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POLI-647
The Political Economy of Development
Professor Philip Oxhorn Winter 2015
Office: Peterson Hall, 3460 McTavish St. Rm 242
Phone: 398-8970
E-Mail: [email protected]
Office Hours: Monday, 2:30-4:30; Wed., 2:00 -3:00 or by appointment.
The course is designed to provide graduate students with a firm grounding in the political
economy of development. Its central organizing theme is the incorporation of subordinate
groups into national political systems. The course begins with an examination of
development processes in the now industrialized countries of Western Europe and North
America. The rest of the course is then devoted to exploring various interpretations of
development processes in the so-called “late-late” developing countries of Africa, Asia
and Latin America. Specific topics to be covered include state formation, the emergence
of civil society, modernization and dependency theories, alternative development models,
democracy and authoritarianism, sustainable development and gender.
Course Requirements
Two critical review essays (3-5 pages, double-spaced) assessing the material assigned
for a given week. Each essay is worth 15 percent of the final grade and should be handed
in on the day the material is to be discussed in class. Each student is responsible for
handing in at least one essay by February 17. The second essay must be handed in no
later than April 7. Late essays will be marked down five points.
One 25-30 page research paper. Paper topics may include any issue relevant to
understanding the political economy of development, but students are urged to discuss
the selection of their topics with the instructor. Papers must be handed in no later than
April 7. Papers handed in after that date will be penalized. The research paper is worth 40
percent of the final grade.
Participation in class discussions is required and students are expected to keep up with
the reading. Each student will be responsible for directing one seminar session. Class
participation and the presentation together are worth 30 percent of the final grade.
1. "McGill University values academic integrity. Therefore, all students
must understand the meaning and consequences of cheating, plagiarism and
other academic offences under the Code of Student Conduct and Disciplinary
Procedures (seewww.mcgill.ca/students/srr/honest/ for more
information)(approved by Senate on 29 January 2003)/"L'université McGill
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attache une haute importance à l’honnêteté académique. Il incombe par
conséquent à tous les étudiants de comprendre ce que l'on entend par tricherie,
plagiat et autres infractions académiques, ainsi que les conséquences que
peuvent avoir de telles actions, selon le Code de conduite de l'étudiant et des
procédures disciplinaires (pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez
consulter le site www.mcgill.ca/students/srr/honest/)."
2. “In accord with McGill University’s Charter of Students’ Rights, students in
this course have the right to submit in English or in French any written work
that is to be graded.”(approved by Senate on 21 January 2009 - see also the
section in this document on Assignments and evaluation.)/"Conformément à la
Charte des droits de l’étudiant de l’Université McGill, chaque étudiant a le droit
de soumettre en français ou en anglais tout travail écrit devant être noté (sauf
dans le cas des cours dont l’un des objets est la maîtrise d’une langue)."
Schedule and Reading Assignments
Books marked with an “*” are available in the campus bookstore. Readings that are
available online can be accessed by following the indicated hyperlink. A Xeroxed copy
of all other required readings will be made available as a course pack for purchase. Books ordered through the bookstore are also available through Redpath Reserves.
NB: In order to access hyperlinked articles and books, you will need to be connected to
the McGill server. If you don’t use McGill internet or computers on campus, you can do
so via a VPN: http://www.mcgill.ca/ics/tools/vpn/
I. Jan. 6: Introduction
Recommended Readings:
Hirschman, A. O., 1970 (April). “The Search for Paradigms as a Hindrance to
Understanding,” World Politics, 22 (3): 329-43.
II. Jan. 13: Getting the Story “Right”: Interpreting Western Development
Required Readings:
*Moore, B., 1966. The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (Boston:
Beacon Press): xi-xix, 3-155, 413-483.
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Skocpol, T., 1973. “A Critical Review of Barrington Moore’s Social Origins,”
Politics and Society, IV (Fall): 1-34
Tilly, Charles, 1998. “Where Do Rights Come From?” in Theda Skocpol (ed.),
Democracy, Revolution, and History (Ithaca: Cornell University Press), pp. 55-72.
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai, 1999. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and
Indigenous Peoples (London: Zed Books Ltd.): 42-77.
Oxhorn, Philip, 2009. “What We Still Need to Know: Why and How People
Become Committed Democrats,” in The Future of Political Science: 100
Perspectives, Gary King, Kay Schlozman, and Norman Nie, eds. (Routledge): 56-
58.
Recommended Readings:
Brenner, R., “Agrarian Structures and Economic Development in Pre-industrial
Europe,” Past and Present (Feb. 1976), 30-75.
Femia, J., 1972. “Barrington Moore and the Preconditions for Democracy,”
British Journal of Political Science, 2 (Jan.): 21-46.
Keane, J., “Despotism and Democracy,” in J. Kean, ed., Civil Society and the
State: New European Perspectives (London: Verso, 1988).pp. 35-71.
Rueschemeyer, Dietrich, Evelyne Stephens, and John D. Stephens. 1992.
Capitalist Development and Democracy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Schmitter, Philippe C., 2001. Seven (Disputable) “Theses Concerning The Future
Of ‘Transatlanticized’ Or ‘Globalized’ Political Science.” Florence: Istituto
Universitario Europeo, unpublished manuscript (October), can be found at various
sites on the web.
III. Jan. 20: Trying to Understand Why the Developing World Isn’t Developed I:
Modernization Theory
Required Readings:
Lipset, S. M., 1959. “Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic
Development and Political Legitimacy,” American Political Science Review, 53
(Mar.): 69-105.
