Abel’s Course Pack

Government 390K

Fall 2004-06-30

Clement Henry

 

 

Adam Przeworski & Henry Teune. The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry (Malabar, FL: Krieger, 1982), pp. 3-57

 

Gary King, Robert O. Keohane, and Sidney Verba, Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research (Princeton UP, 1994), pp. 3-33

 

Gerardo Munck, Tools for Qualitative Reseach, in Henry Brady and David Collier, eds., Rethinking Social Inquiry (Lanham, MD: owman and Littlefield, forthcoming)

 

Charles Ragin, Diversity-Oriented Research, Ch. 1 of Fuzzy-Set Social Science (University of Chicago Press, 2000), pp. 21-42.

 

Gabriel Almond, Introduction: A Functional Approach to Comparative Politics. In idem & James Coleman, eds. The Politics of the Developing Areas (Princeton UP, 1960), pp. 3-64.

 

Max Weber. The Types of Legitimate Domination. In idem. Economy & Society, ed. by Guenther Roth & Claus Wittich (Berkeley: U. California Pr., 1978), pp. 53-56, 61-62, 212-254, 299-301.

 

Martin Carnoy, The State and Political Theory (Princeton UP, 1984), pp. 44-127, 172-207, 246-61

 

Göran Therborn. Into the 21st Century: The New Parameters of Global Politics. New Left Review # 10 (July-August 2001), pp. 87-110.

 

Theda Skocpol. Bringing the State Back In. In Peter Evans et al., eds. Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge UP, 1985), pp. 3-37.

 

Charles Tilly. War Making and State Making as Organized Crime. In Evans et al., pp. 169-191.

 

Alexander Gerschenkron. Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective (Harvard UP, 1962), ch. 1: pp. 5-30.

 

George Tsebelis, Nested Games (Berkeley: U. California Pr., 1990), ch.2: pp. 18-48.

 

Mancur Olson, The Rise and Decline of Nations (New Haven: Yale UP, 1982), pp. 17-74.

 

Richard Thaler, The Winner's Curse (Princeton UP, 1992), pp. 6-20.

 

Robert H.Bates, Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa (Univ of California Press, 1987), pp. 107-147, 164-171.

 

Kenneth Shepsle, "Studying Institutions: Some Lessons from the Rational Choice Approach," Journal of Theoretical Politics 1:2 (April 1989), pp. 131-47.

 

Donald Green and Ian Shapiro. Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory (Yale UP, 1994), ch.3, pp. 33-46.

 

Robert Bates et al. Introduction, Analytic Narratives (Princeton UP, 1998), pp. 3-22.

 

Daniel Lerner, The Passing of Traditional Society (New York, London: Free Press, Collier-Macmillan, 1958), ch.2, pp. 43-75

 

Osvaldo Sunkel. Big Business and 'Dependencia'. Foreign Affairs (1972), pp. 517-531.

 

Barbara Geddes, Challenging the Conventional Wisdom, in Larry Diamond & Marc Plattner, eds. Economic Reform and Democracy (Johns Hopkins UP, 1995), pp. 59-73.

 

Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman, Democratic Transitions and Economic Reform, in The Political Economy of Democratic Transition (Princeton UP, 1995), pp. 151-182.

 

Susan Stokes, Public Opinion of Market Reforms, in Stokes, ed. Public Support for Market Reforms in New Democracies (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001), pp. 1-32.

 

Jeff Goodwin and Theda Skocpol, Explaining Revolutions in the Contemporary Third World. Politics & Society 17:4 (December 1989), pp. 489-509.

 

Tymowski, Andrzej, "Poland's Unwanted Social Revolution," East European Politics and Society 7:2 (Spring 1993), pp. 169-202.

 

Robert Dahl. Polyarchy (New Haven: Yale UP, 1971), pp. 1-16.

 

Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), pp. 3-15, 38-65.

 

Seymour Martin Lipset & Stein Rokkan, Cleavage Structures, Party Systems, and Voter Alignments, in Party Systems and Voter Alignments (New York: Free Press/Macmillan, 1967), pp. 1-64.

 

Russell Dalton et al., eds., Electoral Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies (Princeton UP, 1984), chap. 15.

 

David Riesman. The Lonely Crowd (New Haven: Yale UP, 1950), pp. 242-255.