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thinking like a social scientist syllabus


SESSION 1 Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 1960.

SESSION 2 Barrington Moore. Social origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, 1966.

SESSION 3 Theda Skocpol. States and social revolutions, 1979.

SESSION 4 Steven Lukes. Power: A radical view. Second Edition, 2005.

SESSION 5 Kenneth N. Waltz, Theory of International Politics, 1979.

SESSION 6 Elinor Ostrom. Governing the Commons, 1990.

SESSION 7 Albert O. Hirschman, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, 1970.

SESSION 8 Margaret Levi, Of rule and revenue, 1988.

SESSION 9  Robert D. Putnam, Making democracy work, 1993.

SESSION 10James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State, 1998. 


CoS & Viva Oxford, slides  

on theorizing , workshop  doc

sciences po workshop, slides   RQs chapter  on theorizing 

on dealing with articles submission, doc

on articles submission, slides

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