UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

Political Science 200b Winter Quarter 2011

Graduate Core Sequence: Democracy Alan Houston and Philip G. Roeder

Outline of Seminar
I. What is Democracy? How Do We Know It When We See It?
II. Democratization
III. Consequences: Survival and Economic Growth
IV. Assessing Democracy: Consolidation and Quality
V. How Institutions Shape Democratic Politics
VI. Representation
VII. Participation
VIII. Democratic States and Societies
A. Civil Societies
B. Plural Societies

Instructors: Alan Houston Philip G. Roeder

Office: Eleanor Roosevelt College Admin. Social Sciences Building 382
Office hours: Mondays 3:00 – 4:00 Mondays 1:30 – 3:00 pm
e-mail: [email protected] [email protected]
Office telephone: 534-2247 534-6000

Readings:
Many of the readings will be available on the course web-site (address to be announced in class). The
books are available at the library, from your colleagues, or through on-line vendors. The books that we
will be reading at some length include:
1. Gary W. Cox. Making Votes Count. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
2. Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman. The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
3. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison. The Federalist.
4. Samuel P. Huntington. The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century. Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.
5. Will Kymlicka. Multicultural Citizenship. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
6. Arend Lijphart. Democracy in Plural Societies: A Comparative Exploration. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1977.
7. Arend Lijphart. Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six
Countries. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
8. Adam Przeworski et al. Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the
World, 1950-1990. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
9. Nancy Rosenblum. Membership and Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in America.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.
10. Alexis DeTocqueville. Democracy in America.
11. Gordon Wood. The Creation of the American Republic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1969.
Requirements:
1. Reading and seminar participation. Each week please read the assigned texts prior to the seminar
meeting.
2. Practice Comprehensive Examination. At the end of the course you will be given a practice
comprehensive examination, comprised of two short take-home essays. Topics will be given out on
10 March; essays are due by noon on Tuesday, 15 March.

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Week 1 (January 6)
Introduction

Arend Lijphart. Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. Read entire book.
Samuel P. Huntington. Political Order in Changing Societies. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968.
Read Chapter 2.

Week 2 (January 13)

WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? HOW DO WE KNOW IT WHEN WE SEE IT?

Joseph Schumpeter. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. London: Allen and Unwin, 1976. Read
Chapters 21 (parts 1-2), 22; and 23 ( parts 1-2).
Adam Przeworski. Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and
Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Read Chapter 1.
Robert A. Dahl. Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971.
Read pages 1-16, 231-49.
“Is Russia a Democracy?”
Jim Nichol, coordinator. “Russian Political, Economic, and Security Issues and U. S. Interests.”
Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, November 4, 2010. Read pages 2-13.

Week 3 (January 20)

DEMOCRATIZATION, I

Samuel P. Huntington. The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century. Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. Read Chapters 1-4.
Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman. The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1995. Read Chapters 1, 4-5, 9-11.

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 Week 4 (January 27)
CONSEQUENCES: SURVIVAL AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

Adam Przeworski et al. Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World,
1950-1990. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Week 5 (February 3)
ASSESSING DEMOCRACY: CONSOLIDATION AND QUALITY

Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan. Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1996. Read Chapter 1.
Guillermo O‟Donnell. “Illusions about Consolidation.” Journal of Democracy 7 (April 1996), 34-51.
Richard Gunther, P. Nikoforos Diamondouros, and Hans-Jurge Puhle. “O‟Donnell‟s „Illusions‟: A
Rejoinder.” Journal of Democracy 7 (October 1996), 151-59.
Guillermo O‟Donnell. “Illusions and Conceptual Flaws.” Journal of Democracy 7 (October 1996), 160-
68.
Adam Przeworski, Michael Alvarez, Jose Antonio Cheibub, and Fernando Limongi. “What Makes
Democracies Endure?” Journal of Democracy 7 (January 1996), 39-55.
Andrew Roberts. The Quality of Democracy in Eastern Europe: Public Preferences and Policy Reforms.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Read Chapters 2 and 8.

Week 6 (February 10)

HOW INSTITUTIONS SHAPE DEMOCRATIC POLITICS

Gary W. Cox. Making Votes Count. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Read Chapters 1-3, 4
(pp. 69-80), 8, 10, 12-15.

Week 7 (February 17)

REPRESENTATION

Gordon Wood. The Creation of the American Republic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
1969. Read pages 344-467.
The Articles of Confederation.
Constitution of the United States of America.
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison. The Federalist. Read #1, 6, 9, 10, 23, 35, 37-39, 45-
51, 62, 63, 68, 70, 78, 84.
Bernard Manin, Adam Przeworski, and Susan Stokes. “Elections and Representation.” In Democracy,
Accountability and Representation, ed. Przeworski, Stokes and Manin, 29-54. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Hanna Pitkin. The Concept of Representation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. Read
Chapter 7 (pp. 144-67).

Week 8 (February 24)

PARTICIPATION

Jon Elster. “The Market and the Forum: Three Varieties of Political Theory.” In Foundations of Social
Choice Theory, ed. Jon Elster and Aanund Hyland, 103-32. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1986.
Bruce Ackerman and James Fishkin. “Deliberation Day.” Journal of Political Philosophy 10 (2002): 129-
52.
Bernard Manin. “On Legitimacy and Political Deliberation,” Political Theory 15 (1987): 338-68.
Donald R. Kinder and Don Herzog. “Democratic Discussion.” In Reconsidering the Democratic Public,
ed. George Marcus and Russell Hanson, 347-77. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State
University Press, 1993.
Gabriel A. Almond and Sidney Verba. The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five
Nations. Boston: Little, Brown, 1963. Read Chapter 13.
Samuel P. Huntington. “The Democratic Distemper,” The Public Interest 41 (1975), 9-38.

Week 9 (March 3)
DEMOCRATIC STATES AND SOCIETIES, I: CIVIL SOCIETIES

Alexis DeTocqueville. Democracy in America. Read Volume 1 (Introduction, Chs. 1-5, 9, 12-17),
Volume 2 (Preface, Part I [chs. 1-5, 11, 13-14], Part II [chs. 1-8, 13, 14, 18-20], Part III [chs. 1, 2,
5, 7-13, 17, 19, 21], Part IV [chs. 1-4, 6-8]
Robert Putnam. “Bowling Alone: America‟s Declining Social Capital,” Journal of Democracy 6 (January
1995), 65-78.
Nancy Rosenblum. Membership and Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in America. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1998. Read Introduction, Chapters 1, 3, 5 (pp. 3-46, 73-111, 158-90).

Week 10 (March 10)

DEMOCRATIC STATES AND SOCIETIES, II: PLURAL SOCIETIES

Arend Lijphart. Democracy in Plural Societies: A Comparative Exploration. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1977. Read Chapters 1, 2, and 7.
Will Kymlicka. Multicultural Citizenship. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Read Chapters 2, 5-7,
9.
Philip G. Roeder. “Power Dividing.” In Conflict Resolution: Theories and Practice, edited by Stefan
Wolff and Christalla Yakinthou. London: Routledge, in progress.