Field Seminar in Comparative Politics

Recommended Readings

For each week, a list of recommended readings provides a more extended bibliography for those of you who wish to do further reading on your own in preparation for comprehensive exams or your own research on the subject. 

Week 1: Introduction

• Diana Kapiszewski, Lauren M. MacLean, and Benjamin L. Read. 2015. Field Research in Political Science: Practices and Principles. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: ‎9780521184830. [Preview with Google Books]
• Gary Goertz and James Mahoney. 2012. A Tale of Two Cultures: Qualitative and Quantitative Research in the Social Sciences. Princeton University Press. ISBN: ‎9780691149714. [Preview with Google Books]
• David A Freedman. 2008. “On Types of Scientific Inquiry: The Role of Qualitative Reasoning.” In The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology, edited by Janet M. Box-Sheffenmeiser, Henry Brady, and David Collier, pp. 300–18. Oxford University Press. ISBN: ‎9780199286546.
• Almost-Recommended Readings:                                                                      
  • Imre Lakatos and Alan Musgrave, eds. 1970. Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. Cambridge University Press.
  • Karl Popper. 2004 [1935]. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Routledge. [Preview with Google Books]
  • Thomas Kuhn. 1996 [1964]. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Third Edition. University of Chicago Press. ISBN: ‎9780226458083. 
  • Imre Lakatos. 1970. “Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes.” (PDF) In Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, edited by Imre Lakatos and Alan Musgrave. Cambridge University Press.
  • Adam Przeworski and Henry Teune. 1970. The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry, pp. 3–46. Wiley-Interscience. ISBN: ‎9780471701422.
  • Gary King, Robert O. Keohane, and Sidney Verba. 1994. Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research, pp. 3–6, 21–33, 99–114, 208–13. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691034713. [Preview with Google Books]
  • Henry E. Brady and David Collier, eds. 2004. Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards, pp. 3–44, 229–66, 267–71. Rowman & Littlefield. [Preview with Google Books]

Week 2: The State  

• Measurement
  • Jonathan K. Hanson and Rachel Sigman. 2021. “Leviathan’s Latent Dimensions: Measuring State Capacity for Comparative Political Research.” Journal of Politics, 83 (4): 1495–1510.
  • Michael Mann. 1984. “The Autonomous Power of the State: Its Origins, Mechanisms and Results.” (PDF) European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes De Sociologie / Europäisches Archiv Für Soziologie, 25 (2): 185–213.
  • Hillel David Soifer. 2008. “State Infrastructural Power: Approaches to Conceptualization and Measurement.” Studies in Comparative International Development, 43 (3–4): 231–51.
• General
  • Margaret Levi. 1989. Of Rule and Revenue. University of California Press. ISBN: 9780520067509. [Preview with Google Books]
  • Karl Wittfogel. 1957. Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power, especially pp. 22–29. Random House.
  • Robert Bendix. 1978. Kings or People. University of California Press. ISBN: 9780520040908. [Preview with Google Books]
  • Pierre Clastres. 2020. Society against the State. Zone Books. ISBN: 9780942299878. [Preview with Google Books]
  • Otto Hintze. 1975. “Military Organization and the Organization of States,” in Felix Gilbert, ed., The Historical Essays of Otto Hintze, pp. 178–215. Oxford University Press. ISBN: ‎9780195018196.
  • Theda Skocpol. 1985. “Bringing the State Back In: Strategies and Analysis of Current Research,” in Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol, eds., Bringing the State Back In, pp 3–37. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521313131. [Preview with Google Books]
  • Scott F. Abramson. 2017. “The Economic Origins of the Territorial State,” International Organization, 71 (1): 97–130.
• United States
  • Stephen Skowronek. 1982. Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, pp. 17–end. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521288651. [Preview with Google Books]
  • Jacob S. Hacker. 2002. The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521013284. [Preview with Google Books]
  • Theda Skocpol. 1992. “State Formation and Social Policy in the United States,” in Gary Marks and Larry Diamond, eds., Reexamining Democracy: Essays in Honor of Seymour Martin Lipset, pp. 227–49. Sage. ISBN: 9780803946415. 
• China
  • Edgar Kiser and Yong Cai. 2003. “War and Bureaucratization in Qin China: Exploring an Anomalous Case,” American Sociological Review, 68 (4): 511–539. [See also ensuing debate in same journal.]
  • Joy Chen. 2019. “State Formation and Bureaucratization: Evidence from Pre-Imperial China,” Journal of Economic History.
• Europe
  • K. Kivanç Karaman and Şevket Pamuk. 2013. “Different Paths to the Modern State in Europe: The Interaction between Warfare, Economic Structure, and Political Regime,” American Political Science Review, 107 (3): 603–26.
  • Alan Harding. 2002. Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780198219583. [Preview with Google Books]
  • Thomas Ertman. 1997. Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521484275. [Preview with Google Books]
  • R. Daniel Kelemen. 2011. Eurolegalism: The Transformation of Law and Regulation in the European Union. Harvard University Press. ISBN: 9780674265028. [Preview with Google Books]
  • David Stasavage. 2010. “When Distance Mattered: Geographic Scale and the Development of European Representative Assemblies,” American Political Science Review, 104 (4): 625–43.
  • Douglass C. North. 1981. Structure and Change in Economic History, chapter 3. Norton. ISBN: 9780393014785. 
  • Eugen Weber. 1976. Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870–1914. Stanford University Press. ISBN: 9780804710138. [Preview with Google Books]
  • Ernest Gellner. 2008. Nations and Nationalism. Basil Blackwell. ISBN: 9780801475009. [Preview with Google Books]
• Other

