DEMOCRACY and DICTATORSHIP - Syllabus - NYU PDF
DEMOCRACY and DICTATORSHIP - Syllabus - NYU PDF
DEMOCRACY and DICTATORSHIP - Syllabus - NYU PDF
Other basics
* Try not to fall asleep in class (if youre really in trouble, feel free to stand up and
stretch).
* Please dont read newspapers, books, or use headphones or other electronic devices in
class. You may use computers to take notes at my discretion; if they are being used (or
seem to be being used) for anything other than this, or if they become distracting, I will
ask you to turn them off.
* PLEASE TURN OFF CELL PHONES!
* Eating and drinking is fine, but try not to bring anything too messy or too smelly.
* Make sure all your work is your own and that you properly cite all sources. Also make
sure you know the difference between paraphrasing, summarizing and quoting and when
they are necessary. If you do not know how to paraphrase somebody elses argument
properly and think plagiarism is fair game, make sure you check several internet
resources on the subject including but not limited to these sources
http://www.utoronto.ca/ucwriting/paraphrase.html ;
http://gervaseprograms.georgetown.edu/hc/plagiarism.html Plagiarism is grounds for
failure of a given piece of work, the entire course; it could also result in expulsion.
* If you have a physical, perceptual, or learning disability, please contact the NYU
Center for Students with Disabilities @ http://www.nyu.edu/osl/csd/ and inform me as
soon as possible so we can provide appropriate accommodation.
Course Schedule
Week One
I- Regime Types: What is Democracy?
Introduction and Overview The Ancients
Monday, June 25
Introduction to the course
Terence Ball and Richard Dagger, eds., Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader, (HarperCollins,
1991): Euripides, Democracy and Despotism,; Machiavelli, Whats Wrong with
Princely Rule?; John Adams, What is a Republic?; Alexis de Tocqueville,
Democracy and Equality,; JS Mill, Democratic Participation and Political
Education,; Michael Walzer, Town Meetings and Workers Control,.
Wednesday, June 27
Held, David. 1996. Models of Democracy. Chapter 1.
Thucydides, 1928 [431 B.C.], Pericles Funeral Oration, in The Internet Classics
Archive: The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, The Second Book,
ChapVI, pp.12-16, at http://classics.mit.edu/Thucydides/pelopwar.2.second.html
B. Constant, The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns, from
Political Writings, translated and edited by Biancamaria Fontana, Cambridge: CUP,
1988, pp 309-328
Week Two
Social and Economic Origins of Democracy
Monday, July 2nd
Potter, David, David Goldblatt, Margaret Kiloh and Paul Lewis. 1997. Democratization.
Chapter 1 and Chapter 2
Phillips, Kevin. 2002. Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich.
Chapter 7 and skim Chapter 8.
Wednesday, July 4th NO CLASS
Week Three
Contemporary Theories of Democracy
Monday, July 9
Ware, Alan, "Liberal Democracy: One Form or Many?" Political Studies, XL, Special
Issue, pp. 130-145.
Philippe Schmitter and Terry Lynn Karl, "What Democracy is...and is Not," Journal of
Democracy, Volume 2, No. 3, Summer 1991, pp. 75-87.
Mann, Michael. 2005. Argument & Genocidal Democracies, The Dark Side of
Democracy.
Potter, David, David Goldblatt, Margaret Kiloh and Paul Lewis. 1997. Democratization.
Chapter 3
Week Four
Social and Economic Origins of Authoritarian Regimes
Monday, July 16
Moore, Barrington, The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Chapter VIII.
Wintrobe, Ronald. 1998. The Political Economy of Dictatorship. New York: Cambridge
University Press. Chapters 1-7, 9-10.
Przeworski, Adam and Fernando Limongi. 1993. "Political Regimes and Economic
Growth," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 7, pp. 51-69
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Readings: William Henry Chamberlin. 1965. The Russian Revolution, 1917-1921, Vol 1.
New York: Grosset and Dunlap. pp. 1-17.
Robert Tucker. 1974. Lenin as Revolutionary Hero in Robert Tucker Stalin as
Revolutionary. Norton. pp. 18-63.
Lenin, V. I. 1986. What Is To Be Done? Political Leadership: A Source Book. Ed.
Barbara Kellerman. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. Pp. 445-448.
Week Five
Monday, July 23
Stalin and Stalinism
Robert Tucker. 1974. The Emergence of Stalinism in Robert Tucker Stalin as
Revolutionary. New York: Norton. pp. 395-420.
Robert Tucker. 1965. Introduction in Robert Tucker and Stephen F. Cohen, eds., The
Great Purge Trial. New York: Grosset & Dunlap. pp. IX-XLVIII.
Suny, Ronald Grigor. 1997. Stalin and Stalinism: Power and Authority in Soviet Union,
1930-1953, in Ian Kershaw and Moshe Lewin, eds., Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships
in Comparison, pp. 26-53.
Lindholm, Charles. 1990. The Possessed Servant: Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.
Charisma. Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, pp. 93-116.
Kershaw, Ian. 1997. Working Towards the Fuhrer: Reflections on the Nature of Hitler
dictatorship in Ian Kershaw and Moshe Lewin, eds., Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships
in Comparison, pp. 88-107 (will distribute in class)
Week Six
IV- Hybrid Regimes?
A New-Wave of Semi Authoritarianism
Monday, July 30
Ottaway, Marina. 2003. Democracy Challenged: The Rise of Semi-Authoritarianism,
selections coursepack
Diamond, Larry, Thinking about Hybrid Regime, Journal of Democracy, April 2002.
Levitsky, Steve and Lucan Way, The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism, Journal of
Democracy, April 2002.
Tilly, Charles. 2006. Democratization & De-Democratization in Democracy.
Final EXAM