Political Science 541 Spring 2012
W 3:30 – 5:50 p.m. 404 David Kinley Hall
Prof. Matthew S. Winters [email protected] Office: 315 David Kinley Hall Office Hours: Wednesday 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. or by appointment
Proseminar in Comparative Politics II: Comparative Politics of Developing Countries
Course Description
This seminar is the second in a two-course sequence aiming to introduce students to some of the central concepts, arguments, and debates in the field of comparative politics. By providing foundational training in the subfield, the two-course sequence prepares students to take the comparative politics preliminary examination. The material covered in the course also should be of use to students preparing for other qualifying examinations in political science.
The seminar is organized around theoretical approaches, concepts, and methodologies that form the core of the comparative field, and it examines them through the analysis of substantive topics that are relevant for the politics of the developing world, such as political development, the role of the state, economic development, cultural identity formation, representation, accountability and political participation. Three weeks in the latter part of the course focus on topics of particular interest to the instructor: the natural resource curse, clientelism and corruption. By the end of the semester, students should have an appreciation for the diversity of issues and approaches that can be found in the field of comparative politics.
Rather than being concentrated in a single week, methodological readings are inserted into various substantive weeks (mostly in the early part of the course). This should allow us to anchor our discussions of comparative political methodology in substantive readings. Some additional suggestions for further readings on methodology can be found at the end of the syllabus.
Course Goals
The primary goal of the seminar is to guide student analysis and constructive criticism of the readings. By engaging with the readings and the instructor, students should (1) develop a sense of the broad literatures in comparative politics; (2) understand better the trajectories along which comparative political study has moved over time and the disciplinary sociology behind such movements; (3) gain increased exposure to the variety of research methods used in the field; and (4) think through the relative merits of different forms of research design.
Note the relationship between these goals and qualifying exams: the best exam answers will demonstrate knowledge of important research in the field while also being able to comment on the merits of the research tools employed to answer particular research questions.
Course Materials
They also are all easily found for purchase online.
These are good books for a comparativist (or a political scientist more generally) to own. So I would recommend buying them. That said, you may wish to assess the amount of reading assigned from each volume against your personal budget constraint and opt for alternative methods of obtaining the required chapters. (In some cases, only a single chapter is assigned.) In either case, you are, of course, responsible for the readings.
Acemoglu, Daron and James Robinson. 2006. Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Bates, Robert H. 1981. Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Boix, Carles. 2003. Democracy and Redistribution. New York: Cambridge University Press. Huntington, Samuel P. 1968. Political Order in Changing Societies. New Haven: Yale University Press.
North, Douglass C. 1990. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. New York: Cambridge University Press.
North, Douglass and Robert Paul Thomas. 1973. The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Polanyi, Karl. 1944. The Great Transformation. Boston: Beacon Press
Przeworski, Adam. 1991. Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Przeworski, Adam, Michael E. Alvarez, José Antonio Cheibub and Fernando Limongi. 2000. Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Przeworski, Adam, Susan C. Stokes, Bernard Manin, eds. 1999. Democracy, Accountability, and Representation. New York: Cambridge University Press
Scott, James C. 1976. The Moral Economy of the Peasant. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Course Requirements
This course is organized as a reading seminar. Each participant is expected to complete the set of required readings detailed in the outline below. The class is designed to be highly participatory. Therefore, it is essential that students attend all sessions and come to class fully prepared to discuss the required weekly readings. Each week, I will give a brief introduction to the topic and the material. After this introduction, each student is expected to give a brief reaction to the week’s readings and to place three or four questions for discussion onto the meeting’s agenda. In order to facilitate my instruction, students should e-mail these questions to me by 5:00 p.m. the day before the seminar meeting.
The main graded assignments for the class will be a series of three analytical essays in response to questions of the sort found on qualifying examinations. I will distribute the questions one week in advance of the essays being due. The questions will be distributed on 29 February, 28 March and 2 May.
The distribution of grading is as follows:
Preparation of Weekly Discussion Questions/Points 10 percent
First Analytical Essay 20 percent
Second Analytical Essay 25 percent
Third Analytical Essay 30 percent
Schedule of Readings
Readings listed under “Additional Readings” are suggested for your reference. All other readings are required. The instructor has worked to keep the lists of both required and additional readings manageable. Students preparing for a qualifying examination, therefore, would be expected to have some familiarity with many of the additional readings.
