Protocol for Handing in Written Assignments: Students must turn in all written assignments three ways. This assignment must be 1) emailed to the professor, 2) with a hard copy delivered to the political science assignment box in the Tiber campus by 5pm on the due date and 3) an electronic copy delivered on through MOODLE to TURNITIN. This will require that you set up your own MOODLE account.
WEEKLY LESSONS AND READINGS
WEEK 1 (January 14-20) Introducing Comparative Politics
Session 1 (January 15) Course Introduction
Patrick H. O’Neill, Essentials of Comparative Politics, Chapter 1.
Session 2 (January 17) Building Theory: Comparative Method Applied
Peter Katzenstein, Adam Przeworski, Theda Skocpol, et al. (1995) ‘The Role of Theory in Comparative Politics’ World Politics 48/1:1-25.
WEEK 2 (January 21-27) State Formation and Types States
Session 3 (January 22) State Formation Trajectories
Patrick H. O’Neill, Essentials of Comparative Politics, Chapter 2, pp. 30-46
Francis Fukuyama, Political Order and Decay. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), Chapters 27-28, pp. 399-435
Case Study: England
Barrington Moore, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (Boston: Beacon Press, 1993), Chapter 7, pp. 413-32
Session 4 (January 24) From Predatory to Rentier: Types of States
Patrick H. O’Neill, Essentials of Comparative Politics, Chapter 2, pp. 46-61.
Case Study: Saudi Arabia
Paul Aarts and Carolien Roulants, Saudi Arabia: The Kingdom in Peril, (London: Hurst and Co, 2015) pp. 1-36, 135-141
WEEK 3 (January 28-February 3) Political Culture and Religion
Session 5 (January 29) ‘Western’ and ‘Asian Values’
Patrick H. O’Neill, Essentials of Comparative Politics, Chapter 3, pp. 91-94.
Amartya Sen, “Democracy as a Universal Value,” Journal of Democracy, 10 (July 1999): 3-17
Russell Bova, “Democracy and Liberty: The Cultural Connection,” Journal of Democracy, 8 (January 1997): 112-126
Mark Thompson, “Whatever Happened to ‘Asian Values’?” Journal of Democracy 12 (October 2001): 154-165
Christian Welzel and Russell Dalton, “Cultural Change in Asia and Beyond,” Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (June 2017), 112-132
Case Study: Singapore
Bilahari Kausikan, “Governance that Works,” Journal of Democracy, 8 (April 1997): 24-34.
Session 6: (January 31) Clash of Civilizations
Patrick H. O’Neill, Essentials of Comparative Politics, Chapter 3, pp. 77-90
Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996), pp. 192-198.
Patrick H. O’Neill, Essentials of Comparative Politics, Chapter 7
Case Study: ISIS
Joby Warrick. Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS. (New York: Anchor, Penguin, 2016), pp. 267-307.
***Course Dinner Discussion on The Return on Tuesday, January 30th, 7:30pm***
WEEK 4 (February 4-10) Social Cleavages and Nationalism
Session 7 (February 5): Nationalism and Ethnicity
Patrick H. O’Neill, Essentials of Comparative Politics, Chapter 3, pp. 62-76.
Sara Rich Dorman. “The Varieties of Nationalism in Africa,” Current History, (May 2015), pp. 189-193.
Case Study: Nigeria
Brandon Kendhammer. “Nigeria’s New Democratic Dawn,” Current History, (May 2015), 170-176.
Ebenezer Obadare, “Perspective: A Nigerian President’s Disappointing Return,” Current History, (May 2017), Vol 116, No. 790, pp. 194-96
Session 8: (February 7) Conducting Research on Comparative Politics
Library Session for Comparative Politics
***Book Assessment Due, Monday, February 5th by 5pm***
WEEK 5 (February 11-17) Political Identity and Political Mobilization
Session 9 (February 12): Left and Right Politics
Brendan O’Leary. “Europe’s Embers of Nationalism,” Current History, (March 2015)
David Art. “Why 2013 is not 1933: The Radical Right in Europe,” Current History (March 2013)
Session 10 (February 14): Social Movements
Charles Tilly and Leslie Wood. Social Movements, 1768-2008. (New York: Paradigm Publishers, 2009), pp. 1-37
Case Study: Occupy Movements
William A. Gamson, and Micah L. Sifry. "The# Occupy movement: an introduction." The Sociological Quarterly 54, no. 2 (2013): 159-163.
