Professor W. P. Shively
1460 Social Sciences
phone: 624-4395
Office hours:
Wed. 11:00-12:00
Fri. 2:30-3:30
and by appointment
or happenstance.
The main text is available at the bookstore:
Gabriel A. Almond, et al. European Politics Today
The bookstore also has a packet with all of the other assigned readings for the course. In addition to the packet, all readings are on reserve in Wilson Library.
REQUIREMENTS: There will be a mid-term exam, a final exam and a term paper. The tests will consist partly of essay questions, partly of short identifications. The paper should be extensively researched, and should probably be something like 15-20 pages in length. BEFORE YOU GET FAR INTO WORKING ON YOUR TOPIC YOU SHOULD TALK TO SHIVELY ABOUT IT. Late papers will have a 5-point (1/2 grade) reduction.
The tests and paper will be weighted as follows:
Mid-term, 20%
Final, 40%
Paper, 40%
There will be additional reading and writing requirements for graduate students.
ASSIGNMENTS:
January 4 Organization, introduction
6 Almond, chs. 1,2
8 Almond, pp. 79-89;104-109;139-142;145-155;199-209; 214-224
11 Ronald Inglehart, Culture Shift, ch. 1
13 Laurence Wylie, Village in the Vaucluse, ch.10
15 Inglehart, Culture Shift, ch. 2
20 Almond, pp. 51-57; 67-69; 89-104; 122-128; 142-145; 178-186; 209-214; 241-245
January 22 Michael Gallagher, et al., Representative Government in Modern Europe, chs. 2,3
25 Philip Norton, "The United Kingdom: Restoring Confidence?" 50
Parliamentary Affairs (July, 1997), pp. 357-372
William Riker, The Theory of Political Coalitions, pp. 9-31
27 Kaare Strom, "The Presthus Debacle" 88 American Political Science
Review (March, 1994), pp. 112-127
29 Almond, pp. 57-60; 116-119; 155-160; 237-240
Matthew Soberg Shugart and John M. Carey, Presidents and Assemblies, pp. 1-15
Almond, pp. 109-113; 155-161; 224-228
February 1 Almond, pp. 69-70; 113-116; 162-166; 228-231
Grant Jordan, "Politics Without Parties: A Growing Trend?"
51 Parliamentary Affairs (July, 1998), pp. 314-328
3 Almond, pp. 60-67; 116-122; 166-178; 231-237
Robert Michels, Political Parties, Part One/A/chs. 1-2
5 Gerhard Loewenberg, "Remaking of the German Party System" 1 Polity (Fall, 1968), pp. 86-113
8 Ronald Rogowski, Commerce and Coalitions, chs. 1,2
10 MIDTERM EXAM
12 Herbert Kitschelt, The Transformation of European Social Democracy, pp. 1-39
15 Roger Karapin, "Radical-Right and Neo-Fascist Parties in Western Europe" 30 Comparative Politics (January, 1998), pp. 213-234
17 Paul Hainsworth, "The Return of the left: The 1997 French Parliamentary Election" 51 Parliamentary Affairs (October, 1997), pp. 509-532
19 Almond, pp. 128-132; 187-191; 245-253
Andersen, "The Scandinavian Welfare Model in Crisis?" 20 Scandinavian Political Studies (no. 1, 1997), pp. 1-32
22 Robert Putnam, Making Democracy Work, pp. 63-151
24 Laurence Whitehead, "Comparative Politics: Democratization Studies", in Robert Goodin and Hans-Dieter Klingemann, eds., A New Handbook of Political Science, pp. 353-371
26 Almond, ch. 7 (Spain)
March 1 Almond, ch. 9 (Poland)
3 Almond, ch. 10 (Hungary)
5 Almond, ch. 11 (European Union)
8 Alexander Warleigh, "Better the Devil You Know? Synthetic and Confederal Understandings of European Unification" 21 West European Politics (July, 1998), pp. 1-18
10 John T. S. Keeler, "Agricultural Power in the European Community" 28 Comparative Politics (January, 1996), pp. 127-150
12 Robert Elgie, "Democratic Accountability and Central Bank Independence" 21 West European Politics (July, 1998), pp. 53-76
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