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Required and recommend texts (3 items)The required textbooks for the course are:

Politics: 1B: Comparative politics - Kesselman, University of Glasgow, c2011Book | Essential | This is a commissioned textbook for the course and is therefore only

available through the university bookshop. These can be purchased from John Smith’sBookshop on campus.

Comparative politics today: a theoretical framework - G. Bingham Powell, Russell J. Dalton,Kaare Strøm, c2012

Book | Essential

There are no other required purchases, but individual lecturers may recommend otherbooks and do require you to read journal articles, available from the library, in preparationfor lectures and tutorials, so please check each reading list carefully.

1. Introduction to Comparative Politics (66 items)

Lecture 1: Introduction to the CourseThis lecture will introduce you to the main components of the course and the teachingstaff.

Lecture 2: Theoretical Frameworks in Comparative Politics (9 items)This lecture will introduce students to the main theoretical approaches to studyingcomparative politics. In particular it will examine and compare structural, institutional,cultural and interest-based approaches to understanding and explaining politics indifferent domestic settings. We will critically examine each broad theoretical framework byinterrogating how well each can or cannot explain contemporary issues in comparativepolitics.

Required Reading (1 items)

Comparative government and politics: an introduction - Rod Hague, Martin Harrop, c2013Book | Essential | See: Chapter 5, available via the Online Resource button.

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Further Readings (8 items)

Comparing nations: concepts, strategies, substance - Mattei Dogan, Ali Kazancigil, 1994Book | Further | See: Chapters 1-2.

Comparative politics: a global introduction - Michael J. Sodaro, c2008Book | Further | Chapters 1, 2, 12, 13 & 14.

Theory and methods in political science - David Marsh, Gerry Stoker, 2010Book | Further | See: ‘Introduction’ by Stoker and Marsh; Chapter 3: ‘Rational Choice’ by

Ward-chapter; Chapter 4: ‘Institutionalism’ by Lowndes.

A new handbook of political science - Robert E. Goodin, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, 1996Book | Further | See: Chapter 4, ‘Comparative Politics: An Overview’ by Mair et al. ;

Chapter 2: ‘Political Institutions’ by Rothstein et al.

Structuring politics: historical institutionalism in comparative analysis - Sven Steinmo,Kathleen Ann Thelen, Frank Longstreth, 1992

Book | Further | See: Chapter 1

Institutional theory in political science: the new institutionalism - B. Guy Peters, c2012Book | Further

Comparative Politics: Diversity and Coherence - J. A. Caporaso, 2000-09-01Article | Further

Patterns of democracy: government forms and performance in thirty-six countries - ArendLijphart, Askews & Holts Library Services, 2012

Book | Further

Lecture 3: The Comparative Method (18 items)This lecture will discuss what is appropriate to compare and the level at which comparisonis appropriate. Commonly-employed comparative strategies will be introduced and thedifficulties encountered in the study of comparative politics will be addressed. The lecturewill also consider how scholars develop and use comparative measures of key concepts.

Required Reading (1 items)

Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method - Arend LijphartArticle | Essential

Further Readings (17 items)

Comparative politics: a global introduction - Michael J. Sodaro, c2008Book | Further | See: Chapter 3: 'Critical Thinking about Politics: Analytical Techniques

of Political Science - The Logic of Hypothesis Testing'.

Comparative politics - Daniele Caramani, c2014Book | Further | See: Chapter 3: Keman. (2011). ‘Comparative Research Methods.’

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Theory and methods in political science - David Marsh, Gerry Stoker, 2002Book | Further | See: chapter 12, Hopkins. (2002) ‘Comparative Methods ’.

How to compare nations: strategies in comparative politics - Mattei Dogan, DominiquePelassy, 1990

Book | Further | See: pp. 5-24.

Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method - Arend LijphartArticle | Further

Comparative politics: rationality, culture, and structure - Askews & Holts Library Services,2009

Book | Further | See: Chapter 1.

Research methods in politics - Peter Burnham, 2004Book | Further | See: Chapter 3.

Comparing Forms of Comparative Analysis - Richard Rose, W. J. M. Mackenzie, 1991-09Article | Further

For journalistic comparative studies, see: (2 items)

The tiger in front: A Survey of India and China - 2005-03-05Article | Further

Closing the gap - 2011-11-26Article | Further

Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics - Giovanni SartoriArticle | Further

Designing social inquiry: scientific inference in qualitative research - Gary King, Robert O.Keohane, Sidney Verba, c1994

Book | Further | Chapter 2. Print edition also available at Soc Sci A370 KIN (1 x GUL, 1 xUREAD, 3 x UADSM)

Comparative Research, Experimental Design, and the Comparative Method - Henry Teune,1975-07-01

Article | Further

Some Methodological Problems in Comparative Politics - A. M. Faure, 1994-07-01Article | Further

Freedom in the World 2011 SurveyWebpage | Further

Human Development Index (HDI) | Human Development ReportsWebpage | Further

Gender Inequality Index (GII) | United Nations Development ProgrammeWebpage | Further

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Lecture 4: Regime Types (10 items)This lecture will introduce the concept of the regime as it is used in the study ofcomparative politics. We will also consider the principal types of regime in thecontemporary world and discuss how to identify and compare regimes. The focus will beon the established democratic regime, the authoritarian regime and the hybrid regime.

Required Reading (1 items)

Comparative politics today: a theoretical framework - G. Bingham Powell, Russell J. Dalton,Kaare Strøm, c2012

Book | Essential | See: Chapter 1, 'Issues in Comparative Politics', pp.12-18 & Chapter6, pp 136-141.

Further Reading (9 items)

Comparative politics - Daniele Caramani, c2014Book | Further | See: Chapter 5, Mair, Peter. (2008). ‘Democracies’

Comparative government and politics: an introduction - Rod Hague, Martin Harrop, c2013Book | Further | See: Chapters 3 & 4. Hague and Harrup (2013). ‘Democracy’ and

‘Authoritarian Rule’

Democracy as a Universal Value - Amartya Kumar Sen, 1999Article | Further

Comparative politics: a global introduction - Michael J. Sodaro, c2008Book | Further | See: Chapter 7, Sodaro (2008) ‘Democracy: What is It?’.

Freedom in the World 2011 SurveyWebpage | Further

What Democracy Is. . . and Is Not - Philippe C Schmitter, Terry Lynn Karl, 1991Article | Further

The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism - Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, 2002Article | Further

Thinking About Hybrid Regimes - Larry Jay Diamond, 2002Article | Further

Authoritarianism in an age of democratization - Jason Brownlee, c2007Book | Further

Lecture 5: Understanding State-economy Relations (11 items)This lecture will assess the relationship between economic and political performance.Regimes across the world vary greatly in how their economies are structured and also inhow well they do in economic terms. How do economic and political regimes interact? Aredemocracies, for instance, better at providing for the needs of their populations thanauthoritarian regimes?

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Required Reading (2 items)

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

Article | Essential

Economic Globalization and Democracy: An Empirical Analysis - Quan Li, Rafael Reuveny,2003-1

Article | Essential

Further Reading (9 items)

Comparative Democracy: The Economic Development Thesis - Ross E. Burkhart, Michael S.Lewis-Beck, 1994

Article | Further

Empirical Linkages Between Democracy and Economic Growth - John F. Helliwell, 1994-4Article | Further

Does High Income Promote Democracy? - John B. Londregan, Keith T. Poole, 1996Article | Further

Capitalist development and democracy - Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Evelyne Huber, John D.Stephens, 1992

Book | Further

What Democracy Is. . . and Is Not - Philippe C Schmitter, Terry Lynn Karl, 1991Article | Further

Democracy as a Universal Value - Amartya Kumar Sen, 1999Article | Further

Freefall: free markets and the sinking of the global economy - Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2010Book | Further

Globalization and its discontents - Joseph. E. Stiglitz, 2002Book | Further

Mismeasuring our lives: why GDP doesn't add up - Joseph E. Stiglitz, Amartya Sen,Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and SocialProgress (France), c2010

Book | Further

Lecture 6: Understanding State-society Relations (6 items)This lecture will discuss what is meant by state-society relations, provide an overview ofthe different types of state-society relations, and consider how these relations aremanaged in democracies and in authoritarian political systems.

Required Reading (1 items)

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Comparative politics today: a theoretical framework - G. Bingham Powell, Russell J. Dalton,Kaare Strøm, c2012

Book | Essential | See: Chapter 3: Political Culture and Political Socialisation, pp.57-87,and Chapter 4: Interest Articulations, pp.81-103.

