27 March 2002

 

Comparative Reading List (Draft: Version 1)

 

 

 

Contributors:  Weyland, Higley, Bennett, Ganguly, Henry, Boone

 

 

Anderson, Benedict.  Imagined Communities.

 

Bates, Robert.  States and Markets in Tropical Africa (1981)

 

Cox, Gary.  Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems.  Cambridge UP, 1997.

 

Dahl, Robert A. 1971. Polyarchy. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press.

 

Dahl, Robert A. Democracy and Its Critics

 

Duverger, Maurice. Political Parties.

 

Evans, Peter.  Rueschemeyer, and Skocpol, Bringing the State Back In

 

Evans, Peter. Embedded Autonomy.

 

Foucault, Michel, Discipline and punishment: the Birth of the Prison (Vintage 1979)

 

Gunder Frank, Andre.  "The Development of Underdevelopment," in Robert Rhodes, ed., Imperialism and Development, pp. 4-16.

 

Hirschman, Albert.  Exit Voice and Loyalty : Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States.  Harvard UP, 1972.

 

Donald Horowitz, Ethnic Groups in Conflict

 

Huntington, Samuel P.  Political Order in Changing Societies, 1968

 

Huntington, Samuel P.  The Third Wave (1991)

 

Huntington, Samuel P. The Clash of Civilizations

 

Karl, Terry Lynn.  The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States, University of California Press, 1997

 

King, Gary, R.O. Keohane, S. Verba, Designing Social Inquiry (Princeton, 1994)

 

Lijphart, Arend.  Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries (Yale 1999).

 

Linz, Juan J. and Alfred Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1996.

 

Lipset, Seymour Martin. 1962. Political Man. New York: Doubleday.

 

Lipset, Seymour Martin and Stein Rokkan, "Cleavage Structures, Party Systems,.. (1967)

 

Mamdani, Mahmood.  Citizen and Subject.

 

March, James (?) & Olsen, "The New Institutionalism," APSR 1984

 

Marx, Karl.  The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)

 

Migdal, Joel. Strong Societies and Weak States.  Princeton UP, 1988.

 

Timothy Mitchell, "The Limits of the State: Beyond Statist Approaches and their Critics," APSR 85:1 (March 1991), 77-96.

 

Moore, Jr., Barrington, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World.  Beacon P, 1966.

 

Nettl, J.P.  "The State as a Conceptual Variable,"  World Politics, Vol. 20, No. 4. (Jul., 1968), pp. 559-592.

 

Olson, Mancur.  Logic of Collective Action (1965/71)

 

Paige, Jeffrey.  Agrarian Revolution.

 

Polanyi, Karl.  The Great Transformation.

 

Przeworski, Adam.  Capitalism & Social Democracy (1985)

 

Przeworski, Adam and Limongi, "Modernization: Theory and Facts," World Politics, 49, 2, Jan 1997, 155-184

 

Putnam, Robert D. 1993. Making Democracy Work. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press.

 

Rudolph, Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph, The Modernity of Tradition.

 

Rueschemeyer, ___, Stephens & Stephens, Capitalist Development & Democracy (1992)

 

Sartori, Giovanni. 1987. The Theory of Democracy Revisited. Chatham N.J.: Chatham House Books.

 

Schmitter, Phil.  Still the Century of Corporatism? (1974 article)

 

Schumpeter, Joseph. 1942. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. New York: Harper & Row. 

 

James Scott, Weapons of the Weak (1990)

 

Theda Skocpol, States & Social Revolutions (1979)

 

Tsebelis, George.  Nested Games.

 

Max Weber, Economy and Society (2 vols., ed. G. Roth and C. Wittich).  U of California, 1978.

 

Winters, Jeffrey A.  "Power and the Control of Capital," World Politics, April 1994, pp. 419-452

 

 


 

TOP IN LATIN AMERICA FIELD

 

O'Donnell, Guillermo.  Modernization and Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism (1973/79) 

 

Stepan, Alfred.  The State and Society:  Peru in Comparative Perspective.

 

Ruth Berins Collier and David Collier.  Shaping the Political Arena (1991) 

 

O'Donnell, Guillermo and Philippe Schmitter.   Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies. 

 

Terry Karl. 1990.  "Dilemmas of Democratization in Latin America."  Comparative Politics 23:1. 

 

O'Donnell, Guillermo. 1994.   "Delegative Democracy."  Journal of Democracy  5:1. 

 

Shugart, Matthew and John Carey.  Presidents and Assemblies (1992)

 

Mainwaring, Scott and Timothy Scully.  Building Democratic Institutions:  Party Systems in Latin America.    

 

Haggard, Stephan and Robert Kaufman.  Political Economy of Democratic Transitions.  

 

Judith Tendler, Good Government in the Tropics. 

