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Last update: PhDr. Gabriela Baranyaiová (09.03.2020)
Session 2 Linkages, Institutions, State Capacity Session 3 Institutions and the Death of Democracy Session 4 Populism and Revolt against the Institutions Session 5 Fluid Institutions and Volatility Session 6 Authoritarian Institutions Session 7 Bureaucratic Authoritarianism, Technocracy, Rule of Experts Requirements: o One short opinion piece + presentation (2-3 pages), focus on A list mostly but feel free to use B list and C list readings o Active class participation o Large research paper, 8 pages + bibliography, double-spaced, font 12. Please circulate your opinion pieces via email. Final Grade o One short opinion piece – 30% o Active class participation – 10% o Research paper – 60% |
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Last update: PhDr. Gabriela Baranyaiová (09.03.2020)
Linkages, Institutions, State Capacity A-list o Kitschelt, Herbert. 2000. Linkages between Citizens and Politicians. Comparative Political Studies, 33, 6-7: 845-79. o Keefer, Philip. 2007. Clientelism, Credibility, and the Policy Choices of Young Democracies, American Journal of Political Science, 51, 4, 804-821. o Lenka Bustikova and Cristina Corduneanu-Huci. 2017. "Patronage, Trust and State Capacity: The Historical Trajectories of Clientelism," World Politics 69:2, 277-326.
B-list o Kitschelt, Herbert and Steven Wilkinson. Patrons, Clients and Policies. Chapter 1, Theory. Cambridge University Press. o The Political Economist Newsletter, Spring 2015, APSA, State Capacity, Institutions, and Development. (on BB) o Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson. 2001. “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development.” American Economic Review, 91:5 1369-1401. o Michael Mann on State Capacity (on BB) o Doner, Richard and Ben Ross Schneider. 2016. The Middle Income Trap: More Politics than Economics, World Politics, 68, 4: 608-644. o Levitsky, Steven and Maria Victoria Murillo. 2009. Variation in Institutional Strength. Annual Review of Political Science 12: 115-33. o Anna Grzymala Busse. 2003. Political Competition and the Politicization of the State, Comparative Political Studies, December. C-list o Max Weber on Bureaucracy (on BB) o Hicken, Allen. 2011. Clientelism. Annual Review of Political Science 14: 289-310. o Besley, Timothy and Persson, Torsten. 2009. The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics. American Economic Review 99, no. 4: 1218-44. o Charron, Nicholas and Victor Lapunte. 2013. Why Do Some Regions in Europe Have a Higher Quality of Government. The Journal of Politics 75, no. 3: 567-582. o Kitschelt, Herbert. 2011. Do Institutions Matter for Parties’ Electoral Linkage Strategies?, manuscript. (on BB) o O’Dwyer, Conor. 2006. Runaway State-Building: Patronage Politics and Democratic Development. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. o Anna Grzymala Busse. Rebuilding Leviathan. Cambridge.
Institutions and the Death of Democracy A-list o Bermeo, Nancy. 2016. On democratic backsliding. Journal of Democracy, 27(1), 5–19. o Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky. 2018. How Democracies Die. New York: Crown Publishing. Focus on Chapter 1 (Fateful Alliances), Ch2, Ch3 to Chapter 4 (Subverting Democracy). (on BB) o Special Issue Perspectives on Politics on Ziblatt, Levitsky. Review Symposium - 23 November 2018, pp. 1092-1104. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/latest-issue o Lenka Bustikova and Petra Guasti. 2017. The Illiberal Turn or Swerve in Central Europe? Politics and Governance, 5:4, 166-176.
