School of Politics and International Relations

Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad

Course Title: Comparative Politics

Course Code: Pol-302

Course Instructor: Dr Muhammad Nadeem Mirza

Semester: Spring 2014

Introduction
This course deals with the principles, theories and the practice of Comparative Politics. Its
focus will remain on two questions: what to compare and how to compare. It deals with the
following main themes: theories of comparative politics, analytical and methodological
approaches, political construct of states and nation states, political regimes, and political
economy. Within these broad themes the debates such as scienticity of social science,
causes of development and underdevelopment, nations and nationalism, causes of social
unrest and ethno-national movements, political institutions and regimes, political culture
and behaviour, democratisation and authoritarianism will be dealt.
Teaching Duration: February 3, 2014 to May 23, 2014
Attendance: Class attendance is a MUST. According to the university policy, any student
having less than 80% attendance will not be allowed to appear in the terminal examination.
Besides class attendance has fix marks.
Faux Attendance: Class attendance will be randomly checked and any student having faux
attendance will be penalised with three positive attendance and 10 marks.
Make-up exams: Any student missing or failing any sessional exam or presentation or
submission of the article review will be allowed to appear for the make-up exam, in which
case they will lose 25% of the original marks dedicated for the said exams.
Class Presentation: All the students will be required to choose one article from the reading
list and it will be mandatory to present the article review in the form of presentation. Before
the start of the class, ten minutes will be reserved for the students presentation. Students
have the liberty to choose the article by themselves; otherwise they will be allotted the
articles for review by the class instructor.
Article Review
Students are required to choose three articles (besides one article for presentation) for
article review. Article reviews will be of about two to three pages, mentioning the main
idea, theory being used, methodology being adopted, and whether the author has been
successful in defending the hypothesis developed in the study or otherwise. A critical
analysis of the authors point of view will earn you extra marks.

Contact Information
For any query or discussion about the study related problems, class instructor will be
available in the office for 15 minutes after the end of the class. For exceptional discussion
about the study, students can take appointment through the following email.
mnadeemmirza@yahoo.com
Dates of Submission of Article Reviews
March 5, 2014: Submission of first Article Review
April 2, 2014: Submission of Second Article Review
May 14, 2014: Submission of Third Article Review
Marks Division:
Two Sessional exams: 15 Marks each
Three Article Reviews: 10 marks each
Presentation: 10
Class attendance and Discussion: 5
Final Exams: 75
Course Structure
Week 1-2
Introduction
What is Comparative Politics?
Why Study Comparative Politics?
Evolution of Comparative Politics as a field of Study
Suggested Readings
Kopstein, Jeffrey, and Mark Irving Lichbach,. What Is Comparative Politics. In Comparative
Politics: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in a Changing Global Order, edited by Jeffrey
Kopstein and Mark Irving Lichbach. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 1-3 and
8-13
ONeil, Patrick H. What Is Comparative Politics? In Essentials of Comparative Politics. New
York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2010.
Daalder, Hans. The Development of the Study of Comparative Politics. In Comparative
Democratic Politics: a Guide to Contemporary Theory and Research, edited by Hans Keman.
London: SAGE, 2002.
Newton, Kenneth, and Jan W. van Deth. Why Comparative Politics? In Foundations of
Comparative Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Additional Readings

Munck, Gerardo L. The Past and Present of Comparative Politics. Working paper. Helen Kellogg
Institute for International Studies, 2006.
http://www3.nd.edu/~kellogg/publications/workingpapers/WPS/330.pdf.
Landman, Todd. Why, How, and Problems of Comparison. In Issues and Methods in
Comparative Politics: An Introduction. London: Routledge, 2003.
Newton, Kenneth, and Jan W. van Deth. Why Comparative Politics? In Foundations of
Comparative Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Dalton, Russell J, and G. Bingham, Strm, Kaare Powell. Comparative Politics Today: A World
View. New York: Longman, 2012.
Week 3-4
Theories, Methods, and Processes of Comparative Politics
Concept of paradigm and paradigmatic shift
Scienticity of Social Sciences
Approaches to Comparative Politics: Institutional, Rational choice and Political culture
approaches
Methods: Which is preferable: Quantitative or Qualitative Research techniques, Cross
national or case-study models?
Approaches to International Relations

