POLS 354 Tentative Reading List

I will be making a course reader for my winter term POLS 354, available at the PCC. Here is the tentative reading list:

POLS 354 Winter 2010 Tentative Reading List (Nov. 30th)

Week 1: Introduction (Jan. 14, 16)

Adam Swift, Political Philosophy: A Beginners’ Guide for Students and Politicians (Cambridge: Polity, 2006). Chapter 5, “Democracy,” pp.179-223.

Week 2: Against Democracy (Jan. 19, 21)

Plato, The Dialogues of Plato, vol. III (London: Oxford University Press, 1892). excerpts from Books 6 and 8 of The Republic.
Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, 3d ed ed. (New York: Harper, 1950). Chapter 21 “The Classical Doctrine of Democracy.”
Carl Schmitt, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1988). Preface to the 2nd edition, “On the Contradiction between Parliamentarism and Democracy”

Week 3 Epistemic / Developmental Arguments for Democracy (Jan. 26, 28)

John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government (Indianapolis, IN.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1958), Chapter 3, “That the Ideally Best Form of Government Is Representative Government,” and Chapter 8, “Of the Extension of the Suffrage”
Carole Pateman, Participation and Democratic Theory (Cambridge [Eng.]: University Press, 1970). Chapter 2 1970
Nelson, William “Open Government and Just Legislation,” from David M Estlund, Democracy, (Malden, Mass: Blackwell Publishers, 2002).

Week 4 Condorcet’s Jury Theorem (Feb. 2, 4)

Bernard Grofman, and Scott L. Feld, “Rousseau’s General Will: A Condorcetian Perspective,” American Political Science Review 82, no. 2 (1988): 567-76.
David M. Estlund et al., “Democratic Theory and the Public Interest: Condorcet and Rousseau Revisited,” American Political Science Review 83 (1989): 1317-40.

Week 5 For and Against the Intrinsic Fairness of Democracy (Feb. 9, 10)

Ronald Dworkin, “What is Equality? Part 4: Political Equality,” University of San Francisco Law Review 22 (1987): 1-30.
Thomas Christiano, The Rule of the Many: Fundamental Issues in Democratic Theory (Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 1996). Chapter 2, “An Argument for Democratic Equality”

Week 6: Mixed Theories (Feb. 16, 18)

David M. Estlund, Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008). Chapter 1: “Democratic Authority” (excerpt), Chapter 2: “Truth and Despotism,” and Chapter 9: “Why Not an Epistocracy of the Educated?”

Reading Week (Feb. 22-26)

Week 7: Social Choice vs. Democracy (Mar. 2, 4)

Riker, William “Social Choice Theory and Constitutional Democracy,” Chapter 7 of Thomas Christiano, ed. Philosophy and Democracy (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003).
Gerry Mackie, Democracy Defended, vol. Contemporary political theory (Cambridge, U.K. ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003). Chapters 2 and 3

Week 8: Deliberative Democracy (Mar. 9, 11)

Cass Sunstein, “Naked Preferences and the Constitution,” Columbia Law Review 84, no. 7 (1984): 1689-732.
Bernard Manin, “On Legitimacy and Political Deliberation,” Political Theory 15, no. 3 (1987): 338-68.
Lynn M. Sanders, “Against Deliberation,” Political Theory 25, no. 3 (1997): 347-76.

Week 9: Constitutionalism (Mar. 16, 18)

John Hart Ely, Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980). Chapter 4: “Policing the Process of Representation”
R. M. Dworkin, A Matter of Principle (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985). Chapter 2: “A Forum of Principle” (excerpt)
Jeremy Waldron, “A Rights-Based Critique of Consitutional Rights,” Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 13, no. 1 (1993): 18-51.

Week 10: Secession and Self-Determination (Mar. 23, 25)

Christopher Heath Wellman, “A Defense of Secession and Political Self-Determination,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 24 (1995): 142-71.
Alan Buchanan, “Democracy and Secession,” in National Self-Determination and Secession (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).
Daniel M. Weinstock, “Constitutionalizing the Right to Secede,” The Journal of Political Philosophy 9, no. 2 (2001): 182-203.

Week 11: Democracy in Asia (Mar. 30, Apr. 1)

Daniel Bell, East Meets West : Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia (Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2000). Chapter 5: “A Political Proposal for the Post-Communist Era”
Brooke Ackerly, “Is Liberalism the Only Way Toward Democracy? Confucianism and Democracy,” Political Theory 33, no. 4 (2005): 547-76.
Sor-Hoon Tan, “Confucian Democracy as Pragmatic Experiment: Uniting Love of Learning and Love of Antiquity,” Asian Philosophy 17, no. 2 (2007): 141-66.

Week 12: Wrap-Up (Apr. 6, 8)