WEEK 5: Why Countries Become Democratic

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TUESDAY (10/16)
- No Class Tuesday, October 9th Columbus Day Vacation
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READINGS FOR WEEK 5
  • Samuel P. Huntington, The Third Wave: 31-108.

  • Dankwart Rustow, "Transitions to Democracy: Toward a Dynamic Model," Comparative Politics, 1970, 2(3): 337-363.

For Further Reading (Not Required):

On Economic Development:

  • Seymour Martin Lipset, Political Man (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981): 27-63.
  • Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman, The Political Economy of Democratic Transition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995): 25-44.
  • Robert A. Dahl, Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971): 82-80.

On Social Cleavages:

  • Robert A. Dahl, Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971): 81-123.

On Political Culture:

  • Robert Putnam, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993): 3-12, 148-162.
  • Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba, The Civic Culture (London: Sage, 1989): 1-44, 307-315.
  • Robert A. Dahl, Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971): 124-188.

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CAPTION

The Berlin Wall comes down(Top), A group of Chinese protesters(Bottom).

 

 

   

 

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