B-list o Guasti, Petra. “Democracy under Stress. Changing Perspectives on Democracy, Governance and their Measurement. In: Petra Guasti and Zdenka Mansfeldova. Democracy under Stress. Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences, pp. 9-27 (on BB). o Hannah Arendt. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Chapter 9 to Chapter 12 (pp. 267-460). https://www.azioniparallele.it/images/materiali/Totalitarianism.pdf , Ch 9: The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man, Ch 10: A Classless Society, Ch 11: The Totalitarian Movement, Ch 12: Totalitarian in Power. o Giovanni Capoccia. 2001. Defending democracy: Reactions to Political Extremism in Inter-War Europe. European Journal of Political Research 39: 431 - 460. o How Democracy Ends - David Runciman – podcast (2018) https://play.acast.com/s/talkingpolitics/howdemocracyends Talking Points: Democracy Ends: https://www.acast.com/talkingpolitics/howdemocracyends o Zalan, E. 2016, January 8. How to build an illiberal democracy in the EU. EU observer. Retrieved from: https://euobserver.com/political/131723 C-list o Rupnik, J. 2016. Surging Illiberalism in the East. Journal of Democracy, 27, 4: 77–87. o Takis S. Pappas. 2016. The Specter Haunting Europe: Distinguishing Liberal Democracy’s Challengers. Journal of Democracy 27, 4: 22-36. o Debate between Foa and Mounk and Welzel (Journal of Democracy) -> o Criticism of Foa and Mounk: Amy C. Alexander and Christian Welzel. The Myth of Deconsolidation: Rising Liberalism and the Populist Reaction. 2017. Online Exchange on “Democratic Deconsolidation” in the Journal of Democracy. o Dyke, J. (2017, November 6). In Poland last month, an act of self-sacrifice on a par with Jan Palach. The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/06/in-poland-last-month-anact-of-self-sacrifice-on-a-par-with-jan-palach o Levitz, P., & Pop-Eleches, G. (2010). Why no backsliding? The European Union’s impact on democracy and governance before and after accession. Comparative Political Studies 43, 4: 457–485. o Dawson, J., and Hanley, S. 2016. The fading mirage of the “liberal consensus”. Journal of Democracy 27, 1: 20–34. o Licia Cianetti, James Dawson & Seán Hanley. 2018. Introduction: Rethinking “democratic backsliding” in Central and Eastern Europe – looking beyond Hungary and Poland. East European Politics. Volume 34, Issue 3, pp. 243-256. o Schlipphak, B., & Treib, O. 2017. Playing the blame game on Brussels: The domestic political effects of EU interventions against democratic backsliding. Journal of European Public Policy 24, 3: 352–365. o Greskovits, B. 2015. The hollowing and backsliding of democracy in East Central Europe. Global Policy 6 (S1), 28–37. o Grzymala-Busse, A. 2017. Global populisms and their impact. Slavic Review 76 (S1), S3–S8. o Jasiewicz, K. 2007. Is Central Europe backsliding? The political-party landscape. Journal of Democracy 18, 4: 26–33. o Snyder, Timothy. 2017. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century. Duggan Books, New York. o Levitsky, Steven and Daniel Ziblatt. 2018. Opinion: This is how democracies die: Defending our constitution requires more than outrage. The Guardian. Jan 21, Sunday. 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2018/jan/21/this-is-how-democracies-die?CMP=share_btn_tw o Edward Luce. The Retreat of Western Liberalism. (2017)
Populism and Revolt against the Institutions, Far Right A-list o Mudde and Kaltwasser. 2013. Inclusionary and Exclusionary Populism. Government and Opposition. o Ignazi, Pierro. 1992. “The silent counter-revolution. Hypotheses on the emergence of extreme right-wing parties in Europe.” European Journal of Political Research 22(1): 3-34. o Bustikova, Lenka. 2019. Extreme Reactions. Cambridge University Press (selections).
