This course is not based on a single textbook. The readings are selected from various books and journal articles that have had a major impact on the discipline. The instructor will distribute materials that are not available online. Here are some of the books that we will cover:
- Aristotle, The Politics, Penguin.
- John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, Cambridge.
- Gerth and Mills, From Max Weber, Oxford.
- Joseph Schumpeter, 1942, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, Harper Perrenial.
- Mancur Olson, 1965, The Logic of Collective Action, Harvard.
- Robert A. Dahl, 1971, Polyarchy, Yale.
- John Rawls, 1971, A Theory of Justice, Cambridge.
- Kenneth N. Waltz, 1979, Theory of International Politics, Addison-Wesley.
- Benedict Anderson, 1983, Imagined Communities, Verso.
- Pateman, Carole. The Sexual Contract. John Wiley & Sons.
- Enloe, Cynthia. 1990. Bananas, Beaches and Bases, California.
- Gosta Esping-Andersen, 1990, The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Princeton.
- Phillips, Anne. 1995. The Politics of Presence. Clarendon Press.
- Yuval-Davis, Nira. 1997. Gender and Nation. Sage.
- James C. Scott, 1998, Seeing Like a State, Yale.
- Arend Lijphart, 1999, Patterns of Democracy, Yale.
- Inglehart, Ronald, and Pippa Norris. 2003. Rising Tide. Cambridge University Press.
- Larry Bartels, 2008, Unequal Democracy, Princeton.
- Dani Rodrik, 2011, Globalization Paradox, Cambridge.