Political Science 137C
Transitions to Democracy

Fall 2005 - Tu Th 5PM-6:30PM - 2060 VLSB

M. Steven Fish
Office location: 744 Barrows (643-1943)
Office hours: TBA
Email address: sfish@berkeley.edu

GSI - Wendy M. Sinek
Sections 101 and 102
Office location: 779 Barrows Hall
Office hours: Friday, 3-5, or by appt.
Email address: wsinek@berkeley.edu
GSI - Sener Akturk
Sections 103 and 104
Office location: 777 Barrows Hall
Office hours: Thursday, 7:30-9:30 p.m. or by appt.
Email address: sakturk@berkeley.edu

Discussion Board

Additional Resources

Course Syllabus in Adobe .pdf format

Week 1 (Aug. 30 & Sept. 1): Studying Democracy and Democratizaton

  • Philippe C. Schmitter and Terry Lynn Karl, "What Democracy is...and Is Not," ch. 4 in The Global Resurgence of Democracy
  • Larry Diamond, "Three Paradoxes of Democracy," ch. 8 in The Global Resurgence of Democracy
  • Amartya Sen, "Democracy as a Universal Value," ch.1 in The Global Resurgence of Democracy
  • Smith, Democracy in Latin America, introduction and ch.1

Week 2 (Sept. 6 & 8): Culture, Social Structure, and Leadership

  • Doh Chull Shin, "Mass Politics, Public Opinion, and Democracy in Korea," ch. 2 in Korea's Democratization
  • Smith, Democracy in Latin America, chs. 2 & 11
  • Chabal and Daloz, Africa Works, chs. 1, 3, &9

Week 3 (Sept. 13 & 15): Civil Society and Social Movements

  • Smith, Democracy in Latin America, ch. 9
  • Wendy Muse Sinek, "Emerging Social Movements and Grassroots Change," Jan Knippers Black, ed., Latin America: Its Problems and Its Promise (Cambridge, Mass.: Westview, 2005): 139-55. Online at Sinek 2005, Emerging Social Movements and Grassroots Change
  • M. Steven Fish, "Russia's Fourth Transition," ch. 22 in The Global Resurgence of Democracy
  • Sunhyuk Kim, "Civil Society and Democratizing Korea," ch. 3 in Korea's Democratization
  • Chabal and Daloz, Africa Works, ch. 2

Week 4 (Sept. 20 & 22): Political Parties and Elections

Week 5 (Sept. 27 &29): Religion

  • Abdou Filali-Ansary, "The Sources of Enlightened Muslim Thought," Journal of Democracy 14, 2 (April 2003): 19-33. Online at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/v014/14.2filali_ansary.pdf
  • Francis Fukuyama, "Confucianism and Democracy," ch. 3 in The Global Divergence if Democracies
  • Seungsook Moon, "Redrafting Democratizations through Women's Representation and Participation in the Republic of Korea," ch. 4 in Korea's Democratization
  • Chabal and Daloz, Africa Works, ch. 5

Week 6 (Oct. 4 & 6): The Military

THURSDAY OCTOBER 6: FIRST MIDTERM EXAM (covers material weeks 1-5)

  • Richard H. Kohn, "How Democracies Control the Military," ch. 20 in The Global Divergence of Democracies
  • Smith, Democracy in Latin America, ch. 3
  • Victor Cha, "Security and Democracy in South Korean Development," ch. 8 in Korea's Democratization

Week 7 (Oct. 11 & 13): Ethnicity and Nationalism

Week 8 (Oct. 18 & 20): Constitutional and Electoral Systems I

  • Juan J. Linz, "The Perils of Presidentialism," ch. 9 in The Global Resurgence of Democracy
  • Donald L. Horowitz, "Comparing Democratic Systems," ch. 10 in The Global Resurgence of Democracy
  • Juan J. Linz, "The Virtues of Parliamentarism," ch. 12 in The Global Resurgence of Democracy
  • Arend Lijphart, "Constitutional Choices for New Democracies," ch. 13 in The Global Resurgence of Democracy
  • Guy Lardeyret, "The Problem with PR," ch. 14 in The Global Resurgence of Democracy
  • Quentin L. Quade, "PR and Democratic Statecraft," ch. 15 in The Global Resurgence of Democracy
  • Arend Lijphart, "Double-Checking the Evidence," ch. 16 in The Global Resurgence of Democracy

Week 9 (Oct. 25 & 27): Constitutional and Electoral Systems II

  • Smith, Democracy in Latin America, ch. 5 & pp. 156-75

Week 10 (Nov. 1 & 3): The Economy

  • Smith, Democracy in Latin America, ch. 8
  • Jorge I. Dominguez, "Free Politics and Free Markets in Latin America," ch. 18 in The Global Resurgence of Democracy
  • C. S. Eliot Kang, "The Developmental State and Democratic Consolidation in South Korea," ch. 9 in Korea's Democratization

Week 11 (Nov. 8 & 10): The International Environment I

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 8: SECOND MIDTERM EXAM (covers material weeks 6-10)

  • Smith, Democracy in Latin America, ch. 4

Week 12 (Nov. 15 & 17): The International Environment II

Week 13 (Nov. 22): Limits and Failures of Democratization I

  • Guillermo O'Donnell, "Delegative Democracy," ch. 7 in The Global Resurgence of Democracy
  • Smith, Democracy in Latin America, ch. 10
  • Fish, Democracy Derailed in Russia, chs. 1-3

Week 14 (Nov. 29 & Dec. 1): Limits and Failures of Democratization II

  • Fish, Democracy Derailed in Russia, chs. 4-8

Week 15 (Dec. 6 & 8): Reflections on the Prospects for Democracy

  • Michel Oksenburg, "Will China Democratize?," ch. 25 in The Global Divergence of Democracies
  • Rod Alence, "South Africa after Apartheid: The First Decade," ,Journal of Democracy 15, 3 (July 2004): 78-92. Online at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/v015/15.3alence.pdf
  • Smith, Democracy in Latin America, ch. 12 and epilogue
  • Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan, "Toward Consolidated Democracies," ch. 8 in The Global Divergence of Democracies

THURSDAY, DEC. 8: FINAL EXAM (cumulative, with emphasis on material weeks 11-15)

Charles and Louise Travers
Department of Political Science
210 Barrows Hall
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1950

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