May 31 Historical
Development and Overview of the Field
♦Roy
C. Macridis, “Major Characteristics of the Traditional Approach,”
in Bernard Susser, Approaches to the
Study of Politics (Macmillan, 1992).
♦Robert
A. Dahl, “The Behavioral Approach in Political Science: Epitaph for
a Monument to a Successful Protest,” American
Political Science Review
(APSR), vol. 55, no. 4 (Dec., 1961), pp. 763-772
♦David
Easton
, “The New Revolution in Political Science,” APSR,
vol. 63, no. 4. (Dec., 1969), pp. 1051-1061.
June 1 The Logic,
Methods, and Designs
♦Adam
Przeworski and Henry Teune, The
Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry.
New York
: John Wiley & Sons, 1970,
Ch.
1.
♦Arend Lijphart,
“Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method,” APSR,
vol. 65, no. 3, September 1971, pp. 682-93.
♦Adam
Przeworski and Henry Teune, The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry.
New York
: John Wiley & Sons, 1970,
Ch.
2.
June 2 System Theories
♦David
Easton
, “An Approach to the Analysis of Political Systems,” World
Politics, vol. 9, no. 3, April 1957, pp. 383-400.
♦Alan C. Isaak,
“Systems Theory and Functional Analysis,” in Alan C. Isaak, Scope
and Methods of Political Science (Homewood, IL: The Dorsey Press,
1975).
June 7 State Theories
♦
Margaret Levi, “The State of the Study of the State,” in Ira
Katznelson and Helen V. Milner, eds., Political
Science: the State of the Discipline (
New York
: Norton, 2002), pp. 33-55.
♦Theda Skocpol,
“Bringing the State Back In: Strategies of Analysis in Current
Research,” in Peter B. Evans, et al., eds., Bringing
the State Back In (Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp. 3-37.
June 8 Political
Culture Theories
♦ Gabriel
Almond, Civic Culture: Political
Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations (Princeton
University Press, 1963), Chapter 1, pp. 1-44.
♦ Arend
Lijphart, “The Structure of Inference,” in Gabriel A. Almond and
Sydney Verba, eds., The Civic Culture Revisited (Newbury
Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1989), pp. 37-56.
June 9 Rational Choice Theories
♦John
C. Harsanyi, “Rational-Choice Models of Political Behavior vs.
Functionalist and Conformist Theories, World
Politics, vol. 21, no. 4, 1969, pp. 513-538.
♦ Irwin
L Morris and Joe A Oppenheimer, “Rational Choice and Politics,” in
Irwin L Morris and Joe A Oppenheimer, Politics from Anarchy to Democracy: Rational
Choice in Political Science (
Stanford
,
CA
:
Stanford
University
Press, 2004), pp. 1-36.
♦Chalmers
Johnson and E.B. Keehn, “A Disaster in the Making: Rational Choice
and Asian Studies,” The National
Interest, vol. 37 (Summer 1994), pp. 14-22; Responses (Fall 1994), pp.
99-104.
June 21
Institutionalism and New Institutionalism
♦Peter
Hall and Rosemary C. R. Taylor, “Political Science and the Three New
Institutionalisms.” Political
Studies, 44, 1996, 936-57.
♦James
G. March and Johan P. Olsen, “The New Institutionalism:
Organizational
Factors in Political Life,” APSR,
vol. 78, no. 3, September 1984, pp. 734-49.
June 22 Political
Economy Theories
♦Robert
Gilpin, The Political Economy of International Relations (Princeton
University Press, 1987), Ch. 1 “The Nature of Political Economy.”
♦Douglas
A. Chalmers, “Corporatism and Comparative Politics,” in Howard J.
Wiarda, ed., New Directions in
Comparative Politics (Westview, 1991).
♦Robert
Wade, Governing the Market (Princeton
University Press, 1990), Ch.1 “States, Markets, and Industrial
Policy.”
June 23 Theories of
Development and Dependency
♦J.
Samuel Valenzuela and Arturo Valenzuela, “Modernization and
Dependency: Alternative Perspectives in the Study of Latin American
Underdevelopment,” Comparative
Politics, vol. 10, no. 4, 1978, pp. 535-557.
♦Immanuel
Wallerstein, “The Capitalist World-Economy,” in Roy C. Macridis
and Bernard E. Brown, eds., Comparative Politics: Notes and
Readings
(Chicago, IL: The Dorsey Press, 1986)
June 28 Democracy,
Transition, Mode of Transition, Consolidation
♦Phillippe
C. Schmitter and Terry Lynn Karl, “What Democracy Is… and is
Not,” Journal of Democracy,
vol. 2, no. 3, Summer 1991, pp. 75-88
♦Gerardo
L. Munck, “Democratic Transitions in Comparative Perspective,” Comparative
Politics, vol. 26, no. 3, April 1994, pp. 355-375.
♦Samuel
P.
Huntington
, The Third Wave:
Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (Norman, University of
Oklahoma Press, 1993), Chapter 3 “How? Processes of Democratization”
June 29 Transition
Theories
♦Herbert
Kitschelt, “Political Regime Change: Structure and Process-Driven
Explanations?” APSR, vol. 86, no. 4, December 1992, pp.1028-1034.
♦Patrick
H. O’Neil, “Revolution From Within: Institutional Analysis,
Transitions from Authoritarianism, and the Case of Hungary,” World
Politics, vol. 48, July 1996, pp. 579-603.
♦Stephan
Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman, “The Political Economy of Democratic
Transitions,” Comparative Politics, vol. 29, no. 3, April 1997, pp. 263-283.
♦ Sujian
Guo, “Democratic Transition: A Critical Overview,” Issues
& Studies, vol. 35, no. 4, July/August 1999, pp. 133-48
