2018年哈佛大学Political Science and China课程大纲

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2018年春季哈佛大学Political Science and China课程大纲

Elizabeth J. Perry (eperry@gov.harvard.edu)

This is a graduate seminar that requires basic familiarity (i.e., the equivalent of an undergraduate course) with the history and politics of contemporary China. The seminar covers major theoretical and methodological approaches in the field of domestic Chinese politics, with the aim of exploring the strengths and weaknesses of alternative perspectives. Readings and discussion sessions are intended to encourage an interactive dialogue between the study of China and the larger field of comparative politics. We will ask: What insights garnered from the study of other regions of the world might productively be applied to China? And equally important: What lessons drawn from studies of Chinese politics might enrich the analysis of comparative politics more generally?

Each week, all students will read a common assignment focused on China (marked with a double asterisk on the syllabus). In addition, each student is expected each week to read appropriate non-China materials that relate to the topic for that week. The non-China readings may be chosen from recommendations on the syllabus or selected at the student’s own discretion. All students are expected to participate actively in every class session.

Written assignments consist of (1) three brief (5 pages maximum, typed double-spaced) critiques of weekly readings; and (2) a research design (15 pages maximum) for an original research project on a significant problem in the field of Chinese politics. The critiques should compare, contrast and/or integrate China and non-China readings for a particular week. The design should

(1) summarize relevant theoretical debates in both the general and China-specific secondary literatures (approximately 4-5 pages); (2) present several specific testable hypotheses -- that follow logically from the literature review and that propose specific relationships between independent and dependent variables -- to be explored in the project (1 page); (3) describe an appropriate methodology for establishing or falsifying the proposed hypotheses (approximately 4-5 pages); and (4) indicate the expected contribution of the proposed project to major debates in both comparative and Chinese politics fields (approximately 4-5 pages).

Critiques are due the day before the class at which the readings in question will be discussed. (Note that critiques must be written for weeks other than those for which the student acts as discussion facilitator.) Please place a hard copy in the instructor’s mailbox in the Government Department (1st floor, Knafel Building, CGIS-N) by 3 PM on the day before class. Late papers and electronic submissions are not accepted. The first critique should be turned in during the initial five weeks of the semester; the second critique during the next four weeks; and the third critique during the final three weeks. If a student must miss a class (due to illness or other legitimate reason), s/he should submit an extra critique covering the readings for the missed session.

The research design is due on Thursday, April 26 by 3 PM in the instructor’s mailbox in the Government Department.

In addition to the writing assignments, each student is expected to serve as discussion facilitator for at least one session. The facilitator is responsible for leading off the session with a provocative 15-20 minute oral presentation on the general topic under consideration for that week. The facilitator should not discuss the common China reading for the week, but should instead present a critical overview of the week’s theme as it has been addressed by general comparativists as well as by other China scholars. Discussion facilitators are encouraged to consult with the instructor in advance of their presentation.

Reading and Discussion Schedule (asterisks indicate required reading assignment)

Week I (January 25): Introduction: Approaches and Methods

[NOTE: Although this week’s readings are optional, students are encouraged to refer to

relevant items in preparing their research designs]

Lily L. Tsai, “Bringing in China: Insights for Building Comparative Political Theory,” Comparative Political Studies (December 2016)

Kevin O’Brien, “Studying Chinese Politics in an Age of Specialization,” Journal of Contemporary China (September 2011)

Elizabeth J. Perry, “Studying Chinese Politics: Farewell to Revolution?” China Journal (January 2007)

Lowell Dittmer and William Hurst, “Analysis in Limbo: Contemporary Chinese Politics and the Maturation of Reform,” Issues and Studies (Dec. 2002-March 03)

Richard Baum and Alexei Shevchenko, “The State of the State,” in Merle Goldman and Roderick MacFarquhar, eds., The Paradox of China’s Post- Mao Reforms

Elizabeth J. Perry, “Partners at Fifty: American China Studies and the PRC, Harvard Asia Quarterly (Autumn 1999)

Harry Harding, “The Contemporary Study of Chinese Politics: An Introduction, China Quarterly, #139

Elizabeth J. Perrry, “Trends in the Study of Chinese Politics: State-Society Relations, China Quarterly, #139

