Problems of Democracy

• Dahl, Robert A., Democracy and its critics, New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, cop. 1989Compulsory*
• Mudde, Cas; Rovira Kaltwasser, Cristóbal, Populism: a very short introduction, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017Compulsory*
• Oskarsson, Sven; Widmalm, Sten, Myt eller verklighet: om samband mellan demokrati och ekonomisk tillväxt, Stockholm, Norstedt, 2010Compulsory*
• Widmalm, Sten; Oskarsson, Sven, Prometokrati: mellan diktatur och demokrati, 1. uppl., Lund, Studentlitteratur, 2010Compulsory* (Selections. Available at the Student Portal)

Articles will be added

EnGendering International Development

The course readings comprise of a number of scientific articles and book-chapters.

Environmental Politics and Its Challenges

The course readings comprise of a number of scientific articles.

The Political System of the European Union

• 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: na, 3e., New York, Oxford University Press, 2020Compulsory*

Articles will be added

Policy Analysis and Public administration

• Jacobsson, Bengt; Pierre, Jon; Sundström, Göran, Governing the embedded state: the organizational dimension of governance, 1. ed., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015Compulsory*
• Knill, Christoph; Tosun, Jale, Public policy: a new introduction, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012Compulsory*
• Wollmann, Hellmut; Kuhlmann, Sabine, Introduction to comparative public administration: administrative systems and reform in Europe, Second edition., Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar Publishing, [2019]Compulsory*

Articles and course reader will be added

Gender and Politics i Comparative Perspective

• Butler, Judith; Weed, Elizabeth, The question of gender: Joan W. Scott's critical feminism, Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 2011Compulsory* (Butler, Judith (2011) "Speaking up, talking back: Joan Scott's critical feminism")
• Phillips, Anne., Feminism and politics, New York, Oxford University Press, 1998Compulsory*
• Beneria, Lourdes; Berik, Günseli.; Floro, Maria., Gender, development and globalization: economics as if all people mattered, 2. ed., New York, Routledge, 2016Compulsory*
• Lister, Ruth, Gendering citizenship in Western Europe: new challenges for citizenship research in a cross-national context, Bristol, Policy, 2007Compulsory* (Introduction (p 1–16), chapter 1 (p 17–47), and Conclusion (p. 167–176).)
• Okin, Susan Moller, Is multiculturalism bad for women?, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, cop. 1999Compulsory* (Available as e-book Please read the following chapters: - "Introduction" (Cohen, Howard and Nussbaum) - "Is Multiculturalism bad for women?" (Okin) - "Liberal Complacencies" (Kymlicka) - "A Plea for Difficulty" (Nussbaum) - "Reply" (Okin))
• Phillips, Anne., The politics of presence, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1995Compulsory* (Please read chapters 1 and 3.)
• Scott, Joan Wallach., Parité!: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French UniversalismCompulsory* (Please read chapters 2 and 3.)

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

Comparative Politics

• Tarrow, Sidney G., Power in movement: social movements and contentious politics, Rev. & updated 3rd ed., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011Compulsory*
• Widmalm, Sten, Political tolerance in the global south: images of India, Pakistan and Uganda, London, Routledge, 2016Compulsory*
• Mounk, Yascha, The people vs. democracy: why our freedom is in danger and how to save it, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, [2018]Compulsory*

Articles and some comparative classics will be added

Political Theory

• Kymlicka, Will, Contemporary political philosophy: an introduction, 2. ed., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002 [dvs. 2001]Compulsory*

Articles will be added

Swedish politics

• Kronvall, Olof; Petersson, Magnus, Svensk säkerhetspolitik i supermakternas skugga 1945-1991, 2. [rev.] uppl., Stockholm, Santérus Academic Press Sweden, 2012Compulsory*
• Jansson, Jenny, Crafting the movement: identity entrepreneurs in the Swedish trade union movement, 1920-1940, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2020Compulsory* (Open access: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/75479)
• Teorell, Jan et al., 134 dagar: om regeringsbildningen efter valet 2018, Göteborg, Makadam, [2020]Compulsory* (Open access: https://view.publitas.com/riksbankens-jubileumsfond/134-dagar-om-regeringsbildningen-efter-valet-2018/page/1)

Articles may be added.

Methods

• Esaiasson, Peter et al., Metodpraktikan: konsten att studera samhälle, individ och marknad, Femte upplagan, Stockholm, Wolters Kluwer, 2017Compulsory*
• Beckman, Ludvig, Grundbok i idéanalys: det kritiska studiet av politiska texter och idéer, Stockholm, Santérus, 2005Compulsory*
• Teorell, Jan; Svensson, Torsten, Att fråga och att svara: samhällsvetenskaplig metod, 1. uppl., Stockholm, Liber, 2007Compulsory*

Articles and course material will be added

* Compulsory