Welzel, Christian, and Ronald Inglehart, 2013. Evolution, Empowerment And
Emancipation: How Societies Ascend The Utility Ladder Of Freedoms (National
Research University Higher School of Economics, WP BRP 29/SOC/2013).
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Seligson, M., and J. Passé-Smith, 1993. Development and Underdevelopment:
The Political Economy of Underdevelopment (Boulder: Lynne Rienner): 169-172.
Harrison, L., and S. Huntington, eds., 2000. Culture Matters: How Values Shape
Human Progress (New York: Basic Books): xvii-xxii; 1-13; 202-218.
Portes, A., 1973. “Modernity and Development: A Critique,” Studies in
Comparative International Development, 8 (Spring): 247-79.
Recommended Readings:
Almond, G., 1973. “Approaches to Development Causation,” in G. Almond et al,
Crisis, Choice and Change: Historical Studies of Political Development (Boston:
Little, Brown & Co.): 1-39.
Deutsch, K., 1961. “Social Mobilization and Political Development,” American
Political Science Review, 55(Sept.): 493-514.
Huntington, S., 1971. “The Change to Change: Modernization, Development and
Politics,” Comparative Politics, III (April): 283-322.
Inglehart, Ronald, and Christian Welzel, 2009. “How Development Leads to
Democracy: What We Know About Modernization,” Foreign Affairs, 88:2
(March/April): 33-48.
Rostow, W., 1963. “Take-off into Self-Sustained Growth,” in A. Agarwala and S.
Singh, eds., The Economics of Underdevelopment (New York: Oxford University
Press): 154-88.
IV. Jan. 27: Trying to Understand Why the Developing World Isn’t Developed II:
Dependency Theory
Required Readings:
*Cardoso, F., and E. Faletto, 1979. Dependency and Development in Latin
America (Berkeley: University of California Press): vii-xxv, 1-28, 149-216.
Wallerstein, I., 1979. The Capitalist World-Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press): 1-36.
Smith, T., 1979. “The Underdevelopment of Development Literature: The Case of
Dependency Theory,” World Politics, 31(Jan.): 247-88.
Cardoso, F. H., 1977. “The Consumption of Dependency Theory in the United
States,” Latin American Research Review, 12: 7-24.
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Campos Cordera, Rolando 2014. “Development then and now: Idea and utopia,”
Cepal Review, 113 (August): 7-20.
Malone, David M., and Rohinton P. Medhora, 2014. Development: Advancement
Through International Organizations (Waterloo: Centre for International
Governance Innovation).
Hirschman, A. O., 1981. “The Rise and Decline of Development Economics,” in
Hirschman, Essays in Trespassing: Economics to Politics and Beyond
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press): 1-24.
Recommended Readings:
Barrett, R. E., and M. Whyte, 1982. “Dependency Theory and Taiwan: An
Analysis of a Deviant Case,” American Journal of Sociology, 87 (Mar.): 1064-89.
Cardoso, F. H., 1973. “Associated Dependent Development: Theoretical and
Practical Implications,” in A. Stepan, ed., Authoritarian Brazil (New Haven: Yale
University Press), pp. 142-176.
Collier, D., ed., 1979. The New Authoritarianism in Latin America (Princeton:
Princeton University Press), pp. 61-98; 285-318.
Dos Santos, Theontonio, 1970. “The Structure of Dependence,” American
Economic Review, 60: 2 (May): 231-236.
Evans, Peter B. 1979. Dependent Development: The Alliance of Multinational,
State, and Local Capital in Brazil (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press).
Valenzuela, J.S., and Aarturo Valenzuela, 1978. “Modernization and
Dependency: Alternative Perspectives in the Study of Latin American
Underdevelopment,” Comparative Politics (July): 535-57.
V. Feb. 03: Controlling the Dislocations of Late Development: The Role of
Institutions
Required Readings:
*Huntington, S., 1968. Political Order in Changing Societies (New Haven: Yale
University Press): 1-92; 140-237; 397-461.
Kesselman, M., 1973. “Order or Movement: The Literature of Political
Development as Ideology,” World Politics, 26 (Oct.): 139-54.
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Portes, Alejandro and Lori D. Smith, 2008. “Institutions and Development in
Latin America: A Comparative Analysis,” Studies in Comparative International
Development, 43, pp.:101–128.
Remmer, K. L., 1997. “Theoretical Decay and Theoretical Development: The
Resurgence of Institutional Analysis,” World Politics, 50(Oct.): 34-61.
Sangmpam, S. N., 2007. “Politics Rules: The False Primacy of Institutions in
Developing Countries,” Political Studies, 55:1, pp. 201–224.
Justesen, Mogens K., and Christian Bjørnskov, 2014. “Exploiting the Poor:
Bureaucratic Corruption and Poverty in Africa,” World Development, 58, pp.
106-115.
Recommended Readings:
Helmke, Gretchen, and Steven Levitsky, eds., 2006. Informal Institutions and
Democracy: Lessons from Latin America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press).
Kaviraj, S., 1984. “On the Crisis of Political Institutions in India,” Contributions
to Indian Sociology, 18 (2): 223-43.
March, J., and J. Olsen, 1984. “The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors
in Political Life,” American Political Science Review, 78 (September): 734-49.
VI. Feb. 10: Controlling the Dislocations of Late Development: Agrarian Societies
Required Readings:
*Bates, R., 1981. Markets and States in Tropical Africa: the Political Basis of
Agricultural Policies (Berkeley : University of California).
