Reading List for February 27, 1997 Exam
I. Method and Theory in Comparative Politics
II. The Government, Politics, and Transition of Eastern Europe
I. COMPARATIVE METHOD AND THEORY [Next Part] [Back to Top]
Collier, David, "The Comparative
Method: Two Decades of Change," in Dankwart A. Rustow and K. P.
Erickson, eds., Comparative
Political Dynamics: Global Research Perspectives, New York: Harper Collins, 1991, pp.
7-31.
Eckstein, Harry, "Case Study and
Theory in Political Science," in Greenstein and Polsby, eds.,
Handbook of Political
Science, Reading:
Addison-Wesley, 1975, pp. 79-137.
Geddes, Barbara, "How the Cases You
Choose Affect the Answers You Get: Selection Bias in Comparative
Politics, Political
Analysis, 2, 1990, pp.
131-150.
Jackman, Robert W., "Cross-national
Statistical Research and the Study of Comparative Politics,"
American Journal of Political
Science, 29, 1985.
King, Gary, Robert O. Keohane, and
Sidney Verba, Designing Social
Inquiry, Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1994.
Lijphart, Arend, "Comparative
Politics and the Comparative Method," American Political Science Review, 65, 1971.
Meckstroth, Theodore W., "'Most
Different Systems' and 'Most Similar Systems': A Study in the Logic
of Comparative Inquiry," Comparative Political Studies, 8, July 1975.
Prezeworski, A. and Teune, H.,
The Logic of Comparative
Social Inquiry, New York:
Wiley-Intersience, 1970, Chapters 1,2, and 6.
Ragin, Charles, The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987, Chapters 1-3.
Sartori, Giovani, "Concept
Misinformation in Comparative Politics," American Political Science Review, 64, 1970.
B. Theories [Next Part] [Back to Top]
Almond, Gabriel A. A Discipline Divided: Schools and Sects in
Political Science, Newbury
Park: Sage, 1990.
Almond, Gabriel and Sidney Verba,
eds., The Civic Culture
Revisited, Boston: Little
Brown, 1980.
Babic, Ana "Citizen Participation in
Four Yugoslav Republics," in Participation and Self-Management, Zagreb: First International Sociological
Conference on Participation and Self-Management, 1973, Vol. 6.
Deutsch, Karl, "Social Mobilization
and Political Development" American Political Science Review, 55, 1961.
Huntington, Sammuel P., "The Change
to Change: Modernization, Development, and Politics," Comparative Politics, 3, April 1971, pp. 283-322.
Huntington, Samuel, Political Order in Changing
Societies, 1968, Chapters 1,
3.
Inglehart, Ronald, Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial
Society, Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1990.
March, James G. and Johan P. Olson,
Rediscovering
Institutions, New York: Free
Press, 1989, Chapters 1-4.
Moore, Barrington, Jr.,
Social Origins of Dictatorship
and Democracy, Boston:
Beacon, 1966, Chapters 7-9.
Olson, Mancur, The Rise and Decline of
Nations, New Haven: Yale,
1982, Chapters 3, 4.
Putnam, Robert D., Making Democracy Work, Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1993.
Schmitter, Phillipe, "Still the
Century of Corporatism?" The
Review of Politics, 36, 1974,
pp. 85-131.
Skocpol, Theda, "France, Russia,
China: A Structural Analysis of Social Revolutions," Comparative Studies in Society and
History, 18:2, April 1976,
pp. 175-210.
Steinmo, Sven et. al., eds,
"Introduction," Structuring
Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative
Analysis, New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1992, pp. 1-32.
Taylor, Michael, "Rationality and
Revolutionary Collective Action," in Taylor, Michael, ed.
Rationality and
Revolution, 1988, pp.
63-97.
Verba, Sidney, Norman Nie, and Jae-on
Kim, Participation and
Political Equality: A Seven Nation Comparison, London: Cambridge University Press,
1978.
Weiner, Myron and Samuel P.
Huntington, eds., Understanding Political Development, Prospect Heights: Waveland Press, 1987.
II. Government and Politics of Eastern Europe [Next Part] [Back to Top]
Gati, Charles, "Modernization and
Communist Power in Hungary," East European Quarterly, Vol. V No. 3, September 1971, pp. 325-59.
Hough, Jerry and Fainsod,
How the Soviet Union is
Governed, Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1979.
Verba, Sydney, Norman Nie, et. al.,
"The Modes of Participation," Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2, July 1973, pp. 235-250.
