Political Science and International Relations ( English )

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Course ECTS Credit
Teaching Language of Instruction İngilizce
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
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Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
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Purpose and Content

The aim of the course This course focuses on Comparative Political Economy, which seeks to explain economic policies and economic outcomes using political variables. Its objective is to analyze topics in the political economy of developing countries from a comparative perspective. Particularly, its goals are to understand (i) the disparities between countries and between groups of people in terms of wealth and wellbeing and (ii) the reasons why countries pursue differing economic policies.
Course Content This course focuses on topics in the political economy of developing countries from a comparative perspective. Some of the issues to be discussed are: global economic crises and their impact on developing countries; populism; poverty, famine and hunger; population growth; gender and development; environmental degradation; corruption; health and development.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Introductions
2Defining political economy
3Approaches to political economy
4Classical theories and beyond
5Varieties of capitalism
6Neoliberalism
7Financialization
8Development
9Midterm exam
10Global institutions
11Gendering political economy
12Households and social reproduction
13Political economy of Turkey
14Review session

Resources

James A. Caporaso and David P. Levine (1992) Politics and Economics. In Theories of Political Economy. Cambridge University Press, Chapter 1, pp. 7-32.

Allan Drazen (2000) What Is Political Economy? In Political Economy in Macroeconomics. Princeton University Press, Chapter 1, pp. 3-19.

Mark Blyth (2009) An Approach to Comparative Analysis or a Subfield within a Subfield? Political Economy. In Mark Lichbach and Alan Zuckerman (eds.), Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure. Cambridge University Press, Chapter 8, pp. 193-219.

Darel E. Paul and Abla Amawi (2013) Theories of International Political Economy. In The Theoretical Evolution of International Political Economy: A Reader. Oxford University Press, Introduction, pp. 1-39.

Optional: Geoffrey R. D. Underhill (2000) State, Market, and Global Political Economy: Genealogy of an (Inter-?) Discipline. International Affairs, 76(4): 805-824.

Peter A. Hall and David Soskice (2001) An Introduction to Varieties of Capitalism. In P. Hall and D. Soskice (eds.), Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Oxford University Press, Chapter 1, pp. 1-36.

Ian Bruff and Matthias Ebenau (2014) Critical Political Economy and the Critique of Comparative Capitalisms Scholarship on Capitalist Diversity. Capital & Class, 38(1): 3-15.

Matthew Eagleton-Pierce (2019) Neoliberalism. In Timothy M. Shaw, Laura C. Mahrenbach, Renu Modi, and Xu Yi-chong (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary International Political Economy, Chapter 8, pp. 119-134.

David Harvey (2006) Neo-liberalism as creative destruction. Geografiska Annaler: Human Geography, 88(2): 145-158.

Costas Lapavitsas (2013) The Financialization of Capitalism: ‘Profiting without Producing’. City, 17(6): 792-805.

Eric Helleiner (2017) The Evolution of the International Monetary and Financial System. In John Ravenhill (ed.), Global Political Economy, Chapter 8, pp. 199-224.

Nicolo Phillips (2017) The Political Economy of Development. In John Ravenhill (ed.), Global Political Economy, Chapter 13, pp. 356-386.

Gilbert Rist (2010) Development As a Buzzword. In Andrea Cornwall and Deborah Eade (eds.), Deconstructing Development Discourse: Buzzwords and Fuzzwords. OXFAM, pp. 19-27.

A. Saad-Filho (2005) From Washington to Post-Washington Consensus: Neoliberal Agendas for Economic Development. In A. Saad-Filho and D. Johnston (eds.), Neoliberalism, Chapter 12, pp. 113-119.

Paul Cammack (2004) What the World Bank Means by Poverty Reduction, and Why It Matters. New Political Economy, 9(2): 189-211.

Penny Griffin (2019) Gender. In Timothy M. Shaw, Laura C. Mahrenbach, Renu Modi, and Xu Yi-chong (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary International Political Economy, Chapter 39, pp. 633-649.

Özlem Altan-Olcay (2016) The Entrepreneurial Woman in Development Programs: Thinking Through Class Differences. Social Politics, 23(3): 389-414.

Optional: Suzanne Bergeron (2004) The Post-Washington Consensus and Economic Representations of Women in Development at the World Bank. International Feminist Journal of Politics 5(3): 397-419.

Lena Pellandini-Simanyi (2021) The Financialization of Everyday Life. In Christian Borch and Robert Wosnitzer (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Critical Finance Studies, Chapter 14, pp. 278-299.

Adrienne Roberts (2013) Financing Social Reproduction: The Gendered Relations of Debt and Mortgage Finance in Twenty-first-century America. New Political Economy, 18(1): 21-42.

Galip Yalman (2019) The Neoliberal Transformation of State and Market in Turkey: An Overview of Financial Developments from 1980 to 2000. In Galip L. Yalman, Thomas Marois and Ali Rıza Güngen (eds.), The Political Economy of Financial Transformation in Turkey. Routledge, Chapter 3, pp. 51-87.

Ayşe Buğra (2020) Politics of Social Policy in a Late Industrializing Country: The Case of Turkey. Development and Change, 51(2): 442-462.

Optional: Korkut Boratav and Erinç Yeldan (2006) Turkey, 1980–2000: Financial Liberalization, Macroeconomic (In)Stability, and Patterns of Distribution. In Lance Taylor (ed.), External Liberalization in Asia, Post-Socialist Europe, and Brazil. Oxford University Press, Chapter 14, pp. 417-455.