Teaching Comparative Politics: Course Content

Rationalist, Structuralist, Culturalist

• Ivy Hamerly - Three Theoretical Traditions (PowerPoint slides)
• Ivy Hamerly - Theoretical Lenses and Legislative Brawls
• Mark Irving Lichbach and Alan S. Zuckerman, Research Traditions and Theory in Comparative Politics: An Introduction

Democracy

• Rafael Alexandre Mello and Julie Mueller - Decolonizing the Study of Democracy
  • Institutional Structures Worksheet
  • Democracy Worksheet
  • Democracy Barometer Worksheet

Institutions

• Megan Hauser - Comparing Formal and Informal Institutions Using Real-World Examples

Populism

• Sally Bonsall - Using Art and Literature to Teach Populism in Political Science

Democracy and Authoritarianism

• Marlies Glasius, What authoritarianism is … and is not: a practice perspective, International Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 3, May 2018, Pages 515–533, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiy060
• Edward Gibson, Boundary Control: Subnational Authoritarianism in Democratic Countries, Cambridge, 2023
• Pamela Paxton, Women’s Suffrage in the Measurement of Democracy: Problems of Operationalization, Studies in Comparative International Development 35:92-111
• Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, MacMillan, 2019
• Shelia Fitzpatrick, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s, Oxford University Press, 2000
• Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, 2013. Why nations fail: The origins of power, prosperity, and poverty. Penguin Random House, 2013

Women's Rights and Gender Social Norms

• Mona Eltahawy, Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution, MacMillan, 2016
• Class of 2006 (documentary)

Electoral Institutions in MENA countries

• Lust-Okar, Ellen, and Amaney Ahmad Jamal. “Rulers and Rules: Reassessing the Influence of Regime Type on Electoral Law Formation.” Comparative Political Studies 35, no. 3 (2002): 337–66.

Politics of Palestine + Isreal Music

• Philip Metres, “The Role of Hip-Hop in the Israel & Palestine Conflict by Patience Fiodembo.”
• Carrie Giunta, “Ten Hip Hop Tracks that Demand Freedom for Palestine,” The Electronic Intifada (September 4, 2014)
  

Bollywood and BJP/Hindutva/Anti-Muslim Sentiment

• Jessie Yeung and Rhea Mogul, "A 'tidal change' in Bollywood," CNN

Democracy and Regimes:

• International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)
• World Bank Governance Indicator
• Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem)
• Our World in Data
• Economist Intelligence Unit Democracy Index
• Europa World

1. Mark L. Johnson; Angela Pashayan; Matthew Schuster; John Tures; Daniel Pedreira; and Cheryl Van Den Handel - A Casebook for Comparative Politics
2. Dino Bozonelos, Julia Wendt, Charlotte Lee, Jessica Scarffe, Masahiro Omae, Josh Franco, Byran Martin, and Stefan Veldhuis - Introduction to Comparative Government and Politics
3. Holly Oberle - Comparative Politics: A Practical Guide for a Globalizing World