Dr. Steven L. Taylor
Office:
MSCX 331A
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for office hours
Phone: 670-3759
COURSE TEXTS.
DeFronzo, James. 2007. Revolutions and
Revolutionary Movements.
Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Foran, John. 2005.
Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World
Revolutions. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Foran, John, David
Lane and Andreja Zivkovic. , eds. 2008. Revolution in
the Making of the Modern World. New
York: Routledge.
Additional readings in the form of handout/online
readings.
GRADING.
Students will be evaluated on a standard
100 point scale (A=100-90, B=89.9-80, C-79.9-70, D=69.9-60,
F=59.9-0). Grades will not be curved.
Keep in mind the following: A=Outstanding, B=Above Average,
C=Average, D=Below Average and F=Failing.
If you need a particular grade, start working towards it from
DAY ONE. It is difficult to be sympathetic to students who “need
to get X at the end of the semester who did not put effort into
the course from the start of the course.
GRADING:
Research
project
Proposal
5%
Presentation
5%
Paper
40%
Final
Exam 40%
Class
Participation 10%
------
100%
Class Participation.
This class is primarily a seminar--which means there is an
expectation that students will be actively involved in class
discussion. As a result, students will be expected to have read
before every class session and to therefore be ready to discuss
the materials. Further, each class meeting specific students will
be required to lead discussion on specific readings. This is part
of your grade.
Exam. There is one
exam in this course. It will be an essay exam.
Research Paper.
Details will be posted to the course page. In general terms the
paper will be a 20-25 research paper on a topic relevant to
class.
Note: Proposals and papers must be submitted to
Turnitin.com, course ID: 2558866, password:
guerillas.
READING SCHEDULE
Note: The Professor
reserves the right to make adjustments to this schedule as needed
1/7: Course Intro and Overview
1/9
No class: Dr. Taylor will be attending the Southern Political
Science Association Annual Meeting
I. COLLECTIVE POLITICAL VIOLENCE: CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS
(1/12, 1/14)
Eckstein, Harry. 1965. On the Etiology of Internal
Wars. History and Theory. 4:2, 133-163. (Handout,
also JSTOR)
Eckstein, Harry. 1980. Theoretical Approaches to
Explaining Collective Political Violence. in Ted R. Gurr, ed.,
Handbook of Political Conflict. New York: Free Press.
(Handout)
Tilly, Charles. 2004. Terror, Terrorism, Terrorists.
Sociological Theory., Vol 22. No. 1.: 5-13 (JSTOR)
1/19
MLK Day
II. THEORIZING REVOLUTION
(1/21-1/28)
Foran,
c1
Foran,
et al, Foreward & c1
Wickham-Crowley:
Structural Theories of Revolution (Handout)
Mehran
Kamrava. 1999. Revolution Revisited: The
Structuralist-Voluntarist Debate. Canadian Journal of
Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique,
Vol. 32, No. 2. (Jun., 1999), pp. 317-345. (JSTOR)
Dix,
Robert H. 1983. The Varieties of Revolution. Comparative
Politics. 15,3 (April): 281-294. (JSTOR)
Dix,
Robert H. 1984. Why Revolutions Succeed & Fail. Polity.
16:3 (Spring): 423-446.(Available via JSTOR)
Shugart,
Matthew Soberg. 1989. Patterns of Revolution. Theory and
Society, Vol. 18, No. 2.: 249-271(JSTOR)
Skocpol
(Handout)
III. SPECIFIC CASES (2/2-3/30)
Foran, c2-c5
DeFronzo, complete
Skocpol, Theda. 1976. France, Russia and China: A
Structural Analysis of Social Revolutions. Comparative Studies
in Society and History. 18:2 (April): 175-210. (Available
via JSTOR)
Additional
readings TBA
3/2:
Proposal Due
3/9-3/13:
SPRING BREAK
4/1-4/6:
Student Presentations
IV. RECENT EXPERIENCES/LOOKING FORWARD (4/8-4/27)
Foran,
et al., c3-c15
Foran, c6
Snyder,
Robert S. 1999. The End of Revolution? The Review of Politics.
61 (Winter): 5-28. (Available via JSTOR)
Student Presentations
Final Exam: Thursday,
April 30, 2-4
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