Professor Paul
StarrReadings:
= Web, J-STOR, or e-reserve; 
= reprint;
= Firestone Reserve or Graduate Reading Room.
March 28. Power: classical debates
Max Weber, Economy and Society (Bedminster Press, 1968),
v. 3, 941-955 ("Domination and Legitimacy"), 956-963 and 980-994 ("Bureaucracy"), 1006-1015 ("Patriarchalism
and Patrimonialism"), 1111-1135 and 1148-1156 ("Charisma and Its Transformations").Nelson W. Polsby, "How to Study Community Power: The Pluralist Alternative,"
Journal of Politics 22 (Aug., 1960), 474-484. John Gaventa, Power and Powerlessness:
Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois
Press, 1980), 3-32.Robert Michels, Political Parties (Free Press, 1968), Parts 1 and 6. Steven Lukes, Power: A Radical View (Macmillan, 1974). Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power (Cambridge University Press, 1986), v. 1,
1-33, 518-541.
April 4. States and state-building
J.P. Nettl, "The State as a Conceptual Variable,"
World Politics 20 (July 1968), 559-592.
Theda Skocpol, " Bringing the State Back In:
Strategies of Analysis in Current Research, " in Peter R. Evans, Dietrich
Ruesdchemeyer, and Theda Skocpol, eds., Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge
University Press, 1985), 3-37. Charles Tilly, "War Making and State Making
as Organized Crime," in ibid, 169-191. Stephen Holmes, "What Russia
Teaches Us Now: How Weak States Threaten
Freedom," The American Prospect no. 33 (July-
August 1997): 30-39.
Gianfranco Poggi, The Development of the
Modern State
(Stanford University Press, 1978), 1-15, 86-116.
Rudolf Braun, "Taxation, Sociopolitical Structure,
and State-Building: Great Britain and Brandenburg-
Prussia," in Charles Tilly, ed., The Formation of
National States in Western Europe (Princeton University
Press, 1975), 243-327.
Charles Tilly, "Western State-Making and Theories of
Political Transformation," in Tilly, ed., The Formation
of National States in Western Europe, 601-638.James Scott, Seeing Like a State (Yale University Press, 1998).April 11. Revolutions
Randall Collins, Macrohistory: Essays in Sociology of the Long Run
(Stanford University Press, 1999), [chapter on revolutions]. Barrington Moore, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
(Beacon Press 1966). Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions
(Cambridge University Press, 1979). Jack Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World
(University of California Press, 1991). Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (Random House,
1991), part I.April 18. American politics and state formation in comparative perspective
Seymour Martin Lipset, Continental
Divide: The Values and
Institutions of the United States and Canada (Routledge,
1990), Chs. 1-3, 5-9. Stephen Skowronek, Building a New American
State (Cambridge University Press, 1982), 3-33 (Chs. 1-2).Richard Bensel, Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of
Central State Authority in America 1859-1877 (Cambridge
University Press, 1990), Chs. 1-3. Martin Shefter, Political Parties and the State: The
American Historical Experience (Princeton University Press, 1994), Chs. 1-3. Aaron L. Friedberg,
In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America’s Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Grand Strategy
(Princeton University Press, 2000), Introduction, Chs. 1-3, 9.
April 25. The state and the capitalist economy
Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and
Democracy, 3d ed. (Harper & Row, 1950 [orig. ed. 1942]), Ch. 7 (81-86), Ch. 11-12 (120-55).Douglass C. North, Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance (Cambridge University Press, 1990),
pages to be assigned.
Robert Wuthnow, Communities of Discourse: Ideology and Social Structure in the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and European socialism (Harvard University Press, 1989), Part I.
Richard Franklin Bensel, The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900
(Cambridge University Press, 2000). Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (Beacon Press, 1965).David Vogel, "Why Businessmen Distrust Their State: The Political Consciousness
of American Corporate Executives," British Journal of Political Science 8 (1978), 45-78. David Vogel, Kindred Strangers: The Uneasy Relationship between Politics and Business in America
(Princeton University Press, 1996), 239-322.May 2. States, nations, and civil society
Philippe C. Schmitter, " Still the
Century of Corporatism?
" Review of Politics 36 (1974): 85-131.
Robert H. Salisbury, " Why No Corporatism in America? "
in Skocpol and Campbell, eds., American Society and
Politics, pp. 271-280. Alexis de
Tocqueville, Democracy
in America,
vol. 1, ch. 12 ("Political Associations in The United
States");
vol. 2, Sec. 2, Ch. 2 ("Of Individualism in Democratic
Countries"),
Ch. 4 ("That the Americans Combat the Effects of
Individualism with Free
Institutions"),
Ch.
5 ("Of the Uses which the Americans Make of Public
Associations").Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone
(Simon and Schuster, 2000), Chs. 1-3.Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities rev. ed (London: Verso, 1991).
Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone
(Simon and Schuster, 2000), Chs. 4-15.
Michael Schudson, The Good Citizen (New York: Free Press,
1998), 1-10; 90-132; 144-187; 294-314.