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assistance to students in many areas. Please do not feel University of Toronto Press, 1980), 90.
stigmatized by using these resources. Good students become 2 James F. Powers, "Frontier Municipal Baths and Social
Students writing papers will present their analysis in class (~15 minutes) and help lead discussion. The
matrix for grading presentations is as follows:
• Presentation Style: (e.g. professional, well-organized, maintain eye contact with audience, speak
loudly/clearly/slowly, able to respond to questions easily, time management)
• Content: (e.g. organized, logical flow, overview of issue provided, clear arguments, supporting
information provided, use of outside research, integrate course material into presentation)
• Discussion Questions (provision of stimulating and relevant questions relating your book to the
other required readings)
Please feel free to contact me about any concerns you have about the course. This syllabus is
tentative and subject to change.
Reading Assignments
Thursday January 15 Introduction
During the first seminar meeting, students shall sign up for weeks in which they will write critical
reviews.
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1. David Collier and Robert Adock. 1999. “Democracy and Dichotomies: A Pragmatic Approach to Choices about
Concepts.” Annual Review of Political Science 2: 537-65.
2. Giovanni Sartori, “Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics,” American Political Science Review 64
(1970): 1033-1053.
3. David Collier and Steven Levitsky, “Democracy with Adjectives: Conceptual Innovation in Comparative
Research,” World Politics 49:3 (April 1997): 430-51.
4. Kenneth Bollen, “Political Democracy: Conceptual and Measurement Traps,” Studies in Comparative
International Development 25:1 (Spring 1990): 7-24.
5. Hirschman, "The Search for Paradigms as a Hindrance to Understanding," World Politics, 22 (April 1970)
6. Munck, Gerardo L. “The Regime Question: Theory Building in Democracy Studies” World Politics, vol. 54,
no. 1, pp. 119-144, Oct 2001
Thursday January 29
Tilly, Charles Big Structures, Large Processes and Huge Comparisons
Atul Kohli et al. 1995. “The Role of Theory in Comparative Politics: A Symposium.” World
Politics 48 (October): 1-49.
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6. Woods, Dwayne “Latitude or Rectitude: Geographical or Institutional Determinants of
Development” Third World Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 8, pp. 1401-1414, Dec 2004
Matthew Lange and Dietrich Rueschemeyer 2005 States and development :historical antecedents of stagnation and
advance /New York : Palgrave Macmillan.
Matthew Lange 2009 Lineages of despotism and development :
British colonialism and state power /Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press.
Bertrand Badie 2000 The imported state : the westernization of the political orderStanford, Calif. : Stanford
University Press
Charles Tilly. 1992. Coercion, Capital, and European States. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
Miguel Angel Centeno and Fernando López Alves, eds. The Other Mirror: Grand Theory through the
Lens of Latin America Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Lopez-Alves, Fernando. 2000. State formation and democracy in Latin America, 1810-1900. Duke
University Press, 2000.
Tilly Coercion, Capital, and European States
States and Development: Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
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Apter, David E. 1965. The Politics of Modernization Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Books:
Bertrand Badie. 2000. The imported state :the westernization of the political order Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
Apter, David E. Rethinking Development: Modernization, Dependency, and Postmodern Politics
Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications
Evans, Peter. Dependent Development. The Alliance of Multinationals, the State and Local Capital in
Brazil (Princeton: Princeton University Press) 1979
Peter Evans. 1995. Embedded autonomy : States and Industrial Transformation. Princeton: Princeton
University Press.
Becker, David G. et al. 1987 Post-imperialism, International Capitalism and Development in the Late
Twentieth Century Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Thursday March 12
Structure and agency; process; What is theory? deductive vs. inductive approaches
1. Terry Lynn Karl and Philippe C. Schmitter, "Modes of Transition in Latin America, Southern and Eastern
Europe," International Social Science Journal (May 1991), pp. 269-284.
