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MODERN POLITICAL SCIENCE 2016/2017

Instructor: Ekim Arbatli

Course description and scope: The purpose of this course is to introduce graduate students

with the contemporary research and emerging topics in political science literature. The course

consists of eight overarching subfields, which in turn are divided into topics. The reading

material includes both extended literature reviews and empirical texts that show the

applications of theories in the field. The course will be designed in a graduate seminar format,

where the main focus is on active participation and discussion. Students will be asked to read

the required articles beforehand and be ready to discuss the material in class. They are also

encouraged to read as many of the recommended texts as possible.

LIST OF TOPICS

A. Methodological debates in the discipline

1. The qualitative-quantitative divide 2. Formal models and games 3. Experiments in political science

B. Political regimes and transitions

4. Democracies and democratization 5. Authoritarianism and autocratic survival 6. Hybrid regimes and regime classification debates 7. Civil-military relations, coups, and military rule

C. Political representation and voting behavior

8. Political parties, elections and representation 9. Structural determinants of voting behavior 10. Political clientelism

D. Institutional design and good governance

11. Executive-legislative relations

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12. Courts and the judicial system 13. Federalism 14. Quality of government and corruption

E. Comparative political economy

15. Inequality and redistribution 16. Business-state relations 17. FDI and political risk 18. Energy politics and the natural resource curse

F. Contentious politics and political violence

19. Social movements and protests 20. Civil war and ethnic conflict 21. Terrorism

G. Sociocultural variables in political analysis

22. Social capital and civil society 23. Religion in politics and the rise of political Islam

H. Contemporary topics in political science

24. The digital age: ICTs and politics 25. Environmental politics

COURSE SCHEDULE

Methodological debates in the discipline

1. Qualitative-quantitative divide

Required reading:

- Lieberman, E. S. (2010). Bridging the qualitative-quantitative divide: Best practices in the development of historically oriented replication databases. Annual Review of Political Science, 13, 37-59.

- Goertz, G., & Mahoney, J. (2006). A tale of two cultures: Contrasting quantitative and qualitative research, Political Analysis, 14, 227-249.

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Recommended: Davies, M. B., & Hughes, N. (2014). Doing a successful research project: Using qualitative or quantitative methods. Palgrave Macmillan. Creswell, J. W. (2013). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches. Sage publications. Glassner, B., & Moreno, J. (Eds.). (2013). The qualitative-quantitative distinction in the social sciences (Vol. 112). Springer Science & Business Media. Goertz, G., & Mahoney, J. (2012). A tale of two cultures: Qualitative and quantitative research in the social sciences. Princeton University Press. Brady, H. E., & Collier, D. (Eds.). (2010). Rethinking social inquiry: Diverse tools, shared standards. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Ragin, C. C. (2008). Redesigning social inquiry: Fuzzy sets and beyond. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Geddes, B. (2003). Paradigms and sand castles. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. King, G., Keohane, R. O., & Verba, S. (1994). Designing social inquiry: Scientific inference in qualitative research. Princeton University Press.

2. Formal models and games

Required reading:

- Calvert, R. (2013). Models of imperfect information in politics (Vol. 6). Taylor & Francis. Recommended: Dunleavy, P. (2014). Democracy, bureaucracy and public choice: Economic approaches in political science. Routledge. Sloof, R. (2013). Game-theoretic models of the political influence of interest groups. Springer Science & Business Media. Clarke, K. A., & Primo, D. M. (2012). A model discipline: Political science and the logic of representations. Oxford University Press.

3. Experiments in political science

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Required reading:

- Hyde, S. D. (2015). Experiments in International Relations: Lab, Survey and Field. Annual Review of Political Science, 18, 403-424.

Recommended: Gonzalez‐Ocantos, E., De Jonge, C. K., Meléndez, C., Osorio, J., & Nickerson, D. W. (2012). Vote buying and social desirability bias: Experimental evidence from Nicaragua. American Journal of Political Science, 56(1), 202-217. Hyde, S. D. (2010). The future of field experiments in International Relations. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 628(1), 72-84.

