Introduction to Comparative Politics

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Syllabus

Introduction to Comparative Politics Syllabus 2019-20 TERM 1

Term 2 Syllabus

Assignments& Study Guides

Assignment 1

Assignment 2

Reading Guide

Writing Guide

Assignment # 3

Assignment#4

Week 1: Comparative Politics and Studying the Developing World

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Wk1_Randall

Week 2: The Comparative Method and Essay Writing

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Wk2_Baglione

Wk2_Skocpol and Somers

Week 3: Concepts of State and State Formation

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Week 4: State Formation and Empire

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Lisa Anderson, ‘The State in the Middle East and North Africa’, Comparative Politics, vol. 20, no. 1, 1987, pp. 1–18.

Nazih Ayubi, ‘State Formation in the Modern Era: The Colonial/Indigenous Mix’, Overstating the Arab State, ONLY pp. 86-99

Week 5: Governments and Bureaucracies

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Wk5_Evans

Wk5_Stepan

Wk5_GovEff

Barack Obama's ambassador legacy

Week 6: Nations and Nationalism

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Liah Greenfeld and Jonathan Eastwood, ‘National identity,’ in Boix, Carles and Susan C. Stokes, The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics (Oxford University Press, 2007)

Halliday, Fred, ‘Nationalism in the Arab World since 1945’ in John Breuilly ed., Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism (Oxford University Press, 2013)

Week 7: Democracy and Democratisation

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Robert Dahl, ‘What Political Institutions Does Large-Scale Democracy Require’ in On Democracy, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998, pp. 83-99.

Sheila Carapico, ‘Egypt’s Civic Revolution Turns 'Democracy Promotion' on Its Head,’ Arab Spring in Egypt: Revolution and Beyond. Ed. Bahgat Korany and Rabab El-Mahdi. Cairo: American University in Cairo, 2012. 199-222

Week 8: Religion and Politics

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Wk8_Smith

Wk8_Norris

Video: Lecture by Alfred Stepan

Week 9: Social Movements

Doug McCarthy, and Zald N. Mayer, eds. Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 1-22

Rabab El Mahdi, ‘Enough! Egypt’s Quest for Democracy’, Vol. 42 No. 8, pp. 1011-1039.

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Week 10: Gender and Politics

Karen Beckwith, “Beyond compare? Women’s movements in comparative perspective,” European Journal of Political Research, Vol. 37, No. 4 (2000), pp. 431–468

Suad Joseph, ‘Gender and Citizenship in the Arab World’, Al-Raida, Issue 129-130, 2010

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Week 11: Modernization and Political Development

Week 11. Readings and Questions

Huntington, Samuel P. 1965. “Political Development and Political Decay.”

Scott, James C. 1998. “Authoritarian high modernism”

Przeworski, Adam and Fernando Limongi. 1997. “Modernization: Theories and Facts

7 January lecture ppt

Week 12: Politics of Economic Development

Week 12. Readings and questions

Lipset, Seymour Martin. 1959. “Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy.

Sen, Amartya. 2001. Development as Freedom. Introduction and Ch 1

Lecture W12.ppt

Week 13. Formal and Informal Institutions

Week 13. Readings and questions

Posner and Young, 2007. The institutionalization of political power in Africa

Helmke and Levitsky, 2004. Informal Institutions and Comparative Politics

Lecture W13. ppt

Week 14. Political Parties and Party Systems

Week 14. Readings and questions

Smyth, Hegemonic party regime in Russia

Hicken party system in southeast Asia

Farooqui Umbrella party - Indian National Congress

Week 14 ppt

Week 15. Elections and Electoral Systems

Week 15. Readings and Questions