Readings, Weeks 1-15

 

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WEEK 1

TUESDAY (9/4)

* No Class *

THURSDAY (9/6)

Introduction

Debate: Why is Russia such a mess?
WEEK 2

TUESDAY (9/11)

Cumulative and Cross-Cutting Cleavages: Class, Sector, Region, Race, Ethnicity, Religion, Gender, etc. (Lawson)

THURSDAY (9/13)

Ethnic Cleavages, Political Conflict, and Underdevelopment in Sub-Saharan Africa. (Rodden)
WEEK 3

TUESDAY (9/18)

How do Institutions Accentuate or Moderate Political Cleavages?
(Rodden)

THURSDAY (9/20)

Guest Lecture: Kanchan Chandra

Class Discussion of India

First Paper Due
WEEK 4

TUESDAY (9/25)

Social Capital and Democracy
(Lawson and Rodden)

THURSDAY (9/27)

Critiques of Cultural Arguments
(Lawson and Rodden)
WEEK 5

TUESDAY (10/2)

The Rise and Fall of the Weimar Republic
(Lawson and Rodden)

THURSDAY (10/4)

The Rise and Fall of the Weimar Republic
(Lawson and Rodden)

Class Debate: Why Hitler?
WEEK 6

TUESDAY (10/9)

What do we Mean by Culture?
(Lawson)

THURSDAY (10/11)

Social Capital and Economic Development
(Lawson)

Research Paper Topic and Bibliography Due
WEEK 7

TUESDAY (10/16)

Preliminary Paper Presentations
(One Class this week)

THURSDAY (10/18)

Preliminary Paper Presentations
(One Class this week)
WEEK 8

TUESDAY (10/23)

Preliminary Paper Presentations
(One Class this week)

THURSDAY (10/25)

Preliminary Paper Presentations
(One Class this week)

Research Paper Due
WEEK 9

TUESDAY (10/30)

Factor Endowments, Culture, or Politics?
(Rodden)

THURSDAY (11/1)

Institutions and Economic Performance
(Rodden)

WEEK 10

TUESDAY (11/6)

Impediments to Reform in Brazil and Elsewhere
(Rodden)

THURSDAY (11/8)

"The Country of the Future and Always will be"
(Lawson)

Second Paper Due
WEEK 11

TUESDAY (11/13)

La Mordida in Mexico
(Lawson)

THURSDAY (11/15)

Social, Institutional, and Cultural Explanations for Corruption
(Rodden)

WEEK 12

TUESDAY (11/20)

The Rise of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Post-Communist Europe
(Rodden)
( One Class this Week)

THURSDAY (11/22)

The Rise of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Post-Communist Europe
(Rodden)
( One Class this Week)

Research Paper Rewrites Due
WEEK 13

TUESDAY (11/27)

Guest Lecture: Professor Ed Steinfeld

THURSDAY (11/29)

Class Debate: The Future of the Middle Kingdom
WEEK 14

TUESDAY (12/4)

Guest Lecture: David Woodruff

THURSDAY (12/6)

Class Debate: What went wrong in Russia?
WEEK 15

TUESDAY (12/11)

Concluding Lecture
(Lawson and Rodden)

One Class this Week

THURSDAY (12/13)

Concluding Lecture
(Lawson and Rodden)

One Class this Week

Final Exam

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