Anseeuw,Ward, 2010. “Agricultural policy in Africa: renewal or status quo?” in
Vishnu Padayachee, ed., The Political Economy of Africa (London: Routledge):
247-265.
Ravallion, Martin, 2009. “Are There Lessons for Africa from China’s Success
Against Povery?” World Development, 37:2, pp. 303-313.
Skocpol, T., and E. Trimberger, 1986. “Revolutions: A Structural Analysis,” in J.
Goldstone, ed., Revolutions: Theoretical, Comparative, and Historical Studies
(San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich): 59-65.
McClintock, C., 1989. “Peru’s Sendero Luminoso Rebellion: Origins and
Trajectory,” in S. Eckstein, ed., Power and Popular Protest: Latin American
Social Movements (Berkeley: University of California Press): 61-101.
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Recommended Readings:
Mahoney, J., 2001. “Path Dependent Explanations of Regime Change: Central
America in Comparative Perspective,” Studies in Comparative International
Development., 36:1, pp. 111-141.
VII. Feb. 17: Controlling the Dislocations of Late Development: Bureaucratic
Authoritarianism
Required Readings:
O’Donnell, G., 1979. Modernization and Bureaucratic Authoritarianism
(Berkeley: University of California Press): xiii-xvi; 1-111. AVAILABLE ON
MyCourses
Remmer, K. L., and G. Merkx, 1982. “Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism Revisited,”
Latin American Research Review, XVII (2): 3-40.
O’Donnell, G., 1982. “Reply to Remmer and Merkx,” Latin American Research
Review, XVII (2): 41-50.
Collier, D., (ed.), 1979. The New Authoritarianism in Latin America (Princeton:
Princeton University Press): 61-98.
Garretón, M. A., 1989. The Chilean Political Process (Boston: Unwin Hyman):
45-114.
Crystal, J., 1994. “Authoritarianism and its Adversaries in the Arab World,”
World Politics, 46 (Jan.): 262-89.
Art, David, 2012. “What Do We Know About Authoritarianism After Ten
Years?” Comparative Politics, 44:3 (April): 351-373
Recommended Readings:
Cotton, James, 1992. “Understanding the State in South Korea: Bureaucratic-
Authoritarian or State Autonomy Theory?” Comparative Political Studies, 24(4):
512-31.
VIII. Feb. 24: The State or the Market: Trying to Learn from South East Asia’s Success
Required Readings:
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Deyo, F., ed., 1987. The Political Economy of New Asian Industrialism (Ithaca:
Cornell University Press): 165-181.
Huber, Evelyne, ed. 2002. Models of Capitalism: Lessons for Latin America
(University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press): 237-300.
Balassa, B., 1988. “The Lessons of East Asian Development: An Overview,”
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 36(3): 273-290.
Williamson, John, 1993. “Democracy and the ‘Washington Consensus’,” World
Development 21(8): 1329-36.
Kuczynski, Pedro-Pablo, and John Williamson, 2003. After the Washington
Consensus: Restarting Growth and Reform in Latin America (Washington, DC:
Institute for Interntional Economics): 1-19.
Wu, Chin-en, 2012. “When is Democracy Better for Economic Performance and
when Is It Not: the Interaction Between Politic and Structural Factors,” Studies in
Comparative International Development, 47:4 (December): 365-388.
Maravall, J., 1994. “The Myth of Authoritarian Advantage,” Journal of
Democracy, 5:4 (Oct.): 17-31.
Robinson, James A., 2009. “The Political Economy of Equality and Growth in
Mexico: Lessons from the United States,” in Santiago Levy and Michael Walton,
eds., No Growth without Equity? Inequality, Interests, and Competition in Mexico
(Washington DC / Basingstoke; New York World Bank/Palgrave Macmillan): 87-
107.
Bergh, Andreas, and Therese Nilsson, 2014. “Is Globalization Reducing Absolute
Poverty?” World Development, Volume 62 (October): 42–61.
Ost, David, 2014. “Does Neoliberalism Marginalize Labor or Reincorporate It—
And Is There a Difference?” Comparative Politics (April): 355-376.
Birdsall, Nancy, and Nora Lustig, 2014. “The Strugglers: The New Poor in Latin
America?” World Development, 60, pp. 132-146.
Connell, Raewyn, and Nour Dados, 2014. “Where in the world does neoliberalism
come from? The market agenda in southern perspective,” Theory and Society, 43,
pp. 117-138.
Escobar, Arturo, 1992. “Reflections on ‘Development’: Grassroots approaches
and alternative politics in the Third World,” Futures, 24(5): 411-436.
Manzo, K., 1991. “Modernist Discourse and the Crisis of Development Theory,”
Studies in Comparative International Development, 26 (2): 3-36.
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Recommended Readings:
Amsden, A., 1994. “Why Isn’t the Whole World Experimenting with the East
Asian Model to Develop? Review of The East Asian Miracle,” World
Development, 22 (4): 627-33.
Amsden, A., 1997. “Editorial: Bringing Production Back in--Understanding
Government’s Economic Role in Late Industrialization,” World Development, 25
(4): 469-80.
Birdsall, Nancy, and Augusto de la Torre, with R. Menezes 2001. Washington
Contentious: Economic Policies for Social Equity in Latin America. Washington,
D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Inter-American
Dialogue.
Booth, A., 1999. “Initial Conditions and Miraculous Growth: Why is South East
Asia Different from Taiwan and South Korea?” World Development, 27(2): 301-
321.
