Guillermo Cantor/Fall 2005
Draft Reading List: Development
Part I: General Theoretical Approaches
1. Modernization Theory
2. Dependency Perspective
3. World-Systems Approach/Globalization
4. Neo-Institutional Economics
Part II: Fields of Inquiry
1. States and Markets
2. Democracy and Democratization
3. Institutional and Organizational Development
4. Local Development
5. International Organizations and Citizen Participation
Part III: Research Methods and Measurement Issues
1. Comparative methods
2. Measures of standard of living
1. Modernization Theory
Apter, David. 1987. Rethinking Development: Modernization, Dependency, and Postmodern Politics. Newburry Park, Ca.: Sage.
Collins, Randall. 1980. "Weber's Last Theory of Capitalism: A Systematization." American Sociological Review, 45: 925-942.
Germani, Gino. 1981. The Sociology of Modernization: Studies on its Historical and
Theoretical Aspects with Special regard to the Latin American Case. New
Brunswick NJ: Transaction Books.
Huntington, Samuel. 1968. Political Order in Changing Societies. Yale: Yale University Press.
Inglehart, Ronald. 1997. Modernization and Postmodernization. Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Inkeles, Alex and David H. Smith. 1974. Becoming Modern: Individual Change in Six Developing Countries. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press
Kuznets, Simon. 1966. Modern Economic Growth: Rate, Structure, and Spread. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Moore, Wilbert E. 1979. World Modernization: the Limits of Convergence. N.Y.: Elsevier.
Parsons, Talcott. 1964. "Evolutionary Universals in Society." American Sociological Review, 29:339-357.
Rapley, John. 1996. Understanding Development: Theory and Practice in the Third World. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Rostow, W.W. 1963. The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2. Dependency Theory
Amin, Samir. 1976. Unequal Development: An Essay on the Social Formation of Peripheral Capitalism. New York: Monthly Review Press.
Baran, Paul. 1957. "On the Political Economy of Backwardness" in Charles K. Wilber
(edited) The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment, 1988,
New York: Random House.
Cardoso, Fernando H. 1972. "Dependency and Development in Latin America." New Left Review, 74:83-95.
Cardoso, Fernando H. 1977. "The consumption of development theory in the United States." Latin American Research Review, 12: 7-24.
Cardoso, Fernando H. and Enzo Faletto. 1979. Dependency and Development in Latin America. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Frank, Andre G. 1966. "The Development of Underdevelopment." Monthly Review: 18
September.
Lipietz, Alain. 1982. “Marx or Rostow?” New Left Review 132. Pp. 48-58.
Palma, Gabriel. 1978. "Dependency: A Formal Theory of Underdevelopment or a Methodology for the Analysis of Concrete situations of Underdevelopment?" World Development 6: 881-924.
Portes, Alejandro. 1973. "Modernity and Development: A Critique." Studies in Comparative International Development, 79(1): 15-44.
Valenzuela, J Samuel and Arturo Valenzuela. 1978. "Modernization and Dependency: Alternative Perspectives in the Study of Latin American Underdevelopment" World Politics 10:4:535-57.
3. World-Systems Approach
Arrighi, Giovanni. 1994. The Long Twentieth Century. New York: Verso.
Chase-Dunn, Christopher. 1989. Global Formation: Structures of the World-Economy. Cambridge: Blackwell.
Hopkins, Terence. 1979. "The Study of the Capitalist World-Economy: Some Introductory Considerations" in Walter Goldfrank (ed.) The World-System of Capitalism: Past and Present. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.
Janowitz, Morris. 1977. "Review Essay: A Sociological Perspective on Wallerstein." American Journal of Sociology, 82: 1090-1097.
Skocpol, Theda. 1977. "Wallerstein's world-capitalist system: A theoretical and historical
critique." American Journal of Sociology 82: 1057-90.
Stinchcombe, Arthur. 1982. "Review Essay: The Growth of the World System." American Journal of Sociology 87: 1389-95.
Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1979. The Capitalist World-Economy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1993. "Hold the Tiller Firm: On Method and the Unit of Analysis", in Stephen Sanderson (ed.) Civilizations and World System. Walnut Creek: Sage, 239-47.
Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1995. Historical Capitalism (with) Capitalist Civilization. London: Verso.
Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2004. World-Systems Analysis-An Introduction. Durham: Duke University Press.
Ward, Kathryn. 1992. "Reconceptualizing World Systems Theory to Include Women" in Paula England (ed.) Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine, 43-68.
4. Neo-Institutional Economics
Bates, Robert (ed.). 1988. Towards a Political Economy of Development, Berkeley: University of California Press.
Bardhan, Pranab. 1989. “The New Institutional Economics and Development Theory : A Brief Critical Assessment”, World Development, Volume 17, Number 9, September.
Buchanan, James. The Economic Theory of Politics Reborn.
Campbell, John L. and Leon N. Lindberg. 1990. "Property Rights and the Organization of Economic Activity by the State. American Sociological Review, 55: 634-646.