2. John Higley and Michael G. Burton, "The Elite Variable in Democratic Transitions and Breakdowns,"
American Sociological Review Vol. 54, No. 1, Feb. 1989, pp. 17-32.]
3. Frances Hagopian, "'Democracy by Undemocratic Means' Elites, Political Pacts, and Regime Transition in
Brazil." Comparative Political Studies 23, no. 2 (July 1990), pp. 147-169.
4. Barbara Geddes, "Paradigms and Sandcastles: Research Design in Comparative Politics,” APSA-CP
Newsletter 8:1 (Winter 1997): 18-21. (http://www.nd.edu/~apsacp/apsa1997.html)
5. Howard, Marc Morje; Roessler, Philip G. “Liberalizing Electoral Outcomes in Comparative
Authoritarian Regimes” American Journal of Political Science, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 365-381, Apr
2006.
6. Harry Eckstein, 1982. "The Idea of Political Development: From Dignity to Efficiency." World
Politics 34 (July), 451-486.
Books:
Juan J. Linz, The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Crisis, Breakdown, and Reequilibration (Johns Hopkins,
1978). 130 pp. ISBN 0-8018-2009-X
Guillermo O’Donnell and Phillippe Schmitter, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions about
Uncertain Transitions (Johns Hopkins UP, 1986). 71 pp. ISBN 0-8018-2682-9
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Gretchen Caspar and Michelle M. Taylor, Negotiating Democracy: Transitions from Authoritarian Rule (U
Pittsburgh Press, 1996).
Giuseppi di Palma. 1990. To Craft Democracies: An Essay on Democratic Transitions. Berkeley: University of
California Press.
Paul Drake and Mathew McCubbins, (eds.) 1998. The Origins of Liberty: Political and Economic Liberalization in
the Modern World. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
1. Barbara Geddes. 1999. “What Do We Know About Democratization After TwentyYears?” Annual Review of
Political Science 2: 115-44.
2. Rose, Richard; Shin, Doh Chull, “Democratization Backwards: The Problem of Third-Wave Democracies”
British Journal of Political Science, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 331-354, Apr 2001
3. Karen Remmer, “The Sustainability of Political Democracy: Lessons from South America,” Comparative
Political Studies 29:6 (December 1996): 611-34.
4. Armony, Ariel C.; Schamis, Hector E. “Babel in Democratization Studies” Journal of Democracy, vol. 16,
no. 4, pp. 113-128, Oct 2005
5. Croissant, Aurel, and Wolfgang Merkel. 2004. Introduction: Democratization in the early twenty-first
century. Democratization 11, (5) (Dec): 1-9.
6. Bunce, Valerie. 2000. Comparative democratization: Big and bounded generalizations. Comparative
Political Studies 33, (6-7) (Aug-Sept): 703-734.
Books:
Samuel Huntington, The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (Norman: U Oklahoma P,
1991)
Przeworski, Adam, et al. 2000. Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and material Well-Being in the
World, 1950-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lijphart, Arend. 1999. Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries. New
Haven: Yale University Press.
Charles Tilly, Social Movements: 1768-2004 (Paradigm, 2004)
Dalpino, Catharin E. Deferring democracy : promoting openness in authoritarian regimes Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press, 2000.
1. Adam Przeworski, Michael Alvarez, José Antonio Cheibub, and Fernando Limongi, “What Makes
Democracies Endure?” Journal of Democracy 7:1 (January 1996): 39-55
2. Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan, “Toward Consolidated Democracies,” Journal of Democracy 7:2 (April
1996): 14-33.
3. Guillermo O’Donnell, “Illusions about Consolidation,” Journal of Democracy 7:2 (April 1996): 34-51; and
the debate on it in JoD 7:4 (October 1996): 151-68.
4. E. Huber, D. Rueschemeyer, and J.D. Stephens, “The Paradoxes of Contemporary Democracy: Formal,
Participatory, and Social Dimensions,” Comparative Politics 29:3 (April 1997): 323-342.
