Democracy and democratization in a comparative perspective

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Kursbok:

• Ekman, Joakim; Linde, Jonas & Sedelius, Thomas (2023) Demokratiseringsprocesser.
• Nya perspektiv och utmaningar. 3:a upplagan. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Delmoment 1: Att studera demokrati och demokratisering

F1. Introduktion: Varför demokrati? (Valeriya Mechkova)

• Hoover Green, Amelia. 2013. ”How to Read Political Science: A Guide in Four Steps. Distribueras på Canvas. 

 F2. Demokrati och demokratisering (Staffan Lindberg)

• Ekman mfl kapitel 2 & 5
• Schedler, Andreas. (1998). What is democratic consolidation?. Journal of democracy, 9(2), 91-107.

 F3. Auktoritära system (Staffan Lindberg)

• Ekman mfl kap 3
• Diamond, Larry. 2002. “Thinking About Hybrid Regimes.” Journal of Democracy 13(2): 21-35.
• Schmitter, Philippe C. och Terry Lynn Karl.1991.“What Democracy Is.. . and Is Not,” Journal of Democracy 2(3): 75-88.

 F4. Att mäta demokrati (Staffan Lindberg)

• Dahl, Robert A. 1971. Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition. New and London: Yale University Press. Distribueras på Canvas – endast sid 1-17.
• Lindberg, Staffan I., Michael Coppedge, John Gerring, and Jan Teorell. 2014. “A New Way to Measuring Democracy”. Journal of Democracy 25(3): 159-169.
• Teorell, Jan, Michael Coppedge, Svend-Erik Skaaning and Staffan I. Lindberg. 2019. "Measuring Polyarchy Across the Globe, 1900-2017." Studies in Comparative International Development 54(1): 71-95. Open access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-018-9268-z

 Ytterligare rekommenderad läsning:

• Coppedge et al. 2016. “V-Dem Comparisons and Contrasts with Other Measurement Projects.” Varieties of Democracy (V- Dem)Project. Download from Working Paper series at https://v-dem.net. 
• Munck, Gerardo och Jay Verkuilen. 2002. “Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: Evaluating Alternative Indices,” Comparative Political Studies 35(1): 5- 34.
• Gerardo Munck, and Jay Verkuilen. “Generating Better Data: A Response to Discussants,” pp.52-7.

Delmoment 2: Att designa ett demokratiskt system

F5. Partier och partisystem (Josefine Magnusson)

• Reilly, Benjamin. 2002. “Electoral Systems for Divided Societies”, Journal of Democracy, Vol 13, No 2, 15 sidor
• Stockton, H. (2001). Political Parties, Party Systems, and Democracy in East Asia: Lessons from Latin America. Comparative Political Studies, 34(1), 94–119.

 F6. Konstitutionell design och valsystem (Josefine Magnusson)

• Ekman mfl kapitel 7
• Cheibub, Jose Antonio and Fernando Limongi. 2002. “Democratic Institutions and Regime Survival: Parliamentary and Presidential Democracies Reconsidered.” Annual Review of Political Science 5:151–79.
• Gerring, John et al (2009). Are Parliamentary Systems Better? Comparative Political Studies March 2009 42: 327-359.
• Knutsen, Carl-Henrik (2011) Which democracies prosper? Electoral rules, form of government and economic growth. Electoral Studies 30:1 (83-90).

Övning 1. Demokratibegreppet (Gard Olav Dietrichson, Stina Lindgren, Elin Alfredsson)

• Coppedge, Coppedge, Michael et al. 2011. “Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: a New Approach”, Perspectives on Politics 9(2): 247-267.
• Diamond, Larry. 2002. “Thinking About Hybrid Regimes.” Journal of Democracy 13(2): 21-35.
• Gerring, J., Thacker, S. C., & Moreno, C. (2009). Are Parliamentary Systems Better? Comparative Political Studies, 42(3), 327–359.
• Reilly, B. (2002). Electoral Systems for Divided Societies. Journal of Democracy, 13(2), 156–170.
• Schedler, Andreas. 2002. ”Elections without Democracy: The Menu of Manipulation.” Journal of Democracy 13(2): 36-50.
• Schmitter, Phillip C, och Karl, Terry L. 1991. What Democracy Is…And Is Not. Journal of Democracy. 2(3): 75-88.
• Zakaria, Fareed. 1997. The Rise of Illiberal Democracy. Foreign Affairs, November/December Issue.

