(NOTE: If you have questions about any of the material, make a post so that others can answer your question.)
Test Date: September 22, 2006
Format: At least 30 (and no more than 40) multiple-choice questions, worth 80% of the overall grade, and 4-5 short essay/identify worth 20%.
Material Covered:
1.) Articles by Acemoglu, et al., Ross (2 articles), Bueno de Mesquita, et al., Munck and Verkuilen, and Fearon and Laitin (note that all of these are posted on the class blog).
2.) Boix’s Democracy and Redistribution, Chapters 1-3.
3.) Lecture notes and all PS321 labeled posts to the class blog.
Review Materials—
Background Political Science Terms:
Theory
Hypothesis
Independent/Dependent variables
Operationalization
Measurement
Case studies
Quantitative methods
Correlation
Causation
Positive/Negative/No/Spurious relationships
Random selection
Sample bias
Endogeneity
Background Democratization/Democracy Terms:
Freedom House Scores
Polity Scores
Civil war
Issues related to measuring democracy
Selectorate
Winning Coalition
Private versus public goods
Institutional incentives for leaders wanting to remain in power
Democratization Issues:
Asset specificity
Effects of income on democratization
Income inequality and democratization
The role of uncertainty and income inequality in determining democratization (see Boix on this)
The “resource curse” – oil, diamonds, gas, etc…, and the likelihood of democracy/democratization
Effects of geography on democratization
Effects of contraband goods on democratization and civil wars
2 comments:
I might have missed this in class, but could someone explain to me the role of uncertainty and income inequality in determining democratization? I have read through CH3 in Boix's book and know all about income inequality and asset specificity, but i have not been able to find anything about "uncertainty"
As I wrote that on the review sheet, I thought it might be a bit unclear. Basically, I was referring to the inability of the poor to guage the strength of the wealthy in the model. The wealthy have incentives to manipulate the uncertainty over their strength in order to avoid revolts. Hope this helps.
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