IPS558: Comparative Politics

Syllabus | Student list | duo team | Students pick-up | Grouping

Main reference

Clark, W.R., Golder, M. and Golder, S.N., 2017. Principles of comparative politics. CQ Press. (3rd edition) library | here | resource | Matt Golder

Week 1 (9/8): Introduction

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Clark Ch 1

Student assignment: Flipgrid self-introduction

Week 2 (9/15): Political science and comparative politics

Student activity: Kahoot Quiz

Clark Ch 2-3

Munck, Gerardo L. The Past and Present of Comparative Politics. In Munck, Gerardo L, and Richard Snyder. 2007. Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics. The Johns Hopkins University Press. here | Tbl

Cheng, T.J. and Marble, A.D., 2004. Taiwan studies and the social sciences. Issues & Studies, 40(3&4), pp.9-57. here

Perkuhn and Chien. 20220419 here vs. Wang and Achen. 20220503 here

Rigger, S., 2003. Political science and Taiwan's domestic politics: the state of the field. Issues & Studies, 38(4), pp.49-92.

Rigger, S., 2018. Studies on Taiwan’s democracy and democratisation. International Journal of Taiwan Studies, 1(1), pp.141-160.

Przeworski, Adam, and Henry Teune. 1970. The Logic of Comparative and Social Inquiry. New York: Wiley-Interscience

Boncourt, T., Engeli, I. and Garzia, D., 2020. Political Science in Europe: Achievements, Challenges, Prospects. ECPR Rowman & Little.

Symposium: The State of Political Science in Asia. 2005 Political Science in Asia, Special issue

Chen, K.H., 2010. Asia as method: Toward deimperialization. Duke University Press.

Shilliam, R., 2021. Decolonizing politics: An introduction. John Wiley & Sons.

Student assignment: pick up one democratic country and one non-democracy.

{Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, UK, USA}

{Afganistan, Cambodia, China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam}

{Hong Kong, Macau, Northern Ireland}

Week 3 (9/22): Modern state

Week 2 review | repeated game | Week 3 slide

Student activity: State formation case study

Clark Ch 4

Tilly, Charles. 1985. War Making and State Making as Organized Crime. In Peter B. Evans,Dietrich Rueschmeyer, & Theda Skocpol (ed.) Bringing the State Back In. New York: Cambridge University Press here

Spruyt, H. (2009). War, trade, and state formation. In Boix, C. and Stokes, S. C., editors, Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics. Oxford University Press.

Thies, C. G. (2005). War, Rivalry, and State Building in Latin America. American Journal of Political Science, 49(3):451–65.

Fong, B.C. and Ichijo, A. eds., 2022. The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Territorial Autonomies. Routledge.

Taiwan and Asia

Chu, Y.H. and Lin, J.W., 2001. Political development in 20th-century Taiwan: State-building, regime transformation and the construction of national identity. The China Quarterly, 165, pp.102-129. here

Lin, Hsiao-ting. Accidental state: Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the making of Taiwan. Harvard University Press, 2016.

Kaeding, M.P., 2017. The rise of "localism" in Hong Kong. Journal of Democracy, 28(1), pp.157-171.

Student assignment: Freedom House and V-dem

Week 4 (9/29): Democracy and dictatorship

Week 3 review | Kahoot quiz | Week 4 slide

Student activity: Democracy measurement case study

Clark Ch 5

Schmitter, Philippe C. and Terry L. Karl. 1991. What Democracy Is ..and Is Not? Journal of Democracy, 2(3): 75-88. slide

Collier, David, and Steve Levitsky. 1997. Democracy with adjectives - Conceptual innovation in comparative research, World Politics 49:3, pp.430-451.

Cheibub, J.A., Gandhi, J. and Vreeland, J.R., 2010. Democracy and dictatorship revisited. Public choice, 143(1), pp.67-101.

