Department of Ph.D. Reading List

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 and Social Movements Political Economy of Development Democratization The State Formal and Informal

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." In Peter Evans (ed), Bringing the State Back In. Cambridge U Press, 1985, 3-37. 25. Thelen, Kathleen, and Sven Steinmo. 1993. "Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics." In Sven Steinmo, 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, , and . 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. Kitchelt, Herbert, Lange, Marks and Stephens (eds). 1999. Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism. Cambridge U Press. [Chapter 4.] 17. Korpi, Walter. 2006. "Power Resources and Employer-•‐Centered Approaches in Explanations of Welfare States and Varieties of Capitalism: Protagonists, Consenters, and Antagonists." World Politics 58:2, 167-•‐206. 18. Lijphart, Arend. 1999. Patterns of Democracy. Yale U Press.

19. Lindblom, Charles. 1977. Politics and Markets. Basic Books. [Chapters 1, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14.] 20. Mares, Isabella. 2003. The Politics of Social Risk: Business and Welfare State Development. Cambridge U Press. 21. Martin, Cathie-•‐Jo and Duane Swank. 2004. "Does the Organization of Capital Matter?" American Political Science Review. 98:4 (November), 593-•‐611. 22. Martin and Swank. 2008. "The Political Origins of Coordinated Capitalism." APSR. 102:2 (May), 181-•‐198. 23. Marshall, T.H. 1964. Class, Citizenship and Social Development. Chicago U Press. [Chapter 7.] 24. Morgan, Kimberly. 2003. "The Politics of Mothers’ Employment: France in Comparative Perspective." World Politics. Vol. 55, No. 2 (January): 259-•‐89. 25. Orloff, Anna Shola. 1993. "Gender and Social Rights of Citizenship." American Sociological Review 58, 303-•‐328. 26. Olson, Mancur. 1982. The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities. Yale U Press. [Chapters 1-•‐4.] 27. Ostrom, Elinor. 1990. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge U Press. 28. Pierson, Paul (ed). 2001. The New Politics of the Welfare State. Oxford U Press. 29. Pontusson, Jonas. 1995. "From Comparative Public Policy to Political Economy: Putting Political Institutions in Their Place and Taking Interests Seriously." Comparative Political Studies 28:1. (April), 117-•‐147. 30. Schmitter, Phillippe and Gerhard Lehmbruch (eds). 1979. Trends Toward Corporatist Intermediation. Sage. 31. Schumpeter, Joseph. 1942. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. Harper and Row. [Chapters 7, 12, 16.] 32. Steinmo, Sven and Caroline Tolbert. 1999. "Do Institutions Really Matter? Taxation in Industrialized Democracies." Comparative Political Studies 31:2, 165-•‐87. 33. Swank, Duane. 2002. Global Capital, Political Institutions and Political Change in Developed Welfare States, 15-•‐51, 243-•‐273. 34. Swenson, Peter. 1991. "Bringing Capital Back In." World Politics 43 (July), 513-•‐44. 35. Thelen, Kathleen. 2004. How Institutions Evolve. The Political Economy of Skills in , Britain, the , and Japan. Cambridge UP.

4 36. Wilensky, Harold. 2002. Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy and Performance. UC Press. [Chapters 1, 5, 7, 12.]

Civil Society and Social Movements (Subfield)

