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Comparative Political Economy and Global Analysis – Major Area Prelim Exam

Fall 2005

Emory University

Department of Sociology

BOOKS:

Alford and Friedland, Powers of Theory

Amenta, Bold Relief

Mark Blyth,. Great Transformations : economic ideas and institutional change in the twentieth century.

Boli and Thomas, Constructing World Culture

Boswell and Chase-Dunn, The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism

John L. Campbell and Ove Pedersen – The Rise of Neoliberalism and Institutional Analysis

Cardoso and Faletto, Dependency and Development in Latin America

Chase-Dunn, Global Formation

Ha-Joon Chang, Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective

Chibber, Vivek, Locked in Place

Dezalay, Yves and B. Garth (2002). The Internationalization of Palace Wars

Dobbin, Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age

Durkheim, Division of Labor

Ertman, Birth of the Leviathan

Esping-Anderson, The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

Evans, Dependent Development

Evans, Embedded Autonomy

Fligstein, Neil. 2002. The Architecture of Markets. Princeton, NJ: Princeton university Press.

Foran, Theorizing Revolutions

Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World

Gourevitch, Politics in Hard Times

Held et al., Global Transformation: Politics, Economics and Culture

Hicks, Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism

Huber and Stephens, Development and Crisis of the Welfare State

Jan Aart Scholte, Globalization: A Critical Introduction

Kampwirth, Women and Guerrilla Movements

Kenworthy, In Search of National Economic Success

Korpi, The Democratic Class Struggle

Mancur Olson, The Rise and Decline of Nations

Michael Mann, Social Sources of Power, Vol. 2 (Article "The Social Cohesion of Liberal Democracy" ASR 1970)

Marx, Selected Readings in Sociology and Social Philosophy

Moore, The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

Mueller, Dennis C., Public Choice II

Paige, Agrarian Revolutions

Philip McMichael, Development and Social Change

Polanyi, The Great Transformation

Quadagno, The Transformation of Old Age Security

Robertson, Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture

Rueschemeyer, Stephens and Stephens, Capitalist Development and Democracy

Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions, France, Russia and China

Steinmetz, State/Culture: State Formation After the Cultural Turn

Thomas et al., Institutional Structure: Constituting State, Society and the Individual

Tilly, Coercion, Capital, and European States

Tilly, The Rebellious Century

James Vreeland. The IMF and Economic Growth

Wallerstein, The Capitalist World Economy

Wallerstein, The Modern World System I

Weber, General Economic Theory

Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Western, Between Class and Market: Postwar Unionization in the Capitalist Democracies

Wickham-Crowley, Guerrillas and Revolution in Latin America

Williamson and Pampel, Old Age and Security in Comparative Perspective

 

ARTICLES:

Hicks and Kenworthy, "Cooperation and Political Economic Performance in Affluent Capitalist Democracies"

Kenworthy, "Do Social Welfare Policies Reduce Poverty?"

Steinmetz, "The Local Welfare State: Social Domination in Urban Imperial Germany"

Western, "A Comparative Study of Corporatist Development"

Michael Wallerstein and Western, "Unions in Decline? What Has Changed and Why?"

Michael Wallerstein, "Centralized Bargaining and Wage Restraint"

Goldstone, "Revolution: Toward a Fourth Generation of Revolutionary Theory"

Goldstone, "The Comparative and Historical Study of Revolutions"

Rathgeber, Eva M., "WID, WAD, GAD"

Amenta and Parikh, Comment: 1991 ASR

Block, "The Ruling Class Does Not Rule"

Block, "Capitalism Without Class Power"

Burawoy, "Marxism as Science: Historical Challenges and Theoretical Growth"

Chirot, "The Rise of the West"

Evans, "Predatory, Developmental, and Other Apparatuses: a Comparative Political Economy Perspective on the Third World State"

Evans and Stephens, "Political Economy"

Gereffi, "Rethinking Development Theory: Insights from East Asia and Latin America"

Jenkins and Brents, "Social Protest, Hegemonic Competition, and Social Reform"

Katzenstein, "Small Nations in an Open International Economy"

Lipset, "The Social Requisites of Democracy Revisited"

Muller, "Economic Determinants of Democracy"

Orum, "Political Sociology"

Pavalko, "State Timing and Policy Adoption and Workman’s Compensation

Quadagno, "Two Models of Welfare State Development"

Quadagno, "Welfare Capitalism and the Social Security Act of 1935"

Rubinson, "Class Formation, Politics, and Institutions: Schooling in the United States"

Rubinson, "Patterns of Political (Industrial) Regulation"

Skocpol, "Bringing the State Back In"

Skocpol, "Political Response to Capitalist Crisis"

Skocpol and Amenta, "Did Capitalists Shape Social Security?"

Tilly, "War Making and State Making as Organized Crime"

Weir and Skocpol, "Keynesian Responses to the Great Depression"

Wuthnow, "State Structures and Ideological Outcomes"

Appadurai, "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global World Economy"

Bornschier et al., "Cross-National Evidence of Effects of Foreign Investment on Economic Growth"

Boswell, "Hegemony, Long Waves, and Major Wars: A Time Series Analysis of Systemic Dynamics, 1496-1967"

Boswell and Dixon, "Dependency and Rebellion"

Cardoso, "Associated-Dependent Development"

Chase-Dunn and Rubinson, "Toward a Structuralist Perspective on the World-System"

Dixon and Boswell, "Dependency, Disarticulation, and Denominator Effects: Another Look at Foreign Capital Penetration"

Firebaugh, "Growth Effects of Foreign and Domestic Investment"

Meyer, "World-Polity and Authority of Nation-States"

Meyer, Boli, Thomas and Ramirez, "World Society and the Nation-State"

Modelski, "The Long Cycle of Global Politics"

Shayne, "Gendered Revolutionary Bridges: Women in the Salvadoran Resistance Movement"