Authoritarian Regimes - University of Chicago

May 15: Military Regimes
• Huntington, Political Order, pp. 192-263.
• Morris Janowitz, Military Institutions and Coercion in the Developing Nations,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1977), pp. 77-116.
• Alfred Stepan, Rethinking Military Politics: Brazil and the Southern Cone,
Princeton: Princeton University Press (1988), pp. 3-29.
• Kirk S. Bowman, Militarization, Democracy, and Development: The Perils of
Praetorianism in Latin America, University Park: Penn State University Press
(2002), pp. 19-41.
• Dan Slater and Christopher Haid, “The Worst Kind of War: Regional Rebellions
and Political Militarization in the Post-Colonial World,” Unpublished Manuscript,
pp. 1-34.
• Steven A. Cook, Ruling But Not Governing: The Military and Political
Development in Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press (2007), pp. 1-31.
• Babar Sattar, “Pakistan: Return to Praetorianism,” in Muthiah Alagappa (ed.),
Coercion and Governance: The Declining Political Role of the Military in Asia,
Stanford: Stanford University Press (2001), pp. 385-412.
May 22: Coalitional Foundations of Authoritarianism
• Barrington Moore, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and
Peasant in the Making of the Modern World, Boston: Beacon (1966), pp. 433-
452.
• Gregory M. Luebbert, “Social Foundations of Political Order in Interwar Europe,”
World Politics 39:4 (July 1987), pp. 449-478.
• David Waldner, “Democracy and Dictatorship in the Post-Colonial World,”
Unpublished Manuscript, pp. 1-35.
• David Waldner, “Democracy and Dictatorship in Southeast Asia: The Origins of
the Indonesian New Order and the Thai Non-Order,” Unpublished Manuscript,
pp. 1-42.
• Thomas Pepinsky, “Coalitions and Crises: Authoritarianism, Adjustment, and
Transitions in Emerging Markets, Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University (2007), pp.
16-29, 68-119, and 246-357.
• Dan Slater, “Ordering Power: Contentious Politics, State-Building, and
Authoritarian Durability in Southeast Asia,” Ph.D. Dissertation, Emory University
(2005), pp. 1-27, 78-94, 263-350, 365-385, and 422-447.
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