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Course Name: POL HC 4016 Political Processes and Institutions in Comparative Perspective
Course Name: POL HC 4016 Political Processes and Institutions in Comparative Perspective
About The Course:
About The Course:
Course objective:
In this course students will be trained in the application of comparative methods to the study of politics. The course is comparative in both what we study and how we study. In the process the course aims to introduce undergraduate students to some of the range of issues, literature, and methods that cover comparative political.
In this course students will be trained in the application of comparative methods to the study of politics. The course is comparative in both what we study and how we study. In the process the course aims to introduce undergraduate students to some of the range of issues, literature, and methods that cover comparative political.
Course Outcomes:
To understand, comprehend and analyse the complex nature and functioning of the political systems, political institutions and corresponding issues to these both in a country specific case of India and cross-country perspectives.
To demonstrate critical thinking about key issues of political system of different forms, political process and public policy.
To use the contents and sub-units of the course as yardsticks for comparing these political systems and processes.
Session Plan
Session Plan
Unit: I. Approaches to Studying Comparative Politics
Unit: I. Approaches to Studying Comparative Politics
a. Political Culture
b. New Institutionalism
Unit: V. Democratization
Unit: V. Democratization
Process of democratization in postcolonial, post- authoritarian and post-communist Countries
Unit: VI. Federalism
Unit: VI. Federalism
Historical context Federation and Confederation: debates around territorial division of power
READING LIST
READING LIST
Unit: I: Approaches to Studying Comparative Politics
Unit: I: Approaches to Studying Comparative Politics
M. Pennington, (2009) ‘Theory, Institutional and Comparative Politics’, in J. Bara and Pennington. (eds.) Comparative Politics: Explaining Democratic System. Sage Publications, New Delhi, pp. 13-40.
M. Howard, (2009) ‘Culture in Comparative Political Analysis’, in M. Lichback and A. Zuckerman, pp. 134- S. (eds.) Comparative Political: Rationality, Culture, and Structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
B. Rosamond, (2005) ‘Political Culture’, in B. Axford, et al. Politics, London: Routledge, pp. 57-81.
P. Hall, Taylor and C. Rosemary, (1996) ‘Political Science and the Three New Institutionalism’, Political Studies. XLIV, pp. 936-957.
L. Rakner, and R. Vicky, (2011) ‘Institutional Perspectives’, in P. Burnell, et .al. (eds.) Political in the Developing World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 53-70
Unit II: Electoral System
Unit II: Electoral System
A. Heywood, (2002) ‘Representation, Electoral and Voting’, in Politics. New York: Palgrave, pp. 223-245.
A. Evans, (2009) ‘Elections Systems’, in J. Bara and M. Pennington, (eds.) Comparative politics. New Delhi: Sage Publications, pp. 93-119.
R. Moser, and S. Ethan, (2004) ‘Mixed Electoral Systems and Electoral System Effects: Controlled Comparison and Cross-national Analysis’, in Electoral Studies.23, pp. 575-599
Unit III: Party System
Unit III: Party System
A. Cole, (2011) ‘Comparative Political Parties: Systems and Organizations’, in J. Ishiyama, and M. Breuning, (eds) 21st Century Political Science: A Reference Book. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, pp. 150-158.
A.Heywood, (2002) ‘Parties and Party System’, in Politics. New York: Palgrave, pp. 247- 268.
B. Criddle, (2003) ‘Parties and Party System’, in R. Axtmann, (ed.) Understanding Democratic Politics: An Introduction. London: Sage Publications, pp. 134-142.
Unit IV: Nation-state
Unit IV: Nation-state
W. O’Conner, (1994) ‘A Nation is a Nation, is a Sate, isa Ethnic Group, is a …’, in J. Hutchinson and A. Smith, (eds.) Nationalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 36-46.
K. Newton, and J. Deth, (2010) ‘The Development of the Modern State ‘, in Foundations of Comparative Politics: Democracies of the Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 13-33.
Additional Reading: A.Heywood, (2002), ‘The State’, in Politics. New York: Palgrave, pp. 85-102
Unit V. Democratization
Unit V. Democratization
T. Landman, (2003) ‘Transition to Democracy’, in Issues and Methods of Comparative Methods: An Introduction. London: Routledge, pp. 185-215.
K. Newton, and J. Deth, (2010) ‘Democratic Change and Persistence’, in Foundations of Comparative Politics: Democracies of the Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 53-67.
J. Haynes, (1999) ‘State and Society’, in The Democratization. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 20-38; 39-63.
B. Smith, (2003) ‘Democratization in the Third World’, in Understanding Third World Politics: Theories of Political Change and Development. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.250-274.
Unit VI: Federalism
Unit VI: Federalism
M. Burgess, (2006) Comparative Federalism: Theory and Practice. London: Routledge, pp. 135-161.
R. Watts, (2008) ’Introduction’, in Comparing Federal Systems .Montreal and Kingston: McGill Queen’s University Press, pp. 1-27
R. Saxena, (2011) ‘Introduction’, in Saxena, R (eds.) Varieties of Federal Governance: Major Contemporary Models.New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, pp. xii-x1
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