Przeworski, A., Alvarez, R.M., Alvarez, M.E., Cheibub, J.A., Limongi, F. and Neto, F.P.L., 2000. Democracy and development: Political institutions and well-being in the world, 1950-1990. Cambridge University Press. Ch 1

Dahl, R.A., 1971/2008. Polyarchy: Participation and opposition. Yale university press.

Boese, V.A., 2019. How (not) to measure democracy. International Area Studies Review, 22(2), pp.95-127.

Coppedge, M., Gerring, J., Glynn, A., Knutsen, C.H., Lindberg, S.I., Pemstein, D., Seim, B., Skaaning, S.E. and Teorell, J., 2020. Varieties of democracy: Measuring two centuries of political change. Cambridge University Press.

Persson, T. and Tabellini, G., 2006. Democracy and development: The devil in the details. American Economic Review, 96(2), pp.319-324.

Student assignment: 2022 local election and referendum in Taiwan (台北, 台中2, 台南, 高雄, 宜蘭) + 2019 district election and 2021 legislative election in Hong Kong

Week 5 (10/6): Modernization

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Student activity: 2022 local election and referendum in Taiwan (台北, 台中2, 台南, 高雄, 宜蘭) + 2019 district election and 2021 legislative election in Hong Kong | set up for duo

Clark Ch 6

Lipset, S.M., 1959. Some social requisites of democracy: Economic development and political legitimacy. American political science review, 53(1), pp.69-105. slide

Przeworski, Adam, and Fernando Limongi. 1997. Modernization: Theories and Facts. World Politics 49:155–183.

Przeworski, A., Alvarez, R.M., Alvarez, M.E., Cheibub, J.A., Limongi, F. and Neto, F.P.L., 2000. Democracy and development: Political institutions and well-being in the world, 1950-1990. Cambridge University Press. Ch 2

Acemoglu, D. and Robinson, J., 2022. Non-Modernization: Power–Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions. Annual Review of Political Science, 25, pp.323-339.

Student assignment: case study of industrialization, democratization, and cultural change

Week 6 (10/13): Culture

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Student activity: exhibition continued

Clark Ch 7

Putnam, R.D., 1992. Making democracy work: Civic traditions in modern Italy. Princeton university press. Ch 4-5 ch 1 | Ch 4 slide | Ch 5 slide

Team Anson Wong, M.Y., Khiatani, P.V. and Chui, W.H., 2019. Understanding youth activism and radicalism: Chinese values and socialization. The Social Science Journal, 56(2), pp.255-267. here

Almond, G.A. and Verba, S., 1963/2015. The civic culture: Political attitudes and democracy in five nations. Princeton university press.

Fish, M. Steven. 2002. Islam and Authoritarianism. World Politics 55: 4-37.

Muller, E.N. and Seligson, M.A., 1994. Civic culture and democracy: the question of causal relationships. American political science review, 88(3), pp.635-652.

Seligson, M.A., 2002. The renaissance of political culture or the renaissance of the ecological fallacy?. Comparative Politics, pp.273-292.

Inglehart, Ronald, and Christian Welzel. 2003. Political Culture and Democracy: Analyzing Cross-Level Linkages. Comparative Politics 36:61–79.

Teorell, Jan, and Axel Hadenius. "Democracy without democratic values: A rejoinder to Welzel and Inglehart." Studies in comparative international development 41, no. 3 (2006): 95-111.

Welzel, C., 2011. The Asian values thesis revisited: Evidence from the world values surveys. Japanese Journal of Political Science, 12(1), pp.1-31.

Huntington, Samuel P., 1993. The Clash of Civilizations? , Foreign Affairs, 72:3 (1993:Summer) also In Culture and politics (pp. 99-118). Palgrave Macmillan, New York.

Harrison, L.E. and Huntington, S.P., 2000. Culture matters: How values shape human progress. New York: Basic books.

Nisbett, Richard. 2003. The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently... and why. New York: The Free Press. Introduction, Chapters 1, 6.

Grzymala-Busse, A., 2012. Why comparative politics should take religion (more) seriously. Annual Review of Political Science, 15(1), pp.421-442.

