CPO 3003: Comparative Politics
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Assignment
Kerblakistan
Introduction
to the Course
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PowerPoints Slides
:
Introduction: How to Study Comparative Politics
(PowerPoint slides)
State and Society
(PowerPoint slides)
Unitary and Federal Arrangements
(PowerPoint slides)
Democratization and Political Culture
(PowerPoint slides)
Economic Development and Democracy
(PowerPoint slides)
Variations of Presidentialism and Parliamentarism
(PowerPoint slides)
Elections and Electoral Systems
(PowerPoint slides)
Parties, Party Systems
(PowerPoint slides)
Country Specific Information
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Introduction: How to Study Comparative Politics:
Development of the Political Science Discipline
American Political Science Association
American Political Science Association
Sections
APSA conference home page
Views of the
American politics subfield
APSA's description of the possible subfields
in political science
APSR and the Vietnam War
British Political Science Association
Perestroika movement
in political science
Russian, East European and Eurasian Center
at UI
Sovereignty is a basic concept in
of nation-states
Map
Break away states
of the former Soviet Union
Map of African
decolonization
The Tragedy of
behavioral political science
Small example of the
policy relevance
of political science
Comparative Politics Methodology
Click here for a APSR article on
case study research
Discussion of
most similar and most similar
research designs
Examples of
most similar research design
Eurobarometer
public opinion polling
Experimental research in political science
Here is a discussion of
Easton's political system
Variables
Regression analysis
ANOVA
Religion and conflict
Revision of data
Operationalization of variables
Magaloni paper
Elgie paper
Discussion concerning
rational choice
theory
The
Society for Political Methodology and the Political Methodology Section
of the American Political Science Association
The
ICPSR
maintains the world's largest data archive
Constitutions
Google
Constitute
for constittions
Comparative Constitutions Project
at Texas
List of
constitutions
East European Constitutional Review
is available online
The University of Richmond Law School provides a comprehensive list of
constitutions throughout the world
The
Public Law Initiative
at Columbia Law School is a great site
Fun Stuff
How political science
really operates
I want an
A
Democracy
in action
You have two
cows
The
IMF
Daily Show
Decline
World leaders
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Social Mobilization and the State:
Notions of the State and Society
Employment situation in Latin America
Discussion of
corporatism
Corporatism in
Scandinavia
Demographic data in Latin America
Here is a discussion of Easton's political system
Human and Minority Rights
Lebanese
religious demographics
and
distribution of power
Map of ethnic groups
1
and
2
(courtesy of the University of Texas library)
Ethnicity as a characteristic of nation (
map1
,
map2
)
IGOs
Languages
of India
Map of
religions
in Iraq
Amnesty International
is one of the world's leading human rights NGOs
UNDP's
Human Development Index
(click here for all
tables
)
The number of
female MPs
is increasing
The
OSCE
deals with security and democratization issues in Europe
Constitutions
East European Constitutional Review
is available online
The University of Richmond Law School provides a comprehensive list of
constitutions throughout the world
Revolutions and Protest Movements
Turkmenistan
and
Uzbekistan
Burma's crackdown in 2007
Cartoons
Color revolutions
Georgia's
Rose Revolution
Another view of the
revolution
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Unitary and Federal Arrangements:
Lebanese
religious demographics
and
distribution of power
Map of ethnic groups
1
and
2
(courtesy of the University of Texas library)
Ethnicity as a characteristic of nation (
map1
,
map2
)
IGOs
Languages
of India
Map of
religions
in Iraq
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Economic Development and Democracy:
World Bank
GDP measures
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Democratization and Political Culture:
Almond and Verba's classic work on Civic Culture, also click here
Coup data set
Here is a good, brief description of some
problems associated with studying civic culture
Freedom House
