Political Science 199C-27, Civil Society, Social Capital and Voluntary Association
Neil Carlson, Instructor
Spring 2003

COURSE CALENDAR
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Week   Date Tasks & Events   Classroom Topics   Readings & References
* required (read before class date)
- supplemental readings
+ reference citations and links
Introduction
1     1/8 W    

- Course Mission and Vision
- Introductions
- Course Overview

  

* Syllabus
* This Course Calendar
                 
Theory, Research Methods and a Case Study: Putnam on Italy
2     1/13 M     - Theories, Hypotheses and Models
- Putnam as example		   * Putnam (1993), Making Democracy Work, Chapters 1 & 2
      1/15 W

- Solo Paper 1 assigned
- First Reviews & Replies (R&R). Reviews posts by 10pm, Replies by Friday at 5pm.

  

- Measurement methods
- Civic "indicators" in Putnam's book.

   * Making Democracy Work, Chapter 3
                 
3     1/20 M - Martin Luther King Jr. Day, no class        
      1/22 W

- Drop/Add ends, 5pm
- R&R

   - Joining Philosophy and Empirical Methods
- Economic Development and "Civic Republicanism"		   * Making Democracy Work, Chapter 4
                 
4     1/27 M - Quiz 1   - Quiz review
- More on Chapter 4		   * Making Democracy Work, Chapters 5 & 6
      1/29 W

- R&R

   - Durability and fragility of social capital   - postponed readings below
                 
5     2/3 M - Student Moderator: Jon Frazier
   - Critiquing Putnam: Theory  

* JSTOR: Tarrow (1996), "Making Democracy Work Across Space and Time", APSR 90:2 (June)
- CIAO: Boix and Posner (1996), "Making Social Capital Work: A Review of Robert Putnam's Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy" Columbia International Affairs Online working papers.
      2/5 W

- NO R&R; work on Solo Paper 1
- Office meetings on Paper 1
- Student Moderator: Aidan Myers

   - Critiquing Putnam:
Measurement		   * JSTOR: Jackman and Miller (1996), "A Renaissance of Political Culture?", AJPS 40:3 (August)
                 
Historical and Contemporary Theories of Civil Society and Civic Culture
6     2/10 M - Solo Paper 1 due  

- The Pervasiveness of Politics

   * Ingenta: Warren (1999), "What is Political?", Journal of Theoretical Politics 11:2 (April) [find article in contents, then click on "article availability" button]
      2/12 W - R&R
- Student Moderator: Matt Bennett
   - The Edited-Volume Paradigm for Collaborative Work
- Class Project Topics		   * CS&G: Rosenblum and Post, Civil Society and Government, Introduction (1-25)
                 
7     2/17 M [CLASS CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER]        
      2/19 W

- Solo Paper 2 assigned
- R&R - Proposed class project topic(s) submitted

   - Classic Theorists   * Click here (link to Blackboard Course Documents) for a single Acrobat document containing the entire set of excerpts for all three authors, marked for easier skimming, or use the web sites below to see the whole table of contents of a book:
- Machiavelli (1513-19?) The Discourses, Book I, Chapters 2, 18 and 34
- Hobbes (1651), Leviathan, Introduction, Chapters 13 and 17. Glance at final paragraph of Chapter 20.
- Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government, Chapters II-IV and VII-IX; pay attention to §§13, 17, 19, 22, 23, 80–83, 89–93, 95–99, 105, 115–116, 122, 124, 127, 131.
                 
8     2/24 M - Quiz 2
- Student Moderators: Vigdis Bronder and Kelly Rohrs		   - Economy and Civil Society
- Liberal Egalitarianism and Group Rights
- From John Locke to John Rawls		  

* CS&G: Scalet & Schmidtz (26-47), Palmer (48-78) on Classical Liberalism
* CS&G: Kymlicka (79-110), Galston (111-122)
      2/26 W - R&R  

- Communitarianism
- Critical Theory and Deliberative Democracy

  

* JSTOR: Sandel (1984), "The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self", Political Theory 12(1):81-96.
* CS&G: Baynes (123-145), White (146-150)
- JSTOR: Walzer (1990), "The Communitarian Critique of Liberalism", Political Theory 18:1 (February)
- JSTOR: Galston (1997), Book Review of Democracy's Discontent by Michael Sandel, Ethics 107(3):509-512
+ Web: Constant, Benjamin (1816), "The Liberty of Ancients compared with that of Moderns" (illuminates reference in CS&G, Baynes' chapter, p. 125-126, p. 130)
                 