Delmoment 3: Demokratins utveckling

F7. Demokratiseringsvågor, 1820-1990 (Ann-Kristin Jonasson)

• Ekman mfl. Kapitel 4
• Doorenspleet, Renske. 2000. “Reassessing the Three Waves of Democratization.” World Politics 52(3): 384-406.
• Huntington, Samuel P. 1991. “Democracy’s Third Wave.” Journal of Democracy 2(2): 12-34.

F8. Demokratins utveckling i modern tid, 1990-2023 (Ann-Kristin Jonasson)

• Ekman mfl. Kapitel 4
• Hinnebusch, Raymond (2020): “The rise and decline of the populist social contract in the Arab world”, World Development, Volume 129, May 2020
• McFaul, Michael. (2002). The fourth wave of democracy and dictatorship: noncooperative transitions in the postcommunist world. World politics, 212-244.

 Ytterligare rekommenderad läsning:

•  Berger, Lars (2019): “Sharīʻa, Islamism and Arab support for democracy”, Democratization, 26:2, 309-326.

Delmoment 4: Att förklara demokratisering

F9. Strukturella förklaringar I (Amy Alexander)

• Ekman mfl. Kapitel 5 & 6
• Welzel, Christian, and Ronald Inglehart. "The role of ordinary people in democratization." Journal of democracy 19, no. 1 (2008): 126-140.
• Brunkert, Lennart, Stefan Kruse, and Christian Welzel. "A tale of culture-bound regime evolution: the centennial democratic trend and its recent reversal." Democratization 26, no. 3 (2019): 422-443.
• Van de Vliert, Evert, Christian Welzel, Andrey Shcherbak, Ronald Fischer, and Amy C. Alexander. "Got milk? How freedoms evolved from dairying climates." Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 49, no. 7 (2018): 1048-1065.
• Lange, Matthew K. "British colonial legacies and political development." World development 32, no. 6 (2004): 905-922.

F10. Strukturella förklaringar II (Amy Alexander)

• Se F9.

F11. Aktörscentrerade teorier (Valeriya Mechkova)

• Ekman mfl. Kapitel 5 & 6
• Riedl, R. B., Slater, D., Wong, J., & Ziblatt, D. 2020. “Authoritarian-led democratization.” Annual Review of Political Science, 23(1), 315-332.
• Kim, N. K., & Kroeger, A. M. 2019. ”Conquering and coercing: Nonviolent anti-regime protests and the pathways to democracy.” Journal of Peace Research, 56(5), 650-666.

F12. Democracy, State Capacity, and Development (Marcia Grimes)

• D’Arcy, Michelle and Marina Nistotskaya. 2017. State First, then Democracy: Using Cadastral Records to Explain Governmental Performance in Public Goods Provision. Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions30(2): 193-209. 
• Brieba, Daniel. 2018. State Capacity and Health Outcomes: Comparing Argentina’s and Chile’s Reduction of Infant and Maternal Mortality, 1960–2013. World Development 101: 37-53 
• Grundholm, Alexander T. and Matilde Thorsen. 2019. Motivated and Able to Make a Difference? The Reinforcing Effects of Democracy and State Capacity on Human Development, Studies in Comparative International Development https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12116-019-09285-2

F13. Det internationella samfundets roll i demokratiseringsprocessen (Ann-Kristin Jonasson)

• Ekman mfl. Kap 8
• Li, Xiaojun. "Does Conditionality Still Work? China’s Development Assistance and Democracy in Africa." Chinese Political Science Review 2.2 (2017): 201-220.

