Comparative Politics Select Readings

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Almond, Gabriel and Sidney Verba. 1989 (edn). The Civic Culture: political
attitudes and democracy in five nations. California: Sage (1st publd. 1963).

Almond, Gabriel, G. Bingham Powell Jr. et al. 2004. Comparative Politics

Today. Delhi: Pearson Education.

Boroumand, Ladan.2009. Iran in Ferment: Civil Societys Choice,

Journal of Democracy 20 (4).

Caramani, Daniele, ed. 2008. Comparative Politics. Oxford: Oxford

University Press.
Chattopadhyay, Paresh, 'Political Economy: What's in a Name?', Monthly
Review, April, 1974.

Chilcote, Ronald H., 1994. Theories of Comparative Politics, Westview

Press, Boulder,

Chilcote, Ronald H., 'Alternative Approaches to Comparative Politics' in

Howard J.Wiarda (ed.), New Directions in Comparative Politics, Westview
Press, Boulder and London, 1989.

Comparative Politics: Critical Concepts in Political Science. Vols I - VI.

Howard J. Wiarda.

Dahl, Robert (1971), Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition, (New

Haven: Yale University Press), pp. 1-32;

Dahl, Robert (1998), On Democracy, (New Haven: Yale University Press),

pp. 166-79.

Diamond, Larry. 2010. Why Are There No Arab Democracies? Journal of

Democracy 21 (1).

Gerring, John (2004), What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good For?
American Political Science Review 98 (2), pp. 341-54.

Hague, Rod and Martin Harrop, Comparative Government: An

Introduction, 1982.

Haynes, Jeffrey. 2005. Comparative Politics in a Globalizing World.

Cambridge: Polity Press.

Huntington, Samuel (1993), The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late

Twentieth Century. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pp. 3-30.

Inglehart, Ronald and Wayne E. Baker. 2000. Modernization, Cultural

Change, and the Persistence of Traditional Values, American Socialogical
Review 65 (1), 19-51, February.

Inglehart, Ronald. 1988. The Renaissance of Political Culture, American

Political Science Review 82 (4) 1203-30.

Kamrava, Mehran. 1996. Understanding Comparative Politics: A

Framework for Analysis. London, New York: Routledge.

Kesselman, Mark and Joel Krieger.2006. Readings in Comparative

Politics: Political Challenges and Changing Agendas. Boston/New York:
Houghton Mifflin Company.

Kesselman, Mark, Joel Krieger, William A. Joseph. 2007. Introduction to

Comparative Politics. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Landman, Todd. 2003. Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics: An

Introduction

Lichbach, Mark and Alan Zuckerman, eds. 1997. Comparative Politics:

Rationality, Culture and Structure.

Lijphart, Arend (1971), Comparative Politics and the Comparative

Method, American Political Science Review 65 (3), pp. 682-93.

Linz, Juan J. (1992), The Perils of Presidentialism in Arend Lijphart, ed.,

Parliamentary Versus Presidential Government, (Oxford: Oxford University
Press), pp. 119-27.

Linz, Juan J. (1992), The Virtues of Parliamentarism in Arend Lijphart,

ed., Parliamentary Versus Presidential Government, (Oxford: Oxford
University Press), pp. 212-6.

Lipset, Seymour Martin (1959), Some Social Requisites of Democracy:

Economic Development and Political Legitimacy, American Political
Science Review 53 (1), pp. 69-105.

Mayer, Lawrence C. and John H. Burnett.1977. Politics in Industrial

Societies: A Comparative Perspective. New York, Santa Barbara et al:
John Wiley and Sons.

McCormick, John. 2009. Comparative Politics in Transition. Boston:

Wadsworth.

Moore, Barrington (1966), Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy.

Boston: Beacon Press, pp. 3-39.

Mortenson, Greg. 2009. Stones into Schools. New York: Viking Press (on
Afghanistan).

Nathan, Andrew (2003), Authoritarian Resilience, Journal of Democracy

14 (1), pp. 6-17.

Nathan, Andrew (2009), China Since Tiananmen: Authoritarian

Impermanence, Journal of Democracy 20 (3), pp. 37-40.

ODonnell, Guillermo. 2004. Why the Rule of Law Matters, Journal of

Democracy 15 (4),

Oxford Concise Dictionary of Politics: Iain McLean and Alistair McMillan.

Pei, Minxin (2006), China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of

Developmental Autocracy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp. 4595.

Peters, B. Guy. 1998. Comparative Politics: Theory and Methods. London:

Macmillan Press.

Przeworski, Adam and Fernando Limongi (1997), Modernization:

Theories and Facts, World Politics 49 (2), 155-83.

Schmitter, Phillipe and Terry Lynn Karl. 1991. What Democracy Isand Is
Not, Journal of Democracy 2 (3).

Smith., Peter H. 2005. Democracy in Latin America: Political Change in

Comparative Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press.

Stepan, Alfred and Cindy Skach. 1993. Constitutional Frameworks and

Democratic Consolidation: Parliamentarianism versus Presidentialism.
World Politics 46 (1), 1-22, October.
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White, Stephen 2000. Russia's New Politics: The Management of a

Postcommunist Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 25592.

Wiarda, Howard J. Corporatism in Iberian and Latin American Political

Analysis: Criticisms, Qualification,s and the Contexts and whys ,
Comparative Politics 10 (2) January 1978.

Wiarda, Howard J. ed. 1985. New Directions in Comparative Politics.

Zuckerman, Alan S. 2008. Comparative Political Science (4 vols.). Sage

Publications.

-- Manjari Katju, Department of Political Science, University of Hyderabad

(Faculty member for Comparative Politics).