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
| 3 | 0 | 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 | 3 | 6 | 4 | National Day (Holiday) | | | 0 | 0 | 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 | 3 | 6 | 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 | 6 | 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 | 6 | 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 | 3 | 6 | 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 | 6 | 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 | 3 | 6 | 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 | 3 | 6 | 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 | 3 | 6 | 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 | 3 | 6 | 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 | 3 | 6 | 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 | 6 | 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 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 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 | 3 | 6 | 18 | Final Paper | No reading assignment | Discussion | 0 | 0 |
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