Bresser, L., J. Maravall and A. Przeworski, 1994. “Economic Reforms and New
Democracies: A Social-Democratic Approach,” in W. Smith et al, eds., Latin
American Political Economy in the Age of Neoliberalism: Theoretical and
Comparative Perspectives for the 1990s (Coral Gables: University of Miami,
North-South Center): 181-212.
Chaudry, K., 1993. “The Myths of the Market and the Common History of Late
Developers,” Politics and Society, 21(September), 245-274.
Coutinho, Luciano, 2000. “Overcoming crises resulting from adherence to the
Washington Consensus: lessons from the Republic of Korea and Brazil,”
International Social Science Journal, 166(December): 517-527.
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2000. 2000. Equity,
Development and Citizenship, Highlights. Santiago: United Nations.
Encarnación, O., 1996. “The Politics of Dual Transitions,” Comparative Politics,
28(4): 477-492.
Evans, Peter, 2008. “Is an Alternative Globalization Possible? Politics and
Society, 36:2 (June): 271-305.
Geddes, B., 1995. “The Politics of Economic Liberalization,” Latin American
Research Review, 30(2): 195-214.
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Glatzer, Miguel and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, 2005. “Conclusion: Politics
Matters,” in Miguel Glatzer and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., Globalization and
the Future of the Welfare State (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press): 203-
225.
Graham, Carol, 1998. Private Markets for Public Goods: Raising the Stakes in
Economic Reform. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, pp. 278-297.
Haggard, Stephan, 2000. “The Politics of the Asian Financial Crisis,” Journal of
Democracy, 11:2 (April): 130-144.
Hagggard, S., and R. Kaufman, 1997. “The Political Economy of Democratic
Transitions,” Comparative Politics, 29(3): 263-83.
Halperin, Morton H., Joseph T. Siegle and Michael M. Weinstein, 2005. The
Democracy Advantage: How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace (New
York: Routledge): 135-173.
Kang, D., 1995. “South Korean and Taiwanese development and the new
institutional economics,” International Organization, 49(3): 555-587.
Kang, David. C., 2002. “Bad Loans to Good Friends: Money, Politics and the
Development State in South Korea,” International Organization, 56(Winter): 177-
207.
Kingstone, Peter R. 2006. “After the Washington Consensus: The Limits to
Democratization and Development in Latin America” Latin American Research
Review 41(1): 153-164.
Lall, S., 1994. “The East Asian Miracle: Does the Bell Toll for Industrial
Strategy?” World Development, 22 (4): 645-54.
Oxhorn P., and G. Ducatenzeiler, eds., 1998. What Kind of Democracy? What
Kind of Market? Latin America in the Age of Neoliberalism (University Park:
Pennsylvania State University Press).
Rudra, Nita, 2005. “Are Workers in the Developing World Winners or Losers in
the Current Era of Globalization?” Studies in Comparative International
Development, 40(3): 29-64.
Stiglitz, J., and S. Yusuf, eds., 2001. Rethinking the East Asian Miracle (New
York: Oxford University Press): 1-53; 461-526.
Wade, Robert H., 2004. “Is Globalization Reducing Poverty and Inequality?”
World Development, 32:4, pp. 567–589.
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Wibbels, Erik, 2006. “Dependency Revisited: International Markets, Business
Cycles, and Social Spending in the Developing World,” International
Organization, 60(2): 433-468.
World Bank, 1993. The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy,
Policy Research Report (Washington, D.C.: The World Bank): 1-26; 347-68.
World Bank, 2012. World Development Report: Jobs (Washington, DC: The
World Bank):2-47.
IX. March 10: The Question of the State
Required Readings:
*Fukuyama, Francis, 2014. Political Order and Political Decay: From the
Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy (New York: Farrar,
Straus and Giroux).
Skocpol, Theda, 1985. “Bringing the State Back In: Strategies of Analysis in
Current Research,” in. P. Evans, D. Rueschemeyer and T. Skocpol, eds., Bringing
the State Back In (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press): 3-37.
Migdal, J., A. Kohli, and V. Shue, eds., State Power and Social Forces
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press): 1-34.
*Moyo, Dambisa, 2009. Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working And How There Is A
Better Way For Africa, 1st American ed. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Evans, P., 1995. Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation
(Princeton: Princeton University Press): 3-20; 43-73.
Nandy, A., 1992. “State,” in W. Sachs, ed., The Development Dictionary
(London: Zed): 264-74.
Recommended Readings:
Acemoglu, Daron, and James A. Robinson, 2012. Why Nations Fail: The Origins
of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (New York: Crown Business).
Alavi, H., “The State in Postcolonial Societies: Pakistan and Bangladesh,” in K.
Grough and H. Sharma, eds., Imperialism and Revolution in South Asia (New
York: Monthly Review Press, 1973), pp. 145-173.
Burki, S., and G. Perry, 1998. Beyond the Washington Consensus: Institutions
Matter. (Washington, D.C.: The World Bank): 11-37; 121-138.
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Chalmers, D. A., 1977. “The Politicized State in Latin America,” in J. M. Malloy,
ed., Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University
of Pittsburgh Press): 23-45.
Chibber, Vivek, 2003. Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization
in India (Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Grindle, M., 1997. “Divergent Cultures? When Public Organizations Perform
Well in Developing Countries,” World Development, 25 (4): 481-95.
Lange, Matthew, and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., 2005. States and
Development: Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance (New York:
Palgrave Macmillan).
Lu, Xiabo, 2000. “Booty Socialism, Bureau-preneurs, and the State in
Transition,” Comparative Politics, 32(April): 273-294.
