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Department of Political Science Ph.D. Reading List Comparative Politics All students must be fully familiar with the Theory and Methods lists. Students must then choose two subfields from this list: Advanced Industrial Societies Nationalism and Ethnicity Civil Society and Social Movements Political Economy of Development Democratization The State Formal and Informal Institutions Women and Politics Theory (Required) 1. Almond, Gabriel A. 1990. A Discipline Divided: Schools and Sects in Political Science. Sage. 2. Bates, Robert H. 1997. "Comparative Politics and Rational Choice: A Review Essay." APSR 91:3 (September), 699---704. 3. Dahl, Robert. 1971. Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition. Yale U Press. 4. Downs, Anthony. 1957. An Economic Theory of Democracy. Harper. 5. Driscoll, Amanda and Mona Lena Krook. 2012. "Feminism and Rational Choice Theory." European Political Science Review. 4:2, 195---216. 6. Engels, Friedrich. 1884. "On the Origin of the State." In Robert Tucker (ed), The Marx--- Engels Reader. Norton (1972), 651---60. 7. Gramsci, Antonio. 1971. Selections from the Prison Notebooks. International Publishers. [Esp. pp. 125---33, 147---57, 206---76 (all recommended).] 8. Green, Donald, and Ian Shapiro. 1994. Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory: A Critique of Applications in Political Science. Yale U Press. 9. Hall, Peter, and Rosemary Taylor. 1996. "Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms." Political Studies 44, 936---57. 10. Helmke, Gretchen and Stephen Levitsky, 2004. "Informal Institutions and Comparative Politics: A Research Agenda." Perspectives on Politics 2:4, 725---740. 11. Huntington, Samuel. 1968. Political Order in Changing Societies. Yale U Press. 12. Kohli, Atul, et. al. 1996. "The Role of Theory in Comparative Politics: A Symposium." World Politics 48:1, 1---49. 13. Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. 1848. "The Communist Manifesto." In Robert Tucker (ed), The Marx---Engels Reader. Norton (1972), 331---362. 14. Marx, Karl. 1846. "The German Ideology, Part I." In Robert Tucker (ed), The Marx---Engels Reader. Norton (1972), 146---200. (Other selections from same volume recommended.) 15. Marx, Karl. The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. 16. Moore, Barrington, Jr. 1966. The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Beacon Press. 17. North, Douglas. 1990. Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance. Cambridge UP 18. Olson, Mancur. 1965. The Logic of Collective Action. Harvard U Press. 19. Ostrom, Elinor. 1990. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. New York: Cambridge University Press. 20. Ostrom, Elinor. 1991. "Rational Choice and Institutionalism: Toward Complementarity." APSR (March). 21. Putnam, Robert. 1993. Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton U P. 22. Schmitter, Philippe and Terry Lynn Karl. 1991. "What Democracy Is … and Is Not." Journal of Democracy 2:3 (Summer), 75---88. 23. Schumpeter, Joseph A. 1942 (1975). Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. New Harper Torchbooks, 1---110, 235---302. 24. Skocpol, Theda. 1982. "Bringing the State Back In." Items 36:1/2 (June). Reprinted in Macridis and Brown, Comparative Politics, Notes and Readings, 7th ed., 58---67. 25. Thelen, Kathleen, and Sven Steinmo. 1993. "Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics." In Sven Steinmo, Kathleen Thelen and Frank Longstreth (eds), Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis. Cambridge U Press. 26. Stepan, Alfred. 1978. The State and Society in Peru. Princeton U Press. [Chapters 1 & 2] 27. Tsebelis, George. 1990. "In Defense of the Rational Choice Approach." In Tsebelis, Nested Games: Rational Choice in Comparative Politics, 18---51. 28. Weber, Max. 1904---5 (1958, 1976). The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1---78. 29. Weber, Max. 1958. Selections: "Politics as a Vocation," "Class, Status and Honor," and "Bureaucracy." In Gerth and Mills (eds), From Max Weber. 30. Woo---Cumings, Meredith (ed). 1999. The Developmental State. Ithaca and London: Cornell U Press. [Chapters 2 & 3.] Methods (Required) 1. Bates, Robert, et al. (eds). 1998. Analytic Narratives. Princeton U Press. [Introduction] 2. Brady, Henry & David Collier (eds). 2004. Rethinking Social Inquiry. Rowman & Littlefield. 3. Collier, David, and James Mahoney, Jr. 1993. "Conceptual ‘Stretching’ Revisited: Adapting Categories in Comparative Analysis." APSR 87:4 (December): 845---855. 4. Collier, David, and James Mahoney. 1996. "Insights and Pitfalls: Selection Bias in Qualitative Research." World Politics 49:1, 56---91. 5. Fearon, James D. 1991. "Counterfactuals and Hypothesis Testing in Political Science." World Politics 43:2 (January), 169---95. 