书单推送！来自大中华区的比较政治视角
编前记：在度过了愉快的周末之后，相信各位读者朋友又迎来了忙碌的工作周，考虑到大家休息与工作时间的合理衔接，政观今天奉上了我国台湾大学政治学系学者推荐的比较政治学的书单。众所周知，以台湾大学政治学系组成的东亚民主研究中心主持了在业内颇有名气的亚洲民主动态调查（Asian Barometer Survey），是海内外比较政治学研究的重镇。
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导言：比较政治是政治学研究中一个非常重要的次领域，按照Munck（2007）的整理分析，比较政治的研究一共经历四次重大的变革，分别是：比较政府或宪法阶段（1880-1920）、行为主义阶段（1921-1966）、后行为主义阶段（1967-1988）、第二次科学革命阶段（1989-迄今）。各阶段在研究主题的选择、理论建构的策略，以及研究方法的运用上都有很大的差异。又如Munck and Snyder（2007）两人针对比较政治里三个最主要的期刊，亦即World Politics, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies作分析，归纳出在比较政治领域里，目前并没有存在一个具有主导性地位的研究典范，反而是多种研究议题、解释理论与研究方法并存的现象。因此，本课程将先从比较政治理论的发展趋势出发，接着谈及比较政治的研究方法。随后，将挑选一些热门的研究主题，并介绍不同学者针对这些研究主题的争议与看法。修读此课程，希望同学能建立对比较政治理论有更清楚的认知与理解，培养未来研究比较政治领域的兴趣。
Theoreticaland Methodological Foundations
The State of the Discipline
Munck,Gerardo L. 2007. “The Past and Present of Comparative Politics.” In Gerardo L.Munck and Richard Snyder, Passion, Craft,and Method in Comparative Politics. Baltimore: The John Hopkins UniversityPress.
Munck,Gerardo L. and Richard Snyder. 2007. “Debating the Direction of Comparative Politics: An Analysis of Leading Journals.” Comparative Political Studies, 40(1): 5-31.
Lichbach, Mark Irving and Alan S.Zuckerman. 2009. Comparative Politics Rationality, Culture and Structure, 2nd eds. Ch. 1. NewYork: Cambridge University Press.
Theories of Comparative Politics
Kohli,Atul, Peter Evans, Peter J. Katzenstein, Adam Przeworski, Suzanne Hoebe rRudolph, James C. Scott, and Theda Skocpol. 1995. “The Role of Theory in Comparative Politics: A Symposium.” World Politics, 49(1): 1-49.
Geddes,Barbara. 1995. “The Uses and Limitations of Rational Choice.” In Latin America in Comparative Perspective:New Approaches to Method and Analysis, ed. P. Smith. Boulder: Westview Press, 81-108.
Levitsky,Steven and Victoria Murillo. 2009. “Variations in Institutional Strength.” Annual Review of Political Science, 12: 115-33.
Almond,Gabriel A. 1956. “Comparative Political Systems”. Journal of Politics, 18: 391-409.
Easton,David. 1957. “An Approach to the Analysis of Political Systems.” World Politics, 9: 383-400.
Almond,Gabriel A. 1965. “A Developmental Approach to Political Systems.” World Politics, 17: 183-214.
Weyland,Kurt. 2001. “Limitations of Rational-Choice Institutionalism for the Study of Latin American Politics.” Studies in Comparative International Development, 37(1): 57-85.
Methodological debate
Gerring,John. 2007. “The Case Study: What it is and What it Does.” In Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics, Pp. 90-122. New York: Oxford University Press.
Bates,Robert. 2007. “From Case Studies to Social Science: A Strategy for Political Research. In Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics, pp.172-185. New York: Oxford University Press.
Slater Dan and Daniel Ziblat. 2013. “The Enduring Indispensability of the Controlled Comparison.” Comparative Political Studies,46(10): 1301-1327.
Wilkerson, John D. and Andreu Casas. (forthcoming). “Large-Scale Computerized Text Analysis in Political Science: Opportunities and Challenges.” Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 20.
Abadie,Alberto, Alexis Diamond, and Jens Hainmueller. 2015. “Comparative Politics and the Synthetic Control Method.” AmericanJournal of Political Science, 59(2): 495-510.
Paine, Jack. 2016. “Set-Theoretic Comparative Methods Less Distinctive than Claimed.” Comparative Political Studies,49(6): 703–741.
Yom, Sean. 2015. “From Methodology to Practice Inductive Iteration in Comparative Research.” Comparative Political Studies,48(5): 616–644.
The Origins of the Modern State
Tilly,Charles. 1985. “War Making and the State Making as Organized Crime.” In PeterB. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol, eds. Bringing the State Back In. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Fukuyama,Francis. 2012. The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. New York: FarrarStraus & Giroux.
Fukuyama,Francis. 2014. The Origins of Political Order: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux.
Identity and Politics
Stepan,Alfred, Juan J. Linz, and Yogendra Yadav. 2010. “The Rise of ‘State-Nations’.” Journal of Democracy, 21(3): 50-68.
