POL-GA. 3501.005 Political Development Dr. John P. Entelis
Fall 2011 Wednesday 4-6 19 West 4th Street, Room 432 Office Hours: Wednesday 3-4pm or by appointment (19W4, Room 304) Contact: Email: entelis@fordham.edu; Tel: 212-636-6390; Fax: 201-265-6336
PURPOSE
This course will be organized as a combined colloquium/seminar involving a common set
of class readings, detailed discussion and analysis of those readings, and submission of end-of-semester research paper. Conceptually, the course will be composed of three separate but related parts: competing theories, approaches, and methodologies to the study of political development; identification and discussion of selected analytical constructs or themes in political development (e.g., gender & development, military & development, political parties & development, political elites & development, etc.); selection of country cases as empirical tests of theories and constructs previously investigated. Two broad inquiries preoccupying both scholars and policy makers will guide this course: the developmental dilemma and the democratic deficit. Each of these puzzles, alone and in combination, will be explored through the readings and research papers with applications to select country case studies. The course assumes prior knowledge of basic political analysis, research methodology, and comparative politics.
READINGS (All required and available from area bookstores or on line)
Huntington, Samuel P. POLITICAL ORDER IN CHANGING SOCIETIES. New Haven
CT: Yale University Press, 2006 ed. with new introduction. ISBN: 0300116209. Inglehart, Ronald and Christian Welzel. MODERNIZATION, CULTURAL CHANGE, AND DEMOCRACY: THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SEQUENCE. NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN:0-521-60971-2. Landman, Todd. ISSUES AND METHODS IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS: AN INTRODUCTION. 3nd ed. London: Routledge, 2008. ISBN: 9780415412377 Levitsky, Steven and Lucan A. Way. COMPETITIVE AUTHORITARIANISM: HYBRID REGIMES AFTER THE COLD WAR. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-521-70915-6 Przeworski, Adam and others. DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND WELL-BEING IN THE WORLD, 1950-1990. NY: Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0-521-79379-3. Przeworski, Adam. DEMOCRACY AND THE MARKET: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC REFORMS IN EASTERN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA. NY: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 0-521-42335-X. Sen, Amartya. DEVELOPMENT AS FREEDOM. NY: Anchor Books, 1999. ISBN: 0-385-72027-0. EXAMINATION
There will be two in-class, essay-type examinations covering the readings and class lectures. Value: 20% each
RESEARCH PAPER
Each student will be required to produce a 20-25pp research paper following a broadly common format: hypothesis, methodology, analytic construct, and country cases. Thus, as example, hypothesizing the impact of religion on development using a most similar systems design applied to Egypt and Algeria. Stages of the research will be reported orally on a weekly basis. Value: 50%
CLASS ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION
As an advanced graduate course that only meets for two hours once a week it is essential that students attend all classes regularly and participate actively in class discussions. Any planned absences should be communicated to the professor as early as possible preferably through email but also in person, by phone, or department mailbox. Value: 10%
READING SCHEDULE (Provisional and subject to change)
SEPTEMBER
07 Introduction
14 Theories & Methodologies Landman-1
21 Issues Landman-2
28 Political Order Huntington
OCTOBER
05 Modernization Inglehart-1
12 Modernization Inglehart-2
19 EXAMINATION #1
26 Development & Democracy Przeworski & others
NOVEMBER 02 Development & Democracy Przeworski & others