Mitchell, T., 1991. “The Limits of the State. Beyond Statist Approaches and their
Critics,” American Political Science Review, 85 (1): 77-96. See also Comments
by J. Bendix, B. Sparrow, and B. Ollman and Response by Mitchell, American
Political Science Review, 86 (December 1992): 1007-1021.
Nugent, Paul, 2010. “States and Social Contracts in Africa,” New Left Review, 63
(May-June): 35-68.
O'Donnell, Guillermo, 1993. “On the State, Democratization and Some
Conceptual Problems: A Latin American View with Glances at Some
Postcommunist Countries.” World Development, 21 (8): 1355-69.
Pritchett, Lant and Michael Woolcock, 2004. “Solutions When the Solution is the
Problem: Arraying the Disarray in Development,” World Development, 32(2): pp.
191–212.
Shambayati, H., 1994. “The Rentier State, Interest Groups, and the Paradox of
Autonomy: State and Business in Turkey and Iran,” Comparative Politics,
26(April): 307-329.
World Bank, 1997. World Development Report 1997: The State in a Changing
World (Washington, D.C.: The World Bank): 1-38.
X. March. 17: The Question of Democracy
Required Readings:
*Dahl, R., 1971. Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition (New Haven: Yale
Univ. Press): 1-227.
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Lipset, S. M., 1994. “The Social Requisites of Democracy Revisited,” American
Sociological Review, 59(Feb.): 1-22.
Fukuyama, Francis, 2006. “Democracy and ‘The End of History,’ Revisited,” in
Heraldo Muñoz, ed., Democracy Rising: Assessing the Global Challenges
(Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers): 115-120.
*Fukuyama, Francis, 2014. Political Order and Political Decay: From the
Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy (New York: Farrar,
Straus and Giroux).
Nayyar, D., 1998. “Economic Development and Political Democracy: Interaction
of Economics and Politics in Independent India,” Economic and Political Weekly,
31(Dec. 5-11): 3121-3131.
Schmitter, Philippe C., 2010. “Twenty-Five Years, 15 Findings,.” Journal of
Democracy, 21:1 (January): 17-28.
O’Donnell, Guillermo, 2010. “Schmitter’s Retrospective: A Few Dissenting
notes,” Journal of Democracy, 21:1 (January): 29-32.
Oxhorn, Philip, 2011. Sustaining Civil Society: Economic Change, Democracy
and the Social Construction of Citizenship in Latin America (University Park:
The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011): 51-90.
Bellin, Eva, 2012. “Reconsidering the Robustness of Authoritarianism in the
Middle East: Lessons from the Arab Spring,” Comparative Politics, 44:2
(January): 127-149.
Diamond, Larry, 2010. “Why Are There No Arab Democracies,” Journal of
Democracy, 21:1 (January): 93-104.
Driessen, Michael D., 2012. “Public Religion, Democracy, and Islam Examining
the Moderation Thesis in Algeria,” Comparative Politics, 44:2 (January
2012):171-189.
Fortin, Jessica, 2011. “Capacity in Postcommunist Countries: Is There a
Necessary Condition for Democracy? The Role Capacity in Postcommunist
Countries,” Comparative Political Studies, 45:7 (December): 903–930.
Bruszt, László, 2012. “The State of the Market: The Market Reform Debate and
Postcommunist Diversity,” in Douglas Chalmers and Scott Mainwaring, eds.,
Problems Confronting Contemporary Democracies: Essays in Honor of Alfred
Stepan (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press): 111-136.
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Di´Az-Cayeros, Alberto, Beatriz Magaloni, and Alexander Ruiz-Euler, 2014.
“Traditional Governance, Citizen Engagement, and Local Public Goods: Evidence
from Mexico,’ World Development, 53, pp. 80-93.
Yashar, Deborah, 1999. “Democracy, Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal
Challenge in Latin America,” World Politics, 52(October): 76-104.
Parekh, B., 1992. “The Cultural Peculiarity of Liberal Democracy,” Political
Studies, 40 (Special Issue): 160-175.
Zakaria, F., 1997. “The Rise of Illiberal Democracy,” Foreign Affairs, 76
(Nov./Dec.): 22-43.
Levitsky, Steven, and Lucan A. Way, 2010. Competitive Authoritarianism:
Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press): 1-
36.
Recommended Readings:
Bellin, E., 2000. “Contingent Democrats: Industrialists, Labor and
Democratization in Late-Developing Countries,” World Politics, 52(January):
175-205.
Bellin, Eva, 2004. “The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East:
Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective,” Comparative Politics, 36:2
(January): 139-157.
Carothers, Thomas, 2006. “The Backlash against Democracy Promotion,”
Foreign Affairs, 85(Mar/Apr): 55.
Carothers, Thomas, 2004. Critical Mission: Essays on Democracy Promotion
(Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace).
Chen, Jie, and Bruce J. Dickson, 2010. Allies of the State: China’s Private
Entrepeneurs and Democratic Change (Cambridge: Harvard University Press).
Cofman Wittes, Tamara, 2008. “Three Kinds of Movements,” Journal of
Democracy, 19:3 (July): 7-12.
Gerring, John, Philip Bond, William T. Barndt, and Carola Moreno, 2005.
“Democracy and Economic Growth: A Historical Perspective,” World Politics,
57(April): 323-364.
Gilbert, Leah, and Payam Mohseni, 2011. “Beyond Authoritarianism: The
Conceptualization of Hybrid Regimes,” Studies in Comparative International
Development, 46: 3 (September): 270-297.
