PSIR 503 | Course Introduction and Application Information

• Doç. Dr. Serhun AL

• Araş. Gör. Nil DİKMENGİL

The students who succeeded in this course;

• Will be able to explain the origins of nation-state.
• Will be able to discuss how different regime types emerge.
• Will be able to compare political institutions in different countries.
• Will be able to use comparative research methods.
• Will be able to compare and contrast different political systems across the world.

Course textbook is Daniele Caramani. 2008. Comparative Politics. (5th edition) Oxford: Oxford University Press.

All course readings are available at the University Library and as open sources.

Moore, Barrington, Jr. 1966. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World. Boston: Beacon Press.

Skocpol, Theda. 1979. States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Scott, James C. 1985. Weapons of the Weak. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Almond, Gabriel A., and Sidney Verba. 1989 [1963]. The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Gellner, Ernest. 2009 [1983]. Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press

Putnam, Robert D. 1993. Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Lijphart, Arend. 1994. Electoral Systems and Party Systems: A Study of Twenty‐Seven Democracies, 1945‐1990. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lijphart, Arend. 1999. Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Kitschelt, Herbert. 1994. The Transformation of European Social Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Linz, Juan. 2000. Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes. Boulder: Lynne Rienner. 

Fukuyama, Francis. 2004. State‐Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century. Cornell University Press.

Acemoglu, Daron, and James A. Robinson. 2005. Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Tarrow, Sidney. 2008. Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Lichbach, Mark Irving, and Alan S. Zuckerman. 2009. Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture and Structure (2nd Edition). Cambridge University Press.

Bates, Robert H. 2009. When Things Fall Apart: State Failure in Late Century Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

WIMMER, Andreas. 2013. Waves of War: Nationalism, State Formation, and Ethnic Exclusion in the Modern World. Cambridge University Press.

WIMMER, Andreas. 2018. Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart. Princeton University Press.

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