Main group 1

• Dahl, Robert A., On democracy, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1998Compulsory*
• Oskarsson, Sven; Widmalm, Sten, Myt eller verklighet: om samband mellan demokrati och ekonomisk tillväxt, Stockholm, Norstedt, 2010Compulsory*

Main group 2

• Kymlicka, Will, Contemporary political philosophy: an introduction., 2. ed., Oxford, Oxford University PressCompulsory*
• Okin, Susan Moller, Is multiculturalism bad for women?, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, cop. 1999Compulsory*
• Singer, Peter, One world: the ethics of globalization, New Haven, Conn. ; a London, Yale University Press, 2004Compulsory*

Main group 3

• Att styra staten: regeringens styrning av sin förvaltning: betänkande, Stockholm, Fritze, 2007Compulsory*
• Hermansson, Jörgen, Regeringsmakten i Sverige. Ett experiment i parlamentarism 1917-2009, SNS, 2010Compulsory*
• Persson, Thomas; Wiberg, Matti, Parliamentary Government in the Nordic Countries at a Crossroads. Coping with the Challenges from 'Europeanization' and 'Presidentialization', Santèrus Academic Press, 2011Compulsory*
• Wockelberg, Helena; Ahlbäck Öberg, Shirin, Ansvarsfullt ansvarsutkrävande, om bruk och missbruk av KU, Part of: Statsvetare ifrågasätter: Uppsalamiljön vid tiden för professorsskiftet den 31 mars 2008, Uppsala, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2008Compulsory*
• Arter, David, Conclusion. Questioning the 'Mezey question'": An interrogatory framework for the comparative study of legislatures', The Journal of Legislative Studies, 2006Compulsory*
• Bale, Tim; Bergman, Torbjörn, Captives No Longer, but Servants Still? Contract Parliamentarism and the New Minority Governance in Sweden and New Zealand, Government and Opposition, 2006Compulsory*
• Egeberg, Morten; Trondal, Jarle, National Agencies in the European Administrative Space: Government driven, Commission driven or Networked?, Public Administration, 2009Compulsory*
• Johansson, Karl-Magnus; Raunio, Tapio, Organizing the Core Executive for European Union Affairs: Comparing Finland and Sweden, Public Administration, 2010Compulsory*
• Johansson, Karl-Magnus; Tallberg, Jonas, Explaining Chief Executive Empowerment: EU Summitry and Domestic Institutional Change, West European Politics, 2010Compulsory*
• Olsen, Johan P., Democratic Government, Institutional Autonomy and the Dynamics of Change, West European Politics, 2009Compulsory*
• Olsen, Johan P, Maybe it is Time to Rediscover Bureaucracy?, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 2006Compulsory*
• Pollitt, Christopher, Performance Management in Practice: A Comparative Study of Executive Agencies, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 2006Compulsory*
• Versluis, Esther, Rules, Uneven Practices: Opening the 'black box' of EU law in action, West European Politics, 2007Compulsory*

Main group 4

• Baylis, John; Smith, Steve; Owens, Patricia, The globalization of world politics: an introduction to international relations, 4th ed., Oxford ; New York, N.Y., Oxford University Press, 2008Compulsory*
• Kaldor, Mary, New & old wars: [organized violence in a global era], 2. ed., Cambridge ; a Malden, MA, 2006Compulsory*
• Opportunities missed, opportunities seized: preventive diplomacy in the post-Cold War world, Lanham, Md., Rowman & Littlefield for the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, cop. 2000Compulsory*

Main group 5

• Metodpraktikan: konsten att studera samhälle, individ och marknad, 3. uppl., Stockholm, Norstedts juridik, 2007Compulsory*

Main group 6

• Ekengren, Ann-Marie; Hinnfors, Jonas, Uppsatshandbok: hur du lyckas med din uppsats, 1. uppl., Lund, Studentlitteratur, 2006Compulsory*

* Compulsory