Methods

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* (Okin, Susan Moller (2009) "Gender, the public and the private" Crenshaw, Kimberle (2009) "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics" Mansbridge, Jane (2009) "Feminism and Democracy")
• 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; Cohen, Joshua, 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.)

The Political System of the European Union

• Bulmer, Simon; Lequesne, Christian, The member states of the European union: na, 3e., New York, Oxford University Press, 2020Compulsory*
• HIX, Simon; HØYLAND, Bjørn, The political system of the European Union, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022Compulsory*

Policy Analysis and Public Administration

• Hall, Patrik, Varför ökar den offentliga byråkratin i Sverige?, Kriterium/Malmö: Malmö university press, 2025, Varför ökar den offentliga byråkratin i Sverige?Compulsory*
• 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, Second edition, London, Red Globe Press, 2020Compulsory*
• Kuhlmann, Sabine; Wollmann, Hellmut; Reiter, Renate, Introduction to comparative public administration: administrative systems and reforms in Europe, Third edition, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing, [2025]Compulsory*

International Politics

• Reus-Smit, Christian; Snidal, Duncan, The Oxford handbook of international relations, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010Compulsory*
• Betts, Richard K., The Delusion of Impartial Intervention, Part of: Turbulent peace, Washington, D.C., United States Institute of Peace Press, 2001, p. xxxiv, 894 s.Compulsory*

Comparative Politics

• Contention in times of crisis: recession and political protest in thirty European countries, Cambridge University Press, 2020Compulsory*
• 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*

Political Theory

• Okin, Susan Moller; Cohen, Joshua, Is multiculturalism bad for women?, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, cop. 1999Compulsory*

Swedish politics

• 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)
• Kronvall, Olof; Petersson, Magnus, Svensk säkerhetspolitik i supermakternas skugga 1945-1991, 2. [rev.] uppl., Stockholm, Santérus Academic Press Sweden, 2012Compulsory*
• 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)
• Mattson, Ingvar, Sverige i NATO, Första upplagan, Stockholm, Dialogos, [2025]Compulsory*

Environmental Politics and Its Challenges

(En)gendering Development: historical genealogies/contemporary convergences

Thesis

* Compulsory