GLOBAL COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY AREA EXAM READING LIST POLITICAL ECONOMY AND DEVELOPMENT
2015

Global & Comparative Sociology: Political Economy and Development

 

Alderson, Arthur, and Jason Beckfield. 2004. “Power and Position in the World City System.” American Journal of Sociology 109: 811-851.

 

Alderson, Arthur, Jason Beckfield, and Jessica Sprague-Jones. 2010. “Intercity Relations and Globalisation: The Evolution of the Global Hierarchy, 1981-2007.” Urban Studies 47(9): 1899-1923.

 

Alderson, Arthur, and François Nielsen. 2002. “Globalization and the Great U-Turn: Income Inequality Trends in 16 OECD Countries.” American Journal of Sociology 107: 1244-1299.

 

Almeida, Paul, David Brown, Sam Cohn, Sara Curran, Rebecca Emigh, Greg Hooks, Ho-fung Hung, Andrew Jorgenson, Richard Lachmann, Linda Lobao, and Valentine Moghadam, eds. Forthcoming. Sociology of Development Handbook. Berkeley: University of California Press.

 

Amin, Samir. 1979. Dependent Accumulation and Underdevelopment. New York: Monthly Review Press.

 

Anand, Sudhir, and Amartya Sen. 2000. “Human Development and Economic Sustainability.” World Development 28(12): 2029-2049.

 

Arrighi, Giovanni. 1990. “The Three Hegemonies of Historical Capitalism.” Review 13(3): 365-408.

 

Arrighi, Giovanni, Nicole Aschoff, and Ben Scully. 2010. “Accumulation by Dispossession and Its Limits: The Southern Africa Paradigm Revisited.” Studies in Comparative International Development 45: 410-438.

 

Arrighi, Giovanni, Beverly J. Silver and Benjamin D. Brewer. 2003. “Industrial Convergence and the Persistence of the North-south Divide.” Studies in Comparative International Development 38(1): 3-31.

 

Babb, Sarah. 2005. “The Social Consequences of Structural Adjustment: Recent Evidence and Current Debates.” Annual Review of Sociology 31: 199-222.

 

Bair, Jennifer, ed. 2009. Frontiers of Commodity Chains Research. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.

 

Baran, Paul B., and Paul Sweezy. 1966. Monopoly Capital. New York: Monthly Review Press.

 

Bernstein, Henry. 1971. “Modernization Theory and the Sociological Study of Development.” Journal of Development Studies 7: 141-160.

 

Boswell, Terry. 1989. “Colonial Empires and the Capitalist World-Economy: A Time Series Analysis of Colonization, 1640–1960.” American Sociological Review 54: 180-96.

 

Boswell, Terry, and William J. Dixon. 1990. “Dependency and Rebellion: A Cross-National Analysis.” American Sociological Review 55: 540-559.

 

Bradley, David, Evelyne Huber, Stephanie Moller, François Nielsen, and John D. Stephens. 2003. “Distribution and Redistribution in Postindustrial Democracies.” World Politics 55: 193-228.

 

Brady, David, Jason Beckfield, and W. Zhao. 2007. “The Consequences of Economic Globalization for Affluent Democracies.” Annual Review of Sociology 33: 313-334.

 

Brady, David, Yunus Kaya, and Jason Beckfield. 2007. “Reassessing the Effect of Economic Growth on Well-Being in Less-Developed Countries, 1980-2003.” Studies in Comparative International Development 42: 1-35.

 

Bunker, Stephen and Paul Ciccantell. 2003. “Generative Sectors and The New Historical Materialism: Economic Ascent and the Cumulatively Sequential Restructuring of the World Economy.” Studies in Comparative International Development 37(4): 3-30.

 

Cardoso, Fernando H., and Enzo Faletto. 1979. Dependency and Development in Latin America. Berkeley: University of California Press.

 

Chase-Dunn, Christopher. 1998. Global Formation. New York: Rowman and Littlefield.

 

Chase-Dunn, Christopher, Yukio Kawano, and Benjamin Brewer. 2000. “Trade Globalization Since 1795: Waves of Integration in the World-System.” American Sociological Review 65: 77-95.

 

Chilcote, Ronald. 1974. “Dependency: A Critical Synthesis of the Literature.” Latin American Perspectives 1(1): 4-29.

 

Ciccantell, Paul, and David. A. Smith. 2009. “Rethinking Global Commodity Chains: Integrating Extraction, Transport, and Manufacturing.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 50(3-4): 361-384.

 

Davis, Mike. 2007. Planet of Slums. London: Verso.

