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

Civil Society and Social Movements

Democratization

Formal and Informal Institutions

Nationalism and Ethnicity

Political Economy of Development

The State

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--‐ EngelsReader. 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.

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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, 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.

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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.

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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 Germany,

Britain, the United States, and Japan. Cambridge UP.

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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.

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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.]

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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.

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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.

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