Note: I tried to list major works that are frequently cited. Newer titles can be used directly for further bibliography; for older titles, I suggest working forward with the Social Sciences Citation Index.

Modernization

Huntington, Samuel. 1968. Political order in changing societies. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Kuznets, Simon. 1955. Economic growth and income inequality. American Economic Review 45. Partially reprinted in The gap between rich and poor: contending perspectives on the political economy of development, edited by Mitchell A. Seligson, 1984. Boulder: Westview Press.

Westley, John R. 1986. Agriculture and equitable growth: the case of Punjab-Haryana. Boulder: Westview Press.

Imperialism

Reitsma, H. A. and J. M. G. Kleinpenning. 1985. The third world in perspective. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Allanheld.

Warren, Bill. 1980. Imperialism: pioneer of capitalism. London: New Left Books.

Wimberley, Dale W. 1991. Transnational corporate investment and food consumption in the third world: a cross-national analysis. Rural Sociology 56(3):406-31.

Wolf, Eric. 1982. Europe and the people without history. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Dependent development (and world systems theory)

Evans, Peter. 1979. Dependent development. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Frank, Andre Gunder. 1967. Capitalism and underdevelopment in Latin America: historical studies of Chile and Brazil. New York: Monthly Review.

Seligson, Mitchell A. 1984. The gap between rich and poor: contending perspectives on the political economy of development. Boulder: Westview Press. See the readings on pp. 95-282.

The embedded state

Evans, Peter. 1992. The state as problem and solution: predation, embedded autonomy, and structural change. In The politics of economic adjustment: international constraints, distributive conflicts, and the state, edited by Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

_____. 1995. Embedded autonomy: states and industrial transformation. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Granovetter, Mark. 1985. Economic action and social structure: the problem of embeddedness. American Journal of Sociology 91(3):481-510.

Civic culture

Almond, Gabriel A. and Sidney Verba. 1963. The civic culture: political attitudes and democracy in five nations. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Cohen, Jean. 1982. Class and civil society. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

Putnam, Robert D. 1993. Making democracy work: civic traditions in modern Italy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

The routinization of charisma and social movement goal displacement

Weber, Max [1910] 1958. The meaning of discipline. In From Max Weber: essays in sociology, edited by H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills. New York: Oxford University Press.

Zald, Mayer N. and Roberta Ash. 1966. Social movement organizations: growth, decay, and change. Social Forces 44(3):327-41.

Historical conjunctions

Moore, Barrington. 1966. Social origins of dictatorship and democracy: lord and peasant in the making of the modern world. Boston: Beacon Press.

Skocpol, Theda. 1979. States and social revolutions: a comparative analysis of France, Russia, and China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Zero sum game analysis

Bates, Robert. 1988. Contra contractarianism: some reflections on the new institutionalism. Politics and Society 16:387-401.

Gambetta, Diego, ed. 1988. Trust: making and breaking cooperative relations. Oxford: Blackwell.

Sugden, Robert. 1986. The economics of rights, cooperation, and welfare. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Rent-seeking interest groups

Buchanan, J. M., Robert D. Tollison, and Gordon Tullock, eds. 1980. Toward a theory of the rent-seeking society. College Station: Texas A & M University Press.

Colander, David C. ed. 1984. Neoclassical political economy: the analysis of rent-seeking and DUP activities. Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger.

Gelb, A., J. B. Knight, and R. H. Sabot. 1991. Public sector employment, rent seeking and economic growth. The Economic Journal 101(408):1186-99.

Krueger, Anne O. 1974. The political economy of a rent-seeking society. American Economic Review 64(4):291-303.

Neo-Marxist ideas of comprador versus national bourgeoisies,

Baran, Paul. 1957. The political economy of growth. New York: Monthly Review.

Bello, Walden, with Shea Cunningham and Bill Rau. 1994. Dark victory: the United States, structural adjustment, and global poverty. London: Pluto Press.

De Janvry, Alain. 1981. The agrarian question and reformism in Latin America. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.

Kay, Geoffrey. 1975. Development and underdevelopment: a Marxist analysis. London: The Macmillan Press Ltd.

World Bank basic needs approaches,

Morris, Morris David. 1979. Measuring the condition of the world’s poor: the Physical Quality of Life Index. New York: Pergamon Press.

Streeten, Paul, Shahid Javed Burki, Mahbub Ul Haq, Norman Hicks, and Frances Stewart. 1981. First things first: meeting basic human needs in developing countries. New York: Oxford University Press.

Amartya Sen’s notion of "entitlements,"

Sen, Amartya. 1981. Poverty and famines: an essay on entitlement and deprivation. New York: Oxford University Press.

John Rawls’ theory of justice.

Rawls, John. 1971. A theory of justice. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press.

Nozick, Robert. 1974. Anarchy, state, and utopia. New York: Basic Books.

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