Professor Paul
StarrNote: Students are expected to do the common readings each week and to report on three of the optional books over the course of the seminar. This is a departmental mini-seminar, open to graduate students only.
Where to find the readings:
= Firestone Reserve/Graduate Reading Room (paper).
= Electronic reserve/Blackboard course documents/xerox.
= World Wide Web (hyperlink from syllabus).
= Recommended for purchase.
February 7. Power: theoretical 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. Steven Lukes, Power: A Radical View, 2nd ed. (New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). [Note: Second edition is drastically different from the first.]
February 14. States and state-building
Gianfranco Poggi, The Development of the Modern State (Stanford University Press, 1978), 1-15, 86-116. Michael Mann, “The Autonomous Power of theState: Its Origins, Mechanisms, and Results,” in John A. Hall, ed., States in History (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986). 109-36 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. Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1990 (Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 1990).
Phillip Gorski, The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Modern Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003).
James C. Scott, Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990).
February 21. Origins of Constitutional Liberalism and Authoritarianism
Randall Collins, Macrohistory: Essays in Sociology of the Long Run
(Stanford University Press, 1999), [chapter on revolutions]. Paul Starr, "The Creative Reluctance of Liberal Statecraft," forthcoming. Barrington Moore, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
(Beacon Press 1966). Thomas Ertman, Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and
Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe 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).February 28. 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). Ira Katznelson, "Rewriting the Epic of America," in Ira Katznelson and Martin Shefter, eds.,
Shaped by War and Trade: International Influences on American Political Development
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002), 3-23.
Richard Bensel, Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of
Central State Authority in America 1859-1877 (Cambridge University Press, 1990), Chs. 1-3. Theda Skocpol, Protecting soldiers and mothers : the political origins of social policy in the United States
(Harvard University Press, 1992)
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.
March 7. Capitalism, Development, and Democracy
Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and
Democracy, 3d ed. (Harper & Row, 1950 [orig. ed. 1942]), Ch. 7 (81-86), Ch. 11-12 (120-55). Adam Przeworski, Democracy and Development : Political Institutions and Material
Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990 (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Ch. 1. Samuel Huntington, The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century
(Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1991), pages to be assigned. Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (Beacon Press, 1965). T.H. Marshall, Citizenship and Social Class, and Other Essays (Cambridge, UK: University Press, 1950), title essay.
Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Evelyne Huber Stephens, and John D. Stephens, Capitalist Development and Democracy
(Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992).
Morton H. Halperin, Joseph T. Siegle, and Michael M. Weinstein, The Democracy Advantage: How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace (Routledge, 2005).March 14. States, nations, and civil society
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. 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.
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities rev. ed (London: Verso, 1991).
Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone
(Simon and Schuster, 2000), Chs. 4-15. Theda Skocpol and Morris P. Fiorina, eds., Civic Engagement in American Democracy (Brookings Institution, 1999).
Michael Schudson, The Good Citizen (New York: Free Press,
1998), 1-10; 90-132; 144-187; 294-314.