B-list o Matt Golder. 2016. Far right parties in Europe. American Review of Political Science 19, 477-97. o Kirk Hawkins. 2018. Introductory Chapter. Oxford Handbook of Populism. o Nadia Urbinati. 2019. Political Theory of Populism. Annual Review of Political Science. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-polisci-050317-070753 o Mudde, Cas. 2016, The Study of Populist Radical Right Parties: Towards a Fourth Wave. C-Rex Working Paper Series. No. 1. Comparative Political Studies. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0010414018789490?casa_token=eVo4q549EpUAAAAA:GwZuRl4I_m9M1p26xcODuexpxX_HjwpQjYbYeMZ2TbCU8u0MDuil4o-uECPWe74SrnFiUaV-74B-yw (newest version) o Lenka Bustikova. 2014. "Revenge of the Radical Right," Comparative Political Studies, 47:12, 1738-1765. o Golder M. 2003. Explaining variation in the electoral success of extreme right parties in Western Europe. Comparative Political Studies 36:432–66. o Roger Eatwell. 2003. Ten Theories of the Extreme Right. Right-Wing Extremism in the Twenty-First Century, Peter H. Merkl and Leonard Weinberg (eds.), London: Frank Cass, pp. 47-73. (on BB) o Matt Golder and Sona N Golder (eds.). 2016. "Symposium: Populism in Comparative Politics." CP: Newsletter of the Comparative Politics Organized Section of the American Political Science Association, 26:1. APSA Comparative Section, Newsletter on Populism, Fall. o Eatwell, Roger. 2017. Populism and Fascism. Oxford Handbook of Populism. Edited by Taggart, Rovira Kaltwasser and Ochoa Espejo. Oxford University Press. o Meguid, Bonnie. 2005. Competition between Unequals: The role of mainstream party strategy in niche party success. American Political Science Review, 99, 347-359. C-list o Zygmunt Bauman. 2000. Liquid Modernity, pp. 168-200. o Arzheimer, Kai. 2017. “Explanations for RR voting.” The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right, (ed. Jens Rydgren). New York: Oxford University Press. o Eatwell, R. 2003. “Ten theories of the extreme right,” in Merkl, P. and Weinberg, L., ed. Right-Wing Extremism in the Twenty First Century. Portland, Oregon: Frank Cass. o Kitschelt, H. (2007). Growth and persistence of the radical right in postindustrial democracies: Advances and challenges in comparative research. West European Politics, 30, 1176-1206. o Mudde, C. 2007. Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. o Arzheimer, K. 2009. “Contextual factors and the extreme right vote in Western Europe, 1980-2002.” American Journal of Political Science 53(2): 259-275. o Pop-Eleches, G. 2010. “Throwing out the bums: Protest voting and unorthodox parties after communism.” World Politics 62(2): 221-260. o Rydgren, J. 2008. “Immigration sceptics, xenophobes or racists? Radical right-wing voting in six west European countries.” European Journal of Political Research 47(6): 737-765. o Rydgren, J. 2007. “The sociology of the radical right.” Annual Review of Sociology 33: 241-262. o Givens, T. (2004). The radical right gender gap. Comparative Political Studies, 37, 30-54. o Dancygier, R. 2010. Immigration and Conflict in Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. o Kedar, O. (2005). When moderate voters prefer extreme parties: Policy balancing in parliamentary elections. American Political Science Review, 99, 185-199. o Meguid, B. 2008. Party Competition Between Unequals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. o Gidron, Noam and Bart Bonikowski. 2013. “Varieties of Populism: Literature Review and research agenda.” Working Paper Series 13-0004, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Harvard University. o Lenka Bustikova. 2017. "The Radical Right in Eastern Europe," in: The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right, (ed. Jens Rydgren). New York: Oxford University Press. o Look Who's Back is a 2015 German comedy film directed by David Wendt, based on the bestselling satirical novel of the same name about Adolf Hitler by Timur Vermes. o Berman, Sheri. 1997. ‘Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic.’ World Politics 49(3): 401-429, compare to: Putnam et al. Making Democracy Work. o Capoccia., G. (2001). Defending democracy: Reactions to political extremism in inter- war Europe. European Journal of Political Research, 39, 431-460. o Inglehart, R. and Norris, P. 2016. "Trump, Brexit, and the rise of populism: Economic have-nots and cultural backlash." HKS Working Paper No. RWP16-026. APSA paper. o Roger Eatwell. 