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THIS READING LIST IS FROM 2012-2013 ACADEMIC YEAR, AND IS NO LONGER BEING USED.PLEASE REFER TO MOODLE FOR THE CORRECT READINGS FROM THE CURRENT ACADEMICYEAR.
Week 1: What is Political Sociology? (24 items)
On Political Sociology: (6 items)
Political sociology: selected essays - Coser, Lewis A., 1966Book | Background | “Political Sociology”. Also in Bendix, Reinhard and Seymour M.
Lipset (1957), “Political Sociology”, Current Sociology ,vol VI, no 2.
Organizing interests in Western Europe: pluralism, corporatism, and the transformation ofpolitics - Berger, Suzanne, Joint Committee on Western Europe, 1981
Book | Background | Introduction.
The handbook of political sociology: states, civil societies, and globalization - ThomasJanoski, 2005
Book
Political man: the social bases of politics - Lipset, Seymour Martin, 1983, 1981Book | Background
Power: a radical view - Lukes, Steven, 2005Book | Essential | *
The West European party system - Mair, Peter, 1990Book | Background | Sartori, Giovanni (1969), “From the Sociology of Politics to Political
Sociology” Chapter 11
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The State (11 items)
Theories of the democratic state - John S. Dryzek, Patrick Dunleavy, 2009Book
State, economy, and society in Western Europe 1815-1975: a data handbook in twovolumes, Vol.1: The growth of mass democracies and welfare states - Flora, Peter, 1983
Book | Background
States in history - Hall, John A., 1986Book | Background | Also Mann, Michael “The autonomous power of the the state: the
origins, mechanisms and results”, Archives Europeennes de Sociologie, vol 24, no 2
The autonomous power of the state: its origins, mechanisms and results - Michael Mann,1984-11
Article | Background
The sources of social power: Vol. 2: The rise of classes and nation states, 1760-1914 -Mann, Michael, 1993
Book | Essential | The sources of power, volume 2, chapter 3 (esp pp 44-63) andchapters 11-14 (esp chapter 11).A Theory of the Modern State.SCANNED READING
The state in capitalist society - Ralph Miliband, 1980Book
States and social revolutions: a comparative analysis of France, Russia and China -Skocpol, Theda, 1979
Book | Background
Bringing the state back in - Evans, Peter B., Rueschmeyer, Dietrich, Skocpol, Theda, 1985Book | Essential | *Skocpol, Theda (1985), “Bringing the State Back In”.SCANNED
READING
The Formation of national States in Western Europe - Tilly, Charles, Ardant, Gabriel, 1975Book | Background | Chapter 1.
The historical essays of Otto Hintze - Hintze, Otto, Gilbert, Felix, 1975Book | Background | Hintze, Otto “Military Organisation and the Organisation of the
State”
From Max Weber: essays in sociology - Weber, Max, Mills, C. Wright, Gerth, Hans Heinrich,1991
Book | Background | Weber, Max (1991), “Politics as a Vocation”
Power (2 items)
Power-knowledge: selected interviews and other writings, 1972-1977 - Foucault, Michel,Gordon, Colin, 1980
Book | Background
Power: a radical view - Lukes, Steven, 2005
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Book | Essential | *
Globalisation (4 items)
Globalization in question: the international economy and the possibilities of governance -Hirst, Paul Q., Thompson, Grahame, 1999
Book | Background
The global transformations reader: an introduction to the globalization debate - Held,David, McGrew, Anthony G., 2000
Book | Essential | Part 2
The retreat of the state: the diffusion of power in the world economy - Strange, Susan,1996
Book | Background | esp.chapters 1&5
States in the global economy: bringing domestic institutions back in - Weiss, Linda, 2003Book | Essential | * Chapter 1
Bibliographical Note:
For accounts of political sociology that emphasise the importance of interaction betweenpolitical and social factors see Berger and Sartori. For an important earlier account seeBendix and Lipset. Mann (1984 & 1993) provides a modified definition of Weber's classicdefinition of the state. Tilly and Mann (1993) are major historically informed studies of thedevelopment of the state. Skocpol (1985) provides a programmatic statement for aninstitutionalist approach. Strange emphasises the declining power of the state. Weissemphasises its enduring significance, as do Hirst and Thompson. Lukes sets the terms formuch of the subsequent debate on power.
Questions:
1. What is politics?
2. What is political sociology?
3. What is the relationship between states and societies?
Week 2: Marx (19 items)
Primary Sources: (1 items)
Karl Marx: selected writings - Marx, Karl, McLellan, David, 2000Book | Essential | McLellan, David
Communist Manifesto
Useful Reference Book: (1 items)
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A dictionary of Marxist thought - Bottomore, T. B., 1991Book | Essential
Secondary Sources: (16 items)
The social and political thought of Karl Marx - Avineri, Shlomo, 1968Book | Background
Marxist theory - Callinicos, Alex, 1989Book | Background
Karl Marx's theory of history: a defence - Cohen, G. A., 1978Book | Background
Theories of the state: the politics of liberal democracy - Dunleavy, Patrick, O'Leary,Brendan, 1987
Book | Background | Dunleavy, P., O'leary, B. Chapter 5 - Marxism. SCANNED READINGS
An introduction to Karl Marx - Elster, Jon, 1985Book | Background
Making sense of Marx - Elster, Jon, 1985Book | Background
Capitalism and modern social theory: an analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim andMax Weber - Giddens, Anthony, 1971
Book | Background
The political ideas of Marx and Engels: Vol 1: Marxism and totalitarian democracy1818-1850 - Hunt, Richard N., 1974
Book | Background
The state: critical concepts - Hall, John A., 1994Book | Background | also in Jessop, Bob (1977), “Recent Theories of the Capitalist
State”, Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol 1.
Political man: the social bases of politics - Lipset, Seymour Martin, 1983, 1981Book | Background
The nature of political theory - Miller, David, Siedentop, Larry, 1983Book | Background | Lukes, Steven “Can the Base be Distinguished from the
Superstructure?
Marx's theory of politics - Maguire, John, 1978Book | Background
Main currents of Marxism: its origin, growth, and dissolution, Vol.3: The breakdown -Ko±akowski, Leszek, Falla, P. S., 1978
Book | Background
German marxism and Russian communism - Plamenatz, John, 1954
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Book | Background
Man and society: political and social theories from Machiavelli to Marx, Vol 1: From theMiddle Ages to Locke - Plamenatz, John, Plamenatz, M. E., Wokler, Robert, 1992
Book | Background
Karl Marx - Wood, Allen W., 1981Book | Background
Bibliographical note:
In McLellan's selection of Marx' writings start with the Communist Manifesto, arguably themost influential political pamphlet written since the French Revolution, and the 'Preface' toA Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, which provides a short of overview ofMarx's theory of historical materialism. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon gives amore subtle and historically nuanced analysis of the relationship of state and society. Andthe Civil War in France (esp the short account of the Paris Commune) provides animportant insight into Marx's view of politics and democracy. On historical materialism seealso The German Ideology. And on politics see also The Critique of the Gotha Program, andNotes on Bakunin's Statism and Anarchy.
