Compulsory general reading
Ayoob, Muhammed (1995), The Third World Security Predicament, Boulder, Lynne Rienner, ch. 2 and 9. (37 pages)
Carothers, Thomas (2004), Critical Mission: Essays on Democracy promotion, Carnegie Endowment, ch. 13-14. (30 pages)
Chatterjee, Partha (2001), “On Civil and Political Societies in post-colonial Democracies”, in Sudipta Kaviraj and Sunil Khilnani (eds.), Civil Society: History and possibilities, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 165-179. (15 pages)
Doner, Richie and Slater (2005), “Systemic Vulnerability and the Origins of the Developmental States: Northeast and Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective”, International Organization, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 327-361 (34 pages). Link
Grugel, Jean (2002), Democratization: A Critical Introduction, Houndmills and New York: Palgrave, ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 (117 pages).
Kaviraj, Sudipta (2001), “In Search of Civil Society”, in Sudipta Kaviraj and Sunil Khilnani (eds.): Civil Society: History and possibilities, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, chap 15, p 287-323 (35 pages).
Khan, Mushtaq H (2005), “Markets, States and Democracy: Patron-Client Networks and the Case for Democracy in Developing Countries”, Democratization, Vol.12 No.5, December 2005, pp.707-724. (17 pages) Link
Kiely, Ray (2007), The New Political Economy of Development, Basingstoke, Palgrave, ch. 8 (30 pages)
Leftwich, Adrian (2000) States of Development, ch. 3-7, Cambridge, Polity Press. (130pp)
Mamdani, Mahmood (1996), Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism, Princeton: Princeton University Press, ch. 1 and Conclusion. (47 pages)
Kohli, Athul and Vivienne Shue (1994), “State power and social forces: on political contention and accommodation in the Third World”, in Joel S Migdal, Athul Kohli, and Vivienne Shue (eds) State Power and Social Forces, Domination and Transformation in the Third World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 293-323. (30 pages)
Moore, Mick (2004), “Revenues, State Formation, and the Quality of Governance in Developing Countries”, International Political Science Review, vol. 25, no. 3. 297-319 (22 pages) Link
Total c. 550 pp.
Africa
April A. Gordon and Donald L. Gordon (eds) (2006) Understanding Contemporary Africa, 4th edition, Boulder: Lynne Rienner., ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 13 (Approx. 200 pages)
Morten B??s og Kevin Dunn (2007), “African Guerrilla politics: raging against the Machine?” in Morten B??s and Kevin Dunn (eds) African Guerrillas: Rage Against the Machine, Boulder: Lynne Rienner, pp. 9-37. (36 pages)
B??s, Morten (2007), “Marginalised Youth”, in Morten B??s and Kevin Dunn (eds) African Guerrillas: Rage Against the Machine, Boulder: Lynne Rienner pp. 39-53;
Richard Banegas and Ruth Mashall-Fratani (2007), “C?te d'Ivoire: negotiating identity and citizenship”, Morten B??s and Kevin Dunn (eds) African Guerrillas: Rage Against the Machine, Boulder: Lynne Rienner, pp. 81-111 (30 pages)
Chabal, Patrick & Daloz, Jean-Pascal, (1999), Africa Works. Disorder as political instrument, James Currey: Oxford, pp 1-93 and 139-163 (117 pages) 383 pages
Latin America
Smith, Peter (2005), Democracy in Latin America: Political Change in Comparative Perspective, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch. 1-9 (240 pages)
Mainwaring, Scott and Aníbal Pérez-Li?án (2005), “Latin American Democratization sicne 1978: Democratic Transitions, Breakdowns, and Erosions”, in Frances Hagopoian and Scott P. Mainwaring (eds.), The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 14-59. (45 pages)
Centeno, Miguel Angel (2002), “The Centre Did Not Hold: War in Latin America and the Monopolisation of Violence”, in James Dunkerley (eds.), Studies in the Formation of the Nation State in Latin America, London: Institute of Latin America Studies, University of London, pp. 54-76. (45 pages).
Bull, Benedicte (2007), “Comparing Critical Junctures: The Democratic Inclusion of Social Movements in Norway and Latin America”, Forum for Development Studies, 1 (2007), pp. 63-89. (26 pages).
O’Donnel, Guillermo (1994), “Delegative Democracy”, Journal of Democracy, 5 (1), pp. 55-69. (14 pages).
Yashar, Deborah J. (2007), “Resistance and Identity Politics in an Age of Globalization”, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 610 (1), pp. 160-181 (21 pages) Ca. 365 s.