Further Reading (5 items)

Comparative politics - Daniele Caramani, c2014Book | Further | See: Chapter: Brooker, P. ‘Authoritarian regimes’, Section 2, Part 6.

Foundations of comparative politics: democracies of the modern world - Kenneth Newton,Jan W. van Deth, c2010

Book | Further | See: Chapter 2, especially pp. 41-45 & pp. 47-52

Democracy as a Universal Value - Amartya Kumar Sen, 1999Article | Further

The Rise of Illiberal Democracy. - Fareed ZakariaArticle | Further

Gender equality in Germany: Comparing policy change across domains - Angelika vonWahl, 2006-05

Article | Further

Lecture 7: Democratisation & Political Change (12 items)This lecture will introduce a key conceptual and thematic strand of the course –democratisation – and discuss questions such as: How and why do states becomedemocratic? What are the factors required for democratisation? How do we comparedifferent models of democratisation? And: Why do democracies fail?

Required Reading for the Lecture (2 items)

Democratization - Christian W. Haerpfer, 2009Book | Essential | See: Chapter 6: Welzel, C. (2009) ‘Theories of Democratization’.

Available via the Online Resource button.

Comparative politics today: a theoretical framework - G. Bingham Powell, Russell J. Dalton,Kaare Strøm, c2012

Book | Essential | See: Chapter 1: 'Issues in Comparative Politics', pp.12-18 & Chapter 6,pp 136-141.

Further Reading (10 items)

Democratization - Christian W. Haerpfer, 2009Book | Further

Rethinking Recent Democratization: Lessons from the Postcommunist Experience - ValerieBunce, 2003-1

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Article | Further

Democratization: a critical introduction - Jean Grugel, Ebooks Corporation Limited, c2002Book | Further | See: Chapter 1

The third wave: democratization in the late twentieth century - Samuel P. Huntington,c1991

Book | Further

Does High Income Promote Democracy? - John B. Londregan, Keith T. PooleArticle | Further

Modernization: Theories and Facts - Adam Przeworski, Fernando LimongiArticle | Further

What Do We Know about Democratization after Twenty Years? - Barbara Geddes, 1999Article | Further

Democratization Backwards: The Problem of Third-Wave Democracies - Richard Rose, DohChull Shin, 2001-4

Article | Further

Rethinking Postcommunist Transition - Stephen White, 2003-10Article | Further

Capitalist development and democracy - Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Evelyne Huber, John D.Stephens, 1992

Book | Further

Case Study 1: Germany (Kelly Kollman) (120 items)

 

 

Intended Learning Outcomes for this section:

 

At the end of these 7 lectures students should be able to: assess how the nature ofstate-building and economic development int he eighteenth and nineteenth centuryGermany affected processes of regime transition in the 20th century.  identify anddescribe the nature of contemporary German political institutions and how they function.explain why this system of governance has been labelled a 'consensus' or 'semi-sovereign'by some scholars and to compare this type of regime with 'unitary' democracy. describethe evolution of state-society relations in Germany's consensus style democracy.recoignise the key elements of the German social market economy and be able to contrastthis type of capitalism with the Anglo-Saxon economic model.

 

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Note about readings: The required readings for this section largely come from the maincourse text, Kesselman et. al., and the following texts on German politics:

Introduction to comparative politics: political challenges and changing agendas - MarkKesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph, c2013

Book | Essential

The German polity - David P. Conradt, Eric Langenbacher, Dawson Books, 2013Book | Essential

The politics of the new Germany - Simon Green, Dan Hough, Alister Miskimmon, DawsonBooks, 2012

Book | Essential

Developments in German politics 4 - 2014Book | Essential

Multiple copies of the books listed above are available in the High Demand Collection ofGUL. It is essential that students complete all of the required readings, ideally before thecorresponding lecture, and do NOT rely solely on the Kesselman text for this part of thecourse. Additional reading resources are listed in the 'further readings' sections, whichmay be helpful for those of writing one of the essay questions on Germany.

HISTORY AND STATE-BUILDING IN GERMANY: LATE DEVELOPMENT ANDDEMOCRATIZATION:

1. Late development, authoritarianism and democratic failure: Germanpolitical development from 1871 to 1945. (13 items)This lecture will give a brief history of German political development up to World War Two. It will emphasise the effects that ‘late development and statehood’ had on pre-warGerman political culture and institutions; finally the lecture will examine the reasons forthe catastrophic failure of the interwar Weimar Republic.

Required Reading (5 items)

Introduction to comparative politics: political challenges and changing agendas - MarkKesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph, c2013

Book | Essential | See: Germany Chapter, section 1.

One of the following:

The politics of the new Germany - Simon Green, Dan Hough, Alister Miskimmon, DawsonBooks, 2012

Book | Essential | See: Chapter 1.

The German polity - David P. Conradt, Eric Langenbacher, Dawson Books, 2013Book | Essential | See: Chapter 1.

Comparative politics: a global introduction - Michael J. Sodaro, c2008Book | Essential | See: Chapter 18, pp. 505-14.

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Further Reading (8 items)

Bread and democracy in Germany - Alexander Gerschenkron, 1966Book | Further

Economic backwardness in historical perspective: a book of essays - AlexanderGerschenkron, 1965

Book | Further

The rise and fall of the Third Reich: a history of Nazi Germany - William L. Shirer, 1973Book | Further

The German empire 1871-1918 - Hans Ulrich Wehler, 1985Book | Further

Who voted for Hitler? - Richard F. Hamilton, c1982Book | Further

Why Democracies Collapse: The Reasons for Democratic Failure and Success - AbrahamDiskin, Hanna Diskin, Reuven Y. Hazan, 2005

Article | Further

Democratization in Germany: A Reappraisal - Michael Bernhard, 2001Article | Further

Still the Unmasterable Past? The Impact of History and Memory in the Federal Republic ofGermany - Eric Langenbacher, 2010-03

Article | Further

2. The Bonn and Berlin Republics: Successful democratic consolidationand the uncertainties of Re-unification (15 items)The second lecture will examine the history of the Bonn Republic in West Germany anddiscuss the consolidation of democracy in the post-war era. We will end this session byexamining the challenges that Reunification with the former East Germany twenty yearsago has posed for the German democratic system.

Required Reading (4 items)

Introduction to comparative politics: political challenges and changing agendas - MarkKesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph, c2013

Book | Essential | See: Germany chapter, section 1.

One of the following:

The politics of the new Germany - Simon Green, Dan Hough, Alister Miskimmon, DawsonBooks, 2012

Book | Essential | See: Chapters 2-3.

The German polity - David P. Conradt, Eric Langenbacher, Dawson Books, 2013Book | Essential | See: Chapters 1-2.

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Further Reading (11 items)

Comparative politics: a global introduction - Michael J. Sodaro, c2008Book | Further | See: Chapter 18, pp. 514-41.

Germany at 60: Stability and Success, Problems and Challenges - Dan Hough, EmilKirchner, 2010-03

Article | Further

Introductions to any of the following:

After unity: reconfiguring German identities - Konrad Hugo Jarausch, 1997Book | Further

Between Bonn and Berlin: German politics adrift? - Mary N. Hampton, Christian Søe, c1999Book | Further

Breakdown, breakup, breakthrough: Germany's difficult passage to modernity - Carl F.Lankowski, Andrei S. Markovits, 1999

Book | Further

Continuity and change: political and social developments in Germany after 1945 and1989/90 - Gerhard Albert Ritter, German Historical Institute in London, 2000

Book | Further

The Federal Republic of Germany at fifty: the end of a century of turmoil - Peter H. Merkl,c1999

Book | Further

Germany since unification: the development of the Berlin republic - Klaus Larres, 2001Book | Further

From Bundesrepublik to Deutschland: German politics after unification - Michael G.Huelshoff, Andrei S. Markovits, Simon Reich, c1993

Book | Further

Power shift in Germany: the 1998 election and the end of the Kohl era - David P. Conradt,Gerald R. Kleinfeld, Christian Søe, c2000

Book | Further

 

STATE INSTITUTIONS AND POLICYMAKING PROCESSES IN GERMANY:

3. The Fragmented German State: Governance through Consensus?(Central State Institutions) (17 items)This lecture will examine the basic institutional structures that exist at the national level ofthe German federal system of government, namely the federal executive and the twohouses of the national parliament. The lecture will highlight the fragmented nature ofGerman policymaking and how the system has relied on a consensual political culture to

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function.

