| Useful
articles |
| |
| Consensus v. majoritarian
constitutions |
| Rod Alence. 2004. 'Political
institutions and developmental governance in sub-Saharan Africa.'
J. of Modern African Studies. 42(2): 163-187. |
| Attila Agh. 2001. 'Early
consolidation and performance crisis: The majoritarian-consensus
democracy debate in Hungary.' West European Politics
24(3): 89-112 |
| Liam Anderson. 2001.
'The implications of institutional design for macroeconomic
performance.' Comparative Political Studies 34(4) |
| Klaus Armigeon.
2002. 'The
effects of negotiation democracy.' European Journal of
Political Research. 41: 81-105. |
| Donald Horowitz. 'Explaining
the Northern Ireland Agreement: The sources of an unlikely
constitutional settlement.' British Journal of Political
Science 32 |
| Andre Kaiser et al.
2002. 'The
democratic quality of institutional regimes: a conceptual
framework.' Political Studies. 50: 313-331. |
| Hans Keman and Paul
Pennings. 1995.
'Managing political and social conflicts in democracies: Do
consensus and corporatism matter?' British Journal of
Political Science 25(2) |
| Arendt Lijphart.
2004. 'Constitutional
design for divided societies.' Journal of Democracy 15 |
| Manfred G. Schmidt.
2002.
'Political performance and types of democracy: Findings from
comparative studies.' EJPR 41: 147-163. |
| |
| Federalism and decentralization |
| Nancy Bermeo. 2002.
'A
new look at Federalism: The import of institutions.' Journal
of Democracy 13(2): 96-110. |
| Henry Hale. 2004. 'Divided
we stand: Institutional sources of ethnofederal state survival and
collapse.' World Politics 56: 165-93. |
| John Gerring and
Strom Thacker. 2004.
'Political institutions and corruption: The role of unitarism and
parliamentarism.' BJPolS. 34: 295-330. |
| Aaron Schneider.
2003.
'Decentralization: Conceptualization and Measurenment.'
Studies in Comparative International Development 38(3): 32-56. |
| Jonathan Rodden.
2004. 'Comparative
federalism and decentralization: On meaning and measurement.'
Comparative Politics 481-500. |
| |
| Electoral Systems |
| Donald Horowitz.
2003. 'Electoral
systems: A primer for decision-makers.' Journal of Democracy.
14(4) |
| IDEA 2005.
Handbook of Electoral System Design |
| Shaheen Mozaffar,
James R. Scarritt and Glen Galaich. 2003.
'Electoral institutions, ethnopolitical cleavages and party systems
in Africa's emerging democracies.' APSR 97(3):379-390. |
| |
| Executives: Presidentialism v.
parliamentarism |
| Jose Cheibub. 'Systems
of Government: Presidentialism or Parliamentarism: Which one is
best?' |
| Paul Pennings. 2003.
'Beyond
dichotomous explanations: Explaining constitutional control of the
executive with fuzzy sets.' EJPR 42. |
| |
| Ethnicity, ethnic representation,
and ethnic conflict |
| Alberto Alesina et
al. 2003.
'Fractionalization.' Journal of Economic Growth 8: 155-194. |
| Susan Banducci et
al. 2004.
'Minority representation, empowerment and participation.' The
Journal of Politics 66(2): 534-556. |
| Monty Marshall and
Tedd Gurr. 2003. 'Peace
and conflict 2003.' CIDCM |
| Frank Cohen. 1997. 'Proportional
versus majoritarian ethnic conflict management in democracies.'
Comparative Political Studies 30(5) |
| William Easterly and
Ross Levine. 1997. 'Africa's
Growth Tragedy: Policies and ethnic divisions.' Quarterly
Journal of Economics. 112(4) |
| William Easterly.
2001. 'Can
institutions resolve ethnic conflict?' Economic Development
and Cultural Change. 41(4) |
| M. Steven Fish and
Robin S. Brooks. 2004. 'Does
diversity hurt democracy?' Journal of Democracy 15(1):
154-166. |
| Jonathan Fox. 2001.
'Two
civilizations and ethnic conflict: Islam and the West.'
Journal of Peace Research 38(4) |
|
Jonathan Fox. 2003.
