Conor O'Dwyer
POS 6933
Spring 2009
M 8:30-11:30 / Matherly 0007
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(Note: This is the full syllabus of record.)
POS 6933: State-Building
Office Hours in 203 Anderson:
M 2:45-3:45; W 10:45-11:45; and by appointment
Description
The
modern state is of central interest to students of comparative
politics, international relations, and American political
development.
Whether condemned as an instrument of repression or elevated as an
engine of economic development, the state is inarguably the fundamental
unit of national political organization in the world today.
Revisiting some of the foundational texts on state-building, this
course will examine the processes that produced the modern state in the
region where it first appeared, Western Europe. We will then
analyze
attempts to transplant this singular institutional innovation to
Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa, and East Asia. We will address the following questions: what is the
modern
state? In what historical circumstances did it originate? Can
state-builders in late-developing nations reproduce the institutional
forms of the modern state, or are these institutions inevitably altered
in transit? When does state-building fail and why?
Requirements
•Research
paper -- 10,000 words on a topic of the student's choosing in
consultation with me. Students will provide a 2-3 page prospectus by
February 16th. Further expectations for the paper and the
prospectus will be
presented in class (50% of grade, submit one hard copy and one electronic copy by email on April 22nd),
•In-class presentation of your research paper in the last three weeks of the semester -- approximately 20-30minutes plus discussion (20% of grade),
•The
goal here is to gain experience in how to condense and prepare written
research for a live audience, such as you might find at a professional
conference or in a job talk. This will also be an
opportunity to gather feedback on your research from the rest of the
class.
•Attendance and
participation in the class discussion, including presenting and leading
discussion for one of the class readings. (30% of grade) --
•Attendance
and participation in class discussion is a very important component of
this course, which is why it counts for 30% of the final grade.
Because this is a seminar, I assume full and active engagement in the
discussion and completion of the assigned readings before class.
•Each student will be expected to present one of the readings over
the course of the semester. This will consist of summarizing and
critiquing that reading's research question, argument, empirical
evidence, and methodology.
This presentation will serve as a jumping-off point for the class
discussion. A sign-up sheet will be circulated on the first day
of class to schedule these presentations.
Texts
The following books are available for purchase:
• State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century, Francis Fukuyama (Cornell University Press: 2004).
• The Development of the Modern State: A Sociological Introduction, Gianfranco Poggi (Stanford UP: 1978)
• Birth of the Leviathan, Thomas Ertman (Cambridge UP: 1997)
• Blood
and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America, Miguel Angel
Centeno (Pennsylvania State UP: 2003).
• Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization, Karen Barkey (Cornell UP: 1997).
• States and Power in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst (Princeton UP: 2000),
• Preying on the State: The Transformation of Bulgaria After 1989, Venelin Ganev (Cornell UP: 2007).
• State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery, Atuhl Kohli (Cambridge UP: 2004).
The
rest of the readings will be available on-line through E-RESERVES at
the university library (http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ -- click on the link
labeled "Course Reserves").
Part I: Theoretical Framework
Week 1 (January 12): Introduction to the Course
•
Theda Skocpol, "Bringing the State Back In: Strategies of Analysis in
Current Research," in P. Evans, D. Rueschemeyer, and T. Skocpol (eds.)
Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge: 1985): 3-43. (E-RESERVES)
• Mancur Olson, "Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development," APSR, 87:3 (1993): 567-76. (E-RESERVES)
January 19 -- MLK Holiday
Week 2 (January 26): Definitions and Concepts
• Francis Fukuyama, State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century
•
Otto Hintze, "The State in Historical Perspective," in R. Bendix et al.
(eds.) State and Society (Berkeley: UC Press, 1973): 154-69. (E-RESERVES)
• Max Weber, "Bureaucracy," in Economy and Society (Berkeley: UC Press, 1978): 956-983. (E-RESERVES)
•
Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power, Vol. II: The Rise of Classes
and Nation-States (New York: Cambridge UP, 1986): 44-91. (Available for short loan at the political science library in Anderson 316)
Available for viewing on the internet:
An interview with Michael Mann as part of UC Berkeley's "Conversations with History" Series.
Week 3 (February 2): Theories of State-Building
•
Charles Tilly, "War-Making and State-Making as Organized Crime," in C. Tilly Roads from Past to Future (Rowman & Littlefield: 1997): 165-192. (E-RESERVES)
•
Otto Hintze, "Military Organization and the Organization of States," in
Felix Gilbert (ed.), The Historical Essays of Otto Hintze (New York:
Oxford UP, 1975): 178-215. (Available for short loan at the political science library in Anderson 316)
•
Bernard Silberman, Cages of Reason: The Rise of the Rational State in
France, Japan, the United States, and Great Britain
(Chicago:
University of Chicago, 1993): pp. 1-84, focus your attention on pp.
