WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Political Science 6410 (CRN )	Dr. Gunther M. Hega
Fall 2010	Office: Friedmann 3406
Monday, 7 - 9:30 p.m.	Ph.: (269) 387-5885
Friedmann 3309	Email: gunther.hega@wmich.edu

Office hours: M 6 – 7 p.m., T/R 9:45 – 11 a.m., and by appointment

FOUNDATIONS OF COMPARATIVE POLITICS

(DRAFT SYLLABUS – SUBJECT TO CHANGE!)

This seminar is the required core course in comparative politics for the doctoral program and fulfills the comparative politics requirement for the master’s program. This course introduces students to some of the main theories, concepts, approaches, and methods in comparative politics. It is a seminar based on classroom discussion and student participation. One major objective of this course is to familiarize students with the most important literature in comparative politics and help to prepare them for the comprehensive exam. We will read and discuss both “classic” and contemporary material drawn from a variety of social science disciplines such as political science, economics, history, anthropology and sociology. Throughout the course, we will explore important theoretical and methodological issues in the comparative study of political behavior and institutions.

In an introductory session, we will briefly discuss some conceptual and methodological issues in comparative research. We will then examine the writings of some of the early comparativists. We will move on to key comparative concepts such as the state, political culture, social class and class conflict, political development and modernization, underdevelopment and dependency, and discuss their importance in the field of comparative politics. Following a topical outline, we will then survey some of the most important works in the field on such topics as democracy and development, political parties, party systems and elections, the role of political elites, and theories of the welfare state. We will finish the seminar with a discussion of some of the more recent influential approaches and new concepts in comparative politics, such as rational choice, the new institutionalism, political economy, social capital, and civil society.

Required Books (to be purchased):

Almond, Gabriel, and Sydney Verba. 1989. The Civic Culture (Revisited). Boston, MA: Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Bates, Robert H. 1981. Markets and States in Tropical Africa. The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Brady, Henry A. and David Collier. Eds. 2010. Rethinking Social Inquiry. Diverse Tools, Shared Standards. 2^nd Ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Downs, Anthony. 1957. An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York, NY: Harper & Row.

Huntington, Samuel P. 1968. Political Order in Changing Societies. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Lijphart, Arend. 1999. Patterns of Democracy. Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries. New Haven, CT: Yale UP.

Lipset, Seymour Martin. [1959] 1981. Political Man. The Social Bases of Politics. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP.

Mayer, Lawrence C. 2007. Comparative Politics. The Quest for Theory and Explanation. Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY: Sloan Publishing.

Moore, Barrington. 1966. The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

North, Douglass C. 1990. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press (pbk.).

Olson, Mancur. 1982. The Rise and Decline of Nations. Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities. New Haven, CT: Yale UP.

Putnam, Robert. 1993. Making Democracy Work. Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Skocpol, Theda. 1979. States and Social Revolutions. A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China. New York, NY: Cambridge UP.

Recommended Books (on reserve in Waldo Library):

Bates, Robert et al. Eds. 1998. Analytic Narratives. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Boix, Charles. 1998. Political Parties, Growth and Equality. Conservative and Social Democratic Economic Strategies in the World Economy. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Brady, Henry E. and David Collier. 2004. Rethinking Social Inquiry. Diverse Tools, Shared Standards. Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield Publ.

Dogan, Mattei and Ali Kazancigil. Eds. 1994. Comparing Nations. Concepts, Strategies, Substance. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell (pbk.).

Duverger, Maurice. [1954] 1978. Political Parties. Reprint. London: Methuen & Co.

Esping-Andersen, Gǿsta. 1990. The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP.

Gerth, H. H. and C. Wright Mills. 1958. From Max Weber. Essays in Sociology. New York, NY: Oxford UP.

Huber, Evelyne and John D. Stephens. 2001. Development and Crisis of the Welfare State. Parties and Policies in Global Markets. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press

Inglehart, Ronald. 1990. Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP.