1. Alvarez, Sonia and Arturo Escobar (eds). 1992. The Making of Social Movements in Latin America: Identity, Strategy, and Democracy. Westview. [Chapters 1-•‐5.] 2. Arato, Andrew. 1981. "Civil Society Against the State: Poland 1980-•‐1981." Telos 47, 23-•‐47. 3. Armstrong, Elizabeth and Mary Bernstein. 2008. "Culture, Power, and Institutions: A Multi-•‐ institutional Politics Approach to Social Movements." Sociological Theory 26:1, 74-•‐99. 4. Benford, Robert and David Snow. 2000 "Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment," Annual Review of Sociology 26, 611-•‐639. 5. Berman, Sheri. 1997. "Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic." World Politics (April). 6. Carothers, Thomas. 1999-•‐2000. "Civil Society: Think Again." Foreign Policy (Winter), 18-•‐24. 7. Bobbio, Norberto. 1979. "Gramsci and the Conception of Civil Society." In Chantal Mouffe (ed.), Gramsci and Marxist Theory. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 21-•‐47. 8. Encarnacion, Omar. 2006. "Civil Society Reconsidered: Review Article." Comparative Politics 38: 3 (April), 357-•‐376. 9. Eckstein, Susan. 2001. Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements. U of California Press. [Chapters 1, 4, and Epilogue.] 10. Gramsci, Antonio. 1994 (and other editions). "State and Civil Society." In Selections from the Prison Notebooks. Columbia U Press. 11. Hann, Chris. 1996. "Introduction: Political Society and Civil Anthropology." In Chris Hann and Elizabeth Dunn (eds), Civil Society: Challenging Western Models. Routledge. 12. Havel, Vaclav. 1990. Disturbing the Peace. Vintage Books. 13. Keane, John. 2003. Global Civil Society? Cambridge U Press. [Chapter 1.] 14. Hirschman, Albert. 1970. Exit, Voice and Loyalty. Cambridge: Harvard U Press. 15. Jenkins, Craig. 1983. "Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements," Annual Review of Sociology 9. 16. Keck, Margaret and Katherine Sikkink. 1998. Activists Beyond Borders. Cornell U Press. 17. Kornhauser, William. 1959. "The Politics of Mass Society." Excerpted in Vincenzo Ruggiero and Nicola Montagna (eds.), Social Movements. Routledge 2008, 73-•‐78. 18. Marks, Gary and Doug McAdam. 1996. "Social Movements and the Changing Structure of Political Opportunity in the European Union." West European Politics 19:2, 249-•‐79. 19. McAdam, Doug, John McCarthy, and Mayer Zald (eds). 1996. Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings. Cambridge U Press. [Chapters 1, 6 & 11.] 20. Melucci, Alberto. 1994. "A Strange Kind of Newness: What's 'New' in New Social Movements?" In Enrique Larana, Hank Johnston and Joseph Gusfield (eds.), New Social Movements: From Ideology to Identity. Temple University Press, 101-•‐130. 21. Michnik, Adam. 1985. Letters From Prison and Other Essays. U of California Press. 22. Migdal, Joel S. 1988. Strong Societies and Weak States: State-•‐Society Relations and State Capabilities in the Third World. Princeton U Press. 23. Ndegwa, Stephen. 1996. The Two Faces of Civil Society: NGOs and Politics in Africa. Kumarian Press.

5 24. Offe, Claus. 1985. "New Social Movements: Challenging the Boundaries of Institutional Politics." Social Research 52:4. 25. Olson, Mancur. 1965. The Logic of Collective Action. Harvard U Press. 26. Ostrom, Elinor, and T. K. Ahn (eds). 2003. Foundations of Social Capital. Edward Elgar. [Introduction]. 27. Putnam, Robert D. 1993. Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton U Press. 28. Putnam, Robert. 1995. "Bowling Alone." Journal of Democracy 6:1 (January), 65-•‐78. 29. Seligman, Adam. 1992. "The Modern Idea of Civil Society." In Seligson, The Idea of Civil Society. Simon & Schuster. 30. Smelser, Neil. 1962. "Theory of Collective Behavior." Excerpted in Vincenzo Ruggiero and Nicola Montagna (eds.), Social Movements. Routledge 2008, 79-•‐85. 31. Tarrow, Sidney. 1994. Power in Movements: Social Movements, Collective Action, and Politics. Cambridge U Press. 32. Tarrow, Sidney. 1996. "Making Social Science Work Across Space and Time: A Critical Reflection on Robert Putnam’s Making Democracy Work." APSR 90:2 (June), 389-•‐397. 33. Tocqueville, Alexis de. 1835. Democracy in America. [Sections on political associations] 34. Varshney, Ashutosh. 2001. "Ethnic Conflict and Civil Society: India and Beyond," World Politics 53:3, 362-•‐398

