Comparative Politics: Modernisation in comparative perspective, 15 ECTS

Part I: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Perspectives on Development

• Kohli, Atul., State-directed development: political power and industrialization in the global periphery, Cambridge, UK ; a New York, Cambridge University Press, 2004Obligatorisk*
• Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther, Poor economics: a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty, 1. ed., New York, Public Affairs, c2011Obligatorisk*

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Part II: State Building and Regime Dynamics in Post-Communist Eurasia

• Hale, Henry E., Patronal politics: Eurasian regime dynamics in comparative perspective, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2015 [dvs 2014]Obligatorisk*
• Engvall, Johan, The state as investment market: kyrgyzstan in comparative perspective., Pittsburgh, Univ of Pittsburgh Press, 2016Obligatorisk* (Boken är ännu ej utgiven. Beräknad utgivning under 2016.)

Part III: Decentralisation, Corruption and Social Capital - Determinants for Modernisation

• Widmalm, Sten, Decentralisation, corruption and social capital: from India to the West, Thousand Oaks, SAGE Publications, 2008Obligatorisk*
• Rothstein, Bo, The quality of government: corruption, social trust, and inequality in international perspective, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2011Obligatorisk*

Part IV: The role of political mobilization - the social and political change

• Bosi, Lorenzo; Giugni, Marco; Uba, Katrin, The consequences of social movements, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016Obligatorisk*

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Part V: Modern China

• Fewsmith, Joseph, The logic and limits of political reform in China, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013Obligatorisk*

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* Obligatorisk