Rothschild, Joseph A., Return to Diversity, Second Edition, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, Chapters 2,3,5,6.
Zimmerman, William, Politics and Culture in
Yugoslavia, Ann Arbor: The U.
of Michigan, 1987.
B. Political Change [Next Part] [Back to Top]
Amann, Roland, "Soviet Politics in
the Gorbachev Era: The End of Hesitating Modernization,"
British Journal of Political
Science, Vol. 20, 1990, pp.
289-310.
Bunce, Valerie, "The Empire Strikes
Back: The Evolution of the Eastern Bloc from a Soviet Asset to a
Soviet Liability," International Organization, 29, No. 2, Winter 1985, pp. 1-45.
Cohen, Lenard J., Broken Bonds, Second Edition, Boulder: Westview Press, 1995.
Di-Palma, Guiseppe, "Legitimation
from the Top to Civil Society: Politico-Cultural Change in Eastern
Europe," World
Politics, 44, October 1991,
pp. 49-80.
Dunlop, John, The Rise of Russia and Fall of the Soviet
Empire, Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1993.
Friedrich, Carl, ed., Totalitarianism, New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1964, pp. 87-108.
Havel, Vaclav, "The Power of the
Powerless," in William Brinton and Alan Rinzler, eds.,
Without Force or
Lies, Mercury House, 1990,
pp. 43-127.
Kuran, Timur, "Now out of Never: The
Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989,"
World Politics, 44, October 1991, pp. 7-48.
Lowenthal, Richard, "Development vs.
Utopia in Communist Policy," in Chalmers Johnson, ed.,
Change in Communist
Systems, 1970, pp.
33-116.
Roeder, Philip, Red Sunset, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Rustow, Dankwart, "Communism and
Change," in Johnson, Chalmers, ed., Change in Communist Systems, 1970, pp. 343-58.
Skilling, "Interest Groups," in
Skilling and Griffiths, eds., Interest Groups in Soviet Politics, Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1973.
C. Transitions [Next Part] [Back to Top]
Bell, Daniel, "Ten Theories in Search
of Reality: The Prediction of Soviet Behavior in the Social
Sciences," in Bell, The End of
Ideology, New York: Collier,
1961, pp. 315-353.
Bova, Russell, "Political Dynamics of
the Post-Communist Transition: A Comparative Perspective,"
World Politics, 44, October 1991, pp. 113-138.
Bruszt, Laszlo, "Transformative
Politics: Social Costs and Social Peace in East Central Europe,"
East European Politics and
Society, Vol. 6, No. 1,
Winter 1992, pp. 55-72.
Ekiert, Grzegorz, "Democratization
Processes in East Central Europe: A Theoretical Reconsideration,"
British Journal of Political
Science, 21, 1991, pp.
285-313.
Hankiss, Elemer, "In Search of a
Paradigm," in Stephen Graubard, ed., Eastern Europe...Central Europe...Europe, Westview, 1991, pp. 165-196.
Huntington, Samuel P.,
The Third Wave:
Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century, 1991, Chapters 1, 2, 5.
Karl, Terry Lynn, and Philippe
Schmitter, "Modes of Transition in Latin American, Southern and
Eastern Europe," International
Social Science Journal, 128,
May 1991, pp. 268-83.
Jowitt, Kenneth, New World Disorder: The Leninist
Extinction, Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1992, pp. 249-305.
Przeworski, A, Democracy and the Market: Political Reforms in
Eastern Europe and Latin America, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Pusic, Vesna, "A Country By Any Other
Name: Transition and Stability in Croatia and Yugoslavia,"
East European Politics and
Society, Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall
1992, pp. 242-259.
Schmitter, Phillipe and Terry Karl,
""The Conceptual Travels of Transitologists & Consolidologists:
How Far to the East Should They Attempt to Go?" Slavic Review, Spring 1994, 173-185; and Bunce, Valerie, "Should
Transitologists Be Grounded, Slavic Review, Spring 1995; 112-127
Terry, Sarah M., "Thinking About
Post-Comunist Transitions: How Different Are They?" Slavic Review, Vol. 52, No. 2, Summer 1993, pp 333-337.
White, S., A. Pravda, and Z.
Gitelman, eds., Developments
in Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, Third Edition, Durham: Duke University Press,
1994.
III. Ethnicity and Politics [Next Part] [Back to Top]
A. General
Theory and Approach
Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities, London: Verso, 1991.