 Ytterligare rekommenderad läsning:

• Dandashly, Assem & Gergana Noutcheva (2019): “Unintended
  Consequences of EU Democracy Support in the European Neighbourhood”, The International Spectator, 54:1.
• Gafuri, A. (2024). Does it matter where foreign aid comes from? An experimental test. Studies in Comparative International Development.

Övning 2. Demokratiseringsteorier (Gard Olav Dietrichson, Stina Lindgren, Elin Alfredsson)

• Se separata instruktioner

Grupp 1: Strukturella förklaringar

• Lindberg, Staffan (Ed.) 2018. ”Should Modernization Theory Survive?” Special issue of The Annals of Comparative Democratization, 16 (3): p. 4-43.

Grupp 2: Aktörcentrerade teorier

• Acemoglu, D., & Robinson, J. A. 2005. Economic origins of dictatorship and democracy. Cambridge university press. From PART ONE: Chapter 2. Our argument (p. 15-30)
• Przeworski, A. 2009. “Conquered or granted? A history of suffrage extensions”. British Journal of Political Science, 39(2), 291-321.

Grupp 3: Sequencing debatten

• Carothers, Thomas. 2007. ”The Sequencing Fallacy,” Journal of Democracy, 18(1): 12-27.
• Mansfield, Edward och Snyder, Jack. 2007. ”The Sequencing ’Fallacy’,” Journal of Democracy, 18(3): 5-10.
• Branch, David and Cheeseman, Nic. 2009. ”Democratization, Sequencing, and State Failure in Africa: Lessons from Kenya,” African Affairs 108(430): 1-26.

Grupp 4: Internationella samfundets roll

• Gafuri, A. 2022. “Can democracy aid improve democracy? The European Union’s democracy assistance 2002–2018”, Democratization, 29:5, 777-797.
• Jonasson, A. K. (2024). EU Norm Promotion in a Conflictual World. An Existential Necessity with Obstacles?. In The Borders of the European Union in a Conflictual World: Interdisciplinary European Studies (pp. 93-117). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. 

Delmoment 5: Demokratins utmaningar

F1. Democratic Backsliding (VM)

• Bermeo, Nancy 2016. On Democratic Backsliding. J of Democracy, 27(1): 5-19. 
• Waldner, David and Lust, Ellen. 2018. Unwelcome Change: Coming to Terms with Democratic Backsliding. Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci. 21(5): 5.1-5.21
• Lührmann, Anna and Staffan I. Lindberg. 2019. A Third Wave of Autocratization is Here: What is New About It? Democratization 26 (7), 1095-1113. (OPEN ACCESS)

 F2. Demokrati, kollektiva nyttigheter och omfördelning (FB)

• Annaka, Susumu and Higashijima, Masaaki. 2021. Political liberalization and human development: Dynamic effects of political regime change on infant mortality across three centuries (1800-2015). World Development, 147.
• De Kadt, D., and Lieberman, E. 2020. Nuanced Accountability: Voter Responses to Service Delivery in Southern Africa. British Journal of Political Science, 50(1), 185-215.
• Keefer, Philip. and Khemani, Stuti. 2005. Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor: understanding political incentives for providing public services. World Bank Research Observer, 20(1): 1–28.

 F3. Korruption och klientelism (MG)

• Kitschelt, Herbert. 2000. Linkages between Citizens and Politicians in Democratic Polities. Comparative Political Studies, 33(6-7): 845-879.
• Van Ham, Carolien, och Lindberg, Staffan. 2015. ”From Sticks to Carrots. Electoral Manipulation in Africa, 1986-2012,” Government and Opposition, 50(3):521-548.
• Bauhr, Monika, and Marcia Grimes. "Democracy and the quality of government." The Oxford Handbook of the Quality of Government (2021): 181.

Övning 3. Demokratins utmaningar (Gard Olav Dietrichson, Stina Lindgren, Elin Alfredsson)

• Se separat lista.

 Delmoment 6. Litteraturöversikt

• Valfri litteratur.