Suggested Readings
Thomas Kuhns concept of Paradigm
King, Gary, Robert O Keohane, and Sidney Verba. The Science in Social Science. In Designing
Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton
University Press, 1994.
March, Andrew F. What Is Comparative Political Theory? The Review of Politics 71, no. 04
(2009): 531565.
Chilcote, Ronald H. Theories of Comparative Politics: The Search for a Paradigm Reconsidered.
Westview Press Boulder, Colorado, 1994. http://www.getcited.org/pub/103172538.
Articles, Approaches to Comparative Politics
Newton, Kenneth, and Jan W. van Deth. How and What to Compare? In Foundations of
Comparative Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Kesselman, Mark, Joel Krieger, and William A. Joseph. Introducing Comparative Politics. In
Introduction to Comparative Politics: Brief Edition. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
1-9
Kopstein, Jeffrey, and Mark Irving Lichbach, eds. Tools of Analysis: Interests, Identities, and
Institutions. In Comparative Politics: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in a Changing
Global Order. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 4-8
Pennings, Paul, Hans Keman, and J Kleinnijenhuis. The Comparative Approach: Theory and
Method. In Doing Research in Political Science: An Introduction to Comparative Methods
and Statistics. London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2006. 6-8

Additional Readings
Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago press, 2012.
http://books.google.com.pk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=3eP5Y_OOuzwC&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&dq=t
homas+Kuhn+concept+of+paradigm&ots=xT4Lz8jQqL&sig=oYfDzgqQwsasDwRI0sb8891
cpZY.
. Second Thoughts on Paradigms. The Structure of Scientific Theories 2 (1974): 459
482.
Euben, Roxanne L. Comparative Political Theory: An Islamic Fundamentalist Critique of
Rationalism. The Journal of Politics 59, no. 01 (1997): 2855.
Godrej, Farah. Response to What Is Comparative Political Theory? The Review of Politics 71,
no. 04 (2009): 567582.
Dallmayr, Fred. Introduction: Toward a Comparative Political Theory. The Review of Politics
59, no. 03 (1997): 421428.
Grofman, Bernard. Toward a Science of Politics? European Political Science 6, no. 2 (June
2007): 143155. doi:10.1057/palgrave.eps.2210123.
Moon, J. Donald. The Logic of Political Inquiry: A Synthesis of Opposed Perspectives
Addison-Wesley, 1975.
Lichbach, Mark Irving, and Alan S Zuckerman. Research Traditions and Theory in Comparative
Politics: An Introduction. In Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure.
Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009.
Rogowski, Ronald. How Inference in the Social (But Not the Physical) Sciences Neglects
Theoretical Anomaly. In Rethinking Social Inquiry Diverse Tools, Shared Standards, edited
by Henry E Brady and David Collier. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010.
. The Role of Theory and Anomaly in Social-Scientific Inference. The American
Political Science Review 89, no. 2 (June 1995): 467. doi:10.2307/2082443.
Bhattacherjee, Anol. Science and Scientific Research. In Social Science Research: Principles,
Methods, and Practices. Tampa, FL: Open Access Textbooks, 2012. 5-13.
. Social Science Research: Principles, Methods, and Practices. Tampa, FL: Open Access
Textbooks, 2012.
Hall, Peter A., and Rosemary CR Taylor. Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms.
Political Studies 44, no. 5 (1996): 936957.
Brady, Henry E, and David Collier, eds. Some Unfulfilled Promises of Quantitative
Imperialism. In Rethinking Social Inquiry Diverse Tools, Shared Standards. Lanham, Md.:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010.
Geddes, Barbara. Research Design and Accumulation of Knowledge. In Paradigms and Sand
Castles: Theory Building and Research Design in Comparative Politics. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 2003.
Kaufmann, Gtz. School of Methods: The Qualitative and Quantitative Approach. In Series of
Papers: Methods of Field Res. Berlin: Free University, 2012.
Pennings, Paul, Hans Keman, and J Kleinnijenhuis. Doing Research in Political Science. In
Doing Research in Political Science: An Introduction to Comparative Methods and Statistics.
London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2006.

