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Ders Öğretim Planı
| Dersin Kodu | Dersin Adı | Dersin Türü | Yıl | Yarıyıl | AKTS | Kredi |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SBU606 | Comparative Politics | Seçmeli Ders Grubu | 1 | 1 | 8.00 | 3.00 |
Dersin Seviyesi
Yüksek Lisans
Dersin Sunulduğu Dil
İngilizce
Dersin Amacı
This graduate seminar engages with theoretical approaches and analytical tools that define and direct the field of comparative politics, as well as with some of its key topics, questions, and puzzles. The course will provide students with an understanding of how the discipline works from a comparative, theoretically informed, and theory-contributing perspective. Our ultimate goal is to advance our abilities both to “consume” the academic output of comparative politics and to “produce” our original contributions.
Dersi Veren Öğretim GörevlisiGörevlileri
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Yury Katliarou
Öğrenme Çıktıları
| 1 | Karşılaştırmalı siyaset alanının doğasını, temel teorik, metodolojik ve tematik özelliklerini anlama. |
| 2 | Temel kavram ve konuları özetleme ve değerlendirme. |
| 3 | Mevcut araştırma çıktılarını eleştirel bir şekilde değerlendirme. |
| 4 | Karşılaştırmalı araştırma için fikirler ve sorular geliştirme. |
| 5 | Özgün araştırma tasarlama ve yapma. |
Öğrenim Türü
Birinci Öğretim
Dersin Ön Koşulu Olan Dersler
Yok
Ders İçin Önerilen Diğer Hususlar
Course Policies and Miscellaneous Points: The lectures and discussions are conducted in English. Attendance is mandatory and will be recorded weekly. You are expected to be in class on time. All additional relevant course information, changes, and updates will be announced and shared by the instructor via sanalkampus.nisantasi.edu.tr. It is the students' responsibility to keep track of all such announcements and updates. Use the email address provided in the syllabus to communicate with the instructor outside the classroom. I typically reply to emails within the standard working hours. I do not respond to work-related emails sent outside of working hours, on weekends, and on other days off until the following working day. AI-assistance during brainstorming, reviewing and organizing information and ideas (e.g., for discussion preparation or paper ideas investigation) can be handy, helpful and beneficial. But without your critical input and expertise on the subject, the outcome “as is” will most likely be of subpar quality and will be quite generic and unoriginal, thus reflecting poorly on the evaluation of your performance. The use of generative AI for generating the texts – in full or in part – of written assignments is not allowed (see assignment descriptions) since it defeats the purpose of education at the doctoral level. Remember, as doctoral students it’s you who should be producing original work which AI will later use in its responses to other people. For general academic procedures and regulations, such as the student code of conduct, the handling of academic grievances, and expectations regarding academic honesty, consult the available university regulations.
Dersin İçeriği
This course is not a historical survey of the field. We will first discuss the nature of the field, its methods and characteristics, and then survey and critically assess selected themes and concepts that have dominated the discipline. Naturally, it will not be possible for us to exhaust such a diverse and thematically rich discipline in one course. Thus, you should also be prepared to identify your knowledge gaps and areas of particular academic interest and work on them independently.
Haftalık Ayrıntılı Ders İçeriği
| Hafta | Teorik | Uygulama | [OgretimYontemVeTeknikleri] | [OnHazirlik] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to the Course. Comparative Politics as Discipline | Etkileşimli düz anlatım. | Recommended readings: • Gerardo L. Munck. 2007. “The Past and Present of Comparative Politics” (pp. 32-59). In Gerardo L. Munck and Richard Snyder (eds.). Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics. The Johns Hopkins University Press. • Mark Irving Lichbach. 2009. “Thinking and Working in the Midst of Things: Discovery, Explanation, and Evidence in Comparative Politics” (pp. 18-71). In Mark Irving Lichbach and Alan S. Zuckerman (eds.). Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure (2nd. ed.). Cambridge University Press. | |
| 2 | No session – National Holiday | |||
| 3 | Approaches and Methods of Comparative Politics | Etkileşimli seminer, öğrenci liderliğindeki tartışma, etkileşimli düz anlatım. | Required readings: • Arend Lijphart. 1971. “Comparative Politics and Comparative Method”. The American Political Science Review, 65: 682-693. • B. Guy Peters. 2013. Strategies for Comparative Research in Political Science. Palgrave Macmillan (pp. 1-28) • Donatella Della Porta. 2008. “Comparative Analysis: Case-Oriented Versus Variable-oriented Research” (pp. 198-222). In Donatella Della Porta and Michael Keating (eds.). Approaches and Methodologies in Social Sciences: A Pluralist Perspective. Cambridge University Press. • Sidney Tarrow 2010. “Bridging the Quantitative-Qualitative Divide” (pp. 101-110). In Henry E. Brady and David Collier (eds.). Rethinking social inquiry: Diverse tools, shared standards. Rowman & Littlefield. | |
