Required and Recommended Readings for Fall Quarter 2007
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POLS 459 has one required textbook, listed below. Most of the required reading for this course, however, will be available through our CD-Course Pack (distributed in class) or on e-reserve through the library.

Jean-Marie Bouissou, Japan: The Burden of Success (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002). This book can be purchased in the university bookstore or online.
POLS 550 has three required textbooks: Democracy in the Third World by Robert Pinkney (Rienner, 2003); The Haj (Bantam, 1985); and Democracy by Charles Tilly.

RECOMMENDED TEXT:

I strongly urge students who have not taken POLS 373 to purchase and read Doing Comparative Politics on their own. All students will be expected to have mastered the material covered in this book.

ADDITIONAL SUGGESTED READINGS

Capitalist Development and Democracy by Rueshemeyer, Stephens and Stephen. The authors of this book make one of the strongest arguments about the process of democratization using a primarily structural approach.
The Comparative Method by Charles Ragin. Ragin provides one of the best discussions of the key methodological issues surrounding the comparative method. The book includes a very useful discussion of the relative merits of qualitative vs. quantitative analysis.
Comparative Politics Theory and Methods by B. Guy Peters. This is also an extremely good book for graduate students seeking to learn more about the foundations of comparative analysis. Highly recommended.
Comparative Politics Rationality, Culture and Structure by Zuckerman and Lichbach. This is a difficult, but valuable book that divides theoretical approaches in comparative politics into three main research "traditions." Doing Comparative Politics, my text, is based on this more advanced book.
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Barrington Moore. One of the "classic" texts on democratization.
Transitions to Democracy by Lisa Anderson. Used as required book in fall 2005, this book is a collection of papers that address the ground breaking article by Dankwart A. Rustow, "Transitions to Democracy: Toward a Dynamic Model."
Consolidating Third Wave Democracies by Larry Diamond, et al. A valuable compilation of articles on "third wave" democracies.
Democracy and the Market by Adam Przeworski. Przeworski--a leading figure in studies of democracies--provides a cogent analysis of democracy from a rational choice perspective.
Democracy and Democratization by Georg Sorenson. A basic introduction to democracy.
Inklings of Democracy in China by Suzane Ogden. A good discussion of the prospects and problems of democracy in China.
China's Transition by Andrew Nathan. (From the back cover): "A thorough, enlightening account of China's political culture and potential for democracy."

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