Professor Layla @ MC

Course Resources

WRITING METHOD RESOURCES

Online

• *NEW* Basic Guidelines for Writing Scholarly Papers

Includes basic structure and writing mistakes to avoid. Courtesy of Ashland University. *Note: Disregard “Style Sheet for Student Papers” at the bottom.  

• **Dartmouth University’s Writing Center

Basic guidelines to writing a research paper, brief and very useful for Spring 2012 research paper assignments 

• Writing a Course Research Paper via Wesleyan University
• A guide on outlining via the Writing Center at Harvard University  

Print

• Turabian, Kate L. 1996. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Sixth Edition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
• Evera, Stephen V., Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science

OTHER RESOURCES 

General/Recommended Reading

Lichbach and Zuckerman, Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture and Structure

Classic Political Science Titles (Comparative Politics)

• Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities.
• Anderson, Perry. Lineages of the Absolutist State.
• Bates, Robert. Markets and States in Tropical Africa.
• Barro, Robert J. Determinants of Economic Growth.
• Cardoso, Fernando Enrique and Enzo Faletto. Dependency and Development in Latin America.
• Dahl, Robert. Who Governs?
• Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures.
• Gurr, Ted Robert. Why Men Rebel.
• Haggard & Kaufman. The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions.
• Hall, Peter A. and David Soskice, eds. Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Horowitz, Donald. Ethnic Groups on Conflict.
• Huntington, Samuel. Political Order in Changing Societies.
• Kohli, Atul, ed. The State and Development in the Third World.
• Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
• Levi, Margeret. Of Rule and Revenue.
• Lerner, Daniel. The Passing of Traditional Society.
• Lipset, Seymour Martin. Political Man: The Social Basis of Politics.
• Lipset, Seymour Martin and Stein Rokkan. Party Systems and Voting Alignments.
• Lijphart, Arend. Electoral Systems and Party Systems: A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies, 1945-1990.
• Lijphart, Arend. Democracy in Plural Societies.
• Migdal, Joel. Strong States and Weak Societies.
• Moore, Barrington. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy.
• North, Douglass. Structure and Change in Economic History.
• O’Donnell, Guillermo. Modernization and Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism.
• Olson, Mancur. The Logic of Collective Action.
• Olson, Mancur. The Rise and Decline of Nation.
• Ostrom, Elinor. Governing the Commons.
• Popkin, Samuel. The Rational Peasant.
• Rogowski, Ronald. Commerce and Coalitions.
• Rostow, Walt. The Stages of Economic Growth.
• Sartori, Giovanni. Parties and Party Systems.
• Schumpeter, Joseph. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy.
• Scott, James. The Moral Economy of the Peasant.
• Skocpol, Theda. States and Social Revolutions.
• Smith, Anthony. The Ethnic Origins of Nations.
• Tilly, Charles. Coercion, Capital, and European States: AD 990-1990.
• Tilly, Charles, ed. The Formation of National States in Western Europe.
• Weber, Max. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. (ed. Gerth and Mills)