Democratization (Subfield)

1. Alvarez, Sonia E. 1989. "Politicizing Gender and Engendering Democracy." In Alfred Stepan (ed.), Democratizing Brazil: Problems of Transition and Consolidation. Oxford U Press. 2. Bermeo, Nancy. 2002. "The Import of Institutions." Journal of Democracy 13:23, 96-•‐110. 3. Bunce, Valerie. 2000. "Comparative Democratization: Big and Bounded Generalizations." Comparative Political Studies 33:6-•‐7, 703-•‐734. 4. Collier, David, and Steven Levitsky. 1997. "Democracy with Adjectives. Conceptual Innovation in Comparative Research." (Research Note) World Politics 49:3 (April), 430-•‐51. 5. Coppedge, Michael. 2012. Democratization and Research Methods. Cambridge U Press. 6. Dahl, Robert. 1971. Polyarchy. Yale U Press 7. Diamond, Larry (ed). 1995. Civil-•‐Military Relations and Democracy. Johns Hopkins Press. [Introduction and chapters 1, 4-•‐9, and epilogue.] 8. Diamond, Larry. 1990. "Three Paradoxes of Democracy." Journal of Democracy 1:3, 48-•‐60 9. Diamond, Larry. 2002. "Thinking About Hybrid Regimes." Journal of Democracy 13:2, 21-•‐35. 10. Elster, Jon, Claus Offe, and Ulrich Preuss, with Frank Boenker, Ulrike Goetting, and Friedbert Rueb. 1998. Institutional Design in Post-•‐Communist Societies: Rebuilding the Ship at Sea. Cambridge U Press. 11. Goodin, Robert (ed.). 1996. The Theory of Institutional Design. Cambridge U Press. [Chapters by Goodin, Pettit, Coram, Dryzek, Offe, Brenner.] 12. Gramsci, Antonio. 1994 (and other editions). Selections from the Prison Notebooks (Columbia U Press). [Part II, Chapter 2, "State and Civil Society."] 13. Haggard, Stephan, and Robert R. Kaufman. 1995. The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions. Princeton U Press. [Introduction and chapters 5-•‐8.]

