Presentation topic 1: Measuring Democracy

Suggested readings:

Przeworski et al, Democracy and development : political institutions and material well-being in the world, 1950-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 1-78 (Lehman Reserves JC423 .D46 2000g)

Kenneth A. Bollen. "Political Democracy: Conceptual and Measurement Traps" in Alex Inkeles, ed. On Measuring Democracy: Its Consequences and Concomitants. (New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1991). pp.3-20 (LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK RESERVES JC421 .O5 1991)

Zachary Elkins. "Gradations of Democracy: Empirical Tests of Alternative Conceptualizations." American Journal of Politlcal Science 44(2):293-301, April 2000.

David Collier and Robert Adcock. "Democracy and Dichotomies: A Pragmatic Approach to Choices about Concepts." Annual Review of Political Science 2:537-565, 1999.

Coppedge and Reinicke, from Raymond D. Gastil, ed, Freedom in the World 1990, New York : Freedom House. (Lehman-Social Work Reference (Non-Circulating) JC571 .G336)