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Poslední úprava: PhDr. Marek Příhoda, Ph.D. (17.12.2023)
This course will require students to learn the recent history of the post-communist world, but is designed primarily to help students develop tools for interpreting and understanding economic and political events in the region. The course will introduce students to the major debates on economic and political reform and try to help students make sense of them. |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Václav Paštěka (09.01.2023)
Cambridge University Press 2010.
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Poslední úprava: PhDr. Marek Příhoda, Ph.D. (03.01.2024)
Wednesday 15.50–17.25 February 21 – Reforms of Post-Soviet Russia in the Mirror of Transit Theories 1 February 28 – Reforms of Post-Soviet Russia in the Mirror of Transit Theories 2 March 6 – Reforms of Post-Soviet Russia in the Mirror of Transit Theories 3 March 13 – Reforms of Post-Soviet Russia in the Mirror of Transit Theories 4 March 20 – Reforms of Post-Soviet Russia in the Mirror of Transit Theories 5 March 27 – Reforms of Post-Soviet Russia in the Mirror of Transit Theories 6 April 3 – Reforms of Post-Soviet Russia in the Mirror of Transit Theories 7 April 10 – Reforms of Post-Soviet Russia in the Mirror of Transit Theories 8 April 17 – Reforms of Post-Soviet Russia in the Mirror of Transit Theories 9 April 24 – Reforms of Post-Soviet Russia in the Mirror of Transit Theories 10 May 15 – Reforms of Post-Soviet Russia in the Mirror of Transit Theories 11 |
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Poslední úprava: PhDr. Marek Příhoda, Ph.D. (17.12.2023)
Mid-Term Exam - 30% Final Exam During Exam Week - 30% Research Paper - 40% More information on the research paper will be made available early in the semester. Research papers typically require you to compare at least two postcommunist countries on some dimension of economic or political reform and to assess competing arguments for the variation observed. Brevity and originality are prized. Each class is an opportunity to have a discussion about the material that we are studying. You are encouraged to bring questions to class based on the readings for that day. If terms or concepts are unclear, please ask me to clarify. This is essential for a successful class. The participation component of the grade is based on discussion in class. Before each class I will select students at random and during lecture I will ask them questions about the readings. Cross-Country Comparisons. This is a course in comparative politics, so comparison is necessary. Students are required to follow the economic and political development of a postcommunist country in Europe (not Russia). You can choose from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaidzhan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, or Uzbekistan. Students may also follow a postcommunist country of Eastern Europe: Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia. The latter group of countries will be discussed less frequently, but there is more secondary literature available. In the paper you will have to compare the economic and political development of the country that you are studying with Russia. Other topics are permitted, but clear them with me first.
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Poslední úprava: PhDr. Marek Příhoda, Ph.D. (17.12.2023)
1. Introduction: What is at Stake? LECTURE
Scott Gehlbach and Edward Malesky: 2011. “The Great Experiment that Wasn’t.” in Institutions, Property Rights and Economic Growth: The Legacy of Douglass North, Sebastian Galiani and Itai Sened, eds. Cambridge University Press.
Timothy Frye, Who Is To Blame, What is to Be Done? https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/08/30/who-is-to-blame-and-what-s-to-be-done
Alexei Navalny, “My Fear and Hatred”
Recommended:
Video: Political Perestroika http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me6q4NT7kTg
Timothy Frye. 2012. “In From the Cold: Causal Inference and Postcommunism.” Annual Review of Political Science,
2. What Was Communism and Why Did it Collapse? DISCUSSION
Stephen Kotkin Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse 1970-2000. Pages. 1-57*
Katherine, Verdery What Was Socialism and What Comes Next, Princeton University Press, 1996. pages, 19-38.*
Leon Aron. 2011. “Everything you Know About the Collapse of Communism is Wrong.” Foreign Policy. https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/06/20/everything-you-think-you-know-about-the-collapse-of-the-soviet-union-is-wrong/
Recommended: Mary Macauley. Soviet Politics, 1917-1991. Oxford University Press. 1992. Chapters 6-8, conclusion.*
Stephen Kotkin 2010. Uncivil Society. Random House.