6. Geddes, Barbara. 1990. "How the Cases You Choose Affect the Answers You Get: Selection Bias in Comparative Politics." Political Analysis 2, 131---150. 7. Geddes, Barbara. 1991. "Paradigms and Sand Castles in Comparative Politics of Developing Areas." In William Crotty (ed), Political Science. Looking to the Future: Comparative Politics, Policy, and International Relations, Vol 2. Northwestern U Press. 8. George, Alexander and Andrew Bennet. 2005. Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences. MIT Press. 9. King, Gary, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba. 1994. Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. Princeton U Press. 2 10. Kuhn, Thomas. 1962. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. U of Chicago Press. 11. Lakatos, Imre. 1970. "Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programs." In Imre Lakatos and Alan Musgrave (eds), Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, 91---196. Cambridge U Press. 12. Lijphart, Arend. 1971. "Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method." APSR 65:3 (September), 682---93. 13. Lustick, Ian. 1996. "History, Historiography, and Political Science: Multiple Historical Records and the Problem of Selection Bias." APSR 90:3 (September), 605---18. 14. Mill, John Stuart. 1996. "How We Compare." In Roy Macridis and Bernard Brown, (eds), Comparative Politics: Notes and Readings, 6th edition. The Dorsey Press. 15. Munck, Gerardo. 1998. "Canons of Research Design in Qualitative Analysis." Studies in Comparative International Development 33:3 (Fall): 18---45. 16. Pierson. 2004. Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis. Princeton UP. 17. Przeworski, Adam, and Henry Teune. 1970. The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry. Wiley. [Chapters 1 & 2.] 18. Ragin, Charles. 1987. The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies. U of California Press. [Chapters 1---5.] 19. Sartori, Giovanni. 1970. "Concept Misinformation in Comparative Politics." APSR 64:,1033---53. 20. Skocpol, Theda, and Margaret Somers. 1980. "The Uses of Comparative History in Macrosocial Inquiry." Comparative Studies in Society and History 22:2 (April), 174---97. 21. Western, Bruce, and Simon Jackman. 1994. "Bayesian Inference for Comparative Research." APSR 88:2 (June), 412---423. 22. Laitin et al, "The Qualitative---Quantitative Disputation: Gary King, Robert O. Keohane, and Sidney Verba’s Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research." APSR. 89:2 (June 1995), 454---481. 23. Yin, Robert. 2009. Case Study Research: Design and Methods. 4th edition. Sage Publications. Advanced Industrial Societies (Subfield) 1. Alvarez, R. Michael, Geoffrey Garrett, and Peter Lange. 1991. "Government Partisanship, Labor Organization, and Macroeconomic Performance." APSR 85 (2): 539---556. 2. Boix, Carles. 1998. Political Parties, Growth and Equality: Conservative and Social Democratic Economic Strategies in the World Economy. Cambridge U Press. [Chapters 1---4, 9.] 3. Cusack, Thomas; Torben Iverson, and David Soskice. 2007. "Economic interests and the origin of electoral systems." American Political Science Review 101:3, 373---391. 4. Esping---Andersen, Gosta. 1990. The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Princeton U Press. 5. Hall, Peter. 1986. Governing the Economy: The Politics of State Intervention in Britain and France. Oxford U Press. 6. Hall, Peter and David Soskice (eds). Varieties of Capitalism. Oxford U Press. [Chapters 1, 4.] 7. Hicks, Alexander and Duane Swank. 1992. "Politics, Institutions, and Welfare Spending in Industrialized Democracies, 1960---1982." APSR 86, 658---74. 8. Hobson, Barbara. 1990. "No Exit, No Voice: Women's Economic Dependency and the Welfare State." Acta Sociologica 33, 235---50. 9. Huber, Evelyne, Charles Ragin, and John Stephens. 1993. "Social Democracy, Christian Democracy, Constitutional Structure, and the Welfare State." American Journal of Sociology 99, 711---49. 3 10. Huber, Evelyne and John Stephens. 2001. Development and Crisis of the Welfare State. U of Chicago Press. 11. Immergut, Ellen. 1990. "Institutions, Veto Points, and Policy Results: A Comparative Analysis of Health Care." Journal of Public Policy 10:4, 391---416. 12. Iversen, Torben and Anne Wren. 1998. "Equality, Employment and Budgetary Restraint: The Trilemma of the Service Economy." World Politics. 50:4. 13. Iversen, Torben and David Soskice. 2006. "Electoral Institutions and the Politics of Coalitions. Why Some Democracies Redistribute More Than Others." APSR 100:2, 165---181. 14. Iversen, Torben and John Stephens. 2008. "Partisan politics, the welfare state, and three worlds of human capital formation." Comparative Political Studies 41:4---5, 600---637. 15. Katzenstein, Peter. 1985. Small States in World Markets. Cornell U Press. 16.