Book List for Reviews


These are the books from which you can choose for review. I have included the Book Call Number from our library which is in BOLD below the book title, and mentioned if it is an EBOOK with the link where JGU provides the EBOOK. Once you are at the link you should look for Online Resources which is shown as EBSCOhost (as pointed out in the image below). Once you click it you will be led to the EBOOK page.



I have also highlighted a few books that I found most captivating!

HAPPY READING!
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CLASSICS

Guillermo O'Donnell and Philippe Schmitter, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1986).
321.9 OD-T

Sidney Tarrow, Power in Movement (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
EBOOK: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xww&scope=site&site=ehost-live&AN=357433 

Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital and European States, AD 990-1992, Blackwell 1992.
940 TI-C


INSTITUTIONS AND INSTITUTIONALISMS

Douglass C. North, Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
EBOOK: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xww&scope=site&site=ehost-live&AN=510978


Douglass C. North, Understanding the Process of Economic Change (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005), pp. 1-80.
338.9 NO-R

Steinmo, Sven. 2010. Evolution of modern states Sweden, Japan, and the United States.
Cambridge University Press.
320.1 ST-E

Arend Lijphart, Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six
Countries (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999), pp. 1-47 and 301-309.
320.3 LI-P

Lijphart, Arend. 1992. Parliamentary versus presidential government. Oxford University Press.
320.3 PA-

REGIMES AND REGIME CHANGE

David Held. 2008. Models of Democracy, 2nd ed. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Adam Przeworski et al., Democracy and Development. Cambridge UP, 2000, pp 1-12, 78-137.
321.8 HE-M

Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan. 1996. Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 3-83.
321.809045 LI-P

Acemoglu, Daron, and James A. Robinson. 2006. Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, Chapter 2.
321.8 AC-E

Tiily. Charles. 2006. Regimes and repertoires. University of Chicago Press.

Diamond, Larry Jay | Plattner, Marc F. 1996. Civil-military relations and democracy. Johns Hopkins University Press.
322.5 CI-


Oldenburg, Philip. 2010. India, Pakistan and democracy solving the puzzle of divergent paths. Routledge.
320.954 OL-I

TYPES OF PARTY SYSTEMS, ELECTORAL RULES


John Aldrich, Why Parties? The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America, pp. 3-61; 277-296. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. 
324.27309 AL-W

Clemens Spiess. 2009. Democracy and party systems in developing countries a comparative study of India and South Africa. Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies.
324.254 SP-D

Magaloni, Beatriz. 2006. Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico. New York: Cambridge UP, chapters 2 and 4.
324.272083 MA-V


IDENTITY, ETHNICITY AND CULTURE

Almond, Gabriel and Sidney Verba, The Civic Culture Revisited (Boston: Little, 1980).
306.2 CI-

Anderson, Benefict, Imagined Communities (London: Verso, 1983).
320.54 AN-I

Varshney, Ashutosh Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), pp. 3-55.
954.00882971 VA-E   

POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Acemoglu, Daron and James A. Robinson (2012), Why nations fail, Crown, last 4 chapters.
330 AC-W

Banerjee, Abhijit V. and Duflo, Esther (2011). Poor economics, New York: Public Affairs.
339.46091724 BA-P

Bhagwati, Jagdish (2007). In defense of globalization, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
337.1 BH-I

Escobar, Arturo (2001). Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
338.9 ES-E

Kohli, Atul (2002). State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery, New York: Cambridge University Press.
338.90091724 KO-S

Ostrom, Elinor (1990). Governing the commons: The evolution of institutions for collective action. Cambridge University Press.
333.2 OS-G

Rodrik, Dani (2008). One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth. Princeton, USA: Princeton University Press.
338.9 RO-O

Sen, Amartya (1999). Development as Freedom, New York: Norton.
338.9 SE-D

COUNTRIES AND REGIONS

Alagappa, Muthiah, ed. (2004), Civil society and political change in Asia: expanding and contracting democratic space, Stanford Univ. Press.


Shin, Gi-Wook | Chang, Paul Y. 2011. South Korean social movements from democracy to civil society. Routledge.
303.484095195 SO-

Cai, Yongshun (2010). Collective Resistance in China: Why Popular Protests Succeed or Fail, Stanford University Press.
EBOOK - http://koha.jgu.edu.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=100295&query_desc=kw%2Cwrdl%3A%20Collective%20Resistance%20in%20China

Ganguly, Sumit | Diamond, Larry Jay | Plattner, Marc F. 2007. State of India's democracy.
Johns Hopkins Press.
320.954 ST-

Kingstone, Peter R. 2011. Political economy of Latin America reflections on neoliberalism and development. Routledge.
338.98 KI-P

Falleti, Tulia Gabriela. 2010. Decentralization and subnational politics in Latin America. Cambridge University Press.
320.8098 FA-D

Klasen, Stephan | Nowak-Lehmann, Felicitas | Nowak-Lehmann D, Felicitas. 2009. Poverty, inequality and policy in Latin America. Cambridge University Press.
339.46098 PO-

