Week

Date

Theme

Readings

1

17-Apr

Course overview

2

24-Apr

Concepts and methodology

Acemoglu et al. 2001

3

1-May

Institutions and growth

Acemoglu et al. 2003

4

8-May

Orthodox reform

Corrales 2003; Ocampo 2004; Walton 2004

5

15-May

Unorthodox reform

Rodrik 2005; Quian 2003; Temple 2003

6

22-May

Aid, conditionality, and growth

Burnside and Dollar 2000; Noorbakhsh and Paloni 2001

7

29-May

Governance and growth

Kaufmann et al. 2007; Kaufmann et al. 2003;

Englebert 2000

8

5-Jun

Democracy and growth

Quinn and Wooley 2001; Baum and Lake 2003;

Pinto and Timmons 2005; Rodrik 2007

9

12-Jun

Determinants of governance

Keefer 2005; Licht et al. 2007

10

19-Jun

Economic origins of democracy

Acemoglu and Robinson 2006, 287-320

11

26-Jun

Growth and political stability

Bernhard et al. 2001; de Soysa 2002

12

3-Jul

Elections and the economy

Remmer 1991; Remmer 1993

13

10-Jul

Policies and the economy

Remmer 2002; Stokes 2001

14

17-Jul

Electoral governance

***Paper presentation***

Lehoucq 2002; Mozaffar 2002

***Term paper due***

Acemoglu, Daron, and James A. Robinson. 2006. Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson. 2001. “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation.” American Economic Review 91(5): 1369-1401.

Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson. 2003.* “An African Success Story: Botswana.” In In Search of Prosperity, ed. Dani Rodrik. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 80-119.

Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson. 2005. “The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth.” American Economic Review 95(3): 546-579.

Baum, Matthew A., and David A. Lake. 2003. “The Political Economy of Growth: Democracy and Human Capital.” American Journal of Political Science 47(2): 333-347.

Bernhard, Michael, Timothy Nordstrom, and Christopher Reenock. 2001. “Economic Performance, Institutional Intermediation, and Democratic Survival.” The Journal of Politics 63(3): 775-803.

Burnside, Craig, and David Dollar. 2000. “Aid, Policies, and Growth.” The American Economic Review 90(4): 847-868.

Corrales, Javier. 2003. “Market Reforms.” In Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America, ed. Dominguez, Jorge Il, and Michael Shifter. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press: 74-99.

de Soysa, Indra. 2002. “Paradise Is a Bazaar? Greed, Creed, and Governance in Civil War, 1989-99.” Journal of Peace Research 39(4): 395-416.

Englebert, Pierre. 2000. “Pre-Colonial Institutions, Post-Colonial States, and Economic Development in Tropical Africa.” Political Research Quarterly 53(1): 7-36.

Kaufmann, Daniel, Aart Kraay, and Massimo Mastruzzi. 2007. Governance Matters VI: Governance Indicators for 1996-2006. http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi2007/

Kaufmann, Daniel, Massimo Mastruzzi, and Diego Zavaleta. 2003.* “Sustained Macroeconomic Reforms, Tepid Growh: A Governance Puzzle in Bolivia?” In In Search of Prosperity, ed. Dani Rodrik. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 334-398.

Keefer, Philip. 2005. “Democratization and Clientelism: Why Are Young Democracies Badly Governed?” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper(3594)

Lehoucq, Fabrice E. 2002. “Can Parties Police Themselves? Electoral Governance and Democratization.” International Political Science Review 23(1): 29-46.

Licht, Amir N., Chanan Goldschmidt, and Shalom H. Schwartzb. 2007. “Culture Rules: The Foundations of the Rule of Law and Other Norms of Governance.” Journal of Comparative Economics 35(4): 659?688.

Mozaffar, Shaheen. 2002. “Patterns of Electoral Governance in Africa's Emerging Democracies.” International Political Science Review / Revue internationale de science politique 23(1): 85-101.

Noorbakhsh, Farhad, and Alberto Paloni. 2001. “Structural Adjustment and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Importance of Complying with Conditionality.” Economic Development and Cultural Change 49(3): 479-509.

Ocampo, Jose Antonio. 2004. “Latin America's Growth and Equity Frustrations During Structural Reforms.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives 18(2): 67-88.

Pinto, Publo M., and Jeffrey F. Timmons. 2005. “The Political Determinants of Economic Performance: Political Competition and the Sources of Growth.” Comparative Political Studies 38(1): 26-50.

Qian, Yingyi. 2003.* “How Reform Worked in China.” In In Search of Prosperity, ed. Dani Rodrik. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 297-333.

Quinn, Dennis P., and John T. Woolley. 2001. “Democracy and National Economic Performance: The Preference for Stability.” American Journal of Political Science 45(3): 634-657.

Remmer, Karen L. 1991. “The Political Impact of Economic Crisis in Latin America in the 1980s.” American Political Science Review 85(3): 777-800.

Remmer, Karen L. 1993. “The Political Economy of Elections in Latin America, 1980-1991.” American Political Science Review 87(2): 393-407.

Remmer, Karen L. 2002. “The Politics of Economic Policy and Performance in Latin America.” Journal of Public Policy 22(1): 29-59.

Rodrik, Dani. 2005. “Growth Strategies.” In Handbook of Economic Growth, ed. Philippe Aghion and Steven N. Durlauf. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 1A.

Rodrik, Dani. 2007. One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Stokes, Susan. 2001. Mandates and Democracy: Neoliberalism by Surprise in Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Temple, Jonathan. 2003.* “Growing into Trouble: Indonesia after 1966.” In In Search of Prosperity, ed. Dani Rodrik. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 152-183.

Walton, Michael. 2004. “Neoliberalism in Latin America: Good, Bad, or Incomplete?” Latin American Research Review 39(3): 165-183.