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YALE UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
COMPARATIVE POLITICS READING LIST
2007

Methodology

Brady, Henry, and Collier, David, eds. 2000. Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared
Standards, ch. 1-2, 12-13.

Fearon, James. 1991. “Counterfactuals and Hypothesis Testing in Political Science,” World
Politics, Vol. 43, pp. 169-95.

King, Gary, Keohane, Robert, and Verba, Sidney. 1994. Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific
Inference in Qualitative Research. Princeton University Press, ch. 1-3.

Sartori, Giovanni. 1970. “Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics,” American Political

Science Review, Vol. 64, pp. 1033-53.

Weingast, Barry. 1996. “Off-the-Path Behavior: A Game-Theoretic Approach to

Counterfactuals and Its Implications for Political and Historical Analysis,” in Tetlock, Philip, and
Belkin, Aaron, eds., Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics: Logical,
Methodological, and Psychological Perspectives. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 230-
43.

Cleavage Formation, Order and Disorder

Fearon, James & Laitin, David. December 1996. “Explaining Ethnic Cooperation,” American
Political Science Review, Vol. 90, pp. 715-735.

Fehr, Ernst, and Gachter, Simon. 2000. “Fairness and Retaliation: The Economics of
Reciprocity,” Journal of Economic Perspective, Vol. 14, pp. 159-81.

Horowitz, Donald. 1985. Ethnic Groups in Conflict. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of
California Press, ch. 1-5.

Huntington, Samuel P. 1968. Political Order in Changing Societies. New Haven: Yale University
Press, ch. 1 and 4.

Laitin, David. 1986. Hegemony and Culture. Berkeley and Los Angeles: California University
Press, ch. 1, 8.

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,
Vol. 98, pp. 529-46.

Nationalism

Anderson, Benedict. 1983. Imagined Communities. London: Verso, ch. 1-9.

Brubaker, Rogers. 1992. Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, Intro., ch. 1, 7, 8.

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Deutsch, Karl W. 1966. Nationalism and Social Communication: An Inquiry into the
Foundations of Nationality. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Gellner, Ernest. 1983. Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Wimmer, Andreas. 2002. Nationalist Exclusion and Ethnic Conflict: Shadows of Modernity.
New York: Cambridge University Press.

Miguel, Edward. 2004. “Tribe or Nation? Nation Building and Public Goods in Kenya versus
Tanzania,” World Politics, Vol. 56, pp. .

State Building

Alesina, Alberto, and Spolaore, Enrico. 2003. The Size of Nations. MIT Press (selections).

Ertman, Thomas. 1997. Birth of The Leviathan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ch. 1,
7.

Mattli, Walter. 1999. The Logic of Regional Integration: Europe and Beyond. New York:
Cambridge University Press

Spruyt, Hendrick. 1994. “Institutional Selection in International Relations: State Anarchy as

Order,” International Organization, Vol. 48.

Tilly, Charles. 1992. Coercion, Capital and European States. Oxford: Blackwell Press, ch. 1-5
and 7.

Waldner, David. 1999. State Building and Late Development. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
ch. 1-2, 8-9.

Political Regimes

Bates, Robert & Da Hsing Lien. 1985. “A Note on Taxation, Development, and Representative
Government,” Politics and Society 14:53-70.

Boix, Carles. 2003. Democracy and Redistribution. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Bunce, Valerie. 2003. “Rethinking Recent Democratization: Lessons from the Postcommunist
Experience.” World Politics 55(2):167-192.

Lijphart, Arend. 1977. Democracy in Plural Societies: A Comparative Exploration. New Haven:
Yale University Press, ch. 1-3.

Linz, Juan. 2000. Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, ch. 4.

Linz, Juan, and Stepan, Alfred. 1996. Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation:
Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
Press, pp. 3-83.

Luebbert, Gregory M. 1987. “Social Foundations of Political Order in Interwar Europe,” World
Politics 39, 4.

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Moore, Barrington, Jr. 1966. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant
in the Making of the Modern World. Cambridge: Beacon Press, ch. 7-9.

O’Donnell, Guillermo. 1970. Modernization and Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism. Berkeley:

University of California.

O’Donnell, Guillermo, Schmitter, Philippe C., and Whitehead, Laurence, eds., Transitions from
Authoritarian Rule: comparative Perspectives. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, ch.
1-3.

Przeworski, Adam. 1992. Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in
Eastern Europe and Latin America, New York: Cambridge University Press, ch. 2-4.

