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FPA 2023/ 2024 Syllabus

FPA 2023/ 2024 Syllabus

Week 1: Comparative Politics and Studying the Developing World (Michael Buehler)

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Vicky Randall. “Analytical Approaches to the Study of Politics in the Developing World, “ In: Peter Burnell, Vicky Randall and Lise Rakner (Eds.) Politics in the Developing World. 5th Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 16-35

Wk1 PPP Slides

Week 2: The Comparative Method and Essay Writing (Michael Buehler)

Lisa A. Baglione, Writing a research paper in political science: A practical guide to inquiry, structure, and methods. London: Sage, 2012, pp. 1-12; 153-72.

Theda Skocpol, and Margaret Somers, “The Uses of Comparative History in Macrosocial Inquiry,” Comparative Studies in Society and History Vol. 22, No. 2 (1980), pp. 174-97.

Wk2 PPP Slides

Week 3 Space and Politics: Comparison Beyond the Nation-State

Andreas Wimmer and Nina Glick Schiller, "Methodological nationalism and beyond: nation-state building, migration and the social sciences," Global networks, Vol. 2, No. 4 (2002), pp. 301-334.

Charmian Goh, Kellynn Wee, and Brenda SA Yeoh, "Migration governance and the migration industry in Asia: moving domestic workers from Indonesia to Singapore." International Relations of the Asia-Pacific Vol. 17, No. 3 (2017), pp. 401-433.

Week 3 Space and Politics powerpoint

Week 3 Space and Politics draft lecture text

Week 4 Colonialism and Colonial Legacies (Yuka Kobayashi)

Callahan

Cumings

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Week 5: The Military and Government (Kara Akkoyunlu)

Croissant, Kuehn, Lorenz “Breaking With the Past - Civil-Military Relations in the Emerging Democracies of East Asia

Kuehn (2017) Midwives or gravediggers of democracy The military s impact on democratic development

Tas (2024) Populism and civil–military relations

FPA Week 5 Lecture Slides

Week 6: Religion and Politics (Michael Buehler)

Norris, Pippa and Ronald Inglehart. 2004. Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide. (New York: Cambridge University Press), pp. 3-32.

Smith, D. (1990), “Limits of Religious Resurgence,” In E. Sahliyeh. Ed., Religious Resurgence and Politics in the Contemporary World. (State University of New York Press), pp. 33-48.

Wk6 PPP Slides

Week 7. Democratic Transitions and Hybrid Regimes (Bhavna Dave)

Readings for Week 7

week 7. Hybrid regimes - lecture ppt

Week 7 lecture recording

Week 8: Contentious politics: Civil Society and the State (Adrian Chiu)

Chiavacci and Grano reading

Grugel reading

Tilly and Tarrow reading

Week 8 lecture slides

Week 9: Revolution and Resistance (Reem Abou-El-Fadl)

James DeFronzo, Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements, 5th ed. Westview Press, (2015), Chapter One, “Social Movements and Revolutions”, pp. 9-32.

Asef Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of Arab Spring (Stanford, 2017), Chapter One, “Revolutions of Wrong Times”, pp. 1-25 &amp; Chapter Eight, “Half Revolution, No Revolution” pp 153-178

Schwedler, Jillian, ‘Thinking Critically About Regional Uprisings,’ Middle East Report 292/3, Fall/Winter, 2019.

Link to the lecture

Topic 9 Revolution Slides

Week 10: 21st century politics - populism and technocracy as cleavages or bedfellows?

Cas Mudde and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, ‘Populism and (liberal) democracy: a framework for analysis’ Ch 1 of Populism in Europe and the Americas : Threat or Corrective for Democracy?, CUP, 2012.

Benjamin Moffitt and Simon Tormey, ‘Rethinking populism: Politics, mediatisation and political style’, Political Studies, 62/2 381-397. 2014.

Chris Bickerton, The Rise of The Technopopulists, New Statesman, October 2020

Nic Cheeseman, Populism in Africa and the potential for “ethnically blind” politics, Chapter 23 in de la Torre, C. (Ed.). (2018). Routledge Handbook of Global Populism (1st ed.). Routledge.

Extended reading - Global cases

Extended reading - thematic

Lecture Recording, Pt 1

Lecture Recording, Pt 2

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15PPOH055-A23/24 Frameworks of Political Analysis A23/24

Asef Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of Arab Spring (Stanford, 2017), Chapter One, “Revolutions of Wrong Times”, pp. 1-25 & Chapter Eight, “Half Revolution, No Revolution” pp 153-178