Session 11: (February 16) Class Field Trip, 8:00-9:45am
WEEK 6 (February 18-24) Elections and Political Participation
Session 12 (February 19): Political Parties and Voting Behavior
Patrick H. O’Neill, Essentials of Comparative Politics, Chapter 5, pp. 158-68.
Pippa Norris (eds.) Comparing Democracies 2: New Challenges in the Study of Elections and Voting, (New York: Sage Publications, 2002), Chapter 7
David M. Farrell, “Campaign Strategies and Tactics,” in Lawrence Le Du et. Al. Comparing Democracies: Elections and Voting in Comparative Perspective, (New York: Sage Publications, 2002), Chapter 6
Session 13 (February 20) Elections and Representation
Jan Teorell, Marino Torcal and Jose Ramon Montero. “Political Participation: Mapping the Terrain,” In Jan van Deth, Jose Ramon Montero and Anders Westholm (eds.) Citizenship and Involvement in European Democracies, (London: Routledge, 2007), Ch. 13, pp. 334-35
Christian Achen and Larry Bartels, Democracy for Realists: Why Elections do not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton, 2016), Chapter 1.
Russell J. Dalton and Christian Welzel (eds.), The Civic Culture Transformed: From Allegiant to Assertive Citizens (Cambridge, 2014), Chapter 1.
WEEK 7 (February 25-March 3) Populism and Leadership
Session 14 (February 26) Role of Leadership, Ideas and Charisma
Max Weber. “The Three Pure Types of Legitimate Authority, Legal Authority with a Bureaucratic Administrative Staff, Traditional Authority, Charismatic Authority, The Routinization of Charisma, “The Theory of Social and Economic Organization, (N.Y.: The Free Press, 1984). pp. 328-336, 341-346, 358-373.
Mussolini, “The Doctrine of Fascism,” http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/reading/germany/mussolini.htm
The Futurist Manifesto, http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/T4PM/futurist-manifesto.html and paintings, http://www.cartridgesave.co.uk/news/20-dynamic-paintings-from-the-italian-futurists/
Hitler,“Triumph des Willens”
https://youtu.be/vBF6d4xyq40
Session 15 (February 28) Populism and Disengagement
Jan Werner-Muller, What is Populism? (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), pp. 41-74.
Case Study: Russia
Steven Fish “What is Putinism” Journal of Democracy, 28/4. (July 2017). p, 61-75.
Samuel A. Greene. “The End of Ambiguity in Russia,” Current History (October 2015), pp. 251-258.
***Students must have turned in at least one Reading Reflection by this week by March 2nd***
WEEK 8 (March 4-10) Democracy
Session 16 (March 5) Defining and Measuring Democracy
Patrick H. O’Neill, Essentials of Comparative Politics, Chapter 5, pp. 136-142, 168-9.
Philippe Schmitter and Terry Karl, "What Democracy Is...and Is Not," Journal of Democracy 2 (July 1991): 75-88
Larry Diamond, Emily Green and William Gallery “Measuring Democracy,” in Larry Diamond, In Search of Democracy, (London: Routledge, 2016), pp. 46-75.
Session 17 (March 7) Political Institutions and Democratic Governance
Patrick H. O’Neill, Essentials of Comparative Politics, Chapter 5, pp. 148-157.
Larry Diamond and Leonardo Morlino. “The Quality of Democracy: An Overview.” Journal of Democracy, 15 (October 2004): 20-31.
Case Study: India
Ashutosh Varshney, “India’s Democracy at 70: Growth, Inequality and Nationalism,” Journal of Democracy, (July 2017), 28/3: 41-51.
WEEK 9 (March 11-17) Regime Change and Democratization
Session 18 (March 12) Early Waves of Democratization
Patrick H. O’Neill, Essentials of Comparative Politics, Chapter 5, pp. 143-47.
Larry Diamond, “Democracy’s Third Wave Today,” Current History, November 2011. 110:299-307
Philippe C. Schmitter. “Twenty-Five Years, Fifteen Findings.” Journal of Democracy, 21 (January 2010): 17-28.