 

de Janvry, Alain. 1981. The Agrarian Question and Reformism in Latin America. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.        

Deere, Carmen Diana, and Alain de Janvry. 1979. “A Conceptual Framework for the Empirical Analysis of Peasants.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 61(4): 601-611.

 

Dixon, William, and Terry Boswell. 1996. “Dependency, Disarticulation, and Denominator Effects: Another Look at Foreign Capital Penetration.” American Journal of Sociology 102: 543-562.

 

Dos Santos, Theotonio. 1970. “The Structure of Dependence.” American Economic Review 60: 231-236.

 

Doucouliagos, Hristos, and Mehmet Ali Ulubaşoğlu. 2008. “Democracy and Economic Growth: A Meta-Analysis.” American Journal of Political Science 52(1): 61-83.

 

Eisenstadt, Shmuel N. 1964. “Social Change, Differentiation and Evolution.” American Sociological Review 29(3): 375‑86.

 

Escobar, Arturo. 1995. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

 

Esteva, Gustavo. 1992. “Development.” Pp. 6-25 in Wolfgang Sachs, ed., The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power. London: ZED Books.

 

Evans, Peter. 1995. Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

 

Evans, Peter. 1996. “Government Action, Social Capital and Development: Reviewing the Evidence on Synergy.” World Development 24(6): 1119-1132.

 

Evans, Peter. 2004. “Development as Institutional Change: The Pitfalls of Monocropping and the Potentials of Deliberation.” Studies in Comparative International Development 38(4): 30-52.

 

Evans, Peter. 2008. “Is An Alternative Globalization Possible?” Politics & Society 36(2): 271-305.

 

Ferguson, James. 1994. “The Anti-Politics Machine: ‘Development’ and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho.” The Ecologist 24(5): 176-181.

 

Ferguson, James. 2006. Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order. Durham: Duke University Press. Especially chapter 2.

 

Firebaugh, Glenn, and Brian Goesling. 2004. “Accounting for the Recent Decline in Global Income Inequality.” American Journal of Sociology 110: 283-312.

 

Fourcade-Gourinachas, Marion and Sarah L. Babb. 2002. “The Rebirth of the Liberal Creed: Paths to Neoliberalism in Four Countries.” American Journal of Sociology 108(3): 533-579.

 

Frank, Andre Gunder. 1979. Dependent Accumulation and Underdevelopment. New York: Monthly Review Press.

 

Friedman, Milton. 2002. Capitalism and Freedom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Friedman, Thomas L. 2000. The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization. Anchor Books.

 

Friedman, Thomas. 1999. “DOScapital.” Foreign Policy 116(Autumn): 110-116.

 

Furtado, Celso. 1981. Economic Development of Latin America: Historical Background and Contemporary Problems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Gilpin, Robert. 2001. Global Political Economy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

 

Harvey, David. 2005. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Henisz, Witold J., Bennet A. Zelner, and Mauro F. Guillen. 2005. “The Worldwide Diffusion of Market-Oriented Infrastructure Reform, 1977-1999.” American Sociological Review 70(6): 871-897.

 

Hicks, Alexander, and Lane Kenworthy. 1998. “Cooperation and Political Economic Performance in Affluent Democratic Capitalism.” American Journal of Sociology 130(6): 1631-72.

 

Hirschman, Albert. 1968. “The Political Economy of Import-Substituting Industrialization in Latin America.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 92(1): 1-32.

 

Hung, Ho-fung, and Jaime Kucinskas. 2011. “Globalization and Global Inequality: Assessing the Impact of the Rise of China and India, 1980-2005.” American Journal of Sociology 116: 1478-1513.

 

Inglehart, Ronald, and Wayne E. Baker. 2000. “Modernization, Cultural Change, and the Persistence of Traditional Values.” American Sociological Review 65: 19-51.

 

Inglehart, Ronald, and Christian Welzel. 2009. “How Development Leads to Democracy: What We Know About Modernization.” Foreign Affairs 88(2): 33-48.

 

Kentor, Jeffrey and Terry Boswell. 2003. “Foreign Capital Dependence and Development: A New Direction.” American Sociological Review 68: 301-313.

 

Kurzman, Charles, Regina Werum, and Ross E. Burkhart. 2002. “Democracy’s Effect on Economic Growth: A Pooled Time-Series Analysis, 1951-1980.” Studies in Comparative International Development 37(1): 3-33.

                                                                   

Kuznets, Simon. 1963. “Quantitative Aspects of the Economic Growth of Nations.” Economic Development and Cultural Change 11: 1-80.