's country ratings measure the level of democracy
Procedural versus substantive democracy
Positive and negative rights
Illiberal democracy
Latinobarometro
Discussion of democratization after the
third wave
Huntington's "
two turnover test
"
Transparency International
monitors the level of societal corruption
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Variations of Presidentialism and Parliamentarism:
Overview
List of
regimes by country
Female leaders include
Indira Gandhi
Somalia's
governmentless state
Inter-Parliamentary Union
provides
web servers of national parliaments
and a
database of electoral laws and election results
Unicameral and bicameral parliaments
Latin American parliaments
Latin American
governments
Parliamentary resources by country
European Parliament
has information on structure and members
Presidential Regimes
Breakdown of democracy in presidential regimes
Parliamentary Regimes
Vote of no confidence
Votes of no confidence
Constructive vote of no confidence
Dissolve parliament
Semi-Presidential Regimes
Here are some tables comparing
premier-presidential regimes
List of
post-communist premier-presidential regimes
List of
semi-presidential regimes
Constitutions
East European Constitutional Review
is available online
The University of Richmond Law School provides a comprehensive list of
constitutions throughout the world
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Elections and Electoral Systems:
General Information
:
Click here for
maps
and types of
electoral systems
List of
different systems
Candidate registration in Illinois (
election laws
)
ACE has a good discussion of the
two types of effects
Effective
number of parties
Electoral thresholds
Compulsory voting
Ballot Design
:
Click here for a list of
ballot designs
German ballot
Polish ballot
(categorical ballot for individual)
South African
ballot (closed party list)
Danish ballot
(open party list)
Irish ballot
(STV)
Example of a modified
Australian federal
election ballot (AV)
District Magnitude
:
Good explanation of
district magnitude
Math
behind of district magnitude
Allocation Rules
:
Allocation rules (
1
and
2
)
List of
PR allocation rules
Implication of electoral systems on
female representation
Robert Loring has a useful page in which he explains his
synthesis of STV and Condorcet rules
Data Bases
:
The International Foundation for Electoral Systems
has an extensive data base
The
University of Essex
has a project on transformation and electoral process in post-communist Europe
Here is a great site for
parliamentary election results
going back to 1945
The
Lijphart elections archive
Fairvote
has voter turnout statistics for many countries
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Parties and Party Systems:
Click here for a diagram of general
cleavage structure
(abridged by Kenneth Janda)
Development of
catch-all parties
Big tent parties
Wolinetz's
typology of parties
Gunther and Diamond
typology of parties
Two-party vote
Click here for a recent APSA paper on the determination of the
number of parties
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Voting Behavior:
Here is comparative data on
voter turnout
The
Hotelling-Downsian
model of median voter
Median voter theorem
Discussion of
directional versus proximity models of voting
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Case Study of Russia:
Maps
:
Map
of Russia under Peter the Great
Map
of Russia today
Interesting Facts:
Russia/US comparison
Interesting Russian facts
News:
ITAR-TASS
Moscow Times
Pravda
Russiatoday(RT)
RIA Novosti
Interesting Russian facts
Soviet-era Information:
Communism
Communist
party leaders
Cult of personality
Khruschuchev
"secret speech"
Lenin's "
theory of imperialism
"
Show trials
and purges in the 1930s
Soviet era
Mother's medals
Mother's medals
today
Glasnost
,
demokratizatsyia
and
perestroika
Gorbachev and pizza
Photos of
Yeltsin
President of Soviet Union
1991 coup
Video from the coup
Republics of the
former Soviet Union
Soviet-made cars (
zaporozhet
,
tavria
and other
great photos
)
Russian Democracy and Political Culture:
Freedom House rankings
Khodorkovsky
trial 2009
Litvinenko poisoning (
photos
and
story
)
Transparency International rankings
Russian Parties:
Constitution
of Russia
Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Fair Russia
as an example of an "opposition" party
Parties and Russian
presidential elections
State Duma
after the 2007 elections
United Russia