The instructor reserves the right to make changes to the reading list over the course of the semester. Students are encouraged to bring particular readings of interest to the instructor’s attention or make suggestions about modifications to the schedule of readings.
18 January – Introduction
25 January – The State
Spruyt, Hendrick. 2002. “The Origins, Development, and Possible Decline of the Modern State,” Annual Review of Political Science 5: 127-49.
Tilly, Charles. 1985. "War Making and State Making as Organized Crime" in Bringing the State Back In edited by Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 169-191.
Jackson, Robert H. and Carl G. Rosberg. 1982. “Why Africa’s Weak States Persist: The Empirical and Juridical in Statehood,” World Politics 35 (1): 1-24.
Mitchell, Timothy. 1991. “The Limits of the State: Beyond Statist Approaches and Their Critics,” American Political Science Review 85 (1): 77-96.
(Methodology Reading:) Lijphart, Arend. 1971. “Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method,” American Political Science Review 65 (3): 682-93.
Additional Readings
Hirshman, Albert O. 1978. “Exit, Voice, and the State,” World Politics 31 (1): 90-107.
Tilly, Charles. 1990. Coercion, Capital and European States, AD 990-1992. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
Evans, Peter. 1997. “The Eclipse of the State? Reflections on Stateness in an Era of Globalization,” World Politics 50 (1): 62-87.
Scott, James C. 2009. The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. New Haven: Yale University Press.
1 February – Political Regimes and Modernization
Cheibub, José Antonio, Jennifer Gandhi and James Raymond Vreeland. 2010. “Democracy and Dictatorship Revisited,” Public Choice 143 (1-2): 67-101.
Diamond, Larry. 2002. “Thinking about Hybrid Regimes,” Journal of Democracy 13 (2): 21–35.
Levitsky, Steven and Lucan A. Way. 2002. “The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism,” Journal of Democracy 13 (2): 51-65.
Lipset, Seymour Martin. 1960. Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics: Garden City, NY: Doubleday Chapter 2 (“Economic Development and Democracy”), pp. 27-63.
Huntington, Samuel P. 1968. Political Order in Changing Societies. New Haven: Yale University Press. Chapter 1 (“Political Order and Political Decay”), pp. 1-92.
(Methodology Reading:) Adcock, Robert and David Collier. 2001. “Measurements Validity: A Shared Standard for Qualitative and Quantitative Research,” American Political Science Review 95 (3): 529-46.
Additional Readings
Rostow, Walt W. 1960. The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto. New York: Cambridge University Press.
O’Donnell, Guillermo. 1970. Modernization and Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Dahl, Robert. 1971. Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition. New Haven: Yale University Press.
O’Donnell, Guillermo. 1994. “Delegative Democracy,” Journal of Democracy 5: 55-69.
Elkins, Zachary. 2000. “Gradations of Democracy? Empirical Tests of Alternative Conceptualizations,” American Journal of Political Science 44 (2): 293–300.
Inglehart, Ronald and Christian Welzel. 2005. Modernization, Cultural Change and Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Gandhi, Jennifer. 2008. Political Institutions under Dictatorship. New York: Cambridge University Press.
8 February – Modernization and Democratization
Cambridge University Press. Chapter 2 (“Economic Development and Political Regimes”), pp. 78-141.
Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson and Pierre Yared. 2009. “Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis,” Journal of Monetary Economics 56: 1043-58.
Boix, Carles. 2011. “Democracy, Development, and the International System,” American Political Science Review 105 (4): 809-28.
Treisman, Daniel. 2011. “Income, Democracy, and the Cunning of Reason,” NBER Working Paper 17132, Cambridge, MA, June.
Svolik, Milan. 2008. “Authoritarian Reversals and Democratic Consolidation,” American Political Science Review 102: 153-168.
Additional Readings
Lipset, Seymour Martin. 1959. “Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy,” American Political Science Review 53:69-105.