  • Karen Barkey. 1994. Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization. Cornell University Press. ISBN: 9780801484193. [Preview with Google Books]

  • Ellen Kay Trimberger. 1978. Revolution from Above: Military Bureaucrats and Development in Japan, Turkey, Egypt, and Peru. Transaction Books. ISBN: 9780878551361.

  • Hamza Alavi. 1973. “The State in Post-Colonial Societies: Pakistan and Bangladesh,” in Kathleen Gough and Hari Sharma, eds., Imperialism and Revolution in South Asia, pp. 145–73.

    Monthly Review Press. ISBN: 9780853452737.

  • Lisa Anderson. 2014. The State and Social Transformation in Tunisia and Libya, 1830–1980. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9781400859023. [Preview with Google Books]

• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Robert Bates. 1983. “Modernization, Ethnic Competition, and the Rationality of Politics in Contemporary Africa,” in Donald Rothchild, Victor A Olorunsola, eds., State versus Ethnic Claims: African Policy Dilemmas. Westview Press. ISBN: ‎9780865315037.
  • ———. 2015. When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781107569805. [Preview with Google Books]
  • Robert Price. 2023. Society and Bureaucracy in Contemporary Ghana. University of California Press. ISBN: 9780520331518. [Preview with Google Books]
  • Jeffrey Herbst. 2014. States and Power in Africa. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9781400852321. [Preview with Google Books]
• Latin America
  • Katherine Bersch, Sérgio Praça, and Matthew M. Taylor. 2017. “State Capacity, Bureaucratic Politicization, and Corruption in the Brazilian State,” Governance, 30 (1): 105–24.
  • Hillel David Soifer. 2015. State Building in Latin America. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781107107878. [Preview with Google Books]
  • Lawrence Whitehead. 1994. “State Organization in Latin America since 1930,” in Leslie Bethell, ed., Cambridge History of Latin America, Volume VI, Part 2. Cambridge University Press: pp. 3–95. ISBN: ‎9781139055222. 
  • Fernando López-Alves. 2000. State Formation and Democracy in Latin America, 1810–1900. Duke University Press. ISBN: ‎9780822324508.
  • Oscar Oszlak. 1981. “The Historical Formation of the State in Latin America,” Latin American Research Review, 16 (2): 3–32.

Week 3: Social Structure, Classes, and Political Regimes 

• Carles Boix. 2003. Democracy and Redistribution. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: ‎9780521825603. [Preview with Google Books]
• Niccolò Machiavelli. 1979 [1531]. The Prince, Chapter IX, in Peter Bondanella and Mark Musa, eds., The Portable Machiavelli, pp. 107–10. Penguin Books. ISBN: ‎9780140150926.
• Alexis de Tocqueville. 1840. Democracy in America, Volume II, Chapters 4–7. 
• David Hume. 1987 [1742]. “Of Parties in General,” Essay VIII in Essays Moral, Political and Literary, Eugene F. Miller, ed., pp. 54–63. Liberty Fund. ISBN: 9780865970557.
• Robert Dahl. 1971. Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition. Yale University Press. ISBN: 9780300153576. [Preview with Google Books]
• Seymour Martin Lipset. 1981. Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN: 9780801825224.
• Arendt Lijphart. 1975 [1968]. The Politics of Accommodation: Pluralism and Democracy in the Netherlands. University of California Press. ISBN: 9780520029002. [Preview with Google Books]
• Mark Irving Lichbach. 1989. “An Evaluation of ‘Does Economic Inequality Breed Political Conflict?’ Studies,” World Politics, 41 (4): 431–70.
• Ruth Berins Collier and David Collier. 1991. Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America. Princeton University Press. ISBN: ‎9780691023137.
• Suzanne Berger. 1972. Peasants against Politics: Rural Organization in Brittany, 1911–1967. Harvard University Press. ISBN: 9780674659254. 

Week 4: The Role of Culture (in Democracy, Corruption, Growth, etc.) 