Questions:
1. What did Marx think that politics would be like in a socialist society?
2. What are the main features of Marx's theory of history and social change? What are themain problems with this theory?
Week 3: Max Weber (7 items)
Primary Sources: (1 items)
From Max Weber: essays in sociology - Weber, Max, Mills, C. Wright, Gerth, Hans Heinrich,1991
Book | Essential | Weber, Max “Politics as a Vocation”; Weber, M. Bureaucracy-SCANNED READING
Secondary Sources: (5 items)
Max Weber and the theory of modern politics - Beetham, David, 1985Book | Background
Max Weber: an intellectual protrait - Bendix, Reinhard, 1977Book | Background | *
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Capitalism and modern social theory: an analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim andMax Weber - Giddens, Anthony, 1971
Book | Background
From Max Weber: essays in sociology - Weber, Max, Mills, C. Wright, Gerth, Hans Heinrich,1991
Book | Background | Intellectual orientations
Democracy in America - Tocqueville, Alexis de, Ryan, Alan, 1994Book | Essential | Tocqueville, Alexis.
Vol. I: Chapter III & IX and Tocqueville, Alexis.Vol. II: Second Book - Chapter I & VII. SCANNED READINGS
Bibliographic Note:
The required sections from the primary sources should be read with at least one othersecondary source (Beetham provides an excellent discussion of the main themes). Giddensis another excellent source for a summary of Weber's ideas and concepts.
Questions:
1. Critically evaluate Weber's theory of bureaucracy, in particular his theory of therelationship between democracy and
bureaucracy.
2. Discuss how Weber's intellectual history informs his concepts of the state and modernpolitics.
Week 4: Tocoqueville (13 items)
Primary Sources: (2 items)
Democracy in America - Tocqueville, Alexis de, Ryan, Alan, 1994Book | Essential | Tocqueville, Alexis.
Vol. I: Chapter III & IX and Tocqueville, Alexis.Vol. II: Second Book - Chapter I & VII.
Democracy in America: and Two essays on America - Tocqueville, Alexis de, Bevan, GeraldE., Kramnick, Isaac, Tocqueville, Alexis de, Tocqueville, Alexis de, 2003
Book | Essential | *Tocqueville, Alexis (2003) (eds.) Bevan, Gerald and Isaac Kramnick,Democracy in America. *Volume 1: Part I, Chapter 3; Part II, Chapters 1, 4, 7, 8. *Volume 2:Part II, Chapters 2,4, 5, 7.
Secondary Sources: (10 items)
On Tocqueville's Writings (5 items)
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Tocqueville and the old regime - Herr, Richard, 1962Book | Background
Tocqueville and the two democracies - Lamberti, Jean-Claude, 1989Book | Background
Tocqueville and the problem of democracy - Zetterbaum, Marvin, 1967Book | Background
The social and political thought of Alexis de Tocqueville - Lively, Jack, 1962Book | Background
Tocqueville - Siedentop, Larry, 1994Book | Background
Tocqueville, Social Capital and Democracy: (5 items)
Making democracy work: civic traditions in modern Italy - Putnam, Robert D., Leonardi,Robert, Nanetti, Raffaella, c1993
Book | Essential | *Chapters 4 and 6.
Democracies in flux: the evolution of social capital in contemporary society - Putnam,Robert D., 2002
Book | Background | Esp.1 and 5
Social citizenship and a reconstructed Tocqueville - Goldberg, Chad Alan, Apr 2001Article | Background
The Tocqueville Problem: Civic Engagement in American Democracy - Theda Skocpol,1997
Article | Background
Making social science work across space and time: A critical reflection on Robert Putnam'sMaking Democracy Work - Tarrow, Sidney, Jun 1996
Article | Background
Please read the note accompanying this week's list in the syllabus. Different editions ofDemocracy in America have different volumes and chapter headings, and the titles maydiffer slightly. I have listed the chapter titles that you should be looking out for.
Questions: 1. What are the strengths and weaknesses of Tocqueville's theory ofassociationalism?
Week 5: Political Parties, Cleavages and Social Conflicts (23 items)
Quick Introduction: (4 items)
Democracies: patterns of majoritarian and consensus government in twenty-one countries
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- Lijphart, Arend, c1984Book | Essential | chapter 5-&8
Democracies: patterns of majoritarian and consensus government in twenty-one countries- Lijphart, Arend, c1984
Book | Essential | This is the earlier version of 'Patterns of Democracy (1999)' Chapters7&9
Citizen politics: public opinion and political parties in advanced industrial democracies -Dalton, Russell J., c2006
Book | Essential
Labour and socialist movements in Europe before 1914 - Geary, Dick, 1989Book | Background
Party Systems and Elections: (9 items)
Elections and voting behaviour in Britain - Denver, D. T., 1994Book | Essential
Developments in British politics 8 - Dunleavy, Patrick, 2006Book | Background | Dunleavy, Patrick ‘The Westminster Model and the Distinctiveness
of British Politics’
Political parties: their organization and activity in the modern state - Duverger, Maurice,1959
Book | Background | especially chapters on two-party and multi-party systems, pp206-255.
Electoral systems and party systems: a study of twenty-seven democracies, 1945-1990 -Lijphart, Arend, Aitkin, Don, 1994
Book | Background
Party systems and voter alignments: cross-national perspectives - Rokkan, Stein, Lipset,Seymour Martin, 1967
Book | Background
The West European party system - Mair, Peter, 1990Book | Background | Intro and Part 4, esp. excerpts from Duverger and Sartori.
Electoral engineering: voting rules and political behavior - Norris, Pippa, 2004Book | Background | *esp chapters 2 & 4.
The modern British party system - Webb, Paul, 1999Book | Background
Changing party systems in Western Europe - Broughton, David, Donovan, Mark, 1999Book | Background | ‘The Changing British Party System’
The decline of class voting: (9 items)
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The Social and Ideological Bases of Middle-Class Political Realignment in the United States,1972 to 1992 - Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza, 1997
Article | Background
Electoral change in advanced industrial democracies: realignment or dealignment? -Dalton, Russell J., Flanagan, Scott C., Beck, Paul Allen, Alt, James E., 1984
Book | Background | esp. chapters 1,2,3 and 15.