Inglehart, Ronald. 1997. Modernization and Postmodernization. Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP.

Katzenstein, Peter. 1985. Small States in World Markets. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP.

King, Gary; Robert Keohane; and Sidney Verba. 1994. Designing Social Inquiry. Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Knight, Jack. 1992. Institutions and Social Conflict. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press (pbk.).

Lichbach, Mark I. and Alan S. Zuckerman. Comparative Politics. Rationality, Culture and Structure. New York, NY: Cambridge UP.

Lijphart, Arend. 1994. Electoral Systems and Party Systems. A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies 1945-1990. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Olson, Mancur. 1965. The Logic of Collective Action. Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. 2nd ed.Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP.

Poggi, Gianfranco. 1978. The Development of the Modern State. A Sociological Introduction. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP.

Schumpeter, Joseph. R. [1942] 1976. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. Reprint. New York: Harper&Row.

Steinmo, Sven; Kathleen Thelen; and Frank Longstreth (eds.): Structuring Politics. Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis, New York: Cambridge Up, 1992 (pbk.)

Tucker, Robert C. (Ed.) 1972. The Marx-Engels Reader. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company.

Reading assignments will be drawn from the required books, occasionally from the recommended materials, and from journal articles that will be made available as the course progresses. Copies of the required books are available for purchase at the WMU Bookstore; recommended books and articles are placed on reserve in Waldo Library and in the library of the Department of Political Science in Friedmann 3309.

Course Requirements and Grading

I reserve the right to make changes to this syllabus, particularly the reading list, after consultation with students. Please note that the only email address that will be used for communication between WMU students and WMU faculty and staff is the email address associated with a BroncoNet ID. This email address typically takes the form "firstname.middleinitial.lastname@wmich.edu." An example is buster.h.bronco@wmich.edu. Students cannot automatically forward email from this address to other addresses. Students can access this email account or get instructions for obtaining a BroncoNet ID at GoWMU.wmich.edu.

Please note that you are responsible for making yourself aware of and understanding the policies and procedures in the Graduate Catalog (pp. 24-26)] that pertain to Academic Integrity. These policies include cheating, fabrication, falsification and forgery, multiple submission, plagiarism, complicity and computer misuse. If there is reason to believe you have been involved in academic dishonesty, you will be referred to the Office of Student Judicial Affairs. You will be given the opportunity to review the charge(s). If you believe you are not responsible, you will have the opportunity for a hearing. You should consult with me if you are uncertain about an issue of academic honesty prior to the submission of an assignment or test.

Grades for this course will be based on several aspects of students’ work: participation in class discussions, weekly written summaries of the readings, and leading class discussion on a certain topic. There will be no exams in this class. Rather, every week students will be required to turn in a five-page, typed synopsis and critique of the coming week's readings by Friday, 5:00 p.m. (please turn in one copy to the instructor, keep another copy for yourself and bring it to class). The weekly papers will take the form of a critical review, discussing and critically assessing the main theses, methods, data, case studies, and conclusions of the book(s) and/or article(s) assigned as readings for that week. These weekly writing assignments will be graded. They will also form the basis for each week's class discussion.

The other part of each student's work will consist of at least one oral presentation of individually assigned readings on a particular topic in class and leading the class discussion on that topic. Selection and assignment of topics will take place in the class session of Monday, September 13, 2010. For the presentation, every student will have to give a 20-25 minute synopsis of specifically assigned readings on one of the course’s topics, compare their major arguments and conclusions and relate them to the required readings for that session. The student will be responsible for initiating and leading the discussion of both required and individually assigned readings. During the week prior to their presentation, students should consult with the instructor on the contents and structure of their presentation.

