics 36(2):139-157.
Lust,
Ellen. 2011. “Missing in the Third Wave: Islam, Institutions, and Democracy in
the Middle East.” Studies in Comparative
International Development 46(2):163-190.
Stepan, Alfred, and Juan Linz.
2013. “Democratization Theory and the ‘Arab Spring’.” Journal of
Democracy 24(2):15-30.
Further Reading:
Brownlee, Jason. 2007. Authoritarianism in an Age of
Democratization, case chapters
Brynen,
Rex, Bahgat Korany, and Paul Noble, eds. 1995. Political liberalization and democratization
in the Arab world.
Phillips, Sarah. 2008. Yemen’s
Democracy Experiment in Regional Perspective. Nov 23 FINAL EXAMS
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