Articles marked with "K" is printed in compendiums which can be bought at Kopiutsalget, Akademika bookstore.
Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson (2001). “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation”. The American Economic Review 91: 1369-1401.Link
Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson (2002). “An African Success Story: Botswana”. London: CEPR. Discussion Paper No 3219.Link
Acemoglu, Daron and James A. Robinson (2000). “Why Did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality, and Growth in Historical Perspective”. Quarterly Journal of Economics. 115(4): 1167-1199.Link
Boix, Carles (2003). Democracy and Redistribution. New York: Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1 and 6. 72 pages
Boix, Carles and Susan C. Stokes (2003). “Endogenous Democratization”. World Politics 55 (4): 517-549.Link
Caporaso, James A. and David P. Levine (1992). Theories of Political Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapters 4, 6 and 8. 87 pages K
Datta-Chaudhuri, Mrinal (1990). “Market Failure and Government Failure”. The Journal of Economic Perspectives 4 (3): 25-39.Link
Engerman, Stanley L. and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (2002). “Factor Endowments, Inequality, and Paths of Development among New World Economies”. NBER Working Paper No 9259 Link
Evans, Peter (1995). Embedded Autonomy. States & Industrial Transformation. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Chapters 2 and 3. 52 pages K
Fukuyama, Francis (2005). State Building – Governance and World Order in the Twenty-First Century. London: Profile Books. Selected parts of Chapters 1&2. Approx 100 (short) pages
Hall, Peter A. and David Soskice (2001). “An Introduction to Varieties of Capitalism” in Peter A. Hall and David Soskice [eds.] Varieties of Capitalism – The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 68 pages
Kay, Cristobál (2001). "Asia’s and Latin America’s Development in Comparative Perspective: Landlords, Peasants and Industrialization". The Hague: ISS Working Paper No 336.Link
Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2008a). “A short note on concepts in microeconomic theory”. Link
Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2008b). “Beyond OLS: A non-technical guide to econometric methods”. Link
Knutsen (2008c). “From James Monroe and the Quing Dynasty to George W. Bush and the Communist Party: The historical evidence on how democracy and dictatorship affect economic growth”. Oslo: Department of Political Science, University of Oslo. Working Paper. Approx 30p.
Lipset, Seymor Martin (1959). “Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy”. The American Political Science Review: 69-105.Link
Médard, Jean-Francois (1996). “Patrimonialism, Neo-Patrimonialism and the Study of the Post-colonial State in Subsaharian Africa” in Henrik Secher Marcussen [ed.] Improved Natural Resource Management – the Role of Formal Organizations and Informal Networks and Institutions.
Médard, Jean-Francois (2002). “Corruption in the Neo-Patrimonial States of Sub-Saharan Africa" in Arnold J. Heidenheimer, and Michael Johnston [Eds.] Political Corruption – Concepts and Contexts (3rd ed). New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers. K
North, Douglass C. (1990). Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. New York: Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1-8 and 12-13. 92 pages
Olson, Mancur (1993). “Dictatorship, Democracy and Development” The American Political Science Review 87(3): 567-576. Link
Persson, Torsten and Guido Tabellini (2004). “Constitutions and Economic Policy”. The Journal of Economic Perspectives 18 (1): 75-98.Link
Pierson, Paul (2000). “Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics”. The American Political Science Review 94 (2): 251-267.Link
Powell, G. Bingham and Guy D. Whitten (1993). “A Cross-National Analysis of Economic Voting: Taking Account of the Political Context”. American Journal of Political Science 37(2): 391-414Link
Przeworski, Adam (2003). States and Markets – A Primer in Political Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Selected parts of Chapters 1-3 and 5-8. Approx 100 pages
Przeworski, Adam and Fernando Limongi (1993). “Political Regimes and Economic Growth”. The Journal of Economic Perspectives 7 (3): 51-69.Link
Przeworski, Adam and Fernando Limongi (1997). “Modernization: Theories and Facts”. World Politics 49 (2). 155-183.Link
Rauch, James E and Peter B. Evans (2000). “Bureaucratic structure and bureaucratic performance in less developed countries”. Journal of Public Economics 75 (1): 49-71.Link
Rodrik, Dani (2004). “Industrial Policy for the Twenty-First Century”. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University. Paper (prepared for UNIDO).Link
Scruggs, Lyle (2001). “The Politics of Growth Revisited”. The Journal of Politics 63 (1): 120-140.Link
Shleifer, Andrei and Robert W. Vishny (1993). “Corruption”. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 108: 599-617.Link
Welzel, Christian, Ronald Inglehart and Hans-Dieter Klingeman (2003). “The Theory of Human Development: A cross-cultural analysis". European Journal of Political Research 42: 341-379.link
Total pages: Between 1150 and 1200. (Many of these are not densely filled with text) Core curriculum (to be specified in class): Approx 800 pages.
