University of California, Berkeley                                                                                                                                      Fall, 1995

Department of Political Science

 

 

                                           POLITICAL SCIENCE 210

 

                                                                  DEMOCRATIZATIONS, DEMOCRACY

                                                                                             G. Di Palma

 

 

Texts:

 

                Di Palma, G., To Craft Democracies

          Economic Reform & Democracy, Journal of Democracy, 5 (October 1994), special issue

                Linz, J., The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Crisis, Breakdown, and Reequilibration

                Linz, J. & A. Valenzuela, eds., The Failure of Presidential Democracy (vol. I)

                O'Donnell, G. and P. Schmitter, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions

                Reich, R., The Work of Nations

                Sartori, G., Comparative Constitutional Engineering

                Huntington, S., The Third Wave (recommended)

                Przeworski, A., Democracy and the Market (recommended)

 

Reader:

 

                At Copy Central (2560 Bancroft). The reader is organized alphabetically by author, or editor (if any).

 

Reserve:

 

                With the exception of journal articles & ms., all reading material, including the texts, is on reserve at     Moffitt (Graduate Humanities and Social Sciences).

 

Requirements:

 

                I will individually tailor them to each student's needs. Confer with me.

 

 

                                                 INTRODUCTION

 

1.             Some Methodological Observations on Democratization

 

                Di Palma, To Craft Democracies, chaps. 1, 2

                Huntington, The Third Wave, pp. 31-40

 

                           THE THREE WAVES OF DEMOCRATIZATION

 

2.             The First Wave: Prevailing Theories of Western Democracy

 

                Dahl, Polyarchy, chaps. 1, 3

                Moore, Social Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship, chaps. 7, 8

                Gerschenkron, Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective, chaps. 1, 2

                Janos, "The Politics of Backwardness in Continental Europe, 1780-1945," World Politics, 49 (April 1989)

                Kurth, "Industrial Change and Political Change: A European Perspective," in Collier, ed., The                 New Authoritarianism in Latin America

                Dahrendorf, Society and Democracy in Germany, chaps. 2, 24

 

3.             The Second Wave Beyond the West: Essentializing "The Rest"

 

                Lipset, Political Man, chaps. 2, 3

                Janos, Politics and Paradigms, pp. 31-72

                Verba, "Sequences and Development," in Binder et al., eds., Crises and Sequences in Political               Development

                Collier, "Overview of the Bureaucratic-Authoritarian Model," in Collier. ed., The New              Authoritarianism

                Bendix, Force, Fate and Freedom, chap. 6

                Dahl, Polyarchy, chap. 10

                Dahl, Democracy and Its Critics, chaps. 17-18

 

4.             The First Two Waves: Some Different Voices

 

                Rustow, "Transitions to Democracy: Toward a Dynamic Model," Comparative Politics, 2 (April 1970)

                Linz, Crisis, Breakdown, and Reequilibration, all

                Linz, "From Great Hopes to Civil War: The Breakdown of Democracy in Spain," in Linz and                                               Stepan, eds., The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Europe

                Lijphart, "Typologies of Democratic Systems," Comparative Political Studies, 1 (April 1968)

                Lijphart, "Consociational Democracy," World Politics, 21 (January 1969)

                Luebbert, "Social Foundations of Political Order in Interwar Europe," World Politics, 39 (July 1987)

                Luebbert, Liberalism, Fascism, or Social Democracy, chap. 9

 

5.             The Third Wave: Theoretical Departures and Their Limits

                                                                                                       

                O'Donnell and Schmitter, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions, all

                Di Palma, To Craft, chaps. 3-5

                Przeworski, "Some Problems in the Study of the Transition to Democracy," in O'Donnell et al.,                  Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Comparative Perspectives

                Hirschman, "The Search for Paradigms as a Hindrance to Understanding," World Politics, 22                     (April 1970)

                Collier and Norden, "Strategic Choice Models of Political Change in Latin America," Comparative                             Politics, 24 (January 1992)

                Mahoney and Snyder, "Rethinking Agency and Structure in the Study of Regime Change" (ms., 1995)

                Huntington, "Will More Countries Become Democratic?" Political Science Quarterly, 99 (Summer 1984)

                Huntington, "The Third Wave," Journal of Democracy, 2 (Spring 1991)

                Huntington, "How Countries Democratize," Political Science Quarterly, 106 (1991-92)

                Lipset, Seong, and Torres, "A Comparative Analysis of the Social Requisites of Democracy,"           International Social Science Journal, 136 (May 1993)

 

                                      DEMOCRACY'S ISSUES TODAY

 

6.             Institutionalization, Consolidation, Legitimation: What Do They Mean Today?

 