Required Reading (5 items)

Introduction to comparative politics: political challenges and changing agendas - MarkKesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph, c2013

Book | Essential | See: Germany Chapter, Sections 3 and 4(up to and including‘Bundesrat’)

One of the following:

The German polity - David P. Conradt, Eric Langenbacher, Dawson Books, 2013Book | Essential | See: Chapter 7

The politics of the new Germany - Simon Green, Dan Hough, Alister Miskimmon, DawsonBooks, 2012

Book | Essential | See: Chapter 4

Developments in German politics 4 - 2014Book | Essential | See: Chapter 1 (Stecker and Goetz)

Further Reading (12 items)

Patterns of democracy: government forms and performance in thirty-six countries - ArendLijphart, Askews & Holts Library Services, 2012

Book | Further | See: Chapters 1 and 3

Comparative politics: a global introduction - Michael J. Sodaro, c2008Book | Further | See: Chapter 18, pp. 514-26.

Germany at 60: Stability and Success, Problems and Challenges - Dan Hough, EmilKirchner, 2010-03

Article | Further

Policy and politics in West Germany: the growth of a semi-sovereign state - Peter J.Katzenstein, 1987

Book | Further | See: Chapter 1

Governance in contemporary Germany: the semisovereign state revisited - Simon Green,William E. Paterson, 2005

Book | Further | See: Chapters 1 and 13

Political institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany - Manfred G. Schmidt, 2003Book | Further | See: Introduction

THE 2008: Deparliamentarisation: How Severely is the German Bundestag Affected? -Suzanne S. Schüttemeyer, 2009-03

Article | Further

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Between Consensus and Conflict: Law-Making Processes in Germany - Simone Burkhart,Matthias Lehnert, 2008-09

Article | Further

Legislative Politics in Germany: Some Lessons and Challenges - Christian Breunig, 2008-09Article | Further

The Changing Chancellorship: Resources and Constraints Revisited - Ludger Helms,2001-08

Article | Further

Coalition Formation and the German Party System - Charles Lees, 2011-03Article | Further

The Making of chancellor Merkel - Mark R. Thompson, Ludmilla Lennartz, 2006-03Article | Further

4. The Fragmented German State cont.: the Federal system and thejudiciary (17 items)The nature of German federalism as well as the powerful Germany judiciary are thesubject of this lecture. We will look at how these institutions further fragment Germanpolicymaking processes and how federal states and the courts interact with the nationalparliament and executive.

Required Reading (4 items)

Introduction to comparative politics: political challenges and changing agendas - MarkKesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph, c2013

Book | Essential | See: Germany Chapter, Section 3 (‘Judiciary’ and ‘Sub-nationalGovernment’)

One of the following:

The German polity - David P. Conradt, Eric Langenbacher, Dawson Books, 2013Book | Essential | See: Chapters 8 (courts section) and 9.

Developments in German politics 4 - 2014Book | Essential | See: Chapter 2 (Jeffery and Rowe)

Further Reading (13 items)

Governance in contemporary Germany: the semisovereign state revisited - Simon Green,William E. Paterson, 2005

Book | Further | See: Chapter 4

Political institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany - Manfred G. Schmidt, 2003Book | Further | See: Chapters 2 (pp. 56-66) and 4.

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Representative government in modern Europe - Michael Gallagher, Michael Laver, PeterMair, c2011

Book | Further | See: Chapter 4.

The Impact of Unification on German Federalism - Arthur B. Gunlicks, 2002-12Article | Further

Community, Diversity and Autonomy: The Challenges of Reforming German Federalism -Fritz W. Scharpf, 2008-12

Article | Further

German Federalism in Transition? - Carolyn Moore, Wade Jacoby, Arthur B. Gunlicks,2008-12

Article | Further

Varieties of Joint Decision Making: The Second Federal Reform - Dominic Heinz, 2012-03Article | Further

Federal Reform under the Grand Coalition - Wolfgang Renzsch, 2010-12Article | Further

The federal constitutional court: Facing up to the strains of law and politics in the newGermany - Nevil Johnson, 1994-12

Article | Further

German Politics: Special Issue - Constitutional Policy in Unified GermanyJournal | Further

The abortion issue and the federal constitutional court - Monika Prützel‐Thomas, 1993-12Article | Further

Judicial policy‐making in Germany: The federal constitutional court - Christine Landfried,1992-07

Article | Further

Constitutional Courts and Parliamentary Democracy - Alec Stone Sweet, 2002-01Article | Further

STATE-SOCIETY RELATIONS IN GERMANY:

5. The German party system: de-alignment and fragmentation? (17items)This lecture will examine the nature of Germany’s party system and how this hasdeveloped over the course Federal Republic’s history. We will pay particular attention tothe role that the constitution gave to political parties in the German political system andhow both the fragmentation of the party system and party de-alignment since

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Reunification have affected that role.

Required Reading (5 items)

Introduction to comparative politics: political challenges and changing agendas - MarkKesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph, c2013

Book | Essential | See: Germany Chapter, Section 4 (from ‘Political Parties and PartySystem’ up to but not including ‘Interests, Social Movements and Protest’).

One of the following:

The politics of the new Germany - Simon Green, Dan Hough, Alister Miskimmon, DawsonBooks, 2012

Book | Essential | See: Chapters 3 (Dalton) and 4 (Hornsteiner and Saalfeld).

Developments in German politics 4 - 2014Book | Essential | See: Chapters 3 (Dalton) and 4 (Hornsteiner and Saalfeld).

The German polity - David P. Conradt, Eric Langenbacher, Dawson Books, 2013Book | Essential | See: Chapters 5 (up to the ‘representation of interests’) and 6.

Further Reading (12 items)

The AfD: Finally a Successful Right-Wing Populist Eurosceptic Party for Germany? - KaiArzheimer, 2015-05-04

Article | Further

The German Federal Election of 2013: Merkel’s Triumph, the Disappearance of the LiberalParty, and Yet Another Grand Coalition - Thorsten Faas, 2015-01-02

Article | Further

The Left Party in contemporary German politics - Dan Hough, Michael Koss, Jonathan Olsen, 2007

Book | Further

Governance in contemporary Germany: the semisovereign state revisited - Simon Green,William E. Paterson, 2005

Book | Further | See: Chapter 3.

Stability or Decline? Class, Religion and the Vote in Germany - Martin Elff, SigridRossteutscher, 2011-03

Article | Further

Populism on Difficult Terrain: The Right- and Left-Wing Challenger Parties in the FederalRepublic of Germany - Frank Decker, Florian Hartleb, 2007-12

Article | Further

Citizen politics: public opinion and political parties in advanced industrial democracies -Russell J. Dalton, 2014

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Book | Further

Different Road Maps, Similar Paths? Social Democratic Politics in the UK and Germany -Dan Hough, James Sloam, 2007-03

Article | Further

The Merger of the PDS and WASG: From Eastern German Regional Party to NationalRadical Left Party? - Jonathan Olsen, 2007-06

Article | Further

Kirchheimer Revisited: Party Polarisation, Party Convergence, or Party Decline in theGerman Party System - Michelle Hale Williams, 2008-06

Article | Further

Rule Makers and Rule Takers: On Volkspartei Adaptation and Strategy - Charles Lees,2010-03

Article | Further

Socialist Values and Political Participation in Germany: A Barrier to ‘Inner Unity’? - RossCampbell, 2011-03

Article | Further

6. Representing interests in the Federal Republic: social movements ina coordinated system of representation (11 items)This lecture will examine Germany’s traditional system of neo-corporatist interest grouprepresentation and how this differs from more pluralist systems. We then examine theways in which this system was challenged by the new social movements of the 1980s andlater by Re-unification and globalization.

Required Reading (4 items)

Introduction to comparative politics: political challenges and changing agendas - MarkKesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph, c2013

Book | Essential | See: Germany Chapter, Sections 2 ('social market economy' section)and 4 ('political culture, citizenship and identity' section).

One of the following:

The German polity - David P. Conradt, Eric Langenbacher, Dawson Books, 2013Book | Essential | See: Chapters 4 and 5 ('representation of interests' section).

Developments in German politics 4 - 2014Book | Essential | See: Chapters 6 (Rucht) and 7 (Hassel).

Further Reading (7 items)

Works councils: consultation, representation, and cooperation in industrial relations - JoelRogers, Wolfgang Streeck, c1995

Book | Further | See: Introduction.

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Governance in contemporary Germany: the semisovereign state revisited - Simon Green,William E. Paterson, 2005

Book | Further | See: Streek, W. Industrial Relations, Chapter 7.

Varieties of capitalism: the institutional foundations of comparative advantage - Peter A.Hall, David W. Soskice, Oxford University Press, 2001

Book | Further | See: Chapters 1, 7-10.

