Zusammenfassung der Ressource
CNS Part 1
- Ch.1: Intro, Evolution, & Approaches
- Readings
- Powell, Dalton, &
Strom
- States do
what?
- maintain security
- protect rights
- promote econ. efficiency
(property, public goods,
prevent externalities)
- promote social justice
- protect the weak
- Gov't is a problem when?
- Coercive
- Violate human rights
- Over-regulate/distort
- Rent-seeking
- What is a Political System?
- Challenge to multiethnic nation
states of building community
- Econ. dev &
democratization are
transformative
- Statistical vs. Case Studies. Variables.
- Structural-Functional Approach*
- Process vs.
System Functions
- Blondel
- CP has changed! From deductive to Inductive. Modern
phase started w/ 1950-60s global models
- New Institutionalism
- Rational Choice Theory
- Kohli, Evans, Katzenstein (Symposium
- Other theories and their threat to centrism
- New Regionalism
- Use of Counteractuals
- CP is problem-driven
- CP scholars pursue causal analysis
- Role of theory important due to quest to
make causal generalizations
- Ch. 2: Research Methodology
- Readings
- Diamond "Natural Experiments of History"
- Haiti vs. Dominican
Republic Comparison
- 81 Pacific Island (incl Easter
Island) Study - broader, statistical
- Geddes "Selection Bias in CP"
- Error: Selecting a dependent variable along
a path-dependent argument
- Selection of dependent variable along arbitrary
time series or historical case study
- Mill "How We Compare"
- Social Conditions ("cuase") produce "states of society (effect)
- Empirical Laws of Society
- Uniformities of coexistence
- Causality
("Succession")
- "Method of Agreement"
seeks similarities btwn
different cases
- "Method of Difference" seeks
difference btwn similar cases
- Sartori "Comparing & Miscomparing"
- Parochialism Invents
self-tailored terminology
- Misclassification
- Degreeism
- Concept Stretching
- CP has no "logical, methodological and linguistic discipline"
- Lichbach: Paradigms of CP
- Rationality
- Culture
- Explanation (TA)
- Structure
- Evidence (TA)
- "Discovery"
(Transparadigmatic
Alternative)
- Zuckerman "Explanation in CP"
- Comparatives must establish the
explanatory power of the
mechanisms they choose before
they are applied to research
- Ch. 3: The State & State Formation
- Readings
- Migdal "Researching the State"
- 3 Waves of State Formation
- 1. WWI & Collapse of Russian,
Austro-Hungarian, & Ottoman
Empires
- 2. Decolonization after WWII
- 3. Collapse of USSR
- 2 New approaches to CP:
- Large N (quantitative)
- In-depth (Qualitative)
- WEBER "What is a State?"
- Monopoly on the
legitimate use of
force within a
territory
- 3 Kinds of Legitimacy
- Traditional
- Charismatic
- Legal
- Tilly "War Making & State
Making as Organized Crime"
- States have 4 Functions:
- War Making
- State Making
- Protection
- Extraction (taxes to
fund 3 other
functions))
- TA: 4 C's for militant success
- Constituency
- Capital
- Coercive Capacity
- Coalition
- Fukuyama "State-building:
Governane & WO in 21st Cent"
- Expanding size of
state in the West;
begin to cut down in
1980s
- Dev'ing world state expanding;
IMF and World Bank advise to
lessen state role. Washington
Consensus.
- Successful State formation depends on:
- Culture
- Common Ethnicity
- Resources
- Geographical Features
- Common Language
- Coalition Partners
- Institutional Capacity
- Success Stories: Germany,
Japan, Taiwan, Korea,
Mexico, Chile
- Scope & Strength of State
& Econ Development
- Supply & Demand for Institutions.
Limited effectiveness transferring
Western institutions
- Ch. 4: Democracies vs.
Authoritarian Regimes
- Readings
- Dahl "Democracy & its critics"
- More inclusive over time
- Scale of democracy has
expanded
- 3 Milestones:
- Incorporation (who can vote)
- Representation (right
to form parties)
- Organized Opposition
(right to vote against)
- Brooker
"Non-Democratic
Regimes"
- Huntington "Democracy's Third Wave"
- Wave 1: 1820-1926 Euro/US
- Wave 2: 1945-62 Colonies
- Wave 3: 1970s-1990s Church,
EU, US change policies
- What is democracy?
- Dahl: has been variously conceived of as a distinctive
set of political institutions & practices, a particular body
of rights, a social and economic order, a system that
ensures certain esirable results, or a unique process of
making collective and binding decisions
- Weber: "The primary form of
government in modern times
- Different Types of Democracy
- Schumpter: Procedural
vs. Sustantive
- Lijphart Majoritarian vs. Consensus;
Coalescent vs. Adversarial
- Dahl Thin vs. Thick; Populism vs.
