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POLS 5201 Hefny The American University in Cairo Political Science 5201 Comparative Theory Fall 2019 Instructor: Mostafa Hefny Office Hours: Sundays 12-1.Wednesdays 12:00-2:00 (or by appointment) Office: HUSS 2017 Email: [email protected] This is a field survey of Comparative Politics designed to familiarize you with the issues, themes and methods embodied in the work of comparatavists. The aim of this course is two-fold; First, by engaging with major works in the subfield, you will the develop the necessary awareness of major touchstones, through -and against- which you will develop your own research projects. Second, you will be furnished with the opportunity to reflect upon the place of the subfield within the corpus of social sciences writ-large. In class discussions, we will look for linkages between works in Comparative Politics and other disciplines, and think about how the contrasts between the assumptions, approaches and aims of comparativists, and those of anthropologists, sociologists, economists and historians can help us better understand, and fine-tune, the development of our discipline. Unlike other subfields in the discipline, Comparative Politics is defined by how comparatavists go about researching political phenomenon rather than their substantive concerns. As important the comparative method has been, and continues to be in the practice of comparatavists, the nomenclature does little to shed light on the many methodological traditions utilized in the subfield. Nor is a search amongst the topics and themes covered by comparativists likely to settle the definitional difficulty. Comparatavists’ substantive concerns sometimes seem to extend to all of what we call politics. It follows therefore that the best way to develop a sense of the work that comparativists do, and eventually to find a place for your own project(s) in relationship with that body of work, is to read a considerable amount of Comparative Politics. An above average level of reading is required for this course, and completion of the readings designated as REQUIRED is absolutely essential before class. After a brief overview of the foundations of the subfield, we will commence with reading work on some of the major topics of interest in Comparative Politics. Requirements 1. Reading. Your reading of the required material is absolutely essential for the success of this class. In class discussion is how we will eventually link the assigned material to our own research projects. Class Participation will count for 20 % of your final grade. 2. Response Papers. You will be required to write three response papers on three weeks of your choosing. You will share your response with the class (via Blackboard), no later than 2 PM on the Tuesday that precedes our Wednesday class. In class, you will be given the floor to lead discussion on issues arising from your short paper. Each Response Paper will count for 15 % of your final grade. 1 3. Book Review. You are required to submit a short, professional book review of a work in social science. The choice is up to you, but please discuss the choice with me beforehand. This is due on October 16 and will count for 15 % of your final grade. 4. Literature Review. On the last day of classes, you are required to submit a 10-15 page literature review on a topic in comparative politics. This will count for 20 % of your final grade. University Policy on Academic Integrity and Plagiarism Students are expected to commit to the principles of academic integrity. Academic integrity includes a commitment to not engage in or tolerate acts of falsification, misrepresentation or deception. Such acts of dishonesty include cheating or copying, plagiarizing, submitting another persons' work as one's own, using Internet or other sources without citation, fabricating field data or citations, stealing examinations, tampering with the academic work of another student, facilitating other students' acts of academic dishonesty, etc. Plagiarism for assignments and/or reports may result in a zero grade for the assignment and/or the report in question. Cheating during an examination may result in a zero grade for this examination. Further action, according to university regulations, would also be implemented. You should be aware that all written work might be submitted to “Turnitin.com”, the detection prevention software. The University's statement on academic integrity, from which the above statement is drawn, is available at http://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/integrity/Pages/default.aspx All of the course readings will be available on Blackboard. There is neither a mid-term nor a final exam in this course. September 4 : Class Introduction September 11: Foundational Issues in Comparative Politics; Substance and Methods REQUIRED Todd Landman. Issues and methods in comparative politics: an introduction. Routledge, 2002: 3-94 and 285- 299 John