Beyond the Ballot Box: Changing Patterns of Political Protest Participation in Germany(1974–2008) - Christian Lahusen, Lisa Bleckmann, 2015-07-03

Article | Further

Changing the world, changing oneself: political protest and collective identities in WestGermany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s - Belinda J. Davis, c2010

Book | Further

Mobilizing on the extreme right: Germany, Italy, and the United States - Manuela Caiani,Donatella Della Porta, Claudius Wagemann, Oxford University Press, 2012

Book | Further

Anti-Islamic Pegida groups have spread beyond their German heartlands - Lars ErikBerntzen, Manes Weisskircher, June 17th, 2015

Webpage | Further

7. The German Economic Model in Transition: A Model for Europe? (21items)In this final lecture for this section of the course, we will look at state-economy relations inGermany by examining the key features of the social market economy that wasestablished in the Federal Republic at the end of World War Two. We will then examinethe ways in which this system was reformed in the early 2000s and the consequences ofthese reforms. We will end by examining the key features of the contemporary Germaneconomic model and how this has informed Germany’s reaction to the Euro crisis.

Required Reading (5 items)

Introduction to comparative politics: political challenges and changing agendas - MarkKesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph, c2013

Book | Essential | See: Germany Chapter, Sections 2 and 5.

One of the following:

The German polity - David P. Conradt, Eric Langenbacher, Dawson Books, 2013Book | Essential | See: Chapters 3 (up to 'religious composition') and 10.

The politics of the new Germany - Simon Green, Dan Hough, Alister Miskimmon, DawsonBooks, 2012

Book | Essential | See: Chapters 7-9.

Developments in German politics 4 - 2014Book | Essential | See: Chapters 7 (Hassel), 8 (Zohlnhoefer) and 10 (Busch).

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Further Reading (16 items)

Governance in contemporary Germany: the semisovereign state revisited - Simon Green,William E. Paterson, MyiLibrary, 2005

Book | Further | See: Chapters 1, 2, 6 and/or 7. Also Paterson, European Policymaking:Between Associated Sovereignty and Semi-sovereignty, Chapter 12.

Policy and politics in West Germany: the growth of a semi-sovereign state - Peter J.Katzenstein, 1987

Book | Further | See: Introduction.

Comparative European politicsJournal | Further | See: Streeck, W. The Fiscal Crisis Continues: From Liberalization to

Consolidation, 2010, Volume 8, Number 4, pp. 505-514.

Re-forming capitalism: institutional change in the German political economy - WolfgangStreeck, Oxford University Press, 2009

Book | Further | See: Introduction.

‘New politics’ in German labour market policy? The implications of the recent Hartzreforms for the German welfare state - Achim Kemmerling, Oliver Bruttel, 2006-01

Article | Further

The Economics and Politics of the Euro Crisis - Peter A. Hall, 2012-12Article | Further

Why Germany Wanted EMU: The Role of Helmut Kohl's Belief System and the Fall of theBerlin Wall - Femke Van Esch, 2012-03

Article | Further

The Long Shadow of Ordoliberalism - Sebastian Dullien, Ulrike Guerot, July 27, 2012Webpage | Further

The Crisis & the Euro - George Soros, August 19, 2010Article | Further | Also available on microfilm at Gen Hum Pers NE975.

Minimum Wages and their Alternatives: A Critical Assessment - Andreas Knabe, RonnieSchöb, 2011-12

Article | Further

German Politics Special Issue: The Politics of Economic Reform in Germany: Global,Rhineland or Hybrid Capitalism? - 2005

Journal | Further

Energy Transition by Conviction or by Surprise? Environmental Policy from 2009 to 2013 -Christian Huß, 2014-10-02

Article | Further

‘After Agenda 2010 is before the Elections’: Consolidation, Dissent, and the Politics ofGerman Labour Market Policy under the Grand Coalition - Georg Menz, 2010-12

Article | Further

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Does Germany Still Have a European Vocation? - William E. Paterson, 2010-03Article | Further

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Grand Coalition's Response to the Economic Crisis -Reimut Zohlnhöfer, 2011-06

Article | Further

The Politics of Labour Market Reforms and Social Citizenship in Germany - TimoFleckenstein, 2012-07

Article | Further

Case Study 2: Russia (Zuleykha Mail Zada) (69 items)

Intended Learning Outcomes for this section:

 

At the end of these 7 lectures students should:

 

• Have a basic understanding of Soviet rule and its legacies in the contemporary Russianpolitical system

• Have an understanding of the processes of post-Soviet political, economic and socialtransformations and their impacts on marketisation and democratisation

• Be familiar with the nature of contemporary Russian political institutions and how theyfunction

• Be able to critically assess whether Russia is a 'hybrid' (or some other form of) regime

 

 

Note about readings:

 

Readings are listed as 'required readings', which are the essential and foundationalreadings for the lectures; 'key additional readings', which will be useful for tutorial andessay preparation; and 'further readings', which can be used for essays and developingyour knowledge further. While you are not expected to read everything in the lists, it isexpected that you will use it to adequately prepare for tutorials, essays and the exam. It isalso important to note that the reading lists are indicative, not exhaustive, and the libraryhas an extensive collection of literature in this area, as well as holding subscriptions tonumerous relevant journals (listed at the end of this section).

 

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The required readings are drawn from the course text

 

Introduction to comparative politics: political challenges and changing agendas - MarkKesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph, c2013

Book | Essential

Students may also wish to purchase one or both of the following two texts whichcomplement the content of this section of the course:

Understanding Russian politics - Stephen White, c2011Book | Suggested for Student Purchase

Developments in Russian politics 8 - 2014Book | Suggested for Student Purchase

There is a very comprehensive collection of reprinted articles on all aspects of post-Sovietpolitics in the following collection in the Adam Smith Library:

Post-Soviet politics - Stephen White, Cerwyn Moore, 2012Book | Essential

Additional Resources (16 items)All texts listed in the reading lists are available in the library or accessible as e-journals. These lists are indicative not exhaustive and you may wish to conduct further independentresearch for tutorials, the essay and final exam.

Journals (7 items)You may find the following journals particularly useful for sourcing additional material:

Communist and post-communist studies - University of California (System)Journal

Europe-Asia studies - University of Glasgow, EBSCO Publishing (Firm), JSTOR(Organization), Thomson Gale (Firm)

Journal

The journal of communist studies and transition politics - ©1994-Journal | Now known as East European Politics.

Post-Soviet affairs - Joint Committee on Soviet Studies (U.S.), Social Science ResearchCouncil (U.S.)

Journal

Demokratizatsiya: the journal of post-soviet democratization - Moskovskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭuniversitet im. M.V. Lomonosova, Thomson Gale (Firm)

Journal

Problems of post-communism - c1994-Journal

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East European politics and societiesJournal

Online Resources (9 items)The following online resources are also useful:

Radio Free Europe / Radio LibertyWebpage | Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty provide summaries of the main news stories

from the region if you sign up to their mailing list.

The Moscow Times - News, Business, Culture & Multimedia from RussiaWebsite | An independent and daily English-language paper; available on the day of

publication. Earlier issues available in GUL at http://ezproxy.lib.gla.ac.uk/login?url=http://dlib.eastview.com/browse/publication/554

OpenDemocracy: Russia and BeyondWebsite | Analysis of domestic and foreign affairs of Russia and the neighbouring

regions. The website also incorporates stories based on investigative journalism in Englishand Russian.

All-Russian Public Opinion Research Centre (VTsIOM)Website | Russian Version. The All-Russian Public Opinion Research Centre (VTsIOM)

offers access to opinion poll data (although there are issues with the level of independenceof the centre).

All-Russian Public Opinion Research Centre (VTsIOM)Website | English Version. The All-Russian Public Opinion Research Centre (VTsIOM)

offers access to opinion poll data (although there are issues with the level of independenceof the centre).

Levada Center (www.levada.ru)Webpage | The Levada Centre is an independent centre that presents findings from

public opinion polls on a range of issues.

Levada Center (www.russiavotes.org)Website | The Levada Centre is an independent centre that presents findings from

public opinion polls on a range of issues.

Human Rights Watch | RussiaWebpage | Offers coverage of human rights issues in Russia.

Amnesty International (Russia)Website | Offers coverage of human rights issues in Russia.

Lecture 1: Three Perspectives on Russian Politics (8 items)We consider three broad ‘frames’ within which contemporary Russian politics may beconsidered: the geographical, the historical, and the cultural. Contemporary Russianpolitics shares many similarities with other political systems worldwide, but we need alsoto recall (as in this lecture) the ways in which it is distinctive.

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Required Reading (1 items)

Introduction to comparative politics: political challenges and changing agendas - MarkKesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph, c2013

Book | Essential | See: Chapter on Russia.