Political regimes and transitions

4. Democracies and democratization

Required reading:

- Hale, H. E. (2013). Regime Change Cascades: What We Have Learned from the 1848 Revolutions to the 2011 Arab Uprisings. Annual Review of Political Science, 16, 331-353.

- Hadenius, A., & Teorell, J. (2007). Pathways from authoritarianism. Journal of democracy, 18(1), 143-157.

Recommended:

Munck, G. L. (2013). Conceptualizing the Quality of Democracy: A Reconstruction, Critique and Proposal. APSA 2013 Annual Meeting Paper.

Donno, D. (2013), Elections and Democratization in Authoritarian Regimes. American Journal of Political Science, 57: 703–716.

Hale, H. E. (2013). Regime Change Cascades: What We Have Learned from the 1848 Revolutions to the 2011 Arab Uprisings. Annual Review of Political Science, 16, 331-353.

Fortin, J. (2012). Is There a Necessary Condition for Democracy? The Role of State Capacity in Postcommunist Countries. Comparative Political Studies,45(7), 903-930.

Elkink, J. A. (2011). The international diffusion of democracy. Comparative Political Studies, 44(12), 1651-1674.

Alemán, J., & Yang, D. D. (2011). A Duration Analysis of Democratic Transitions and Authoritarian Backslides. Comparative Political Studies, 44(9), 1123-1151.

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Bühlmann, M., Merkel, W., Müller, L., & Weßels, B. (2011). The democracy barometer: A new instrument to measure the quality of democracy and its potential for comparative research. European Political Science, 11(4), 519-536.

Capoccia, G., & Ziblatt, D. (2010). The historical turn in democratization studies: A new research agenda for Europe and beyond. Comparative Political Studies, 43(8-9), 931-968.

Bueno de Mesquita, E. (2010). Regime Change and Revolutionary Entrepreneurs. American Political Science Review, 104, pp 446-466.

Brownlee, J. (2009). Portents of pluralism: How hybrid regimes affect democratic transitions. American Journal of Political Science, 53(3), 515-532.

Munck, G. (2009). Measuring Democracy: A Bridge Between Scholarship and Politics. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Pepinsky, T. B. (2009). Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes: Indonesia and Malaysia in Comparative Perspective. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Sorensen, G. (2007). Democracy and Democratization: Processes and Prospects in a Changing World Third Edition. Westview Press. Geddes, B. (1999). What do we know about democratization after twenty years? Annual Review of Political Science, 2(1), 115-144.

5. Authoritarianism and autocratic survival

Required reading:

- Brancati, D. (2014). Democratic Authoritarianism: Origins and Effects. Annual Review of Political Science, 17, 313-326.

- Bellin, E. (2012). Reconsidering the Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Lessons from the Arab Spring. Comparative Politics, 44(2), 127-149.

Recommended:

Boix, C., & Svolik, M. W. (2013). The foundations of limited authoritarian government: Institutions, commitment, and power-sharing in dictatorships. The Journal of Politics, 75(02), 300-316.

Albertus, M., & Menaldo, V. (2012). If You’re Against Them You’re With Us The Effect of Expropriation on Autocratic Survival. Comparative Political Studies,45(8), 973-1003.

Herron, E. S. (2011). Measuring Dissent in Electoral Authoritarian Societies Lessons From Azerbaijan’s 2008 Presidential Election and 2009 Referendum. Comparative Political Studies, 44(11), 1557-1583.

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Gandhi, J., & Lust-Okar, E. (2009). Elections under authoritarianism. Annual Review of Political Science, 12, 403-422. King, S. (2009). The New Authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Brownlee, J. (2007). Authoritarianism in an Age of Democratization. Cambridge University Press. Gandhi, J., & Przeworski, A. (2007). Authoritarian institutions and the survival of autocrats. Comparative Political Studies, 40(11), 1279-1301. Bellin, Eva. (2004). "The robustness of authoritarianism in the Middle East: Exceptionalism in comparative perspective." Comparative politics, 139-157.