. Comparative Methodology and Statistics in Political Science. In Doing Research in

Political Science: An Introduction to Comparative Methods and Statistics. London; Thousand
Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2006.
Weber, Max. Methods of Social Science. In From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Oxford
University Press, 1946.
Week 5-6
What we compare?
What is State-nation and Nation-state?
What is Political Culture?
What is Constitution?
Political Institutions
Decision making

First Sessional (on the last day of week)

Suggested Readings
Newton, Kenneth, and Jan W. van Deth. What is state and emergence of modern state. In
Foundations of Comparative Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 11-28
. State Theories. In Foundations of Comparative Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2010. 29-31
Krasner, Stephen D. Sovereignty. Foreign Policy no. 122 (January 2001): 20.
doi:10.2307/3183223.
Ghani, Ashraf, and Clare Lockhart. The Framework: Ten Functions of the States. In Fixing
Failed States. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Ethridge, Marcus E, and Howard Handelman. Kinds of Government. In Politics in a Changing
World: A Comparative Introduction to Political Science. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2010.
11-14
Newton, Kenneth, and Jan W. van Deth. What a Constitution Is, and Why We Have
Them.(separation of power) In Foundations of Comparative Politics. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2010. 71-88
Waluchow, Wil. Constitutionalism. Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 2012.
http://stanford.library.usyd.edu.au/entries/constitutionalism/.
Vedantam, Shankar. Who Are the Better Managers -- Political Appointees or Career
Bureaucrats? The Washington Post, November 24, 2008, sec. Nation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2008/11/23/AR2008112302485.html?sub=AR.
Additional Readings
Formisano, Ronald P. The Concept of Political Culture. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 31,
no. 3 (2001): 393426.
Kim, Young C. The Concept of Political Culture in Comparative Politics. The Journal of
Politics 26, no. 02 (1964): 313336.

Fukuyama, Francis. The Necessity of Politics. In The Origins of Political Order: From
Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. London: Profile Books, 2011.
Boyte, Harry C. The Necessity of Politics. Journal of Public Affairs 7, no. 1 (2004): 7585.
Weber, Max. Modern State. In From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Oxford University Press,
1946.
Krasner, Stephen D. An Orienting Principle for Foreign Policy. Policy Review no. 163 (2010):
312.
Wendt, Alexander. Anarchy Is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power
Politics. International Organization 46, no. 2 (April 1, 1992): 391425.
Wimmer, Andreas, and Yuval Feinstein. The Rise of the Nation-State across the World, 1816 to
2001. American Sociological Review 75, no. 5 (2010): 764790.
Rotberg, Robert I. Failed States, Collapsed States, Weak States: Causes and Indicators. In State
Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror. Cambridge, Mass.: World Peace
Foundation; Brookings Institution Press, 2003.
. State Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror. Cambridge, Mass.: World Peace
Foundation; Brookings Institution Press, 2003.
Rotberg, Robert I. The New Nature of Nation-State Failure. Washington Quarterly 25, no. 3
(2002): 8396.
Potter, Donald W. State Responsibility, Sovereignty, and Failed States. In Australasian Political
Studies Association Conference, Adelaide. Vol. 29, 2004.
https://www.adelaide.edu.au/apsa/docs_papers/Others/potter.pdf.
Brooks, Rosa Ehrenreich. Failed States, or the State as Failure? The University of Chicago Law
Review (2005): 11591196.
Hadenius, Axel, and Jan Teorell. Authoritarian Regimes: Stability, Change, and Pathways to
Democracy, 1972-2003. Notre Dame, USA: Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies,
2006. http://kellogg.nd.edu/publications/workingpapers/WPS/331.pdf.
Weber, Max. Bureaucracy. In From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Oxford University Press,
1946.
. Characteristics of Bureaucracy and The Power Position of Bureaucracy. In From Max
Weber: Essays in Sociology. Oxford University Press, 1946.
Unknown. Legislative Chambers: Unicameral or Bicameral? United Nations Development
Programme, n.d.
http://mirror.undp.org/magnet/Docs/parliaments/Legislative%20Chambers.htm.
Cameron, Maxwell A., and Tulia G. Falleti. Federalism and the Subnational Separation of
Powers. Publius: The Journal of Federalism 35, no. 2 (2005): 245271.
Ethridge, Marcus E, and Howard Handelman. Political Institutions. In Politics in a Changing
World: A Comparative Introduction to Political Science. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2010.
Unknown. What Political Institutions Does Large-Scale Democracy Require? in Annual
Additions, Comparative Politics.
Unknown. Judicial Review: The Gavel and the Robe. in Annual Additions, Comparative
Politics.
Odoki, Justice B.J. The Nature and Purpose of National Constitution. Soroti, 1991.