 

Mainwaring, Rethinking Party Systems... (1999)

 

Barry Ames, Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil (2001)

 

B. Geddes, Challenging the Conventional Wisdom, 1994 Journal of Democracy

 

Judith Tendler, Good Government in the Tropics (1997)

 


 

Comparative/East Asia.

 

Chalmers JOHNSON, MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Japanese Industrial Policy, 1925-1975.  Stanford UP, 1982.

 

Kenneth LIEBERTHAL, Governing China.  W,W. Norton, 1997.  (Ken is preparing a new edition.)

 

Roderick MacFARQUHAR, The Politics of China: The Eras of Mao and Deng.  Cambridge UP, 1997.

 

T. J. PEMPEL, Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy.  Cornell UP, 1998.

 

Lucian W. PYE and Mary W. PYE, Asian Power and Politics : The Cultural Dimensions of Authority.  Harvard UP, 1989.

 

J. Mark RAMSEYER and Frances M. ROSENBLUTH, Japanís Political Marketplace.  Harvard UP, 1993.  Cf:

 

Jerry F. HOUGH and Michael H. ARMACOST, The Logic of Economic Reform in Russia.  Brookings Institution P, 2001.

 

Susan L. SHIRK, The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China.  U Cal P, 1993.

 

 

 


 

Top 10 on India:

 

Robert Hardgrave, The Nadars of Tamilnad.

 

Francine Frankel, India's Political economy.

 

Christophe Jaffrelot, The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India.

 

Granville Austin, Working a Democratic Constitution.

 

Sumit Ganguly, The Crisis in Kashmir.

 

Donald Smith, India as a Secular State.

 

Charles McGrath, The Destruction of Pakistan's Democracy.

 

Pradeep Chibber, Democracy Without Associations.

 

Paul Brass, Language, religion and Politics in North India.

 

Stephen P. Cohen, The Indian Army.

 

 


 

Middle East and North Africa

 

Ayyubi, Naizh N., Overstating the Arab State: Politics and Society in the Middle East (London: Tauris, 1995)

 

Chaudhry, Kiren Aziz, The Price of Wealth, Cornell 1997

 

Hammoudi, Abdellah, Master and Disciple: the Cultural Foundations of Moroccan Authoritarianism, (U. of Chicago Press, 1997)

 

C. Henry and R. Springborg, Globalization and the politics of development in the Middle East, Cambridge 2001.

 

Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah (abridged ed. Princeton Bollinger Series)

 

Hussein Mahdavi, "The Patterns and Problems of Economic Development in Rentier States: the Case of Iran," in M.Cook, ed., Studies in Economic History of the Middle East, Oxford, 1970

 

Joel S. Migdal, Through the Lense of Israel: Explorations in State and Society, SUNY Press, 2001

 

Timothy Mitchell, Colonizing Egypt, Cambridge University Press, 1988.

 

___________, Rule of Experts, U of Calif. Press, 2002.

 

Owen, Roger, State, Power, and Politics, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2000)

 

A. Richards and J. Waterbury, Political Economy of the Middle East , 2nd ed. (Westview, 1996)

 

 


 

 

Sub-Saharan Africa

 

Colin Leys, Underdevelopment in Kenya: The Political Economy of Neocolonialism

 

Colin Leys, The Rise and Fall of Development Theory

 

David Apter, Ghana in Transition

 

Leroy Vail, The Invention of Tradition

 

Thomas Callaghy, Zaire in Comparative Perspective

 

Jeffrey Herbst, States and Power in Africa

 

Jackson and Rosberg, Personal Rule in Black Africa

 

David Laitin, Hegemony and Culture

 

Bratton and van de Walle, Democratic Experiments in Africa

 

Crawford Young, The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective

 

Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

 

Mudimbe, The Invention of Africa

 

Appiah, In My Father's House

 

Gordon Hyden, Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania.

 

Mahmood Mamdani, Citizen and Subject

 

Samir Amin, Neocolonialism in West Africa

 

 


 

 

Elites:

 

Bottomore, T.B. 1964/1993. Elites and Society. New York: Routledge, 2nd ed.

 

Burnham, James. 1941. The Machiavellians. New York.

 

Etzioni-Halevy. Eva. 1993. The Elite Connection. London: Polity Press.

 

Keller, Suzanne. 1963/1991. Beyond the Ruling Class. New Brunswick NJ: Transaction Books, 2nd ed.

 

Michels, Robert. 1915/1962. Political Parties. New York: Collier Books.

 

Mills, C. Wright. 1956. The Power Elite. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 

 

Mosca, Gaetano. 1923/1939. The Ruling Class. New York: McGraw-Hill.

 

Pareto, Vilfredo. 1911/1936. The Mind and Society: Treatise on General Sociology. New York: Harcourt, Brace.

 

Prewitt, Kenneth, and Alan Stone. 1973. The Ruling Elites.

 

Putnam, Robert D. 1976. The Comparative Study of Political Elites. Edgewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall.