Comparative Politics

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