6. Hybrid regimes and regime classification debates

Required reading:

- Morse, Y. L. (2012). The era of electoral authoritarianism. World Politics, 64(01), 161-198.

Recommended:

Schedler, A. (2013). The politics of uncertainty: Sustaining and subverting electoral authoritarianism. Oxford University Press.

Levitsky, S., & Way, L. A. (2010). Competitive authoritarianism: hybrid regimes after the cold war. Cambridge University Press.

7. Civil-military relations, coups, and military rule

Required reading:

- Geddes, B., Frantz, E. and Wright, J. G. (2014). Military Rule. Annual Review of Political Science, 17, 147-162.

- Thyne, C. L., & Powell, J. M. (2014). Coup d’état or Coup d'Autocracy? How Coups Impact Democratization, 1950–2008. Foreign Policy Analysis.

Recommended:

Böhmelt, T., & Pilster, U. (2015). The Impact of Institutional Coup-Proofing on Coup Attempts and Coup Outcomes. International Interactions, 41(1), 158-182.

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Girod, D. M. (2015). Reducing postconflict coup risk: The low windfall coup-proofing hypothesis. Conflict Management and Peace Science, 32(2), 153-174.

Stepan, A. C. (2015). The military in politics: changing patterns in Brazil. Princeton University Press.

Arbatli, C. E., & Arbatli, E. (2014). External threats and political survival: Can dispute involvement deter coup attempts? Conflict Management and Peace Science.

Casper, B. A., & Tyson, S. A. (2014). Popular Protest and Elite Coordination in a Coup d’état. The Journal of Politics, 76(02), 548-564.

Wig, T., & Rød, E. G. (2014). Cues to Coup Plotters Elections as Coup Triggers in Dictatorships. Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Croissant, A. (2013). Coups and post-coup politics in South-East Asia and the Pacific: conceptual and comparative perspectives. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 67(3), 264-280.

Lehoucq, F., & Pérez-Liñán, A. (2013). Breaking Out of the Coup Trap Political Competition and Military Coups in Latin America. Comparative Political Studies.

Bodea, C. (2012). Natural resources, weak states and civil war: can rents stabilize coup prone regimes?. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, (6071).

Powell, J. (2012). Determinants of the Attempting and Outcome of Coups d’état. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 56(6), 1017-1040.

Political representation and voting behavior

8. Political parties, elections and representation

Required reading:

- Harbers, I. (2010). Decentralization and the development of nationalized party systems in new democracies: Evidence from Latin America. Comparative Political Studies, 43(5), 606-627.

Recommended:

McDonald, M. D., Budge, I., & Best, R. E. (2012). Electoral Majorities, Political Parties, and Collective Representation. Comparative Political Studies, 45(9), 1104-1131.

Duch, R.M., May, J. and Armstrong D. A., II (2010). Coalition-directed Voting in Multiparty Democracies. American Political Science Review, 104, pp 698-719.

Kim, H., Powell Jr, G. B., & Fording, R. C. (2010). Electoral systems, party systems, and ideological representation: an analysis of distortion in western democracies. Comparative Politics, 42(2), 167-185.

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9. Structural determinants of voting behavior

Required reading:

- Nadeau, R., Lewis-Beck, M. S., & Bélanger, É. (2013). Economics and elections revisited. Comparative Political Studies, 46(5), 551-573.

- Epperly, B. (2011). Institutions and legacies: electoral volatility in the postcommunist world. Comparative Political Studies, 44(7), 829-853.

Recommended: Yap, O. F. (2013). Economic Performance and Democratic Support in Asia’s Emergent

Democracies. Comparative Political Studies, 46(4), 486-512.

10. Political clientelism

Required reading:

- Robinson, J. A., & Verdier, T. (2013). The Political Economy of Clientelism*.The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 115(2), 260-291.

- Hicken, A. (2011). Clientelism. Annual Review of Political Science, 14, 289-310.

Recommended:

Protsyk, O., & Matichescu, M. L. (2011). Clientelism and Political Recruitment in Democratic Transition: Evidence from Romania. Comparative Politics, 43(2), 207-224.

Stokes, S. (2007). Political clientelism. The Oxford handbook of comparative politics, 604-627.

Wantchekon, L. (2003). Clientelism and voting behavior: Evidence from a field experiment in Benin. World Politics, 55(3), 399-422.

Institutional design and governance

11. Executive-legislative relations

Recommended:

Hicken, A., & Stoll, H. (2011). Presidents and parties: How presidential elections shape coordination in legislative elections. Comparative Political Studies, 44(7), 854-883.

12. Courts and the judicial system 13. Federalism

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Erk, J., & Koning, E. (2010). New structuralism and institutional change: Federalism between centralization and decentralization. Comparative Political Studies, 43(3), 353-378.

14. Quality of government and corruption

Required reading:

- Ashworth, S. (2012). Electoral accountability: recent theoretical and empirical work. Annual Review of Political Science, 15, 183-201.

- Sun, Y., & Johnston, M. (2009). Does democracy check corruption? Insights from China and India. Comparative Politics, 1-19.

- Holmberg, S., Rothstein, B., & Nasiritousi, N. (2009). Quality of government: what you get. Annual Review of Political Science, 12, 135-161.

Recommended:

Agnafors, M. (2013). Quality of Government: Toward a More Complex Definition. American Political Science Review, 107, pp 433-445.

Rose-Ackerman, S. (2013). Corruption: A study in political economy. Academic Press.

Yadav, V. (2012). Legislative Institutions and Corruption in Developing Country Democracies. Comparative Political Studies, 45(8), 1027-1058.

Rothstein, B. (2011). The quality of government: Corruption, social trust, and inequality in international perspective. University of Chicago Press.

Charron, N., & Lapuente, V. (2010). Does democracy produce quality of government? European Journal of Political Research, 49(4), 443-470.

Morris, S. D., & Klesner, J. L. (2010). Corruption and trust: Theoretical considerations and evidence from Mexico. Comparative Political Studies, 43(10), 1258-1285.

Heidenheimer, A. J., Johnston, M., & LeVine, V. T. (Eds.). (2009). Political corruption: A handbook. Transaction Publishers.

Alesina, A., & Zhuravskaya, E. (2008). Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries (No. w14316). National Bureau of Economic Research.

Svensson, J. (2005). Eight questions about corruption. The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 19(3), 19-42.

Adsera, A., Boix, C., & Payne, M. (2003). Are you being served? Political accountability and quality of government. Journal of Law, Economics, and organization, 19(2), 445-490.

Rose-Ackerman, S. (2003). Corruption. The Encyclopedia of Public Choice, 67-76.

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Fisman, R., & Gatti, R. (2002). Decentralization and corruption: evidence across countries. Journal of Public Economics, 83(3), 325-345.

Jain, A. K. (2001). Corruption: a review. Journal of economic surveys, 15(1), 71-121.

Treisman, D. (2000). The causes of corruption: a cross-national study. Journal of public economics, 76(3), 399-457.

La Porta, R., Lopez-de-Silanes, F., Shleifer, A., & Vishny, R. (1999). The quality of government. Journal of Law, Economics, and organization, 15(1), 222-279.

Comparative political economy

15. Inequality and redistribution

Recommended:

Lupu, N. and Pontusson, J. (2011). The Structure of Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution. American Political Science Review, (105), 316-336.

16. Business-state relations 17. FDI and political risk

Recommended:

Jensen, N., Biglaiser, G., Li, Q., & Malesky, E. (2012). Politics and foreign direct investment. University of Michigan Press.