Liberalism; Liberal vs. Illiberal
- Dahl's Polyarchy (spectrum of
competition & inclusivity)
- Manin's "Audience Democracy"
- Definitions
- Procedural Democarcy: by the people
- Substantive Democracy: for the people
- Thin democracy: participatory;
requires only voting rights
- Thick democracy: procedural
democracy that requires constitutional
rights & civil liberties as well
- Dahl's Polyarchy
- Polyarchy:
Competitive &
Inclusive
- Inclusive Hegemony:
Inclusive, not
competitive
- Competitive
Oligarchy: competitive
but non-inclusive
- Autocracy:
non-competitive,
non-inclusive
- Liberal vs. Illiberal democracy
- Coalescent Democracy: elites
are a coherent group, can lead
democracy in 2 directions
- Depoliticized - homogenous society
- Centripetal - homogenous
(anglo-american)
- Centrifugal - pluralistic
(european system)
- Majoritarian
- concentrated powerful executive
- two parties
- winner-take all
- flexible, easily amended constitution
- Consensus
- executive power sharing
- proportional representation (PR)
- federal & decentralized
- Bicameral
- rigid consitution
- Audience democracy: not
everyone has to take part
- Authoritarianism
- Monarchies
- Dictatorships
- Personal Rule
- (populist)
Presidential
Monarchies
- Org Rule
- Party
- Military
- Claims to Legitimacy
- Religious
- Ideological
- Democratic
- "Transitions from
Authoritarian Rule" vs.
Carothers "End of the
Transition Paradigm"
- Ch. 5: Separation of Powers &
Presidential vs. Parliamentary
Systems
- Readings
- Powell, Dalton, & STrom
- Gov't & Policymaking
- 2 systems: Democracy vs.
Authoritarians
- 3 Dimensions of Decision Rules
- Separation of powers
- Geographic Distribution
of Power
- Limitation on Gov't Power
- Two Systems: Presidential
& Parliamentary
- Presidential
- Fixed terms
- Strong Democratic Legitimacy
- "winner take all"
- Parliamentary
- Power-sharing
- "consociational democracy
- Shugart & Cary
- Dichotomy not so clear. Many
countries have both.
- Diamond & Platter "Electoral
Systems & Democracy
- Horowitz: Primer for
Decision-makers. Goals:
- Proportional seats to votes
- Accountability to constituents
- Durable Govts
- Victory of the winner
- Interethnic Concilation
- Minority office-holding
- Soudriette & Ellis "A global snapshot"
- Plurality vs majority systems
- First past the post
- Two-round system
- Proportional Representation
- Reilly "Dealing w/ Divided Societies"
- Most powerful systems make
politicians reciprocally dependent
on votes from other groups
- The Case for Power Sharing (Lijphat)
- Power sharing & group autonomy
(power sharing or consociational
democracy) solves problem of divided
societies
- Weaver: Federalism is an alternative to conflict-solving electoral rules
- Ch. 6: Elections, Referendums, Political Parties, & Party Systems
- Readings
- Powell, Daulton & Strom
- Interest Aggregation
- Democracies: parties gain support for programs
- Autocracies: ruling party may try to mobilize
support, political process controlled
- narrows policy to workable
iniatiatives
- Patron-client network
- Center (patron) to populace (client)
- Electoral Regulations
- Extent of Franchise
- Voluntary/Compulsory Voting
- Access-requirements to ballots
- Term limits
- Single Member
Constituencies
(Majoritarian)
- Multi Member
Constituencies (PR)
- List systems (parties give lists)
- Mixed Systems (candidate + party list)
- Single Transferable vote
- Perfect proportionality very rare
- Majoritarian systems award seas:
- single member plurality
- Alternative Vote
- two-round
- Electoral Systems differ by:
- Direct magnitude (district vs nationwide candidates
- Intra-party choice
- Threshholds for recognition
- Downs "Econ theory of
pol. action in Democracy
- Parties formulate policy strictly
as means of gaining votes
- Parties take shortcuts b/c
of imperfect knowledge
- Pursuasion
- Representation
- Not all votes are
equally important
- lack of info creates
demand for ideology
- If voters scattered, gov't has
harder time implementing objectives
- apathy is rational voter behavior
- Lijphart, Lardeyret, Quade & Lijphart "
Electoral Systems & Democracy"
- Plurality Elections + Presidential
- Proportional Rep. + Parliamentary
- Plurality Elections + Parliamentary
- Proportional Rep. + Presidential
- Lardeyret "The Problem w/ PR"
- Quade - Favors plurality, 2 party system
- Ljiphart: Parliament + PR systems are right
- Diamond & Gunther "political
parties & democracy"
- 7 functions of parties
- Candidate Nomination
- Electoral Mobilization
- Issue Structuring
- Societal Representation
- Interest Aggregation
- Forming/Sustaining Gov'ts
- Social Integration
- Types of Parties
- Elite parties
- Mass-based Parties
- Ethnicity-based Parties
- Electoralist Parties
- Movement Parties
- Schmitter "Parties are not what they once were"
- Groups that link electorate w/ policy:
- Parties
- Interest Associations
- Social Movements
- parties watered down by anti-party candidates
- Parties now weaker at forming gov'ts
- Globalization limits party platform options
- More & more "professional politicians" isolated from voters