 

Lee, Cheol-Sung. 2005. “Income Inequality, Democracy, and Public Sector Size.” American Sociological Review 70: 158-181.

 

Lerner, Daniel. 1968. “Modernization. Social Aspects.” Pp. 386‑95 in David L. Sills, ed., International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Volume 10. New York: The Macmillan Company & the Free Press.

 

Levien, Michael, and Marcel Paret. 2012. “A Second Double Movement? Polanyi and Shifting Global Opinions on Neoliberalism.” International Sociology 27(6): 724-744.

 

Lipset, Seymour Martin. 1959. “Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy.” American Political Science Review 53(1): 69-105.

 

Magdoff, Harry. 1978. Imperialism: From the Colonial Age to the Present. New York: Monthly Review Press.

 

Mahutga, Matthew, and David Smith. 2011. “Globalization, the Structure of the World Economy and Economic Development.” Social Science Research 40: 257-272.

 

Mahutga, Matthew, Xuilian, David A. Smith and Michael Timberlake. 2010.   “Economic Globalization and the Structure of the World-City System: The Case of Airline Passenger Data.” Urban Studies 47(9): 1925-1947.

 

McMichael, Philip. 2012. Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective, Third Edition. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press.

 

Milanovic, Branco. 2005. Worlds Apart: Measuring International and Global Inequality. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

 

Moller, Stephanie, Evelyne Huber, John D. Stephens, David Bradley, and François Nielsen. 2003. “Determinants of Relative Poverty in Advanced Capitalist Democracies.” American Sociological Review 68(1): 22-51.

 

Nielsen, François, and Arthur S. Alderson. 1995. “Income Inequality, Development, and Dualism: Results from an Unbalanced Cross-National Panel.” American Sociological Review 60(5): 674-701.

 

Peet, Richard, and Elaine Hartwick. 2009. Theories of Development. Guilford.

 

Peters, Charles. 1983. “A Neoliberal’s Manifesto.” The Washington Monthly May. Online.

 

Portes, Alejandro. 2006. “Institutions and Development: A Conceptual Reanalysis.” Population and Development Review 32(2): 233-262.

 

Prebisch, Raul. 1950. The Economic Development of Latin America and its Principal Problems. New York: United Nations.                         

 

Przeworski, Adam, Michael Alvarez, Jose A. Cheibub, and Fernando Limongi. 2000. Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Material Well-Bring in the World, 1950-1990. New York: Cambridge University Press.

 

Rostow, W.W. 1959. “The Stages of Economic Growth.” The Economic History Review, XII(1): 1-16.

 

Sassen, Saskia. 2001. The Global City: New York, London and Tokyo, 2nd edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

 

Sen, Amartya. 1999. Development as Freedom. New York, NY: Anchor.

 

Silver, Beverly J. 2003. Forces of Labor: Workers’ Movements and Globalization Since 1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Sirowy, Larry, and Alex Inkeles. 1990. “The Effects of Democracy on Economic Growth and Inequality: A Review.” Studies in Comparative International Development 25(1):126-157.

                                                             

Smith, David A. 2011. “Trade, Unequal Exchange, Global Commodity Chains: World-System Structure and Economic Development.” Pp. 238-346 in Salvadore Babones and Christopher Chase-Dunn, eds., Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis. New York: Routledge.

 

Smith, David, and Michael Timberlake. 1995. “Conceptualising and Mapping the Structure of the World System’s City System.” Urban Studies 32(2): 287-302.

 

Smith, David A. and Michael Timberlake. 2001. “World City Networks and Hierarchies, 1977-1997: An Empirical Analysis of Global Air Travel Links.” American Behavioral Scientist 44(10): 1656-1678.

 

Standing, Guy. 2011. The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

 

Taylor, Peter. 2005. “Leading World Cities: Empirical Evaluations of Urban Nodes in Multiple Networks.” Urban Studies 42(9): 1593-1608.

 

Timberlake, Michael, Matthew R. Sanderson, Xiulian Ma, Ben Derudder, Jessica Winitzky, and

Frank Witlox. 2012. “Testing a Global City Hypothesis: An Assessment of Polarization across U.S. Cities.” City & Community 11(1): 74-93.

 

Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2000. The Essential Wallerstein. New York: New Press.

 

Weber, Klaus, Gerald F. Davis, and Michael Lounsbury. 2009. “Policy as Myth and Ceremony? The Global Spread of Stock Exchanges, 1980-2005.” Academy of Management Journal 52(6): 1319-1347.

 

Williams, Michelle, ed. 2014. The End of the Developmental State? New York: Routledge.