Coursework 20F | Syllabus 20F | Syllabus 19S | Syllabus 18S | Reading List 18S for Comprehensive Exam
LeDuc, L., Niemi, R.G. and Norris, P. eds., 2014. Comparing democracies 4th. Sage.
Lo, S., 2021. Hong Kong in 2020: National Security Law and Truncated Autonomy. Asian Survey, 61(1), pp.34-42.
Yu, C.H., 2021. Taiwan in 2020: Beyond the Pandemic. Asian Survey, 61(1), pp.83-89.
Asian Survey 2020 review
European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook
Journal of Democracy Volume 31, Number 1, January 2020 here
Democratization, Volume 28, Issue 1 (2021) Democratic Regressions in Asia
CIA World Factbook | Freedom House | Varieties of Democracy : Ireland, Iceland, France, Singapore, Poland, Hungary, Malaysia
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, M., Gerring, J., Altman, D., Bernhard, M., Fish, S., Hicken, A., Kroenig, M., Lindberg, S.I., McMann, K., Paxton, P. and Semetko, H.A. 2011. Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: a New Approach, Perspectives on Politics 9:2, pp.247-267.
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.
Clark, W.R., Golder, M. and Golder, S.N., 2017. Principles of comparative politics. CQ Press. Ch 5
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 companion
Critical Review 30(1-2), Democracy for Realists
Perspectives on Politics 15, no. 1 (2017): Review Symposium: Elections and Responsive Government
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.
Busby, E.C., Druckman, J.N. and Fredendall, A., 2017. The political relevance of irrelevant events. The Journal of Politics, 79(1), pp.346-350.
Busby, E.C. and Druckman, J.N., 2018. Football and Public Opinion: A Partial Replication and Extension. Journal of Experimental Political Science, 5(1), pp.4-10.
Graham, M.H., Huber, G.A., Malhotra, N. and Mo, C.H., 2020. Irrelevant Events and Voting Behavior: Replications Using Principles from Open Science. JoP
Müller, S. and Kneafsey, L., 2021. Evidence for the irrelevance of irrelevant events. Political Science Research and Methods, pp.1-17.
Lupia, A., McCubbins, M.D. and Arthur, L., 1998. The democratic dilemma: Can citizens learn what they need to know?. Cambridge University Press.
PS: Political Science & Politics, 52(4): Symposium: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know? Reflections on The Democratic Dilemma
Assignment:
(1) identify the major institution variables of your case
(2) do these variables really matter to explain politics in your case?
(3) are there some other variables to include?
(4) do you think Shark attack type of voting behavior can be easily observed in your case? Are there some reasons related to institution variables of your case?
(5) if you are empowered for political reform, how you change its institutional settings?
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
Taylor, S.L., Shugart, M.S. and Lijphart, A., 2014. A different democracy. Yale University Press.
Bogaards, M., 2015. Making a difference: an interview with Arend Lijphart. Zeitschrift für vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, 9(1), pp.83-96.
Jakala, M., Kuzu, D. and Qvortrup, M. eds., 2017. Consociationalism and power-sharing in Europe: Arend Lijphart’s theory of political accommodation. Springer.
Swiss Political Science Review, Volume 25, Issue 4: Special Issue: Half A Century of Consociationalism ‐ Cases and Comparisons
Sedelius, Thomas, and Jonas Linde. 2018. “Unravelling Semi-Presidentialism: Democracy and Government Performance in Four Distinct Regime Types.” Democratization 25(1): 136–57.
Assignment: Taiwan's direct democracy practices (a.recall votes, b.referendum)
Beramendi, V., Ellis, A., Kaufmann, B., Kornblith, M., LeDuc, L., McGuire, P., Shiller, T. and Svensson, P., 2008. Direct Democracy: The International IDEA Handbook. here
Mendelsohn, M. and Parkin, A. eds., 2001. Referendum democracy: Citizens, elites and deliberation in referendum campaigns. Springer.