Harriss, John, Janet Hunter and Colin M. Lewis. 1995. "Introduction: Development and Significance of NIE." Pp. 1-13 in John Harriss, Janet Hunter and Colin M. Lewis (eds.) The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development. London/New York: Routledge.
Lewis,W Arthur. 1984. “The State of Development Theory”, American Economic
Review, 1984: 1-10.
North, Douglass C. 1990. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
North, Douglass C. 1995. "The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development." Pp. 17-26 in John Harriss, Janet Hunter and Colin M. Lewis (eds.) The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development. London/New York: Routledge.
North, Douglass C. 2001. “The Process of Economic Change” in Social Provision in Low-Income countries: New Patterns and Emerging Trends, edited by Germano Mwabu, Cecilia Ugaz and Gordon White Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Olson, Mancur. 1965 The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. New York: Schocken Books.
Olson, Mancur. 1982. The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Platteau, J. 2000. Institutions, Social Norms and Economic Development, Ithaca: Cornell
University Press.
Toye, John. 1995. "The New Institutional Economics and Its Implications for Development Theory." Pp. 49-68 in John Harriss, Janet Hunter and Colin M. Lewis (eds.) The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development. London/New York: Routledge.
World Bank. 1997. World Development Report 1997: The State In A Changing World. New York: Oxford University Press.
Part II: Fields of Inquiry
1. States and Markets
Amsden, Alice. 1992. "A Theory of Government Intervention in Late Industrialization," in Louis Putterman and Dietrich Rueschemeyer (eds.), State and: Market in Development: Synergy or Rivalry? Lynne Rienner, pp. 53-84.
Block, Fred. 1994. “The roles of the State in the economy” In The Handbook of Economic Sociology, edited by Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press: 691-710
Dornbusch, Rudiger and Sebastian Edwards. 1992. The macroeconomics of populism. In The macroeconomics of populism in Latin America: A National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report. Edited by Rudiger Dornbusch and Sebastian Edwards Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Esping-Andersen, Gosta. 1994. “Welfare States and the Economy” In The Handbook of Economic Sociology, edited by Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press:711-732.
Evans, Peter. 1992. “The state as problem and solution: Predation, embedded autonomy, and structural change”, In The politics of economic adjustment: international constraints, distributive conflicts, and the state, edited by Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Fanelli, Jose Maria, Roberto Frenkel and Guillermo Rozenwurcel. 1994. “Growth and structural reform in Latin America: Where we stand”. In Latin American political economy in the age of neoliberal reform. Edited by William Smith, Carlos Acuna and Ecuardo Gamarra. Miami, Fl: North-South Center, University of Miami.
Friedman, Milton. 1982. Capitalism and Freedom Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Gershenkron, Alexander. 1962. Economic backwardness in historical perspective. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Haggard, Stephan and Robert Kaufman. 1995. The political economy of democratic transitions. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Pp. 309-379
Hall, Peter. 1986. Governing the Economy: The politics of state intervention in Britain and France. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Hirsch, Paul, Stuart Michaels and Ray Friedman. 1990. “Clean models vs. dirty hands: Why economics is different from sociology” in Structures of Capital: The social organization of the economy. Edited by Sharon Zukin and Paul di Maggio. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
O’Donnell, Guillermo. 1994. “Some Reflections on Redefining the Role of the State” in Colin I. Bradford, Jr., ed, Redefining the State in Latin America, 251–60. Paris: OECD
Olson, Mancur. 1965. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. New York: Schocken Books.
Polanyi, Karl. 1944. The Great Transformation. New York, Toronto: Farrar and Rinehart.
Rueschemeyer, Dietrich and Louis Putterman. 1992. “Synergy or Rivalry?” in State and: Market in Development: Synergy or Rivalry?, edited by Louis Putterman and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Lynne Rienner, pp. 243-262.
Sachs, Jeffrey. 1989. “Social conflict and populist policies in Latin America” Working Paper No. 2897. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Salazar-Xirinachs, Jose Manuel. 1993. “The role of the State and the market in economic development. In Development from within: toward a neostructuralist approach for Latin America. Edited by Osvaldo Sunkel. Bolder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Shapiro, Helen and Lance Taylor. 1990. “The state and industrial strategy,” World Development, Vol. 18 No. 6, pp. 861-878.
Williamson, John. 1993. "Democracy and the 'Washington Consensus'", World Development, 21(8), pp. 1329-1336. library has the journal
Williamson, John. 1990. “The Progress of Policy reform in Latin America”, IIE. Policy Analysis in International Economics 28, Washington DC: IIE.
2. Democracy and Democratization
Barber, Benjamin. 2004. Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age, 2nd ed
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Cavarozzi, Marcelo. 1996. El capitalismo político tardío y su crisis en América Latina. Rosario: Homo Sapiens Ediciones.
Crocker, David. 2004. “Tolerance and Deliberative Democracy”, forthcoming.