Kuo,Alexander and Yotam Margalit. 2012. “Measuring Individual Identity.” Comparative Politics, 44(4): 459-479.
Charnysh,Volha, Christopher Lucas, and Prerna Singh. 2015. “The Ties that Bind: NationalIdentity Salience and Pro-social Behavior toward the Ethnic Other.” Comparative Political Studies, 48(3):267-300.
Schildkraut,Deborah. 2014. “Boundaries of America Identity: Evolving Understandings of “Us”.”Annual Review of Political Science,17: 441-460.
Anderson, Benedict.2006. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism,Revised Edition. London: Verso.
Varietiesof democracy
Przeworski, Adam. 2009. “Conquered or Granted? A History of Franchise Extensions.” British Journal of Political Science, 39(2): 291-321.
Dalton,Russell J., Susan E. Scarrow and Bruce E. Cain. 2004. “Advanced Democracies and the New Politics.” Journal of democracy, 15(1): 124-138.
Skaaning, Svend-Erik, John Gerring, and Henrikas Bartusevičius. 2015. “A Lexical Index of Electoral Democracy.” Comparative Political Studies, 48(12): 1491-1525.
Vatter, Adrian,Matthew Flinders, and Julian Bernauer. 2014. “A Global Trend Toward Democratic Convergence? A Lijphartian Analysis of Advanced Democracies.” Comparative Political Studies, 47(6): 903-929.
Seawright, Jason and David Collier. 2014. “Rival Strategiesof Validation: Tools for Evaluating Measures of Democracy.” Comparative Political Studies, 47(1):111-138.
Is Democracy in Decline?
Foa, Roberto Stepan and Yascha Mounk. 2016. “The Dangerof Deconsolidation: The Democratic Disconnect.”Journal of Democracy,27(3): 5-17.
Foa, Roberto Stepan and Yascha Mounk. 2017. “The Signs of Deconsolidation.” Journal of Democracy, 28(1): 5-15.
Inglehart,Ronald F. 2016. “How much Should We Worry?” Journal of Democracy, 27(3): 16-23.
Diamond,Larry. 2015. “Facing Up to the Democratic Recession.” Journal of democracy, 26(1): 141-155.
Levitsky,Steven and Lucan Way. 2015. “The Myth of Democratic Recession.” Journal of democracy, 26(1): 45-58.
Schmitter,Philippe C. 2015. “Crisis and Transition, but not Decline.” Journal of democracy, 26(1): 32-44.
Bermeo, Nancy. 2016. “On Democratic Backsliding.” Journal of Democracy 27(1):5-19.
Inequality and Democracy
Hacker, Jacob S. and Paul Pierson. 2010. “Winner-TakeAll Politics: Public Policy, Political Organization, and the Precipitous Riseof Top Incomes in the Unites States. Politicsand Society, 38(2): 152-204.
Iversen, Torben and David Soskice. 2015. “Information,Inequality, and Mass Polarization: Ideology in Advanced Democracies.” Comparative Political Studies, 48(13): 1781-1813.
Houle, Christian. 2015. “EthnicInequality and the Dismantling of Democracy: A Global Analysis.” World Politics, 67(3): 469-505.
Rudra, Nita and Jennifer L. Tobin. (forthcoming). “Globalization and Poverty.” Annual Reviewof Political Science, Vol.20.
Houle, Christian. 2009.“Inequality and Democracy: Why Inequality Harms Consolidation but Does Not Affect Democratization.” World Politics,61(4): 589-622.
Boix,Carles.2015. Political Order and Inequality. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Ansell, Ben W. and David J. Samuels. 2014. Inequality and Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach. New York: Cambridge University Press.
International Linkage
Wright,Joseph. 2009. “How Foreign Aid Can Foster Democratization in Authoritarian Regimes.” American Journal of PoliticalScience, 53(3): 552-571.
MichaelK. Miller, 2016. Democracy by Example? Why Democracy Spreads When the World’s Democracies Prosper. Comparative Politics,49(1): 83-104.
Poast Paul. and Johannes Urpelainen. 2015.“How International Organizations Support Democratization: Preventing Authoritarian Reversals or Promoting Consolidation?” World Politics, 67(1): 72-113.
Leeson,Peter T. and Andrea M. Dean. 2009. “The Democratic Domino Theory: An Empirical Investigation. American Journal of Political Science, 53(3): 533-551.
Carothers, Thomas.2009. “Democracy Assistance: Political VS. Developmental?” Journal of Democracy, 20(1): 5-19.
Levitsky,Steven and Lucan W. Way. 2005. “International Linkage and Democratization.” Journal of Democracy, 16(3): 20-34.
deMesquita, Bruce Bueno and George W. Downs. 2006. “Intervention and Democracy.” International Organization, 60(3):626-649.