Budge, I. (1996). The New Challenge of Direct Democracy. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Smith, G. (2009). Democratic Innovations: Designing Institutions for Citizen Participation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lupia, A. and Matsusaka, J. 2004. DIRECT DEMOCRACY: New Approaches to Old Questions. Annual Review of Political Science 7:1, 463-482
Urbinati, N. and Warren, M.E., 2008. The concept of representation in contemporary democratic theory. Annual Review of Political Science, 11, pp.387-412.
Budge, I., 2001. Political parties in direct democracy. In Referendum Democracy (pp. 67-87). Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Jäske, Maija. 2017. “‘Soft’ Forms of Direct Democracy: Explaining the Occurrence of Referendum Motions and Advisory Referendums in Finnish Local Government.” Swiss Political Science Review 23(1): 50–76.
Accetti, Carlo Invernizzi, and Giulia Oskian. 2020. “What Is a Consultative Referendum? The Democratic Legitimacy of Popular Consultations.” Perspectives on Politics: 1–16.
Folkestad, Bjarte, Jan Erling Klausen, Jo Saglie, and Signe Bock Segaard. 2021. “When Do Consultative Referendums Improve Democracy? Evidence from Local Referendums in Norway.” International Political Science Review 42(2): 213–28. here
https://iri-europe.org/
V-dem returned: Ireland/Iceland, France, Singapore, Poland, Hungary, Malaysia
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.
Acemoglu, Daron, and James A. Robinson. Economic origins of dictatorship and democracy. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Korea Foundation Lecture Series 1/4, Pandemic and Democracy in South Korea
Korea Foundation Lecture Series 2/4: Democracy as elusiveness
Korea Foundation Lecture Series 3/4: Democratic backsliding around the world
馬英九投書／臺灣已經是「不自由的民主」（illiberal democracy） | English version | Response by Kharis Templeman
Korea Foundation Lecture Series 4/4: The concept of freedom: foundation or emergence
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, Table 1 | Table 2
Perspectives of Politics 16(4), Review Symposium
Linz, J.J. and Stepan, A., 1978. The breakdown of democratic regimes.
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 (No. 3). Cambridge University Press.
Acemoglu, D., Naidu, S., Restrepo, P. and Robinson, J.A., 2019. Democracy does cause growth. Journal of political economy, 127(1), pp.47-100.
Colagrossi, M., Rossignoli, D. and Maggioni, M.A., 2020. Does democracy cause growth? A meta-analysis (of 2000 regressions). European journal of political economy, 61, p.101824.
Acemoglu, D. and Robinson, J.A., 2012. Why nations fail: The origins of power, prosperity, and poverty. Currency. Crown Business 阿西莫格鲁 (Acemoglu, Daron) 国家为什么会失败 / 德隆·阿西莫格鲁(Daron Acemoglu),詹姆斯·A. 罗宾逊(James A. Robinson)著 ; 李增刚译 出版項 长沙 : 湖南科学技术出版社, 2015 Ch 2&3 webpage
Pan, Hsin-Hsin. 2020. "Is the US the Only Role Model in Town? - Empirical Evidence from the Asian Barometer Survey." Journal of Asian and African Studies 55(5): 733-749.
Yang, K., & Ortmann, S. (2018). From Sweden to Singapore: The relevance of foreign models for China’s rise. China Quarterly, 236, 946–967.
Fosu, A.K. ed., 2013. Achieving development success: Strategies and lessons from the developing world. Oxford University Press. e-copy available through the library Ch 1
Willis, K., 2011. Theories and practices of development. routledge.
Rodrik, D. (2007). One Economic, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Lange, M.K., 2004. British colonial legacies and political development. World development, 32(6), pp.905-922.
Hagopian, F., 2000. Political development, revisited. Comparative political studies, 33(6-7), pp.880-911.
Sen, A. K. (1999). Development as Freedom. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Müller, Jan-Werner. 2021. Democracy Rules. Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Allen, D., 2021. Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus. University of Chicago Press.
West European Politics, Volume 44, Issue 5-6 (2021) COVID-19 in Europe: Political Reactions and Consequences. Edited by Klaus H. Goetz, Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen and Wolfgang C. Müller