5. Schedler, Andreas. “Measuring Democratic Consolidation” Studies in Comparative International
Development, Spring2001, Vol. 36 Issue 1, p66,)
6. Kurtz, Marcus J. 2004. The dilemmas of democracy in the open economy: Lessons from Latin America.
World Politics 56, (2) (Jan): 262-302
7. Bunce, Valerie. 2003. Rethinking recent democratization: Lessons from the post-communist experience.
World Politics 55, (2) (Jan): 167-192
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Books:
Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation (Johns Hopkins UP, 1996).
Politics of Democratic Consolidation: Southern Europe in Comparative Perspective Edited by Richard Gunther,
P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, and Hans- Jurgen Puhle. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995)
Adam Przeworski. 1995. Sustainable Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman, 1995. The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions. Princeton:
Princeton University Press.
Does Democracy Help the Poor
1. Harvey Starr, “Democratic Dominoes: Diffusion Approaches to the Spread of Democracy in the
International System,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 35:2 (June 1991): 356-381.
2. John O'Loughlin, Michael D. Ward, et al., "The Diffusion of Democracy, 1946-1994," Annals of the
Association of American Geographers, 88:4 (December 1998): 545-74. [The original is in color and is
worth seeing.]
3. Pevehouse, Jon C. 2002. “Democracy from the Outside-In? International Organizations and
Democratization” International Organization, 56/ 3 (Summer): 515-549.
4. Gleditsch KS, Ward MD “Diffusion and the international context of democratization” International
Organization 60 (4): 911-933 FAL 2006
5. Bell, James E.; Staeheli, Lynn A. “Discourses of Diffusion and Democratization” Political Geography, vol.
20, no. 2, pp. 175-195, Feb 2001
6. Brinks, Daniel; Coppedge, Michael “Diffusion Is No Illusion: Neighbor Emulation in the Third Wave of
Democracy” Comparative Political Studies, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 463-489, May 2006
7. Levitsky, Steven; Way, Lucan A “International Linkage and Democratization” Journal of Democracy, vol.
16, no. 3, pp. 20-34, July 2005
Books:
John Markoff, Waves of Democracy: Social Movements and Political Change (SAGE, 1996);
Laurence Whitehead, ed., The International Dimensions of Democratization: Europe and the Americas (Oxford
UP, 1996).
International Democracy and the West: The Role of Governments, Civil Society, and Multinational Business. By
Richard Youngs. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Books:
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Carles Boix. 2003. Democracy and redistribution Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press
Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman, The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions
Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner, eds, Economic Reform and Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1995):
Hernando De Soto, The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World (New York: Harper and Row,
1989)
José María Maravall, Regimes, Politics and Markets (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1997)
Przeworski, A, Alvarez, M, Cheibub, J A & Limongi, F (2000). Democracy and development.. New York:
Cambridge University Press.
Migdal, Joel. Strong Societies & Weak States State-Society Relations & State Capabilities in the Third World
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988)
Hernando De Soto, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
(London: Bantam Press, 2000)
Amy Chua. 2003. World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global
Instability
Rec:
Robert A. Dahl, "Why Free Markets Are Not Enough," Journal of Democracy 3, 3 (July 1992), pp. 82-89.
1. Robert W. Jackman and Ross A. Miller, “A Renaissance of Political Culture?” American Journal of
Political Science 40:3 (August 1996): 632-59.
2. Fukuyama, Francis “Social capital, civil society and development” Third World Quarterly, Feb2001, Vol.
22 Issue 1.
3. Sidney Tarrow, “Making Social Science Work Across Space and Time: A Critical Reflection on Robert
Putnam’s Making Democracy Work,” American Political Science Review 90:2 (June 1996): 389-97;
4. Edward N. Muller and Mitchell A. Seligson, "Civic Culture and Democracy: The Question of Causal
Relationships," American Political Science Review 88, no. 3 (September 1994), pp. 635-652.