Further Reading (7 items)

The Gorbachev factor - Archie Brown, 1996Book | Further

Perestroika: new thinking for our country and the world - Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev,1987

Book | Further

Developments in Russian politics 8 - 2014Book | Further | See: Sakwa, R. Politics in Russia.

A short history of Soviet socialism - Mark Sandle, 1999Book | Further

Rethinking Postcommunist Transition - Stephen White, 2003-10Article | Further

After Gorbachev - Stephen White, 1995, c1994Book | Further

Communism and its collapse - Stephen White, 2001Book | Further

Lecture 2: The Constitutional Framework (4 items)This lecture discusses the adoption of the current Russian Constitution in 1993, and someof its main features, before going on to examine the nature of the federal system that isbased upon it.

Required Reading (1 items)

Introduction to comparative politics: political challenges and changing agendas - MarkKesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph, c2013

Book | Essential | See: Chapter on Russia.

Further Reading (3 items)

Understanding Russian politics - Stephen White, c2011Book | Further | See: Chapter 2

The Dual State in Russia - Richard Sakwa, 2010-7-1Article | Further

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The Constitution of the Russian FederationWebpage | Further

3. Elections and the Electoral Process (6 items)Formally, those who exercise the power of government is decided in Russia as in Westerndemocracies, by competitive elections that are held at regular intervals. But there haveincreasingly been doubts about the extent to which Russian parliamentary and presidentialelections can be considered ‘free and fair’, and it has sometimes been argued that theyare better defined as ‘authoritarian elections’ that are more of an extension of theauthority of the central government than a means by which ordinary citizens can hold it toaccount. The most recent elections to the State Duma took place in December 2011, andwere followed by unprecedented public protests; they continued after the presidentialelection, on March 2012, and at which Vladimir Putin returned to a position that can nowbe held for six years at a time (and renewed for another six). To what extent, if at all, doesthis key democratic mechanism allow ordinary citizens to represent their views and holdgovernment to account for its performance?

Required Reading (1 items)

Introduction to comparative politics: political challenges and changing agendas - MarkKesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph, c2013

Book | Essential | See: Chapter on Russia.

Further reading (4 items)

Developments in Russian politics 8 - 2014Book | Further | See: White, S. The electoral process, Chapter 4.

Russia's authoritarian elections - Stephen White, Sarah Birch, 2012Book | Further

OR

Russia's Authoritarian Elections: The View from Below - Stephen White, ValentinaFeklyunina, 2011-06

Article | Further | Online version

Russian elections are regularly observed by teams of outsiders; the conclusion of the mostrecent team of observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe(OSCE) is available at their website: http://www.osce.org/odihr/86959. The website of theCentral Electoral Commission is accessible in English as well as Russian; it has texts of therelevant legislation and an archive of results. See www.cikrf.ru.

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Lecture 4: The Russian Presidency (6 items)Russia has a very powerful and directly elected presidency. What are its maincharacteristics? What constraints are there on presidential power? How is a presidentelected? What is distinctive about the presidency of Vladimir Putin?

Required Reading (1 items)

Introduction to comparative politics: political challenges and changing agendas - MarkKesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph, c2013

Book | Essential | See: Chapter on Russia.

Further Reading (5 items)

Understanding Russian politics - Stephen White, c2011Book | Further | See: Chapter 3

First person: an astonishingly frank self-portrait by Russia's president Vladimir Putin -Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, Nataliia Gevorkian, Natalʹia Timakova, A. V. Kolesnikov, 2000

Book | Further

Russia at the turn of the millennium: Vladimir Putin, December 30, 1999 - Vladimir PutinWebpage | Further | also as an appendix in First Person

Putin redux: power and contradiction in contemporary Russia - Richard Sakwa, 2014Book | Further

Developments in Russian politics 8 - 2014Book | Further | See: Willerton, J. The hegemonic executive, Chapter 2.

Lecture 5: Political Parties and Participation (5 items)In western countries citizens communicate their preferences to government by voting forparticular parties and candidates at competitive elections. Russia has elections of a ratherdifferent character and its political parties – above all the ‘party of power’, United Russia –are more obviously an expression of the regime itself than of ordinary citizens. What aresome of the most prominent Russian parties at the moment, what is their place in thepolitical system, and what other means are in principle available to influence the conductof government?

Required Reading (1 items)

Introduction to comparative politics: political challenges and changing agendas - MarkKesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph, c2013

Book | Essential | See: Chapter on Russia.

Further Reading (4 items)

Understanding Russian politics - Stephen White, c2011

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Book | Further | See: Chapter 2.

Developments in Russian politics 8 - 2014Book | Further | See: Hale, H. Russia’s political parties and their substitutes, Chapter 5.

Putin's United Russia Party - S. P. Roberts, 2012Book | Further

Developments in Russian politics 8 - 2014Book | Further | See: McAllister, I. Voting behaviour, Chapter 6.

Lecture 6: State and Economy (5 items)The USSR had an economy that was centrally managed and based on public ownership;already in the late Soviet years it was being superseded by more decentralised,market-based forms of economic management and a move towards private ownership.How did this transition take place and what consequences has it had?

Required Reading (1 items)

Introduction to comparative politics: political challenges and changing agendas - MarkKesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph, c2013

Book | Essential | See: Chapter on Russia.

Further reading (4 items)

Understanding Russian politics - Stephen White, c2011Book | Further | See: Chapter 4

Developments in Russian politics 8 - 2014Book | Further | See: Hanson, Managing the Economy, Chapter 11.

Neoliberalism in crisis - Henk Overbeek, Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, 2012Book | Further | See: Nolke, A. The Rise of the 'B(R)IC Variety Of Capitalism': Towards a

New Phase of Organized Capitalism?, pp. 117-137.

Russian Federation. Federal State Statistics Servive.Webpage | Further | Up to date statistics are readily available at the official website, in

English as well as Russian.

Lecture 7: State and Society (11 items)There has been a parallel change in Russian society as private ownership has beenreintroduced. One of its consequences has been the emergence of new classes,transformation of civil society and a sharp differences between rich and poor. Who areRussia’s new social actors and what political influence do they have? How, more generally,do Russia’s social divisions find political expression, and what threat do they represent to

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the country’s stability?

Required Reading (1 items)

Introduction to comparative politics: political challenges and changing agendas - MarkKesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph, c2013

Book | Essential | See: Chapter on Russia.

Further reading (10 items)

State–society relations in contemporary Russia: new forms of political and socialcontention - Ammon Cheskin, Luke March, 2015-07-03

Article | Further | Special Issue that covers the topics on social rights, women's rights,civil society, capitalism and social relations.

Postcommunist welfare states: reform politics in Russia and Eastern Europe - Linda J. Cook,2007

Book | Further

Developments in Russian politics 8 - 2014Book | Further | See: Stephenson, S. Society and Social Divisions in Russia, Chapter 12.

Rethinking class in Russia - Salmenniemi, Suvi, c2012Book | Further | See: Salmenniemi, S. Class Analysis in the USSR and Contemporary

Russia.

New rich, new poor, new Russia: winners and losers on the Russian road to capitalism -Bertram Silverman, Murray Yanowitch, c2000

Book | Further

Theorizing intersectionality and sexuality - Yvette Taylor, Sally Hines, Mark E. Casey, 2010Book | Further | See: Stella, F. The Language of Intersectionality: Researching 'Lesbian'

Identity in Urban Russia.

Lesbian lives in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia: post/socialism and gendered sexualities -Francesca Stella, 2015

Book | Further

Women's human rights in Russia: outmoded battlegrounds, or new sites of contentiouspolitics? - Vikki Turbine, 2015-07-03

Article | Further

Soviet nostalgia and Russian politics - Stephen White, January 2010Article | Further

Understanding Russian politics - Stephen White, c2011Book | Further | See: Chapter 5

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Case Study 3: China (Jane Duckett) (109 items)

The 7 lectures on China introduce students to Chinese politics and explain how itsauthoritarian one-party political system works. They will look at the main historicallegacies that have shaped the political system in China today, at the main politicalinstitutions and policy processes, and at state-society relations. Key themes are therelationship between the state and an emergent civil society and the relationship betweenmarketisation and the political system.

 

Intended learning outcomes for this section

 

At the end of these seven lectures students should: Be familiar with contemporaryChinese political institutions (the Chinese Communist Party, the government executive andlegislature, and central-local government relations) in their historical context. Be able tocritically assess the relationship between post-1978 economic marketisation andcontinued Communist Party rule. Have an awareness of the impacts of marketisation onpolitical participation and state society relations and on the prospects for democratisation.