Kim, S., 2014. Confucian democracy in East Asia: Theory and practice. Cambridge University Press.

Wedeen, Lisa. 2002. Conceptualizing Culture: Possibilities for Political Science. American Political Science Review 96 (4): 713-738.

Taiwan and Asia

Hong Kong, Singapore, and "Asian Values" in Journal of Democracy Volume 8, Number 2, April 1997 here

Ng, M., 1997. Hong Kong, Singapore, and "Asian Values": Why Asia Needs Democracy. Journal of Democracy, 8(2), pp.10-23.

Chan, J., 1997. Hong Kong, Singapore, and "Asian Values": An Alternative View. Journal of Democracy, 8(2), pp.35-48.

Fukuyama, F., 1995. Confucianism and democracy. Journal of Democracy, 6(2), pp.20-33.

Zakaria, F., 1994. A Culture is Destiny: A Conversation with Lee Kuan Yew. Foreign Affairs 73(2): 109-126.

Week 7 (10/20): Democratization

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Huntington, S.P., 1991. "Democracy’s Third Wave". Journal of Democracy, 2(2), pp.12-34. slide

Team Howard Wong, M.Y., 2021. Democratization as institutional change: Hong Kong 1992–2015. Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, 6(1), pp.92-106. here

Teorell, Jan. 2010. Determinants of Democratization. New York: CUP

Coppedge, Michale. 2012. Democratization and Research Methods. The Methodology of Comparative Politics. Cambridge University Press.

Moore, Barrington, J. (1966). Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World. Beacon Press, Boston.

Boix, C. and Stokes, S. C. (2003). Endogenous democratization. World Politics, 55(4):517–49

Ansell, B. and Samuels, D. (2014). Inequality and Democratization. Cambridge University Press, New York

Acemoglu, Daron, and James A. Robinson. 2006. Economic origins of dictatorship and democracy. Cambridge University Press.

King, Gary, Jennifer Pan, & Margaret E. Roberts. 2013. How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression. American Political Science Review 107: 326-343.

Taiwan and Asia

Ortmann, S., 2016. Political development in Hong Kong: The failure of democratization. Asian International Studies Review, 17(2), pp.199-219.

Wong, M.Y., 2016. A Game-Theory Model of Democratization and Political Reform in Hong Kong. Taiwan Journal of Democracy, 12(2), pp.127-154.

Ngok, M., 1997. The Sino-British Dispute over Hong Kong: A Game Theory Interpretation. Asian Survey, 37(8), pp.738-751.

Yap, O.F., 2021. A Democratization Model for East and Southeast Asia: What’s Game Theory Got to Do with It?. Asian Survey, 61(2), pp.241-272.

Yap, O.F., 2012. A strategic model of economic performance and democratization in South Korea and Taiwan. British Journal of Political Science, 42(1), pp.213-239.

Cheng, T.J., 1989. Democratizing the quasi-Leninist regime in Taiwan. World Politics, 41(4), pp.471-499.

Week 8 (10/27): Mid-term

mid-term survey

Week 9 (11/3): Democracy, dictatorship, and policy

Clark Ch 9 | slide

Student activity: Covid-19 policy case study

Team Annie Wong, J. (2005). Democracy, Development and Health in Taiwan. In: Kwon, Hj. (eds) Transforming the Developmental Welfare State in East Asia. Social Policy in a Development Context. Palgrave Macmillan here

March, J.G. and Olsen, J.P., 1983. The new institutionalism: Organizational factors in political life. American political science review, 78(3), pp.734-749. here

Hall, P.A., and R. C. R. Taylor, 1996. Political Science & the Three New Institutionalism. Political Studies, pp.936-957. here | slide

North, D.C., 1990. Institutions, institutional change and economic performance. Cambridge university press.

North, D.C. and Thomas, R.P., 1971. The rise and fall of the manorial system: A theoretical model. The Journal of Economic History, 31(4), pp.777-803.