Unknow. Public Opinion, Political Parties, Interest Groups: Ex Uno, Plures. in Annual
Additions, Comparative Politics.
Newton, Kenneth, and Jan W. van Deth. Decision Making. In Foundations of Comparative
Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Week 7
Nationalism and ethno-nationalism
Guest Lecture by Dr Muhammad Umer Hayat on ethnicity
Suggested Readings

Reich, Robert B. What Is a Nation? Political Science Quarterly 106, no. 2 (1991): 193209.
Haas, Ernst B. What Is Nationalism and Why Should We Study It? International Organization
40, no. 03 (1986): 707744.
Additional Readings

Barrington, Lowell W. Nation and nationalism: The Misuse of Key Concepts in Political
Science. PS: Political Science & Politics 30, no. 04 (1997): 712716.
Calhoun, Craig. Nationalism and Ethnicity. Annual Review of Sociology 19 (1993): 211239.
Bhavnani, Ravi, and Dan Miodownik. Ethnic Polarization, Ethnic Salience, and Civil War.
Journal of Conflict Resolution 53, no. 1 (2009): 3049.
Renan, Ernest. What Is a Nation? Nation and Narration 11 (1996). http://ig.cs.tuberlin.de/oldstatic/w2001/eu1/dokumente/Basistexte/Renan1882EN-Nation.pdf.
Hobsbawm, E. J. Introduction. Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality.
Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Fearon, James D., and David D. Laitin. Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War. American
Political Science Review 97, no. 1 (2003): 7590.
Quinn, Kevin, Michael Hechter, and Erik Wibbels. Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War
Revisited. Unpublished Paper (May 6 Version) (2003).
http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/ocvprogram/licep/7/hechter/hechter.pdf.
Wood, Elisabeth Jean. Review Essay: Civil Wars: What We Dont Know. Global Governance
no. 9 (2003): 247260.
Montalvo, Jose G., and Marta Reynal-Querol. Ethnic Diversity and Economic Development.
Journal of Development Economics 76, no. 2 (2005): 293323.
Baldwin, Kate, and John D. Huber. Economic versus Cultural Differences: Forms of Ethnic
Diversity and Public Goods Provision. American Political Science Review 104, no. 4 (2010):
644662.
Opello, Walter C., and Stephen J. Rosow. A Historical Approach to the State and Global Order.
In The Nation-State and Global Order: A Historical Introduction to Contemporary Politics.
Lynne Rienner, 1999. https://www.rienner.com/uploads/47dea53755704.pdf.
Walby, Sylvia. The Myth of the Nation-State: Theorizing Society and Polities in a Global Era.
Sociology 37, no. 3 (2003): 529546.
Week 8

