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Introduction to Course
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Course syllabus is prepared and shared with students
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The Emergence of Comparative Politics
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Course materials are uploaded on CANVAS. Prior to the third session, students are informed about the tasks for in-class activities via email.
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Caramani, Daniel (2020) ‘Introduction to Comparative Politics’ in Comparative Politics, ed. by Daniel Caramani, pp. 1-18.
Kenneth Newton and Jan W. Van Deth (2010) ‘Introduction’ in Foundations of Comparative Politics Democracies of the Modern World, pp. 1-10.
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The Evolution of Comparative Politics
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Course materials are uploaded on CANVAS. Prior to the third session, students are informed about the tasks for in-class activities via email.
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Peters B. Guy (2020) ‘Approaches in Comparative Politics’ in Comparative Politics, ed. by Daniel Caramani, pp. 35-49.
O’Neil, Patrick H. (2010) ‘Introduction’, in Essentials of Comparative Politics, pp. 1-20.
Kamrava, M. 2008. Understanding Comparative Politics: A Framework for Analysis. Routledge, London, pp. 7-27.
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The Development of the Modern State
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Course materials are uploaded on CANVAS. Prior to the third session, students are informed about the tasks for in-class activities via email.
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Poggi, G. (2020) Chapter 4: ‘The Nation-State’, in Comparative Politics, ed. by Daniel Caramani, pp. 69-85.
Hague, R., Harrop, M. McCormick, J. (2019) Chapter 4: ‘The State’, in Comparative Government and Politics. An Introduction, MacMillan International, pp. 52-69.
Nelson, B. R. (2006) Chapter 2: ‘State Formations’, in The Making of the Modern State, pp. 7-15.
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Modernization Theory
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Course materials are uploaded on CANVAS. Prior to the third session, students are informed about the tasks for in-class activities via email.
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Lipset, S. M. (1959) ‘Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy,’ American Political Science Review, 53 (Mar.), pp. 69-105.
Tipps, Dean C. 1973. “Modernization Theory and the Comparative Study of Societies: A Critical Perspective”, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 15, No. 2 (March), pp. 199-226
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Dependency School
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Course materials are uploaded on CANVAS. Prior to the third session, students are informed about the tasks for in-class activities via email.
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Gülalp, H. 1998. “The Eurocentrism of Dependency Theory and the Question of Authenticity”, Third World Quarterly 19(5): 951-961.Smith,
Tony (2018) ‘The Dependency Approach’, in New Directions in Comparative Politics, Howard J. Wiarda (edited by), pp. 110-145.
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Mid-term
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| 8 |
Spring break
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| 9 |
Active Learning Activity
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Documentary watch and debate. Prior to class sessions, students are shared with documentary and discussion questions.
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New Institutionalism
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Course materials are uploaded on CANVAS. Prior to the third session, students are informed about the tasks for in-class activities via email.
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Almond, G. A. (1988) ‘The Return to the State’, The American Political Science Review, vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 853-874.
Skocpol, Theda, 1985. “Bringing the State Back In: Strategies of Analysis in Current Research,” in. P. Evans, D. Rueschemeyer and T. Skocpol, eds., Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press): 3-37.
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Marxist Theories of State
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Course materials are uploaded on CANVAS. Prior to the third session, students are informed about the tasks for in-class activities via email.
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Carnoy, Martin. (1984). Structuralism and the State: Althusser and Poulantzas. In The State and Political Theory (pp. 97-108). NJ: Princeton University Press.
Carnoy, M. (1984). Gramsci and the State. In The State and Political Theory (pp. 65-88). Princeton University Press.
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The Origins of Capitalist Development
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Course materials are uploaded on CANVAS. Prior to the third session, students are informed about the tasks for in-class activities via email.
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Mooers, C. 1991. The Making of Bourgeois Europe, London: Verso, pp.45-97.
Anderson, P. 1974. “Absolutist State in the West”, in Lineages of the Absolutist State, London: Verso, pp. 15-42.
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Path of Development in the Middle East
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Course materials are uploaded on CANVAS. Prior to the third session, students are informed about the tasks for in-class activities via email.
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Skocpol, T. 1982. “Rentier State and Shi’a Islam in the Iranian Revolution”, Theory and Society 11 (3), pp. 265-283.
Turner, B. 1994. Orientalism, Postmodernism & Globalism, London: Routledge, pp.20-35.
İnalcık, H. 1992. “Comments on ‘Sultanism’: Max Weber’s Typification of the Ottoman Polity”, Princeton Papers in Near Eastern Studies, pp. 49-72.
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Path of Development in Post-Soviet Space and East Asia
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Course materials are uploaded on CANVAS. Prior to the third session, students are informed about the tasks for in-class activities via email.
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Robinson, Neil. (2008). State, regime and Russian political development. Publication date 01-01-2008 Published in Limerick Papers in Politics and Public Administration; 2008, No. 3
Zhao, Y., & Wu, J. (2020). Understanding China’s Developmental Path: Towards Socialist Rejuvenation? Javnost - The Public, 27(2), 97–111.
Leong Liew (2005) China's Engagement with Neo-liberalism: Path Dependency, Geography and Party Self-Reinvention, The Journal of Development Studies, 41:2, 331-352, DOI: 10.1080/0022038042000309278
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Final Wrap-up
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