Comparative Politics of the Global North

Readings

• Fukuyama, Francis. Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
• Introduction, “Development of Political Institutions to the French Revolution,” and chapter 1, “What Is Political Development?,” pp. 1–40.
• Olson, Mancur. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. Revised ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971, pp. 1–16.
• Munger, Michael C. “The Thing Itself.” Library of Economics and Liberty, March 7, 2005.
• Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. “Manifesto of the Communist Party.” In The Marx- Engels Reader, 2nd ed., edited by Robert C. Tucker. New York: W. W. Norton,
• Weber, Max. “Politics as a Vocation.” In From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, edited and translated by H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills. New York: Oxford University Press, 1946, pp. 77–128.
• Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay, chapter 7, “Italy and the Low-Trust Equilibrium,” pp. 112–130.
• Lijphart, Arend. “Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method.” American Political Science Review 65, no. 3 (1971): 682–693.
• Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay, chapter 4, “Prussia Builds a State,” pp. 53–83.
• Tilly, Charles. “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime.” In Bringing the State Back In, edited by Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol, 169–191. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.