Dahl, Robert, Ian Shapiro, Jose Cheibub (eds). 2003. The Democracy Sourcebook. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Dewey, John. 1954. The Public and Its Problems. Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press.
Diamond, Larry. 2003. “Defining and Developing Democracy” In Dahl, Robert, Ian Shapiro, Jose Cheibub, eds. 2003. The Democracy Sourcebook. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Friedman, Milton. 1982. Capitalism and Freedom Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Fung, Archon and Erik Olin Wright, eds. 2003. Deepening Democracy London: Verso.
Garretón, Manuel. 1995. Hacia una nueva era política: Estudio sobre las democratizaciones. Santiago: Fondo de Cultura Económica.
Gutmann, Amy and Dennis Thompson. 2003. “Democracy and Disagreement” In Dahl, Robert, Ian Shapiro, Jose Cheibub, eds. 2003. The Democracy Sourcebook. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Haggard, Stephan and Robert Kaufman. 1995. The political economy of democratic transitions. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Pp. 309-379
Halperin, Morton, Joseph T. Siegle, and Michael Weinstein. 2005. The Democracy Advantage: How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace . New York: Routledge.
Huntington, Samuel. 1991. “How Countries Democratize.” Political Science Quarterly 106: 579-616.
Janowitz, Morris. 1980. “Observations on the Sociology of Citizenship: Obligations and Rights”. In Social Forces 59/1: 1-24.
Linz, Juan J. Alfred Stepan. 1996. Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post Communist Europe. Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press.
Lipset, Seymour M. 1959. Some Social requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy.” The American Political Science Review. 53:69-105.
Marshall, T.H. 1964. Class, Citizenship and Social Development. Garden City: Doubleday.
Migdal, Joel. 1988. Strong societies and weak states: State-society relations and state capabilities in the Third World. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Moore, Barrington. 1966. Social origins of dictatorship and democracy. Boston: Beacon Press.
O’Donnell, Guillermo, Philippe Schmitter, and Laurence Whitehead. 1986. Transitions from authoritarian rule: prospects for democracy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
O’Donnell, Guillermo. 1993. “On the State, Democratization and Some Conceptual
Problems: A Latin American View with Glances at Some Postcommunist Countries” World Development, 21, n.8: 1355-1369
Pateman, Carole. 2003. “Participation and Democratic Theory” Dahl, Robert, Ian Shapiro, Jose Cheibub, eds. 2003. The Democracy Sourcebook. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Przeworski, Adam et al. 2000. Democracy and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rueschemeyer, Dietrich, Evelyne Stephens, and John Stephens. 1992. Capitalist development and democracy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Sen, Amartya. 1999. “Democracy as a Universal Value” In Journal of Democracy 10: 3- 17
Sen, Amartya. 2003. “Why democratization is not the same as westernization. Democracy and its global roots” in The New Republic On Line.
Tilly, Charles. 2000. “Processes and Mechanisms of Democratization.” Sociological Theory 18:1-16.
3. Institutional and Organizational Development
Bagadion, Benjamin C. and Frances F. Korten. 1985. “Developing Irrigators' Organizations: A Learning Process Approach,” Pp. 52-90 in Putting People First: Sociological Variables in Rural Development edited by Michael M. Cernea. New York: Oxford UP and World Bank.
Bates, Robert. 1988. “Toward a Political Economy of Development”, Berkeley: University of California Press
Evans, P. (1995), “Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation”,
Princeton University Press.
Finsterbusch, Kurt 1973. “The Sociology of Nation States: Dimensions, Indicators, and Theory.” Pp. 417-446 in Comparative Social Research: Methodological Problems and Strategies, edited by Michael Armer and Allen D. Grimshaw. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Finsterbusch, Kurt. 1998. “The Social Impact of Scarcity: The Political Responses of Institutionally Developed Societies.” In The Coming Age of Scarcity: Preventing Mass Death and Genocide in the Twenty-First Century. Dobkowski, M. N., and I. Wallimann, editors. Syracuse University Press.
Finsterbusch, Kurt, "Factors Contributing to the Effectiveness and Sustainability of
Development Projects"
Finsterbusch, Kurt, 2001, “Toward a Theory of Voluntary Organization Success”
Hage, Jerald, and Kurt Finsterbusch. 1987. Organizational Change as Development Strategy: Models and Tactics for Improving Third World Organizations. Lynne Rienner Press.
Hyden, Goran. 1983 “Building Local Capacities” In No Shortcuts to Progress: African Development Management in Perspective. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Israel, Arturo. 1987. Institutional Development: Incentives to Performance. Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press.
Klitgaard, Robert. 1991. Adjusting to Reality: Beyond State versus Market in Economic Development. International Center for Economic Growth, CA: San Francisco.
Knox, Anna, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Peter Hazell. 2002. “Property Rights, Collective Action and Technologies for Natural Resource Management” in Innovation in Natural Resource Management: The Role of Property Rights and Collective Action in Developing countries. Edited by Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Anna Knox, Frank Place, and Brent Swallow. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.