| 4 | Designing Research in Comparative Politics | Etkileşimli seminer, öğrenci liderliğindeki tartışma, etkileşimli düz anlatım. | Required readings: • Philippe Schmitter. 2008. “The Design of Social and Political Research” (pp. 263-295). In Donatella Della Porta and Michael Keating (eds.). Approaches and Methodologies in Social Sciences: A Pluralist Perspective. Cambridge University Press. • John Gerring. 2017. Case Study Research: Principles and Practices (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press (pp. 137-152). • Alexander L. George and Andrew Bennett. 2005. Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences. MIT Press (pp. 65-124) | |
| 5 | Workshop on Research Strategies and Design; Discussion and Feedback on Final Paper Ideas | Etkileşimli düz anlatım, akran değerlendirmesi ve makale yazma atölyesi | Required readings: • Karl Gustafsson and Linus Hagström. 2018. “What is the point? Teaching Graduate Students how to Construct Political Science Research Puzzles.” European Political Science 17(4): 634-648. • Jeffrey W. Knopf. 2006. “Doing a Literature Review.” PS: Political Science & Politics 39(1): 127-132 • Leanne Powner. 2014. “From Research Question to Theory to Hypothesis” In Empirical Research and Writing. SAGE: London, pp. 21-54. | |
| 6 | The State in Comparative Perspective | Etkileşimli seminer, öğrenci liderliğindeki tartışma, etkileşimli düz anlatım. | Required readings: • Max Weber. “What is a State?” (pp. 84-87) in Bernard E. Brown (ed.). 2006. Comparative Politics: Notes and Readings. Thomson-Wadsworth. • Charles Tilly. 1990. Coercion, Capitalism, and European States. Blackwell (pp. 1-37, 67-95). • Joel S. Migdal. 1988. Strong Societies and Weak States: State-Society Relations and State Capabilities in the Third World. Princeton University Press (pp. 3-41, 259-277) • Hillel David Soifer. 2015. State Building in Latin America. Cambridge University Press (pp. 1-23, 232-262). • Catherine Scott. 2017. State Failure in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Crisis of Post-Colonial Order. I.B. TAURIS (pp. 1-26, 191-204). | |
| 7 | Beliefs, Values and Political Culture | Etkileşimli seminer, öğrenci liderliğindeki tartışma, etkileşimli düz anlatım. | Required readings: • Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba. 1963. Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations. Princeton University Press (pp. 1-42, 473-505). • Ronald Inglehart. 1997. Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies. Princeton University Press (pp. 1-50, 324-341). • Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart. 2019. Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit and Authoritarian Populism. Cambridge University Press (pp. 3-31, 443-470). • Joseph Henrich. 2020. The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. | |
| 8 | Ara sınav | |||
| 9 | Comparing Political Regimes and Transitions I | Etkileşimli seminer, öğrenci liderliğindeki tartışma, etkileşimli düz anlatım. | Required readings: • Samuel P. Huntington. 1993. The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century. University of Oklahoma Press (pp. 3-108). • Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. 2005. Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Cambridge University Press (pp. 1-47). • Ruth Beris Collier. 1999. Paths toward Democracy: The Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and South America (pp. 1-32, 167-197). • Philip N. Howard and Muzammil M. Hussain. 2013. Democracy's Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Arab Spring. Cambridge University Press (pp. 1-17; 103-126). | |
| 10 | Comparing Political Regimes and Transitions II | Etkileşimli seminer, öğrenci liderliğindeki tartışma, etkileşimli düz anlatım. | Required readings: • Thomas Carothers. 2002. “The End of the Transition Paradigm”. Journal of Democracy 13(1): 5-21. • Joseph Wright, Barbara Geddes, and Erica Frantz. 2018. How Dictatorships Work: Power, Personalization, and Collapse. Cambridge University Press (pp. 1-22). • Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way. 2010. Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War. Cambridge University Press (pp. 3-36, 339-364). • Thomas B. Pepinsky. 2009. Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes: Indonesia and Malaysia in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge University Press. | |
| 11 | Comparative Government | Etkileşimli seminer, öğrenci liderliğindeki tartışma, etkileşimli düz anlatım. | Required readings: • Juan J. Linz. 1994. “Presidential or Parliamentary Democracy: Does it Make a difference?” (pp. 3-48). In Juan J. Linz and Arturo Valenzuela (eds.). The Failure of Presidential Democracy. John Hopkins University Press. • Arend Lijphart. 2012. Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries (2nd ed.). Yale University Press (pp. 1-59; 295-303). • Cristina Leston-Bandeira (ed.) 2015. Southern European Parliaments in Democracy. Routledge (pp. 177-185). • Maria Popova. 2012. Politicized Justice in Emerging Democracies: A case study of courts in Russia and Ukraine. Cambridge University Press (pp. 1-13, 168-174). | |