Note about readings

 

The required readings for this section are selected from the course text:

Introduction to comparative politics: political challenges and changing agendas - MarkKesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph, c2013

Book | Essential

We also recommend that you read:

Governance and politics of China - Tony Saich, 2015Book | Essential | Chapters from Saich are specified in the key reading section below,

but you are not obliged to purchase this (multiple copies are available in the short loancollection and the library holds the second edition, which would be still useful though notquite as up-to-date).

You are also expected to select readings from the recommended further reading for eachlecture and when preparing for tutorials, the essay and the exam.

Background Texts (6 items)The following texts provide excellent background on the topics of the course.

China's challenges - Jacques deLisle, Avery Goldstein, c2015Book | Further

Handbook of the politics of China - 2015Book | Further

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Chinese politics: state, society and the market - Peter Hays Gries, Stanley Rosen, 2010Book | Further

Governing China: from revolution through reform - Kenneth Lieberthal, c2004Book | Further

A bitter revolution: China's struggle with the modern world - Rana Mitter, Dawson Books,2004

Book | Further

Chinese society: change, conflict and resistance - Elizabeth J. Perry, Mark Selden, c2010Book | Further

Journals (6 items)For journal articles search the online library catalogue using journal title and then find therelevant issue of the journal as detailed in the reading list. The Glasgow University Libraryholds several journals devoted entirely to China which you may also wish to consult:

China information: Zhongguo qing bao - Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, [1986]-Journal

The China journal: Chung-kuo yen chiu - Australian National University, JSTOR(Organization), Thomson Gale (Firm), 1995-

Journal

The China quarterly - Congress for Cultural Freedom, International Association for CulturalFreedom, University of London, University of London, Cambridge University Press, JSTOR(Organization), William S. Hein & Company, 1960-

Journal

Journal of contemporary China: Dang dai Zhongguo - Center for Modern ChinaJournal

Issues & Studies - Zhonghua min guo guo ji guan xi yan jiu suo, [1964]-Journal

Modern China - JSTOR (Organization), Thomson Gale (Firm), 1975-Journal

Newspapers and Magazines (2 items)The following newspapers and magazines regularly report on Chinese affairs:

The Financial TimesWebpage

The economist - Thomson Gale (Firm)Journal

Internet Resources (5 items)

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In addition to published sources, you will benefit greatly from keeping abreast of the latestnews and debates on China. The following websites are especially useful to enable full andup-to-date engagement with the empirical issues on the course:

China Digital TimesWebsite | A great source of Chinese language items translated into English

The China BeatWebsite | A blog run by academics which looks at English-language media coverage of

China

DanweiWebsite | A website and research firm that tracks China’s media and internet

China in the NewsWebsite | Very useful listing of news in English on China

China Development BriefWebsite | Latest News on China’s social development

Lecture 1: China's Political History from 'Civilization' to Modern State (11items)This lecture introduces China today and looks at the historical legacies of empire,revolution and the early modern state for contemporary politics. It discusses the transitionfrom empire to nation-state, the semi-colonisation and fragmentation of China before1949, and unification and 'continued revolution' under communist party rule. We discussChinese communism as a nationalist as well communist movement and the politicaldimensions of Stalinist state planning and then market-led economic growth.

Required Reading (1 items)

Introduction to comparative politics: political challenges and changing agendas - MarkKesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph, c2013

Book | Essential | See: Chapter on China, Section 1 and 2.

Further Reading (10 items)Read at least one of the following:

Governance and politics of China - Tony Saich, 2015Book | Further | See: Chapters 1-2.

China's political system: modernization and tradition - June Teufel Dreyer, c2012Book | Further | See: Chapters 6 and 7

A bitter revolution: China's struggle with the modern world - Rana Mitter, Dawson Books,2004

Book | Further | See: Chapters 1 and 2.

Governing China: from revolution through reform - Kenneth Lieberthal, c2004Book | Further | See: Chapters 1-5

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The search for modern China - Jonathan D. Spence, c1990Book | Further | See: Chapters 12-22

China: a new history - John King Fairbank, Merle Goldman, 1998Book | Further | See: Chapters 11-21

The Cambridge History of China: Volume 14 Part 1: The People's Republic - 1987Book | Further | See: Chapters 2, 3, 7, 8.

The Cambridge history of China - Denis Crispin Twitchett, John King Fairbank, 1978-Book | Further | See: Volume 15, Chapters 9, 10, 11 of this volume. (Harding’s

contribution)

The Penguin history of modern China: the fall and rise of a great power, 1850-2008 -Jonathan Fenby, 2008

Book | Further

Chinese politics: state, society and the market - Peter Hays Gries, Stanley Rosen, EbooksCorporation Limited, 2010

Book | Further | See: Chapter 10: Mackerras, Colin. ‘Tibetans, Uyghurs, andmultinational ‘China’: Han-minority relations and state legitimation’.

Lecture 2: Governance in a One-Party Authoritarian System: TheChinese Communist Party (14 items)This lecture looks at China’s constitution and the institutions of the party state: theCommunist Party (CCP). We examine its key institutions, its evolving ideology and itsclaims to rule, as well as the ways in which it has adopted over more than 60 years of rule.

Required Reading (2 items)

Introduction to comparative politics: political challenges and changing agendas - MarkKesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph, c2013

Book | See: Chapter on China, Section 3.

Governance and politics of China - Tony Saich, 2015Book | Essential | See: Chapters 3 & 4 on the Chinese Communist Party.

Further Reading (12 items)

Handbook of the politics of China - 2015Book | Further | See: Teiwes, F. C. The Study of Elite Political Conflict in the PRC: Politics

inside the "Black Box", Chapter 1; and, Zheng, Y. and G. Chen, The Chinese CommunistParty: An Institutional Perspective, Chapter 3.

Governing China: from revolution through reform - Kenneth Lieberthal, c2004Book | Further | See: Chapters 6 and 7. Chapter 6 available via the Online Resource

button.

The paradox of China's post-Mao reforms - Merle Goldman, Roderick MacFarquhar, 1999

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Book | Further | See: Fewsmith contribution.

China's Communist Party: atrophy & adaptation - David L. Shambaugh, c2008Book | Further | See: Chapter 1, Introduction: The Chinese Communist Party After

Communism; Chapter 6, Rebuilding the Party: The Ideological Dimension; and, Chapter 7,Rebuilding the Party: the Organizational Dimension.

The Changing Shape of Elite Power Politics - Lowell DittmerArticle | Further

The Battle for China's Top Nine Leadership Posts - Cheng Li, 2012-02Article | Further

Chinese politics: state, society and the market - Peter Hays Gries, Stanley Rosen, EbooksCorporation Limited, 2010

Book | Further | See: Shue, V. Legitimacy Crisis in China?, Chapter 2; and, Dickson, B. J.Dilemmas of Party Adaptation: The CCP's "Strategies for Survival", Chapter 1.

The Dilemma of Eudaemonic Legitimacy in Post-Mao China - Feng Chen, 1997Article | Further

Jiang Zemin's Successors: The Rise of the Fourth Generation of Leaders in the PRC - LiCheng, 2000-3

Article | Further

The Chinese Communist Party and Chinese Society: Popular Attitudes Toward PartyMembership and the Party's Image - Stanley Rosen

Article | Further

State and society in 21st century China: crisis, contention, and legitimation - Peter HaysGries, Stanley Rosen, c2004

Book | Further | See: Dickson, B.J. ‘Dilemmas of Party Adaptation: the CCP’s Strategiesfor survival’. See also contributions by Shue, Gries, Rosen, Mackerras, Thornton, to thisvolume.

China's new rulers: the secret files - Andrew J. Nathan, Bruce Gilley, 2003Book | Further | See: Chapter 2

Lecture 3: Governance in a One-Party Authoritarian System:Understanding the Party-state (10 items)This lecture looks at China's central government institutions and how the CCP penetratesand controls them. We examine the central government executive and the nationallegislature. We then examine government reforms since the 1980s and the role of socialistand ideology nationalism in legitimizing the party-state.

Required Reading (2 items)

Introduction to comparative politics: political challenges and changing agendas - MarkKesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph, c2013

Book | Essential | See: Chapter on China, Section 3.

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Governance and politics of China - Tony Saich, 2015Book | Essential | See: Chapter 5 on the Central Governing Apparatus.

Further Reading (8 items)

Handbook of the politics of China - 2015Book | Further | See: Xu, Y. and Yang, D. The Central Government, Chapter 4.

Governing China: from revolution through reform - Kenneth Lieberthal, c2004Book | Further | See: Chapters 6 and 7. Chapter 6 available via Online Resource Button.

