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DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE COMPARATIVE POLITICS READING LIST May 2010 Methodology Achen, Chris. (2005).

Lets Put Garbage Can Regressions and Garbage Can Probits Where They Belong. Conflict Management and Peace Science, 22(4), 327-339. Brady, Henry & Collier, David, eds. (2000). Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards. Berkeley, CA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Elster, John. (2007). Explaining Social Behavior. New York: Cambridge University Press. King, Gary, Keohane, Robert, & Verba, Sidney. (1994). Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Geddes, Barbara. (1990). How the Cases you Choose Affect the Answers you Get: Selection Bias in Comparative Politics, Political Analysis, 2, 131-50. Mahoney, James. (2003). Strategies of Causal Assessment in Comparative Historical Analysis. In Mahoney, James & Rueschemeyer, Dietrich eds., Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences, (pp. 337-72). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pierson, Paul. (2007). The Costs of Marginalization: Qualitative Methods in the Study of American Politics. Comparative Political Studies, 40(2), 145-169. Przeworski, Adam. (2007). Is the Science of Comparative Politics Possible? In Boix, Carles & Stokes, Susan C. (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics. New York: Oxford University Press. Cleavage Formation, Order and Disorder Fearon, James & Laitin, David. (1996, December). Explaining Ethnic Cooperation, American Political Science Review, 90, 715-735. Bowles, Samuel & Gintis, Herbert. (2006). Social Preferences, Homo Economicus and Zoon Politikon. In Goodin, Robert E. & Tilly, Charles eds., The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Analysis, (pp. 172-186), Oxford: Oxford University Press. Horowitz, Donald. (1985). Ethnic Groups in Conflict. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Huntington, Samuel P. (1968). Political Order in Changing Societies. New Haven: Yale University Press. Posner, Daniel. (2004). The Political Salience of Cultural Difference: Why Chewas and Tumbakas Are Allies in Zambia and Adversaries in Malawi, American Political Science Review, 98, 529-46.

Wood, Elisabeth. (2003). Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador. New York: Cambridge University Press. Kalyvas, Stathis. (2006). The Logic of Violence in Civil Wars. New York: Cambridge University Press. Kuran, Timur. (1991, October). Now Out of Never: The Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989, World Politics, 44, 7-48. Scott, James. (1977) The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia. New Haven: Yale University Press. Scott, James. (1987) Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven: Yale University Press. Popkin, Samuel. (1979) The Rational Peasant: The Political Economy of Rural Society in Vietnam. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Nationalism Anderson, Benedict. (1983). Imagined Communities. London: Verso. Beissinger, Mark. (2002). Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State. New York: Cambridge University Press. Brubaker, Rogers. (1992). Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Gellner, Ernest. (1983). Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Marx, Anthony. (1998). Making Race and Nation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Miguel, Edward. (2004). Tribe or Nation? Nation Building and Public Goods in Kenya versus Tanzania, World Politics, 56. Skocpol, Theda, (1979). States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Wilkinson, Steven. (2004). Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Wimmer, Andreas. (2002). Nationalist Exclusion and Ethnic Conflict: Shadows of Modernity. New York: Cambridge University Press. State Building Alesina, Alberto, & Spolaore, Enrico. (2003). The Size of Nations. Cambridge: MIT Press. Ertman, Thomas. (1997). Birth of The Leviathan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2