Weymouth, S. (2011). Political institutions and property rights: veto players and foreign exchange commitments in 127 countries. Comparative Political Studies,44(2), 211-240.

Bayulgen, O. (2010). Foreign Investment and political regimes: The oil sector in Azerbaijan, Russia, and Norway. Cambridge University Press.

Click, R. W., & Weiner, R. J. (2010). Resource nationalism meets the market: Political risk and the value of petroleum reserves. Journal of International Business Studies, 41(5), 783-803.

Li, Q. (2009). Democracy, autocracy, and expropriation of foreign direct investment. Comparative Political Studies.

Jensen, N. (2008). Political risk, democratic institutions, and foreign direct investment. The Journal of Politics, 70(04), 1040-1052.

18. Energy politics and the natural resource curse

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Required reading:

- Ross, M. L. (2015) What Have We Learned about the Resource Curse? Annual Review of Political Science, 18, 239-259.

- Hughes, L., & Lipscy, P. Y. (2013). The Politics of Energy. Annual Review of Political Science, 16, 449-469.

Recommended reading: Ross, Michael L. (2012). The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

Jensen, N. M., & Johnston, N. P. (2011). Political risk, reputation, and the resource curse. Comparative Political Studies, 44(6), 662-688.

Haber, S. and Menaldo, V. (2011). Do Natural Resources Fuel Authoritarianism? A Reappraisal of the Resource Curse. American Political Science Review, 105, pp 1-26.

Ramsay, K. W. (2011). Revisiting the resource curse: natural disasters, the price of oil, and democracy. International Organization, 65(03), 507-529.

Ross, M. L. (2011). Will Oil Drown the Arab Spring: Democracy and the Resource Curse. Foreign Aff., 90, 2.

Frankel, J. A. (2010). The natural resource curse: a survey (No. w15836). National Bureau of Economic Research.

Luong, Pauline Jones and Weinthal, Erika. (2010). Oil is not a Curse: Ownership Structure and Institutions in Soviet Successor States. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Stevens, P. (2008). National oil companies and international oil companies in the Middle East: Under the shadow of government and the resource nationalism cycle. The Journal of World Energy Law & Business, 1(1), 5-30.

Dunning, Thad. (2008). Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rosser, A. (2006). The political economy of the resource curse: A literature survey (Vol. 268). Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies.

Karl, Terry Lynn. (1997). The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Contentious politics and political violence

19. Social movements and protests

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Required reading:

- Jasper, J. M. (2011). Emotions and social movements: Twenty years of theory and research. Annual Review of Sociology, 37, 285-303.

- McAdam, D., Tarrow, S., & Tilly, C. (2008). Methods for measuring mechanisms of contention. Qualitative Sociology, 31(4), 307-331.

Recommended:

Della Porta, D. (2015). Social movements in times of austerity: bringing capitalism back into protest analysis.

Schuurman, F., & Van Naerssen, T. (Eds.). (2013). Urban social movements in the Third World. Routledge.

Moghadam, V. (2012). Globalization and social movements: Islamism, feminism, and the global justice movement. Rowman & Littlefield.

Kern, H. L. (2011). Foreign Media and Protest Diffusion in Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of the 1989 East German Revolution. Comparative Political Studies, 44(9), 1179-1205.

Robertson, Graeme B. (2011). The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes: Managing dissent in post-communist Russia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McAdam, D., & Tarrow, S. (2011). Introduction: Dynamics of Contention Ten Years On. Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 16(1), 1-10.

Staniland, P. (2010). Cities on fire: social mobilization, state policy, and urban insurgency. Comparative Political Studies, 43(12), 1623-1649.

Kuntz, P., & Thompson, M. R. (2009). More than just the final straw: Stolen elections as revolutionary triggers. Comparative Politics, 253-272.

Tilly, C., & Tarrow, S. (2006). Contentious politics. Oxford University Press.

McAdam, D., Tarrow, S., & Tilly, C. (2003). Dynamics of contention. Social Movement Studies, 2(1), 99-102.

