NYU Tel Aviv POL-UA 9994 Comparative Radical Politics

Instructor Information ● Dr. Edan Raviv ● Mobile: +972-54-2808002 ● Email: [email protected] ● Office Hours: by appointment

Course Information ● POL-UA 9994 ● Comparative Radical Politics ● When one thinks of radical politics today, the most intuitive association is usually of the “new radical right” parties of Western Europe and their anti-immigrant, if not outright xenophobic, ideology. In fact, radicalism, according to the Oxford Dictionary, means any “beliefs or actions of people who advocate thorough or complete political or social reform.” In this sense, radicalism as a political phenomenon is not unique to the twenty- first century, nor is it limited to the right end of the political spectrum. This course seeks to unpack the often used yet seldom studied concept of “radical politics” through the application of a variety of social science theories and concepts to a number of case studies drawn from the United States, Europe, and the Middle East ● Prerequisites: None ● Tuesdays, 9:30am-12:30pm ● NYUTA Academic Center, 17 Brandeis Street, Innovation Studio

Course Overview and Goals Upon Completion of this Course, students will be able to: ● Understand a variety of theoretical concepts – such as institutionalism, electoral politics, political ideology, social movements, and political culture – that position radicalism more centrally in the study of politics. ● Apply these analytical tools to study the variation, in both time and space, of the manifestations and causes of radical politics – drawn from a diverse set of case studies. ● Develop the ability to discuss, analyze, and write about political and social issues from a critical and analytical perspective, and to learn how to evaluate and apply social science methods to real-world issues.

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Course Requirements Class Participation Students are expected to attend class regularly and arrive on time. Students must complete all assigned readings before the class meeting and be prepared to participate actively in discussions of the readings and current events.

Weekly Discussion Points By midnight on the night before each class, every student will email the instructor a list of five bullet points with topics, concepts, examples, or questions of interest in response to at least two of that week’s readings.

Three Response Papers Three 4-page response papers will be written, asking students to analyze a current event, personal experience, or co- / extra-curricular activities taking place throughout the semester.

Final Paper An 8-10-page final paper summarizing theories, concepts, and case studies studied during the course.

Grading of Assignments The grade for this course will be determined according to the following formula: Assignments/Activities % of Final Grade

Class Participation 15%

Weekly Discussion Points 15%

Three Response Papers 30%

Final Paper 40%

Failure to submit or fulfill any one of the required course component results in failure of the class.

Letter Grades Letter grades for the entire course will be assigned as follows:

Letter Grade Percent

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Letter Grade Percent

A 94-100%

A- 90-93%

B+ 87-89%

B 84-86%

B- 80-83%

C+ 77-79%

C 74-76%

C- 70-73%

D+ 67-69%

D 65-66%

F below 65%

Course Schedule Topics and Assignments Assignment Week/Date Topic Reading Due Aug. Course None. 28 Introduction Mahoney, James. "Nominal, Ordinal, and Narrative Appraisal in Macrocausal Analysis." American Journal of Sociology 104.4 (1999): 1154-96. Foundations: Mahoney, James. "Qualitative Sept. 4 What is Methodology and Comparative Comparative? Politics." Comparative Political Studies 40.2 (2007): 122-144. Singer, J. David. "The level-of-analysis Problem in International Relations." World Politics 14.1 (1961):

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Assignment Week/Date Topic Reading Due 77-92.