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Hadenius, Axel, and Jan Teorell, 2005. “Cultural and Economic Prerequisites of
Democracy: Reassessing Recent Evidence,” Studies in Comparative International
Development, 39:4 (Winter): 87-106.
Huber, Evelyne, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and John D. Stephens, 1997. “The
Paradoxes of Contemporary Democracy: Formal, Participatory, and Social
Dimensions,” Comparative Politics, 29:3 (April):323-342.
Huntington, S., 1996. “Democracy for the Long Haul,” Journal of Democracy, 7
(April): 3-13.
Jones, D., 1998. “Democratization, Civil Society and Illiberal Middle Class
Culture in Pacific Asia,” Comparative Politics, 30 (Jan.): 147-69.
Karl, Terry, forthcoming. “From Democracy to Democratization and Back:
Before and After Transitions from Authoritarian Rule,” in Colin Crouch and
Wolfgang Streck, eds., A Diversity of Democracies: A Volume in Honor of
Philippe C. Schmitter.
Karl, Terry Lynn, and Philippe C. Schmitter. 1991. "What Democracy is...And
What It Is Not," in The Global Resurgence of Democracy, ed. M. F. Plattner and
L. Diamond. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.
Kenny, Charles, 2005. “Why Are We Worried About Income? Nearly Everything
that Matters is Converving,” World Development, 33:1, pp. 1-19.
Linz, J., and A. Stepan, 1996. Problems of Democratic Transition and
Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America and Post-Communist Europe
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press): 3-83.
Manion, Melanie, 2006. “Democracy, Community, Trust: The Impact of Elections
in Rural China,” Comparative Political Studies, 39(April): 301-324.
O'Donnell, Guillermo A., Philippe C. Schmitter, and Laurence Whitehead, eds.
1986. Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Prospects for Democracy. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press.
Posusney, Marsha Pripstein, 2004. “Enduring Authoritarianism: Middle East
Lessons for Comparative Theory,” Comparative Politics, 36:2 (January): 127-
138.
Przeworski, A., and F. Limongi, 1997. “Modernization: Theories and Facts,”
World Politics, 49 (January): 155-83.
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Rustow, D., “Transitions to Democracy: Toward a Dynamic Model,”
Comparative Politics, 2(April 1970), pp. 337-363.
Schmitter, P., 1994. “The Dangers and Dilemmas of Democracy,” Journal of
Democracy, 5 (July): 57-74.
United Nations Development Program, Human Development Report 2002:
Deepening Democracy in a Fragmented World. New York: Oxford University
Press, pp. 1-83
Yang, Dali L., 2004. Remaking the Chinese Leviathan (Stanford: Stanford
University Press).
XI. March 24: The Question of Civil Society
Required Readings:
Fukuyama, Francis, 2002. “Social Capital and Development: The Coming
Agenda,” SAIS Review, XXII:1 (Winter-Spring): 23-37.
Berman, Sheri, 1997. “Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic,”
World Politics 49(3): 401-429.
Oxhorn, Philip, 2011. Sustaining Civil Society: Economic Change, Democracy
and the Social Construction of Citizenship in Latin America (University Park:
The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011): 1-28; 230-238.
Lavalle, Adrian Gurza, and Natália S. Bueno, 2011, “Waves of Change Within
Civil Society in Latin America Mexico City and São Paulo,” Politics & Society,
39:3, pp. 415–450.
Landau, Ingrid, 2008. “Law and Civil Society in Cambodia and Vietnam: A
Gramscian Perspective,” Journal of Contemporary Asia, 38:2 (May): 244-258.
Touchton, Michael, and Brian Wampler, 2014. “Improving Social Well-Being
Through New Democratic Institutions,” Comparative Political Studies, 47:10, pp.
1442-1469.
Baiocchi, Gianpaolo, and Ernesto Ganuza, 2014. “Participatory Budgeting as if
Emancipation Mattered,” Politics & Society 42:1, pp. 29-50.
Hann, C.,1996. “Introduction: Political Society and Civil Anthropology,” in C.
Hann and E. Dunn, eds., Civil Society: Challenging Western Models (London:
Routledge): 1-26.
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Benessaieh, Afef, 2011. “Global Civil Society: Speaking Speaking in Northern
Tongues?” Latin American Perspectives, 38:6 (November): 69-90.
Sadowski, Y., 1993. “The New Orientalism and the Democracy Debate,” Middle
East Report (July-August): 14-21.
Mamdani, M., 1996. Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of
Late Colonialism (Princeton: Princeton University Press): 3-34.
Young, C., 1993. The Nation-State at Bay? (Madison: University of Wisconsin
Press): 3-35.
Sambanis, Nicholas, and Moses Shayo, 2013. “Social Identification and Ethnic
Conflict,” American Political Science Review, 107:2 (May): 294-325.
Recommended Readings:
Botchway, Karl, 2001. “Paradox of Empowerment: Reflections on a Case Study
from Northern Ghana,” World Development, 29:1, pp. 1350153
Carothers, Thomas, 1999/2000. “Civil Society,” Foreign Policy, 117 (Winter):
18-29.
Collins, Kathleen, 2007. “Ideas, Networks, and Islamic Movements: Evidence
from Central Asia and the Caucus,” World Politics, 60:1 (Oct.): 64-96.
Hanafi, Hasan, 2002. “Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society: A Reflective
Islamic Approach,” in Simone Chambers and Will Kymlicka, eds., Alternative
Conceptions of Civil Society. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 171-189.