20. Civil war and ethnic conflict

Required reading:

- Valentino, B. A. (2014). Why We Kill: The Political Science of Political Violence. Annual Review of Political Science, 17, 89-104.

- Ross, M. (2006). A closer look at oil, diamonds, and civil war. Annual Review of Political Science, 9, 265-300.

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- Fearon, J. D., & Laitin, D. D. (2003). Ethnicity, insurgency, and civil war. American political science review, 97(1), 75-90.

Recommended:

Cederman, L. E., Gleditsch, K. S., & Hug, S. (2013). Elections and Ethnic Civil War. Comparative Political Studies, 46(3), 387-417.

Sambanis, N. and Shayo, M. (2013). Social Identification and Ethnic Conflict. American Political Science Review, 107, pp 294-325.

McGarry, J., & O'leary, B. (Eds.). (2013). The politics of ethnic conflict regulation: Case studies of protracted ethnic conflicts. Routledge.

Esteban, J., Mayoral, L., & Ray, D. (2012). Ethnicity and conflict: An empirical study. The American Economic Review, 102(4), 1310-1342.

Day, C. R. (2011). The Fates of Rebels: Insurgencies in Uganda. Comparative Politics, 43(4), 439-458.

Bhavnani, R., D. Miodownik and H. Choi. (2011). “Violence and Control in Civil Conflict: Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza.” Comparative Politics, 44(10), 61-80.

Metelits, C. (2009). Inside insurgency: violence, civilians, and revolutionary group behavior. NYU Press.

Salehyan, I. (2009). Rebels Without Borders: Transnational Insurgencies in World Politics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Valentino, B. (2004). Final Solutions: Mass Killings and Genocide in the 20th Century. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Collier, P., & Hoeffler, A. (2004). Greed and grievance in civil war. Oxford economic papers, 56(4), 563-595.

Ross, M. L. (2004). What do we know about natural resources and civil war? Journal of Peace Research, 41(3), 337-356.

Collier, P., & Hoeffler, A. (1998). On economic causes of civil war. Oxford economic papers, 50(4), 563-573.

21. Terrorism

Required reading:

- Horowitz, M.C. (2015). The Rise and Spread of Suicide Bombing. Annual Review of Political Science, 18, 69-84.

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- Abrahms, M. (2012). The political effectiveness of terrorism revisited. Comparative Political Studies, 45(3), 366-393.

- Walsh, J. I., & Piazza, J. A. (2010). Why respecting physical integrity rights reduces terrorism. Comparative Political Studies, 43(5), 551-577.

Recommended:

Norris, P., Kern, M., & Just, M. (Eds.). (2013). Framing terrorism: The news media, the government and the public. Routledge.

Enders, W., Sandler, T., & Gaibulloev, K. (2011). Domestic versus transnational terrorism: Data, decomposition, and dynamics. Journal of Peace Research,48(3), 319-337.

Wilkinson, P. (2011). Terrorism versus democracy: The liberal state response. Taylor & Francis.

Gould, E. D., & Klor, E. F. (2010). Does Terrorism Work?. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125(4), 1459-1510.

Merolla, J. L., & Zechmeister, E. J. (2009). Democracy at Risk: How Terrorist Threats Affect the Public. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Sociocultural variables in political analysis

22. Social capital and civil society

Required reading:

- Paraskevopoulos, C. J. (2010). Social capital: summing up the debate on a conceptual tool of comparative politics and public policy. Comparative Politics,42(4), 475-494.

Recommended:

Bayulgen, O. (2008). Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank and the Nobel Peace Prize: What political science can contribute to and learn from the study of microcredit. International Studies Review, 10(3), 525-547.

Lin, N. (2002). Social capital: A theory of social structure and action (Vol. 19). Cambridge university press.

Arrow, K. J. (2000). Observations on social capital. Social capital: A multifaceted perspective, 3-5.