Recommended readings
Lecture 1: Chapters 1 and 7 in Caporaso and Levine. Chapter 1 in particular is an interesting introduction to definitions and approaches to politics and economics.
Students with no background in economics might be interested in confronting an introductory textbook in economics. “Economics” by Joseph Stiglitz and Carl E. Walsh is particularly suitable.
For students with some mathematical knowledge: “Political Economics” (Person and Tabellini, 2000) is a seminal contribution in the study of politics and political economy, using rational choice based methodology. Rational choice based studies of voting behavior is not heavily represented in this course, but this is one place to go for a “treatise” on the topic.
Lecture 2:
Peter Kennedy’s “A Guide to Econometrics” is highly recommended reading for the student interested in quantitative empirical methodology. For a more technical “bible” in econometrics, check out William Greene’s “Econometric Analysis”.
An extremely interesting study on political processes and institutions: Paul Pierson’s “Politics in Time”.
Lectures 3 and 4:
Students with an interest in economic history should definitely read Douglass North’s “Structure and Change in Economic History”.
Check out the symposium on “The State and Economic Development” in The Journal of Economic Perspectives 4 (3) from 1990. Datta-Chaudhuri’s contribution on the reading list is taken from this symposium.
Lectures 5 and 6 part 1)
Inglehart and Welzel’s book from 2006 “Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy: The Human Development Sequence” is a very refreshing book, stuffed with empirical results and good theorizing.
For the student with some mathematical skills: Acemoglu and Robinson’s book “Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy”.
Przeworski et al.’s (2000) “Democracy and Development” is full of marvelous empirical analyses. (Chapter 2)
A different view on economic development and democratization: Guillermo O’Donnel’s “Modernization and Bueraucratic Authoritarianism” from 1973
Karl and Schmitter (1991) “Modes of Transition in Latin America, Southern and Eastern Europe”
Lectures 6 part 1) and 7
Przeworski et al.’s (2000) “Democracy and Development” is full of splendid empirical analysis. (Chapter 3)
My own papers from 2008 “The Economic Effects of Democracy” and “Enlightened Rule and Tyranny” are available for interested students. The first is an empirical exercise, and the second is more theoretical and presents a theory on why authoritarian regimes produce so widely different economic outcomes in different contexts.
Very good papers on the economic effects of institutions: Knack and Keefer (1995), Hall and Jones (1998) and Rodrik, Subramanian and Trebbi (2002).
Lecture 8: “Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism” by Baumol, Litan and Schramm (Different from Hall and Soskice!)
“Growing Public” by Peter Lindert on social spending and economic growth
“The New Politics of the Welfare State” edited by Paul Pierson
Lecture 9:
The rest of Peter Evans book on the reading list!
Dani Rodrik’s “One Economics, Many recipes” is splendid, and covers other topics than those in this lecture as well.
On East Asia: Robert Wade’s “Governing the Market”.
Case studies on Latin American countries “Latin American Politics and Development” edited by Wiarda and Kline. On Brazil and Mexico: “How Latin America Fell Behind” edited by Stephen Haber.
Lecture 10:
Chabal and Daloz’ book “ Africa Works – Disorder as a Political Instrument” can be read as a compliment to Medard.
Read Easterly and Levine’s article from 1997: “Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions”
“The State of Africa” is a fascinating historical book (post-colonial) written by Martin Meredith.