Kipgen, Nehginpao. 2016. Myanmar: A Political History. Oxford University Press.
959.1053 KI-M

Kipgen, Nehginpao. 2016. Democratisation of Myanmar. Routledge.
959.1053 KI-D

Myint- U, Thant. 2004. Making of modern Burma. Cambridge University Press.
959.103 MY-M

Jaffrelot, Christophe. 2015. Pakistan paradox instability and resilience. Random House. 954.91 JA-P

Jaffrelot, Christophe. 1993.  Hindu nationalist movement and Indian politics 1925to the 1990s. New Delhi: Penguin Books. 320.52 JA-H

Tsai,Lily (2007). Accountability without Democracy: Solidary Groups and Public Goods
Provision in Rural China (Cambridge University Press 2007)
320.840951 TS-A

Khilnani, Sunil (1999). The Idea of India, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
954 KH-I

Mitra, Subrata K. (2011). Politics in India: Structure, Process and Policy, London: Routledge. 320.954 MI-P

Kaviraj, Sudipta (2010). Trajectories of the Indian state, Ranikhet, India: Permanent Black. 954.04 KA-T

Rudolph, Lloyd I., and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph (1987). In pursuit of Lakshmi: The political economy of the Indian state. University of Chicago Press.
338.954 RU-I

Bardhan, Pranab (1999).  Political Economy of Development in India, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press.
338.954 BA-P

Kohli, Atul (2012). Poverty amid plenty in the new India, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
339.460954 KO-P

Banerjee, Mukulika. 2014. Why India Votes? Routledge. PERSONAL COPY

Dreze, Jean and Sen, Amartya (2013). An uncertain glory: India and its contradictions, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
338.954 DR-U

Bose, Sumantra (2003). Kashmir: Roots of conflict, paths to peace, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
954.6 BO-K

Lewis, David (2011). Bangladesh: politics, economy and civil society. Cambridge University Press.

Bandarage, Asoka (2008). The separatist conflict in Sri Lanka: Terrorism, ethnicity, political economy. Routledge.
954.93032 BA-S

Pauline Jones Luong. 2002. Institutional change and political continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Power, perceptions, and pacts. Cambridge University Press.

Gleason, Gregory. 2003. Markets and politics in Central Asia structural reform and political change. Routlegde. 330.958 GL-M

Bhavna, Dave. 2009. Politics of modern Central Asia critical issues in modern politics. Routledge. 320.958 PO-

Guhathakurata, Meghana | Schendel, Willem van. 2013. Bangladesh reader history, culture, politics. Duke University Press.
954.92 BA-

Bardhan, Pranab (2012). Awakening giants, feet of clay: Assessing the economic rise of China and India. Princeton University Press.

Morley, James William (2015). Driven by Growth: Political Change in the Asia-Pacific
Region. Routledge.
330.95042 DR-

Victoria Hui, War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
931 HU-W

Stepan, Alfred C | Linz, Juan J | Yadav, Yogendra. 2011. Crafting State-Nations: India and Other Multinational Democracies, Johns Hopkins University Press.
321.8 ST-C

The Soldier and the Changing State: Building Democratic Armies in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, Princeton University Press, 2012.

Jeffrey Herbst, States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control, Princeton University Press, 2000.
303.3096 HE-S

Owen, Roger. 2004. State, power and politics in the making of the modern middle east. Routlegde.
320.956 OW-S

Sakwa, Richard. 2008. Putin’s Russia. Routledge.
947.086092 SA-P

Chris Robinson. 2010. Electoral systems and voting in the United Kingdom. Edinburg University Press.


POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR


Kitschelt, Herbt and Steven I. Wilkinson, Patrons, Clients, and Policies: Patterns of Democratic Accountability and Political Competition (Cambridge University Press, 2007),, pp. 1-67, 84-100, 159-205.
320.3 PA-

POLITICAL CONFLICT

North, Douglass C | Wallis, John Joseph | Webb, Steven Benjamin| Weingast, Barry R. 2013. In the shadow of violence politics, economics, and the problem of development. Cambridge University Press.
338.90091724 IN-

Ted, Robert Gurr. 1980. Why Men Rebel. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
303.6 GU-W
           
James  Scott, 1977. The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Subsistence and Rebellion in Southeast Asia. New Haven: Yale University Press.
330 SC-M

Erica Chenoweth and Adria Lawrence. 2010. Rethinking violence:states and non-state actors in conflict. MIT Press.
303.6 RE-

Steven Wilkinson. 2004. Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
303.623 WI-V


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SAMPLE BOOK REVIEWS
1. Why India Votes? - http://www.india-seminar.com/2014/657/657_books.htm

2. Collective Resistance in China - https://www.jstor.org/stable/25790578?seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents

3. Crafting State-Nations - https://academic.oup.com/publius/article/42/4/e5/1860895


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