6 14. Hegre, Havard, Tanja Ellingsen, Scott Gates, and Nils P. Gleditsch. 2001. "Toward a Democratic Civil Peace? Democracy, Political Change and Civil War, 1816-•‐1992." American Political Science Review 95:1: 33-•‐47. 15. Helmke, Gretchen and Stephen Levitsky. 2004. "Informal Institutions and Comparative Politics: A Research Agenda." Perspectives on Politics 2:4, 725-•‐740. 16. Huntington, Samuel. 1991. The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century. U of Oklahoma Press. 17. Huntington, Samuel. 1996. "Democracy for the Long Haul." Journal of Democracy 7:2, 3-•‐13. 18. Kapstein, Ethan B. and Nathan Converse. 2008. "Poverty, Inequality and Democracy: Why Democracies Fail." Journal of Democracy 19:8, 57-•‐68. 19. Karl, Terry Lynn. 1990. "Dilemmas of Democratization in Latin America." Comparative Politics 23:1 (October), 1-•‐21. 20. Kohli, Atul (ed.). 2001. The Success of India’s Democracy. Cambridge U Press. 21. Kymlicka, Will. 1995. Multicultural Citizenship. Oxford U Press. 22. Lawson, Stephanie. 1993. "Conceptual Issues in the Comparative Study of Regime Change and Democratization." Comparative Politics 25:2, 183-•‐205. 23. Levitsky, Steven and Lucan Way. 2002. "The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism," Journal of Democracy 13:2, 51-•‐65. 24. Linz, Juan J. 1990. "The Perils of Presidentialism." Journal of Democracy 1:1 (Winter), 51-•‐69 25. Linz, Juan, and Alfred Stepan, eds. 1996. Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation. Southern Europe, South America, and Post-•‐Communist Europe. Johns Hopkins U Press. [Part I: Theoretical Overview and chapter 15.] 26. Lipset, Seymour Martin. 1959. "Some Social Requisites of Democracy." American Political Science Review (March). 27. Munck, Gerardo. 2009. Measuring Democracy: A Bridge between Scholarship and Politics. The John Hopkins University Press. 28. Norris, Pippa. 2004. Electoral Engineering: Voting Rules and Political Behavior (Cambridge U Press). [Chapters 1 & 11.] 29. O'Donnell, Guillermo. 1994. "Delegative Democracy." Journal of Democracy 5:1, 55-•‐69. 30. O’Donnell, Guillermo, and Philippe Schmitter (eds). 1986. Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies. Johns Hopkins. 31. O’Donnell, Guillermo. 2004."Why the Rule of Law Matters." Journal of Democracy 15:4, 32-•‐46. 32. Przeworski, Adam and Fernando Limongi. 1997. "Modernization: Theories and Facts." World Politics 49 (January), 155-•‐83. 33. Reynolds, Andrew. 2002. The Architecture of Democracy: Constitutional Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy. Oxford U Press. 34. Roth, Guenther. 1968. "Personal Rulership, Patrimonialism, and Empire-•‐Building in the New States." World Politics 20:2 (January), 194-•‐206. 35. Rueschemeyer, Dietrich, Evelyne Huber Stephens and John Stephens. 1993. Capitalist Development and Democracy. U of Chicago Press. [Chapter 2.] 36. Rustow, Dankwart. 1970. "Transitions to Democracy: Toward a Dynamic Model." Comparative Politics 2:3 (April), 337-•‐363. 37. Sen, Amartya. 1999. "Democracy as a Universal Value." Journal of Democracy 10:3, 3-•‐17. 38. Way, Lucan. 2008. "The Real Causes of the Color Revolutions." Journal of Democracy 19:3 (July), 55-•‐69. 39. Waylen, Georgina. 1994. "Women and Democratization: Conceptualizing Gender Relations in Transition Politics." World Politics 46:3, 327-•‐354. 40. Young, Iris M. 2000. Inclusion and Democracy. Oxford University Press.

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Formal and Informal Institutions (Subfield) 1. Almond, Gabriel and Sydney Verba. 1965. The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations. Little, Brown. [Chapters 1, 2, 4, 12.] 2. Anderson, Christopher and Christine Guillory. 1997. "Political Institutions and Satisfaction with Democracy: A Cross-•‐National Analysis of Consensus and Majoritarian Systems." APSR 91:1 (March), 66-•‐81. 3. Bellin, Eva. 2004. "The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective." Comparative Politics 36:2 (January), 139-•‐158. 4. Cox, Gary. 1997. Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems. Cambridge U Press. [Chapters 1-•‐5, 7, 10-•‐11.] 5. Downs, Anthony. 1957. An Economic Theory of Democracy. Harper and Row.