Radicalism: Giddens, Anthony. Beyond Left and Right: The Future of Radical Politics. Stanford University Press, 1994. 5-50. Backes, Uwe. "Meaning and Forms of Political Extremism." Central European Political Studies Review 9.4 (2007): 242-262. Calhoun, Craig. The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-century Talking Foundations: Social Movements. University of Points Due What is Chicago Press, 2012. 1-42. (choose at Sept. 18 Radical Politics: least one Politics? paper from Almond, Gabriel A., and Stephen J. each topic) Genco. "Clouds, Clocks, and the Study of Politics." World Politics 29.4 (1977): 489-522. Easton, David. "An Approach to the Analysis of Political Systems." World Politics 9.3 (1957): 383-400. Stinebrickner, Bruce. "Robert A. Dahl and the Essentials of ‘Modern Political Analysis’: Politics, Influence, Power, and Polyarchy." Journal of Political Power 8.2 (2015): 189-207. Balbus, Isaac D. "The Concept of Interest in Pluralist and Marxian Analysis." Politics & Society 1.2 (1971): 151-177. Ball, Terence. "From ‘Core’ to ‘Sore’ Concepts: Ideological Innovation and Critical Conceptual Change." Journal of A Theory of Paper One Oct. 2 Political Ideologies 4.3 (1999): 391-396. Radicalism Due Sunday, Brewer, Marilynn B. "The Many Faces Oct. 7 of Social Identity: Implications for Political Psychology." Political Psychology 22.1 (2001): 115-125. Frickel, Scott, and Neil Gross. "A General Theory of Scientific/Intellectual Movements." American Sociological

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Assignment Week/Date Topic Reading Due Review 70.2 (2005): 204-232. Jost, John T., Christopher M. Federico, and Jaime L. Napier. "Political Ideology: Its Structure, Functions, and Elective Affinities." Annual Review of Psychology 60 (2009): 307-337. North, Douglass C. "Economic Performance through Time." The American Economic Review 84.3 (1994): 359-368. Skocpol, Theda. Protecting Soldiers and Mothers. Harvard University Press, 1992. 38-62. Bartolini, Stefano. Restructuring Europe: Centre formation, system building, and political structuring between the nation state and the European Union. Oxford University Press, 2005. PP Bendix, Reinhard. Nation-Building and Citizenship: Studies of our Changing Social Order. Routledge, 2017. PP Hechter, Michael. Containing Talking The Nation- Oct. 9 Nationalism. Oxford University Press, Points Due State 2000. PP Marshall, T. H. and Thomas Burton Bottomore. Citizenship and Social Class. Pluto Press, 1992. 3-51. Purvis, Trevor and Alan Hunt. "Identity versus Citizenship: Transformations in the Discourses and Practices of Citizenship." Social & Legal Studies 8.4 (1999): 457-482. Luebbert, Gregory M. Liberalism, Fascism, or Social Democracy: Social Critical Fascism, Classes and the Political Origins of Paper Two Liberalism, Oct. 16 Regimes in Interwar Europe. Oxford Due on and Social University Press, 1991. PP Sunday, Oct. Democracy Evans, Richard J. The Coming of the 21 Third Reich. Penguin, 2005. PP Weissbrod, Lilly. "From Labour Zionism Talking Oct. 23 Zionism to New Zionism." Theory and Points Due Society 10.6 (1981): 777-803.

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Assignment Week/Date Topic Reading Due Dowty, Alan. "Minority Rights, Jewish Political Traditions, and Zionism." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 10.1 (1991): 23-48. Ram, Uri. "Post-Zionist Studies of Israel-The First Decade." Israel Studies Review 20.2 (2005): 22-45. Rowland, Robert C., and David A. Frank. “The Birth of the Symbolic Systems of Labor and Revisionist Zionism.” Shared Land/Conflicting Identity: Trajectories of Israeli & Palestinian Symbol Use. MSU Press, 2002. PP Kidron, Hedva Ben-Israel. "Zionism and European Nationalisms; Comparative Aspects." Israel Studies 8.1 (2003): 91- 104. Lustick, Ian S. "Zionist Ideology and its Discontents: A Research Note." Israel Studies Forum 19.1 (2003): 98-103. Aberbach, David. "Zionist Patriotism in Europe, 1897–1942: Ambiguities in Jewish Nationalism." The International History Review 31.2 (2009): 268-298. Gause III, F. Gregory. "Sovereignty, Statecraft and Stability in the Middle East." Journal of International Talking Affairs 45.2 (1992): 441-469. Points Due Jamal, Amal. "The Arab Leadership in