2003. Ten Theories of the Extreme Right. Right-Wing Extremism in the Twenty-First Century, Peter H. Merkl and Leonard Weinberg (eds.), London: Frank Cass, pp. 47-73. (on BB) o Roger Eatwell. 2017. Populism and Fascism. Edited by Taggart, Rovira Kaltwasser and Ochoa Espejo. Oxford Handbook of Populism. Oxford University Press. (on BB) o Karl Polanyi. 1944. Satanic Mill. In: The Great Transformation. (on BB) o Goldmann, Matthias. 2017. The Great Recurrence: Karl Polanyi and the Crisis of the European Union. European Law Journal 23: 272-289. o Canovan, Margaret. 1999. Trust the People! Populism and the Two Faces of Democracy. Political Studies XLVII, 2-16. o Hawkins, Kirk A., Madeleine Read, and Teun Pauwels. 2018. Populism and Its Causes. Chapter 14. Edited by Taggart, Rovira Kaltwasser and Ochoa Espejo. Oxford Handbook of Populism. Oxford University Press. o Rydgren, Jens. 2017. Radical right-wing parties in Europe. What’s populism got to do with it? Journal of Language and Politics, June: 1-12. o Takis S. Pappas. 2018. How to Tell Nativists from Populists. Journal of Democracy 29, 1: 148-152. o Golder, Matt and Sona N. Golder (eds.). 2016. Symposium: Populism in Comparative Politics. CP: Newsletter of the Comparative Politics Organized Section of the American Political Science Association, 26:1. o Mudde, Cas. 2017. Why nativism, not populism should be declared word of the year. Thursday, December 7. The Guardian. o Brubaker, Rogers. 2017. Why populism? Theory and Society 46, 5: 357–385. o Gidron N, and Bonikowski B. 2013. Varieties of Populism: Literature Review and Research Agenda, in Weatherhead Working Paper Series, No. 13-0004. o Caramani, Daniele. 2017. Will vs. Reason: The Populist and Technocratic Forms of Political Representation and Their Critique to Party Government. American Political Science Association 111, 1: 54-67. o Radical Right Research Robot (Kai Arzheimer) - https://twitter.com/rrresrobot?lang=en @RRResRobot
Fluid Institutions and Volatility A-list o Lupu, Noam, and Rachel Beatty Riedl. 2013. Political Parties and Uncertainty in Developing Democracies. Comparative Political Studies 46(11): 1339–65 o Wilkinson, Steven. 2015. Where’s the Party? The Decline of Party Institutionalization and What (if Anything) that Means for Democracy. Government and Opposition 50(3): 420–45. o Haughton, Tim, and Kevin Deegan-Krause. 2015. Hurricane Season Systems of Instability in Central and East European Party Politics. East European Politics and Societies 29(1): 61–80. o Bernhard, Michael. 2015. Chronic Instability and the Limits of Path Dependence. Perspectives on Politics, 13,4: 976-991.
B-list o Padgett, Ansell. 1993. Robust Action and the Rise of Medici, 1400-1434. American Journal of Sociology, 98, 6, May, 1259-1319. o Jennifer Gandhi. 2015. Elections and Political Regimes. Government and Opposition, Vol. 50, No. 3, 2015. Special Issue. The Future of Democracy. o Tavits, Margit. 2008. On the Linkage between Electoral Volatility and Party System Instability in Central and Eastern Europe. European Journal of Political Research 47(5): 537-555. o Bernhard, Michael. 2015. Chronic Instability and the Limits of Path Dependence. Perspectives on Politics, 13,4: 976-991. C-list o William H Sewell. 1992. A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency and Transformation. American Journal of Sociology 98(1): 1–29. o Tavits, Margit. 2007. Party Systems in the Making: The Emergence and Success of New Parties in New Democracies. British Journal of Political Science 38, 113–133. o Tavits, Margit. 2005. The Development of Stable Party Support: Electoral Dynamics in Post-Communist Europe. American Journal of Political Science 49(2): 283-98. o L Hooghe, G Marks. Cleavage Theory Meets Europe's Crises: Lipset, Rokkan, and the Transnational Cleavage. Forthcoming. http://hooghe.web.unc.edu/files/2016/09/Hooghe_Marks_2017_-Cleavage-Theory-Meets-Europe-Crises.pdf o Lenka Bustikova and Elizabeth Zechmeister. 2017. "Voting in New(er) Democracies," in: The SAGE Handbook of Electoral Behaviour, (eds. Kai Arzheimer, Jocelyn Evans and Michael Lewis-Beck), 92-133.