                Di Palma, To Craft, chaps. 6, 7

                Ackerman, The Future of Liberal Revolution, chap. 4

                Holmes, "Back to the Drawing Board," East European Constitutional Review, 2 (Winter 1993)       

                Bunce and Csánadi, "Uncertainty in the Transition: Post-Communism in Hungary," in East                    European Politics and Society, 7 (Spring 1993)

                Valenzuela, "Democratic Consolidation in Post-Transitional Settings," in Mainwaring et al., eds.,                 Issues in Democratic Consolidation

                Linz, "Legitimacy and Efficacy," (ms., no date)

                McDonough, Barnes, and López Pina, "The Growth of Democratic Legitimacy in                    Spain,"American Political Science Review, 80 (September 1986)

 

7.             Nationalism and Ethnification

 

                Gellner "Nationalism," in Gellner, Thought and Change

                Stokes, "Cognition and the Function of Nationalism," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 4                            (Spring 1974)

                Cetinyan, "The Institution of Ethnicity: The Political Economy of Ethnic Organization and Conflict," (ms.,                            1994)

                Tiryakian and Nevitte, "Nationalism and Modernity," in Tiryakian and Rogowski, eds., New                    Nationalisms of the Developed West

                Jowitt, "The New World Disorder," Journal of Democracy, 2 (Winter 1991)

                Zaslavsky, "Nationalism and Democratic Transition in Postcommunist Societies," Daedalus, 121                       (Spring 1992)

                Bates, "Modernization, Ethnic Competition, and the Rationality of Politics in Contemporary                   Africa," in Rothchild and Olorunsola, eds., State Vs. Ethnic Claims: African Policy Dilemmas

                Linz and Stepan, "Political Identities and Electoral Sequences: Spain, the Soviet Union, and                                                   Yugoslavia," Daedalus, 121 (Spring 1992)

 

8.             Reconstructing Civil Society

 

                Keane, "Despotism and Democracy: The Origins and Development of the Distinction between                             Civil Society and the State 1750-1850," in Keane, ed., Civil Society and the State

                Shils, "The Virtues of Civil Society," Government and Opposition, 26 (Winter 1991)

                Gouldner, "Civil Society in Capitalism and Socialism," in Gouldner, The Two Marxisms

                Kumar, "The Revolution of 1989: Socialism, Capitalism, and Democracy," Theory and Society,                  21 (1992)

                Di Palma, "Legitimacy from the Top to Civil Society: Politico-Cultural Change in Eastern Europe," World              Politics, 44 (October 1991)

                Di Palma, "The European and the Central American Experience," in Di Palma and Whitehead,                           eds., The Central American Impasse

 

9.             State and Market in Democracy

 

                Hirschman, "Rival Views of Market Society," in Hirschman, Rival Views of Market Society           and Other Essays

                Almond, "Capitalism and Democracy," PS: Political Science & Politics, 24 (September 1991)

                Berger, "The Uncertain Triumph of Democratic Capitalism," Journal of Democracy, 3 (July                      1992)

                Dahl, "Why Free Markets Are Not Enough," Ibid.

                Fukuyama, "Capitalism and Democracy: The Missing Link," Ibid.

                Rose, "Toward a Civil Economy," Journal of Democracy, 3 (April 1992)

                Hall, "After the Vacuum: Post-Communism in the Light of Tocqueville," (ms., no date)

 

10.           Democracy and Globalization: the New Democracies

 

                Offe, "Capitalism by Democratic Design? Democratic Theory Facing the Triple Transition in                                Eastern Europe," Social Research, 58 (Winter 1991)

                O'Donnell, "Delegative Democracy," Journal of Democracy, 5 (January 1994)

                Nelson, "The Politics of Economic Transformation: Is Third World Experience Relevant in                                 Eastern Europe?" World Politics, 45 (April 1993)

                Evans, "The State as Problem and Solution: Predation, Embedded Autonomy, and Structural                               Change," in Haggard and Kaufman, eds., The Politics of Economic Adjustment

                ***, Journal of Democracy (October 1994 special issue on Economic Reform)           

 

11.           Democracy and Globalization: The Old Democracies

               

                Reich, The Work of Nations, all (especially Part IV)

                Dahl,  "The New American Political (Dis)order," (ms., no date)

                Citrin, "Why Can't American Government Do the Right Thing?" (ms., no date)

               

12.           Do Institutions Make a Difference? Electoral Laws

 

                Sartori, Comparative Constitutional Engineering, part I

 

13.           Do Institutions Make a Difference? Governing Institutions

 

                Sartori, part II

                Linz and Valenzuela, The Failure of Presidential Democracy, vol. I

                Gunther and Mugan, "Political Institutions and Cleavage Management," in Weaver and Rockman,                        eds., Do Institutions Matter?

                Lijphart, Rogowski, and Weaver, "Separation of Powers and Cleavage Management," Ibid.