Development Studies B
30 credits
Reading list, Bachelor's level, 2SK031
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
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
- The Oxford history of the British Empire.: Vol. 3 The nineteenth century, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999Compulsory (Washbrook, David. "India 1818–1860: The Two Faces of Colonialism" pp. 395–421)
- 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
Articles will be added
Methods
- Bryman, Alan, Samhällsvetenskapliga metoder, 2., [rev.] uppl., Malmö, Liber, 2011Compulsory (Available in English: "Social Research Methods" Oxford University Press)
Articles and course material will be added
Comparative Politics
Kursen ges vårterminen 2015
- Buruma, Ian, Murder in Amsterdam: liberal Europe, Islam, and the limits of tolerance, [New ed.], New York, Penguin, 2007Compulsory
- 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!)
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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