Hann, C., 1997. “The Nation-State, Religion, and Uncivil Society: Two
Perspectives from the Periphery,” Daedalus, 126(Spring): 27-45.
Hsu, Lee-Nah, 2005. “Building dynamic democratic governance and HIV-
resilient societies,” International Social Science Journal, 57(December): 699-713.
Gvosdev, Nikolas, 2001/02. “Managing Pluralism: Human Rights and the
Challenge of the New Century,” World Policy Journal, XVIII(Winter): 51-58.
Ibrahim, Saad Eddin, 1998. “Populism, Islam and Civil Society in the Arab
World,” in John Burbidge, ed., Beyond Prince and Merchant: Citizen
Participation and the Rise of Civil Society. New York: Pact Publications, pp. 53-
66.
Kilby, Patrick, 2006. “Accountability for Empowerment: Dilemas Facing Non-
Governmental Organizations,” World Development, 34:6, pp. 951-963.
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Langohr, Vickie, 2004. “Too Much Civil Society, Too Little Politics: Egypt and
Liberalizing Arab Regimes,” Comparative Politics, 36:2 (January): 181-204.
Miguel, Edward, 2004. “TRIBE OR NATION? Nation Building and Public
Goods in Kenya vs. Tanzania,” World Politics, 56(April): 327-62.
O’Brien, Kevin J., and Lianjiang Li, 2005. Popular Contention and Its Impact in
Rural China,” Comparative Political Studies, 38:3 (April): 235-259.
Roy, Indrajit, 2008. “Civil Society and Good Governance: (Re-) Conceptualizing
the Interface,” World Development, 36:4, pp. 677-705.
Rudra, Nita, 2002. “Globalization and the Decline of the Welfare State in Less-
Developed Countries,” International Organization, 56(Spring): 411-445.
Schwedler, Jillian, 2001. “Islamic Identity: Myth, Menace, or Mobilizer,” SAIS
Review, XXI (Summer-Fall): 1-17.
Weiss, Meredith L., 2008. “Civil Society and Close Approximations Thereof,” in
Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Dan Slater, and Tuong Vu, eds., Southeast Asia in
Political Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis (Stanford: Stanford
University Press):144-170.
Wong, Joseph, 2005. “Adapting to Democracy: Societal Mobilization and Social
Policy in Taiwan and South Korea,” Studies in Comparative International
Development, 40:3 (Fall): 88-111.
World Bank, 2003. World Development Report 2004.Making Services Work for
Poor People (Washington DC: The World Bank): 78-93.
XII. March 31: Age-Old Problems that We Are Now “Discovering”: The Environment
Required Readings:
Toman, M., 1992. “The Difficulty in Defining Sustainability,” in J. Darmstadter,
ed. Global Development and the Environment: Perspectives on Sustainability
(Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future): 15-23.
Posner, Eric A., and David Weisbach, 2010. Climate Change Justice (Princeton:
Princeton University Press): 73-98; 193-197.
Sunkel, O., 1995. “Is the Chilean ‘Miracle’ Sustainable?” Journal of
Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, 37(Fall): 1-7.
Forsyth, Tim, 2007. “Are Environmental Social Movements Socially Exclusive?
An Historical Study from Thailand,” World Development, 35: 12, pp. 2110-2130.
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World Bank 2010. World Development Report (Washington, DC: The World
Bank): xx-xi; 1-35.
Beckerman, W., 1992. “Economic Growth and the Environment: Whose Growth?
Whose Environment?” World Development, 20(4): 481-97.
Ward, Hugh, Xun Cao, and Bumba Mukherjee, 2014. “State Capacity and the
Environmental Investment Gap in Authoritarian States,” Comparative Political
Studies, 47:3, pp. 309-343.
Jasanoff, Sheila and Marybeth Long Martello, eds., 2004, Earthly Politics: Local
and Global in Environmental Governance (Cambridge, MIT Press): 103-125; 151-
172.
Kellow, Aynsley, 2000. “Norms, Interests and Environment NGOs: The Limits of
Cosmopolitanism,” Environmental Politics, 9:3(Autumn): 1-22.
Recommended Readings:
Anaya, S. James, and S. Todd Crider, 1996. “Indigenous Peoples, The
Environment, and Commercial Forestry in Developing Countries: The Case of
Awas Tingni, Nicaragua,” Human Rights Quarterly, 18.2, pp. 345-367.
Broad, R., 1994. “The Poor and the Environment: Friends or Foes?” World
Development, 22 (6): 811-22.
Cheru, F., 1992. “Structural Adjustment, Primary Resource Trade and Sustainable
Development in Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Development, 20 (4): 497-512.
Devlin, J. and N. Yap, 1994. “Sustainable development and the NICs: cautionary
tales for the South in the New World (Dis)Order,” Third World Quarterly, 15 (1):
49-62.
Dryzek, John S., and David Schlosberg, 2005. Debating the Earth: The
Environmental Politics Reader, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1991. Sustainable
Development: Changing Production Patters, Social Equity and the Environment
(Santiago: United Nations): 13-48; 65-122; 131-42.
Elliott, Loraine, 2004. The Global Politics of the Environment, 2nd ed. (New
York: NYU Press).
Gupte, Manjusha, 2004. “Participation in a Gendered Environment: The Case of
Community Forestry in India,” Human Ecology, 32:3 (June): 365-382.
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Nygren, Anja, 2004. “Contested Lands and Incompatible Images: The Political
Ecology of Struggles Over Resources in Nicaragua’s Indio-Maíz Reserve,”
Society and Natural Resources, 17:3, pp. 189-205.