6. Duverger, Maurice. 1954. Political Parties. Methuen, 4-•‐280, 422-•‐27. 7. Greif, Avner and David Laitin. 2004. "A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change." APSR 98:4 (November), 633-•‐652. 8. Hall, Peter and Rosemary Taylor. 1996. "Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms." Political Studies 44:5, 936-•‐57. 9. Helmke, Gretchen and Stephen Levitsky. 2004. "Informal Institutions and Comparative Politics: A Research Agenda." Perspectives on Politics 2:4, 725-•‐740. 10. Huntington, Samuel. 1993. "The Clash of Civilizations?" Foreign Affairs 72 (Summer), 22-•‐49. 11. Inglehart, Ronald. 2005. Modernization, Cultural Change and Democracy. Cambridge U Press, [Introduction, chapters 1-•‐3.] 12. Knight, Jack. 1992. Institutions and Social Conflict. Cambridge U Press. 13. Lane, Ruth. 1992. "Political Culture: Residual Category of General Theory?" Comparative Political Studies 25:3. 14. Laitin, David. 1986. Hegemony and Culture: Politics and Religious Change Among the Yoruba. U of Chicago Press. [Chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, & 8.] 15. Lijphart, Arend. 1999. Patterns of Democracy. Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-•‐Six Countries. Yale U Press. 16. Linz, Juan. 1996. "The Perils of Presidentialism," in Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner (eds.), The Global Resurgence of Democracy. John Hopkins U Press. 17. Lipset, Seymour Martin, and Stein Rokkan. 1967. "Cleavage Structures, Party Systems, and Voter Alignments." In S.M. Lipset and S. Rokkan (eds), Party Systems and Voter Alignments. Free Press. 18. Mainwaring, Scott and Matthew Shugart, 1997. "Conclusion: Presidentialism and the Party System," in Scott Mainwaring and Matthew Shugart (eds). Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America. Cambridge U Press 19. March, James, and Johan Olson. 1984. "The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life." APSR 78:3 (September), 734-•‐49. 20. North, Douglass. 1990. Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance. Cambridge U Press. 21. Ostrom, Elinor. 1990. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge U Press. 22. Pierson, Paul. 2004. Politics in Time. History, Institutions and Social Analysis. Princeton U Press. 23. Putnam, Robert. 1993. Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton U Press. 24. Putnam, Robert. 1995. "Bowling Alone." Journal of Democracy 6:1 (January), 65-•‐78.

8 25. Ramseyer, Mark and Frances Rosenbluth. 1993. Japan's Political Marketplace. Cambridge U Press. [Chapters 1, 2, 4, 6, 10.] 26. Sartori, Giovanni. 1976. Parties and Party Systems: A Framework for Analysis. Cambridge U Press (new edition ECPR Press 2005). 27. Steinmo, Kathleen Thelen and Frank Longstreth (eds), Structuring Politics. Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis. Cambridge U Press. [Chapters 1-•‐4.] 28. Tarrow, Sidney. 1996. "Making Social Science Work Across Space and Time: A Critical Reflection on Robert Putnam’s Making Democracy Work." APSR 90:2 (June), 389-•‐397. 29. Tsebelis, George. 2002. Veto Players. How Political Institutions Work. Princeton U Press. 30. Tsebelis, George. 1995. "Decision Making in Political Systems: Veto Players in Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, Multicameralism and Multipartyism." British Journal of Political Science 25, 289-•‐325. 31. Toqueville. 1848. Democracy in America. 32. Weber, Max. 1904. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. 33. Wedeen, Lisa. 1999. Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria. U of Chicago Press. 34. Wedeen, Lisa. 2002. "Conceptualizing Culture: Possibilities for Political Science." APSR 96:4, 713-•‐ 728. 35. Wittfogel, Karl. 1957. Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power. Yale U Press. [Chapters 1-•‐3, 9.]

Nationalism and Ethnicity (Subfield)

1. Anderson, Benedict. 1991. Imagined Communities. Rev. ed. Verso. 2. Barth, Fredrik. 1998 (1969). "Introduction and "Pathan Identity and its Maintenance," in Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Cultural Difference. Waveland Press. 3. Breuilly, John. 1993. Nationalism and the State. 2nd ed. U of Chicago Press, 1993. 4. Brown, Michael. 2001. "The Causes of Internal Conflict: An Overview," in Michael Brown (ed), Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict, revised edition, The MIT Press. 5. Brubaker, Rogers. 1996. Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge U Press. 6. Cederman, L.-•‐E.; Wimmer, A. & Min, B. 2010. "Why do Ethnic Groups Rebel: New Data and Analysis," World Politics 62:1, 87-•‐119. 7. Chatterjee, Partha. 1993. The Nation and Its Fragments. Princeton U Press. 8. Conner, Walker. 1994. Ethnonationalism. Princeton U Press. 9. Eley, Geoff, and Ronald Grigor Suny (eds). 1996. Becoming National. Oxford U Press. 10. Gellner, Ernest. 1983. Nations and Nationalism. Cornell U Press. 11. Greenfeld, Liah. 1992. Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity. Harvard U Press. 12. Gurr, Ted. 1970. Why Men Rebel. Press. 13. Gurr, Ted Robert. 2000. Peoples Versus States: Minorities at Risk in the New Century. United States Institute of Peace Press. 14. Hobsbawm, Eric J. 1990. Nations and Nationalism Since 1780. Cambridge U Press. 15. Hobsbawm, Eric and Terrence Ranger (eds) 1983. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge U Press. 16. Horowitz, Donald. 2000. Ethnic Groups in Conflict. U of California Press. 17. Hannum, Hurst. 1996, revised edition. Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Self-•‐Determination: The Accommodation of Conflicting Rights, U of Pennsylvania Press.

