Week 6 supplemental readings: Political stability

Alberto Alesina and Roberto Perotti. 1996. “Income Distribution, Political Instability, and Investment,” European Economic Review 40 (June): 1203-1228. Daron Acemoglu, James A Robinson. “A theory of political transitions,” American Economic Review. Nashville: Sep 2001. Vol. 91, Iss. 4; pg. 938.

Ruth Berins Collier; James Mahoney, “Adding Collective Actors to Collective Outcomes: Labor and Recent Democratization in South America and Southern Europe,” Comparative Politics, Vol. 29, No. 3, (Apr., 1997), pp. 285-303.

Bermeo, Nancy. 1990. "Rethinking Regime Change," Comparative Politics, (April 1990), 22:359-377.

Bermeo, Nancy, "Myths of Moderation: Confrontation and Conflict During Democratic Transitions," Comparative Politics, 29, no. 3 (April 1997), pp. 305-22.

Michael Bratton; Nicolas Van de Walle. “Neopatrimonial Regimes and Political Transitions in Africa,” World Politics, Vol. 46, No. 4. (Jul., 1994), pp. 453-489.

Michael Bratton and Nicholas van de Walle, Democratic Experiments in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, chapter 2. (LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK RESERVES JQ1879.A15 B73 1997)

H.E. Chehabi and Juan J. Linz, eds., Sultanistic regimes (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).

José Antonio Cheibub, " Minority Governments, Deadlock Situations, and the Survival of Presidential Democracies" Comparative Political Studies 35(3): 384-412 (2002)

Collier, Ruth, Pathways to Democracy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), “Comparing the Patterns: The Working Class and Democratization,” pp. 166-197. (Lehman JN94.A91 C62 1999)

Larry Diamond, Juan J. Linz, Seymour Martin Lipset, eds., Politics in developing countries : comparing experiences with democracy (Boulder, Colo. : L. Rienner Publishers, 1990.) (LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK RESERVES D883 .D4525 1990)

Yi Feng and Paul Zak, 2003, "Determinants of Democratic Transitions," Journal of Conflict Resolution 42(2):162-77 (1999)

Huntington, Samuel. 1991. "The Third Wave," Journal of Democracy 2(2).

Huntington Samuel. Political Order in Changing Societies. Yale University Press, 1968, Chapters 3-7. (LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK RESERVES JA66 .H795)

Barrington Moore, Jr. Social origins of dictatorship and democracy; lord and peasant in the making of the modern world (Boston, Beacon Press, 1966). (LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK RESERVES HN15 .M775)

Guillermo O'Donnell and Philippe Schmitter, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions, John Hopkins University Press, 1986.

Karen L. Remmer; Gilbert W. Merkx, “Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism Revisited,” Latin American Research Review, Vol. 17, No. 2. (1982), pp. 3-40.

Sigelman, Lee, “Understanding Political Instability: An Evaluation of the Mobilization-Institutionalization Approach,” Comparative Political Studies 12 (July 1979) 205-228. (LEHMAN JA1 .C66)

Snyder, Richard. “Paths out of Sultanistic Regimes: Combining Structural and Voluntarist Perspectives,” in H.E. Chehabi and Juan J. Linz, eds., Sultanistic regimes (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).