The end of class politics?: class voting in comparative context - Evans, Geoffrey, 1999Book | Essential | *
Modelling trends in the class/party relationship 1964-1987Article | Background
Electoral change: responses to evolving social and attitudinal structures in Westerncountries - Franklin, Mark N., Valen, Henry, Mackie, Thomas T., 1992
Book | Background
Can Class Analysis Be Salvaged? - David B. Grusky, Jesper B. Sorensen, 1998-03Article | Background
Class Structure and Social Democratic Party Strategy - Herbert Kitschelt, 1993Article | Essential | *
Class Voting in Capitalist Democracies since World War II: Dealignment, Realignment orTrendless Fluctuation - Manza, Jeff, 1995
Article | Background
Repositioning class: social inequality in industrial societies - Marshall, Gordon, 1997Book | Background
Questions:
1. What effects do party and election systems have upon the working of democracy?Discuss this question using the case of the recent British debate on proportionalrepresentation and the alternative vote.
2. Do parties emerge from social cleavages such as class, or do they help construct them?Use a case of your choice to answer your question.
Week 6: Labour and Socialist Politics (19 items)
The Rise of Labour Politics: (12 items)
The political mobilization of the European left, 1860-1980: the class cleavage - Bartolini,Stefano, 2000
Book | Background | The Class Cleavage, chapter 2, esp pages 54-66 & 69-86, andchapter 8, esp pages 320-358.
Forging democracy: the history of the left in Europe, 1850-2000 - Eley, Geoff, 2002
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Book | Background | chapters 3-6.
European labor protest, 1848-1939 - Geary, Dick, 1981Book | Essential | chapters 2 & 3, esp pages 37-70 and 91-126.Geary, D.European labor
protest, 1848-1939. - The Library is unable to provide an electronic copy of an extract fromthis book, due to copyright restrictions placed on it by the publisher.
Labour and socialist movements in Europe before 1914 - Geary, Dick, 1989Book | Background
Political repression in 19th century Europe - Goldstein, Robert Justin, 1983Book | Background
Working-class formation: nineteenth-century patterns in Western Europe and the UnitedStates - Katznelson, Ira, Zolberg, Aristide R., c1986
Book | Background
Radicalism or Reformism: The Sources of Working-class Politics - Seymour Martin Lipset,1983
Article | Essential
The sources of social power: Vol. 2: The rise of classes and nation states, 1760-1914 -Mann, Michael, 1993
Book | Background | volume 2, chapter 18, esp pages 628-635 & 660-685.
Sources of Variations in Working-Class Movements in Twentieth Century Europe - 1995Article | Background
Unions in politics: Britain, Germany, and the United States in the nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries - Marks, Gary, 1989
Book | Essential | *especially chapter 2, pages 50-68 & 73-76
The formation of labour movements, 1870-1914: an international perspective - Rojahn,Jèurgen, Linden, Marcel van der, 1990
Book | Background
Destabilizing theory: contemporary feminist debates - Barrett, Micháele, Phillips, Anne,1992
Book | Background
The Dilemma of Electorial Socialism: (6 items)
Politics against markets: the social democratic road to power - Esping-Andersen, G²sta,c1985
Book | Essential | *
Social Democracy and Rational Workers - Desmond S. King, Mark Wickham-Jones,2009-1-27
Article | Background
Social Democracy between Structure and Choice - Review by: Thomas A. Koelble, 1992
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Article | Background
Capitalism and social democracy - Przeworski, Adam, 1985Book | Essential | *chapters 1-3, esp pages 23-29 & 99-106.
Paper stones: a history of electoral socialism - Przeworski, Adam, Sprague, John D., 1986Book | Essential | *Przeworski, A. and Sprague, J.
Paper stones : A history of electoral socialism. SCANNED READING
Party strategies and the electoral trade-off of class-based parties. - DIANE SAINSBURY,1990-01
Article | Background
Bibliographic note:
A complete explanation of the differences between labour-based parties would need toconsider a range of factors, including economic and cultural ones. These readings focus onthe impact of political factors during a formative period in late nineteenth and earlytwentieth century Europe. Geary (1981), Lipset, and Marks each provide short comparativeoverviews emphasising the importance of repression. Marks makes the case particularlyclearly. Bartolini offers a detailed comparative analysis of this and other factors. For ahistorical overview of the period see Eley. For short country by country chapter-lengthsummaries see Geary (1989), and van der Linden and Rojahn. For a sophisticated analysisof Germany, France (and the US), see Katznelson and Zolberg. Przeworski argues thatsocial democratic parties have always faced a fundamental electoral dilemma. BothPrzeworski, and Przeworski and Sprague, make the same argument. There is no need toread both. Przeworski, pages 23-29 and 99-106, outlines the essence of the argument.Esping-Andersen draws on Scandinavian experience to dispute this argument. His book isalso an excellent source on the development of Scandinavian social democracy in general.Sainsbury also looks at the Swedish experience. King and Wickham-Jones, and Koelblereview the debate and test it against the British experience.
Questions:
1. Why were some labour-based parties more radical than others?
2. Can social democratic parties escape the 'dilemma of electoral socialism'?
Week 7: American Exceptionalism (12 items)
Unions, Courts, and Parties: Judicial Repression and Labor Politics in Late NineteenthCentury America - 1998
Article | Background
Does Repression Help to Create Labor Parties? The Effect of Police and MilitaryIntervention on Unions in the United States and Australia - Archer, Robin, 2001
Article | Background
Why is there no labor party in the United States? - Archer, Robin, c2007
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Book | Essential | *Archer, R.Why is there no labor party in the UnitedStates? SCANNED READING
Does Repression Help to Create Labor Parties? The Effect of Police and MilitaryIntervention on Unions in the United States and Australia - Archer, Robin, 2001
Article | Background
The liberal tradition in America: an interpretation of American political thought since theRevolution - Hartz, Louis, [1955]
Book | Background
Why is there no socialism in the United States? - Sombart, Werner, Husbands, ChristopherT., Hocking, Patricia, 1976
Book | Background | “Introduction” to Sombart
Failure of a dream?: essays in the history of American socialism - Laslett, John H. M.,Lipset, Seymour Martin, 1974
Book | Background
American exceptionalism: a double-edged sword - Lipset, Seymour Martin, 1996Book | Essential | *Lipset, S. M.
