Main group 1

• Amenta, Edwin, What we know about the development of social policy, Part of: Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003
• Assignment preparation
• Barrett, Scott, Why cooperate?: the incentive to supply global public goods, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007
• Bergqvist, Christina, Welfare state restructuring and child care in Sweden, Part of: Child care policy at the crossroads: gender and welfare state restructuring, New York, Routledge, 2002
• Bleijenberg, Inge; Roggeband, Conny, Equality Machineries Matter: The Impact of Women’s Political Pressure on European Social-Care Policies
• Bunce, Valerie; Wolchik, Sharon, Debating the Color Revolutions: Getting Real About the 'Real Causes', 2009
• Clemens, Elisabeth; Cook, James M., Politics and institutionalism: explaining durability and change, Part of: Annual review of sociology., vol. 25, 1999, p. 441–466
• Communist and Post-Communist Studies
• Darden, Keith; Gryzmala-Busse, Anna, The Great Divide. Literacy, Nationalism and the Communist Collapse
• Easter, Gerald M, Personal Networks and Postrevolutionary State Building. Soviet Russia Reexamined
• 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, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006
• Gryzmala-Busse, Anna, Encouraging Effective Democratic Competition
• Hale, Henry, Regime Cycles. Democracy, Autocracy, and Revolution in Post-Soviet Eurasia
• Hall, Peter, Political science and the three institutionalisms., Part of: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom., 1996, p. 936–957
• Hanson, Stephen E, The Uncertain Fututure of Russia,s Weak State Authoritarianism
• Hay, Colin, : Structure, Agency and Historical Institutionalism, Part of: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom., 1998, p. 951–957
• Hedin, Astrid, Stalinism as a Civilization. New Perspectives on Communist Regimes, Part of: Political studies review, 2004, p. 166–184
• Kershaw, Paul, Carefair: Choice, Duty, and the Distribution of Care
• Kohli, Atul., State-directed development: political power and industrialization in the global periphery, Cambridge, UK ; a New York, Cambridge University Press, 2004
• Mahon, Rianne, Gender and welfare sate restructuring: throough the lens of the child care, Part of: Child care policy at the crossroads: gender and welfare state restructuring., New York, Routledge, 2002
• Mazur, Amy, Feminist comparative policy: a new field of study., Part of: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research.
• Pierson, Paul, Politics in time: history, institutions, and social analysis, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, cop. 2004
• Schmidt, Vivien, Discursive Institutionalism: The Explanatory Power of Ideas and Discourse, 2008
• Skocpol, Theda, Doubly engaged social scence: the promise of comparative historical analysis., Part of: Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
• Stoner-Weiss, Kathryn, Resisting the state: reform and retrenchment in post-Soviet Russia, Cambridge ; New York, Cambridge University Press, cop. 2006
• Sörensen, Kerstin; Bergqvist, Christina, Gender and the social democratic welfare regime: a comparison of gender-equality friendly policies in Sweden and Norway, Stockholm, National Institute for Working Life (Arbetslivsinstitutet), cop. 2002
• Way, Lucan, The Real Causes of the Color Revolutions
• Widmalm, Sten, The Utility of Bonding Social Capital, 2005
• Widmalm, Sten, Western aid – more of hindrance than a help?, 2005

Main group 2

• Apel, Karl Otto, Transformation der Philosophie, Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp, 1990
• Articles
• Finnis, John, Natural law and natural rights, Oxford, Clarendon P., 1980
• Gadamer, Hans-Georg, Wahrheit und Methode, 6. Aufl. durchgesehen, Tübingen, Mohr, 1990
• Gaus, Gerald F., Contemporary theories of liberalism., London, SAGE, 2003
• MacIntyre, Alasdair C., Whose justice? Which rationality?, Notre Dame, Ind., Univ. of Notre Dame Press, cop. 1988
• Platon, Gorgias, Stockholm, Atlantis
• Rawls, John, Political liberalism, Expanded ed., New York, Columbia University Press, c2005
• Rorty, Richard, Contingency, Irony, Solidarity, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1989
• Scanlon, Thomas M, Contractualism and utilitarianism, Part of: Utilitarianism and beyond, Cambridge U.P., 1982
• Skinner, Quetin, Meaning and understanding in the history of ideas, Part of: Visions of politics.: Vol. 3, Hobbes and civil science, Cambridge University Press, 2002
• Strauss, Leo, "Persecution and the Art of Writing": in "Persecution and the Art of Writing"., 1988 (1952), Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1988

Main group 3

• Articles
• Bartolini, Stefano, Restructuring Europe: centre formation, system building and political structuring between the nation-state and the European Union, Oxford, Oxford University Press., 2005
• Fukuyama, Francis, State-building: governance and world order in the twenty-first century, London, Profile, 2004
• Lipsky, Michael, Street-level bureaucracy: dilemmas of the individual in public services, New York, Russell Sage Foundation, cop. 1980
• Pierre, Jon; Peters, B. Guy, Governance, politics and the state., Basingstoke, Macmillan ; New York, 2000

Main group 4

• Fierke, K. M., Critical approaches to international security, Cambridge, Polity, 2007
• Hurrell, Andrew, On global order: power, values, and the constitution of international society, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007
• Katzenstein, Peter J., A world of regions: Asia and Europe in the American imperium, Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 2005
• McSweeney, Bill, Security, identity and interests: a sociology of international relations, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999
• Schimmelfennig, Frank, The EU, NATO and the integration of Europe: rules and rhetoric, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003
• Tickner, J. Ann, Gendering world politics: issues and approaches in the post-Cold War era., New York, Columbia University Press, 2001