• Alexis de Tocqueville. 1835. Democracy in America, Volume I.
• Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba. 1965. The Civic Culture, pp. 356–74. Little Brown.
• Edward C. Banfield. 1967. Moral Basis of a Backward Society. Free Press. ISBN: 9780029015100.
• Robert Putnam, with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti. 1994. Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton University Press. ISBN: ‎9781400820740. [Preview with Google Books]
• Bob Edwards, Michael Foley, and Mario Diani, eds. 2001. Beyond Tocqueville: Civil Society and the Social Capital Debate in Comparative Perspective. University Press of New England. ISBN: 9781584651253. [Preview with Google Books]
• Theda Skocpol and Morris Fiorina, eds. 2004. Civic Engagement in American Democracy. Brookings Institution Press. ISBN: 9780815798934. [Preview with Google Books]
• Sheri Berman. 1997. “Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic,” World Politics, 43 (3): 401–29.
• Dov Cohen, Richard E. Nisbett, Brian F. Bowdle, and Norvin Schwarz. 1996. “Insult, Aggression, and the Southern Culture of Honor: An ‘Experimental Ethnography,’” (PDF) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70(5): 945–60.
• Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell, and Maya Sen. 2016. “The Political Legacy of American Slavery,” (PDF) Journal of Politics, 78 (3): 621–41.
• Robert E. Goodin and Charles Tilly. 2008. The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis [chapters by Thompson et al., Ballinger, and Lichterman & Cefaï]. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780199548446. [Preview with Google Books]
• Harry Eckstein. 1992. “A Theory of Stable Democracy,” in Regarding Politics. University of California Press: pp. 286–300, 179–224. ISBN: 9780520071674.
• Max Weber. 2003. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Translated by Talcott Parsons. Dover Publications. ISBN: 9780486427034. [Preview with Google Books]
• Sascha O. Becker and Ludger Woessman. 2009. “Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic Activity,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124 (2): 531–96.
• Avner Grief. 1994. “Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies,” Journal of Political Economy, 102 (5): 912–50.
• Ronald Inglehart. 1990. Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society, pp. 15–65. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691022963. [Preview with Google Books]

Week 5: Leadership

• Benjamin F. Jones and Benjamin A. Olken. 2005. “Do Leaders Matter? National Leadership and Growth since World War II,” (PDF) Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120 (3): 835–64.
• Niccolò Machiavelli. 1979 [1532]. The Prince, in Peter Bondanella and Mark Musa, eds., The Portable Machiavelli. Penguin Books. ISBN: 9780140150926. 
• John F. Padgett and Christopher K. Ansell. 1993. “Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434,” American Journal of Sociology, 98 (6): 1259–319.
• Bruce Bueno de Mesquita; Alastair Smith, Randolph M. Siverson, and James D. Morrow. 2003. The Logic of Political Survival. MIT Press. ISBN: 9780262025461. [Buy at MIT Press] [Preview with Google Books]
• Richard Samuels. 2005. Machiavelli’s Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan. Cornell University Press. ISBN: 9780801489822. [Preview with Google Books]
• Margaret G. Hermann, Thomas Preston, Baghat Korany, and Timothy M. Shaw. 2001. “Who Leads Matters: The Effects of Powerful Individuals,” International Studies Review, 3 (2): 83–131.
• Valerie Bunce. 1980. “Changing Leaders and Changing Policies: The Impact of Elite Succession on Budgetary Priorities in Democratic Countries,” American Journal of Political Science, 24 (3): 373–95.
• Fred I. Greenstein. 1998. “The Impact of Personality on the End of the Cold War: A Counterfactual Analysis,” Political Psychology, 19 (1): 1–16.
• Alexander L. George and Juliette L George. 2019. Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House: A Personality Study. Plunkett Lake Press. [Preview with Google Books]
• Bruce Bueno de Mesquita. 1975. Strategy, Risk and Personality in Coalition Politics: The Case of India. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521126458. [Preview with Google Books]
• Dean Keith Simonton. 1983. “Intergeneration Transfer of Individual Differences in Hereditary Monarchs: Genetic, Role-Modeling, Cohort, or Sociocultural effects?” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 44: 354–64.
• ———. 1984. “Leader age and national condition: A longitudinal analysis of 25 European monarchs,” Social Behavior and Personality, 12: 111–14.
• ———. 1993. “Putting the Best Leaders in the White House: Personality, Policy, and Performance,” Political Psychology, 14 (3): 537–48.
• Archie Singham. 1968. The Hero and the Crowd in a Colonial Polity. Yale University Press.
• Stephen Skowronek. 1997. The Politics Presidents Make. Belknap Press. ISBN: 9780674689374. [Preview with Google Books]
• Thorolfur Thorlindsson. 1988. “The Skipper Effect in the Icelandic Herring Fishery,”Human Organization, 47 (3): 199–212. [And various replies in the literature]
• James Mahoney and Richard Snyder. 1999. “Rethinking Agency and Structure in the Study of Regime Change,” Studies in Comparative International Development, 2: 3–32.
• Jack Goody, ed. 1979. Succession to High Office. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: ‎9780521297325. [Preview with Google Books]