American exceptionalism: a double-edgedsword.SCANNED READING
Unions in politics: Britain, Germany, and the United States in the nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries - Marks, Gary, 1989
Book | Background | esp.chapter 6
Is America different?: a new look at American exceptionalism - Shafer, Byron E., 1991Book | Background
The dynamics of American politics: approaches and interpretations - Dodd, Lawrence C.,Jillson, Calvin C., 1994
Book | Background | American Exceptionalism Reconsidered: Culture or Institutions?
Bibliographic note:
There is a very large literature on this question. It is not only central to the study of labourpolitics, but also lies at the heart of a debate about what if anything is distinctive aboutAmerican politics and society. Archer (2007) and Lipset are a good places to start. Bothdiscuss a wide range of contending explanations as well as there own (different) answers.Davis emphasises ethno-religious factors. Hartz sets out the classic case for theimportance of liberal individualism. Laslett and Lipset collect short essays and responsescovering a wide range of themes. Marks offers a comparison with Britain and Germany.Archer examines the complicated impact of repression. And Sombart's essay, firstpublished in 1906, still has a major influence on the terms of debate.
Question:
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Why is there no labour party in the United States?
Week 8: Gender (18 items)
Second-Wave Feminism and Politics: (4 items)
Feminism and politics - Phillips, Anne, 1998Book | Background | Bernice Johnson Reagon “Coalition Politics: Turning the
Century.”pp. 242-253.
Personal politics: the roots of women's liberation in the civil rights movement and the NewLeft - Evans, Sara M., 1979
Book | Essential | *Chapters 1 and 2.
Feminism and politics - Phillips, Anne, 1998Book | Essential | *
Engendering democracy - Phillips, Anne, 1991Book | Essential | *Chapter 1
Women, the State and Power: (7 items)
Women's oppression today: the marxist / feminist encounter - Barrett, Micháele, 1988Book | Background
Destabilizing theory: contemporary feminist debates - Barrett, Micháele, Phillips, Anne,1992
Book | Background
Finding the Man in the State - Brown, Wendy, Spring 1992Article | Essential | *
The State, Gender, and Sexual Politics: Theory and Appraisal - R. W. Connell, 1990Article | Essential | *
The disorder of women: democracy, feminism and political theory - Pateman, Carole, 1989Book | Background | 'The Patriarchal Welfare State'
Destabilizing theory: contemporary feminist debates - Barrett, Micháele, Phillips, Anne,1992
Book | Background | Pringle, Rosemary and Sophie WatsonWomen's interests and thePost-Structuralist state'
The scandal of the state: women, law, citizenship in postcolonial India - Sunder Rajan,Rajeswari, 2003
Book | Background
Participation and Representation: (6 items)
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Women's Representation in Parliament: The Role of Political Parties - M. Caul, 1999-01-01Article | Background
Rising tide: gender equality and cultural change around the world - Inglehart, Ronald,Norris, Pippa, 2003
Book | Essential | *Inglehart, RonaldChapter 6 - Women as Political Leaders.SCANNED READING.
Ideology, Gender and Political Action: A Cross-National Survey - M. Kent Jennings, BarbaraG. Farah, 2009-1-27
Article | Background
Gender Inequality in Political Representation: A Worldwide Comparative Analysis* -Kenworthy, - Malami,, 1999
Article | Background
The Contagion of Women Candidates in Single-Member District and ProportionalRepresentation Electoral Systems: Canada and Norway - Richard E. Matland, Donley T.Studlar, 2009-12-18
Article | Background
Electoral engineering: voting rules and political behavior - Norris, Pippa, 2004Book | Background | Chapter 8
Questions:
1. Is relative under-participation in politics by women due to the institutional structure ofthe liberal democratic state? Why or why not? Discuss with reference to one or twocountries.
Week 9: Post-Materialist Values (13 items)
Value change in global perspective - Abramson, Paul R., Inglehart, Ronald, c1995Book | Background
Value Change and Postmaterialist Politics: "The Case of West Germany" - Betz, Hans-Georg, 1990:July
Article | Background
Measuring Value Change in Western Industrialized Societies: The Impact of Unemployment- Harold D. Clarke and Nitish Dutt, 1991
Article | Background
The effect of economic priorities on the measurement of value change: New experimentalevidence - Clarke, Harold D, Sep 1999
Article | Background | see also Inglehart and Abramson’s response in the same issue.
Postmaterialism and the Economic Condition - Raymond M. Duch and Michaell A. Taylor,1993
Article | Background
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Green Politics and the New Class: Selfishness or Virtue? - ROBYN ECKERSLEY, 1989-06Article | Background
The silent counter-revolution. - PIERO IGNAZI, 1992-07Article | Background
Culture shift in advanced industrial society - Inglehart, Ronald, 1990Book | Essential | *chapters 2, 8 & 9.Chapter 8 SCANNED READING
Modernization and postmodernization: cultural, economic, and political change in 43societies - Inglehart, Ronald, 1997
Book | Background | especially chapters 5 and 8. Chapter 5 - SCANNED READING
Party systems and voter alignments: cross-national perspectives - Rokkan, Stein, Lipset,Seymour Martin, 1967
Book | Background | “Cleavage Structures, Party Systems and Voter Alignments: AnIntroduction. Chapter 9.
The West European party system - Mair, Peter, 1990Book | Background | especially chapters 16-19
Changing boundaries of the political: essays on the evolving balance between the stateand society, public and private in Europe - Maier, Charles S., 1987
Book | Background | Offe, Claus “Challenging the Boundaries of Institutional Politics:Social Movements since the 1960s”
Bibliographic note:
As well as Inglehart (1990), Inglehart (1997), Abramson and Inglehart, and Mair all give abasic account of the post-materialist values thesis. For some criticisms and alternativehypotheses see the following. On education see Eckersley, Betz, Duch and Taylor,Abramson and Inglehart chapter 5, and Inglehart (1990) chapter 5. On inflation andunemployment see Clark and Dutt, Clark et al, and Abramson and Inglehart chapter 3. Onthe extreme right see Ignazi. On new class interests see Eckersley, and Offe. And for aresponse to methodological criticisms see Inglehart (1997) chapter 4. For a seminalaccount of the effect of social cleavages on European politics see Lipset and Rokkan.