The modern Chinese state - David L. Shambaugh, 2000Book | Further | See: Shambaugh, D. The Chinese State in the Post-Mao Era.

China's new rulers: the secret files - Andrew J. Nathan, Bruce Gilley, 2003Book | Further | See: Chapter 2.

Local people's congresses in China: development and transition - Young Nam Cho, 2009Book | Further

State and society in 21st century China: crisis, contention, and legitimation - Peter HaysGries, Stanley Rosen, Dawson Books, c2004

Book | Further | See: Gries, P. H. Popular Nationalism and State Legitimation in China,pp. 180-194.

China's "New Thinking" on Japan - Peter Hays Gries, 2005Article | Further

To Screw Foreigners is Patriotic: China's Avant-Garde Nationalist - Geremie R. Barme, 1995Article | Further

Lecture 4: Local Government, De Facto Federalism, Economic Growthand Political Change (12 items)This lecture looks at local government institutions and at how 'de facto federalism' - thedecentralization of economic power to local governments (while political centralismremained) - fuelled China's economic growth. It then examines the political consequencesof this economic growth for social change and structural explanations of political systemchange.

Required Reading (2 items)

Governance and politics of China - Tony Saich, 2015Book | Essential | See: Governance Beyond the Centre, Chapter 6. Available via Online

Resource button.

Introduction to comparative politics: political challenges and changing agendas - MarkKesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph, c2013

Book | Essential | See: Chapter on China, pages on Hong Kong.

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Further Reading (10 items)

Handbook of the politics of China - 2015Book | Further | See: Chen, M. Local Governance, Chapter 6; and, Zhiyue, B. Provincial

Politics, Chapter 5.

Explaining the Sources of de facto Federalism in Reform China: IntergovernmentalDecentralization, Globalization, and Central–Local Relations - Yongnian Zheng, 2006-8

Article | Further

China's great economic transformation - Loren Brandt, Thomas G. Rawski, 2008Book | Further | See: Naughton, A Political Economy of China’s Economic Transition.

Decentralized Authoritarianism in China: The Communist Party's Control of Local Elites inthe Post-Mao Era - Pierre F. Landry, 2008

Book | Further

China against the tides: restructuring through revolution, radicalism and reform - Marc J.Blecher, c2010

Book | Further | See: The Triumph and Crises of Structural Reform, 1979 to the Present,Chapter 3.

China's great economic transformation - Loren Brandt, Thomas G. Rawski, 2008Book | Further | See: Haggard, S. and Huang, Y. The Political Economy of Private Sector

Development in China, pp.337-374.

The new rich in China: future rulers, present lives - David S. G. Goodman, 2008Book | Further | See: Introduction and Chapter 1.

Capitalism with Chinese characteristics: entrepreneurship and the state - Yasheng Huang,2008

Book | Further | See: Chapters 1 and 5.

The politics of the West: equality, nation-building and colonisation - David Goodman,2002-10

Article | Further

Governing China: from revolution through reform - Kenneth Lieberthal, c2004Book | Further | See: Chapter 6, available via the Online Resource button.

Lecture 5: Political Representation - from Village Elections to LocalPeople's Congresses (8 items)This lecture looks at elections and representative political institutions in China, from localpeople's congresses to village communities. It then considers the other modes of politicalparticipation most often used by people in China.

Required Reading (2 items)

Village Self-Governance and Democracy in China: An Evaluation - K-S. Louie, 2001-12Article | Essential

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Authoritarian Parochialism: Local Congressional Representation in China - Melanie Manion,2014-06

Article | Essential

Further Reading (6 items)

Elections and Power: The Locus of Decision-Making in Chinese Villages - Jean C. Oi, ScottRozelle, 2000-6

Article | Further

To Vote or Not to Vote: An Analysis of Peasants' Participation in Chinese Village Elections -Y. ZHONG, J. CHEN, 2002-08-01

Article | Further

The Post-Election Administration of Chinese Villages - Björn Alpermann, 2001Article | Further

The Empowering Effect of Village Elections in China - Lianjiang Li, 2003Article | Further

Local people's congresses in China: development and transition - Young Nam Cho, 2009Book | Further

Tamed village "democracy": elections, governance and clientelism in a contemporaryChinese village - Guohui Wang, SpringerLink (Online service), 2014

Book | Further

Lecture 6: State Society Relations Under One-Party Rule (14 items)This lecture looks at the emergence of civil society over the last twenty years after almostforty years in which political participation was directed, top-down by the one-party state.This class will look at the question of civil society and resistance in China under reform. Wewill discuss and examine social movements in China such as labour protests, Falun Gongdemonstrations, environmental protests, and the activities of civil society organisations.We will think over how state-society relations have been evolving in the reform period inChina and whether there is evidence of an emergence of a new pattern in the relationshipbetween state and society in China.

Required Reading (2 items)

Introduction to comparative politics: political challenges and changing agendas - MarkKesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph, c2013

Book | Essential | See: Chapter on China, Section 4.

Governance and politics of China - Tony Saich, 2015Book | Essential | See: Chapter 7.

Further Reading (12 items)

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The Rise of the Chinese Security State - Yuhua Wang, Carl Minzner, 2015-06Article | Further

The Development of Collective Bargaining in China: From “Collective Bargaining by Riot”to “Party State-led Wage Bargaining” - Chris King-Chi Chan, Elaine Sio-Ieng Hui, 2014-03

Article | Further

The Chinese <i>Hukou</i> System at 50 - Kam Wing Chan, 2009-3-1Article | Further

Shanghai's alternative futures: The World Expo, citizen intellectuals, and China's new civilsociety - W. A. Callahan, 2012-07-01

Article | Further

The broken mirror: China after Tiananmen - George Hicks, Asai Motofumi, 1990Book | Further | See: Barmé, G. Confession, Redemption, and Death: Liu Xiaobo and the

Protest movement of 1989, pp. 52-99.

Understanding contentious collective action by Chinese laid-off workers: The importance ofregional political economy - William Hurst, 2004-6

Article | Further

Chinese politics: state, society and the market - Peter Hays Gries, Stanley Rosen, EbooksCorporation Limited, 2010

Book | Further | See: Frazier, M. Popular responses to China’s emerging welfare state,Chapter 12; and, Solinger, D. A question of confidence: state legitimacy and the new urbanpoor, Chapter 11.

From comrade to citizen: struggle for political rights in China - Merle Goldman, 2005Book | Further | See: Introduction: From Comrades to Citizens in the Post-Mao Era, pp.

1-24.

Autonomy in Xinjiang: Han Nationalist Imperatives and Uyghur Discontent - GardnerBovingdon, 2004

Book | Further

Governance in China - Jude Howell, 2004Book | Further | See: Du, J. Gender and Governance: the Rise of New Women’s

Organizations, pp. 121-142.

Chinese politics: state, society and the market - Peter Hays Gries, Stanley Rosen, EbooksCorporation Limited, 2010

Book | Further | See: Li, L. and O’Brien, K. Protest Leadership in Rural China, Chapter 4, pp.121-142; and, Wright, T. Tenuous tolerance in China’s countryside, Chapter 5.

From ‘Class’ to ‘Social Strata': grasping the social totality in reform-era China - AnnAnagnost, 2008-04

Article | Further

Lecture 7: Authoritarian Resilience and the Prospects for

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Democratisation in China (15 items)As China becomes increasingly prosperous through the economic reforms, there havebeen increasing questions about whether political reforms will also take place. One popularargument is that the rise of the middle-class will lead to greater agitation fordemocratisation. Is this the case in China? Is the scholarship on ‘democratisation in China’simply a reflection of Western political interests? What can we learn from the case ofTaiwan’s democratisation? Is Chinese culture an obstacle to democracy taking root inChina? This lecture will draw together the different issues we have covered in the previousfive lectures to look at the overall impact of marketisation, political reform, and changingstate-society relations on China’s authoritarian political system. We will consider China’scurrent social and political problems and the prospects for democratisation. We will alsolook at the ‘democratic idea’ in China.

Required Reading (2 items)

Introduction to comparative politics: political challenges and challenging agendas - MarkKesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph, c2013

Book | Essential | See: Chapter on China, Section 5.

China's Changing of the Guard: Authoritarian Resilience - Andrew J. (Andrew James)Nathan, 2003

Article | Essential

Further Reading (13 items)

Chinese politics: state, society and the market - Peter Hays Gries, Stanley Rosen, EbooksCorporation Limited, 2010

Book | Further | See: Dickson, B. Dilemmas of Party Adaptation: The CCP's Strategies forSurvival, Chapter 1.

