Power and Public Policy

 

Syllabus Fall 2004

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Announcement for 12/05/2005:  Substitute for the Pierson reading for Thursdays class the following:

 
Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics
 
Paul Pierson
 
The American Political Science Review, Vol. 94, No. 2. (Jun., 2000), pp. 251-267.
 
Stable JSTOR URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0554%28200006%2994%3A2%3C251%3AIRPDAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z

 

Readings for downloading by class members only:

August 30, 2004

Brief selection from: Anthony Giddens.  1981.  A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Pierre Bourdieu.  1999.  ”Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field,” in George Steinmetz, ed., State/Culture: State Formation after the Cultural Turn.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, pp. 53-75.

Supplemental background material: a few pages from Max Weber.

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