Week 6: Constitutional Choices and Governmental Performance

• John M. Carey and Matthew S. Shugart. 1995. “Incentives to Cultivate a Personal Vote: A Rank Ordering of Electoral Formulas,” Electoral Studies 14: 417–39.
• Markus Kreutzer. 2010. “Historical Knowledge and Quantitative Analysis: The Case of the Origins of Proportional Representation,” American Political Science Review, 104 (2): 369–92.
• Octavio Amorim Neto and Gary W. Cox. 1997. “Electoral Institutions, Cleavage Structures, and the Number of Parties,” American Journal of Political Science, 41 (1): 149–74.
• Gary W Cox. 1997. Making Votes Count. Cambridge University Press, Chapters. 1–4, 8. ISBN: 9780521585279. [Preview with Google Books]
• John Gerring, Strom Thacker, and Carola Moreno. 2005. “Centripetal Democratic Governance: A Theory and Global Inquiry,” American Political Science Review, 99 (4): 567–81.
• Gary W. Cox. 1990. “Centripetal and Centrifugal Incentives in Electoral Systems,” American Journal of Political Science, 34 (4): 903–35.
• G. Bingham Powell, Jr., 1989. “Constitutional Design and Citizen Electoral Control,” Journal of Theoretical Politics, 1 (2): 107–30.
• Matthew S. Shugart and John M. Carey. 1992. Presidents and Assemblies: Constitutional Design and Electoral Dynamics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521429900. [Preview with Google Books]
• Robert Elgie. 2005. “From Linz to Tsebelis: Three Waves of Presidential/Parliamentary Studies?” Democratization 12 (1): 106–22.
• Arend Lijphart, ed., 1992. Parliamentary versus Presidential Government. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780198780441. 
• Michael Coppedge. 1994. Strong Parties and Lame Ducks: Presidential Partyarchy and Factionalism in Venezuela (Stanford: Stanford University Press). ISBN: 9780804729611. [Preview with Google Books]
• Lanny Martin and Randolph T. Stevenson. 2001. “Government Formation in Parliamentary Democracies,” American Journal of Political Science 45: 33–50.
• Torben Iversen and David Soskice. 2006. “Electoral Institutions and the Politics of Coalitions: Why Some Democracies Redistribute More Than Others,” American Political Science Review  100: 165–81.
• Alfred Stepan. 1999. “Federalism and Democracy: Beyond the U.S. Model,” Journal of Democracy 10: 19–34.
• Jonathan Rodden. 2002. “The Dilemma of Fiscal Federalism: Grants and Fiscal Performance around the World,” (PDF) American Journal of Political Science, 46 (3): 670–87.
• Philippe C. Schmitter. 1981. “Interest Intermediation and Regime Governability in Advanced Industrial / Capitalist Polities,” in Suzanne Berger, ed., Organizing Interests in Western Europe: Pluralism, Corporatism, and the Transformation of Politics. Cambridge University Press, pp. 285–327. ISBN: 9780521231749. 

Week 7: Parties, Party Systems, and Electoral Behavior

• Maurice Duverger. 1964. Political Parties. (Routledge Kegan & Paul). ISBN: 9780416683202.
• Anthony Downs. 1957. An Economic Theory of Democracy. (Harper & Row). ISBN: ‎9780060417505.
• William Riker and Peter C. Ordeshook. 1968. “A Theory of the Calculus of Voting,” American Political Science Review 62 (1): 25–42.
• Seymour Martin Lipset and Stein Rokkan. 1967. “Cleavage Structures, Party Systems, and Voter Alignments: An Introduction,” in Lipset and Rokkan, eds., Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-National Perspectives, pp. 1–64. Free Press. ISBN: ‎9780029191507.
• George Rabinowitz and Stuart Elaine Macdonald. 1989. “A Directional Theory of Issue Voting,” American Political Science Review, (83): 93–121.
• Ian Budge, David Robertson, and Derek Heari, eds. 1987. Ideology, Strategy and Party Change: Spatial Analysis of Post-War Election Programs in 19 Democracies. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521306485. [Preview with Google Books]
• Herbert Kitschelt. 1992. “The Formation of Party Systems in East Central Europe,” Politics and Society, 20 (1): 7–50.
• Jason Wittenberg. 2012. Crucibles of Political Loyalty: Church Institutions and Electoral Continuity in Hungary. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781107404847. 
• Richard S. Katz and Peter Mair, eds. 1994. How Parties Organize: Change and Adaptation in Party Organizations in Western Democracies, pp. 1–22. Sage. ISBN: 9780803979611. [Preview with Google Books]
• Luciano Bardi and Leonardo Morlino. 1994. “Italy: Tracing the Roots of the Great Transformation,” in Richard S. Katz and Peter Mair, eds., How Parties Organize: Change and Adaptation in Party Organizations in Western Democracies, pp. 242–77. Sage.
• Paul F. Whiteley, Patrick Seyd, Jeremy Richardson and Paul Bissell. 1994. “Explaining Party Activism: The Case of the British Conservative Party,” British Journal of Political Science, 24 (1): 79–94.
• Russell J. Dalton. 1985. “Political Parties and Political Representation: Party Supporters and Party Elites in Nine Nations,” Comparative Political Studies, 18 (3): 267–99.
• Michael Gallagher and Michael Marsh, eds. 1988. Candidate Selection in Comparative Perspective. Sage. ISBN: 9780803981249. 