Huntington, Samuel P. 1991. The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Diamond, Larry. 1999. Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Epstein, David L., Robert Bates, Jack Goldstone, Ida Kristensen and Sharyn O’Halloran. 2006. “Democratic Transitions,” American Journal of Political Science 50 (3): 551-69.
15 February – Moments of Democratization
Required
Przeworski, Adam. 1991. Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1 (“Democracy”) and 2 (“Transitions to Demoracy”), pp. 10-99.
Acemoglu, Daron and James Robinson. 2006. Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Chapters 2 (“Our Argument”) and 6 (“Democratization”), pp. 15-47, 173-220. Skim Chapters 4 (“Democratic Politics”) and 5 (“Nondemocratic Politics”), pp. 89-172.
Boix, Carles. 2003. Democracy and Redistribution. New York: Cambridge University Press. Introduction and Chapters 1 (“A Theory of Political Transitions”) and 2 (“Empirical Evidence”), pp. 1-109.
Additional Readings
Moore, Barrington, Jr. 1966. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Boston: Beacon Press.
O’Donnell, Guillermo and Philippe C. Schmitter. 1986. Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Rueschemeyer, Dietrich, Evelyn Huber Stephens and John D. Stephens. 1992. Capitalist Development and Democracy. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Bratton, Michael and Nicolas van deWalle. 1994. “Neo-Patrimonial Regimes and Political Transitions in Africa,” World Politics 46: 453-89.
Haggard, Stephan and Robert R. Kaufman. 1995. The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Linz, Juan and Alfred Stepan. 1996. Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post Communist Europe. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press.
Weingast, Barry. 1997. “The Political Foundations of Democracy and the Rule of Law,” American Political Science Review 91 (2): 245-63.
Boix, Carles and Susan C. Stokes. 2003. “Endogenous Democratization,” World Politics 55: 517-49.
Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce, James D. Morrow, Randolph M. Siverson and Alastair Smith. 2003. The Logic of Political Survival. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
22 February – Economic Growth
Required
North, Douglass and Robert Paul Thomas. 1973. The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History. New York: Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1 (“The Issue”), 2 (“An Overview”) and 3 (“Property Rights in Land and Man”), pp. 1-24.
North, Douglass C. 1990. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. New York: Cambridge University Press. Part I (“Institutions”), pp. 3-72.
Przeworski, Adam, Michael E. Alvarez, José Antonio Cheibub and Fernando Limongi. 2000. Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990. New York: Cambridge University Press. Chapters 3 (“Political Regimes and Economic Growth”), 4 (“Political Instability and Economic Growth”) and 5 (“Political Regimes and Population”) pp. 142-268.
Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson and James Robinson. 2001. “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation,” American Economic Review 91: 1369-1401.
Gerschenkron, Alexander. 1962. Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Bates, Robert H. 1981. Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Olson, Jr., Mancur. 1993. “Democracy, Dictatorship, and Development,” American Political Science Review 87: 567-77.
Evans, Peter. 1995. Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Knack, Stephen and Philip Keefer. 1995. “Institutions and Economic Performance: Cross-Country Tests Using Alternative Institutional Measures,” Economics and Politics 7 (3): 207-27.
Clague, Christopher, Philip Keefer, Stephen Knack and Mancur Olson. 1996. “Property and Contract Rights in Autocracies and Democracies,” Journal of Economic Growth 1: 243-76.
Olson, Jr., Mancur. 1996. “Big Bills Left on the Sidewalk: Why Some Nations are Rich, and Others Poor,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 10 (2): 3-24.
Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson. 2002. “Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 117: 1231-94.
Rodrik, Dani, Arvind Subramanian and Francesco Trebbi. 2004. “Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions Over Geography and Integration in Economic Development,” Journal of Economic Growth 9: 131-65.
Acemoglu, Daron and Simon Johnson. 2005. “Unbundling Institutions,” Journal of Political Economy 113 (5): 949-95.
Acemoglu, Daron and James A. Robinson. 2006. “Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective,” American Political Science Review 100 (1): 115-29.
29 February – The State and Markets – Receive Questions for First Analytical Essay
Polanyi, Karl. 1944. The Great Transformation. Boston: Beacon Press. Chapters 4 (“Societies and Economic Systems”), 5 (“Evolution of the Market Pattern”) and 6 (“The Self-Regulating Market and the Fictitious Commodities: Labor, Land, and Money”), pp. 43-76.