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
's Liberal-Democratic Party
Yabloko
Party and
seat totals
for parliament
Russian Elections:
Constitution
of Russia
Elections to the State Duma 1993
Elections to the State Duma 1995
Elections to the State Duma 1999
Elections to State Duma 2003
Elections to State Duma 2007
Presidential election results in 2008
State Duma
Table election results in the
1993 and 1995 Duma
Table election results of
independent in SMDs
Table results
effective number of parties
Russian Presidency:
Constitution
of Russia
Shelling of parliament
1993
Power to fire prime minister
Prime ministers
of Russia
Presidential election results in 2008
Case Study of Mexico:
Maps
:
Map
of Mexico today
Interesting Facts:
Interesting Mexican facts
Mexico's problems
Economic Issues:
Carlos Slim
, the world's second riches man
Pemex
Mexican Parties:
List of Mexican
political parties
Institutionalized Revolutionary Party
(their web site)
Institutionalized Revolutionary Party
(wiki)
National Action Party
(their web site)
National Action Party
(wiki)
Party of the Democratic Revolution
(their web site)
Party of the Democratic Revolution
(wiki)
Mexican Elections:
Description of
Mexican electoral system
Congressional election results
Presidential election results
Mexican Presidency:
Constitution
of Mexico
General information on the
Mexican presidency
President Juarez
Presidential election results
Protests of 2006 presidential election
Mexican Democracy and Political Culture:
Freedom House rankings
Transparency International rankings
Country Specific Information:
Australia
:
Electoral system
MPs face breath tests
Belgium
:
Electoral system
Election results
Geographic results
of elections
Canada
:
Parliament
Harper's
snap election call
France
:
French Fourth Republic
French cohabitation
French cohabitation
French legislative elections
Pros and Cons of French semi-presidentialism
French presidential elections
Germany
:
A guide to German political parties in the run up to the
2005 elections
.
German
post-war governments
Use of
constructive vote of no confidence
Constructive vote of no confidence
German
election results
German ballot
German electoral system
Parliamentary factions
in Germany
The
CDU
Click here for the German
CDU
's home page
The
Greens
The
FDP
The
SPD
Great Britain
:
British
election returns
Click here for a link to the British
House of Commons
British Parliament live
Click here for information on the British
House of Lords
Click here for the UK's
Liberal Democrat
home page
The
party of Wales
List of
prime ministers in Britain
Blair's lose of a whipped vote in parliament
Prime Minister's question hour
The House of Commons
party list
India
:
Click here for information concerning the
Indian electoral system
Indian parliament
Languages
of India
Iraq
:
Forming the new
Iraq government
Independent High Electoral Commission
UN fact sheet
on Iraq electoral system and procedures
Israel
:
Election of Israel's
president
2009 parliamentary election--article on
electoral reform
and
results
The Knesset
Italy
:
List of
Italian governments
Development of an
Italian mass party
Prodi loses confidence vote
in January 2008
List of
Italian parliamentary factions
Kosovo
:
Seats in the
Assembly
Lithuania
:
Impeachment
of the president
Malaysia
:
Prime minister dissolve's parliament
Moldova
:
1996 presidential election result
Netherlands
:
The
Dutch parliament
Dutch
electoral system
Pakistan
:
Description of the
Pakistan electoral system
Poland
:
Description of the
Polish electoral system
Romania
:
Dispute between executives
Vote of no confidence
in government (October 2009) with nomination of various individuals to post of premier (
Johannis
and
Croitoru
)
Constitutional Court's ruling
Referendum on impeachment
List of
presidential election results
Video of the conflict
Recent
press accounts
of
horrible fall
of Prime Minister Boc (sorry Emil!)
Romanian electoral system
Another description of the system
Romania's confusing new electoral system
Positions of the executives
Serbia:
Election results from the
2008 presidential race
Sri Lanka:
Crisis between
executives
Turkey:
Direct election of president
Taiwan:
Taiwan's parliament
, never a dull moment (here is the
Korean parliament
, not to be out done)
Ukraine:
2010
fight in the Rada
Fight
in the Rada
Problems associated with
semi-presidentialism
in Ukraine
Photos of the effect of poisoning on the
president
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