Political Economy
Suggested Readings
Mankiw, N. Gregory. The Trilemma of International Finance. The New York Times, July 10,
2010, sec. Business / Economy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/business/economy/11view.html.
ONeil, Patrick H. Political-Economic Systems In Essentials of Comparative Politics. New
York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2010.
North, Douglas C. Institutions. Journal of Economic Perspectives 5, no. 1 (Winter 1991): 97
112.
Additional Readings
Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. A. and C. Black,
1863.
Acemoglu, Daron. Root Causes: A historical view of the role of the institutions in economic
development. Finance & Development 40, no. 2 (2003): 2743.
Banerjee, Abhijit, and L. Lyer. History, Institutions, and Economic Performance: The Legacy of
Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India. The American Economic Review 95 (2005): 4.
Mann, Michael. Has Globalization Ended the Rise and Rise of the Nation-State? Review of
International Political Economy 4, no. 3 (1997): 472496.
Week 9-10
Democratisation and Democratic regimes

Second Sessional (last class)

Suggested Readings
Schmitter, Philippe C., and Terry Lynn Karl. What Democracy Is... and Is Not. Journal of
Democracy 2, no. 3 (1991): 7588.
Sitrin, Marina. What Does Democracy Look Like? The Nation, March 14, 2012.
http://www.thenation.com/article/166824/what-does-democracy-look.
Zakaria, Fareed. The Rise of Illiberal Democracy. Foreign Affairs 76 (1997): 22.
Diskin, Abraham, Hanna Diskin, and Reuven Y. Hazan. Why Democracies Collapse: The
Reasons for Democratic Failure and Success. International Political Science Review 26, no.
3 (2005): 291309.
Additional Readings
Waseem, Mohammad. Causes of Democratic Downslide. Economic and Political Weekly 37, no. 44
(2002): 45324538.

Haugaard, Mark. Democracy, Political Power, and Authority. Social Research: An

International Quarterly 77, no. 4 (2010): 10491074.
Zakaria, Fareed. A Brief History of Human Liberty. In The Future of Freedom: Illiberal
Democracy at Home and Abroad. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003.
Lijphart, Arend. Constitutional Choices for New Democracies. Journal of Democracy 2, no. 1
(1991): 7284.
Putnam, Robert D. Tuning In, Tuning out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in
America. PS-WASHINGTON- 28 (1995): 664664.
Schmitter, Philippe C., and Javier Santiso. Three Temporal Dimensions to the Consolidation of
Democracy. International Political Science Review 19, no. 1 (1998): 6992.
Rejai, Mostafa, and Cynthia H. Enloe. Nation-States and State-Nations. International Studies
Quarterly 13, no. 2 (1969): 140158.
Stepan, Alfred C., and Juan Jos Linz. Toward Consolidated Democracies. Journal of
Democracy 7, no. 2 (1996): 1433.
Lehoucq, Fabrice. The Third Wave of Democracy: Findings and Implications. Latin American
Research Review 43, no. 1 (2008): 245254.
Schedler, Andreas. Concepts of Democratic Consolidation. In Latin American Studies
Association, Guadalajara. Guadalajara, Mexico, 1997.
. What Is Democratic Consolidation? Journal of Democracy 9, no. 2 (1998): 91107.
Bunce, Valerie J., and Sharon L. Wolchik. Breakthrough Elections: Mixed Regimes, Democracy
Assistance, and International Diffusion AND Electoral Stability and Change in Mixed
Regimes. In Defeating Authoritarian Leaders in Postcommunist Countries. Cambridge
University Press, 2011.
Carothers, Thomas. The End of the Transition Paradigm. Journal of Democracy 13, no. 1
(2002): 521.
Collier, David, and Steven Levitsky. Democracy with Adjectives. World Politics 49, no. 3
(1997): 430451.
Dix, Robert H. Why Revolutions Succeed & Fail. Polity (1984): 423446.
Advanced Democracies
US, France,
Suggested Readings
Tocqueville, Alexis de. Authors Introduction. In Democracy in America, translated by J. P
Mayer and George Lawrence. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006.
Ethridge, Marcus E, and Howard Handelman. Politics in Selected Nations. In Politics in a
Changing World: A Comparative Introduction to Political Science. Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth, 2010.
Additional Readings
Robinson, James A., Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and Pierre Yared. Income and
Democracy. American Economic Review 98, no. 3 (1969).

