Main group 1

• Kohli, Atul., State-directed development: political power and industrialization in the global periphery, Cambridge, UK ; a New York, Cambridge University Press, 2004Compulsory*
• Easterly, William Russell, The white man's burden: why the West's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good, New York, Penguin Press, 2006Compulsory*
• Widmalm, Sten, Western aid – more of hindrance than a help?, 2005Compulsory*
• Lipset, S M, Some Social Requisites of Democracy - Economic Development and Political Legitimacy, The American Political Science Review, 1959Compulsory*

• Howard, Marc Morjé, The weakness of civil society in post-communist Europe, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2003Compulsory*

• Rose-Ackerman, Susan, Corruption and government: causes, consequences, and reform, Cambridge University Press, 1999Compulsory*
• Widmalm, Sten, Decentralisation, Corruption and Social Capital: From India to the West, Sage Publications, 2008Compulsory*

• Luders, Joseph E., The civil rights movement and the logic of social change, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2010Compulsory*
• Baumgartner, Frank R., Lobbying and policy change: who wins, who loses, and why, Chicago, [Ill.], University of Chicago Press, 2009Compulsory*
• Andrews, Kenneth, Social movements and policy implementation: The Mississippi civil rights movement and the War on Poverty, 1965-1971, American Sociological Review, 2001Compulsory*
• Amenta, Edwin; Caren, Neal; Olasky, Sheera Joy, Age for Leisure? Political Mediation and the Impact of the Pension Movement on US Old-Age Policy, American Sociological Review, 2005Compulsory*
• Dür, Andreas, Interest Groups in the European Union: How Powerful Are They?, West European Politics, 2008Compulsory*
• Klüver, Heike, Lobbying in the European Union: The power of information, General Conference of the European Consortium of Political Science, 2009Compulsory*
• Soule, Sarah A; King, Brayden G, The Stages of the Policy Process and the Equal Rights Amendment, 1972-1982, American Journal of Sociology, 2006Compulsory*
• Uba, Katrin, The contextual dependence of Movements Outcomes: A Simplified Meta-Analysis, Mobilization, 2009Compulsory*

* Compulsory