POLI 4330 WA Theories of the State

Recommended: P. Dunleavy and B. O’Leary, Theories of the State

Required: Critical Theories of Power: 1-27 :

Required: State theory 29-58

Required: Electoral Politics: 65-104

Required: The Welfare State: 115-150

Required: Media and Ideology: 151-180

Required: Nation State and global Economy: 181-194, 208-232

Required: Feminist Theory of the State: 59-64, 195-207, 347- 357.

Required: Political Science 4330 WA 4 Dr. S. Islam

Required: War, Genocide and Repression: 239-286

Required: Social Movements: 333-347, 358-400.

Recommended: 1. Goran Therborn, What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules?

Recommended: 2. Adam Przeworski, Capitalism and Social Democracy

Recommended: 3. Peter Swenson, Capitalists Against Markets

Recommended: 4. Gosta Esping-Anderson Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

Recommended: 5. Gosta Esping-Anderson Social Foundations of Post-Industrial Economies

Recommended: 6. Duane Swank, Global Capital, Political Institutions and Policy Change in Developed Welfare States

Recommended: 7. Peter Evans, Embedded Autonomy

Recommended: 8. David Waldner, State Building and Late Development

Recommended: 9. Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power, Volume II. The Rise of classes and nation states, 1760-1914

Recommended: 10. Yoram Barzel A Theory of the State: economic rights, legal rights and the scope of the state (Cambridge).

Recommended: 11. Moore, Barrington, Social Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship 12, Islam, Syed Serajul, The State and Economic Development.

Recommended: 13. Mills, C. Wright, The Power Elite.

Recommended: 14. Dahl, R. Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy: Autonomy Versus Control 15, Bob Jessop, The Future of the Capitalist State.

Recommended: 16. Walter Adamson, Hegemony and Revolution: Antonio Gramsci’s Political and CulturalTheory.