Francis Spufford. 2012. Red Plenty. Graywolf Press http://redplenty.com/Red_Plenty/Front_page.html , Part 1 introduction, chps 1-2, Part II. Introduction, Chapters 1-2, Part III. Introduction. Part IV. Chps 2-3.
Thomas Remington. 1992. "Sovietology and System Stability," Post-Soviet Affairs 8:4 (October-December), pp. 239-269.
Seweryn Bialer, Stalin’s Successors, chap. 8.*
Video: My Perestroika
3. Studying Postcommunism LECTURE Herbert Kitschelt, 2003. “Accounting for Postcommunist Regime Diversity: What Counts as a Good Cause?” in Grzegorz Ekiert and Stephen E. Hanson eds. Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, 49-86. New York: Cambridge University Press.* Adam Przeworski. Democracy and the Market. Pages, 10-50.
Stephen Holmes. “Conceptions of Democracy in the Draft Constitutions of the Post-Communist Countries.” Markets, States, and Democracy: The Political Economy of Postcommunist Transformation. 1995. 71-81. Also printed as “Back to the Drawing Board” in East European Constitutional Review Winter 1993.*
Thomas Carothers, “The End of the Transition Paradigm,” Journal of Democracy, vol.13, no.4, January 2002, pp. 5-21.
Sergei Guriev and Ekatarina Zhuravskaya. 2009. “Unhappiness in Transition.” Journal Of Economic Perspectives, 23:2.
Recommended: Joan M. Nelson. “The Politics of Economic Transformation: Is the Third World Experience Relevant in Eastern Europe?” World Politics 45: 3, 433-63.
Offe, Claus. 1991. “Capitalism by Democratic Design? Democratic Theory Facing the Triple Transition in East Central Europe.” Social Research, 58, 865-92.
Valerie Bunce, “Should Transitologists Be Grounded?” Slavic Review 54.1 (1995): pp. 111-127.
Recommended: Vladimir Putin. 2000 and 2006 2014 Addresses to the Federal Assembly. http://president.kremlin.ru/eng/sdocs/speeches
Boris Yeltsin. The Struggle for Russia. New York: Times Books, 1994. 183-217; 241-280.
4. State Building: Concept and Theory DISCUSSION Max Weber. “What is a State?” 38-41*
Ganev, Venelin. 2005. “Post-Communism as an Episode of State-Building.” Communist and Post-Communist Politics. 38: 2005: 425-445
Darden, Keith and Anna Grzymala-Busse. 2007. “The Great Divide: Pre-Communist Schooling and Post-Communist Trajectories.” World Politics 59 (1): 83-115.
Stephen Holmes. “Cultural Legacy or State Collapse?” Perspectives on Postcommunism, Ed. Michael Mandelbaum. Council on Foreign Relations. New York. 1996.*
Keith Darden. “The Integrity of Corrupt States. Graft as an Informal State Institution, Politics and Society, vol.36 (2008).
“Dagestan Wedding.” William Burns, US Embassy Official. 2006.* Recommended: Vadim Volkov. Violent Entrepreneurs, Cornell University Press 2002.
Charles Tilly. 1985. “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime.” In Bringing the State Back In . ed. Evans, Reuschmeyer, and Skocpol.*
Timothy Frye and Andrei Shleifer. “The Invisible Hand and the Grabbing Hand.” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings June 1996. pp. 554-559. Thomas Carothers, “The Rule of Law Revival” and the “Problem of Knowledge” from Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad: In Search of Knowledge, pages. 9-28.*
Timothy Frye, 1997. “A Politics of Institutional Choice: Post-Communist Presidencies,” Comparative Political Studies. (JSTOR).
Anna Grzymala-Busse, “Political Competition and the Politicization of the State in East-Central Europe,” Comparative Political Studies, vol.36, no.10, 2003.