Reed, Maureen G., and Bruce Mitchell, 2003. “Gendering Environmental
Geography,” The Canadian Geographer, 47:3, pp. 318-337.
Swinton, Scott M. and Germán Escobar, 2003. “Poverty and Environment in
Latin America: Concepts, Evidence and Policy Implications,” World
Development, 31:11, pp. 1865-1872.
World Bank, 1992. World Development Report 1992: Development and the
Environment (New York: Oxford University Press): 1-43; 170-78.
XIII. April 7: Age-Old Problems that We Are Now “Discovering”: Gender
Required Readings:
Benería, L., 1979. “Reproduction, Production and the Sexual Division of Labour,”
Cambridge Journal of Economics, 3: 203-225.
Peterson, V. Spike, 2005. “How (the Meaning of) Gender Matters in Political
Economy,” New Political Economy, 10:4 (Dec.): 499-521.
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, 2003. “’Under Western Eyes’ Revisited: Feminist
Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles,” S I G N S (Winter): 499-535.
Caldeira, Teresa, 1998. “Justice and Individual Rights: Challenges for Women’s
Movements and Democratization in Brazil,” in Jane S. Jaquette and Sharon L.
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Europe. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 75-103.
Young, I., 1989. “Polity and Group Difference: A Critique of the Ideal of
Universal Citizen,” Ethics, 99 (Jan.): 250-74.
Philips, A., 1992. “Must Feminists Give Up on Liberal Democracy?” Political
Studies, 40 (Special Issue): 69-82.
Jackson, C., 1996. “Rescuing Gender from the Poverty Trap,” World
Development, 24 (3): 489-504.
Goldman, Mara J., and Jani S. Little, 2015. “Innovative Grassroots NGOS and the
Complex Processes of Women’s Empowerment: An Empirical Investigation from
Northern Tanzania,” World Development, 66(762-777.
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Samarakoon, Shanika, and Rasyad A. Parinduri, 2015. “Does Education Empower
Women? Evidence from Indonesia,” World Development, 66, pp. 428-442.
Beath, Andrew, Fotini Christia, and Ruben Enikolopov, 2013. “Empowering
Women through Development Aid: Evidence from a Field Experiment in
Afghanistan,” American Political Science Review, 107:3 (August): 540-557.
Sundaram, Aparna, and Reeve Vanneman, 2008. “Gender Differentials in
Literacy in India: The Intriguing Relationship with Women’s Labor Force
Participation,” World Development, 36:1, pp. 128-143.
Arndt, Channing, Rui Benfica and James Thurlow, 2011. “Gender Implications of
Biofuels Expansion in Africa: The Case of Mozambique,” World Development,
39:9, pp. 1649-1662.
Hooks, Bell, 1986. “Sisterhood: Political Solidarity between Women,” Feminist
Review, No. 23, (Summer): 125-138.
Recommended Readings:
Charlton, S., J. Everett and K. Staudt, Women, the State and Development
(Albany: State University of New York): 1-19; 177-90.
Cheng, L., 1999. “Globalization and women’s paid labour in Asia,” International
Social Science Journal, 16o (June): 217-228.
Clark, Janine Astrid and Jillian Schwedler, 2003. “Who Opened the Window?
Women’s Activism in Islamist Parties,” Comparative Politics, 35: 3 (April): 293-
313.
Elson, D., 1992. “From Survival Strategies to Transformation Strategies:
Women’s Needs and Structural Adjustment,” in L. Benería and S. Feldman, eds.,
Unequal Burden: Economic Crisis, Persistent Poverty ad Women’s Work
(Boulder: Westview): 26-48.
Gray, Mark M., Miki Caul Kittilson, and Wayne Sandholtz, 2006. “Women and
Globalization: A Study of 180 Countries, 1975-2000,” International Organization
60:2 (April), pp.293-333.
Jaquette, Jane, and Gale Summerfield, eds., 2006. Women and Gender Equity in
Development Theory and Practice: Institutions, Resources, and Mobilization
(Durham: Duke University Press.
Kabeer, Naila, 2001. “Conflicts Over Credit: Re-Evaluating the Empowerment
Potential of Loans to Women in Rural Bangladesh,” World Development, 29:1,
pp. 63-84.
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Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., et al, 1997. “Gender, Property Rights, and Natural
Resources,” World Development, 25:8, pp. 1303-1315.
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, A. Russo and L. Torres, eds., 1991. Third World
Women and the Politics of Feminism (Bloomington: Indiana University Press): 1-
47.
Tickner, J. A., 1993. “States and Markets: An Ecofeminist Perspective on
International Political Economy,” International Political Science Review, 14 (1):
59-69.
Walsh, Denise M., 2012. “Does the Quality of Democracy Matter for Women’s
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Comparative Political Studies, 45:11 (November 2012):1323-1350.
Park, A., 1993. “Women and Development: The Case of South Korea,”
Comparative Politics, 25 (2): 127-45.
Ross, Michael L., 2008. “Oil, Islam and Women,” American Political Science
Review, 102:1 (Feb.): 107-123.
Sen, G., 1996. “Gender, Markets and States: A Selective Review and Research
Agenda,” World Development, 24 (5): 821-29.
World Bank, 2001. Engendering Development Through Gender Equality in
Rights, Resources and Voice. (New York: The World Bank and Oxford
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Woroniuk, B., et al, 1995. Women in the Americas: Bridging the Gender Gap
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