Class attendance, preparation of readings, participation in group teams and class discussions are integral parts of this course. As such, your grade will reflect your attendance, preparation and participation. Please also be aware that any form of academic dishonesty will automatically result in a failing course grade and further steps to be determined by the instructor in accordance with Western’s policies and procedures on student academic conduct. The relative weight assigned to each of the course requirements is:

Class Participation and Presentation..................................50%

Weekly Writing Assignments............................................50%

Grading of each of your weekly writing assignments, oral presentation, contributions to class discussion, and your overall class performance will be based on a percentage of a total possible score of 100 points:

“Outstanding, exceptional”= 100 pts.	“Good to very good”= 85pts.	“Satisfactory/O.K.”= 70pts.
“Very good to outstanding”= 95pts.	“Good” = 80pts.	“Poor” = below 70pts.
“Very good”= 90pts.	“Satisfactory to good”= 75pts.

Your overall course grade will be computed as follows:

100-93% = “A	87-83% = B	77-73% = C	67-60% = D
92-88% = BA	82-78% = CB	72-68% = DC	below 60% = E

Class Schedule and Reading Assignments

Unless instructed otherwise, read assigned readings in the order listed and divide the assignment so that you have completed it prior to the class meeting under which they are listed. Readings marked with * are required readings for all students; other readings listed will be assigned to individual students for presentation in class. Books are on reserve in Waldo Library; articles will be made available in a course-material folder on shelf in the Political Science Department Library in Friedmann 3301.

September 13:

Introduction to the Course and Review of Requirements and Assignments

September 20:

1. Concepts, Methods and Research Design in Comparative Politics

* Mayer, Lawrence C. 2007. Comparative Politics. The Quest for Theory and Explanation. Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY: Sloan Publishing, ch. 1.

*Brady, Henry E. and David Collier. 2004 or 2010. Rethinking Social Inquiry. Diverse Tools, Shared Standards. Lanham, MD et al.: Rowman & Littlefield Publ., Ed. 2004: ch. 1-5, 10-13; Ed. 2010: ch. 1-5, 6-9; Intro. To Part II, ch. 10-11.

King, Gary, Robert O. Keohane, and Sidney Verba. 1994. Designing Social Inquiry. Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

“The Qualitative-Quantitative Disputation: Gary King, Robert O. Keohane, and Sidney Vera’s Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research.”American Political Science Review, 89, no. 2, June 1995, 454-481

Lijphart, Arend. 1971. “Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method.” American Political Science Review, 65, no. 3 (September 1971), 682-693.

Sartori, Giovanni. 1970. “Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics.” American Political Science Review, 64: 1033-53

Przeworski, Adam and Henry Teune. 1970. The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry. New York, NY: Wiley.

Collier, David and James E. Mahoney, Jr. 1993. “Conceptual Stretching Revisited: Adapting Categories in Comparative Analysis.”APSR, vol. 87, no. 4, December 1993, 845-855.

Collier, David and James Mahoney. 1996. “Insights and Pitfalls: Selection Bias in Qualitative Research.”World Politics, 49:1 (1996), 56-91.

Western, Bruce and Simon Jackman. 1994. “Bayesian Inference for Comparative Research.” APSR, vol. 88, no. 2, June 1994, 412-423.

Dogan, Mattei and Ali Kazancigil (Eds.). 1994. Comparing Nations. Concepts, Strategies, Substance. Oxford, UK and Cambridge, USA: Blackwell. Introduction, ch. 1-2, pp. 1-71.

September 27:

2. Classic Foundations: Marx, Weber, and their Critics

*Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. 1848. “The Communist Manifesto.” In The Marx-Engels Reader, ed. by Robert C. Tucker. 1972. New York: W.W. Norton, pp. 331-362.

*Gerth, H. H. and C. Wright Mills. 1958. From Max Weber. Ch. I, IV, VII, and VIII.

*Engels, Friedrich. 1884. “On the Origin of the State.” In The Marx-Engels Reader, ed. by Robert C. Tucker. 1972. New York: W.W. Norton, pp. 651-660.

Marx, Karl. “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”in “The Marx-Engels Reader, ed. by Robert C. Tucker. 1972. New York: W.W. Norton, pp. 52-103.