Scott, James C. 1976. The Moral Economy of the Peasant. New Haven: Yale University Press. Introduction and Chapters 1 (“The Economics and Sociology of the Subsistence Ethic”) and 2 (“Subsistence Security in Peasant Choice and Values”), pp. 1-55.
(“The Market as Political Arena and the Limits of Voluntarism”), 6 (“Rental Havens and
Protective Shelters: Organizing Support Among the Urban Beneficiaries”) and 7 (“The Origins of Political Marginalism: Evoking Compliance from the Countryside”), pp. 11-29 and 81-118.
Dellepiane-Avellaneda, Sebastian. 2009. “Review Article: Good Governance, Institutions and Economic Development: Beyond the Conventional Wisdom,” British Journal of Political Science 40: 195-224.
Additional Readings
Weingast, Barry R. 1995. "The Economic Role of Political Institutions: Market-Preserving Federalism and Economic Development," Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 11 (1):1-31.
La Porta, Rafael, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny. 1998. “Law and Finance,” Journal of Political Economy 106 (6): 1113-55.
Hellman, Joel, Geraint Jones and Daniel Kaufmann. 2000. “Seize the State, Seize the Day: State Capture, Corruption, and Influence in Transition,” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2444, September, Washington, D.C.
Acemoglu, Daron and James Robinson. 2001. “Inefficient Redistribution,” American Political Science Review 91: 938-63.
Timmons, Jeffrey. 2005. “The Fiscal Contract: States, Taxes and Public Services,” World Politics 57 (4).
Acemoglu, Daron, Mikhail Golosov and Aleh Tsyvinski. 2008. “Markets Versus Governments,” Journal of Monetary Economics 55: 159-89.
7 March – Resource Curse – First Analytical Essay Due
Ross, Michael. 1999. “The Political Economy of the Resource Curse,” World Politics 51 (2): 297-322.
Humphreys, Macartan. 2005. “Natural Resources, Conflict and Conflict Resolution: Uncovering the Mechanisms,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 49 (4): 508-37.
Morrison, Kevin. 2009. “Oil, Non-Tax Revenue, and the Redistributional Foundations of Regime Stability,” International Organization 63: 107-38
Haber, Stephen and Victor Menaldo. 2011. “Do Natural Resources Fuel Authoritarianism? A Reappraisal of the Resource Curse,” American Political Science Review 105 (1).
(Methodology Reading:) Lieberman, Evan S. 2005. “Nested Analysis as a Mixed-Method Strategy for Comparative Research,” American Political Science Review 99: 435-52.
Additional Readings
Karl, Terry Lynn. 1996. Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Robinson, James A., Ragnar Torvik and Thierry Verdier. 2006. “Political Foundations of the Resource Curse," Journal of Development Economics 79: 447-68
Humphreys, Macartan, Jeffrey D. Sachs and Joseph E. Stiglitz, eds. 2007. Escaping the Resource Curse. New York: Columbia University Press.
Morrison, Kevin. 2007. “Natural Resources, Aid, and Democratization: A Best-Case Scenario,” Public Choice 131: 365-86.
14 March – Nations and Ethnicity
Fearon, James and David Laitin. 1996. “Explaining Interethnic Cooperation,” American Political Science Review 90 (4): 715-35.
Posner, Daniel. 2003. "The Political Salience of Cultural Difference: Why Chewas and Tumbukas are Allies in Zambia and Adversaries in Malawi," American Political Science Review 98 (4): 529-45.
Kasara, Kimuli. 2007. “Tax Me If You Can: Ethnic Geography, Democracy, and the Taxation of Agriculture in Africa,” American Political Science Review 101 (1): 159-72.
Habyarimana, James, Macartan Humphreys, Daniel Posner, and Jeremy Weinstein. 2007. “Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision? An Experimental Approach,” American Political Science Review 101 (4): 709-25.
(Methodology Reading:) Page, Scott. 2006. “Path Dependence,” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 1 (1): 87–115.
Additional Readings
Gellner, Ernest. 1983. Nations and Nationalism. Oxford: Blackwell.