Przeworski, Adam. Conquered or Granted? A History of Suffrage Extensions. British Journal of

Political Science 39, no. 2 (2009): 291321.
. Granted or Conquered: A History of Franchise Extensions. British Journal of Political
Science (2007). http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/politics/seminars/suffrage_ext.pdf.
Duverger, Maurice. The Number of Parties. In Political Parties: Their Organization and
Activity in the Modern State. Methuen, 1959.
Estevez-Abe, M., and T. Iversen. Social Protection and the Formation of Skills: A
Reinterpretation of the Welfare State. In Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional
Foundation of Comparative Advantage, 14583. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Iversen, Torben, and David Soskice. Electoral Institutions and the Politics of Coalitions: Why
Some Democracies Redistribute More than Others. American Political Science Review 100,
no. 02 (2006): 165181.
Week 11
Political Violence
Suggested Readings
Skocpol, Theda. France, Russia, China: A Structural Analysis of Social Revolutions.
Comparative Studies in Society and History 18, no. 02 (1976): 175210.
Crenshaw, Martha. The Causes of Terrorism. Comparative Politics 13, no. 4 (1981): 379399.
Additional Readings
Kuran, Timur. Now out of Never: The Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of
1989. World Politics 44, no. 1 (1991): 748.
Goldstone, Jack A. Understanding the Revolutions of 2011: Weakness and Resilience in Middle
Eastern Autocracies. Foreign Affairs 90 (2011): 8.
Abrahms, Max. What Terrorists Really Want: Terrorist Motives and Counterterrorism Strategy.
International Security 32, no. 4 (2008): 78105.
Management, COT Institute for Safety, Security and Crisis. Concepts of Terrorism: Analysis of the
Rise, Decline, Trends and Risk. COT Institute for Safety, Security and Crisis Management,
2008.
Bjrgo, Tore. Root Causes of Terrorism: Myths, Reality and Ways Forward. Routledge, 2005.
Noricks, Darcy ME. The Root Causes of Terrorism. Social Science for Counterterrorism 74, no.
06C (2009): 11.
Pilat, Joseph F. The Causes of Terrorism. Journal of Organisational Transformation & Social
Change 6, no. 2 (2009): 171182.
Week 12-13
Non Democratic and Hybrid regimes
Pakistan, China, India

Suggested Readings
Linz, Juan J, and Alfred C Stepan. Modern Nondemocratic Regimes. In Problems of
Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and PostCommunist Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Levitsky, Steven, and Lucan Way. The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism. Journal of
Democracy 13, no. 2 (2002): 5165.
Diamond, Larry Jay. Thinking about Hybrid Regimes. Journal of Democracy 13, no. 2 (2002):
2135.
Additional Readings
Weinthal, Erika, and Pauline Jones Luong. Combating the Resource Curse: An Alternative
Solution to Managing Mineral Wealth. Perspectives on Politics 4, no. 01 (2006): 3553.
Das, Runa. Nationalism, Communalism, and Nuclearism in South Asia. Conference Papers -International Studies Association (Annual Meeting 2008): 126.
Waseem, Mohammad. Judging Democracy in Pakistan: Conflict between the Executive and
Judiciary. Contemporary South Asia 20, no. 1 (March 2012): 1931.
doi:10.1080/09584935.2011.646077.
Waseem, Mohammad. Origins and Growth Patterns of Islamic Organizations in Pakistan.
Religious Radicalism and Security in South Asia. Honolulu: Asia-Pacific Center for Security
Studies (2004): 33.
Waseem, Mohammad, Pakistans Lingering Crisis of Dyarchy
Democracies, Bours Laborin M. Mock. Mock Democracies: Authoritarian Cover-Ups. Journal
of International Affairs (2011): 254256.
Art, David. What Do We Know about Authoritarianism after Ten Years? Comparative Politics
44, no. 3 (2012): 351373.
Montinola, Gabriella R., and Robert W. Jackman. Sources of Corruption: A Cross-Country
Study. British Journal of Political Science 32, no. 1 (2002): 147170.
Katz, Mark N. Democratic Revolutions: Why Some Succeed, Why Others Fail. World Affairs
166, no. 3 (2004): 163170.
Mainwaring, Scott. Transitions to Democracy and Democratic Consolidation: Theoretical and
Comparative Issues. Working paper. University of Notre Dame, Helen Kellogg Institute for
International Studies, 1989. https://kellogg.nd.edu/publications/workingpapers/WPS/130.pdf.
Jalal, Ayesha. Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia: A Comparative and Historical
Perspective. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Brownlee, Jason. Authoritarianism in an Age of Democratization. Cambridge [England]; New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Jalal, Ayesha. State Formation and Political Processes in India and Pakistan. In Democracy and
Authoritarianism in South Asia: A Comparative and Historical Perspective. Cambridge; New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Malik, Iftikhar H. The State and Civil Society in Pakistan: From Crisis to Crisis. Asian Survey
(1996): 673690.