Lucian Pye, “Social Science Theories in Search of Chinese Realities,” China Quarterly, #132

David Shambaugh, ed., American Studies of Contemporary China

Avery Goldstein, “The Domain of Inquiry in Political Science: General Lessons from the Study of China,” Polity, vol. 21, no. 3

Michel Oksenberg, “Politics Takes Command: An Essay on the Study of Post-1949 China,” in The Cambridge History of China, vol. 14

Michel Oksenberg, "The Literature on post-1949 China: An Interpretive Essay," in The Cambridge History of China, vol. 14

Wenfang Tang, “An Introduction to Survey Research in Urban China,” Issues and Studies (Dec. 2002-March 2003)

Melanie Manion, “Survey Research in the Study of Contemporary China: Learning from Local Samples,” China Quarterly, #139

Cai Yongshun, “Between State and Peasant: Local Cadres and Statistical Reporting in Rural China,” China Quarterly, #163

Chris Bramell, “The Quality of China’s Household Income Surveys,” China Quarterly, #167

William W. Moss, “Research Note: Dang’an -- Contemporary Chinese Archives,” China Quarterly, #145

Andrew Walder, "ress Accounts and the Study of Chinese Society," China Quarterly #79

Eugene Wu, "Contemporary China Studies: The Question of Sources," in Roderick MacFarquhar, et.al., eds., The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao

Michel Oksenberg, "Sources and Methodological Problems in the Study of Contemporary China," in A. Doak Barnett, ed., Chinese Communist Politics in Action

David Goodman, “The Methodology of Contemporary Chinese Studies: Political Studies and the PRC,” in Yu-ming Shaw, ed., Power and Policy in The PRC

Chalmers Johnson, "What is Wrong with Chinese Political Studies," Asian Survey (October 1982)

Chalmers Johnson, "olitical Science and East Asian Area Studies, World Politics (July 1974)

Richard Wilson, "Chinese Studies in Crisis," World Politics #23

Harry Harding, "The Study of Chinese Politics: Toward a Third Generation of Scholarship," World Politics #36 (Jan. 1984)

Jerome A. Cohen, "Interviewing Chinese Refugees," Journal of Legal Education (October 1976)

Donald W. Klein, "Sources for Elite Studies and Biographical Materials on China," in Robert Scalapino, ed., Elites in the People's Republic of China

Martin K. Whyte, "The Study of Mainland China," Contemporary China (March 1977)

William L. Parish and Martin K. Whyte, Family and Village in Contemporary China, pp. 1-7, 339-51

Anne F. Thurston and Burton Pasternak, eds., The Social Sciences and Fieldwork in China

Anne F. Thurston and Jason H. Parker, eds., Humanistic and Social Science Research in China

Steven B. Butler, "Field Research in China's Communes," Studies in Comparative International Development, vol. XVIII

Anne F. Thurston, "New Opportunities for Research in China," Items, vol. 33, no. 2 Kenneth Prewitt, ed., Research Opportunities in China for American Humanists and Social Scientists

Maria Heimer and Stig Thogersen, eds., Doing Field Work in China

[NOTE: The first critique must be turned in for Week II, III, IV, or V]

Week II (February 1): State Building

**Prasenjit Duara, Culture, Power and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942

Peter Evans, et.al, Bringing the State Back In

Charles Tilly, ed., The Formation of National States in Western Europe

Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital and European States

Joel Migdal, Strong Societies, Weak States

Joel Migdal, State in Society

Peter Evans, Embedded Autonomy

James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State

Week III (February 8): Comparative Communism

** Andrew G. Walder, Communist Neo-Traditionalism

Carl J. Friedrich and Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy

Chalmers Johnson, ed., Change in Communist Systems

Victor Nee and David Stark, eds., Remaking the Institutions of Socialism

Janos Kornai, The Socialist System

Daniel Chirot, ed., The Crisis of Leninism

Grzegorz Ekiert, The State Against Society

Merle Fainsod, How Russia Is Ruled

Minxin Pei, From Reform to Revolution

Valerie Bunce, Subversive Institutions

Jerry F. Hough and Merle Fainsod, How the Soviet Union Is Governed

Juan Linz, Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Martin Dimitrov, ed., Why Communism Did Not Collapse