Week 8: Clientelism and Patronage Politics 

• Scott Radnitz. 2010. Weapons of the Wealthy: Predatory Regimes and Elite-Led Protests in Central Asia. Cornell University Press. ISBN: ‎978-0801449536. [Preview with Google Books]
• Herbert Kitschelt and Steven I. Wilkinson. 2007. “Citizen-Politician Linkages: An Introduction,” in Herbert Kitschelt and Steven I. Wilkinson, eds., Patrons, Clients, and Policies, pp. 1–49. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521690041. [Preview with Google Books]
• Moisei Ostrogorski. 1910. Democracy and the Party System in the United States: A Study in Extra-Constitutional Government. Macmillan.
• Harold F. Gosnell. 2018. Machine Politics: The Chicago Model. Forgotten Books. ISBN: ‎9780265085202.
• John M. Allswang, 2019. Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters: An American Symbiosis. Johns Hopkins University Press. [Preview with Google Books]
• Erie, Steven P. 1990. Rainbow’s End: Irish-Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics. University of California Press. ISBN: 9780520071834. [Preview with Google Books]
• Wayne A. Cornelius. 1975. Politics and the Migrant Poor in Mexico. Stanford University Press. ISBN: ‎9780804708807.
• Judith Chubb. 1983. Patronage, Power, and Poverty in Southern Italy. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521236379. [Preview with Google Books]
• Miriam A. Golden. 2003. “Electoral Connections: The Effects of the Personal Vote on Political Patronage, Bureaucracy and Legislation in Postwar Italy,” British Journal of Political Science, 33: 189–212.
• Javier Auyero. 2000. “The Logic of Clientelism in Argentina: An Ethnographic Account,” Latin American Research Review, 35 (3): 55–82.
• Frances Hagopian. 1996. Traditional Politics and Regime Change in Brazil. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521414296.
• Robert Gay. 1990. “Neighborhood Associations and Political Change in Rio de Janeiro,” Latin American Research Review, 25 (1): 102–18.
• Jonathan Fox. 1994. “The Difficult Transition from Clientelism to Citizenship: Lessons from Mexico,” World Politics, 46 (2): 151–84.
• Robert Gay. 2006. “The Even More Difficult Transition from Clientelism to Citizenship: Lessons from Brazil,” in Patricia Fernández-Kelly and Jon Shefner, eds., Out of the Shadows: Political Action and the Informal Economy in Latin America, pp. 195–217. Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN: 9780271027517. 
• Scott P. Mainwaring. 1999. “Patronage, Clientelism, and Patrimonialism,” in Scott P. Mainwaring, ed., Rethinking Party Systems in the Third Wave of Democratization: The Case of Brazil, pp. 175–218*.* Stanford University Press. ISBN: 9780804730594.
• Susan Stokes, Thad Dunning, Marcelo Nazareno, and Valeria Brusco. 2013. Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism: The Puzzle of Distributive Politics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781107660397. [Preview with Google Books]
• Jennifer Gandhi and Ellen Lust-Okar. 2009. “Elections Under Authoritarianism,” Annual Review of Political Science (12): 403–22.
• Beatriz Magaloni. 2006. Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and Its Demise in Mexico. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521862479. 
• Kenneth F. Greene. 2010. “The Political Economy of Authoritarian Single-Party Dominance,” Comparative Political Studies, 43 (7): 807–34.
• Lisa Blaydes. 2013. Elections and Distributive Politics in Mubarak’s Egypt. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781107617018. [Preview with Google Books]
• Tarek E. Masuod. 2014. Why Islam Wins: Muslim Brotherhoods and Authoritarian Elections in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521279116. 
• Simeon Nichter. 2008. “Vote Buying or Turnout Buying? Machine Politics and the Secret Ballot,” American Political Science Review, 102 (February): 19–31.
• Ernesto Dal Bó. 2007. “Bribing Voters,” American Journal of Political Science, 51 (4), 789–803.
• Pedro Vicente and Leonard Wantchekon. 2009. “Clientelism and Vote Buying: Lessons From Field Experiments in African Elections,” (PDF) Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 25 (2): 292–305.
• Chappell Lawson and Kenneth F. Greene. 2014. “Making Clientelism Work: How Norms of Reciprocity Increase Voter Compliance,” Comparative Politics, 47 (1): 61–85.
• Adam Michael Auerbach. 2016. “Clients and Communities,” World Politics, 68: 111–48.
• Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro. 2012. “What Wins Votes: Why Some Politicians Opt Out of Clientelism,” American Journal of Political Science, 56: 568–83.
• ———. 2014. Curbing Clientelism in Argentina: Politics, Poverty, and Social Policy. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: ‎9781107073623. [Preview with Google Books]

[VIEW] 

• Thad Dunning. “Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism in Latin America and Beyond.” Center for Latin American Studies. University of California at Berkeley. YouTube.
• “The Art of Political Clientelism.” 7News Belize. YouTube.
• “The Curse of Sisyphus: Clientelism and the Greek State | Seminars 2023.” Greek Community of Melbourne. YouTube.