9 18. Hutchinson, John, and Anthony D. Smith (eds) 1994. Nationalism. Oxford U Press. 19. Kaufmann, Chaim Kaufmann. 1996. "Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars." International Security 20:4, 136-•‐175. 20. Kymlicka, Will. 1995. Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights. Oxford U Press. 21. Laitin, David D. 1998. Identity in Formation: The Russian-•‐Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad. Cornell U Press. 22. Laitin, David and James Fearon. 2003. "Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War." American Political Science Review 97:1 (February). 23. Laitin, David. 1986. Hegemony and Culture: Politics and Religious Change Among the Yoruba. Chicago. 24. Lijphart, Arend. 1977. Democracy in Plural Societies: A Comparative Explorations. Yale U Press. 25. Nagel, Joanne. 1994. "Constructing Ethnicity: Creating and Recreating Ethnic Identity and Culture." Social Problems 41:1 (February), 152-•‐76. 26. Rabuska, A & Shepsle, K. (2008, reprint). Politics in Plural Societies: A Theory of Democratic Instability. Longman. [Chapters 1-•‐3.] 27. Reynolds, Andrew. 2002. The Architecture of Democracy: Constitutional Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy. Oxford U Press. 28. Smith, Anthony D. 1986. The Ethnic Origins of Nations. Basil Blackwell. 29. Smith, Anthony D. 1998. Nationalism and Modernism: A Critical Survey of Recent Theories of Nation and Nationalism. Routledge. 30. Snyder, Jack and Karen Ballentine, 1996. "Nationalism and the Market Place of Ideas." International Security 21:2, 5-•‐40. 31. Van Cott, Donna Lee. 2005. From Movements to Parties in Latin America: The Evolution of Ethnic Parties, Cambridge University Press. 32. Varshney, Ashutosh. 2001. "Ethnic Conflict and Civil Society: India and Beyond," World Politics 53:3, 362-•‐ 398. 33. Wimmer, Andreas. 2002. Nationalist Exclusion and Ethnic Conflict: Shadows of Modernity, Cambridge University Press 34. Young, Iris Marion. 1990. Justice and the Politics of Difference. Princeton University Press. 35. Chandra, Kanchan. 2005. "Ethnic Parties and Democratic Stability," Perspectives on Politics, 3:2: 235-•‐252.

Political Economy of Development (Subfield)

1. Ames, Barry. 1987. Political Survival: Politicians and Public Policy in Latin America. U of California Press. 2. Barro, Robert. 1998. The Determinants of Economic Growth. MIT Press. 3. Bates, Robert. 1981. Markets and States in Tropical Africa. The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies. U of California Press. 4. Cardoso, Fernando Henrique, and Enzo Faletto. 1979. Dependency and Development. U of California Press. 5. Clements, Paul. "Multilateral Development Banks and the International Monetary Fund," Chapter 5 in Research Handbook on Global Justice and International Economic Law, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

