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Introduction and review of syllabus
Name game
Brief discussion of Iraq |
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What is social science?
Social science research?
Discussion of potential paper topics |
Read through syllabus and list of potential paper topics in the assignments section. |
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What is the state and why have one?
What is democracy and why have one? |
Shively, W. Phillips. "The Modern State." Chapter 3 in Power and Choice: An Introduction to Political Science. 9th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw Hill. ISBN:0072868961.
Aristotle. "The Politics." In Aristotle: The Politics and Constitution of Athens. 2nd ed. Edited by Stephen Everson. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996, Book III: chapters 6-12, and 18, pp. 69-80, and 91. Book IV: chapters 1-2, pp. 91-94. ISBN: 0521484006.
Karl, Terry, and Philippe C. Schmitter. "What Democracy is...and is Not." Journal of Democracy 2, no. 3 (Summer 1991): 75-86.
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. London, UK: Penguin Classics, 2003. pp. 183-188 and 227-228. ISBN: 0140431950. |
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Lens 1: Cleavages, preferences, and identities |
Madison, James. "Federalist No. 10." In The Federalist Papers. Edited by Isaac Kramnick. London, UK: Penguin Books, 1987 [1788], pp. 122-28. ISBN: 0140444955.
Marx, Karl, and Frederich Engels. "Manifesto of the Communist Party." Part 1 in The Marx-Engels Reader. 2nd ed. Edited by Robert C. Tucker. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1978, pp. 473-83. ISBN: 0393056848.
Gallagher, Peter, Michael Laver, and Peter Mair. "Cleavage Structures and Electoral Change." In Representative Government in Modern Europe. New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 2000. ISBN: 0072322675.
Weber, Max. "Class, Status, and Party." In From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Edited by H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1958, pp. 180-186. ISBN: 0195004620. |
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Lens 2: Culture and beliefs |
Inglehart, Ronald, and Marita Carballo. "Does Latin America Exist? (And is There a Confucian Culture?): A Global Analysis of Cross-Cultural Differences." PS: Political Science and Politics 30 (March 1997): 34-46.
Lagos, Marta. "Public Opinion in New Democracies: Latin America's Smiling Mask." Journal of Democracy 8, no. 3 (July 1997): 125-38. |
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Lens 3: Institutions |
Lijphart, Arend, ed. Parliamentary versus Presidential Government. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 29-32, Introduction and chapters 1, 2, and 14. ISBN: 0198780443.
Gallagher, Peter, Michael Laver, and Peter Mair. "Elections, Electoral Systems, and Referendums." In Representative Government in Modern Europe. Boston, MA: McGraw Hill, 2000, pp. 300-338. ISBN: 0072322675.
Stepan, Alfred. "Federalism and Democracy: Beyond the U.S. Model." Journal of Democracy 10, no. 4 (October 1999): 19-33. |
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Wrap-up on institutions and on three "lenses" more broadly
Discussion of first paper |
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Why do countries become democratic? |
Diamond, Larry. "Is the Third Wave Over?" Journal of Democracy 7, no. 3 (July 1996): 20-37.
Dahl, Robert. Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1971, pp. 1-16. ISBN: 0300013914.
Moore, Barrington. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1966, pp. 413-432. |
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Does economic development lead to democracy? |
Lipset, Seymour Martin. "Economic Development and Democracy." In Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics. Expanded ed. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981, pp. 27-63. ISBN: 0801825229.
Przeworski, Adam, and Fernando Limongi. "Modernization: Theories and Facts." World Politics 49 (January 1997): 155-193. |
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Why did democracy break down in Germany? |
Hoffmann-Lange, Ursula. "Germany: Twentieth Century Turning Points." In Elites, Crises, and the Origins of Regimes. Edited by Mattei Dogan and John Higley. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998, pp. 170-74. ISBN: 0847690229.
Overy, Richard. The Historical Atlas of the Third Reich. New York, NY: Penguin, 1996, pp. 8-21. ISBN: 0140513302.
Lepsius, M. Ranier. "From Fragmented Party Democracy to Government by Emergency Decree and National Socialist Takeover: Germany." In The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Europe. Edited by Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978, pp. 34-79. ISBN: 0801820227.
Lipset, Seymour Martin. "'Fascism' - Left, Right, and Center." In Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics. Expanded ed. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981, pp. 127-152. ISBN: 0801825229.
Turner, Henry Ashby. Hitler's Thirty Days to Power: January 1933. New York, NY: Addison-Wesley, 1996, pp. 1-2 and 163-183. ISBN: 0201407140.
Taylor, A. J. P. "History Unfolds, 1918-1933." In The Nazi Revolution: Germany's Guilt or Germany's Fate? Edited by John L. Snell. Boston, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, 1959, pp. 19-26. |
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Class debate: Why did the Weimar Republic collapse? |
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Wrap-up on Weimar and discussion of Federal Republic
Interim presentations on research papers |
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Interim presentations on research papers (cont.) |
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What institutions cause economic growth? |
Przeworski, Adam, and Fernando Limongi. "Political Regimes and Economic Growth." Journal of Economic Perspectives 7, no. 3 (1993): 51-69.
Olson, Mancur. "Big Bills Left on the Sidewalk: Why Some Nations are Rich, and Others Poor." Journal of Economic Perspectives 10, no. 2 (1996): 3-24.
Weingast, Barry. "The Economic Role of Political Institutions: Market-Preserving Federalism and Economic Development." Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 11, no. 1 (1995): 1-31.
de Soto, Hernando. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. London, UK: Bantam Press, 2000, pp. 1-37 and 208-218. ISBN: 0593046641. |
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Why is Mexico so corrupt? |
Morris, Stephen D. "Corruption and the Mexican Political System: Continuity and Change." Third World Quarterly 20, no. 3 (1999): 623-43.
Oppenheimer, Andres. Bordering on Chaos. Boston, MA: Little Brown and Co., 1996, pp. 289-94. ISBN: 0316650951.
Almond, Gabriel, and Sidney Verba. "Mexico: Alienation and Aspiration." In The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1989, pp. 310-12. ISBN: 0803935587.
Treisman, Daniel. "The Causes of Corruption: A Cross-National Study." Journal of Public Economics 76, no. 3 (2000): 399-457. |
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Class presentations on research papers |
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Why is northern Italy so much, well, better? |
Putnam, Robert. Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. |
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What's right and what's wrong with the U.S. system? |
Dahl, Robert. How Democratic is the American Constitution? 2nd ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0300095244. |
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What will happen in Iraq? |
Dawisha, Adeed, and Karen Dawisha. "How to Build a Democratic Iraq." Foreign Affairs 82, no. 3 (May/June 2003).
Lawson, Chappell. "How Best to Build Democracy: Laying the Foundation for a New Iraq." Foreign Affairs 82, no. 4 (July/August 2003).
Diamond, Larry. "Building Democracy After Conflict: Lessons from Iraq." Journal of Democracy (January 2005): 9-23.
Independent research on Iraq. (See e.g., Council on Foreign Relations web site.) |
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Class exercise: Redesigning the Iraqi Constitution |
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Wrap-up, preparation for the final exam, and class evaluations |
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