Week 9: Modernization and Development 

• W.W. Rostow. 1991. The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto. Cambridge University Press. [Preview with Google Books]
• Karl W. Deutsch. 1961. “Social Mobilization and Political Development,” American Political Science Review, 55(4): 634–47.
• Daniel Lerner. 1964. The Passing of Traditional Society: Modernizing the Middle East. The Free Press.
• Barrington Moore. 1993. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World. Beacon Press. ISBN: ‎9780807050736. [Preview with Google Books]
• Theda Skocpol. 1973. “A Critical Review of Barrington Moore’s Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy,” Politics and Society, 4 (1): 1–34.
• David Collier, ed. 1979. The New Authoritarianism in Latin America, pp. 19–32. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691021942. [Preview with Google Books]
• Hyug Baeg-Im. 1987. “The Rise of Bureaucratic Authoritarianism in South Korea,” World Politics, 39 (2): 231–57.
• Alexander Gerschenkron. 1962. Economic backwardness in historical perspective, a book of essays. Belknap Press. ISBN: ‎9780674226005.
• Andrew C. Janos. 1982. The Politics of Backwardness in Hungary, 1825–1945. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691076331. [Preview with Google Books]
• Carles Boix. 2011. “Democracy, Development, and the International System,” American Political Science Review, 105 (4): 809–28.
• Adam Przeworski and Fernando Limongi. 1997. “Modernization: Theories and Facts,” World Politics, January (49): 155–93.
• Daniel Treisman. 2015. “Income, Democracy, and Leader Turnover,” American Journal of Political Science, 59 (4): 927–42.

Week 10: Nationalism and National Identity

• E. J. Hobsbawm. 1990. Nations and Nationalism since 1780. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: ‎9780521335072. [Preview with Google Books]
• Ernest Gellner. 2008. Nations and Nationalism. Basil Blackwell. Chapters 1–4, 10: pp. 1–51, 130–36. ISBN: 9780801475009. [Preview with Google Books]
• Adrian Hastings. 1997. The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion, and Nationalism. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: ‎ 9780521625449. [Preview with Google Books]
• Eugene Weber. 1976. Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870–1914. ISBN: ‎9780804710138. [Preview with Google Books]
• Karl W. Deustch. 1966. Nationalism and Social Communication: An Inquiry into the Foundations of Nationality. MIT Press. ISBN: 9780262540018. [Buy at MIT Press]
• Anthony D. Smith. 1983. Theories of Nationalism. Holmes & Meier. ISBN: ‎9780841908451.
• ———. 2000. Myths and Memories of the Nation. Oxford University Press. ISBN: ‎9780198296843.
• Paul R. Brass. 1991. Ethnicity and Nationalism: Theory and Comparison. SAGE Publications Ltd. ISBN: ‎9780803996953.
• Mark Beissinger. 2002. Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521001489. [Preview with Google Books]
• Ashutosh Varshney. 2003. “Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Rationality,” Perspectives on Politics, 1 (1): 85–99.
• Michael Hechter. 2000. Containing Nationalism. Oxford University Press. ISBN: ‎9780198297420. [Preview with Google Books]
• Robert Rotberg, 1965. The Rise of Nationalism in Central Africa: The Making of Malawi and Zambia, 1873–1964. Harvard University Press. ISBN: 9780674771918. [Preview with Google Books]
• Amanda Lea Robinson. 2014. “National Versus Ethnic Identification in Africa: Modernization, Colonial Legacy, and the Origins of territorial Nationalism,” World Politics, 66: 709–46.
• Michael Billig. 1995. Banal Nationalism. SAGE Publications Ltd. ISBN: ‎9780803975255. [Preview with Google Books]
• Thomas Hylland Eriksen. 2002. Ethnicity and Nationalism. Pluto Press. ISBN: 9780745318875. [Preview with Google Books]
• Michael Ignatieff. 1995. Blood and belonging: Journeys into the new nationalism. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN: 9781466819023. [Preview with Google Books]

