SemesterFall Semester, 2018
DepartmentGraduate Institute of Russian Studies MA Program, First Year Graduate Institute of Russian Studies MA Program, Second Year
Course NamePost-Communist Democratization
InstructorLIN YUNG-FANG
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
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週次



Week



課程主題



Topic



課程內容與指定閱讀



Content and Reading Assignment



教學活動與作業



Teaching Activities and Homework



學習投入時間



Student workload expectation



課堂講授



In-class Hours



課程前後



Outside-of-class Hours



1



Introduction



 



The weekly topic is assigned with two articles (journal articles or book chapters).



 



Discussion



 



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2



Theories of Democratization



 





  • Christian Welzel, “Theories of Democratization,” in Christian W. Haerpfer, et al., eds, Democratization (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009),, ch. 6.




  • Grzegorz Ekiert, “Three Generations of Research on Post-Communist Politics–A Sketch,” East European Politics and Societies and Cultures, Vol. 29, No. 2 (May 2015), pp. 323-337.





Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading



3



6



3



Measuring Democracy and Democratization



 





  • Patrick Bernhagen, “Measuring Democracy and Democratization,” in Haerpfer, et al., eds, Democratization, ch. 3.




  • Larry Diamond, In Search of Democracy (London: Routledge, 2016), ch. 3.





 



Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading



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4



National Day (Holiday)



 



 



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5



The Authoritarian Resurgence



 





  • Martin K. Dimitrov, “Understanding Communist Collapse and Resilience,” in Martin K. Dimitrov, ed., Why Communism Did Not Collapse: Understanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), ch. 1.




  • Thomas Ambrosio, “Beyond the Transition Paradigm: A Research Agenda for Authoritarian Consolidation,” Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Summer 2014), pp. 471-494.





Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading



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6



Constitutional Engineering and Democratization



 





  • Robert Elgie and Sophia Moestrup, “Semi-Presidentialism in Democracies, Quasi-Democracies, and Autocracies,” in Robert Elgie and Sophia Moestrup, eds., Semi-Presidentialism in the Caucasus and Central Asia (London: Palgrave, 2016), ch. 1.




  • Henry E. Hale, “The Informal Politics of Formal Constitutions: Rethinking the Effects of ‘Presidentialism’ and ‘Parliamentarism’ in the Cases of Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, and Ukraine,” in Tom Ginsburg and Alberto Simpser, eds., Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014), ch. 10.





Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading



3



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7



Political Parties and Democratization



 





  • Max Bader, “Hegemonic Political Parties in Post-Soviet Eurasia: Towards Party-Based Authoritarianism?” Communist and Post-Communist Studies Vol. 44, No. 3 (Sept. 2011), pp. 189-197.




  • Andrey Semenov, Olesya Lobanova and Margarita Zavadskaya, “When Do Political Parties Join Protests? A Comparative Analysis of Party Involvement in ‘For Fair Elections’ Movement,” East European Politics, Vol. 32, No. 1 (2016), pp. 81-104.





Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading



3



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8



Elections and Democratization



 





  • Joshua A. Tucker, “Enough! Electoral Fraud, Collective Action problems, and Post-Communist Colored Revolutions,” Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Sept. 2007), pp. 535-551.




  • Alanna C. Van Antwerp and Nathan J. Brown, “The Electoral Model without Elections? The Arab Uprisings of 2011 and the Color Revolutions in Comparative Perspective,” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Spring 2018), pp. 195-226.





Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading



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9



Civil Society and Democratization



 





  • Larry Diamond, In Search of Democracy, ch. 6.




  • Francesco Cavatorta, “Civil Society Activism under Authoritarian Constraints,” in Francesco Cavatorta, ed., Civil Society Activism under Authoritarian Rule: A Comparative Perspective (London: Routledge, 2013), ch. 1.





Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading



3



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10



The Media and Democratization



 





  • Katrin Voltmer and Gary Rawnsley, “The Media,” in Haerpfer, et al., eds, Democratization, ch. 16.




  • Maria Repnikova, “Media Openings and Political Transitions: Glasnost versus Yulun Jiandu,” Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 64, Nos. 3-4 (2017), pp. 141-151.





Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading



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11



Political Elite and Democratization 



 





  • Alexander Baturo, “From Patronal First Secretary to Patronal President: Post- Soviet Political Regimes in Context,” in Elgie and Moestrup, eds., Semi-Presidentialism in the Caucasus and Central Asia, ch. 2.




  • Karrie J. Koesel, “Guardians of the Status Quo: Stopping the Diffusion of Popular Challenges to Authoritarian Rule,” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Spring 2018), pp. 251-284.





Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading



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12



State Governance and Democratization



 





  • Linda J. Cook & Martin K. Dimitrov, “The Social Contract Revisited: Evidence from Communist and State Capitalist Economies,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Jan. 2017), pp. 8-26.




  • Alexander Cooley, John Heathershaw, and J. C. Sharman, “Laundering Cash, Whitewashing Reputations,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 29, No. 1 (January 2018), pp. 39-53.





Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading



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13



Economic Development and Democratization



 





  • Jose Antonio Cheibub and James Raymond Vreeland, “Economic Development and Democratization,” in Nathan J. Brown, ed., The Dynamics of Democratization: Dictatorship, Development, and Diffusion (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011), ch. 6.




  • Ian McAllister & Stephen White, “Economic Change and Public Support for Democracy in China and Russia,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Jan. 2017), pp. 76-91.





Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading



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14



Transitional Justice and Democratization





  • Michael Bernhard and Jan Kubik, eds., Twenty Years after Communism: The Politics of Memory and Commemoration (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014), ch. 1.




  • Monika Nalepa, Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010), ch. 1.





Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading



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15



Nationalism, Populism, and Democratization



 





  • Ellen Carnaghan, “From Balcony to Barricade: Nationalism and Popular Mobilisation in Georgia, Ukraine, and Russia,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 68, No. 9 (Nov. 2016), pp. 1579-1607.




  • Cas Mudde and Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser, “Populism and (Liberal) Democracy: A Framework for Analysis,” in Cas Mudde and Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser, eds., Populism in Europe and the Americas: Threat or Corrective for Democracy? (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012), ch. 1.





Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading



3



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16



Civil-Military Relations and Democratization 



 





  • Zoltan Barany, The Soldier and the Changing State: Building Democratic Armies in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012), ch. 1.




  • Aurel Croissant, David Kuehn, and Tanja Eschenauer, “Mass Protests and the Military,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 29, No. 3 (July 2018), pp. 141-155.





Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading



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External Influence and Democratization



 





  • Thomas Risse and Nelli Babayan, “Democracy Promotion and the Challenges of Illiberal Regional Powers: Introduction to the Special Issue,” Democratization, Vol. 22, No. 3 (2015), pp. 381-399.




  • Laurence Whitehead, “Antidemocracy Promotion: Four Strategies in Search of a Framework,” Taiwan Journal of Democracy, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Dec. 2014), pp. 1-24.





Discussion/Lecture/Presentation/Reading



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Final Paper



No reading assignment



Discussion



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Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant
Requirement/Grading


  • Class participation (25%): Students are expected to attend regularly, to read the assigned readings, and to actively participate in class discussions.




  • Presentations (25%): Each student is required to give three ten-minute oral presentations. The first two are to present reviews of the assigned readings of the weekly topic, and the final one is to present the research proposal of the final paper.




  • Final paper (50%): Each student is required to write a research paper (5,000-8,000 words) related to the topics covered in the course.




Textbook & Reference

Please see the attached file.


Urls about Course
Attachment

syllabus.pdf