Questions:
1. Is Inglehart right about the growing importance of a new cleavage between materialistsand post-materialists?
2. Which political developments can be explained by the rise of post-materialist values?
Week 10: The Far Right (12 items)
The National Front in France: The Emergence of an Extreme Right Protest Movement -Pierre Bréchon and Subrata Kumar Mitra, 1992
Article | Background
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Western democracies and the new extreme right challenge - Eatwell, Roger, Mudde, Cas,2004
Book | Background
Voting radical right in Western Europe - Givens, Terri E., 2005Book | Background
Voting radical right in Western Europe - Givens, Terri E., 2005Book | Background
Extreme right parties in Western Europe - Ignazi, Piero, 2003Book | Background
Extreme right parties in Western Europe - Ignazi, Piero, 2003Book | Background
Conditions Favouring Parties of the Extreme Right in Western Europe - Robert W. Jackmanand Karin Volpert, 1996
Article | Background
The radical right in Western Europe: a comparative analysis - Kitschelt, Herbert, McGann,Anthony J., c1995
Book | Essential | Chapters 1,2,6,7.Kitschelt, H. The radical right in Western Europe -The Library is unable to provide an electronic copy of an extract from this book, due tocopyright restrictions placed on it by the publisher.
Radical right: voters and parties in the electoral market - Norris, Pippa, 2005Book | Essential | Parts III and IV
Shadows over Europe: the development and impact of the extreme right in WesternEurope - Schain, Martin, Zolberg, Aristide R., Hossay, Patrick, 2002
Book | Background
A Challenge for Political Sociology: The Rise of Far-Right Parties in Contemporary WesternEurope - J. W.P. Veugelers, 1999-10-01
Article | Background
Questions:
1. Why is the far right more of a challenge in some countries than others?
2. Is the rise of the radical right a result of the strategies and tactics of the partiesthemselves or structural factors?
Week 11: Social Movements (20 items)
Collective action and the civil rights movement - Chong, Dennis, 1991Book | Background
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American society and politics: institutional, historical, and theoretical perspectives : areader - Skocpol, Theda, Campbell, John L., c1995
Book | Background | reading 20.
"New Social Movements" of the Early Nineteenth Century - Craig Calhoun, 1993Article | Background
New Social Movements in Historical Perspective - Paul D'Anieri, Claire Ernst and ElizabethKier, 1990
Article | Background
The strategy of social protest - Gamson, William A., 1975Book | Background
Why men rebel - Gurr, Ted Robert, 1970Book | Background
The strategy of social protest - Gamson, William A., 1975Book | Background
Why men rebel - Gurr, Ted Robert, 1970Book | Background
Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements - J. Craig Jenkins, 1983Article | Background
The politics of social protest: comparative perspectives on states and social movements -Klandermans, Bert, Jenkins, J. Craig, 1995
Book | Background
Political Opportunity Structures and Political Protest: Anti-Nuclear Movements in FourDemocracies - Herbert P. Kitschelt, 1986
Article | Background
Political process and the development of Black insurgency, 1930-1970 - McAdam, Doug,1999
Book | Background | ecp. introduction
Comparative perspectives on social movements: political opportunities, mobilizingstructures, and cultural framings - McAdam, Doug, McCarthy, John D., Zald, Mayer N., 1996
Book | Essential
Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory - John D. McCarthy andMayer N. Zald, 1977
Article | Background
Changing boundaries of the political: essays on the evolving balance between the stateand society, public and private in Europe - Maier, Charles S., 1987
Book | Background | Offe, Claus "New Social Movements"
Poor people's movements: why they succeed, how they fail - Piven, Frances Fox, Cloward,Richard A., c1977
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Power in movement: social movements, collective action and politics - Tarrow, Sidney G.,1994
Book | Background
Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment - Robert D.Benford and David A. Snow, 2000
Article | Background
Power in movement: social movements and contentious politics - Tarrow, Sidney G., 1998Book | Essential | esp. chapter 5, 7 and 8.
Bibliographical Note:
For an overview of the different theories of social movements see McAdam et al (1996).McAdam (1999) also provides a very good overview in chapter 1-3. Chapter 5 appliesthese points to the civil rights movement in the US. Tarrow develops the main theorieswith a rich range of examples. For early proponents of specific theories see: Gurr forrelative depravation; McCarthy and Zald, and Jenkins (1993) for resource mobilisation;Kitschelt, McAdam, and chapter 5 of Tarrow for political opportunity structures; and Snowon ideological framing. Chong offers a rational choice account of the civil rights movement.For the conventional wisdom about what's new see chapter 1 of Dalton and Kuechler. Formore sceptical accounts see Calhoun, d'Anieri, chapter 8 of Tarrow, and chapter 2 inDalton and Kuechler. See also Inglehart, Jenkins and Klandermans, and Offe.
Question:
What's new about the 'new social movements'?
Week 12: Corporatism (20 items)
Social corporatism: a superior economic system? - Pekkarinen, Jukka, Pohjoka, Matti,Rowthorn, Bob, World Institute for Development Economics Research, 1992
Book | Background | The Unexpected Emergence of Australian Corporatism
Economic democracy: the politics of feasible socialism - Archer, Robin, 1995Book | Background
Organizing interests in Western Europe: pluralism, corporatism, and the transformation ofpolitics - Berger, Suzanne, Joint Committee on Western Europe, 1981
Book | Essential | *especially Maier (chap 1),, and Schmitter (chap 10, esp pp 287-98).The chapter by Offe is also in his Disorganised Capitalism, chap 8, esp pp 236-58. Offe(chap 5, pp 123-158)SCANNED READING.
States in history - Hall, John A., 1986Book | Background | Crouch, Colin “Sharing Public Space: States and Organized
Interests in Western Europe
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Industrial relations and European state traditions - Crouch, Colin, 1992Book | Background | especially chaps 7, 9 & 10.
Changing industrial relations in Europe - Ferner, Anthony, Hyman, Richard, 1998Book | Background | chapters on Britain, France, Germany and Sweden.
Partisan politics in the global economy - Garrett, Geoffrey, 1998Book | Background
Continuity and change in contemporary capitalism - Kitschelt, Herbert, 1999Book | Background
Order and conflict in contemporary capitalism - Goldthorpe, John H., Joint Committee onWestern Europe, Dec.1984
Book | Essential | 8Goldthorpe, J. H.Order and Conflict in ContemporaryCapitalism: Studies in the Political Economyof Western European Nations. SCANNED READING
Unions, employers, and central banks: macroeconomic coordination and institutionalchange in social market economies - Soskice, David W., Pontusson, Jonas, Iversen, Torben,2000
Book | Background | esp chapter 1 (for an overview of some of the current pressures oncorporatism), chapters 3, 4 & 8 (on Sweden and Scandinavia) and chapter 5 (on Germany)
Continuity and change in contemporary capitalism - Kitschelt, Herbert, 1999Book | Background
Disorganized capitalism: contemporary transformations of work and politics - Offe, Claus,Keane, John, 1985
Book | Background | Offe, Claus “The Two Logics of Collective Action”
The logic of collective action: public goods and the theory of groups - Olson, Mancur, 1965Book | Background
Industrial relations in Europe: traditions and transitions - Ruysseveldt, J. van, Visser, Jelle,1996
Book | Background | chapters on Britain, France, Germany and Sweden.