Governance and politics of China - Tony Saich, 2015Book | Further | See: Chapters 9 and 12.

China's changing political landscape: prospects for democracy - Cheng Li, Dawson Books,c2008

Book | Further | See: Chapters 1 and 6

Opportunity Lost? Inside China's Leadership Transition - Cheng Li, November 2012Webpage | Essential | You will require to register with the journal Foreign Policy to view

this article, free, as it doesn't come with the Library's subscription.

White Paper on Political Democracy in China - 2005Webpage | Further

Charter 08 - Charter 08 for Reform and Democracy in ChinaDocument | Further

Remaking the Chinese leviathan: market transition and the politics of governance in China- Dali L. Yang, 2004

Book | Further

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The "End of Politics" in Beijing - Bruce Gilley, 2004-01Article | Further

China's new rulers: the secret files - Andrew J. Nathan, Bruce Gilley, 2003Book | Further | See: Chapter 7.

China: fragile superpower - Susan L. Shirk, Dawson Books, 2007Book | Further

China's trapped transition: the limits of developmental autocracy - Minxin Pei, 2006Book | Further

China's leadership in the 21st century: the rise of the fourth generation - David MichaelFinkelstein, Maryanne Kivlehan, c2003

Book | Further

Development and Democracy: Are They Compatible in China? - Yongnian Zheng, 1994-22Article | Further

5. Comparative Conclusions (41 items)In the final section of the course we will illustrate how comparison across our three countrycases can help illuminate key questions of comparative politics. In particular we will usetwo country comparisons in each lecture to examine common themes raised in thepreceding lectures on the individual country cases: democratization and its failure,state-economy relations, state-society relations.

Lecture 1: State-Society Relations in China and Germany: ComparingAuthoritarian and Democratic Fragmented Polities (Jane Duckett) (9items)This lecture examines the development and influence of nationalism on state-societyrelations in two very different political systems, namely China and Germany. We willexplore how these differentpolitical systems have responded to nationalist social movements. While the differencesin response are often stark, certain common patterns emerge as well. In both countries,the relationship with “the West” and a history of xenophobia loom large in debates aboutnational identity as both states grapple with globalisation, economic transformation, andresurgent nationalisms.

Required reading (2 items)

Governance and politics of China - Tony Saich, 2015Book | Essential | See: Chapter 7.

Introduction to comparative politics: political challenges and changing agendas - c2013Book | Essential | See: Chapter 4, Section 4, 'Germany Section', pp. 170-180.

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Further readings (7 items)

A nation-state by construction: dynamics of modern Chinese nationalism - Suisheng Zhao,2004

Book | Further

China: the pessoptimist nation - William A. Callahan, Oxford University Press, 2010Book | Further | See: Chapter 1.

World Policy Blog, 'The World Cup: Nationalism vs Disillusion', June 13 2014n | World PolicyInstitute

Webpage | Further

The politics of the new Germany - Simon Green, Dan Hough, Alister Miskimmon, 2012Book | Further | See: Chapter 5.

Developments in German politics 4 - 2014Book | Further | See: Chapters 3 (Dalton) and 4 (Hornsteiner and Saalfeld).

The German polity - David P. Conradt, Eric Langenbacher, 2013Book | Further | See: Chapters 5 (up to the ‘representation of interests’) and 6.

Socialist Values and Political Participation in Germany: A Barrier to ‘Inner Unity’? - RossCampbell, 2011-03

Article | Further

Lecture 2: State Economy Relations (China and Russia) Zuleykha MailZada (15 items)This lecture will compare Russian and Chinese political and economic transformationssince 1989. These two states had similar starting points: state-planned economies andLeninist political parties, but China did not go down the same path to ‘post-communism’ asRussia in after 1989. Despite their different political trajectories, however, both stateshave marketised their economies over the last two decades. We will look at the reasonsfor the differences and similarities, taking into account level of economic development,political identities and nationalism, and taking into account the interactions betweeneconomic marketisation and political change.

Required Reading (1 items)

Introduction to comparative politics - Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph,c2009

Book | Essential | See: Russia and China chapters, especially sections on politicaleconomy and politics in transition.

Further reading (14 items)Review the essential readings and read from the further Readings for the lecture onChinese nationalism.

China's rise, Russia's fall: politics, economics, and planning in the transition from Stalinism

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- Peter Nolan, 1995Book | Further

Building capitalism: the transformation of the former Soviet bloc - Anders Åslund, 2002Book | Further

Transition without Transformation: Russia's Involutionary Road to Capitalism - M. Burawoy,2001-03-01

Article | Further

Transition: intended and unintended processes - Michael Ellman, 2005Article | Further

Lost opportunity: what has made economic reform in Russia so difficult? - Marshall I.Goldman, 1996

Book | Further

The economics of transition: from socialist economy to market economy - Marie Lavigne,1999

Book | Further

Transition: the first ten years - analysis and lessons for Eastern Europe and the formerSoviet Union - World Bank, 2002

Document | Further

The transformation of state socialism: system change, capitalism or something else? -David Lane, Dawson Books, 2007

Book | Further | See: Lane, D. (2007) ‘The social bases of reform and anti-reform inRussia and Ukraine’

Rethinking Postcommunist Transition - Stephen White, 2003-10Article | Further

China's new rulers: the secret files - Andrew J. Nathan, Bruce Gilley, c2002Book | Further | See: Chapter 7

Leadership Change and Chinese Political Development - Lowell Dittmer, 2003Article | Further

The "End of Politics" in Beijing - Bruce Gilley, 2004Article | Further

Capitalism with Chinese characteristics: entrepreneurship and the state - Yasheng Huang,2008

Book | Further

Governance and politics of China - Tony Saich, 2015Book | Further | See: Chapter 2.

Lecture 3: Explaining Regime Change: Democratization in Russia and

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Germany (Kelly Kollman) (17 items)This lecture uses the cases of Russia and Germany to ask what factors contribute todiffering levels of democratic consolidation in Weimar Germany, the Bonn Republic andpost-Soviet Russia. It utilizes comparisons across these three cases to evaluate differenttheories of democratization and democratic consolidation.

Required Reading (2 items)

Introduction to comparative politics - Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph,c2009

Book | Essential | See: Chapters on Germany and Russia, Sections 1 and 5.

Postimperial Democracies: Ideology and Party Formation in Third Republic France, WeimarGermany, and Post-Soviet Russia - S. E. Hanson, 2006-05-01

Article | Essential

Further reading (15 items)

Linkage, Leverage, and the Post-Communist Divide - L. A. Way, S. Levitsky, 2007-02-01Article | Further

Democracy in the Post-Communist World: An Unending Quest? - G. Ekiert, J. Kubik, M. A.Vachudova, 2007-02-01

Article | Further

‘Making democracy work’ in the eastern half of Europe: Explaining and conceptualisingdivergent trajectories of post-communist democratisation - Robert Bideleux, 2007-06

Article | Further

Rethinking Recent Democratization: Lessons from the Postcommunist Experience - ValerieBunce, 2003-1

Article | Further

“A Very Orderly Retreat”: Democratic Transition in East Germany, 1989–90 - Gareth Dale,2006-04

Article | Further

Post‐totalitarian national identity: public memory in Germany and Russia - BenjaminForest, Juliet Johnson, Karen Till, 2004-09

Article | Further

Searching for Transitologists: Contemporary Theories of Post-Communist Transitions andthe Myth of a Dominant Paradigm - Jordan Gans-Morse, 2004-1-1

Article | Further

Developments in Russian politics 6 - Stephen White, Zvi Y. Gitelman, Richard Sakwa, 2005Book | Further | See: •Gitelman, Z. (2005) ‘The democratisation of Russia in comparative

perspective’

Governance in contemporary Germany: the semisovereign state revisited - 2005Book | Further

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Inequality and Democracy: Why Inequality Harms Consolidation but Does Not AffectDemocratization - Christian Houle

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Experiencing Displacement: The Transformation of Women's Spaces in (Former) EastGermany - Kathrin Horschelmann, Bettina Hoven, 2003-09

Article | Further

Democratization Backwards: The Problem of Third-Wave Democracies - Richard Rose, DohChull Shin, 2001

Article | Further

Rethinking Postcommunist Transition* - Stephen White, 2003-10Article | Further

Energy Transition by Conviction or by Surprise? Environmental Policy from 2009 to 2013 -Christian Huß, 2014-10-02

Article | Further

‘After Agenda 2010 is before the Elections’: Consolidation, Dissent, and the Politics ofGerman Labour Market Policy under the Grand Coalition - Georg Menz, 2010-12

Article | Further

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