Leib, Ethan J. The Chinese Communist Party and Deliberative Democracy. Journal of Public
Deliberation 1, no. 1 (2005): 1.
MacKinnon, Rebecca. Chinas Networked Authoritarianism. Journal of Democracy 22, no. 2
(2011): 3246.
. Networked Authoritarianism in China and beyond: Implications for Global Internet
Freedom. Liberation Technology in Authoritarian Regimes, Stanford University (2010).
http://iis-db.stanford.edu/evnts/6349/MacKinnon_Libtech.pdf.
Terrill, Ross. What Does China Want? Wilson Quarterly 29, no. 4 (2005): 5061.
Week 14
Communism and Post-communism
Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. Manifesto of the Communist Party. CH Kerr & Company, 1906.
Darden, Keith, and Anna Grzymala-Busse. The Great Divide: Literacy, Nationalism, and the
Communist Collapse. World Politics 59, no. 1 (2006): 83115.
Bunce, Valerie, and Sharon L Wolchik. Conclusions: Democratizing Elections, International
Diffusion, and U.S. Democracy Assistance. In Defeating Authoritarian Leaders in
Postcommunist Countries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Krastev, Ivan. Paradoxes of the New Authoritarianism. Journal of Democracy 22, no. 2 (2011):
516.
He, Baogang, and Mark E. Warren. Authoritarian Deliberation: The Deliberative Turn in Chinese
Political Development. Perspectives on Politics 9, no. 2 (2011): 269289.
Gat, Azar. The Return of Authoritarian Great Powers. Foreign Affairs 86, no. 4 (2007): 5969.
Week 15
Less-Developed and Newly Industrializing Countries
Easterly, William. To Help the Poor. In The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists Adventures
and Misadventures in the Tropics. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001.
Collier, Paul, and Jan Willem Gunning. Why Has Africa Grown Slowly? The Journal of
Economic Perspectives (1999): 322.
Krugman, Paul. The Myth of Asias Miracle. Foreign Affairs 73, no. 6 (1994): 6278.
Arnold, Wayne. Vietnam Holds Its Own Within Chinas Vast Economic Shadow. The New York
Times, January 1, 2011. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html.
Acemoglu, Daron, and Simon Johnson. Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy
on Economic Growth. BREAD Working Paper. National Bureau of Economic Research,
2006. http://www.nber.org/papers/w12269.
Unknown. Political Diversity in the Developing World in Annual Additions, Comparative
Politics.
Week 16
Globalization

Rodrik, Dani. Of Markets and States: Globalization in the Historical Context. In The
Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy. New York;
London: W. W. Norton & Co., 2011.
Florida, Richard. THE WORLD IS SPIKY: Globalization Has Changed the Economic Playing
Field, but Hasnt Leveled It. Atlantic Monthly 296, no. 3 (2005): 48.
Rodrik, Dani. Is Global Governance Feasible? Is It Desirable? In The Globalization Paradox:
Democracy and the Future of the World Economy. New York; London: W. W. Norton & Co.,
2011.
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