Berman, S. (1997). Civil society and the collapse of the Weimar Republic.World politics, 49(03), 401-429.

Putnam, R. D. (1995). Bowling alone: America's declining social capital. Journal of democracy, 6(1), 65-78.

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23. Religion in politics and the rise of political Islam

Required reading:

- March, A. F. (2015). Political Islam: Theory. Annual Review of Political Science, 18. - Grzymala-Busse, A. (2012). Why comparative politics should take religion (more)

seriously. Annual Review of Political Science, 15, 421-442. - Patten, A. (2011). Rethinking Culture: The Social Lineage Account. American Political

Science Review, 105, pp 735-749.

Recommended:

Ciftci, S. (2010). Modernization, Islam, or social capital: What explains attitudes toward democracy in the Muslim world?. Comparative Political Studies, 43(11), 1442-1470.

Fish, M. S., Jensenius, F. R., & Michel, K. E. (2010). Islam and Large-Scale Political Violence: Is There a Connection?. Comparative Political Studies,43(11), 1327-1362.

Gumuscu, S. (2010). Class, status, and party: the changing face of political Islam in Turkey and Egypt. Comparative Political Studies, 43(7), 835-861.

Means, G. P. (2009). Political Islam in Southeast Asia. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

Fish, M. Steven. "Islam and authoritarianism." World politics 55.01 (2002): 4-37.

Contemporary topics in political science

24. The digital age: ICTs and politics

Required reading:

- Farrell, H. (2012). The consequences of the internet for politics. Annual Review of Political Science, 15, 35-52.

Recommended:

Morozov, E. (2012). The net delusion: The dark side of Internet freedom. PublicAffairs Store.

Stepanova, E. (2011). The role of information communication technologies in the ‘Arab Spring’. Ponars Eurasia, (15), 1-6.

Chadwick, A., & Howard, P. N. (Eds.). (2010). Routledge handbook of Internet politics. Taylor & Francis.

Mueller, M. L. (2010). Networks and states: the global politics of Internet governance. The MIT Press.

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Morozov, E. (2009). Iran: Downside to the" Twitter Revolution". Dissent, 56(4), 10-14.

Chadwick, A., & Howard, P. (2009). New directions in internet politics research. Handbook of Internet Politics. London: Routledge, 1-9.

Kahn, R., & Kellner, D. (2005). Oppositional politics and the Internet: A critical/reconstructive approach. Cultural Politics, 1(1), 75-100.

Oates, S., Owen, D., & Gibson, R. K. (Eds.). (2004). The Internet and politics: citizens, voters and activists. Routledge.

Ferdinand, P. (2000). The Internet, democracy and democratization. Democratization, 7(1), 1-17.

25. Environmental politics

Required reading:

- Tang, C. P., Tang, S. Y., & Chiu, C. Y. (2011). Inclusion, Identity, and Environmental Justice in New Democracies: The Politics of Pollution Remediation in Taiwan. Comparative Politics, 43(3), 333-350.

- Blühdorn, I., & Welsh, I. (2007). Eco-politics beyond the paradigm of sustainability: a conceptual framework and research agenda. Environmental politics, 16(2), 185-205.

- Hajer, M., & Versteeg, W. (2005). A decade of discourse analysis of environmental politics: achievements, challenges, perspectives. Journal of environmental policy & planning, 7(3), 175-184.

Recommended:

Chasek, P., Downie, D. L., & Welsh Brown, J. (2010). Global environmental politics.

Jasanoff, S., & Martello, M. L. (Eds.). (2004). Earthly politics: local and global in environmental governance. The MIT Press.

Schlosberg, D. (2004). Reconceiving environmental justice: global movements and political theories. Environmental politics, 13(3), 517-540.

Lafferty, W., & Hovden, E. (2003). Environmental policy integration: towards an analytical framework. Environmental politics, 12(3), 1-22.

Fischer, F. (2000). Citizens, experts, and the environment: The politics of local knowledge. Duke

University Press