10 6. Evans, Peter. 1995. Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation. Princeton U Press. [Chapters 1-•‐4 & 8-•‐10.] 7. Evans, Peter. 1979. Dependent Development: The Alliance of Multinational, State, and Local Capital in Brazil. Princeton U Press. 8. Gerschenkron, Alexander. 1962. "Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective." In Alexander Gershenkron (ed.) Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective. Belknap Press of Harvard U Press. 9. Geddes, Barbara. 1996. Politician's Dilemma: Building State Capacity in Latin America. U of California Press. 10. Haggard, Stephan. 1990. Pathways from the Periphery: The Politics of Growth in Newly Industrializing Countries. Cornell U Press. Especially 1-•‐48 and 254-•‐70. 11. Haggard, Stephen, and Kaufman, Robert. 1995. The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions. Princeton U Press. 12. Hirschman, Albert 1958. The Strategy of Economic Development. Yale U Press. [Chapters 1, 2, & 4.] 13. Karl, Terry. 1997. The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-•‐States. U of California Press. 14. Kohli, Atul. 2004. State-•‐Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery. Cambridge U Press. 15. Kohli, Atul. 2012. Poverty Amid Plenty in the New India. Cambridge UP. 16. Lewis, Arthur 1954, "Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour," The Manchester School 22:2, 139-•‐91. 17. Lichbach, Mark Irving. 1989. "An Evaluation of ‘Does Economic Inequality Breed Political Conflict’ Studies." World Politics 41. 18. Lipset, S.M. 1959. "Some Social Prerequisites of Democracy." APSR (March). 19. Midlarsky, M I. (ed). 1997. Inequality, Democracy, and Economic Development. Cambridge U Press. [Introduction and chapters 5, 7, 8, 11, and Conclusion.] 20. North, Douglass. 1990. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. Cambridge U Press. [Chapters 1-•‐11.] 21. Polanyi, Karl. 1944. The Great Transformation. Holt Rinehart and Winston. 22. Popkin, Samuel. 1979. The Rational Peasant: the Political Economy of Rural Society in Vietnam. U of California Press. 23. Przeworski, Alvarez, Cheibub, and Limongi. 2000. Democracy and Development. Cambridge U Press. 24. Przeworski, Adam. 1991. Democracy and the Market. Cambridge U Press. 25. Rostow, W.W. 1964. "The Five Stages of Growth." In Rostow, The Stages of Growth, 1st ed., 1-•‐ 16. 26. Rudloph, Lloyd and . 1967. The Modernity of Tradition. U of Chicago Press. Part 1, 17-•‐154. 27. Rueschemeyer, Dietrich, Evelyne Huber Stephens, and John Stephens. 1992. Capitalist Development and Democracy. U of Chicago Press. [Chapters 1-•‐3 and 5-•‐7.] 28. Scott, James. 1976. The Moral Economy of the Peasant. Yale U Press. 29. Scott, James. 1997. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. Yale U Press. 30. Tilly, Charles. 1973. "Does Modernization Breed Revolution?" Comparative Politics 5:3 (April), 424-•‐447. 31. Wade, Robert. 1990. Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization. Yale U Press.

11 32. Valenzuela, Samuel, and Arturo Valenzuela. 1978. "Modernization and Dependency: Alternative Perspectives in Latin American Underdevelopment." Comparative Politics 10, 535-•‐57. 33. Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1974. "The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis," Comparative Studies in Society and History 16:4 (September), 387-•‐415. 34. Waterbury, John. 1993. Exposed to Innumerable Delusions: Public Enterprise and State Power in Egypt, India, Mexico and Turkey. Cambridge U Press. [Chapters 1, 2, 4, & 7-•‐ 10.] 35. Waterbury, John. 1999 "The Long Gestation and Brief Triumph of Import-•‐Substituting Industrialization" World Development, 27,2 (Feb): 323-•‐341. 36. Woo-•‐Cumings, Meredith (ed). 1999. The Developmental State. Cornell U Press.