Acemoglu, D., Naidu, S., Restrepo, P. and Robinson, J.A., 2019. Democracy does cause growth. Journal of political economy, 127(1), pp.47-100.

Miller, M.K., 2015. Electoral authoritarianism and human development. Comparative Political Studies, 48(12), pp.1526-1562.

Gerring, J., Thacker, S.C. and Alfaro, R., 2012. Democracy and human development. The journal of politics, 74(1), pp.1-17.

Ross, M., 2006. Is democracy good for the poor?. American Journal of Political Science, 50(4), pp.860-874.

Przeworski, A., Alvarez, R.M., Alvarez, M.E., Cheibub, J.A., Limongi, F. and Neto, F.P.L., 2000. Democracy and development: Political institutions and well-being in the world, 1950-1990. Cambridge University Press. Ch 3

Barro, R.J., 1996. Democracy and growth. Journal of economic growth, 1(1), pp.1-27.

Hall, P.A. and Soskice, D., 2001. Varieties of capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Oxford University Press.

Taiwan and Asia

Wong, J., 2006. Healthy democracies. Cornell University Press.

Terao, T., 2007. Democratization, decentralization and environmental policy in Taiwan: Political economy of environmental policy formation and implementation. In Development of Environmental Policy in Japan and Asian Countries (pp. 227-251). Palgrave Macmillan, London.

Tang, S.Y. and Tang, C.P., 1997. Democratization and environmental politics in Taiwan. Asian Survey, 37(3), pp.281-294.

Week 10 (11/10): Varieties of dictatorship

Clark Ch 10 | slide

Team Angel Chao, L. and Myers, R.H., 2000. How elections promoted democracy in Taiwan under martial law. The China Quarterly, 162, pp.387-409. here

Guoguang Wu. 2022. For Xi Jinping, the Economy Is No Longer the Priority. Journal of Democracy online exclusive here

Levitsky, S. and Way, L.A., 2002. Elections without democracy: The rise of competitive authoritarianism. Journal of democracy, 13(2), pp.51-65.

Schedler, A., 2002. Elections without democracy: The menu of manipulation. Journal of democracy, 13(2), pp.36-50.

Geddes, B., Wright, J.G., and Frantz, E., 2018. How dictatorships work: Power, personalization, and collapse. Cambridge University Press. Ch 4-5 here | Ch 5 slide

Gehlbach, S., Sonin, K., and Svolik, M. (2016). Formal models of nondemocratic politics. Annual Review of Political Science, 19:565–84.

Gallagher, M. E. and Hanson, J. K. (2015). Power tool or dull blade? selectorate theory for autocracies. Annual Review of Political Science, 18:367–85.

Svolik, M. W. (2012). The Politics of Authoritarian Rule. Cambridge University Press, New York.

Slater, D. (2010). Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authitarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia. Cambridge University Press.

Levitsky S. and Lucan A. Way. 2010. Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Staffan Lindberg, ed. 2009. Democratization by Elections: A New Mode of Transition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Gandhi, J., 2008. Political institutions under dictatorship. Cambridge University Press.

Magaloni, B. 2006. Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and Its Demise in Mexico. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schedler A., ed. 2006 Electoral Authoritarianism: The Dynamics of Unfree Competition. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner.

Bueno De Mesquita, B., Smith, A., Siverson, R.M. and Morrow, J.D., 2005. The logic of political survival. MIT press.

Bell, D.A., 2016. The China Model. Princeton University Press.

Bell, D.A. and Li, C. eds., 2013. The East Asian Challenge for Democracy: political meritocracy in comparative perspective. Cambridge University Press.