Barth, Frederik, "Introduction," in
Barth, ed., Ethnic Groups and
Boundaries: The Social Organization of Cultural
Difference, Boston: Little,
Brown, 1964.
Deutsch, Karl, Nationalism and Its
Alternatives, New York:
Alfred Knopf, 1969.
Gans, Herbert, "Symbolic Ethnicity,"
Ethnic and Racial
Studies, Vol. 2, 1979, pp.
1-20.
Gellner, Ernest, Nations and Nationalism, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Glazer, Nathan and Daniel Moynihan,
eds., Ethnicity,
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975, Chapters 1, 5, 6.
Hayes, Carlton, J.H., Nationalism: A Religion, New York: Macmillan, 1960, pp. 1-19,
164-182.
Rothschild, Joseph, Ethnopolitics, New York: Columbia University Press, 1981, Chapter
7.
Smith, Anthony, D., National Identity, London: Penguin, 1991
B. Managing Ethnicity [Next Part] [Back to Top]
Brass, Paul, Ethnicity and Nationalism: Theory and
Practice, New Delhi: Sage,
1991, pp. 333-342.
Horowitz, Donald, Ethnic Groups in Conflict, Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1985, Chp
7, 8, 14-16.
Lijphart, Arend, "Consociational
Democracy," World
Politics, 221, 1968-69, pp.
207-255.
McGarry and O'Leary, eds.,
The Politics of Ethnic
Conflict Regulation, London:
Routledge, 1993, Chp 1,2,8.
Nordlinger, Eric, Conflict Regulation in Divided
Societies, Cambridge, MA:
Center for International Affairs, Occasional Paper 29, 1972, Chapters
1, 2.
Riker, William, Federalism: Origin, Operation,
Significance, 1964, Chapters
1,2, and 6.
C. Former Communist Bloc [Next Part] [Back to Top]
Armstrong, John, "The Ethnic Scene in
the Soviet Union: The View of the Dictatorship," in Rachel Denbr, ed., The Soviet Nationality
Reader, Boulder: Westview,
1992, pp. 227-256.
Brubaker, W. Rogers, "Citizenship
Struggles in Soviet Successor States," International Migration Review, XXVI, 2, Summer 1992, pp. 269-291.
Csepeli, Gyorgy, "Competing Patterns
of National Identity in Post-Communist Hungary," Media, Culture, and Society, Vol. 13, 1991, pp. 235-339.
Gitelman, Zvi, "Are Nations Merging
in the USSR?," Problems in
Communism, 32, 5, 1983, pp.
35-47.
Hajda, Lubomyr and Mark Beissinger,
The Nationalities Factor in
Soviet Politics and Society,
Boulder: Westview Press, 1990, Chapters 1, 5, 13.
Hayden, Robert, Constitutional Nationalism in the Formerly
Yugoslav Republics,
Washington, DC: The National Council for Soviet and East European
Research, March 11, 1993.
Kaiser, Bob, The Geography of Nationalism in the
USSR, Princeton: Princeton U.
Press, 1994, Concl.
Lapidus, Gail, "Ethnonationalism and
Political Stability: The Soviet Case," World Politics,
July 1984.
Lenin, V.I., Critical Remarks on the National Question,
1913.
Motyl, Alexander, Sovietology, Rationality, Nationality: Coming
to Grips With Nationalism in the USSR, 1990, Chapters 1, 12.
Ramet, Sabrina, Nationalism and Federalism in
Yugoslavia, 1962-1991, Second
Edition, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
Roeder, Philip, "Soviet Federalism
and Ethnic Mobilization," World Politics,
1991, pp. 196-232.
Slezkine, Yuri, "The USSR as a
Communal Apartment," The
Slavic Review, 53, 2, 1994,
pp. 414-452.
Suny, "Nationalism and Ethnic Unrest
in the Soviet Union," World
Policy Journal, 1989, pp.
503-28.
Verdery, "Nationalism and National
Sentiment in Post-Socialist Romania," Slavic Review,
52, 2, 1993.
Wolchick, Sharon, "The Politics of Ethnicity in Post-Comunist Czechoslovakia," East European Politics and Societies, 18, Winter 1994, pp. 153-188.
IV. POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION [Back to Top]
Barner-Barry, Carol, "An
Observational Study of Authority in a Pre-School Peer Group,"
Political
Methodology, 4, No. 4, 1977,
pp. 415-50.
Bilu, Yoram, "The Other as a
Nightmare: The Israeli-Arab Encounter as Reflected in Children's
Dreams in Israel and the West Bank," Political Psychology, 10, September 1989, pp. 365-90.