Herbst, Jeffrey. (2000). States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Olson, Mancur. (1982). The Rise and Decline of Nations. New Haven: Yale University Press. 23 Spruyt, Hendrick. (1994). Institutional Selection in International Relations: State Anarchy as Order, International Organization, 48. Tilly, Charles. (1992). Coercion, Capital and European States. Oxford: Blackwell Press. Waldner, David. (1999). State Building and Late Development. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Levi, Margaret. (1988). Of Rule and Revenue. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Migdal, Joel. (1987) Strong Societies, Weak States. In Weiner, Myron & Huntington, Samuel, Understanding Political Development. Illinois: Scott Foresman/Little Brown. Or Migdal Joel. (1998). Strong Societies and Weak States. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Scott, James. (1998). Seeing like a State. New Haven: Yale University Press. Political Regimes Acemoglu, Daron & Robinson, James. (2006). Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press. Boix, Carles. (2003). Democracy and Redistribution. New York: Cambridge University Press. Dahl, Robert A. (1971). Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition. New Haven: Yale University Press. Lijphart, Arend. (1977). Democracy in Plural Societies: A Comparative Exploration. New Haven: Yale University Press. Linz, Juan. (2000). Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes. Boulder: Lynne Rienner. Luebbert, Gregory M. (1987). Social Foundations of Political Order in Interwar Europe, World Politics, 39(4), 449-478. Moore, Barrington, Jr. (1966). Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World. Cambridge: Beacon Press. North, Douglass & Weingast, Barry. (1989). Constitutions and Commitment: Evolution of the Institutions Governing Public Choice in 17th Century England. Journal of Economic History, 49, 803-832. Przeworski, Adam. (1992). Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press. 3

Przeworski, Adam, Alvarez, Michael, Cheibub, Jose, & Limongi, Fernando. (2000). Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well Being in the World, 1950-1990. New York: Cambridge University Press. Wedeen, Lisa. (1999). Ambiguities of Domination. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Gandhi, Jennifer & Przeworski, Adam. (2007). Authoritarian Institutions and the Survival of Autocrats. Comparative Political Studies, 40(11), 1279-1301. Gandhi, Jennifer & Lust-Okar, Ellen. (2009). Elections under Authoritarianism. Annual Review of Political Science, 12, 403-422. Political Institutions Bates, Robert. (1981). Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Knight, Jack. (1995). Models, Interpretations, and Theories: Constructing Explanations of Institutional Emergence and Change. In Knight, Jack & Sened, Itai, eds., Explaining Social Institutions, (pp. 95-120). Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. Linz, Juan, & Valenzuela, Arturo, eds. (1994). The Failure of Presidential Democracy: Comparative Perspectives. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. North, Douglas. (1990). Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pzreworski, Adam, & Maravall, Jose, eds. (2003). Democracy and the Rule of Law. New York: Cambridge University Press. Powell, G. Bingham, Jr. (2001). Elections as Instruments of Democracy: Majoritarian and Proportional Visions. New Haven: Yale University Press. Putnam, Robert with Leonardi, Robert & Nanetti, Raffaella. (1993). Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Jonathan Rodden. (2006). Hamiltons Paradox: The Promise and Peril of Fiscal Federalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Political Parties, Participation, and Mobilization Cox, Gary. (1997). Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems. New York: Cambridge University Press. Chhibber, Pradeep, & Kollman, Ken. (2004). The Formation of National Party Systems: Federalism and Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 4

Garrett, Geoffrey. (1998). Partisan Politics in the Global Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kitschelt, Herbert. (1992). The Formation of Party Systems in East Central Europe. Politics and Society, 20, 7-50. Mainwaring, Scott and Scully, Timothy R. (1995). Introduction. In Mainwaring & Scully, eds., Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Grzymala-Busse, Anna. (2007) Rebuilding Leviathan: Party Competition and State Exploitation in PostCommunist Democracies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Przeworski, Adam. (1986). Paper Stones. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Martin Shefter. (1981). Parties and Patronage: England, Germany, and Italy. Politics and Society, 7, 403451. Shugart, Matthew & Carey, John. (1992). Presidents and Assemblies: Constitutional Design and Electoral Dynamics. New York: Cambridge University Press. Strom, Kaare. (1990). Minority Government and Majority Rule. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Stokes, Susan. (2005). Perverse Accountability. American Political Science Review, 99(3), 315-325. Tsebelis, George. (1995). Decision Making in Political Systems: Veto Players in Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, Multicameralism and Multipartyism. British Journal of Political Science, 25, 289-325. Wittenberg, Jason. (2006). Crucibles of Political Loyalty: Church Institutions and Electoral Continuity in Hungary. New York: Cambridge University Press. Magaloni, Beatriz. (2006). Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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