34-84. (Available for short loan at the political science library
in Anderson 316)
Recommended:
•
Douglass North and Barry Weingast, "Constitutions and Commitment: The
Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in
Seventeenth-Century England," Journal of Economic History (December
1989): 803-32.
•
Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital, and European States: AD 990-1990,
(Basil Blackwell 1990): Chapter 1 "Cities and States in World History,"
pp. 1-37.
Part II: State-Building in Europe
Week 4 (February 9): A Schematic Picture of European State-Building
• Gianfranco Poggi, The Development of the Modern State: A Sociological Introduction (Stanford UP: 1978)
•
Daniel Ziblatt (2004), "Rethinking the Origins of Federalism: Puzzle,
Theory, and Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Europe," World Politics
57(1): 70–98. (E-RESERVES)
•
Otto Hintze, "The Nature of Feudalism," in Frederic Cheyette (ed.),
Lordship and Community in Medieval Europe (New York: Holt, Rinehart,
and Winston, 1968): 22-31. (Available for short loan at the political science library in Anderson 316)
Recommended:
•
Max Weber, "The Social Causes of the Decline of Ancient Civilization,"
in: idem, The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations (London:
Verso, 1988): 389-411. (Available for short loan at the political science library in Anderson 316)
•
Otto Brunner, "Feudalism: The History of a Concept," in Frederic
Cheyette (ed.), Lordship and Community in Medieval Europe (New York:
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1968): 32-56. (Available for short loan at the political science library in Anderson 316)
•
Otto Hintze, "Calvinism and Raison d'Etat in Early Seventeenth Century
Brandenburg," in Felix Gilbert (ed.), The Historical Essays of Otto
Hintze (New York: Oxford UP, 1975): 88-107.
•
Daniel Ziblatt, Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006)
Week 5 (February 16): European State-Building in Practice
• Thomas Ertman. Birth of the Leviathan. (Cambridge: CUP, 1997).
Recommended:
•
Otto Hintze, "The Preconditions of Representative Government in the
Context of World History," in Felix Gilbert (ed.), The Historical
Essays of Otto Hintze (New York: Oxford UP, 1975): 302-353.
• Perry Anderson, Lineages of the Absolutist State.
•
R.R. Palmer and Joel Colton, A History of the Modern World (New York:
McGraw Hill, 1992): 53-57, 61-93, 126-149, 160-163, 169-181, 190-197,
226-234, 264-285, 326-336.
• Maurice Keen, The Pelican History of Modern Europe (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968).
Available for viewing on the internet:
An interview with Perry Anderson as part of UC Berkeley's "Conversations with History" Series.
Paper Prospectus due in class -- February 16th.
Week 6 (February 23): State-Building on Europe's Periphery (Part 1): The Ottoman Empire
• Karen Barkey, Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization
Week 7 (March 2): State-Building on Europe's Periphery (Part 2): Postcommunist State-Building
• Preying on the State: The Transformation of Bulgaria After 1989, Venelin Ganev (Cornell UP: 2007).
• K. Darden and A. Grzymała-Busse (2006), "The Great Divide: Precommunist Schooling and Postcommunist Trajectories," World Politics 59(1): 83-115. (E-RESERVES)
Recommended:
Vadim Volkov, Violent Entrepreneurs: The Use of Force in the Making of Russian Capitalism (Cornell UP: 2002)
March 9 -- Spring Break
Week 8 (March 16): Ekiert's Visit
• TBA
Part III: State-Building Outside of Europe
Week 9 (March 23): Latin America
• Miguel Angel Centeno, Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America
•
Guillermo O'Donnell, "The Browning of Latin America," New Perspectives
Quarterly, Fall93, Vol. 10 Issue 4: 50-53. (E-RESERVES)
Week 10 (March 30): Africa
• Jeffrey Herbst, States and Power in Africa
•
William Reno, "Clandestine Economies, Violence and States in Africa,"
Journal of International Affairs 53(Spring 2000): 433-59.
(E-RESERVES)
Week 11 (April 6): Asia
• Atul Kohli, State-Directed Development (New York: Cambridge UP, 2004).
Recommended:
• David Waldner, State-Building and Late Development (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1999): chapter 6, pp. 125-52. (E-RESERVES)
• Alice Amsden, "The State and Taiwan's Economic Development," in P.
Evans, D. Rueschemeyer, and T. Skocpol (eds.) Bringing the State Back
In (Cambridge: 1985): 79-106. (E-RESERVES).
Week 12 (April 13): Presentations of Paper Projects (Part 1)
Week 13 (April 20): Presentations of Paper Projects (Part 2) / Summing Up
Papers due on April 22 by 5pm -- Submit one hard copy to my departmental mailbox and one electronic copy by email.