Anderson, Benedict. 1991. Imagined Communities. New York: Verso.
Ordeshook, Peter and Olga V. Shvetsova. 1994. “Ethnic Heterogeneity, District Magnitude, and the Number of Parties,” American Journal of Political Science 38 (1): 100-123.
Ndewa, Stephen N. 1997. “Citizenship and Ethnicity: An Examination of Two Transition Moments in Kenyan Politics,” American Political Science Review 91: 599-616.
Laitin, David. 1998. Identity in Formation: The Russian‐Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Posner, Daniel. 2004. “Measuring Ethnic Fractionalization in Africa,” American Journal of Political Science 48: 849-863.
Chandra, Kanchan. 2004. “Ethnic Parties and Democratic Stability,” Perspectives on Politics 3 (2): 235-52.
Miguel, Edward. 2004. “Tribe or Nation? Nation-Building and Public Goods in Kenya versus Tanzania,” World Politics 56 (3): 327-62.
Chandra, Kanchan. 2006. “What is Ethnic Identity and Does It Matter?” Annual Review of Political Science 9: 397-424.
Elkins Zachary and John Sides. 2007. “Can Institutions Build Unity in Multiethnic States?” American Political Science Review 101 (4): 693-708.
Baldwin, Katherine A. and John D. Huber. 2010. “Economic versus Cultural Differences: Forms of Ethnic Diversity and Public Goods Provision,” American Political Science Review 104: 644-62.
21 March – NO CLASS - SPRING BREAK
28 March – Culture and Identity – Receive Questions for Second Analytical Assignment
Elkins, David J. and Richard E.B. Simeon. 1979. “A Cause in Search of Its Effect, or What Does Political Culture Explain?” Comparative Politics 11: 127-46.
Greif, Avner. 1994. “Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies,” Journal of Political Economy 102 (5): 912-50.
Axelrod, Robert. 1997. “The Dissemination of Culture: A Model with Local Convergence and Global Polarization,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 41: 203-26.
Wedeen, Lisa. 2002. “Conceptualizing Culture: Possibilities for Political Science,” American Political Science Review 96 (4): 713-28.
Fisman, Raymond and Edward Miguel. 2007. “Corruption, Norms and Legal Enforcement: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets,” Journal of Political Economy 115 (6): 1020-48.
Additional Readings
Geertz, Clifford. 1973. The Interpretations of Cultures. New York: Basic Books.
Laitin, David. 1986. Hegemony and Culture: Politics and Religious Change among the Yoruba. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Inglehart, Ronald. 1997. Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic and Political Change in 43 Societies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Laitin, David. 1998. Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Bednar, Jenna and Scott Page. 2007. “Can Game(s) Theory Explain Culture? The Emergence of Cultural Behavior within Multiple Games,” Rationality and Society 19 (1): 65-97.
4 April – NO CLASS (ISA) – Second Analytical Essay Due
11 April – Representation, Accountability and Political Participation
Granovetter, Mark. 1978. “Threshold Models of Collective Behavior,” American Journal of Sociology 6: 1420‐43.
Manin, Bernnard, Adam Przeworski and Susan Stokes. 1999. “Elections and Representation,” in Democracy, Accountability, and Representation, edited by Adam Przeworski, Susan C. Stokes, Bernard Manin. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Tsai, Lily L. 2007. “Solidary Groups, Informal Accountability, and Local Public Goods Provision in Rural China,” American Political Science Review 101 (2): 355-72.
Humphreys, Macartan and Jeremy Weinstein. 2008. “Who Fights? The Determinants of Participation in Civil War,” American Journal of Political Science 5 (2): 436‐55.
Ferraz, Claudio and Federico Finan. 2008. “Exposing Corrupt Politicians: The Effects of Brazil’s Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 123 (2): 703-45.
Additional Readings
Tilly, Charles. 1985. “Models and Realities of Popular Collective Action,” Social Research 52 (4).
Lichbach, Mark I. 1994. “What Makes Rational Peasants Revolutionary? Dilemma, Paradox, and Irony in Peasant Collective Action,” World Politics 46 (3): 383-418.
