TT10 - Comp Gov

Trinity Term
17. Time, History and Narrative in Political Science Scott Blinder (scott.blinder@politics.ox.ac.uk)
18. Comparative Politics as a Science Scott Blinder (scott.blinder@politics.ox.ac.uk)
19. Revision Session I Nigel Bowles (nigel.bowles@politics.ox.ac.uk)
20. Revision Session II Nigel Bowles (nigel.bowles@politics.ox.ac.uk) (more)

HT10 - Intermediate Social Statistics

Lectures Tuesday 2-4 Dept. Experimental Psychology
Classes Thurs 16:00-18:00 Weeks 3, 5,6,8
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HT10 - Philosophy of Social Sciences Classes

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2 Classes (1st Week and 3rd Week) + Coursework due 0th Week TT10

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HT10 - Political Institutions Programme

9. Federalism Cindy Skach (cindy.skach@politics.ox.ac.uk)
10. Rights, Politics and Judicialisation Cindy Skach (cindy.skach@politics.ox.ac.uk)
11. Presidentialism and Parliamentarism Petra Schleiter (petra.schleiter@politics.ox.ac.uk)
12. Cabinet Formation Petra Schleiter (petra.schleiter@politics.ox.ac.uk)
13. Agency, Leadership, and Politics Scott Blinder (scott.blinder@politics.ox.ac.uk)
14. Culture and Democracy. Cindy Skach (cindy.skach@politics.ox.ac.uk)
15. Institutions and Rational Choice Ray Duch (raymond.duch@politics.ox.ac.uk)
16. Institutionalist Theories of Political
Economy: Varieties of Capitalism
Stewart Wood (stewart.wood@politics.ox.ac.uk)

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MT 09 - Course Overview Reading List

Full PDF available here (09/10) or here(08/09)

1. Comparison in Political Science Nancy Bermeo (nancy.bermeo@politics.ox.ac.uk)
2. Constitutions and Constitutionalism Cindy Skach (cindy.skach@politics.ox.ac.uk)
3. Democracy Nancy Bermeo (nancy.bermeo@politics.ox.ac.uk)
4. Democratisation Nancy Bermeo (nancy.bermeo@politics.ox.ac.uk)
5. The State in Comparative Politics Nic Cheeseman (nicholas.cheeseman@politics.ox.ac.uk)
6. Electoral Systems and Representation Ray Duch (raymond.duch@politics.ox.ac.uk)
7. Voting and Elections Nic Cheeseman (nicholas.cheeseman@politics.ox.ac.uk)
8. The Politics of Development Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
(ricardo.soaresdeoliveira@politics.ox.ac.uk)

General Reading
a) Overviews
· Goodin Robert and Klingeman, Hans-Dieter eds (1995), New Handbook of Political Science
· Lane, Jan-Erik and Svante Ersson (2000), The New Institutional Politics: Performance and Outcomes
· Lichbach and Zuckerman, Alan eds (1997), Comparative Politics
· Peters, B Guy (1999), Institutional Theory in Political Science
· Peters, B Guy (1998), Comparative Politics

b) Notable contributions
· Putnam, Robert (1993), Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy
· Rueschemeyer, Dietrich et al (1992), Capitalist Development and Democracy
· Skocpol, Theda (1979), States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Study of France, Russia and China
· Thompson, Michael et al (1999), Cultural Theory as Political Science
· Lijphart, A (1999), Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty -Six Countries (useful for several topics in the course: may be worth buying)

c) Methods and Approaches Readings
· Ragin, Charles C. (1987), The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies
· King, Gary, Keohane, Robert O and Verba, Sidney (1994), Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research
· Peters, B Guy (1998), Comparative Politics: Theory and Methods
· Lichbach, Mark Irving and Zuckerman, Alan S eds (1997), Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture and Structure
· Shepsle, Kenneth A and Mark S Bonchek (1997), Analyzing Politics: Rationality, Behaviour and Institutions (more)