Week IV (February 15): Elites & Factionalism

**Victor C. Shih, Factions and Finance in China

Robert D. Putnam, The Comparative Study of Political Elites

Robert D. Putnam, Bureaucrats and Politicians In Western Democracies

Barbara Geddes, Politicians’ Dilemma

C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite

G. William Domhoff, Who Rules America?

Frank P. Belloni, et. al., Faction Politics

Mary C. Carras, The Dynamics of Indian Political Factions

Raymond Taras, ed., Leadership Change in Communist States

Valerie Bunce, Do New Leaders Make A Difference?

Gerald L. Curtis, The Logic of Japanese Politics

Geraint Parry, Political Elites

Tom Bottomore, Elites and Society

James Burnham, The Managerial Revolution

Week V (February 22): Central-Local Relations & Sub-National Comparisons

**Chung Jae Ho, Central Control and Local Discretion in China

Kent Eaton, Politics beyond the Capital: The Design of Subnational Institutions in South America

Richard Snyder, Politics after Neo-Liberalism: Reregulation in Mexico

Wayne Cornelius, Subnational Politics and Democratization in Mexico

Tulia Falleti, Decentralization and Subnational Politics in Latin America

Aseema Sinha, The Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India

Atul Kohli, The State And Poverty In India

Prerna Singh, Collective Identity and the Common Good: Subnationalism and Social Development in India

Joel Migdal, et.al., eds., State Power And Social Forces

William Reisinger, ed., Russia’s Regions and Comparative Subnational Politics

Vladimir Gel’man, ed., The Politics of Sub-National Authoritarianism in Russia

[NOTE: The second critique must be turned in for Week VI, VII, VIII, or IX]

Week VI (March 1): Political Culture

**Wenfang Tang, Populist Authoritarianism: Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability

Lucian Pye and Sydney Verba, Political Culture and Political Development

Gabriel Almond and Sydney Verba, The Civic Culture

Ronald Inglehart, Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy

Archie Brown and Jack Gray, Political Culture and Political Change in Communist States

Lynn Hunt, Politics, Culture and Class in The French Revolution

Nicholas Dirks, et. al., Culture, Power and History

Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures

David Laitin, Hegemony and Culture

David Kertzer, Politics and Symbols

Larry Diamond, ed., Political Culture and Democracy In Developing Countries

Week VII (March 8): Contentious Politics

**Xi Chen, Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism In China

James C. Scott, Domination and the Arts of Resistance

Forest Colburn, ed., Everyday Forms of Resistance

Joel Migdal, Peasants, Politics and Revolution

Eric Wolf, Peasant Wars in the 20th Century

Charles Tilly, From Mobilization to Revolution

Sidney Tarrow, Power in Movement

Doug McAdam, et.al., eds., Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements

Aldon Morris, et.al., eds., Frontiers in Social Movement Theory

Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow and Charles Tilly, The Dynamics of Contention

Ronald Aminzade, et. al., Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics

Roger Gould, Insurgent Identities

Daniel Slater, Ordering Power

[NOTE: Spring Break is March 10-18]（耶鲁的春假是March 10-25）

Week VIII (March 22): Urban Politics & Grassroots Governance

**Benjamin Read, Roots of the State: Neighborhood Organizations and Social Networks In Beijing And Taipei

Mary Alice Haddad, Politics and Volunteering In Japan

Theda Skocpol, Civic Engagement in American Democracy

Ashutosh Varshney, Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life

Bob Edwards, Michael Foley and Mario Diani, eds., Beyond Tocqueville

Virginia Hodgkinson and Michael Foley, eds., Civil Society Reader

Merilee Grindle, Going Local: Decentralization and the Promise of Good Governance

Sidney Verba, Kay Lehman Schlozman, Henry E. Brady, Voice and Equality:

Civic Voluntarism in American Politics

Matthew Crenson, The Un-Politics of Air Pollution: A Study of Non-Decision Making in the Cities

Paul Peterson, City Limits

Floyd Hunter, Community Power Structure

Robert Dahl, Who Governs?