Week 11 (11/17): Executive-legislative relations

Clark Ch 11 | slide | Arrow's theorem

Clark Ch 12 | slide

Shugart, M.S. and Carey, J.M., 1992. Presidents and assemblies: Constitutional design and electoral dynamics. Cambridge University Press. 總統與國會 : 憲政設計與選舉動力 總統與國會 : 憲政設計與選舉動力 / Matthew S. Shugart, John M. Carey原著 ; 曾建元等譯 臺北縣永和市 : 韋伯文化, 2002[民91]

Special Issue, 2000: President and Assemblies—25 Years After Shugart and Carey’s Book Political Studies Review 18(1)

Team Tina Wu, Y.S., 2000. The ROC's semi-presidentialism at work: unstable compromise, not cohabitation. issues & Studies, 36(5), pp.1-40. here

Elgie, R., 1999. Semi-presidentialism in Europe, OUP Oxford.

Elgie, R. and Moestrup, S. ed, 2007. Semi-presidentialism outside Europe. Routledge.

Robert Elgie, Sophia Moestrup, and Yu-Shan Wu eds. 2011. Semi-presidentialism and Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan.

Ecevit, Y.A. and Karakoç, E., 2017. The perils of semi-presidentialism: Confidence in political institutions in contemporary democracies. International Political Science Review, 38(1), pp.4-20

Sedelius, Thomas, and Jonas Linde. 2018. “Unravelling Semi-Presidentialism: Democracy and Government Performance in Four Distinct Regime Types.” Democratization 25(1): 136–57.

Yeh, Y.Y. and Wu, C.K., 2021. Presidentialism, Violence, and the Prospect of Democracy. Lexington Books.

Chaisty, P., Cheeseman, N. and Power, T., 2014. Rethinking the ‘presidentialism debate’: conceptualizing coalitional politics in cross-regional perspective. Democratization, 21(1), pp.72-94.

Marsteintredet, L. and Berntzen, E., 2008. Reducing the perils of presidentialism in Latin America through presidential interruptions. Comparative Politics, 41(1), pp.83-101.

Fukuyama, F., Dressel, B. and Chang, B.S., 2005. Challenge and Change in East Asia: Facing the Perils of Presidentialism?. Journal of Democracy, 16(2), pp.102-116.

Ganghof, S., 2021. Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism: Democratic Design and the Separation of Powers. Oxford University Press.

Mainwaring, S., 1993. Presidentialism, multipartism, and democracy: the difficult combination. Comparative political studies, 26(2), pp.198-228. here

Linz, J.J., 1990. The perils of presidentialism. Journal of democracy, 1(1), pp.51-69. here |

Week 12 (11/24): Election and electoral systems

Election date 11/26 (Sat)

Clark Ch 13 | slide

Team Aura Stockton, H., 2010. How rules matter: electoral reform in Taiwan. Social Science Quarterly, 91(1), pp.21-41. here

Batto, N.F. and Kim, H.A., 2012. Coordinative Advantages of State Resources under SNTV: The Case of Taiwan. Japanese Journal of Political Science, 13(3), pp.355-377.

Patterson, D.P. and Stockton, H., 2010. Strategies, institutions, and outcomes under SNTV in Taiwan, 1992–2004. Journal of East Asian Studies, 10(1), pp.31-59.

Cox, G.W., 1996. Is the single nontransferable vote superproportional? Evidence from Japan and Taiwan. American Journal of Political Science, pp.740-755.

Cox, G.W. and Niou, E., 1994. Seat bonuses under the single nontransferable vote system: Evidence from Japan and Taiwan. Comparative Politics, pp.221-236.

Lin, J.W., 2006. Electoral systems today: The politics of reform in Japan and Taiwan. Journal of Democracy, 17(2), pp.118-131.

Norris, P., 2004. Electoral engineering: Voting rules and political behavior. Cambridge university press. NSYSU available here Ch 2-3 Ch 2 slide | Ch 3 slide

Grofman, B., Lee, S.C., Winckler, E. and Woodall, B. eds., 1999. Elections in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan under the single non-transferable vote: The comparative study of an embedded institution. University of Michigan Press.

Cox, W. Gary. 1997. Making Votes Count. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Carey, J.M. and Shugart, M.S., 1995. Incentives to cultivate a personal vote: A rank ordering of electoral formulas. Electoral studies, 14(4), pp.417-439.