'State failure and the Clash of Civilizations: An examination of the
magnitude and extent of domestic civilizational conflict from 1950
to 1996.' Australian Journal of Political Science 38(2):
195-213 |
| Bruce Gilley. 2004.
'Against
the concept of ethnic conflict.' Third World Quarterly
25(6): 1155-1166. |
| Daniel N. Posner.
2004.
'Measuring ethnic fractionalization in Africa.' AJPS
4894): 849-863. |
| |
| Women's representation |
| Karen Bird. 2003.
'The political representation of women and ethnic minorities.'
AMID paper |
| Ester Duflo. 2004. 'Why
political reservations?' |
| Mona Lena Krook.
2003. 'Not
all quotas are created equal.' ECPR paper |
|
UNDP. 2000.
Women's political participation and good governance. |
| |
| Civic society |
| Jan Dehley and
Kenneth Newton. 2003.
'Who
trusts? The origins of social trust in seven societies.'
European Societies. 5(2) |
| Global Civil Society
Yearbook 2003
Data appendices |
| |
| General Resources |
-
Hollis Catalogue
- Access to further library research
resources.
|
-
Statistical Resources on the
Web/Political Science
- University of Michigan list of
links in political science.
|
|
Social Science Citation Index
Perhaps THE most useful electronic database to identify
relevant literature for your research projects. Needs sign-in. |
|
SPSS
The
website for more details about the statistical package and
the
down-loadable demo program |
|
University Information Systems
SPSS
Grad Pack V12.0 available to order from the Technology
Products Center Catalogue for $179. Order Number 43209
Further information about what the
SPSS Grad Pack includes
is
here. |
| Data Resources |
|
Shared STM103 class dataset
The
codebook for the political, socioeconomic and cultural
indicators class dataset, revised and updated Fall 2004, with
data downloadable in
SPSS portable
format and in Stata
format. Right click and save target file.
|
-
Global Barometer Surveys
- Links to the global barometer
surveys in Africa, East Asia, New Europe and Latinobaometro.
|
-
Harvard-MIT Data Center
- THE main archive for locating and
downloading machine-readable datasets at Harvard. Needs sign-in.
|
-
ICPSR Web Site
- Access to an extensive archive of
machine-readable datasets hosted at the University of Michigan.
|
-
PollingReport.com - Public Opinion
Online
- Mainly US public opinion
|
-
Roper Center for Public Opinion
Research
- Excellent searchable archive of
public opinion survey questions and results, but mainly confined
to United States and Latin America
|
| International resources |
-
ACE Project
- The Administration and Cost of
Elections project
|
-
CIA World Factbook 2001
- Good reference guide to the basics
about specific countries
|
-
Elections around the World
- Excellent resource for election
results and parties in all nations worldwide.
|
-
Europa
- The European Union website
including access to the Eurobarometer public opinion surveys in
Western, Central and Easterm Europe.
|
-
Freedom in the World: Freedom House
- Annual evaluations of the state of
democracy around the world. See also for the annual report on
press freedom.
|
-
Human Rights Watch
- Human Rights watchdog Group
|
-
International Foundation for Electoral
Systems
- Excellent resource for elections
including the electoral systems and recent results.
|
-
International IDEA
- International IDEA hosts
information about electoral systems, women and politics, voter
turnout and deeprooted ethnic conflict, among other topics.
|
-
OECD
- Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development. See their annual report and
statistical resources for the most affluent states worldwide.
|
-
Transparency International
- The organization that tracks
corruption worldwide with an annual report
|
-
United National Development Program
- See especially for the UNDP World
Development Report 2002
|
-
United Nations
- The U.N. site provides basic
information on the United Nations and its programs and links to
some full text documents. It is also a good source for identifying
useful print U.N. documents.
|
-
World Bank
- The World Development Report 2003
and links to multiple reports and socioeconomic indicators
- For
access to the latest online CDRom database at the Kennedy
School library read instructions here
|
| News Media |
-
BBC News
- This site carries streaming radio
and video news programs in Realaudio format as well as constantly
updated internationalnews and an extensive searchable index.
|
-
New York Times
- NYT
|
| Journal Resources |
-
JSTOR
- Access to full text articles in
many political science journals
|
-
Proceedings Online
- All the conference papers from the
2002 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association,
with searchable index to the latest research.
|
John
F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