Trends toward corporatist intermediation - Schmitter, Philippe C., Lehmbruch, Gerhard,1979
Book | Background | “Still the Century of Corporatism”
Varieties of capitalism, corporate governance and employees - Marshall, Shelley, Ramsay,Ian M., Mitchell, Richard, c2008
Book | Background | Wailes, N. et al (2008), “Varieties of Capitalism: CorporateGovernance and Employment Relations under Globalisation”
Varieties of corporatism: a conceptual discussion - Williamson, Peter J., 1985Book | Background
United Nations Global Compact
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Website | Background
About EIROWebpage | Background
Bibliographic note:
For some different definitions see Archer (1992 & 1995), Offe in Berger, Schmitter inBerger, and Lehmbruch in Goldthorpe. See also the somewhat unwieldy definition inSchmitter (1979) – the article which sparked the debate. On conditions fosteringcorporatism see Maier, Lehmbruch, Lange and Regini, all in Goldthorpe. On the importanceof long-run historical conditions see Crouch (1986 & 1993), a good place to start, as well asArcher (1992), Maier in Berger and Maier in Goldthorpe. On whose interests are served seeOffe in Berger, Offe (1985), and Archer (1995) chapter 5. For rational choice approachesand their limits see Olson, Offe (1985), and Lange and Regini in Goldthorpe. For casestudies of different European countries see Ferner and Hyman, or Ruysseveldt and Visser.For a UN-sponsored attempt to establish a kind of global corporatism see www.unglobalcompact.org. The EIRO (European Industrial Relations Observatory) web siteis a rich source of up to date information and data – both comparative and country-specific– on all aspects of industrial relations in the European Union countries.
Questions:
1. What conditions are likely to foster corporatism?
2. Whose interests are likely to be favoured by a corporatist system?
Week 13: Welfare States (15 items)
The politics of social solidarity: class bases in the European welfare state 1875-1975 -Baldwin, Peter, 1990
Book | Background
The social democratic image of society: a study of the achievements and origins ofScandinavian social democracy in comparative perspective - Castles, Francis G., 1978
Book | Background | especially chapter 2.
The three worlds of welfare capitalism - Esping-Andersen, G²sta, 1990Book | Essential | *especially chapters 1 & 5. See also excerpt in Pierson and Castles.
Esping-Andersen, G.The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. SCANNED READING.
Social foundations of postindustrial economies - Esping-Andersen, G²sta, 1999Book | Background
The Development of welfare states in Europe and America - Flora, Peter, Heidenheimer,Arnold J., c1981
Book | Background
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The real worlds of welfare capitalism - Goodin, Robert E., 1999Book | Background
Continuity and change in contemporary capitalism - Kitschelt, Herbert, 1999Book | Background | Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism, chapter 6,
The democratic class struggle - Korpi, Walter, 1983Book | Background | especially chapter 9
The paradox of redistribution and strategies of equality: Welfare state institutions,inequality, and poverty in the western countries - Korpi, Walter, Oct 1998
Article | Background
The welfare state reader - Pierson, Christopher, Castles, Francis G., 2006Book | Background
The New Politics of the Welfare State - Paul Pierson, 2011-6-13Article | Background
Protecting soldiers and mothers: the political origins of social policy in the United States -Skocpol, Theda, 1992
Book | Essential | *especially Introduction.
The welfare state and equality: structural and ideological roots of public expenditures -Wilensky, Harold L., 1975
Book | Background
Old-age security in comparative perspective - Williamson, John B., Pampel, Fred C., 1993Book | Essential | *Introductory chapter
Bibliographic note:
Skocpol (1992), and Williamson and Pampel provide good overviews of the competingexplanations. Esping-Andersen has set the terms for much of the contemporary debate.For a test of his theory by another author see Goodin. Korpi (1983) sets out the originalsocial democratic model. Wilensky defends a version of the logic of industrialism. Baldwin,and Flora and Heidenheimer provide historical depth. Pierson (1996) provides a startingpoint for debates about welfare state retrenchment.
Question:
Why have welfare states developed so differently in different countries?
Week 14: Democracy (19 items)
The civic culture: political attitudes and democracy in five nations - Almond, Gabriel A.,Verba, Sidney, 1963
Book | Background
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Economic Performance, Institutional Intermediation, and Democratic Survival - MichaelBernhard, Timothy Nordstrom and Christopher Reenock, 2001
Article | Background
Comparing Democratic Systems - Donald L Horowitz, 1990Article | Background
Parliamentary versus presidential government - Lijphart, Arend, 1992Book | Background | *esp Intro, and chapters 14 & 29-32.
The Perils of Presidentialism - Linz, J, 1990Article | Essential | *
Problems of democratic transition and consolidation: southern Europe, South America, andpost-communist Europe - Linz, Juan J., Stepan, Alfred C., 1996
Book | Background
The failure of presidential democracy: Vol. 1: Comparative perspectives - Linz, Juan J.,Valenzuela, Arturo, c1994
Book | Background | esp chapter 1, pages 3-22 (Linz), and chapter 4 (Stepan andSkach).
The Social Requisites of Democracy Revisited: 1993 Presidential Address - Seymour MartinLipset, 1994
Article | Essential | *
A comparative analysis of the social requisites of democracy - Lipset, Seymour Martin,1993-05-01
Article | Background
Presidentialism, Multipartism, and Democracy: The Difficult Combination - 1993Article | Background
Social origins of dictatorship and democracy: lord and peasant in the making of themodern world - Moore, Barrington, 1967
Book | Background
What Makes Democracies Endure? - Jose Antonio Cheibub, Adam Przeworski, FernandoPapaterra Limongi Neto, Michael M. Alvarez, 1996
Article | Background
Making democracy work: civic traditions in modern Italy - Putnam, Robert D., Leonardi,Robert, Nanetti, Raffaella, c1993
Book | Background
Fragility of the Third World's regimes - Riggs, Fred W, 1993-05-01Article | Background
Presidentialism versus Parliamentarism: Implications for Representativeness andLegitimacy - Fred W. Riggs, 1997
Article | Background
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Capitalist development and democracy - Rueschemeyer, Dietrich, Huber, Evelyne,Stephens, John D., 1992
Book | Essential | *chapters 1, 2 & 4.*Rueschemeyer, Dietrich.Capitalist development and democracy.SCANNED READING
Constitutional Frameworks and Democratic Consolidation: Parliamentarianism versusPresidentialism - Alfred Stepan and Cindy Skach, 1993
Article | Background
Competitive elections in developing countries - Weiner, Myron, èOzbudun, Ergun, 1987Book | Background | Weiner, Myron “Empirical Democratic Theory”
Bibliographic note:
For a review of work on the importance of economic development see chapter 2 ofRueschemeyer et al. Their own argument (see chapter 1 for a brief introduction) builds onthe classic work of Moore to make the case that class and state factors helps to explainthe effect of economic development. On political culture, see Lipset (1994), for anoverview, and Lipset et al (1993), for some comparative evidence. Both these articles alsoconsider the importance of economic factors. Weiner makes a case for the importance ofdifferent colonial legacies. On political institutions, Linz makes the case againstpresidentialism. For a more elaborate version, see his chapter in Linz and Valenzuela.Riggs (1993, 1997, and chapter 32 in Lijphart) provides further support for this argument,as does Stephan and Skach. Horowitz offers a critique. For more on political institutionsand their interaction with economic factors see Przeworski et al and Bernhard et al.