Arab Israel: Ascendance and Nov. 6 Nationalism Fragmentation." Journal of Palestine Response Studies 35.2 (2006): 6-22. Paper Three Due Sunday, Dawn, C. Ernest. "The Formation of Nov. 4 Pan-Arab Ideology in the Interwar Years." International Journal of Middle East Studies 20.1 (1988): 67-91. Hero, Rodney E., and Caroline J. Race (in Tolbert. "A Racial/Ethnic Diversity Talking Nov. 13 America) Interpretation of Politics and Policy in Points Due the States of the US." American Journal of Political Science 40.3 (1996): 851-

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Assignment Week/Date Topic Reading Due 871. Ruef, Martin. “Status Attainment among Emancipated Slaves.” Between Slavery and Capitalism: The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South. Princeton University Press, 2014. 50- 74. Ruef, Martin. “Emancipation in Comparative Perspective.” Between Slavery and Capitalism: The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South. Princeton University Press, 2014. 181- 194. Brubaker, Rogers. "Ethnicity, Race, and Nationalism." Annual Review of Sociology 35 (2009): 21-42. Carmines, Edward G., and James A. Stimson. "On the Structure and Sequence of Issue Evolution." American Political Science Review 80.3 (1986): 901-920. Smedley, Audrey and Brian D. Smedley. “Antecedents of the Racial Worldview.” Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview. Westview Press, 2011. 41-71. Young, Jeffrey Robert. “Proslavery Ideology.” Smith, Mark M. and Robert L. Paquette, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas. Oxford Univesrity Press, 2010. PP Mason, Matthew. “Necessary but not Sufficient: Revolutionary Ideology and Antislavery Action in the Early Republic.” Hammond, John Craig and Matthew Mason, eds. Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation. University of Virginia Press, 2011. 11- 31.): 8-16. Lipset, Seymour Martin. "Democracy The (New) Talking Nov. 20 and Working-Class Radical Right Authoritarianism." American Points Due Sociological Review 24.4 (1959): 482-

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Assignment Week/Date Topic Reading Due 501. Hobolt, Sara B., and Catherine E. De Vries. "Issue Entrepreneurship and Multiparty Competition." Comparative Political Studies 48.9 (2015): 1159- 1185. Mudde, Cas. Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2007. 11-31. Rydgren, Jens. "The Sociology of the Radical Right." Annual Review of Sociology 33 (2007): 241-262. Williamson, Vanessa, Theda Skocpol and John Coggin. "The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism." Perspectives on Politics 9.1 (2011): 25-43. Adams, Greg D. "Abortion: Evidence of an Issue Evolution." American Journal of Political Science 41.3 (1997): 718- 737. Armstrong, Elizabeth A. Forging gay identities: Organizing sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994. University of Chicago Press, 2002. 31-80. Nov. 25 Gender and Ritter, Gretchen, and Nicole Mellow. Talking (Sunday) Sexuality "The State of Gender Studies in Points Due Political Science." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 571.1 (2000): 121-134. Jamal, Amal. "Engendering State- Building: The Women's Movement and Gender-Regime in Palestine." The Middle East Journal 55.2 (2001): 256- 276. Wilson, Harlan. "Environmental Political Theory and the History of Western Political Theory." Gabrielson, Teena, Environmentali Cheryl Hall, John M. Meyer and David Talking Dec. 4 sm Schlosberg, eds. The Oxford Handbook Points Due of Environmental Political Theory. Oxford University Press, 2016. PP. Nash, Roderick F. “Ethical Extension

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Assignment Week/Date Topic Reading Due and Radical Environmentalism.” The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics. University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. 3-12. Nash, Roderick F. “Ideological Origins of American Environmentalism.” The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics. University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. 33-54. Final Course Assignment Dec. 11 Conclusion Due Sunday, Dec. 23 Co-curricular Talking TBD trip Points Due

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Instructor Bio Edan Raviv holds a PhD in political science from Tel Aviv University, and is the Assistant Director for Academic Programs at New York University’s Tel Aviv academic center. Edan

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completed his MA in International Relations at New York University and his BA in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Edan’s doctoral dissertation explored the variation in electoral support for politically nativist parties in Western Europe, particularly as it is related to the institutional conflict between international integration and national citizenship regimes. His research and teaching interests revolve around political ideologies and radical politics in the United States, Western Europe, and the Middle East.

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