(Version 2: 10/05/06) POLI 227: Comparative Political Economy Fall 2006 Megumi Naoi Wednesday 1 - 3:50 PM Office Hours: Tues 2-3:30 SSB 353 SSB 373 [email protected] This graduate seminar for Ph.D. students examines the interaction between politics and the economy. This seminar will focus on how politics—in particular, political institutions—shapes economic outcomes and how the economy affects politics. We will examine both developed and developing countries and ask how development is affected by politics. The relative importance of domestic politics and international economic forces is also a theme. The course builds on 200C States and Markets. Readings are chosen not only to represent important debates in CPE but also to showcase works on different regions and countries using diverse methodologies (quantitative, qualitative, historical, formal, and experimental). The trade-off for the breath and diversity of this course is that few articles can be assigned on any given topic. My goal, however, is to introduce you to the seminal and current ideas in CPE and to help you identify research questions that you can pursue in your own work. Students will be encouraged to pay close attention to how these studies speak to each other and discuss how we can advance the literature. In addition to the readings and class participation, two major requirements for the course are presentations (see the end of this syllabus for details) and papers. For papers, you can choose one of the following two tracks. Written Essays Track A. Three 5-7 page double-spaced, typed papers examining the readings due during the course. You may submit the first paper anytime between Week 2 and Week 4 and the second and third paper between Week 5 and December 8, 2006. Examples of how these critical literature reviews should be done are Ben-Ross Schneider’s review on political coalitions and economic policy and Michael Ross’s review on resource curse both published in World Politics (both will be available at the course website).Track B. One 5-7 page paper on readings and a 15-page research proposal that proposes a research project that would resolve some of the limitations of the literature we have discussed. The proposal should identify a specific question or puzzle (“dependent variable”), discuss how you would try to answer that question (preliminary argument, hypotheses, and research design), lay out the necessary steps of the project, and suggest how this project would advance the literature. In the last class, Track B students will present their draft proposals. Seminar participants will provide feedback, which should be incorporated into the written proposal. You may submit the first paper anytime between Week 2 and Week 4 and a research proposal is due December 8, 2006. Grade Class participation will count for 20% of your grade; your presentation and data report will count 10% each, and the papers will count for 60% of your final grade. Students are required to attend class and have done the readings in advance. Sep 27 Week 1: Classical Theories of (Comparative) Political Economy Schumpter, Joseph. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, pt II (chs. vii (pp.81-87), xi- xiv (pp. 121-164); pt IV (chs. xxi, xxii, xxiii: pp.250-302). Dahl, Robert, 1959. “Business and Politics: A Critical Appraisal of Political Science.” APSR, Vol. 53, No.1. (Mar., 1959), pp.1-34. Lipset, Seymour M. 1959. “Some Social Requisites of Democracy.” American Political Science Review v. 53, #1: 69-105 Lindblom, Charles. 1977. Politics and Markets, chs. 1-3, 6-16. Marx, Karl in R. Tucker, The Marx-Engels Reader, “The German Ideology” pp. 110-164; “The Communist Manifesto” pp. 331-362; “Das Kapital” pp. 191-225, 291-320 (This is just for fun. For those who want to be IPE/CPE hybrid) “Symposium: The Confluence of International Relations and Comparative Politics: Professional Dilemmas.” APSA-CP Vol.16, No.1., pp. 7-25.Oct 4 Week 2: Economic Growth Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson and James Robinson. 2001. “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation. ” American Economic Review 91 (5): 1369-1401. Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson. 2002. “Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 117 (4):1231-94. Rodrik, Dani, Arvind Subramanian, and Francesco Trebbi. 2002. “Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions over Geography and Integration in Economic Development.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper # 9305. Keefer, Philip. 2004. “What Does Political Economy tell us about Economic Development and Vice Versa?” Annual Review of Political Science. V. 7, 247-72. “From settler mortality to patrimonialism: weaving the dynamics of political competition into the political economy of development,” Political Economists (APSA Newsletter for Political Economy section), Volume XII, Issue 3. Micro and Historical Views: Read one of the two. Pande, Rohini and Christopher Udry. 2005. Institutions and Development: A View from Below, Economic Growth Center, Yale University, Discussion Paper, No. 928 Stephen Haber, Armando Razo, Noel Maurer. 2004. The Politics of Property Rights: Political Instability, Credible Commitments, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1876-1929. Chapter 1 and 2. Presentation Topics 1. How do political factors influence economic growth? 2. Where do property rights come from and what do they do? Data Report 1. What data measure economic growth? 2. What data measure the security of property rights?Oct 11 Week 3: Political Economy of Regime Type Przeworski, Adam and Fernando Limongi 1993. “Political Regimes and Economic Growth” Journal of Economic Perspectives 7, #3: 51-69. Adam Przeworski and Fernando Limongi.1997. “Modernization: Theories and Facts” World Politics 49(2):155-183 Boix, Carles, Susan Stokes, Carol Weisman. 1993. “Endogenous Democratization,” World Politics, Volume 55, Number 4, July 2003. Gaddes, Barbara. 2004. “Authoritarian Breakdowns,” Working Paper, UCLA. Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce, Alistair Smith, Randall Siverson, and James Morrow. The Logic of Political Survival. Chapters 1-3. Wintrobe, Ronald. 1998. The Political Economy of Dictatorship. Cambridge University Press.