Question:
Why is democracy able to survive in some countries but not in others?
Week 15: National Identity (10 items)
Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism - Anderson,Benedict R. O'G., 1983
Book | Essential | Anderson, BenedictThe Origins of National Consciousness.SCANNED READING
Nationalism and the state - Breuilly, John, c1993Book | Background
Nations and nationalism - Gellner, Ernest, 1983Book | Essential | *Gellner, Ernest
Nations and nationalism, SCANNED READING
Nations and nationalism since 1780: programme, myth, reality - Hobsbawm, E. J., 1990Book | Background
The invention of tradition - Hobsbawm, E. J., Ranger, T. O., 1983Book | Background
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Nehru and the language politics of India - King, Robert D., 1997Book | Background
Cultural Identities of a European State - 1997Article | Background
National identity - Smith, Anthony D., 1991Book | Essential | *especially chapters 2 & 3.
The Formation of national States in Western Europe - Tilly, Charles, Ardant, Gabriel, 1975Book | Background
Bibliographic note:
Concentrate first on gaining an understanding of the theories in the starred books,especially Anderson and Gellner. Anderson book is short but particularly rich in ideas. Headvocates more than one of the theories that are discussed in the lecture, but make surethat you spend some time on his 'print capitalism' argument. Each of the starred bookssees language as playing a central role in the formation of national identity. Hobsbawmprovides another important treatment: one that looks at some non-language sources ofnational identity. Laitin seeks to understand the role which language might play in theestablishment of a European identity by drawing on the experience of India.
Question:
Why did nations come to be the basic units of politics in Europe?
Week 16: Imperialism and Colonialism (22 items)
Imperialism and Colonialism: (3 items)
Imperialism: a study - Hobson, J. A., c2005Book | Background | Imperialism. pp. 14-20
Selected works - Lenin, Vladimir Il§ich, Fineberg, J., Fineberg, A., Levin, I., Sorin, V. G.,Institut marksizma-leninizma(Moscow, R.S.F.S.R.), [1936-39]
Book | Background | pp.36-51
Surveys from exile - Marx, Karl, Fernbach, David, 1992, c1973Book | Background | East India Company---Its History and Results;" "Indian Affairs;"
"Future Results of the British Rule in India;" "Revolution in China and in Europe"
Background texts (6 items)
European imperialism, 1830-1930: climax and contradiction - Conklin, Alice L., Fletcher,Ian Christopher, c1999
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Book | Background
Colonial encounters in the age of high imperialism - Cook, S. B., c1996Book | Background
Britain in India, 1765-1905 - Marriott, John, Mukhopåadhyåaçya, Bhåaskara, Chatterjee,Partha, 2006
Book | Background
The modern world-system: [Vol.1]: Capitalist agriculture and the origins of the Europeanworld-economy in the sixteenth century - Wallerstein, Immanuel M., 1974
Book | Background
The modern world system: Vol.2: Mercantilism and the consolidation of the European worldeconomy 1600-1750 - Wallerstein, Immanuel M., 2007
Book | Background
The modern world-system: vol.3: The second era of the great expansion of the capitalistworld-economy, 1730-1840's - Wallerstein, Immanuel M., 1989
Book | Background
Institutional Consequences of Colonial Rule (12 items)
The American colonial state in the Philippines: global perspectives - Go, Julian, Foster,Anne L., 2003
Book | Background | Abinales, Patricio Progressive-Machine Conflict inEarly-Twentieth-Century U.S. Politics and Colonial-State Building in the Philippines
Beyond slavery: explorations of race, labor, and citizenship in post-emancipation societies- Cooper, Frederick, Scott, Rebecca J., Holt, Thomas C., 2000
Book | Background
Decolonization and African society: the labor question in French and British Africa -Cooper, Frederick, 1996
Book | Essential | *
Colonialism in question: theory, knowledge, history - Cooper, Frederick, c2005Book | Background
The Political economy of development and underdevelopment - Wilber, Charles K., c1984Book | Background | Frank, Andre G. (1988) "The Development of Underdevelopment"
pp.109-120
Open veins of Latin America: five centuries of the pillage of a continent - Galeano, EduardoH., 1997
Book | Background
Democracy and authoritarianism in South Asia: a comparative and historical perspective -Jalal, Ayesha, 1995
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Book | Essential | *Chapter 1 and2. Chapter 1. SCANNED READING
Citizen and subject: contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism - Mamdani,Mahmood, 1996
Book | Essential | *Mamdani, MahmoodCitizen and subject : contemporary Africaand the legacy of late colonialism. SCANNED READING
How Europe underdeveloped Africa - Rodney, Walter, 1981Book | Background
Europe and the people without history - Wolf, Eric R., c1982Book | Essential
The African colonial state in comparative perspective - Young, Crawford, c1994Book | Essential
Poverty and development into the 21st century - Allen, Tim, Thomas, Alan, Allen, Tim,2000
Book | Essential
Question:
Discuss the effects of colonial rule on the future political development of the colonies, inparticular focusing on the effects of colonial rule on institutions and their legitimacy. Inyour answer you may contrast positive and negative effects, or focus on a particular caseor two contrasting cases to develop your argument.
Week 17: States, Democracy and Development (14 items)
Basic Texts: (3 items)
Poverty and development into the 21st century - Allen, Tim, Thomas, Alan, Allen, Tim,2000
Book | Background
Theories of development - Peet, Richard, Hartwick, Elaine R., c1999Book | Background
Development as freedom - Sen, Amartya Kumar, 1999Book | Background
Case and Comparative studies (10 items)
Poverty and development into the 21st century - Allen, Tim, Thomas, Alan, Allen, Tim,2000
Book | Background | Bernstein, Henry (1990), "Colonialism, Capitalism, Development"
Embedded autonomy: states and industrial transformation - Evans, Peter B., c1995
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Book | Essential | *Chp 1 and Conclusion.