| 12 | Political Parties | Etkileşimli seminer, öğrenci liderliğindeki tartışma, etkileşimli düz anlatım. | Required readings: • Pradeep Chhibber and Ken Kollman. 2004. The Formation of National Party Systems: Federalism and Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States. Princeton University Press (pp. 1-27, 222-237). • André Krouwel. 2012. Party Transformations in European Democracies. State University of New York Press (pp. 1-27, 267-288). • Russell J. Dalton and Martin P. Wattenberg (eds.). 2000. Parties without Partisans: Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies. Oxford University Press (pp. 3-18, 261-285). • Kenneth F. Greene. 2007. Why Dominant Parties Lose: Mexico's Democratization in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge University Press (pp. 1-29). | |
| 13 | Civil Society, Social Capital and Social Movements | Etkileşimli seminer, öğrenci liderliğindeki tartışma, etkileşimli düz anlatım. | Required readings: • Robert D. Putnam (ed.). 2002. Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society. Oxford University Press (pp. 3-20, 393-416). • Omar G. Encarnación. 2003.The Myth of Civil Society: Social Capital and Democratic Consolidation in Spain and Brazil. Palgrave MacMillan (pp. 3-46, 163-176). • Lee Ann Banaszak. 1996. Why Movements Succeed or Fail: Opportunity, Culture, and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage. Princeton University Press (pp. 21-43, 215-223). • Mark Beissinger. 2002. Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State. Cambridge University Press (pp. 1-32, 104-146). | |
| 14 | Violence and Conflicts | Etkileşimli seminer, öğrenci liderliğindeki tartışma, etkileşimli düz anlatım. | Required readings: • Colin H. Kahl. 2006. States, Scarcity, and Civil Strife in the Developing World. Princeton University Press (pp. 1-27). • Barbara F. Walter. 2009. Reputation and Civil War: Why Separatist Conflicts Are So Violent. Cambridge University Press (pp. 3-19, 199-211). • Stathis N. Kalyvas, Ian Shapiro, and Tarek Masoud (eds.). 2008. Order, Conflict, and Violence. Cambridge University Press (pp. 1-14, 197-218). • Tatu Vanhanen 2012. Ethnic Conflicts: Their Biological Roots in Ethnic Nepotism (pp. 1-29, 209-231). • H. Zeynep Bulutgil. 2016. The Roots of Ethnic Cleansing in Europe. Cambridge University Press (pp. 1-20, 185-193). |
Ders Kitabı Malzemesi Önerilen Kaynaklar
Carles Boix and Susan Stokes (eds.). 2007. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics. Oxford University Press Gerardo L. Munck and Richard Snyder (eds.). 2007. Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics. The Johns Hopkins University Press. Mark Irving Lichbach and Alan S. Zuckerman (eds.). 2009. Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. Arend Lijphart. 1971. “Comparative Politics and Comparative Method.” The American Political Science Review, 65: 682-693. B. Guy Peters. 2013. Strategies for Comparative Research in Political Science. Palgrave Macmillan. Donatella Della Porta and Michael Keating (eds.). 2008. Approaches and Methodologies in Social Sciences: A Pluralist Perspective. Cambridge University Press. Henry E. Brady and David Collier (eds.). 2010. Rethinking social inquiry: Diverse tools, shared standards. Rowman & Littlefield. John Gerring. 2017. Case Study Research: Principles and Practices (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. Alexander L. George and Andrew Bennett. 2005. Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences. MIT Press. Karl Gustafsson and Linus Hagström. 2018. “What is the point? Teaching Graduate Students how to Construct Political Science Research Puzzles.” European Political Science 17(4): 634-648. Jeffrey W. Knopf. 2006. “Doing a Literature Review.” PS: Political Science & Politics 39(1): 127-132. Leanne Powner. 2014. “From Research Question to Theory to Hypothesis.” In Empirical Research and Writing. SAGE: London, pp. 21-54. Charles Tilly. 1990. Coercion, Capitalism, and European States. Blackwell. Joel S. Migdal. 1988. Strong Societies and Weak States: State-Society Relations and State Capabilities in the Third World. Princeton University Press. Hillel David Soifer. 2015. State Building in Latin America. Cambridge University Press. Catherine Scott. 2017. State Failure in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Crisis of Post-Colonial Order. I.B. TAURIS. Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba. 1963. Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations. Princeton University Press. Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies. Princeton University Press. Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart. 2019. Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit and Authoritarian Populism. Cambridge University Press. Joseph Henrich. 2020. The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Samuel P. Huntington. 1993. The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century. University of Oklahoma Press. Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. 2005. Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Cambridge University Press. Ruth Berins Collier. 1999. Paths toward Democracy: The Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and South America. Philip N. Howard and Muzammil M. Hussain. 2013. Democracy's Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Arab Spring. Cambridge University Press. Thomas Carothers. 2002. “The End of the Transition Paradigm.” Journal of Democracy 13(1): 5-21. Joseph Wright, Barbara Geddes, and Erica Frantz. 2018. How Dictatorships Work: Power, Personalization, and Collapse. Cambridge University Press. Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way. 2010. Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War. Cambridge University Press. Thomas B. Pepinsky. 2009. Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes: Indonesia and Malaysia in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge University Press. Juan J. Linz. 1994. “Presidential or Parliamentary Democracy: Does it Make a Difference?” (pp. 3-48). In Juan J. Linz and Arturo Valenzuela (eds.). The Failure of Presidential Democracy. Johns Hopkins University Press. Arend Lijphart. 2012. Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries (2nd ed.). Yale University Press. Cristina Leston-Bandeira (ed.) 2015. Southern European Parliaments in Democracy. Routledge. Maria Popova. 2012. Politicized Justice in Emerging Democracies: A case study of courts in Russia and Ukraine. Cambridge University Press. Pradeep Chhibber and Ken Kollman. 2004. The Formation of National Party Systems: Federalism and Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States. Princeton University Press. André Krouwel. 2012. Party Transformations in European Democracies. State University of New York Press. Russell J. Dalton and Martin P. Wattenberg (eds.). 2000. Parties without Partisans: Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies. Oxford University Press. Kenneth F. Greene. 2007. Why Dominant Parties Lose: Mexico's Democratization in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge University Press. Robert D. Putnam (ed.). 2002. Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society. Oxford University Press. Omar G. Encarnación. 2003.The Myth of Civil Society: Social Capital and Democratic Consolidation in Spain and Brazil. Palgrave MacMillan. Lee Ann Banaszak. 1996. Why Movements Succeed or Fail: Opportunity, Culture, and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage. Princeton University Press. Mark Beissinger. 2002. Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State. Cambridge University Press. Colin H. Kahl. 2006. States, Scarcity, and Civil Strife in the Developing World. Princeton University Press. Barbara F. Walter. 2009. Reputation and Civil War: Why Separatist Conflicts Are So Violent. Cambridge University Press. Stathis N. Kalyvas, Ian Shapiro, and Tarek Masoud (eds.). 2008. Order, Conflict, and Violence. Cambridge University Press. Ethnic Conflicts: Their Biological Roots in Ethnic Nepotism. Ulster Institute for Social Research. H. Zeynep Bulutgil. 2016. The Roots of Ethnic Cleansing in Europe. Cambridge University Press.
Planlanan Öğrenme Aktiviteleri ve Metodları
The course will be in the format of face-to-face meetings. While there will be some limited lecturing, this is primarily a discussion-driven seminar: all participants are expected to engage with assigned materials and questions before classes, take an active part in weekly meetings, be proactive in raising and answering questions, sharing their ideas and observations, etc. To stimulate equal participation, one class member will assume the role of discussion leader during each weekly session. They will make a brief presentation of the readings and initiate the discussion by raising questions informed by the main themes, puzzles and contributions in the readings. Additionally, one week will be dedicated to a peer review session and workshop and on the development of final papers.
Değerlendirme
| Yarıyıl (Yıl) İçi Etkinlikleri | Adet | Değer |
|---|---|---|
| Tartışma | 1 | 24 |
| Seminer | 1 | 38 |
| Makale Yazma | 3 | 38 |
| Toplam | 100 | |
| Yarıyıl (Yıl) Sonu Etkinlikleri | Adet | Değer |
| Makale Yazma | 1 | 100 |
| Toplam | 100 | |
| Yarıyıl (Yıl) İçi Etkinlikleri | 40 | |
| Yarıyıl (Yıl) Sonu Etkinlikleri | 60 | |
Staj Durumu
N/A
İş Yükü Hesaplaması
| Etkinlikler | Sayısı | Süresi (saat) | Toplam İş Yükü (saat) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tartışma | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Seminer | 12 | 3 | 36 |
| Makale Yazma | 4 | 30 | 120 |
| Okuma | 12 | 4 | 48 |
| Toplam İş Yükü (saat) | 206 | ||
Program ve Öğrenme Çıktıları İlişkisi
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