Weber, Max. 1904-5 [1958, 1976]. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. New York, NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons [London: Macmillan], pp. 1-78.

“Democracy and the Countervailing Powers of Bureaucracy, Charisma, and Parliament. Selections from the Work of Max Weber.” In: Etzioni-Halevy, Eva. Ed. 1997. Classes and Elites in Democracy and Democratization. A Collection of Readings. New York and London: Garland, 63-70.

Bendix, Reinhard. 1974. “Inequality and Social Structure. A Comparison of Marx and Weber.” American Sociological Review 44 (April), 149-161.

“Ruling Class, Proletariat, and Bourgeois Democracy. Selections from the Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.” In: Etzioni-Halevy, Eva. Ed. 1997. Classes and Elites in Democracy and Democratization. A Collection of Readings. New York and London: Garland, 7-12.

“Intellectuals and the Hegemony of the Dominant Class in Modern Western Democracies. Selections from the Work of Antonio Gramsci.” In: Etzioni-Halevy, Eva. Ed. 1997. Classes and Elites in Democracy and Democratization. A Collection of Readings. New York and London: Garland, 12-18.

October 4:

3. Political Conflict and Change in Industrial Societies

*Mayer, Lawrence C. 2007. Comparative Politics. The Quest for Theory and Explanation. Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY: Sloan Publishing, ch. 2.

*Schumpeter, Joseph A. 1942 [1975]. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. New York, NY: Harper Torchbooks, pp. 1-110, 235-302.

*Lipset, Seymour M. 1959. “Some Social Requisites of Democracy.” APSR, vol. 53, no. 1, 69-105.

Lipset, Seymour Martin. [1959] 1981. Political Man. The Social Bases of Politics. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Ch. 1, ch. 2-4, ch. 14-15.

Dahrendorf, Ralf. 1959. Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Lindblom, Charles E. 1977. Politics and Markets. The World’s Political-Economic Systems. New York, NY: Basic Books.

Hall, Peter. 1986. Governing the Economy. The Politics of State Intervention in Britain and France. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Goldthorpe, John H. Ed. 1984. Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism. New York: Oxford University Press.

Schonfield, Andrew. 1965. Modern Capitalism. The Changing Balance of Public and Private Power. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Boix, Charles. 1998. Political Parties, Growth and Equality. Conservative and Social Democratic Economic Strategies in the World Economy. New York: Cambridge University Press.

October 11:

4. Socioeconomic Development and Democratization

*Mayer, Lawrence C. 2007. Comparative Politics. The Quest for Theory and Explanation. Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY: Sloan Publishing, ch. 5.

*Moore, Barrington, Jr. 1966. The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

Ira Katznelson: “Structure and Configuration in Comparative Politics”, in Lichbach and Zuckerman, ch. 4, p. 81-112

Burkhart, Ross E. and Michael Lewis-Beck. 1994. “Comparative Democracy: The Economic Development Thesis.” APSR, vol. 88, no. 4, December 1994, 903-910.

Haggard, Stephan and Robert R. Kaufman. 1995. The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Rueschemeyer, Dietrich; Evelyne Huber Stephens, and John D. Stephens. 1992. Capitalist Development and Democracy. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Chs. 1-3, 5-7.

Weiner, Myron and Samuel P. Huntington. Eds. 1987. Understanding Political Development. Boston: Little, Brown.

Wiarda, Howard J. 1991. “Concepts and Models in Comparative Politics: Political Development Reconsidered--and its Alternatives.” In: Comparative Political Dynamics, ed. by Dankwart A. Rustow and Kenneth Paul Erickson. New York: Harper Collins, pp. 32-53.

Cardoso, Fernando Henrique and Enzo Faletto. 1979. Dependency and Development. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Carporaso, James A. 1980. “Dependency Theory: Continuities and Discontinuities in Development Studies.” International Organization 39 (Autumn), 605-628.

