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 basket in front of the Chair’s office on the 2nd floor of 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.
CLASS SESSIONS
Class sessions will be held for two and a half hours per week. Each session will combine lectures, discussions, and group activities focused on the assigned topics.
REQUIRED TEXT AND READINGS
Students will be expected to read all the required reading before class. All the required course reading will be available in the Library on reserve or available on MYJCU.
Please note that additional articles related to the case studies may be added later in the semester.
COURSE TEXTS AND MATERIAL
Patrick H. O’Neill. Essentials of Comparative Politics. 6th Edition. (New York: W.P. Norton Company, 2017). Please be sure to get the 6th edition if possible. ISBN-13: 978-0393624588
Neel Mukherjee, A State of Freedom, (London: Vintage, 2017), ISBN: 9781784701734
Students are asked to read the NY Times before each class and regularly during the term.
WEEKLY LESSONS AND READINGS
WEEK 1 (September 2-8) Introducing Comparative Politics
Session 1 (September 3) Course Introduction
Patrick H. O’Neill, Essentials of Comparative Politics, Chapter 1.
Session 2 (September 5) 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 (September 9-15) State Formation and Types States
Session 3 (September 10) 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 (September 12) 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
Dexter Filkins, “A Saudi Prince’s Quest to Remake the Middle East,” New Yorker, April 9, 2018. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/09/a-saudi-princes-quest-to-remake-the-middle-east
WEEK 3 (September 16-22) Political Culture and Religion
Session 5 (September 17) Clash of Civilizations
Patrick H. O’Neill, Essentials of Comparative Politics, Chapter 3, pp 77-90, and Chapter 7
Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996), pp. 192-198.
Case Study: ISIS
Joby Warrick. Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS. (New York: Anchor, Penguin, 2016), pp. 267-307.
Session 6: (September 19) ‘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
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.
***Course Dinner Discussion on Wednesday, September 19th, 7:30pm***
WEEK 4 (September 23-29) Nationalism and Leadership
Session 7 (September 24): 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.
Brendan O’Leary. “Europe’s Embers of Nationalism,” Current History, (March 2015)
Case Studies: Nigeria and Catalan
Ebenezer Obadare, “Perspective: A Nigerian President’s Disappointing Return,” Current History, (May 2017), Vol 116, No. 790, pp. 194-96
Diego Muro, “The Stillbirth of the Catalan Republic,” Current History, (March 2018), Vol 117, pp. 83-88
Session 8: (September 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-italianfuturists/
Hitler,“Triumph des Willens” https://youtu.be/vBF6d4xyq40
***Book Assessment Due, Tuesday, September 25th by 5pm***
WEEK 5 (September 30-October 6) Political Mobilization and Political Participation
Session 9 (October 1): Social Movements
Charles Tilly and Leslie Wood. Social Movements, 1768-2008. (New York: Paradigm Publishers, 2009), pp. 1-37
Case Study: #MeToo
Sophie Gilbert, “The Movement of #MeToo,” The Atlantic, October 16, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/10/the-movement-of-metoo/542979/
Stephanie Zacharek, Eliana Dockterman and Haley Sweetland Edwards, “Time Person of the Year 2017: The Silence Breakers” Time, December 6, 2017. http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2017-silence-breakers/
Eugene Scott, “The Marginalized Voices of the MeToo Movement,” Washington Post, December 7, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/12/07/the-marginalized-voices-of-the-metoo-movement/?utm_term=.56522bb28f0
Session 10 (October 4): 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
WEEK 6 (October 7-13) Elections
Session 11 (October 8): 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 (Princetodn, 2016), Chapter 1.
Russell J. Dalton and Christian Welzel (eds.), The Civic Culture Transformed: From Allegiant to Assertive Citizens (Cambridge, 2014), Chapter 1.
Session 12 (October 10): Field exercise
WEEK 7 (October 14-20) Conducting Research
Session 13 (October 15) Field exercise
Session 14 (October 17) Conducting Research on Comparative Politics
Library Session for Comparative Politics this week
WEEK 8 (October 21-27) Democracy
Session 15 (October 22) 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 16 (October 24) 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.
***Students must have turned in at least one Reading Reflection by October 27th***
WEEK 9 (October 28-November 3) Regime Change and Democratization
Session 17 (October 29) Early Waves of Democratization
Patrick H. O’Neill, Essentials of Comparative Politics, Chapter 5, pp. 143-47.
Philippe C. Schmitter. “Twenty-Five Years, Fifteen Findings.” Journal of Democracy, 21 (January 2010): 17-28.
Case Study: Malaysia
Session 18 (October 30) Democratic Decay
Patrick H. O’Neill, Essentials of Comparative Politics, Chapter 8
Case Studies: Eastern Europe and Russia
Holly Case, “Perspective: Shape-Shifting Illiberalism in East-Central Europe,” Current History, Vol. 116 (March 2017), pp. 112-116.
Steven Fish “What is Putinism?” Journal of Democracy, 28/4. (October 2017). p, 61-75.
Samuel A. Greene. “The End of Ambiguity in Russia,” Current History (October 2015), pp. 251-258.
Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes, “Imitation and its Discontents,” Journal of Democracy, Vol 29/3, July 2018, pp. 117-
WEEK 10 (November 4-10) Populism, Polarization and Democratic Deconsolidation
Session 19 (November 5) Populism and Disengagement
Jan Werner-Muller, What is Populism? (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), pp. 41-74.
Bertjan Verbeek and Andrej Zaslove. “Italy: A Case of Mutating Populism?” Democratization 23, 2 (2015) pp. 304-323.
Nicole Curato, “Politics of Anxiety, Politics of Hope: Penal Populism and Duterte’s Rise to Power,” Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 35, 3 (2017), pp. 91–109.
Session 20 (November 7) Political Polarization and Democratic Deconsolidation
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) https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2017-04-11/democracy-not-dying)
Paul Howe, “Eroding Norms and Democratic Consolidation,” Journal of Democracy, 28/4, (October 2017), pp. 15-29.
WEEK 11 (November 11-17) Authoritarian Regimes
Session 21 (November 12) Types of Authoritarian Regimes
Patrick H. O’Neill, Essentials of Comparative Politics, Chapter 6
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 22 (November 14) 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.
Susan Shirk. “China in Xi’s “New Era”: The Return to Personalistic Rule.” Journal of Democracy, Volume 29, Number 2 April 2018, pp. 22-36.
WEEK 12 (November 18-24) Inequality and Welfare
Session 23 (November 19): 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 24 (November 21): 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, Tuesday, November 20th by 5pm***
WEEK 14 (November 25-December 1) Governance, Development and Globalization
Session 25 (November 26) 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 26 (November 28) Globalization and the Internet
Nathaniel Persily, “Can Democracy Survive the Internet,” Journal of Democracy, (April 2017), 28/3: 63-76.
Andrew Chadwick, The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power (Second Edition) (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), Chapter 10 on Trump Campaign.
“Do social media threaten democracy?” The Economist, Nov 4, 2017. https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21730871-facebook-google-and-twitter-were-supposed-save-politics-good-information-drove-out
***Last Week for Reading Reflections and Oral Presentations***
WEEK 15 (December 2-December 8) Course Reflections and Review
Session 27 (December 3) Contemporary Case Study Discussion
Session 28 (December 5) Course Review
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