Session 19 (March 14) Political Polarization and Democratic Deconsolidation
Takis Pappas. “The Specter Haunting Europe: Distinguishing Liberal Democracy’s Challengers,” Journal of Democracy, 27/4, 2016. pp. 22-36.
Roberto Stefan Foa and Yascha Mounk, “The Signs of Democratic Deconsolidation,” Journal of Democracy (January 2017), 28/2: 5-16
Thomas Carothers and Richard Young, “Is Democracy Dying? Seeing through the Boom and Gloom,” Foreign Affairs (April 2017).
WEEK 10 (March 18-24) Democratic Decay
Session 21 (March 19) Democratic Decay
Patrick H. O’Neill, Essentials of Comparative Politics, Chapter 8
Case Studies: Eastern Europe and Turkey
Holly Case, “Perspective: Shape-Shifting Illiberalism in East-Central Europe,” Current History, Vol. 116 (March 2017), pp. 112-116.
Aaron Stein, “Take to the Streets: Turkey’s Failed Coup One Year Later,” War on the Rocks, July 14, 2017. https://warontherocks.com/2017/07/take-to-the-streets-turkeys-failed-coup-one-year-later/
Session 22 (March 20) No Class. Make up Earlier in Semester with Field Trip
WEEK 11 (March 25-31) Authoritarian Regimes
Session 23 (March 26) Types of Authoritarian Regimes
Patrick H. O’Neill, Essentials of Comparative Politics, Chapter 6
Ivan Krastev. “Paradoxes of the New Authoritarianism,” Journal of Democracy, 22 (April 2011):5-16
Case Studies: Egypt and Thailand
Emad El-Din Shahin. “Egypt’s Revolution Turned on its Head,” Current History (December 2015), 114: 343-348
Claudio Sopranzetti, “The Tightening Authoritarian Grip on Thailand,” Current History, (September 2017), 116/791: 230-34
Session 24 (March 28) Authoritarian Resilience
Patrick H. O’Neill, Essentials of Comparative Politics, Chapter 9
Alexander Cooley, “Countering Democratic Norms,” Journal of Democracy, 26 (October 2015):49-63.
Case Studies: China
Minxin Pei. “Transition in China? More Likely Than You Think.” Journal of Democracy, 27/4, 2016. pp. 5-20.
WEEK 12 (April 1-April 7) Spring Break. No Class
WEEK 13 (April 8-14) Inequality and Welfare
Session 25 (April 9): Inequality
Francis Fukuyama. “Dealing with Inequality,” Journal of Democracy, 22 (July 2011), 79-89.
Larry Bartels, Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), Introduction, pp. 1-28.
Alfred Stepan and Juan J. Linz. “Comparative Perspectives on Inequality and the Quality of Democracy in the United States. Perspectives on Politics, 9(4) (2011): 841-856.
Session 26 (April 11): Welfare
Giovanni Carbone. “The Consequences of Democracy.” Journal of Democracy, 20 (April 2009): 123-137.
Guiliano Bonoli. “Europe’s Social Safety Net Under Pressures,” Current History, (March 2016), 115:102-107.
*** Short Analytical Paper Due, Thursday, April 12th by 5pm***
WEEK 14 (April 15-21) Governance, Development and Globalization
Session 27 (April 16) Development & Good Governance
Patrick H. O’Neill, Essentials of Comparative Politics, Chapter 10
Jeffery Sachs, “The Development Challenge,” Foreign Affairs, March/April, 2005.
William Easterly, “Was Development Assistance a Mistake?” http://williameasterly.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/50_easterly_wasdevelopmentassistanceamistake_prp.pdf
Susan Rose Ackerman Corruption: A study in political economy. (New York: Academic Press, 2013), pp. 211-233.
“The Wages of Sin” The Economist, January 30th 2016
Session 28 (April 18) Globalization
Nathaniel Persily, “Can Democracy Survive the Internet,” Journal of Democracy,
(April 2017), 28/3: 63-76.
***Last Week for Reading Reflections and Oral Presentations***
WEEK 15 (April 22-28) Course Reflections and Review
Session 29 (April 23) Course Review
WEEK 16 (April 29-May 5) Final Examination TBD