October 18:

5. The State in Comparative Analysis

*Mayer, Lawrence C. 2007. Comparative Politics. The Quest for Theory and Explanation. Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY: Sloan Publishing, ch. 3.

*Skocpol, Theda. 1979. States and Social Revolutions. A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Almond, Gabriel A. 1956. “Comparative Political Systems. “Journal of Politics 18 (August), 391-409.

Easton, David. 1957. “An Approach to the Analysis of Political Systems.” World Politics 19 (April), 383-400

Skocpol, Theda. 1985. “Bringing the State Back In: Strategies of Analysis in Current Research.” Chapter 1 in Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol, eds. 1985. Bringing the State Back In. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-37.

Poggi, Gianfranco. 1978. The Development of the Modern State. A Sociological Introduction. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP

Bendix, John et al. 1992. “Going Beyond the State?” APSR, vol. 86, no. 4 (December 1992), pp. 1007-1021.

Migdal, Joel S. 1997. “Studying the State.” In: Lichbach, Mark I. and Alan S. Zuckerman. Eds. 1997. Comparative Politics. Rationality, Culture, and Structure. New York: Cambridge UP.

Mitchell, Timothy. 1991. “The Limits of the State: Beyond Statist Approaches and Their Critics.” APSR, vol. 85, no. 1, pp. 77-96

Rockman, Bert A. 1990. “Minding the State -- or a State of Mind? Issues in the Comparative Conceptualization of the State.” Comparative Political Studies, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 25 ff.

Weber, Max. 1996. [191x]. “What is a State?” In: Bernard E. Brown and Roy C. Macridis. Eds. Comparative Politics. Notes and Readings. 8th Ed. Belmont et al.: Wadsworth.

October 25:

6. Political Development, Modernization and Revolution

*Mayer, Lawrence C. 2007. Comparative Politics. The Quest for Theory and Explanation. Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY: Sloan Publishing, ch. 6.

*Huntington, Samuel P. 1968. Political Order in Changing Societies.

Tilly, Charles. 1973. “Does Modernization Breed Revolution?” Comparative Politics. 5;3 (April 1973), 424-447.

Rostow, Walt W. 1960. Stages of Economic Growth. A Non-Communist Manifesto. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

Collier, David and Steven Levitsky. 1997. “Democracy with Adjectives. Conceptual Innovation in Comparative Research.”(Research Note) World Politics, 49:3 (April 1997) 430-51.

Karl, Terry Lynn. 1991. “Dilemmas of Democratization in Latin America.” In: Rustow, Dankwart A. and Kenneth P. Erickson. Eds. Comparative Political Dynamics. Global Research Perspectives. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 163-91.

Wiarda, Howard J. 1991. “Concepts and Models in Comparative Politics. Political Development Reconsidered And Its Alternatives.” In: Rustow, Dankwart A. and Kenneth P. Erickson. Eds. Comparative Political Dynamics. Global Research Perspectives. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 32-53.

Huntington, Samuel P. 1991. The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

Martz, John D. 1994. “Problems of Conceptualization and Comparability in Latin America.” Ch. 6 in Dogan and Kazancigil. Comparing Nations, pp. 239-259.

Schamis, Hector E. 1991. “Reconceptualizing Latin America in the 1970s. From Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism to Neoliberalism.” Comparative Politics, vol. 23, no. 2 (January 1991), 201-20.

Sigmund, Paul E. 1993. “Approaches to the Study of the Military in Latin America.” Comparative Politics, vol. 26, no. 1 (October 1993), pp. 111-22.

November 1:

7. Political Culture

*Almond, Gabriel, and Sydney Verba. 1963. The Civic Culture. Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP. or

*Almond, Gabriel, and Sydney Verba. 1989. The Civic Culture (Revisited). Boston, MA: Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

*Inglehart, Ronald. 1997. Modernization and Postmodernization. Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP.

Inglehart, Ronald. 1988. “The Renaissance of Political Culture.” APSR, 82:4, pp. 1204-30.