Authoritarian Resilience
Knutsen,Carl Henrik, HÅvard Mokleiv Nyg Ård, and Tore Wig Autocratic. 2017. “ElectionsStabilizing Tool or Force for Change?” WorldPolitics, 69(1): 98-143
Knutsen, Carl Henrik and Havard Mokleiv Nygard.2015. “Institutional Characteristics and Regime Survival: Why Are Semi-Democracies less Durable than Autocracies and Democracies?” American Journal of Political Science, 59(3): 656-670.
Truex, Roxy. 2017. Consultative Authoritarianism and Its Limits.” Comparative Political Studies, 50(3): 329-361.
Bellin, Eva. 2012. “Reconsidering the Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East. Comparative Politics, 44(2): 127-149.
Brownlee,Jason. 2007. Authoritarianism in the Age of Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gandhi,Jennifer. 2008. Political Institutions under Authoritarianism. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.
Transition to Democracy
Munck, Gerardo L. 2011. “Democracy Theory after Transitions from Authoritarian Rule,” Perspectiveson Politics, 9(2): 333-343.
Pop-Eleches,Grigore and Graeme B. Robertson. 2015. “Structural Conditions and Democratization.” Journal of democracy, 26(3): 144-156.
Haggard, Stephan, and Robert R.Kaufman. 2016.Dictators and Democrats: Masses, Elite and Regime Change. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Albertus, Michael and Victor Menaldo. 2012. “Coercive Capacity and the Prospects for Democratization.” Comparative Politics, 44(2): 151-169.
Bunce,Valerie, Michael McFaul, Kathryn Stoner-Weiss. 2010. Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World. NewYork: Cambridge University Press.
Munck,Gerardo. 2009. Measuring Democracy: A Bridge Between Scholarship and Politics. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Teorell, Jan. 2010. Determinants of Democratization: Explaining Regime Change in the World, 1972- 2006. New York: Cambridge University Press.
The Economic Determinants of Democracy and Dictatorship
Przeworski,Adam, Michael E. Alvarez, Jose Antonio Cheibub, and Fernado Limongi. 2000.Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in theWorld, 1950-1990, pp. 78-141. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Richard F. Doner and Ben Ross Schneider. 2016. “The Middle-Income Trap More Politicsthan Economics”. World Politics,68(4): 608–644.
Tang,min, Narissong and Qiang Zhou. 2017. “Contingent Democratization: When DoEconomic Crises Matter?” British Journal of Political Science. 47(1): 71–90.
Trieman,Daniel. 2015. “Income, Democracy, and Leader Turnover.” American Journal of Political Science, 59(4): 927-942.
Acemoglu, Daron and James A. Robinson. 2006. Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, Ch. 1 & 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Cultural Determinants of Democracyand Dictatorship
Welzel, Christian and Alejandro M. Alvarez. 2014. “Enlightening People: The Spark of Emancipative Values.” In The Civic Culture Transformed: From Allegiant to Assertive Citizens,eds. Russell Dalton and Christian Welzel. New York: Cambridge University Press,pp. 59-90.
Bell, Daniel A. 2017.“Comparing Political Values in China and the West: What Can Be Learned and Why It Matters.” Annual Review of Political Science, Vol.20.
Akkerman, Agnes, Cas Mudde, and Andrej Zaslove. 2014.“How Populist Are the People?Measuring Populist Attitudes in Voters.” Comparative Political Studies,47(9): 1324–1353.
Shin, Doh C. 2012. Confucianism and Democratization in East Asia. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Daniel A. Bell. 2015. The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Constitutions
Linz Juan J. 1990. “The Perils of Presidentialism.” Journal of Democracy, 1(1): 51-69.
Hochstetler,Kathryn. 2006. “Rethinking Presidentialism: Challenges and Presidential Fallsin South America.” Comparative Politics,38(4): 401-418.
Cheibub, Jose A., Zachary Elkins and Tom Ginsburg.2014. “Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism.”British Journal of PoliticalScience, 44(3): 515-544.
Cheibub,Jose A. 2007. Presidentialism, Parliamentarianism,and Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Tsebelis,George. 2002. Veto Players. How Political Institutions Work. Princeton:Princeton University Press.
Electoral Systems
Benoit,Kenneth. 2007. ‘Electoral Laws as Political Consequences: Explaining the Origins and Change of Electoral Institutions.’ Annual Review of Political Science 10: 363‐90.
Blais,Andre, Agnieszka Dobrzynska, and Indridi H. Indridason. 2005. “To Adopt or notto Adopt Proportional Representation: The Politics of Institutional Choice.” British Journal of Political Science, 35(1): 182-190.
Van de Wardt, Marc. 2017.“Explaining the effective number of parties: Beyond the Standard Model.” Electoral Studies, 45: 44-54.
Colomer, Joseph M.2004. Handbook of Electoral System Choice. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Gallagher, Michael and Paul Mitchell. Eds. 2005. The Politics of Electoral Systems. Oxford University Press.
Shugart, Matthew and Martin Wattenberg. 2001. Mixed‐Member Electoral Systems. New York: Oxford University Press.