Political Science B
30 credits
Reading list, Bachelor's level, 2SK059
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Problems of Democracy
- Oskarsson, Sven; Widmalm, Sten, Myt eller verklighet: om samband mellan demokrati och ekonomisk tillväxt, Stockholm, Norstedt, 2010Compulsory
- Dahl, Robert A., Democracy and its critics, New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, cop. 1989Compulsory (svenska översättningen går också bra)
Articles will be added
Gender, Power and Institutions
Kursen ges höstterminen 2014
- Mackay, Fiona.; Krook, Mona Lena., Gender, politics and institutions: towards a feminist institutionalism, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011Compulsory
Articles will be added
The Political System of the European Union
Kursen ges höstterminen 2014
- Hix, Simon.; Høyland, Bjørn., The political system of the European Union, 3. ed., Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011Compulsory
- Bulmer, Simon; Lequesne, Christian, The member states of the European Union, 2nd ed., Oxford, Oxford University Press, cop. 2013Compulsory
- Tallberg, Jonas, Europeiseringen av Sverige, Stockholm, SNS förlag, 2010Compulsory
Articles will be added
Organising power
Kursen ges höstterminen 2014
- Hertting, Nils; Vedung, Evert, Den utvärderingstäta politiken: styrning och utvärdering i svensk storstadspolitik, 1. uppl., Lund, Studentlitteratur, 2009Compulsory
- Persson, Thomas; Wiberg, Matti, Parliamentary government in the Nordic countries at a crossroads: coping with challenges from Europeanisation and presidentialisation, Stockholm, Santérus Academic Press, 2011Compulsory
- Implementing public policy: Third edition 2014Compulsory (Hill, Michael J.q (Michael James); Hupe, Peter L.)
Articles and course reader will be added
Development Theory and Colonial Legacies
Kursen ges höstterminen 2014
- Cooper, Frederick, Africa since 1940: the past of the present, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002Compulsory
- Hobson, John M, Discovering the Oriental West, Part of: The postcolonial science and technology studies reader, Durham, [N.C.], Duke University Press, 2011, p. 39–60Compulsory
- Larson, Brooke., Trials of nation making: liberalism, race, and ethnicity in the Andes, 1810-1910., New York, Cambridge University Press, 2004Compulsory
- The new Cambridge history of India.: 3 [The Indian empire and the beginnings of modern society], 4 Ideologies of the Raj, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996Compulsory
- World Development: Globalisation in Historical Perspective, Part of: World development: an introduction, London, Pluto, 2001, p. 13–34Compulsory
- Rist, Gilbert, The History of Development: from Western origins to global faith, Fourth edition., London, Zed books, 2014Compulsory (pp. 25- 139)
- Scott, Catherine, Tradition and Gender in Modernization Theory, Part of: The postcolonial science and technology studies reader, Durham, [N.C.], Duke University Press, 2011, p. 290–309Compulsory
- Washbrook, David, India 1818-1860: The Two Faces of Colonialism, Part of: The Oxford history of the British Empire.: Vol. 3 The nineteenth century, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999, vol. 3, p. 395–421Compulsory
Articles will be added
International Politics
- Reus-Smit, Christian; Snidal, Duncan, The Oxford handbook of international relations, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010Compulsory (Paperback edition)
- Betts, Richard K., The Delusion of Impartial Intervention, Part of: Turbulent peace: the challenges of managing international conflict., Washington, D.C., United States Institute of Peace Press, 2001, p. 285–294Compulsory (Photo copy available at the Student Office)
Articles will be added
Methods
- Bryman, Alan, Samhällsvetenskapliga metoder, 2., [rev.] uppl., Malmö, Liber, 2011Compulsory (Chapter 1–5 and 15–23 Available in English: "Social Research Methods" Oxford University Press)
Articles and course material will be added
Comparative Politics
Kursen ges vårterminen 2015
- Lijphart, Arend, Democracy in plural societies :a comparative exploration, New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, cop. 1977Compulsory (or any other edition)
- Widmalm, Sten, Kashmir in comparative perspective: democracy and violent separatism in India, Karachi, Oxford University Press, 2006Compulsory (Make sure you get this particular edition!)
- Buruma, Ian, Murder in Amsterdam: liberal Europe, Islam, and the limits of tolerance, [New ed.], New York, Penguin, 2007Compulsory
Articles and some comparative classics will be added
Political Theory
Kursen ges vårterminen 2015
- Kymlicka, Will, Contemporary political philosophy: an introduction, 2. ed., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002 [dvs. 2001]Compulsory
- Singer, Peter, One world: the ethics of globalization, New Haven, Conn. ; a London, Yale University Press, 2004Compulsory
Articles will be added
Swedish politics
Kursen ges vårterminen 2015
- Björklund Larsen, Lotta, Känslan för det allmänna: medborgarnas relation till staten och varandra, 1. uppl., Umeå, Boréa, 2010Compulsory
- Holmström, Mikael, Den dolda alliansen: Sveriges hemliga NATO-förbindelser, 3. uppl., Stockholm, Atlantis, 2012Compulsory
- Jansson, Jenny, Manufacturing consensus: the making of the Swedish reformist working class, Uppsala, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Univ., 2012Compulsory
- Lindbom, Anders, Systemskifte?: den nya svenska välfärdspolitiken, 1. uppl., Lund, Studentlitteratur, 2011Compulsory
Articles and course reader will be added
Environmental Politics and Its Challenges
Kursen ges vårterminen 2015
- Ostrom, Elinor, Governing the commons: the evolution of institutions for collective action, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990Compulsory
Articles will be added
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Syllabus
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- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2022
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2021
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2020, version 2
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2020, version 1
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2019
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2018
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2017
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2016
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2015
- Syllabus valid from Spring 2015
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2014
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2013
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2012
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2011
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2010, version 2
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2010, version 1
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2009, version 2
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2009, version 1
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2008
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2007