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Varieties of state capacity and democratic decline (and economic growth) - Einzelansicht

Veranstaltungsart Seminar Veranstaltungsnummer 430611
SWS 2 Semester SoSe 2022
Einrichtung Sozialwissenschaften   Sprache englisch
Belegungsfrist 01.04.2022 - 10.05.2022

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Seminar Di 10:00 bis 12:00 wöchentlich 19.04.2022 bis 26.07.2022  3.06.S25 Prof. Dr. Fleischer  
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This course examines state capacity as discussed in various literatures. We start from a more general introduction of the concept and its definitions, which have been used in scholarly debates dating the emergence of the state in medieval times versus the early 19th century. Afterwards, we will read and discuss major works analyzing the dynamics and consequences of such state capacity for democratization (and economic growth), with an empirical emphasis on European countries.

 

Literatur

References

  • Andersen, D. D. E., & Krishnarajan, S. (2019). Economic Crisis, Bureaucratic Quality and Democratic Breakdown. Government and Opposition, 54(4), 715-744. doi:10.1017/gov.2017.37.
  • Andersen, D., & Doucette, J. (2022). State First? A Disaggregation and Empirical Interrogation. British Journal of Political Science, 52(1), 408-415. doi:10.1017/S0007123420000083.
  • Cantoni, D. (2015). The Economic Effects of the Protestant Reformation: Testing the Weber Hypothesis in the German Lands. Journal of the European Economic Association, 13(4), 561-598. doi:10.1111/jeea.12117.
    Charron, N., Dahlström, C., & Lapuente, V. (2012). No law without a state. Journal of Comparative Economics, 40(2), 176-193. doi:10.1016/j.jce.2011.12.004.
  • Dincecco, M., & Katz, G. (2016). State Capacity and Long-run Economic Performance. The Economic Journal, 126(590), 189-218. doi:10.1111/ecoj.12161.
    Evans, P., & Rauch, J. E. (1999). Bureaucracy and Growth: A Cross-National Analysis of the Effects of "Weberian" State Structures on Economic Growth. American Sociological Review, 64(5), 748-765. doi:10.2307/2657374.
  • Greif, A. (2008). The Impact of Administrative Power on Political and Economic Developments: Toward a Political Economy of Implementation. In E. Helpman (Ed.), Institutions and economic performance (pp. 17-63). Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
  • Grzymala-Busse, A. (2020). Beyond War and Contracts: The Medieval and Religious Roots of the European State. Annual Review of Political Science, 23(1), 19-36. doi:10.1146/annurev-polisci-050718-032628.
  • Mazzuca, S. L., & Munck, G. L. (2014). State or democracy first? Alternative perspectives on the state-democracy nexus. Democratization, 21(7), 1221-1243. doi:10.1080/13510347.2014.960209.
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Books

  • Ertman, T. (1997). Birth of the leviathan: Building states and regimes in medieval and early modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Gorski, P. S. (2003). The disciplinary revolution: Calvinism and the rise of the state in early modern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Levi, M. (1988). Of rule and revenue. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Mann, M. (1992). The Sources of Social Power. Vol. 2: The Rise of Classes And Nation-States, 1760–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Mazzucato, M. (2014). The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (Revised edition. ed.). London ; New York: Anthem Press.
  • Tilly, C. (1975). The formation of national states in Western Europe. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
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Bemerkung

PLEASE NOTE: The first 3 weeks of this course will be held online via Zoom (digital, live, at the time of the seminar).
Ideally, we move into the allotted seminar room afterwards (if the pandemic conditions permit it).

Leistungsnachweis
  • 10%: Participation
  • 25%: Response paper (~1500 words, ~6–7 pages)
  • 30%: Research plan (~1500 words, ~6–7 pages)
  • 35%: Group presentation

Strukturbaum
Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester SoSe 2022 , Aktuelles Semester: SoSe 2024