2019 Fall Syllabus | 2018 Spring Syllabus | Bookclub
Week 1: Course introduction
Week 2-3
Fell, Dafydd. 2005. Party Politics in Taiwan : Party Change and the Democratic Evolution of Taiwan, 1991-2004. Routledge.
Week 4 (10/2) Democracy, party politics, and study of political science
Week 5 (10/9) Social cleavage structure in Taiwan and other countries
Week 6 (10/16) Social cleavage and party systems
Week 7 (10/23) Party identification
Week 8 (10/30) Rational choice
Week 9 (11/6) Mid-term week
Week 10-11 (11/13&20) Social cleavage, party id, and rational choice, and more
Fiorina. 1981. Retrospective Voting in American Elections. New Haven: Yale University Press. Ch 1 | Ch 4-5
Amorim Neto, O., & Cox, G. W. (1997). Electoral institutions, cleavage structures, and the number of parties. American Journal of Political Science, 41(1), 149–174. here
Week 12-13 (11/27&12/4) Electoral systems and Party systems
Cox, W. Gary. 1997. Making Votes Count. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gallagher, M. and Mitchell, P. eds., 2005. The politics of electoral systems. OUP Oxford. here
Norris, P., 2004. Electoral engineering: Voting rules and political behavior. Cambridge university press. NSYSU available Ch 2-4
Week 14 (12/11) Professor Dennis Weng's talk on new party politics in Taiwan
Week 15 (12/18) Party organization
Week 16 (12/25) Party in government
Week 17 (1/1) No class, the first day of the year
Week 18 (1/8) Final week
Bawn, K., Cohen, M., Karol, D., Masket, S., Noel, H. and Zaller, J., 2012. A theory of political parties: Groups, policy demands and nominations in American politics. Perspectives on Politics, 10(3), pp.571-597. here
Herrnson, P.S., 2009. The roles of party organizations, party-connected committees, and party allies in elections. The Journal of Politics, 71(4), pp.1207-1224. here
Schreiber, D., Fonzo, G., Simmons, A.N., Dawes, C.T., Flagan, T., Fowler, J.H. and Paulus, M.P., 2013. Red brain, blue brain: Evaluative processes differ in Democrats and Republicans. PLoS one, 8(2), p.e52970. here
Wang, Y.T., forthcoming. Clientelistic parties and satisfaction with democracy. Party Politics here
Karvonen, Lauri et al. 2000. Party Systems and Voter Alignments Revisited. Routledge
Adams, James F. and Merrill III, Samuel A. 2005. Unified Theory of Party Competition : A Cross-National Analysis Integrating Spatial and Behavioral Factors. Cambridge University Press.
Fell, Dafydd. 2005. Party Politics in Taiwan : Party Change and the Democratic Evolution of Taiwan, 1991-2004. Routledge.
Benoit, Kenneth; Laver, Michael. 2006. Party Policy in Modern Democracies. Routledge
Burnell, Peter. 2006. Globalising Democracy : Party Politics in Emerging Democracies. Routledge.
Cox, Gary W.; McCubbins, Mathew D.. 2007. Legislative Leviathan : Party Government in the House. Cambridge University Press.
Lye, Liang Fook and Hofmeister, Wilhelm. 2010. Political Parties, Party Systems and Democratisation in East Asia. World Scientific Publishing.
Norris, P., 2004. Electoral engineering: Voting rules and political behavior. Cambridge university press.
Batto, Nathan. F., Chi Huang, Alexander C. Tan, and Gary W. Cox. 2016. Mixed-Member Electoral Systems in Constitutional Context : Taiwan, Japan, and Beyond. University of Michigan Press.
Achen, Christopher H. and T. Y. Wang. 2017. The Taiwan Voter. University of Michigan Press.
Key, V.O. 1984 [1949]. Politics, Parties and Pressure Groups
Downs, Anthony. 1957. An Economic Theory of Democracy. Boston: Addison Wesley
Cox, Gary W. 1987. The Efficient Secret: The Cabinet and the Development of Political Parties in Victorian England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Kitschelt, Herbert. 1994. The Transformation of European Social Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Aldrich, John. 1995. Why Parties? The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Mainwaring, Scott and Timothy R. Scully eds. 1995. Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Ware, Alan. 1996. Political Parties and Party Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Cox, W. Gary. 1997. Making Votes Count. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dalton, Russell J. and Martin P. Wattenberg, eds., 2000. Parties without Partisans: Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies. New York: Oxford University Press.
Diamond Larry and Richard Gunther (eds.). 2001. Political Parties and Democracy. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Gunther, Richard, Jose Ramon Montero, and Linz (eds.), 2002. Political Parties: Old Concepts and New Challenges. Oxford University Press.
Green, Donald, et. al. 2002. Partisan Hearts and Minds. Political Parties and the Social Identities of Voters. New Haven, Yale University Press.
Sartori, Giovanni. 2005. Parties and Party Systems: A Framework for Analysis. European Consortium for Political Research Press.
Scheiner, Ethan. 2006. Democracy without Competition in Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Greene, Kenneth. 2007. Why Dominant Parties Lose: Mexicos Democratization in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Hicken, Allen. 2009. Building Party Systems in Developing Democracies. New York: Cambridge
Samuels, David J. and Matthew S. Shugart. 2010. Presidents, Parties and Prime Ministers: How the Separation of Powers Affects Party Organization and Behavior. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Stoll, Heather. 2013. Changing Societies, Changing Party Systems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lupu, Noam. 2013. Brand Dilution and the Breakdown of Political Parties in Latin America. World Politics.
Hicken, Allen. 2014. Party System Institutionalization in Asia: Democracies, Autocracies, and the Shadows of the Past. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Roberts, Kenneth M. 2015. Changing Course in Latin America Party Systems in the Neoliberal Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.