Benjamin Read, ed., Local Organizations and Urban Governance in East and Southeast Asia

Week IX (March 29): Rural Politics & Social Capital

**Lily L. Tsai, Accountability without Democracy: Solidary Groups and Public Goods Provision in Rural China

Robert Putnam, Making Democracy Work

Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone

Daniel Aldrich, Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery

Steven Levitsky and Gretchen Helmke, Informal Institutions and Democracy

Susan Rose-Ackerman, From Elections to Democracy

Elinor Ostrom, ed., Foundations of Social Capital

Joel Migdal, Strong Societies, Weak States

James C. Scott, The Moral Economy of The Peasant

James C. Scott, Weapons of the Weak

Kenneth Sharpe, Peasant Politics

Samuel Popkin, Rational Peasants

[NOTE: The third critique must be turned in for Week X, XI or XII]

Week X (April 5): Law and Politics

**Mary E. Gallagher, Authoritarian Legality in China: Law, Workers, and the State

Jennifer Widner, Building the Rule of Law

Tom Ginsburg and Tamir Moustafa, eds., Rule by Law: The Politics of Courts in Authoritarian Regimes

Alexei Trochev, Judging Russia

Kathryn Hendley, Trying to Make Law Matter: Legal Reform and Labor Law in the Soviet Union

Jodi Finkel, Judicial Reform as Political Insurance: Argentina, Peru and Mexico

Alec Stone Sweet, Governing with Judges: Constitutional Politics in Europe

Charles Epp, The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective

Jeremy Waldron, The Law: Theory and Practice in British Politics

Anthony Amsterdam and Jerome Bruner, Minding the Law

William E. Forbath, Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement

Robert A. Kagan, Adversarial Legalism and American Government

Robert A. Kagan and David Vogel, eds., Dynamics of Regulatory Change

Max Weber, Max Weber on Law in Economy and Society

Week XI (April 12): Nationalism & Domestic/International Linkages

**Jessica Weiss, Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities

Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism

Eric J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism

Ernst Haas, The Rise and Decline of Nationalism

Ernst Haas, Nationalism, Liberalism and Progress

Liah Greenfeld, Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity

Liah Greenfeld, Nationalism and the Mind

John Breuilly, Nationalism and the State

Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism Reframed

David Laitin, Nations, States and Violence

Umut Ozkirimli, Theories of Nationalism

Eugen Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen

Paul Almeida, Mobilizing Democracy: Globalization and Citizen Protest

Peter B. Evans, Dependent Development

Robert Packenham, The Dependency Movement

Atul Kohli, State Directed Development

Peter Gourevitch, Politics in Hard Times

Stephan Haggard, Pathways from the Periphery

Saskia Sassen, Sociology of Globalization

Graham Allison, The Essence of Decision

Week XII (April 19): Democratization or Authoritarian Resilience?

**Kellee Tsai, Capitalism without Democracy

Barrington Moore, Jr., Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

Guillermo O’Donnell, Philippe Schmitter and Laurence Whitehead, eds., Transitions from Authoritarian Rule

Adam Przeworski, Democracy and Development

Adam Przeworski, Democracy and the Market

Giuseppe Di Palma, To Craft Democracies

Samuel P. Huntington, The Third Wave

Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan, eds., Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation

Ruth B. Collier, Paths toward Democracy

Dietrich Reuschemeyer, Evelyn Huber Stephens, and John D. Stephens, Capitalist Development and Democracy

Lisa Wedeen, Ambiguities of Domination

Jennifer Gandhi, Political Institutions under Dictatorship

Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, Competitive Authoritarianism

Oliver Schlumberger, ed., Debating Arab Authoritarianism

Eva Bellin, Stalled Democracy

Beatriz Magaloni, Voting for Autocracy

Daniel Chirot, Modern Tyrants

Milan Slovik, The Politics of Authoritarian Rule

Thursday, April 26: Research Designs are due (before 3 PM)

**Gary King, et. al., Designing Social Inquiry

**Henry Brady and David Collier, eds., Rethinking Social Inquiry

**Allen Carlson, et. al., Contemporary Chinese Politics: New Sources, Methods and Field Strategies

Benjamin Read, Diana Kapiszewski and Lauren MacLean, Field Research in Political Science


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