Inglehart, Ronald. 1977. The Silent Revolution. Changing Values and Political Styles. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP.

Inglehart, Ronald. 1990. Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP.

Wedeen, Lisa. 2002. “Conceptualizing Culture: Possibilities for Political Science.” APSR 96:4, 713-728.

Eckstein, Harry. 1988. “A Culturalist Theory of Political Change.” APSR, 82:3, pp. 787-804.

Huntington, Samuel P. 1993. “The Clash of Civilizations?” Foreign Affairs. 72:3 (Summer 1993), 22-49.

Lane, Ruth. 1992. “Political Culture: Residual Category or General Theory?” Comparative Political Studies, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 362 ff.

Lipset, Seymour Martin. 1994. “American Exceptionalism -- Japanese Uniqueness”, ch. 4 in Dogan and Kazancigil. Comparing Nations, pp. 153-212.

November 8:

8. Political Parties and Political Behavior:

*Mayer, Lawrence C. 2007. Comparative Politics. The Quest for Theory and Explanation. Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY: Sloan Publishing, ch. 4.

*Downs, Anthony, 1957. An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper and Row.

Sartori, Giovanni. 2005. Political Parties

*Duverger, Maurice, 1954. Political Parties. London: Methuen, 4-280, 422-27.

Fey, Mark. 1997. “Stability and Coordination in Duverger’s Law: A Formal Model of Pre-election Polls and Strategic Voting.” APSR, vol. 91, no. 1 (March 1997), p. 135-147.

Huber, John D. 1992. “Restrictive Legislative Procedures in France and the United States.” APSR, vol. 86, no. 3 (September 1992), 675-687.

Michels, Robert. 1915 (repr. 1962). Political Parties. New York: Collier Books

Mair, Peter. Ed. 1990. The West European Party System. New York: Oxford University Press. Selected Chapters.

Norton, Philip. Ed. 1990. Legislatures. New York: Oxford University Press. Selected chapters.

Lijphart, Arend. Ed. 1992. Parliamentary Versus Presidential Government. New York: Oxford University Press. Ch. 1-8, pp. 31-77.

McRae, Douglas W. 1971. The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws. 2nd ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

November 15:

9. Political Institutions and Legitimacy

*Lijphart, Arend. 1999. Patterns of Democracy. Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

*Anderson, Christopher J. and Christine A. Guillory. 1997. “Political Institutions and Satisfaction with Democracy: A Cross-National Analysis of Consensus and Majoritarian Systems.” APSR 91:1 (March 1997), 66-81.

Lijphart, Arend. 1994. Electoral Systems and Party Systems. A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies, 1945-1990. New York: Oxford University Press.

Lijphart, Arend. 1977. Democracy in Plural Societies. A Comparative Exploration. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Przeworski, Adam and John Sprague. 1986. Paper Stones. A History of Electoral Socialism. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.

Laver, Michael and Kenneth A. Shepsle. 1990. “Coalitions and Cabinet Government.” APSR 84:3 (Sept. 1990), 873-90

Warwick, Paul. 1992. “Economic Trends and Government Survival in West European Parliamentary Democracies.” APSR, vol. 86, no. 4 (December 1992), 875-887.

November 22:

10. Theories of the Welfare State and Comparative Public Policy

*Huber, Evelyne and John D. Stephens. 2001. Development and Crisis of the Welfare State. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press

*Esping-Anderson, Goesta. 1990. The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

*Pierson, Paul. 1996. “The New Politics of the Welfare State.” World Politics, vol. 48, no. 2 January 1996, 143-79.

Scharpf, Fritz W. 1997. Games Real Actors Play. Actor-Centered Institutionalism in Policy Research. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Crepaz, Markus. 1992. “Corporatism in Decline?” Comparative Political Studies, vol. 25, no. 2 (July 1992), pp. 139-168.

Huber, Evelyne and John D. Stephens. 1993. “Social Democracy, Christian Democracy, Constitutional Structure, and the Welfare State”. American Journal of Sociology 99:711-49.