Authoritarian Institutions A-list o Pepinsky. 2014. “The Institutional Turn in Comparative Authoritarianism.” British Journal of Political Science 44, no. 3 (July), 631 – 653. o Jennifer Gandhi and Ellen Lust-Okar. 2009. Elections under Authoritarianism. Annual Review of Political Science 12: 403-422. o David Art. 2012. What do we know about authoritarianism after 10 years. (Review Article). Comparative Politics, April. o Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way. 2002. The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism. Journal of Democracy, 13, 2. B-list o Dan Slater. 2013. Democratic Careening. Review Article. World Politics 65,4, 729-63. o Malesky, E. and Schuler, P. 2010. Nodding or Needling: Analyzing Delegate Responsiveness in an Authoritarian Parliament, American Political Science Review, 104(3), pp. 482–502. o Beatriz Magaloni and Ruth Kricheli. 2010. Political Order and One-Party Rule. Annual Review of Political Science, 13: 123-43 o Newsletter – Comparative Democratization C-list o Gandhi, Jennifer. 2008. Political Institutions under Dictatorship. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. o Bhavnani, Rikhil R. 2009. Do Electoral Quotas Work After They Are Withdrawn? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India. American Political Science Review 103 (1): 23-35. o Beatriz Magaloni. 2006. Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico. New York: Cambridge University Press. o Lisa Blaydes. 2011. Elections and Distributive Politics in Mubarak's Egypt. Cambridge University Press. o Svolik, Milan. 2012. The Politics of Authoritarian Rule. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. o Malesky, Edumund and Paul Schuler. 2010. Nodding or Needling: Analyzing Delegate Responsiveness in an Authoritarian Parliament. American Political Science Review. 104(3): 482-502. o Ruchan Kaya and Michael Bernhard. 2013. Are Elections Mechanisms of Authoritarian Stability or Democratization? Evidence from Postcommunist Eurasia. Perspectives on Politics. Volume 11, Issue 3, pp. 734-752. o http://scottgehlbach.net/whats-next-for-the-study-of-nondemocracy/ o Berman, Sheri. 1997. Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic. World Politics 49(3): 401-429. o Bunce, Valerie and Sharon Wolchik. 2010. Defeating Dictators: Electoral Change and Stability in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes. World Politics 62: 43-86. o McFaul, Michael. 2002. The Fourth Wave of Democracy and Dictatorship: Noncooperative Transitions in the Postcommunist World. World Politics 54 (January), 212-44. o Chambers, Simone and Jeffrey Kopstein. 2001. Bad Civil Society. Political Theory, 29(6): 837-865.
Bureaucratic Authoritarianism, Technocracy, Rule of Experts A-list o D. Caramani, “Will vs. Reason”: The Populist and Technocratic Forms of Political Representation and Their Critique to Party Government,” American Political Science Review 111 (2017): 54–67, o Calvert W. Jones . 2019. Adviser to The King: Experts, Rationalization, and Legitimacy. World Politics 71 (1): 1-43. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/world-politics/article/adviser-to-the-king/D5F7E821B7362DCE049610D272DB99A7 o Lenka Bustikova and Petra Guasti. 2019. The State as a Firm: Understanding the Autocratic Roots of Technocratic Populism. East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures 33 (2): 302-330.
B-list o C. Bickerton and C. I. Accetti, “Populism and Technocracy: Opposites or Complements?” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 20 (2015): 186–206. o Guillermo A. O'Donnell. Modernization and Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism: Studies in South American Politics. o Karen Remmer and Gilbert Merkx. Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism Revisited. Latin American Research Review. Vol. 17, No. 2 (1982), pp. 3-40. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2503143?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents C-list o F. Marangoni and L. Verzichelli, “From a Technocratic Solution to a Fragile Grand Coalition: The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Parliamentary Government in Italy,” The Journal of Legislative Studies 21 (2015): 35–53. o Juliet Johnson. 2017. Priests of Prosperity. o Collier. Bureaucratic Authoritarianism. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234113379_Bureaucratic_Authoritarianism |
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Last update: PhDr. Gabriela Baranyaiová (09.03.2020)
Requirements: o One short opinion piece + presentation (2-3 pages), focus on A list mostly but feel free to use B list and C list readings o Active class participation o Large research paper, 8 pages + bibliography, double-spaced, font 12.
Please circulate your opinion pieces via email.
Final Grade o One short opinion piece – 30% o Active class participation – 10% o Research paper – 60% |