Week 11: Colonial Legacies

• David B. Abernethy. 2000. The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires,1415–1980. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN: ‎9780300073041. [Preview with Google Books]
• Andre Gunder Frank. 1986. “The Development of Underdevelopment,” in Peter F. Klaren and Thomas J. Bossert, eds., Promise of Development: Theories of Change in Latin America, pp. 111–23. Westview. ISBN: ‎9780813300078. 
• Theotonio dos Santos. 1970. “The Structure of Dependence,”American Economic Review, 60 (2): 231–36.
• Immanuel Wallerstein. 1986. “Incorporation of Indian Subcontinent into Capitalist World-Economy,” Economic and Political Weekly, 21 (4): PE28–PE39.
• Kathleen Deagan. 2003. “Colonial Origins and Colonial Transformations in Spanish America,” Historical Archaeology, 37(4): 3–13.
• Dennis E. Ogburn. 2008. “Becoming Saraguro: Ethnogenesis in the Context of Inca and Spanish Colonialism,” Ethnohistory, 55 (2): 287–319.
• Robin M. Grier. 1999. “Colonial Legacies and Economic Growth,” Public Choice, 98: 317–35.
• Anthony Gill. 2008. Rendering unto Caesar: The Catholic Church and the State in Latin America (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press). ISBN: 9780226293851. [Preview with Google Books]
• Matthew D. Fails and Jonathan Krieckhaus. 2010. “Colonialism, Property Rights and the Modern World Income Distribution,” British Journal of Political Science, 40 (3): 487–508.
• Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson. 2001. “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation,” American Economic Review, 91 (5): 1369–1401.
• Michael Bernhard, Christopher Reenock, and Timothy Nordstrom. 2004. “The Legacy of Western Overseas Colonialism on Democratic Survival,” International Studies Quarterly, 48: 225–50.
• Caswell L. Johnson. 1980. “The Emergence of Political Unionism in Economies of British Colonial Origin: The Cases of Jamaica and Trinidad,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 39 (2): 151–64.
• Matthew Lange. 2009. Lineages of Despotism and Development: British Colonialism and State Power. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN: ‎9780226470689. [Preview with Google Books]
• Steven Wilkinson. 2015. Army and Nation: The Military and Indian Democracy since Independence. Harvard University Press. ISBN: ‎ 9780674728806. [Preview with Google Books]
• Andrew Porter. 1999. “Religion, Missionary Enthusiasm, and Empire”, in Andrew Porter, ed., Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol. III: The Nineteenth Century, pp. 222–46 Oxford University Press. ISBN: ‎9780198205654.
• Jeffrey Cox. 2002. Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power in India, 1818–1940.  Stanford University Press. ISBN: ‎9780804743181. [Preview with Google Books]
• Tomila Lankina and Lullit Getachew. 2013. “Competitive Religious Entrepreneurs: Christian Missionaries and Female Education in Colonial and Post-Colonial India,” British Journal of Political Science, 43 (1): 103–31.
• John P. Ragsdale. 1986. Protestant Mission Education in Zambia: 1880–1954. Associated University Presses. ISBN: ‎9780941664097. [Preview with Google Books]
• Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer. 2005. “History, Institutions, and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India,” American Economic Review, 95: 1190–1213.
• Michael H. Fisher. 1994. Indirect Rule in India: Residents and the Residency System 1764–1858. Oxford University Press. ISBN: ‎9780195644197.
• Dennis L. McNamara. 1990. The Colonial Origins of Korean Enterprise, 1910–1945. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: ‎9780521385657. [Preview with Google Books]
• Stephen L. Morgan and Shiyung Liu. 2007. “Was Japanese Colonialism Good for the Welfare of Taiwanese? Stature and the Standard of Living,” China Quarterly, 192: 990–1017.
• Michael Provence. 2011. “Ottoman Modernity, Colonialism, and Insurgency in the Interwar Arab East,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 43 (2): 205–25.
• Samuel L. Popkin. 1976. “Corporatism and Colonialism: The Political Economy of Rural Change in Vietnam,” Comparative Politics, 8 (3): 431–64.
• David S. Brown. 2000. “Democracy, Colonization, and Human Capital in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Studies in Comparative International Development, 35: 20–40.
• Daniel N. Posner. 2003. “The Colonial Origins of Ethnic Cleavages: The Case of Linguistic Divisions in Zambia,” Comparative Politics, 35 (2): 127–46.
• Crawford Young. 1994. The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective. Yale University Press. ISBN: 9780300058024. [Preview with Google Books]
• M. Catharine Newbury. 1983. “Colonialism, Ethnicity, and Rural Political Protest: Rwanda and Zanzibar in Comparative Perspective,” Comparative Politics,15 (3): 253–80.
• Daron Acemoglu, Tristan Reed, and James A. Robinson. 2014. “Chiefs: Economic Development and Elite Control of Civil Society in Sierra Leone,” Journal of Political Economy, 122 (2): 319–68.
• Peter Geschiere. 1993. “Chiefs and Colonial Rule in Cameroon: Inventing Chieftaincy, French and British Style,” Africa: Journal of International African Institute 63 (2): 151–75.
• Jane Guyer. 1978. “The Food Economy and French Colonial Rule in Central Cameroon,” Journal of African History, 19 (4): 577–97.
• G. I. Jones. 1970. “Chieftaincy in the Former Eastern Regions of Nigeria,” in West African Chiefs: Their Changing Status under Colonial Rule and Independence, edited by Michael Crowder and Obaro Ikime. Africana Pub. Corp. ISBN: ‎9780841900462.
• Carolyn Logan. 2009. “Selected Chiefs, Elected Councilors and Hybrid Democrats: Popular Perspectives on the Coexistence of Democracy and Traditional Authority,” Journal of Modern African Studies, 47: 101–28.

