Syllabus 20F | Syllabus 19S | Syllabus 18S | Reading List 18S for Comprehensive Exam
Week 1 (9/9): Introduction
Week 2 (9/16): E-society and democracy
Critical Review 30(1-2), Democracy for Realists
Fowler, Anthony and Andrew B. Hall. 2018. Do Shark Attacks Influence Presidential Elections? Reassessing a Prominent Finding on Voter Competence. Journal of Politics 80(4):1423-1437.
Achen, C. H., & Bartels, L. M. (2018). Statistics as If Politics Mattered: A Reply to Fowler and Hall. The Journal of Politics, 80(4), 1438-1453.
Fowler, Anthony and Andrew B. Hall. 2018. Politics as if Evidence Mattered: A Reply to Achen and Bartels
Healy, A.J., Malhotra, N. and Mo, C.H., 2010. Irrelevant events affect voters' evaluations of government performance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(29), pp.12804-12809.
Fowler, A. and Montagnes, B.P., 2015. College football, elections, and false-positive results in observational research. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(45), pp.13800-13804.
Healy, A., Malhotra, N. and Mo, C.H., 2015. Determining false-positives requires considering the totality of evidence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(48), pp.E6591-E6591.
Fowler, A. and Montagnes, B.P., 2015. Reply to Healy et al.: Value of ex ante predictions and independent tests for assessing false-positive results. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(48), pp.E6592-E6592.
Gailmard, S. (2019). Optimism, Pessimism, and Dialogue in Electoral-Accountability Research. PS: Political Science & Politics, 52(4), 630-633.
Shenkman, R. (2016). Political animals: How our stone-age brain gets in the way of smart politics. Basic Books. 謝克曼 (Shenkman, Rick) 民108[2019] 曾亞晴, 陳毅瀓, 林士堯譯 為何我們總是選錯人? : 人類政治行為的迷思 新北市 : 左岸文化, 遠足文化 http://stoneagebrain.com/
Freedom House on Hong Kong | Six-monthly reports on Hong Kong | Lo, S. S. H. (2020). Hong Kong in 2019: Turning Point amid Tensions. Asian Survey, 60(1), 34-40.
Freedom in the World 2020: A Leaderless Struggle for Democracy | Democracy Index 2019: A year of democratic setbacks and popular protest by The Economist Intelligence Unit] | The Global State of Democracy by IDEA
Clark, W.R., Golder, M. and Golder, S.N., 2017. Principles of comparative politics. CQ Press. Ch 5
Freedom House on 2020 Indonesia | V-Dem on Indonesia | Polity IV Country Report 2010: Indonesia | Aspinall, E. and Mietzner, M., 2019. Indonesia’s Democratic Paradox: Competitive Elections Amidst Rising Illiberalism. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 55(3), pp.295-317.
Schmitter, Philippe C. and Terry L. Karl. 1991. What Democracy Is ..and Is Not? Journal of Democracy, 2(3): 75-88.
Collier, David, and Steve Levitsky. 1997. Democracy with adjectives - Conceptual innovation in comparative research, World Politics 49:3, pp.430-451.
Coppedge, Michael, and John Gerring. 2011. Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: a New Approach, Perspectives on Politics 9:2, pp.247-267.
Coppedge, Michael, et al. 2020. Varieties of Democracy: Measuring Two Centuries of Political Change. Cambridge University Press.
Blaug, R. ed., 2016. Democracy: A reader. Edinburgh University Press.
Week 9 (11/4): Mid-term week
Week 10 (11/11): Democratization
Lipset, S.M., 1959. Some social requisites of democracy: Economic development and political legitimacy. American political science review, 53(1), pp.69-105.
Huntington, S.P., 1991. "Democracy’s Third Wave". Journal of Democracy, 2(2), pp.12-34.
Teorell, Jan. 2010. Determinants of Democratization. New York: CUP
Coppedge, Michale. 2012. Democratization and Research Methods. The Methodology of Comparative Politics. Cambridge University Press.
Fong, B., 2017. In-between liberal authoritarianism and electoral authoritarianism: Hong Kong’s democratization under Chinese sovereignty, 1997–2016. Democratization, 24(4), pp.724-750.
Lau, Siu-Kai, L. and Hsin-Chi, K., 2000. Partial democratization," foundation moment" and political parties in Hong Kong. The China Quarterly, (163), pp.705-720.
Lo, Shiu-Hing, L., 2016. The politics of democratization in Hong Kong. Springer.
Sing, M., 2004. Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization: A Comparative Analysis. Routledge.
Diamond, L., 2011. “Democracy After the Arab Spring: A Fourth Wave or False Start?” Foreign Affairs, 22.
Pei, M., 2016. “Transition in China?: More Likely than You Think”. Journal of Democracy, 27(4), pp.5-19.
Chin, J.J., 2017. “The Longest March: Why Chinas Democratization is Not Imminent.” Journal of Chinese Political Science, pp.1-20.
Lijphart, Arend. 1999. Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries. New Haven: Yale University Press Ch 5,6,7,8,10
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
Guest lecture by Professor Alicor Panao
Powell Jr, G.B., 2000. Elections as instruments of democracy: Majoritarian and proportional visions. Yale University Press
Przeworski, A., Stokes, S.C. and Manin, B. eds., 1999. Democracy, accountability, and representation. Cambridge University Press. Ch 1, 2
Lührmann, A., Marquardt, K.L. and Mechkova, V., 2020. Constraining Governments: New Indices of Vertical, Horizontal, and Diagonal Accountability. American Political Science Review, 114(3), pp.811-820. dataverse
Carey, J.M., 2008. Legislative voting and accountability. Cambridge University Press. Ch 1, 2, 6
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)
Lijphart “Constitutional Design for Divided Societies”
Linz “The Perils of Presidentialism”
Mainwaring and Shugart “Juan Linz, Presidentialism, and Democracy: A Critical Appraisal”
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.
Allen, N.W., 2015. Clientelism and the personal vote in Indonesia. Electoral Studies, 37, pp.73-85.
Dettman, S., Pepinsky, T.B. and Pierskalla, J.H., 2017. Incumbency advantage and candidate characteristics in open-list proportional representation systems: Evidence from Indonesia. Electoral Studies, 48, pp.111-120.
Fox, C., 2018. Candidate-centric systems and the politicization of ethnicity: evidence from Indonesia. Democratization, 25(7), pp.1190-1209.
Fossati, D., 2020. Electoral reform and partisan dealignment in Indonesia. International Political Science Review, 41(3), pp.349-374.
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. here Intro, Ch 1, 2, 8, 9, 10
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.
Levitsky, S., & Ziblatt, D. (2018). How democracies die. Broadway Books.
史蒂文.李維茲基(Steven Levitsky), 丹尼爾.齊布拉特(Daniel Ziblatt)著. 李建興譯. 民108[2019]. 民主國家如何死亡 : 歷史所揭示的我們的未來 臺北市 : 時報文化,
Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman. 2016. Dictators and Democrats: Masses, Elites, and Regime Change. Princeton University Press.