Main group 5

• Articles
• Blair, Harry, Participation and accountability at the periphery: democratic local governance in six countries., Part of: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development., p. 21–39
• Crook, Richard C.; Manor, James, Democracy and decentralisation in South Asia and West Africa: participation, accountability and performance, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998
• Gruber, Judith E., Controlling bureaucracies: dilemmas in democratic governance, Berkeley : University of California Press, cop. 1987
• Peters, B. Guy; Pierre, Jon, Handbook of public administration., London, SAGE
• Jordana, Jacint; Levi-Faur, David., The politics of regulation: institutions and regulatory reforms for the age of governance, Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar Pub., 2004
• Majone, Giandomenico, From the Positive to the Regulatory State: Causes and Consequences of Changes in the Mode of Governance, 1997
• Pierre, Jon; Peters, B. Guy, Governance, politics and the state., Basingstoke, Macmillan ; New York, 2000
• Poggi, Gianfranco, The state: its nature, development and prospects, Oxford, Polity, 1990
• Pollitt, Christopher; Bouckaert, Geert, Public management reform: a comparative analysis, 2. ed., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004
• Risk in social science, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006
• Rose-Ackerman, Susan., From elections to democracy: building accountable government in Hungary and Poland, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006
• Rose-Ackerman, Susan, Corruption and government: causes, consequences, and reform, Cambridge University Press, 1999
• Tendler, Judith, Good government in the tropics, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997
• Widmalm, Sten, Decentralisation, Corruption and Social Capital: From India to the West, Sage Publications, 2008

Main group 6

• Articles

Main group 7

• Artiklar
• Gustavsson, Sverker; Karlsson, Christer; Persson, Thomas., The illusion of accountability in the European Union, London, Routledge, 2009
• Hix, Simon, What's wrong with the European Union and how to fix it, Cambridge, Polity, 2008
• Majone, Giandomenico, Dilemmas of European integration: the ambiguities and pitfalls of integration by stealth, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005

Main group 8

• Articles

Main group 9

• Articles

Main group 10

• Berman, Sheri, The primacy of politics: social democracy and the making of Europe's twentieth century, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006
• Grzymala-Busse, Anna Maria, Rebuilding Leviathan: party competition and state exploitation in post-communist democracies, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007
• Lijphart, Arend, Patterns of democracy: government forms and performance in thirty-six countries., New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1999

Main group 11

• Articles
• Bellamy, Richard, Political constitutionalism: a republican defence of the constitutionality of democracyc Richard Bellamy, 1. publ., Cambridge [u.a.]b Cambridge Univ. Pressc 2007, Cambridge Univ. Pressc 2007, 2007
• Dahl, Robert A., How democratic is the American Constitution?, 2nd ed., New Haven, Conn. ;a London, Yale Nota Bene, 2003
• Dworkin, Ronald, Sovereign virtue: the theory and practice of equality, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard Univ. Press, 2000
• En reformerad grundlag (SOU 2008:125)
• Hayek, Friedrich August vond 1899-1992, Frihetens grundvalar, Stockholm, Ratio, 1983
• Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Om lagarnas anda eller det förhållande som bör råda mellan lagarna och respektive styrelses författning, seder, klimat, religion, handel etc: vartill författaren fogat nya forskningar över de romerska successionslagarna, de franska lagarna och feodallagarna, Stockholm, Ratio, 1990
• Sunstein, Cass R., Designing democracy: what constitutions do., New York ; Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001
• Waldron, Jeremy, Law and disagreement., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001

Main group 12

• Bonnett, Alastair, How to Argue: Essential skills for writing and speaking convincingly, Andra, Pearson, 2008

Main group 13

• Bäck, Hanna; Dumont, Patrick, Combining Large-n and Small-n Strategies: The Way Forward in Coalition Research, 2007
• Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003
• Connolly, William E., The terms of political discourse, 3. rev. ed., Oxford, Blackwell ; a Princeton, 1993
• George, Alexander L., Case studies and theory development in the social sciences, Cambridge, Mass., MIT, 2005
• Gerring, John, Social science methodology: a criterial framework, Cambridge ;a New York, Cambridge University Press, 2001
• Guzzini, Stefano, The concept of power: a constructivist analysis, 2005
• Hacking, Ian, The social construction of what?, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard Univ. Press, 1999
• Kellstedt, Paul M., The fundamentals of political science research, Cambridge ;a New York, Cambridge University Press, 2009
• King, Gary; Keohane, Robert O.; Verba, Sidney, Designing social inquiry: scientific inference in qualitative research., Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press
• McKeown, Timothy, Case Studies and the Statistical Worldview: Review of King,Keohane and Verbas Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Interference in Qualitative Research, 1999
• Moses, Jonathon W., Ways of knowing: competing methodologies in social and political research, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
• Oskarsson, Sven et al., How to Use SPSS: A Brief Guide to a Statistical Software., Uppsala, Department of Government, Uppsala University, 2007
• Pampel, Fred C., Logistic regression: a primer, Thousand Oaks, Calif., SAGE, 2000
• Sartori, Giovanni, Concept Misformation i Comparative Politics, 1970
• Social mechanisms: an analytical approach to social theory, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998
• Teorell, Jan, Methods combined: an overview of the argument., Unpublished manuscript, Department of Government, Uppsala University., 2001
• Winther Jørgensen, Marianne, Discourse analysis as theory and method, London, Sage, 2002