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Content and Reading Assignment

教學活動與作業

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Student workload expectation

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Introduction

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

For a detailed sylllabus, please see the attached course file.

Discussion

Twice a semester, students must prepare a ten-minute oral presentation, based on one of the assigned articles of their choice.

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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.

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Measuring Democracy and Democratization

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


• Michael Coppedge and David Kuehn, “Introduction: Absorbing the Four Methodological Disruptions in Democratization Research?” Democratization, Vol. 26, No. 1 (2019), pp. 1-20.

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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.


• David Waldner and Ellen Lust, “Unwelcome Change: Coming to Terms with Democratic Backsliding,” Annual Review of Political Science (2018), pp. 93-113.

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Constitutional Engineering and Democratization

• Petra Stykow, “The Devil in the Details: Constitutional Regime Types in Post-Soviet Eurasia,” Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 35, No. 2 (2019), pp. 122-139.


• 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.

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Political Parties and Democratization

• 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.


• Sergiu Gherghina, “Hijacked Direct Democracy: The Instrumental Use of Referendums in Romania,” East European Politics and Societies and Cultures, Vol. 33, No. 3 (August 2019), pp. 778-797.  

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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.

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Civil Society and Democratization

• Mark R. Beissinger, “ ‘Conventional’ and ‘Virtual’ Civil Societies in Autocratic Regimes,” Comparative Politics, Vol. 49, No. 3 (April 2017), pp. 351-371.


• Erica Chenoweth, “The Future of Nonviolent Resistance,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 31, No. 3 (July 2020), pp. 69-84.

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The Media and Democratization

• “Freedom and the Media 2019: A Downward Spiral,” Freedom House


• Joshua A. Tucker, et al., “From Liberation to Turmoil: Social Media and Democracy,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Oct. 2017), pp. 46-59.

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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.


• Aleks Szczerbiak, “Communist-forgiving or Communist-purging?: Public Attitudes towards Transitional Justice and Truth Revelation in Post-1989 Poland,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 69, No. 2 (March 2017), pp. 325-347.

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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.


• Jessica Allina-Pisano, “Social Contracts and Authoritarian Projects in Post-Soviet Space: The Use of Administrative Resource,” Communist and Post-Communist Studies 43 (2010), pp. 373-382.

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Economic Development and Democratization

• Hilary Appel and Mitchell A. Orenstein, “Why did Neoliberalism Triumph and Endure in the Post-Communist World?” Comparative Politics, Vol. 48, No. 3 (April 2016), pp. 313-331.


• Ryszard Rapacki, et al., “Emerging Varieties of Post-Communist Capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe: Where Do We Stand?” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 72, No. 4 (May 2020), pp. 565-592.

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Political Elite and Democratization

• Alexander Baturo, “From Patronal First Secretary to Patronal President: Post- Soviet Political Regimes in Context,” in Robert Elgie and Sophia Moestrup, eds., Semi-Presidentialism in the Caucasus and Central Asia (London: Palgrave, 2016),  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.

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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.

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Ethnic Politics, State-Building, and Democratization

• Svante E. Cornell, “Autonomy as a Source of Conflict: Caucasian Conflict in Theoretical Perspective,” World Politics 54 (Jan. 2002), pp. 245-276.


• Henry E. Hale, “The Makeup and Breakup of Ethnofederal States: Why Russia Survives Where the USSR Fell,” Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 3, No. 1 (March 2005), pp. 55-70.

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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.

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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.


• Alexander Libman and Anastassia V. Obydenkova, “Understanding Authoritarian Regionalism,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Oct. 2018), pp. 151-165.

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Final Paper

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