Anderson, Christopher J. and Yuliya V. Tverdova. 2003. “Corruption, Political Allegiances and Attitudes Toward Government in Contemporary Democracies,” American Journal of Political Science 47 (1): 91-109
18 April – Clientelism
Wantchekon, Leonard. 2003. “Clientelism and Voting Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Benin,” World Politics 55: 399-422.
Keefer, Philip. 2007. “Clientelism, Credibility and the Policy Choices of Young Democracies,” American Journal of Political Science 51 (4): 804-21.
Nichter, Simeon. 2008. “Vote Buying or Turnout Buying? Machine Politics and the Secret Ballot,” American Political Science Review 102 (1): 19-31.
Additional Readings
Scott, James C. 1972. “Patron-Client Politics and Political Change in Southeast Asia,” American Political Science Review 66: 91-113.
Calvo, Ernesto and Maria Victoria Murillo. 2004. “Who Delivers? Partisan Clients in the Argentine Electoral Market,” American Journal of Political Science. 48 (4): 742-57.
Keefer, Philip and Razvan Vlaicu. 2008. “Democracy, Credibility, and Clientelism,” Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 24 (2): 371-406.
25 April – Corruption
Krueger, Anne O. 1974. “The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society,” American Economic Review 64 (3): 291-303.
Mauro, Paolo. 1995. “Corruption and Growth,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 110 (3): 681-712.
Olken, Benjamin A. 2007. “Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia,” Journal of Political Economy 115 (2): 200-49.
Treisman, Daniel. 2007. “What Have We Learned About the Causes of Corruption from Ten Years of Cross-National Empirical Research?” Annual Review of Political Science 10: 211-44.
Chang, Eric C.C. and Miriam A. Golden. 2007. “Electoral Systems, District Magnitude and Corruption,” British Journal of Political Science 37: 115-37.
(Methodology Reading:) Achen, Chris. 2002. “Toward a New Political Methodology: Microfoundations and ART,” Annual Review of Political Science 5: 423-50.
Additional Readings
Nye, Joseph. 1967. “Corruption and Political Development: A Cost-benefit Analysis,” American Political Science Review 61 (2): 417-27.
Shleifer, Andrei and Robert W. Vishny. 1993. “Corruption,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 108 (3): 599-617.
Rose-Ackerman, Susan. 1999. Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences and Reform. New York: Cambridge University Press
Golden, Miriam and Lucio Picci. 2005. “Proposal for a New Measure of Corruption, Illustrated with Italian Data,” Economics and Politics 17: 37-75.
Tavits, Margit. 2007. “Clarity of Responsibility and Corruption,” American Journal of Political Science 51 (1): 218-29.
2 May – Current Comparative Politics – Receive Questions for Third Analytical Essay
For this week, we will select several working papers / conference papers and assess how they fit into the broad outlines of comparative politics that we have explored over the course of the semester.
Student input on the particular readings to be covered is encouraged!
9 May – Third Analytical Essay Due (No Class Meeting)
Summer Reading -- Additional Readings on Political Methodology
Sartori, Giovanni. 1970. “Concept Misinformation in Comparative Politics.” American Political Science Review 64 (4): 1033-53.
Hirschman, Albert O. 1970. “The Search for Paradigms as a Hindrance to Understanding,” World Politics 22 (3): 329-43.
King, Gary, Robert O. Keohane, and Sidney Verba. 1994. Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Gerring, John. 2004. “What is a Case Study and What it is Good for?” American Political Science Review 98: 341-54.
Brady, Henry and David Collier, eds. 2004. Rethinking Social Inquiry. Berkeley: Rowman & Littlefield.
Summer Reading – Whither Comparative Politics?
Kohli, Atul, Peter Evans, Peter J. Katzenstein, Adam Przeworski, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, James C. Scott and Theda Skocpol. 1996. “The Role of Theory in Comparative Politics,” World Politics 48 (1): 1-49.
Munck, Gerardo L. and Richard Snyder. 2007. “Debating the Directions of Comparative Politics: An Analysis of Leading Journals,” Comparative Political Studies 40 (1): 5-31.
Mahoney, James. 2007. “Debating the State of Comparative Politics: Views from Qualitative Research,” Comparative Political Studies 40 (1): 32-8.
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