Coles, Robert, The Political Life of Children, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.
Conover, Pamela, "Political
Socialization: Where's the Politics?" in William Crotty, ed.,
Political Science: Looking to
the Future, Vol, 3, Evanston:
Northwestern University Press, 1991.
Easton, David and Jack Dennis, "The
Child's Image of Government," The Annals, 361,
September 1965, pp. 40-57.
Gallatin, Judith, and Joseph Adelson,
"Individual Rights and the Public Good," Comparative Political Studies, 3, July 1970, pp. 226-242.
Litt, Edgar, "Civic Education,
Community Norms, and Political Indoctrination," American Sociological Review, 28, February 1963, pp. 69-75.
Niemi, Richard G., and Mary Hepburn,
"The Rebirth of Political Socialization," Perspectives on Political Science, 24, Winter 1995, pp. 4-16.
Solomon, Ellen R. and Victoria
Steinitz, "Toward an Adequate Explanation of the Politics of
Working-Class Youth," Political Psychology, 1, Autumn 1979, pp. 39-60.
B. Variation Within and Across Polities [Back to Top]
Abramson, Paul, "Political Efficacy
and Political Trust Among Black School Children," Journal of Politics, 34, November 1972, pp. 1243-64.
Adelson, Joseph and Robert P. O'Neil,
"Growth of Political Ideas in Adolescence: the Sense of Community,"
Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, 4, No. 3,
1966, pp. 295-306.
Gallatin, and Joseph Adelson, "Legal
Guarantees of Individual Freedom: A Cross-National Study of the
Development of Political Thought, Journal of Social Issues, 27, No. 2, 1971, pp. 93-108.
Greenstein, Fred I., "The Benevolent
Leader Revisited: Children's Images of Political Leaders in Three
Democracies," American
Political Science Review, 69,
December 1975, pp. 1371-98.
Inkles, Alex, "Social Change and
Social Character: The Role of Parental Mediation," Journal of Social Issues, 11, No. 2, 1955, pp. 12-23.
Jaros, Dean, et. al., "The Malevolent
Leader: Political Socialization in an American Sub-Culture,"
American Political Science
Review, 62, June, 1968, pp.
564-75.
Jennings, M. Kent and Richard G.
Niemi, "The Transmission of Political Values from Parent to Child,"
American Political Science
Review, 62, March 1968, pp.
1969-84.
Markus, Gregory B., "The Political
Environment and the Dynamics of Public Attitudes: A Panel Study,"
American Journal of Political
Science, 23, May 1979, pp.
338-59.
Massey, Joseph, "The Missing Leader:
Japanese Youths' View of Political Authority," American Political Science
Review, 69, March 1975, pp.
31-48.
Percheron, Annick and M. Kent
Jennings, "Political Continuities in French Families: A New
Perspective on an Old Controversy," Comparative Politics, 13, July 1981, pp. 421-36.
Prewitt, Kenneth, "Political
Socialization and Political Education in the New Nations, in Sigel,
Roberta S., ed. Learning About
Politics, Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1989, pp. 607-21.
Weil, Frederick, "Cohorts, Regimes,
and the Legitimation of Democracy: West Germany Since 1945,"
American Sociological Review,
52: June 1987, pp.
308-24.
C. Temporal Approaches [Back to Top]
Jennings, M. Kent, "Residues of a
Movement: The Aging of the American Protest Generation,"
American Political Science
Review, 81, June, 1987, pp.
367-82.
_____, "Political Knowledge over Time
and Across Generations," Manuscript, 1995.
Mannheim, Karl, "The Problem of
Generations," in Altbach P. and R. Laufer, eds., The New Pilgrims, New York: David McKay, 1972.
Miller, Steven D. and David O. Sears,
"Stability and Change in Social Tolerance: A Test of the Persistence
Hypothesis," American Journal
of Political Science, 30,
February 1986, pp. 214-36.
Schuman, Howard and Jacqueline Scott,
"Generations and Collective Memories," American Political Science Review, 54, June 1986, pp. 359-81.
Sears, David O, "Whither Political
Socialization Research: the Question of Persistence," in Ichilov,
Orit, ed., Political
Socialization, Citizenship Education, and Democracy, New York: Teachers College, Columbia
University, 1990.
Zellman Gail and David O. Sears,
"Childhood Origins of Tolerance for Dissent," Journal of Social Issues, 27, No. 2, 1971, pp. 65-90.