Week 12: Street-Level Bureaucracy

• Guy Grossman and Tara Slough. 2022. “Government Responsiveness in Developing Countries,” Annual Review of Political Science, 25, 131–53. 
• World Bank. 2004. Making Services Work for Poor People. World Development Report 2004. Washington, DC: World Bank. 
• Bozcaga, Tugba. 2020. “The Social Bureaucrat: How Social Proximity among Bureaucrats Affects Local Governance.” Program on Governance and Local Development Working Paper No. 35.
• Martina Bjorkman and Jakob Svensson. 2007. “Power to the People: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiments on Community-Based Monitoring in Uganda.” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4268.
• Ritva Reinikka and Jakob Svensson. 2004. “Local Capture: Evidence from a Central Government Transfer Program in Uganda,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 119: 679–705.
• Benjamin Olken. 2007. “Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia,” Journal of Political Economy, 115 (2): 200–49.
• Daniel S. Nagin, James B. Rebitzer, Seth Sanders, and Lowell J. Taylor. 2002. “Monitoring, Motivation, and Management: The Determinants of Opportunistic Behavior in a Field Experiment,” American Economic Review, 92 (September): 850–73.
• Nazmul Chaudhury, Jeffrey Hammer, Michael Kremer, Karthik Muralidharan, and F. Halsey Rogers. 2006. “Missing in Action: Teacher and Health Worker Absence in Developing Countries,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 20 (1): 91–116.
• Susan Rose-Ackerman. 1999. Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences, and Reform. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521659123. [Preview with Google Books]
• Judith Tendler. 1997. Good Government in the Tropics. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN: ‎ 9780801854521.
• Rafael Di Tella and Ernesto Schargrodsky. 2003. “The Role of Wages and Auditing During a Crackdown on Corruption in the City of Buenos Aires,” Journal of Law and Economics, 46 (1): 269–92.
• Aditya Dasgupta and Devesh Kapur. 2020. “The Political Economy of Bureaucratic Overload: Evidence from Rural Development Officials in India,” American Political Science Review, 114 (4), 1316–34.
• Graeme Blair, Jeremy M. Weinstein, Fotini Christia, Eric Arias, Emile Badran, Robert A. Blair, … and Anna M. Wilke. 2021. “Community Policing Does Not Build Citizen Trust in Police or Reduce Crime in the Global South,” Science, 374 (6571).
• Sean Gailmard and John W. Patty. 2007. “Slackers and Zealots: Civil Service, Policy Discretion, and Bureaucratic Expertise,” American Journal of Political Science, 51: 873–89.
• Bernardo Zacka. 2017. When the State Meets the Street: Public Service and Moral Agency.  Harvard University Press. ISBN: ‎9780674545540. [Preview with Google Books]
• Herbert Kaufman. 2006. The Forest Ranger: A Study in Administrative Behavior (1st ed.). Routledge. ISBN: ‎9781933115269. [Preview with Google Books]

Week 13: Political Institutions and Economic Growth

• Stephen Haber. 1995. Industry and Underdevelopment: The Industrialization of Mexico, 1890–1940. Stanford University Press. ISBN: 9780804725866. [Preview with Google Books]
• Robert Bates. 1981. Markets and States in Tropical Africa. University of California Press. ISBN: 9780520042537. [Preview with Google Books]
• Gary Gereffi. 1978. “Drug Firms and Dependency in Mexico: The Case of the Steroid Hormone Industry,” International Organization, 32 (1): 237–86, especially 242–60.
• Hernando de Soto. 1989. The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World (New York: Harper & Row), pp. xxi–xxviii, 3–26, 131–87. ISBN: ‎9780060160203.
• Arthur A. Goldsmith. 1999. “Africa’s Overgrown State Reconsidered: Bureaucracy and Economic Growth,” World Politics, 51 (4): 520–46.
• John Waterbury. 1993. Exposed to Innumerable Delusions: Public Enterprise and State Power in Egypt, India, Mexico, and Turkey. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521435499.
• Johnson, Chalmers. 1982. MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925–1975. Stanford University Press. ISBN: 9780804712064. [Preview with Google Books]
• Daniel Okimoto. 1989. Between MITI and the Market: Japanese Industrial Policy for High Technology. Stanford University Press. ISBN: ‎9780804718127. [Preview with Google Books]
• Alice Amsden. 1985. “The State and Economic Development in Taiwan,” in Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol (eds.), Bringing the State Back In. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521313131. 
• Gary Gereffi and Donald L. Wyman. 1990. Manufacturing Miracles: Paths of Industrialization in Latin America and East Asia. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691077888. [Preview with Google Books]
• David Stasavage. 2007. “Cities, Constitutions, and Sovereign Borrowing in Europe, 1274–1785,” International Organization, 61: 489–525. 
• Lisa Blaydes and Eric Chaney. 2013 “The Feudal Revolution and Europe’s Rise: Political Divergence of the Christian West and the Muslim World before 1500 CE,” (PDF) American Political Science Review, 107 (1): 16–34.
• Timur Kuran. 2012. The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691156415. [Preview with Google Books]
• Edward L. Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer. 2002. “Legal Origins,” (PDF) Quarterly Journal of Economics 117: 1193–229.