The State (Subfield)

1. Adam, Francis, Satya Dev Gupta, and Kidane Mengisteab (eds). 1999. Globalization and the Dilemmas of the State in the South. Macmillan. [Chapters 1-•‐4.] 2. Almond, Gabriel A. 1988. "The Return to the State" and Eric Nordlinger et al, "The Return to the State: Critiques." American Political Science Review 82(3), 853-•‐90. 3. Bates, Robert H. 1981. Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies. U of California Press. 4. Bendix, John, et. al. "Going Beyond the State?" APSR 86:4 (December 1992), 1007-•‐21. 5. Breuilly, John. 1993. Nationalism and the State. 2nd Ed. U of Chicago Press, 1993. 6. Centeno, Miguel Angel. 2002. Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-•‐State in Latin America. Penn State Press. 7. Easton, David. 1957. "An Approach to the Analysis of Political Systems." World Politics 19 (April), 383-•‐400. 8. Engels, Friedrich. 1884. "On the Origin of the State." In Robert Tucker (ed), The Marx-•‐ Engels Reader. Norton (1972). 9. Evans, Peter, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and (eds). 1985. Bringing the State Back In. Cambridge U Press. [Especially articles by Skocpol and Tilly, and the editors’ conclusion.] 10. Evans, Peter. 1995. Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation. Princeton U Press. [Chapters 1-•‐4 & 8-•‐10.] 11. Fukuyama, Francis. 2004. State Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century. Cornell U Press. [Chapters 1-•‐2.] 12. Haggard, Stephen, and Robert Kaufman (eds). 1992. The Politics of Economic Adjustment: International Constraints, Distributive Conflicts, and the State. Princeton U Press. 13. Huntington, Samuel P. 1968. Political Order in Changing Societies. Yale U Press. 14. Katzenstein, Peter. 1985. Small States in World Markets. Cornell U Press. 15. Krasner, Stephen D. 1984. "Approaches to the State: Alternative Conceptions and Historical Dynamics." Comparative Politics 16 (January), 223-•‐46. 16. Lenin, Vladimir. 1943 (and other editions). State and Revolution. International Publishers. 17. Levi, Margaret. 1988. Of Rule and Revenue. U of California Press. 18. Mann, Michael. 1984. "The Autonomous Power of the State: Its Origins, Mechanisms, and Results," European Journal of Sociology 25:2, 185-•‐213. 19. Marx, Karl. "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte." In Robert Tucker (ed), The Marx-•‐ Engels Reader. Norton (1972).

12 20. Migdal, Joel S. 1988. Strong Societies and Weak States: State-•‐Society Relations and State Capabilities in the Third World. Princeton U Press. 21. Migdal, Joel S., Atul Kohli, and Vivienne Shue, eds. 1994. State Power and Social Forces: Domination and Transformation in the Third World. Cambridge U Press. [Especially articles by Migdal and Kohli and Shue.] 22. Mitchell, Timothy. 1991. "The Limits of the State: Beyond Statist Approaches and Their Critics." APSR 85:1 (March), 77-•‐96. 23. North, Douglass C. 1981. Structure and Change in Economic History. Norton. 24. Poggi, Gianfranco. 1978. The Development of the Modern State: A Sociological Introduction. Stanford U Press. 25. Rockman, Bert A. 1990. "Minding the State -•‐-•‐ or a State of Mind? Issues in the Comparative Conceptualization of the State." Comparative Political Studies 23:1. 26. Shue, Vivienne. 1988. The Reach of the State. Stanford U Press. 27. Silberman, Bernard S. 1993. Cages of Reason: The Rise of the Rational State in France, Japan, the United States, and Great Britain. U of Chicago Press. 28. Skocpol, Theda. 1979. States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China. Cambridge U Press. 29. Skowronek, Stephen. 1982. Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877-•‐1920. Cambridge U Press. 30. Stepan, Alfred. 1978. The State and Society in Peru. Princeton U Press. [Chapters 1 & 2.] 31. Swank, Duane. 1992. "Politics and the Structural Dependence of the State in Democratic Capitalist Nations." APSR 86, 38-•‐54. 32. Tilly, Charles (ed). 1975. The Formation of National States in Western Europe. Princeton U Press. [See, especially, contributions by Tilly, Finer, and Ardant] 33. Wade, Robert. 1990. Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization. Princeton U Press. [Chapters 1-•‐4, 7-•‐10.] 34. Woo-•‐Cumings, Meredith (ed). 1999. The Developmental State. Ithaca and London: Cornell U Press. 35. Young, Crawford. 1994. The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective. Yale U Press.

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