Przeworski, Adam, Alvarez, Michael, Cheibub, Jose, and Limongi, Fernando. 2000. Democracy
and Development: Political Institutions and Well Being in the World, 1950-1990. New York:
Cambridge University Press.

Skocpol, Theda, 1979. States and Social Revolutions, ch. 1, 4.

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.

Firmin-Sellers, Kathryn. 1995. “The Politics of Property Rights,” American Political Science
Review 89, 4:867-881.

Hardin, Russell. 1982. Collective Action. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Intro., ch.
1-7, 9-10.

Knight Jack. 1995. “Models, Interpretations, and Theories: Constructing Explanations of

Institutional Emergence and Change,” in Jack Knight and Itai Sened, eds., Explaining Social
Institutions, pp. 95-120.

Lijphart, Arend. 1999. Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-
Six Countries. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Linz, Juan, and Valenzuela, Arturo, eds. 1994. The Failure of Presidential Democracy:
Comparative Perspectives. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, ch. 1.

North, Douglas. 1990. Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ch. 4-8.

Pzreworski, Adam, and Maravall, Jose, eds. 2003. Democracy and the Rule of Law. New York:
Cambridge University Press, ch. 4-5, 8.

Powell, G. Bingham, Jr. and Guy D. Whitten. 1993. "A Cross-National Analysis of Economic
Voting: Taking Account of the Political Context." American Journal of Political Science 37:391-
414.

Putnam, Robert with Leonardi, Robert and Nanetti, Raffaella. 1993. Making Democracy Work:
Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton University Press, ch. 1, 4, 6.

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Snidal, Duncan. 1979. “Public Goods, Property Rights and Political Organizations,”
International Studies Quarterly, 23: 532-566.

Political Parties, Participation, and Mobilization

Cox, Gary. 1997. Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems.
New York: Cambridge University Press, ch. 1-4.

Chhibber, Pradeep, and Kollman, Ken. 2004. The Formation of National Party Systems:
Federalism and Party Competion in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, ch. 1, 4, 5.

Dahl, Robert A. 1971. Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition. New Haven: Yale University
Press, ch. 1-3, 8, 10-11.

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, Vol. 20, pp. 7-50.

Kitschelt, Herbert, Mansfeldova, Zdenka, Markowski, Radoslaw, and Toka, Gabor. 1999. Post-
Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ch. 1, 2, 11.

Laver, Michael and Schofield, Norman. 2001. Multiparty Government: The Politics of Coalition
in Europe. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, ch. 2-7.

Przeworski, Adam. 1986. Paper Stones. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 57-99.

Shugart Matthew & John Carey. 1992. Presidents and Assemblies: Constitutional Design and
Electoral Dynamics, New York : Cambridge University Press, ch. 1-4 and 13.

Strom, Kaare. 1990. Minority Government and Majority Rule. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.
Press, ch. 1-4.

Tsebelis, George. 1995. “Decision Making in Political Systems: Veto Players in Presidentialism,
Parliamentarism, Multicameralism and Multipartyism,” British Journal of Political Science,
25:289-325.

Political Economy

Acemoglu, Daron, James Robinson and Simon Johnson. 2001. “The Colonial Origins of
Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation,” American Economic Review, 91:1369-
1401.

Chaudry, Kiren Aziz. 1989. “The Price of Wealth: Business and State in Labor Remittance and
Oil Economies,” International Organization, 43:101-145.

Engerman, Stanley and Sokoloff, Kenneth. 1997. “Factor Endowments, Institutions, and
Differential Paths of Growth Among New World Economies: A View From Economic Historians
of the United States,” in Haber, Stephen, ed., How Latin America Fell Behind. Stanford:
Stanford U. Press.

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Iversen, Torben. 1999. Contested Economic Institutions: The Politics of Macroecnomices and
Wage Bargaining in Advanced Democracies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Mares, Isabela. 2003. The Politics of Social Risk : Business and Welfare State Development.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ch. 1-2, 7.

Olson, Mancur. 1993. "Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development," American Political Science
Review 87, 567-77.

Persson, Torsten and Tabellini, Guido. 2003. The Economic Effects of Constitutions. Cambridge:
MIT Press, 2003.

Rogowski, Ronald. 1989. Commerce and Coalitions: How Trade Affects Domestic Political
Alignments. Princeton: Princeton University Press, ch. 1 and 7.