5. Hadenius, A, Teorell, J “Cultural and economic prerequisites of democracy: Reassessing recent evidence”
Studies in comparative international development 2005 Volume: 39 Issue: 4 Page: 87 -106
6. Philpott, Daniel, “The Catholic Wave” Journal of Democracy, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 32-46, Apr 2004
7. Teorell, Jan; Hadenius, Axel “Democracy without Democratic Values: A Rejoinder to Welzel and
Inglehart” Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID) Volume 41, Number 3 / September,
2006 96-111
Books:
Putnam, Robert. Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Princeton: Princeton Univ
Press, 1994).
Crawford Young. 1994. The African State in Comparative Perspective.
Lisa Anderson. 1984. The State and Social Transformation.
Judith Tendler, 1997. Good Government in the Tropics. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins.
Laura A Reese; Raymond A Rosenfeld 2002 The civic culture of local economic development /Thousand Oaks,
Calif. : Sage Publications
Xavier N De Souza Briggs. 2008. Democracy as problem solving :civic capacity in communities across the globe
/Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press
Rec.
Donald L. Horowitz, "Democracy in Divided Societies," Journal of Democracy 4:4 (October 1993): 18-38.
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1. Welzel, Christian; Inglehart, Ronald; Klingemann, Hans-Dieter “The Theory of Human
Development: A Cross-Cultural Analysis” European Journal of Political Research, vol. 42, no. 3,
pp. 341-379, May 2003
2. Evans, Peter. “Development as Institutional Change: The Pitfalls of Monocropping and the
Potentials of Deliberation” Studies in Comparative International Development, vol. 38, no. 4, pp.
30-52, winter 2004
3. Evans, Peter. “Collective Capabilities, Culture, and Amartya Sen's Development as Freedom”
Studies in Comparative International Development, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 54-60, summer 2002
Books:
Nussbaum, Martha Women and Human Development The Capabilities Approach Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom. Oxford University Press, 1999.
Christian Welzel Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy: The Human Development Sequence
(Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Book:
Alfred Stepan, Rethinking Military Politics: Brazil and the Southern Cone (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1988)
Civil-Military Relations in Latin America: New Analytical Perspectives. Edited by David Pion-Berlin. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Brian Downing. 1992. The Military Revolution and Political Change. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Recommended Readings:
African Perspectives on Development: Controversies, Dilemmas and Openings Ulf Himmelstrand, Kabiru
Kinyanjui, and Edward Mburugu, eds. London: James Curry Ltd., 1994.
African Politics and Problems in Development Richard L. Sklar and C.S. Whitaker. Boulder: Lynne Rienner
Publishers, 1991.
Chilcote, Ronald H. 1984. Theories of Development and Underdevelopment Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
Civic Culture Gabriel Almond and Sydney Verba. 1963.
David Collier The New Authoritarianism in Latin America (Princeton, 1979) pp. 1-32
Dube, S.C. 1988. Modernization and Development: The Search for Alternative Paradigms London: Zed Books
and Tokyo: United Nations University.
Feminist Frameworks: Alternative Accounts of the Relations Between Women and Men Edited by Alison Jaggar
and Paula Rothenberg.(New York: McGraw-Hill) 1984. Ch.1 and conclusion
G. Bingham Powell Contemporary Democracies: Participation, Stability and Violence (Cambridge: Harvard
1982)
Hobson, J.A. 1965. Imperialism: A Study Ann Arbor: Ann Arbor Paperbacks, University of Michigan Press.
Prebisch, R. Hacia una dinamica del desarrollo latinoamericano Mexico, 1963.
Rostow, Walt W. 1960. The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non- Communist Manifesto Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Weiner, Myron, and Samuel P. Huntington (eds.). 1987. Understanding Political Development Boston: Little
Brown.