Ganev, Venelin. "The Dorian Gray Effect: Winners as Statebreakers in Postcommunism." Communist and Post-Communist Studies 2001. 34: 1-25.
Gerald Easter, “Politics of Revenue Extraction: Poland and Russia Compared,” Politics and Society. 30-599-627.
Anticorruption in Transition. “Who is Succeeding and Why?” World Bank. www.worldbank.org/eca/actc
Anna Grzymala-Busse, Rebuilding Leviathan: Party Competition and State Exploitation in Post-Communist Democracies, 2007 Cambridge University Press.
Scott Gehlbach, Representation Through Taxation: Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States, 2008. Cambridge University Press
Hellman, Joel, Geraint Jones, and Daniel Kaufman. “Seize the State, Seize the Day.” Journal of Comparative Economics Volume 31, Issue 4, December 2003, Pages 751-773.
5. Economic Reform: What is a Market Economy and How Do We Build One? LECTURE Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman, Without a Map: Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1-38, 175-185.
Adam Przeworski, Democracy and the Market, 136-191.
Joel Hellman. “Winners Take All: The Politics of Partial Reform.” World Politics, January 1998. (JSTOR) Available electronically through the library.
Timothy Frye, Building States and Markets After Communism, 2010. introduction and chapters 1, 2.
***Initial Paper Proposal Due** 2 pages
Recommended: Charles E. Lindblom, “The Market as Prison,” Journal of Politics (May,. 1982).
Keith Darden, Economic Liberalism and its Rivals. Cambridge University Press. 2009.
Dani Rodrik1996. “Understanding Economic Policy Reform.” Journal of Economic Literature 34 (1): 9-41.
6. Economic Outcomes Outcomes DISCUSSION EBRD Transition Report 2014. Chapter 2.
Frye, Building States and Markets, chapters 3, 7-10.
Joseph Stiglitz. (1999) “Whither Reform?” Annual Bank Conference on Development Washington D.C.*
Marek Dabrowski, Stanislaw Gomulka and Jacek Rostowski “Whence Reform?; A Reply to Stiglitz.”*
Katharina Pistor 2013.”Toward a New Transition Economics.” Economics of Transition. 21:1 11-16.
Konstantin Sonin. 2013. “The End of Economic Transition.” Economics of Transition. 21:1 21:1. 1-10.
Recommended: Guriev, Sergei and Andrei Rachinsky. 2005. “The Role of Oligarchs in Russian Capitalism.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 19 (1): 131–150. (JSTOR)
Jeffrey Sachs. Poland’s Jump to a Market Economy. MIT Press. 1994.
Asad Alam and Arup Bannerji. “Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan: A Tale of Two Transition Paths?” World Bank Washington DC 2001. Also available from me or through Google. http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/Research/workpapers.nsf/bd04ac9da150d30385256815005076ce/20a7a89bfb419fdd85256989006994c9/$FILE/wps2472.pdf
Richard Pomfret. “The Uzbek Model of Economic Development 1991-1999.” Economics of Transition 8(3) November 2000. Also available from me as a PDF or through Google. http://www.economics.adelaide.edu.au/staff/pomfret/eotzub.pdf
7. Mid term Exam in Class
8. Autocracy and Democracy: Theories and Politics LECTURE
Samuel Huntington. “Will More Countries Become Democratic?” 1984. Political Science Quarterly, Summer, 99: 193-218. (JSTOR)
Terry Lynn Karl. “What Democracy is …and is Not.” The Global Resurgence of Democracy, ed. Larry Diamond. Johns Hopkins University Press.*
Adam Przeworski, Democracy and the Market, Chapter 1.*
Recommended: Adam Przeworski. 2010. Democracy and the Limits of Self-Governance. New York: Cambridge University Press.
John Mueller. “Democracy, Capitalism and the End of Transition.” in Perspectives on Postcommunism, New York: Council on Foreign Relations. Ed. Michael Mandelbaum. 1996.