Gallagher, M. and Mitchell, P. eds., 2005. The politics of electoral systems. OUP Oxford.

Shugart, M. and Wattenberg, M.P. eds., 2001. Mixed-member electoral systems: The best of both worlds?. OUP Oxford.

Week 13 (12/1): Social cleavages and party systems

Student activity: 2022 Local election and constitutional referendum review & elections in Macau and Northern Ireland

Clark Ch 14 | slide

Lipset, S. M. and Rokkan, S. (1990). Cleavage structures, party systems, and voter alignments. In Mair, P., editor, The West European Party System, pages 99–138. Oxford University Press here

Batto, N.F., 2019. Cleavage structure and the demise of a dominant party: The role of national identity in the fall of the KMT in Taiwan. Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, 4(1), pp.81-101. here

Sheng, Shing-yuan, and Hsiao-chuan Mandy Liao. "Issues, political cleavages, and party competition in Taiwan." The Taiwan Voter (2017): 98-138. here

Posner, Daniel N. 2004. The Political Salience of Cultural Differences: Why Chewas and Tumbukas Are Allies in Zambia and Adversaries in Malawi. American Political Science Review 98: 529-545. here

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 | slide

Week 14 (12/8): Institutional veto players

Clark Ch 15 | slide

Lijphart, Arend. 1999. Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries. New Haven: Yale University Press here 李帕特(Arend Lijphart)著 , 高德源譯. 2001[民90]. 民主類型:三十六個現代民主國家的政府類型與表現. 桂冠 Ch 10-11

Team Helen Ho, M.S., 2015. Occupy congress in Taiwan: Political opportunity, threat, and the Sunflower Movement. Journal of East Asian Studies, 15(1), pp.69-97. here

Bosco, J., 1992. Taiwan factions: Guanxi, patronage, and the state in local politics. Ethnology, 31(2), pp.157-183.

Tan, Q., Yu, P.K.H. and Chen, W.C., 1996. Local politics in Taiwan: Democratic consolidation. Asian Survey, 36(5), pp.483-494.

Mattlin, M., 2006. Party opportunism among local politicians after Taiwan’s power transition. East Asia, 23(1), pp.68-85.

Tsebelis, G., 2011. Veto Players. Princeton University Press.

Week 15 (12/15): Varieties of democracy and political outcomes

Clark Ch 16 | slide | review

Team Allison Newland, S.A. and Liu, J.C.E., 2021. Ethnic identity and local government responsiveness in Taiwan. Governance, 34(3), pp.875-892. here

Lijphart, Arend. 1999. Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries. New Haven: Yale University Press here 李帕特(Arend Lijphart)著 , 高德源譯. 2001[民90]. 民主類型:三十六個現代民主國家的政府類型與表現. 桂冠 Ch 14-16 slide | slide 2

Taylor, S.L., Shugart, M.S. and Lijphart, A., 2014. A different democracy. Yale University Press.

Jakala, M., Kuzu, D. and Qvortrup, M. eds., 2017. Consociationalism and power-sharing in Europe: Arend Lijphart’s theory of political accommodation. Springer.

Bogaards, M., 2015. Making a difference: an interview with Arend Lijphart. Zeitschrift für vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, 9(1), pp.83-96.

Swiss Political Science Review, Volume 25, Issue 4: Special Issue: Half A Century of Consociationalism ‐ Cases and Comparisons

Ganghof, S., 2010. Democratic inclusiveness: A reinterpretation of Lijphart’s patterns of democracy. British Journal of Political Science, 40(3), pp.679-692.

Roller, E., 2005. The performance of democracies: Political institutions and public policy. OUP Oxford. e-book available

Kuo, Y.Y. ed., 2015. Policy analysis in Taiwan. Policy Press. "Analysis of innovative local government policies in Taiwan"

Week 16 (12/22): Final

Week 17 (12/29): 彈性學習 (1)

Week 18 (1/5): 彈性學習 (2)