Mao Zedong. 1971. “Some Questions Concerning Methods of Leadership.” Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung. Peking: Foreign
Languages Press. Vol III, pp. 117-22.
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Papers
You must turn in a copy of your paper to me. In addition, you must submit the same paper electronically to:
http://turnitin.com/ You must register for turnitin.com before you do this. BOTH COPIES MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE
DEADLINE (5 pm the day before you present). .
Register and then log on to the class. The course number is 1422888 and the password is progress. Your paper will receive a
zero if it is not submitted to turnitin.com.
Take time to make careful choices among -- and learn to use -- the research tools available to you. You will probably
find that your favorite Web search engine is not adequate, by itself, for college-level research. Consult with your professor or
a librarian. You may need to use specialized research tools, some of which may require learning new searching techniques.
Expect to make trips to the library. While you can access many of the library's resources from your home computer, you
may find that you need to make several trips to the library to use materials or research tools that are not accessible remotely.
Of course you will be seeking the best information, not settling for sources simply because they happen to be available
online.
Allow time for gathering materials that are not available at UTD. The Interlibrary Loan office can borrow articles and
books from other libraries, but this process takes additional time.
Allow time for reading, rereading, absorbing information, taking notes, synthesizing, and revising your research strategy or
conducting additional research as new questions arise.
TAKING NOTES
Sloppy note-taking increases the risk that you will unintentionally plagiarize. Unless you have taken notes carefully, it
may be hard to tell whether you copied certain passages exactly, paraphrased them, or wrote them yourself. This is especially
problematic when using electronic source materials, since they can so easily be copied and pasted into your own documents.
Identify words that you copy directly from a source by placing quotation marks around them, typing them in a different
color, or highlighting them. (Do this immediately, as you are making your notes. Don't expect to remember, days or weeks
later, what phrases you copied directly.) Make sure to indicate the exact beginning and end of the quoted passage. Copy the
wording, punctuation and spelling exactly as it appears in the original.
Jot down the page number and author or title of the source each time you make a note, even if you are not quoting
directly but are only paraphrasing.
Keep a working bibliography of your sources so that you can go back to them easily when it's time to double-check the
accuracy of your notes. If you do this faithfully during the note-taking phase, you will have no trouble completing the "works
cited" section of your paper later on.
Keep a research log. As you search databases and consult reference books, keep track of what search terms and databases
you used and the call numbers and url's of information sources. This will help if you need to refine your research strategy,
locate a source a second time, or show your professor what works you consulted in the process of completing the project.
DOCUMENTING SOURCES
You must cite paraphrases. Paraphrasing is rewriting a passage in your own words. If you paraphrase a passage, you
must still cite the original source of the idea. For detailed examples and a discussion, see Appropriate Uses of Sources.
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You must cite ideas given to you in a conversation, in correspondence, or over email.
You must cite sayings or quotations that are not familiar, or facts that are not "common knowledge." However, it is
not necessary to cite a source if you are repeating a well known quote such as Kennedy's "Ask not what your country can do
for you . . .," or a familiar proverb such as "You can't judge a book by its cover." Common knowledge is something that is
widely known. For example, it is common knowledge that Bill Clinton served two terms as president. It would not be
necessary to cite a source for this fact.
There is a common misconception that Electronic sources: web pages, articles from e-journals, newsgroup
only printed sources of information, like postings, graphics, email messages, software, databases.
books and magazine articles, need to be
formally cited. In fact, audiovisual and Images: works of art, illustrations, cartoons, tables, charts, graphs.
electronic sources -- even email messages -
- must be documented as well, if you use
ideas or words from them in your writing. Recorded or spoken material: course lectures, films, videos, TV or radio
Here are some examples of the kinds of broadcasts, interviews, public speeches, conversations.
sources that should be cited:
Taylor, Brian D., and Roxana Botea. 2008. Tilly tally: War-making and state-making in the contemporary third world.
International Studies Review 10, (1) (Mar.): 27-56.
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