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Authoritarian Regimes

3-0-9 units · Graduate

Examines how autocratic regimes, which more than half of the world's population lives under, operate. Considers variation in the internal operations of authoritarian regimes, studying both how this variation came about and the effects of different regime dynamics on downstream outcomes. Covers both regimes' management of elite actors and the general population with a largely domestic focus.

Fall 2003 · Ethnic Politics I

Topics

  • Introduction
  • General Discussion of Ethnic Identity
  • Primordialist Approaches
  • Constructivist Approaches I
  • Constructivist Approaches II
  • Modernization
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Patronage
  • Prejudice and Stigma
  • Party Politics and Consociationalism
  • Democracy and Democratic Consolidation
  • Ethnic Mobilization and Civil War
  • Ethnic Riots
  • Partition and Secession

Readings

  • Barth, Frederik, ed. Ethnic Groups and Boundaries. Chicago, IL: Waveland Press, 1998, pp. 5-38. ISBN: 9780881339796.
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  • Maalouf, Amin. In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong . New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2003. ISBN: 9780142002575.
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  • Geertz, Clifford. “The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States.” In The Interpretation of Cultures. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2000, pp. 255-311. ISBN: 9780465097197.
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  • Smith, Anthony. The Nation in History, Historiographical Debates About Ethnicity and Nationalism. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2000, pp. 52-77. ISBN: 9781584650409.
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  • Van Evera, Steve. “Primordialism Lives!” Comparative Politics Section Newsletter 12, no. 1 (Winter 2001): 20-22.
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  • van der Dennen, John M. G. “Ethnocentrism and In-group/Out-group Differentiation: A Review and Interpretation of the Literature.” In The Sociobiology of Ethnocentrism: Evolutionary Dimensions of Xenophobia . Edited by Vernon Reynolds, Vincent Fagler, and Ian Vine. New York, NY: Springe, 1986, pp. 1-47. ISBN: 9780709942221.
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  • Bhabha, Homi, ed. “Dissemination: Time, Narrative and the Margins of the Modern Nation.” In Nation and Narration . London, UK: Routledge, 1990, pp. 291-322. ISBN: 9780415014830.
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  • Chandra, Kanchan, ed. “Cumulative Findings in the Study of Ethnic Politics.” Symposium in APSA-CP (Winter 2001). Essays by Chandra, Laitin, and Posner, Lijphart, Lustick, and Wilkinson.
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  • Malkki, Liisa. Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780226502724.
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  • Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism . London, UK: Verso, 1983. ISBN: 0860917592. (Entire)
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  • Laitin, David. Hegemony and Culture . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1983, 1986. ISBN: 9780226467900.
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  • Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780801492631. (Entire)
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  • Taylor, Charles. “Nationalism and Modernity.” In The State of the Nation: Ernest Gellner and the Theory of Nationalism. Edited by John A. Hall. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780521633666.
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  • Brass, Paul. Theft of an Idol . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997, pp. 3-96. ISBN: 9780691026503.
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  • Gagnon, V.P. “Ethnic Nationalism and International Conflict: The Case of Serbia.” International Security 19 (Winter 1995): 130-166.
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  • Bates, Robert. “Ethnic Competition and Modernization in Contemporary Africa.” Comparative Political Studies (January 1974): 457-483.
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  • Sidanius, James. “The Psychology of Group Conflict and the Dynamics of Oppression: A Social Dominance Perspective.” In Explorations in Political Psychology . Edited by Shanto Iyengar and William McGuire. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780822313243.
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  • Sniderman, Paul, Pierangelo Peri, Rui J.P. de Figueiredo, Jr., and Thomas Piazza. The Outsider: Prejudice and Politics in Italy . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780691048390.
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  • Ordeshook, Peter, and Olga Shvetsova. “Ethnic Heterogeneity, District Magnitude, and the Number of Parties.” American Journal of Political Science 38, no. 1 (February 1994): 100-123.
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  • Tsebelis, George. “A Rational Choice Approach to Consociationalism.” In Nested Games: Rational Choice in Comparative Politics. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992, pp. 159-186. ISBN: 9780520067325.
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  • Barry, Brian. “Review Article: Political Accommodation and Consociational Democracy.” British Journal of Political Science 5 (October 1975): 477-505.
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  • Brass, Paul. “Ethnic Conflict in Multiethnic Societies: The Consociational Solution and its Critics.” In Ethnicity and Nationalism: Theory and Comparison. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1991, pp. 333-348. ISBN: 9780803996953.
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  • Horowitz, Donald. A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780520073425.
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  • Bardos, Gordon. “The Bosnian Cold War: Politics, Society, and International Engagement after Dayton.” The Harriman Review 11 (1999): 1-26.
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  • Rabushka, Alvin, and Kenneth Shepsle. Politics in Plural Societies. Columbus, OH: Charles E Merrill, 1972, pp. 23-105. ISBN: 9780675091145.
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  • Posen, Barry. “The Security Dilemma and Ethnic Conflict.” In Ethnic Conflict and International Security. Edited by Michael Brown. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993, pp. 103-124. ISBN: 9780691000688.
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  • Kaufman, Stuart. Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001, pp. 1-47, and 165-201. ISBN: 9780801487361.
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  • Hardin, Russell. One for All: The Logic of Group Conflict . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997, pp. 142-182. ISBN: 9780691048253.
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  • Somer, Murat. “Cascades of Ethnic Polarization: Lessons from Yugoslavia. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 573, no. 1 (2001): 127-151.
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  • Horowitz, Donald. The Deadly Ethnic Riot . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001, pp. 1-70. ISBN: 9780520224476.
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  • Rudwick, Elliot. Race Riot in East Saint Louis, July 2, 1917 . Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1982, pp. 3-57. ISBN: 9780252009518.
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  • Varshney, Ashutosh. Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780300085303.
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  • Hayden, Robert. “Schindler’s Fate: Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Population Transfers.” Slavic Review 55 (1996): 727-748.
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  • Kauffman, Chaim. “Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars.” International Security 20 (1996): 136-175.
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  • Sambanis, Nicholas. “Partition as a Solution to Ethnic War: An Empirical Critique of the Theoretical Literature.” World Politics 52 (July 2000): 437-83.
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Prerequisites & course information

Prereq: Permission of instructor Acad Year 2027-2028: G (Fall) Acad Year 2028-2029: Not offered 3-0-9 units

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