The politics of economic adjustment: international constraints, distributive conflicts, andthe state - Haggard, Stephan, Kaufman, Robert R., Evans, Peter B., 1992
Book | Background
The labor of development: workers and the transformation of capitalism in Kerala, India -Heller, Patrick, 1999
Book | Background
State-directed development: political power and industrialization in the global periphery -Kohli, Atul, 2004
Book | Essential | *Chapter 1
Strong societies and weak states: state-society relations and state capabilities in the ThirdWorld - Migdal, Joel S., c1988
Book | Essential | *
Good government in the tropics - Tendler, Judith, 1997Book | Background
Social democracy in the global periphery: origins, challenges, prospects - Sandbrook,Richard, 2007
Book | Essential | *Introduction
The politics of Africa's economic stagnation - Sandbrook, Richard, Barker, Judith, 1985Book | Background
The politics of Africa's economic recovery - Sandbrook, Richard, 1993Book | Background
Note: Any one of the basic texts will provide you with a good understanding of themeaning of 'development' and 'underdevelopment'.
Questions:
1. Why do some states successfully promote development while others fail to do so?
2. Is social democracy a realistic prospect for third world countries?
Week 18: Ethnic and Religious Conflict (14 items)
Riots and pogroms - Brass, Paul R., 1996Book | Background
Theft of an idol: text and context in the representation of collective violence - Brass, PaulR., 1997
Book | Background
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The production of Hindu-Muslim violence in contemporary India - Brass, Paul R., c2003Book | Background
The deadly ethnic riot - Horowitz, Donald L., c2001Book | Background
The clash of civilizations? - Huntington, Samuel P, Summer 1993Article | Background
The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order - Huntington, Samuel P., c1996Book | Background
Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia - Jalal, Ayesha, 2008Book | Background
Terror in the mind of God: the global rise of religious violence - Juergensmeyer, Mark,c2000
Book | Background
New and old wars: organized violence in a global era - Kaldor, Mary, 2007Book | Essential | *Chapters 2 and 4 especially
Riots, pogroms, jihad: religious violence in Indonesia - Sidel, John Thayer, 2006Book | Background
The Politics of collective violence - Tilly, Charles, 2003Book | Essential | *chapters 1-3
Final solutions: mass killing and genocide in the twentieth century - Valentino, Benjamin A., c2004
Book | Background
Ethnic conflict and civic life: Hindus and Muslims in India - Varshney, Ashutosh, [2003]Book | Essential | *sp chp 1 and conclusion
Question:
1. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses (if you think there are any) of Kaldor'sexplanation for the recent rise in ethnic violence across the globe.
2. Can the rise of ethnic and religious violence be attributed to the state or is it morefruitful to look for answers in the realm of 'civil society'?
Week 19: Globalization and Neoliberalism (14 items)
The anthropology of development and globalization: from classical political economy tocontemporary neoliberalism - Edelman, Marc, Haugerud, Angelique, 2005
Book | Background
The Eclipse of the State? Reflections on Stateness in an Era of Globalization - 1997-01-10Article | Essential | *
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Varieties of capitalism: the institutional foundations of comparative advantage - Hall, PeterA., Soskice, David W., 2001
Book | Background
Governing the economy: the politics of state intervention in Britain and France - Hall, PeterA., 1986
Book | Background
A brief history of neoliberalism - Harvey, David, 2005Book | Essential | * Chapter 1 and 2
The limits to capital - Harvey, David, 2006Book | Background
Global transformations: politics, economics and culture - Held, David, 1999Book | Background
The politics of free markets: the rise of neoliberal economic policies in Britain, France,Germany, and the United States - Prasad, Monica, c2006
Book | Background
Territory, authority, rights: from medieval to global assemblages - Sassen, Saskia, c2006Book | Background
Globalization and its discontents - Sassen, Saskia, 1998Book | Background
Globalization: capitalism and its alternatives - Sklair, Leslie, 2002Book | Background
The myth of the powerless state: governing the economy in a global era - Weiss, Linda,1998
Book | Essential | * Chapter 1 and 7
Question:
1. What is neoliberalism and how is it different from what preceded it?
2. Is the power of states declining under globalization?
Rentier State and Shi'a Islam in the Iranian Revolution - Theda Skocpol, 1982Article | Background | Including comments by Nikki Keddie, Eqbal Ahmad, and Walter
Goldfrank),
Week 20: Revolutions (16 items)
The turban for the crown: the Islamic revolution in Iran - Arjomand, Said Amir, 1989, c1988Book | Background
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Theories of Revolution Reconsidered: Contrasting Models of Collective Violence - Rod Aya,1979
Article | Background
Revolutionary Popular Feminism in Nicaragua: Articulating Class, Gender, and NationalSovereignty - Norma Stoltz Chinchilla, 1990
Article | Background
Fragile resistance: social transformation in Iran from 1500 to the revolution - Foran, John,1993
Book | Background
Theories of Revolution Revisited: Toward a Fourth Generation? - John Foran, 1993Article | Essential | *
Theories of Revolution: The Third Generation - Review by: Jack A. Goldstone, 1980Article | Background
The Comparative and Historical Study of Revolutions - Jack A. Goldstone, 1982Article | Background
Explaining Revolutions in the Contemporary Third World - Jeff Goodwin, Theda Skocpo,1989
Article | Essential | * SCANNED READING
Revolution in history - Porter, Roy, Teich, Mikulâaés, 1986Book | Background | Revolution
The revolutions of 1989: Socialism, capitalism, and democracy - Krishan Kumar, 1992-6Article | Essential | *
States and social revolutions: a comparative analysis of France, Russia and China -Skocpol, Theda, 1979
Book | Essential | *Chapter 1
Does Modernization Breed Revolution? - Charles Tilly, 1973Article | Background
Handbook of political science - Greenstein, Fred I., Polsby, Nelson Woolf, c1975Book | Background | Tilly, Charles (1975), "Revolutions and Collective Violence." Pp.
483-556 in Handbook of Political Science, Vol. 3
From mobilization to revolution - Tilly, Charles, c1978Book | Background
No other way out: states and revolutionary movements, 1945-1991 - Goodwin, Jeff, 2001Book | Essential | * Chapters 1, 2 and Conclusion
Questions:
1. Are revolutions the product of structural breakdowns or wilful strategy? Answer byreferring to one or more cases.
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