Hicks, Alexander and Duane Swank. 1992. “Politics, Institutions, and Welfare Spending in Industrialized Democracies, 1960-82.” American Political Science Review 86: 658-74.

Katzenstein, Peter. 1985. Small States in World Markets. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP.

Lehmbruch, Gerhard and Philippe. Eds. 1982. Patterns of Corporatist Policy-Making. Beverly Hills: Sage.

Lijphart, Arend. 1984. Democracies. Patterns of Majoritarian and Consensus Government in Twenty-One Countries. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press

Lijphart, Arend and Markus Crepaz. 1991. “Corporatism and Consensus Democracy in Eighteen Countries: Conceptual and Empirical Linkages.” British Journal of Political Science, vol. 21, pp. 235-246.

Pierson, Paul. 1994. Dismantling the Welfare State? Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of Retrenchment. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. pp. .

Schmitter, Philippe and Gerhard Lehmbruch. Eds. 1979. Trends Toward Corporatist Intermediation. Beverly Hills: Sage

November 29:

11. Rational Choice Theory in Comparative Analysis

*Margaret Levi in Lichbach and Zuckerman, ch.2, p. 19-41

*Bates, Robert H. 1981. Markets and States in Tropical Africa. The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

*Olson, Mancur. 1982. The Rise and Decline of Nations. Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Bates, Robert H. 1997. “Comparative Politics and Rational Choice: A Review Essay.” APSR, vol. 91, no. 3, September 1997, 699-704.

Tsebelis, George. 1990. Nested Games. Rational Choice in Comparative Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Olson, Mancur. 1965. The Logic of Collective Action. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Hirschman, Albert O. 1970. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty. Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Ostrom, Elinor, 1986. “An Agenda for the Study of Institutions.” Public Choice 48 (1): 3-25

Ostrom, Elinor. Ed. 1990. Governing the Commons. The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. New York: Cambridge University Press. Selected chapters.

Bates, Robert H. (ed.) 1988. Toward a Political Economy of Development: A Rational-Choice Perspective. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

December 6:

12. The New Institutionalism and Social Capital

*Peter A. Hall in Lichbach and Zuckerman, ch. 7, p. 174-208

*North, Douglass C. 1990. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

*Putnam, Robert D. 1993. Making Democracy Work. Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Tarrow, Sidney. 1996. “Making Social Science Work Across Space and Time: A Critical Reflection on Robert Putnam’s Making Democracy Work”. APSR, 90: 2 (June 1996), 389-397.

March, James and Johan Olson, 1984, “The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life,” American Political Science Review 78, no. 3 (Sept. 1984): 734-49.

Popkin, Samuel L. 1979. The Rational Peasant. The Political Economy of Rural Society in Vietnam. Berkeley, CA: The University of California Press.

Ames, Barry. 1987. Political Survival. Politicians and Public Policy in Latin America. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Staniland, Martin. 1985. What is Political Economy? A Study of Social Theory and Underdevelopment. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

December 13: Final Exam time—overflow class

13. Rational Choice, Historical Institutionalism, and the Future of Comparative Politics

*Mayer, Lawrence C. 2007. Comparative Politics. The Quest for Theory and Explanation. Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY: Sloan Publishing, ch. 7.

*Bates, Robert H. et al. 1998. Analytic Narratives. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Introduction ,1, p. 3-22

*Thelen, Kathleen and Sven Steinmo. 1993. “Historical institutionalism in comparative politics.”Ch.1 in Sven Steinmo, Kathleen Thelen and Frank Longstreth. Eds. 1993. Structuring Politics. Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-23.

*Hall, Peter and Rosemary C. R. Taylor. 1996. “Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms.” Political Studies, 44, 936-57.

*Bates, Robert H. 1996. The Death of Comparative Politics? APSA-CP (Newsletter of the APSA Organized Section in Comparative Politics). 7: 2 (Summer 1996).

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