Stuart Mill (1843), “Of the Four Methods of Experimental Inquiry” in A System of Logic, (London: Harrison) Book III, Chapter VIII, §§1-3. (Pages 191-202 in the version uploaded to Blackboard) Arend Lijphart (1971), “Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method,” American Political Science 2 Review, 65 (3), pp. 682-693. Carles Boix and Susan Stokes. “Introduction” in Boix, Carles, and Susan Carol Stokes, eds. The Oxford handbook of comparative politics. Vol. 4. Oxford Handbooks of Political, 2007. SUPPLEMENTARY Gabriel A. Almond and Stephen Genco. "Clouds, Clocks, and the Study of Politics." In A Discipline Divided: Schools and Sects in Political Science, edited by Gabriel A. Almond. (First published in 1977 in World Politics vol.29 no.4 (July 1977): 489-522.). Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1990: 32-65. Atul Kohli, Peter Evans, Peter J. Katzenstein, Adam Przeworski, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, James C. Scott and Theda Skocpol. (1995). “The role of theory in comparative politics: A symposium.” World Politics, 48(1), 1-49. Giovanni Sartori . "Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics." The American Political Science Review, Vol. 64, No. 4 (Dec., 1970), pp. 1033-1053 Sudipta Kaviraj, "Concept of Man in Political Theory: Part One." Social Scientist (1979): 15-30. Sudipta Kaviraj, "Concept of Man in Political Theory: Part Two." Social Scientist (1979): 37-61. Adam Przeworski and Henry Tuene. The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry, Introduction, Chapters 1 and 2. September 18: Everything and Nothing; Institutionalism in the Study of Politics REQUIRED James March and Johan Olsen, “Elaborating the ‘New Institutionalism’” in Rhodes, Rod AW, Sarah A. Binder, and Bert A. Rockman, eds. The Oxford handbook of political institutions. Oxford University Press, 2008. Mancur Olsen. The Logic of collective action: Public goods and the theory of groups (Harvard economic studies. v. 124). Harvard University Press, 1965. Selections from Ch. 1, pp. 5-22 & 33-52. Peter A. Hall and Rosemary C. R. Taylor. 1996. Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms. Political Studies 44 5 :936–957. Barry Weingast. 2002. Rational Choice Institutionalism. In Political Science: State of the Discipline, edited by I. Katznelson and H. Milner. New York: Norton SUPPLEMENTARY 3 Kathleen Thelen. 1999. Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics. Annual Review of Political Science 2:69‐404 Jon Elster, “Explanation” in Explaining Social Behavior, p 8-30 Terry Moe 1990. Political institutions: the neglected side of the story. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 6: 213–53 Paul Pierson Politics in time: History, institutions, and social analysis. Princeton University Press, 2011, (Introduction) September 25: The State, Formations REQUIRED Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital, and European States, ch. 1 (1-37) Hendrik Spruyt . "The origins, development, and possible decline of the modern state." Annual review of political science5.1 (2002): 127-149. Margaret Levi. Of rule and revenue. Univ of California Press, 1989 (Introduction) Douglass C. North "A neoclassical theory of the state." Rational Choice (1986): 248-260. SUPPLEMENTARY Charles Tilly. 1985. “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime,” in Evans, Peter, Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Sckopol eds . Bringing the State Back In Cambridge University Press , 169‐ 191. Hendrik Spruyt, The Sovereign State and Its Competitors, ch. 1 Jeffrey Herbst. States and power in Africa: Comparative lessons in authority and control. Vol. 149. Princeton University Press, 2000, Introduction Clifford Geertz. 1980. Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth‐Century Bali , Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, Chapter 4 & Conclusion. Gianfranco Poggi, The Development of the Modern State, chapter 1. Margaret Levi. Of rule and revenue. Univ of California Press, 1989, Chapter 2 October 2: The State as a Political Actor REQUIRED Peter Evans (1989, December). “Predatory, developmental, and other apparatuses: A comparative 4 political economy perspective on the third world state.” In Sociological forum (Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 561- 587). Theda Skocpol, “Bringing The State Back In: Strategies for Analysis in Current Research” in in Evans, Peter, Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Sckopol eds . Bringing the State Back In Cambridge University Press (1985) , 3-28 Timothy Mitchell, “The Limits of the State: Beyond statist approaches and their critics." American political science review 85.1 (1991): 77-96. Vivek Chibber. Locked in place: State-building and late industrialization in India. Princeton University Press, 2003, 1-12 SUPPLEMENTARY Atul Kohli. State-directed development: political power and industrialization
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