Type of Credit: Required
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
What is political economy? What are subjects of concern in the field of political economy? What are the approaches to the study of political economy? What, if anything, does political economy have to do with our daily life? This course will introduce the intellectual history of political economy and survey contending approaches to the study of political economy. The aim of this course is to acquaint students with the theoretical tools to analyze debates related to contemporary global economy.
能力項目說明
REQUIREMENTS
This is a reading course. Seminar members should attend all class meetings and be prepared to discuss the assigned readings. To facilitate class discussion, each student is required to post her/his one-page, single-spaced response memo on Moodle 12 hours before each class. The memo should be a product of critical review of the issues related to the week’s topic rather than just a summary of the assigned readings. That said, you should at least be able to identify the main arguments of each reading, its counterarguments, its empirical evidence, its relevance to the current issues facing the global economy, and your critiques. Throughout the semester you will be writing a research proposal that will ideally serve as your master/doctoral thesis proposal. For a useful guide to write an academic paper in the field of social science, see Barry Weingast, “Structuring Your Papers (Caltech Rules),” which is available at https://web.stanford.edu/group/mcnollgast/cgi-bin/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/CALTECH.RUL_..pdf. Another helpful piece is Adam Przeworski and Frank Salomon, “On the Art of Writing Proposals, Social Science Research Council,” https://s3.amazonaws.com/ssrc-cdn1/crmuploads/new_publication_3/the-art-of-writing-proposals.pdf.
POLICIES
There will be no extensions for any written assignments and oral presentations. Late assignments will receive a grade of zero.
Plagiarism will not be tolerated. For a useful article about what constitutes plagiarism, see Kurt Weyland, “How to Assess Plagiarism of Ideas,” PS: Political Science and Politics 40: 2 (April 2007), pp. 375-376.
Classroom etiquette: Please arrive to class on time. Turn off your electronic devices while you are in class. If your cell phone rings during class, you will be asked to leave.
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CLASS SCHEDULE
Week 1 Course Introduction
no required reading
PART I Contending Perspectives
Week 2 Introduction & The Classics
Barma & Vogel. The Political Economy Reader, pp. 1-84.
Week 3 The Liberal Paradigm & Economic Sociology
Barma & Vogel. The Political Economy Reader, pp. 85-162.
Week 4 The New Institutional Economics & Historical Perspectives
Barma & Vogel. The Political Economy Reader, pp. 163-241.
Week 5 Political Science and Political Economy
Barma & Vogel. The Political Economy Reader, pp. 243-301.
Kathleen Thelen. 2012. “Varieties of Capitalism: Trajectories of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity,” The Annual Review of Political Science 15, 137-59.
PARTII Comparative Political Economy
Week 6 Market Reform in Advanced Industrial Countries
Barma & Vogel. The Political Economy Reader, pp. 305-337.
Peter Hall. 2020. “The Electoral Politics of Growth Regimes,” Perspectives on Politics 18(1), 185-199.
Week 7 Market Transition in Eastern Europe and China
Barma & Vogel. The Political Economy Reader, pp. 339-387.
Edmund Malesky and Jonathan London. 2014. “The Political Economy of Development in China and Vietnam,” Annual Review of Political Science 17, 395-419.
Hilary Appel and Mitchell A. Orenstein. 2016. “Why did Neoliberalism Triumph and Endure in the Post-Communist World?” Comparative Politics 48(April), 313-331.
Week 8 Market Development in Developing Countries
Barma & Vogel. The Political Economy Reader, pp. 389-460.
Daniel Treisman. 2020. “Economic Development and Democracy: Predispositions and Triggers,” Annual Review of Political Science 23, 241-257.
Week 9 Mid-term review
research topic and research question
PARTIII Contemporary Debates
Week 10 Development
Colin Leys. 1996. The Rise and Fall of Development Theory. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. Chapters 1-4.
Peter Gourevitch. “The Role of Politics in Economic Development,” Annual Review of Political Science 11, 137-159.
Week 11 Industrial Policy
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Justin Yifu Lin, and Célestin Monga. 2013. “The Rejuvenation of Industrial Policy,” Policy Research Working Paper 6628, Washington D.C.: World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/16845/WPS6628.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Karl Aiginger and Dani Rodrik. 2020. “Rebirth of Industrial Policy and an Agenda for the Twenty-First Century,” Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade: From Theory to Policy 20(2), 189-207.
Ha-Joon Chang and Antonio Andreoni. 2020. “Industrial Policy in the 21 Century,” Development and Change 51(2), 324-351.
Week 12 Regulation
蔡中民，2014，〈論政府管制：一個政治經濟學的觀點〉，政治學報57，31-51。
Steven K. Vogel. 2018. Marketcraft: How Governments Make Markets Work. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ch. 1, 2, and 5.
Week 13 Climate Change & The Global Financial Crisis
Barma & Vogel, The Political Economy Reader, pp. 461-522.
Week 14 Inequality
Barma & Vogel, The Political Economy Reader, pp. 523-550.
Matthew E. Carnes and Isabela Mares. 2007. “The Welfare State in Global Perspective,” in Carles Boix and Susan Stokes, Eds., The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Joseph E. Stiglitz. 2017. “The Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century,” paper presented at a conference on “The Welfare State and the Fight Against Inequality,” Columbia University, New York. https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/jstiglitz/sites/jstiglitz/files/The%20Welfare%20St ate%20in%20the%20Twenty%20First%20Century.pdf
Week 15 The Digital Platform Economy & The Covid-19 Pandemic
Barma & Vogel, The Political Economy Reader, pp. 551-615
Week 16 International Political Economy
John Ravenhill. 2014. “The Study of Global Political Economy,” in John Ravenhill. ed. Global Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 3-24.
Benjamin Cohen. 2007. “The Transatlantic Divide: Why are American and British IPE So Different?” Review of International Political Economy 14(2): 197-219.
Mark Blyth. 2009. “International Political Economy as a Global Conversation,” in Mark Blyth ed., Routledge Handbook of International Political Economy (New York: Routledge), pp. 1-20.
Week 17 Presentations
Week 18 Wrap-up
Your final grade will be determined by the following criteria:
Class participation 40%
Response memos 30% (due at Moodle by 2 a.m. each Tuesday)
Research proposal 30% (due in class on Jan 9, 2024)
COURSE MATERIALS
Naazneen H. Barma and Steven K. Vogel, eds., 2022. The Political Economy Reader: Contending Perspectives and Contemporary Debates. (2nd edition) New York & London: Routledge.
Articles and book chapters are available through electronic access via the library’s website and course website (Moodle).