Jeffrey Kopstein, and David Reilly. 2000. “Geographic Diffusion and Transformation of Post-Communist Europe.” World Politics 53 (1): 1-30. (JSTOR)
Michael Mcfaul. “Transitions from Communism,” Journal of Democracy. 16, 3 July, 2005. 5-19. (JSTOR)
Valerie Bunce. “Rethinking Recent Democratization.” World Politics, January 2003. 55:2. 167-192. (JSTOR)
Lucan Way “Authoritarian State Building and the Sources of Regime Competitiveness in the Fourth Wave: The Cases of Belarus, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine? World Politics, 57 (2): 231-265 (January 2005) (JSTOR)
Ivan Krastev, 2007. “The Strange Death of the Liberal Consensus.” Journal of Democracy 18:4, 56-63. (JSTOR)
Timothy Colton and Michael Mcfaul. “Are Russians Undemocratic?”* [Available electronically at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]. http://www.ceip.org/files/pdf/20ColtonMcFaul.pdf
Richard Pipes. “Flight From Freedom: What Russians Think and Want.” Foreign Affairs, May/June 2004. 9-15. Available electronically through the library.
9. Democratic Erosion DISCUSSION
Steve Levitsky and Lucan A. Way “The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism” Journal of Democracy. 13: 2 (April 2002).
Kimberly Lane Scheppele, “Autocratic Legalism,” The University of Chicago Law Review, 2018, 85: 545-583.
Kimberly Lane Scheppele “How Orban Wins,” Journal of Democracy, July 2022.
Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Erica Frantz. “How Democracies Fall Apart: Why Populism is a Pathway to Autocracy.” Foreign Affairs.
10. Autocratic Politics LECTURE
Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century. 1-135.
Timothy Frye, “Putin’s Perilous Bargains,” Foreign Affairs, May-June 2021.
****5 Page Paper proposal due***
Recommended: Dan Treisman, “Introduction,” The New Autocracy: Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin’s Russia, 1-28
Joshua Yaffa. Between Two Fires, Tim Duggan Press, 2020.
11. Autocracy and Democracy: Does it Matter? DISCUSSION
Ferraz, Claudio and Fred Finan. 2011. “Exposing Corrupt Politicians.” J-Pal Policy Brief.
Rohini Pande. 2020. “Can Democracy Work for the Poor,” Science, 1-5.
Thomas Pepinsky, “Everyday Authoritarianism is Boring and Tolerable.” Blog Post/
Justin Esaray, “The Myth that Democracies Bungled the Pandemic,” The Atlantic, 2021.
Tim Frye, et al. “Is Putin Really Popular?” Post-Soviet Affairs, 2017.
Chris Achens and Larry Bartels, Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government, 2016. Princeton University Press, Preface, and 1-51.
Recommended: Ruben Enikolopov et al. 2012. “Field Experiment Evidence of Vote Fraud in Parliamentary Elections in Russia.” PNAS.110:2, 448-452.*
Mark Beissinger, 2013. “Semblance of a Democratic Revolution: Coalitions in Ukraine’s Orange Revolution.” American Political Science Review. 107:3. 574-592. (JSTOR)
Scott Radnitz 2010. Weapons of the Wealthy: Predatory Regimes and Elite-Led Protests in Central Asia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Intro, chps1,6, conclusion.*
Henry Hale. “Regime Cycles: Democracy, Autocracy, and Revolution in Post-Soviet Russia.” World Politics, October 2004. (JSTOR)
Valerie Bunce and Sharon Wolchik. 2006. “International Diffusion and Postcommunist Electoral Revolutions, Communist and Post-Communist Studies 39 (3) (JSTOR)
Lucan Way, "The Real Causes of the Color Revolutions " Journal of Democracy. 19, No. 3: 55-69 (July 2008) Plus. Lucan Way "Debating the Color Revolutions: A Reply to My Critics" Journal of Democracy. 20, No. 1 90-97 (January 2009).
Adam Przeworski. 1991. Democracy and the Market. Conclusion.
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