9     3/3 M - Office meetings on Paper 2  

- 19th Century thought: Tocqueville, Marx, Tönnies, Durkheim, Weber
- Community vs. Society?
- Project topic discussion

   * Tocqueville (1835-40), Democracy in America, Vol. II, Part II, Chapter 5 and Chapter 8.
- Read optional extra chapter(s) from CS&G for reference in your paper.
      3/5 W - NO R&R; work on Paper 2
- Solo Paper 2 welcome but not required		   - Congruence Theory
- Complexity		   * BLACKBOARD: Rosenblum (1998), Membership and Morals, Introduction and Chapters 1 & 2 (pp. 1-70 plus title and notes)
- Kant (1795), "Perpetual Peace" (see link at end to the First Supplement for text quoted by Rosenblum: "a constitution for devils", etc.)
                 
B     3/7 F-3/16 S - R&R make-up opportunity, by Fri at 5pm   S P R I N G    B R E A K
                 
Evaluating Theories with Data
10     3/17 M     - The Concept of Social Capital: Mutual Obligations   * JSTOR: Coleman (1988), "Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital", American Journal of Sociology Vol. 94 Issue Supplement: Organizations and Institutions: Sociological and Economic Approaches to the Analysis of Social Structure): S95-S120.
      3/19 W - Solo Paper 2 due
- R&R
- Student Moderator: Dustin Paul		   - Is U.S. social capital declining? If so, why?
- Putnam critics		   * Putnam (1995), "Bowling Alone", Journal of Democracy
* Samuelson (1996), "The Bowling Alone Phenomenon is Bunk" Washington Post? [very short!]
* Lemann (1996), "Kicking in Groups", Atlantic Monthly
      3/20 Th     7:30 dinner at Satisfaction to discuss project ideas
                 
11     3/24 M - Class meeting? Instructor absent.
   - Technology, especially TV  

* Gans (2000). "Table for One, Please: America's disintegrating democracy." Washington Monthly, July/August 2000. [very short summary and commentary on Bowling Alone the book]
* BLACKBOARD: Putnam (2000), "Technology and Mass Media", Bowling Alone, Chapter 13
* Uslaner (1998). "Social Capital, Television and the 'Mean World': Trust, Optimism, and Civic Participation." Political Psychology 19:3, 441-468.
- CEiAD: Ray (1999), "Technological Change and Associational Life" (Chapter 8, 297-329)
      3/26 W - Quiz 3
- Class project outline(s) due
- Registration for Fall begins
- R&R
- Student Moderator: Dave Bradley		   - The Role of the State
- Historical Research		   * CEiAD: Skocpol (1999), "How Americans Became Civic", Civic Engagement in American Democracy (Chapter 2, 27-80).
                 
12     3/31 M     - Interpreting Statistical Results  

* CEiAD: Rahn, Brehm and Carlson (1999), "National Elections as Institutions for Generating Social Capital" (Chapter 4, 111-162)
- JSTOR: Brehm and Rahn (1997), "Individual-Level Evidence for the Causes and Consequences of Social Capital" AJPS 41:3 (July), 999-1023.
      4/2 W - R&R
- Student Moderator: Zane Curtis–Olsen
- (Instructor absent for paternity!)		   - Survey Data & Research Design
- Social Capital and Elections		   * Review CEiAD Chapter 4 again, focusing on understanding the numbers
                 
13     4/7 M

- Zane to recap briefly

   - Catch-up due to paternity break   Read/research for project
      4/9 W - Final R&R (use to discuss project issues)
- Student Moderator: Dante Cutrona
  - Interpreting Contemporary Trends   * CEiAD: Fiorina (1999), "Extreme Voices: The Dark Side of Civic Engagement" (Chapter 12, 395-426)
                 
Project Focus
14     4/14 M - Quiz 4
- Student Moderator: Rishi Vasudeva		   - Associational Institutions and Political Culture   * Carlson (2002), Dissertation Proposal
      4/16 W - Class project first draft(s) due   - Discussion of class project   Read for project
                 
15     4/21 M     - Project   Read and write for project
      4/23 W     - Project
- Class Wrap-up		   Write for project
                 
Finals Week
16    

5/3 F,
7-10 pm

- No final exam
- Group project absolutely due by 7pm

        
Last updated by Neil Carlson, Sunday, April 6, 2003 5:00 PM