POS 203: Introduction to Political Science 11042009

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POS 203 Introduction to Political Science
11/04/2009

• Course status.
• Paper Assignment 2 returned Friday.
• Class Agenda
• Presentations.
• Russia.
• Landman, Chapter 7.
• Discussion Questions
• Apply Landman Chapter 7 to Hauss Chapter 9.
• Critical Thinking Exercise 8 p. 258 Hauss.
  Today, it could be argued that the Russian
  president has too much influence both because of
  the powers granted him by the Constitution and
  the weakness of the opposition in the State Duma
  and elsewhere. How has that affected politics
  since Putin came to power? What has happened
  since he has left the presidency?

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• Russia and Terrorism.
• War in Chechnya.
• BBC Chechnya.
• First Chechen War.
• 46,000 80000 dead.
• Second Chechen War.
• 30,000.
• Terrorist attacks w/n Russia.
• 2002 Hostage Theatre Moscow.
• 2004 Beslan School Hostage crisis.
• Russian Antiterror site.
• FSB, MVD and other security ministries.

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Terrorism Counterterrorism and Public Approval
Putin/Bush.
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Terrorism Counterterrorism and Public Approval
Bush1 Ruggles University of Minnesota (US).
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Russia Terrorism/Counterterrorism HR and
Lyall Landscapes.

• Chechnya Follow-up.
• Human Rights Watch.
• Russia/Chechnya index page.
• EU/Council of Europe/Committee for the Prevention
  of Torture.
• Most recent statement March 13, 2007.
• in some respects notably as regards material
  conditions of detention - there had been definite
  progress.
• remains deeply concerned resort to torture
  by members of law enforcement agencies and
  security forces continues, as does the related
  practice of unlawful detentions.
• Politkovskaya - Profile of Ramzan Kadyrov.
• Inside the dragons lair Guardian (UK).
• Lyall Landscapes of Violence MPSA 2006.
• Northern Caucuses and Microgeographies of
  conflict, conditions of recruitment.

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Russia Terrorism/Counterterrorism - Lyall.

• Lyall, Jason. 2006. Pocket Protests Rhetorical
  Coercion and the Micropolitics of Collective
  Action in Semiauthoritarian. World Politics. 58
  (April), 378-412.
• Putin archetype of smart authoritarians who
  restrict liberties without provoking backlash or
  undermining economic growth.

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Russia Terrorism/Counterterrorism Lyall2.
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Russia Terrorism/Counterterrorism Lyall3
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Russia Terrorism/Counterterrorism Lyall 4.
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Russia Counterterrorism - 2.

• Siloviki in the Putin Administration Olga
  Kryshtanovskayas Figures. Russian Analytical
  Digest. No. 17. March 20, 2007.

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Russia Counterterrorism - 4.

• Siloviki Kryshtanovskayas Figures - 3.

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Russia Counterterrorism - 6.

• Siloviki Kryshtanovskayas Figures - 5.

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Russia Counterterrorism 8 2006 CT
Law/Public Opinion-1.

• Russias New Counter-terrorism Law. Russian
  Analytical Digest. No. 2. June 20, 2006.

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Russia Counterterrorism - 9.

• Russias New Counter-terrorism Law. 2.

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Russia Counterterrorism - 9.

• Russias New Counter-terrorism Law. 3.

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Russia Counterterrorism - 9.

• Russias New Counter-terrorism Law. 4.

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Russia Counterterrorism - 9.

• Russias New Counter-terrorism Law. 5.

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Russia Counterterrorism - 9.

• Russias New Counter-terrorism Law. 6.

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Russia Counterterrorism - 9.

• Russias New Counter-terrorism Law. 6.

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• Landman Chapter 7
• Three interrelated research questions.
• Why do people rebel?
• Which sectors of society are more likely to
  rebel?
• What factors contribute to successful revolution?
• Why do people rebel?
• Individual, structural and cultural factors.
• Relative deprivation.
• General levels of inequality.
• Rational responses to changing economic
  conditions.
• Moral outrage at injustice.
• Structural composition of primary export
  economies characteristic of lesser developed
  countries.
• What Sectors?
• Types of groups - focus on peasants.

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• Landman Chapter 7
• What factors contribute to successful revolution?
• Key explanatory factors.
• Comparisons show great variance in factors that
  account for political violence and successful
  revolution.
• Comparing many countries.
• Gurr operationalizes notion of relative
  deprivation through separate measures of
  persisting deprivation and short term
  deprivation, the coercive potential of states,
  levels of institutionalization, degree of
  political legitimacy, and general
  socio-structural features of facilitation.
• Political dissent magnitude of civil strife
  combined measure of demonstrations, political
  strikes, riots, local rebellions, assassinations,
  coups, mutinies, plots, purges, widespread
  revolts.
• Deprivation related to magnitude of civil strife.

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• Landman Chapter 7

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• Landman Chapter 7
• Many country studies continued.
• Hibbs goes through elaborate hypothesis testing
  exercise summarized on Table 7.1.
• Then develops elaborate multivariate causal
  model.
• Main conclusions.
• Past levels of political violence.
• Presence of societal cleavages.
• Low levels of repression.
• Absence of communist totalitarian regime.
• Low theoretical payoff.
• Paige.
• Focuses on rebellion in rural agrarian sector.
• Agrarian sector is unit of analysis.
• Finding violent activities revolutionary/nationali
  st movements highly correlated with sharecropping
  and migratory labor.

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• Landman Chapter 7

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• Landman Chapter 7
• Many country studies continued.
• Siegelman and Simpson.
• Indicators of inequality and political violence.
• Inequality measured by Gini index.
• Tests linear and non-linear forms of relationship
  between income inequality and violence.
• Positive linear relationship is discovered.
• Support for other relationships.
• Summarizing many country studies.
• Some form of grievance generated by imbalance
  manifests itself in political violence.
• Direct relationship between imbalance and
  violence is mediated by other important factors.
• Main weakness of studies nation state as unit of
  analysis.

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• Landman Chapter 7

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• Landman Chapter 7

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• Landman Chapter 7

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• Landman Chapter 7

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• Midterm Exams.
• Key Terms Abbreviations.
• Sig significance.
• Det details.
• Spec. Ex. Specific Example.
• Ex. example.
• Grade on inside front cover is out of 100 points.
• 90 cut off for A- 87.5 cut off for B 82.5
  below B- 80 below C
• Next class, November 11th, 2009.
• Apply Landman Chapter 11 to Hauss Chapter 10.
• Hauss Critical Thinking Exercise 7 China has
  reformed its economy but not its political system
  perestroika without glasnost. Has it worked
  better than reform in the former Soviet Union?
  Why (or why not)?