Comparative Politics
15 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 2SK902
A revised version of the reading list is available.
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
- Bennich-Björkman, Li; 14-19, Tracing the roots of post-communist elite's: the cases of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Granada, Spain, 2005, April
- 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
- Clemens, Elisabeth; Cook, James M., Politics and institutionalism: explaining durability and change, Part of: Annual review of sociology., vol. 25, 1999, p. 441–466
- Collins, Kathleen, The logic of clan politics: evidence from the Central Asian, Part of: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, 2004
- Eckstein, Harry, A culturalist theory of political change., Part of: The American political science review, 1988, p. 789–804
- Eckstein, Harry, Unfinished business. Reflections on the scope of comaparative politics., Part of: Comparative political studies: a quarterly journal., p. 505–534
- Grzymala-Busse, Anna Maria, Redeeming the communist past: the regeneration of communist parties in East Central Europe., Cambrdige, Cambridge University Press, 2002
- Hall, Aligning ontology and methodology in comparative politics., Part of: Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003
- 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
- Kohli, Atul., State-directed development: political power and industrialization in the global periphery, Cambridge, UK ; a New York, Cambridge University Press, 2004
- Laitin, David, Comparative politics: The state of the dicipline, Part of: Political science: the state of the discipline, Ny uppl., New York, Norton, 2002
- Mahoney, Comparative historical analysis: achievements and agendas., Part of: Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003
- Mahoney, Knowledge accumulation in comaparative historical research: the case of democracy and authoritarianism., Part of: Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003
- Mahoney, Path dependence in historical sociology., Part of: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory., 2000, p. 507–548
- Mahoney, Strategies of causal assessment in comparative historical analysis., Part of: Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003
- 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
- March, James, The new institutionallism: organizational factors in political life., Part of: The American political science review, 1984, p. 734–749
- 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, Big, slow-moving ... and invisible, Part of: Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003
- Pierson, Paul, Historical institutionalism in contemporary political science, Part of: Political science: the state of the discipline, Ny uppl., New York, Norton, 2002
- Pierson, Paul, Politics in time: history, institutions, and social analysis, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, cop. 2004
- Rueschmeyer, Can one or a few cases yield theoretical gains?, Part of: Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003
- Sewell, William, Three temporalirties: toward an eventful sociology, Part of: The historic turn in the human sciences, Ann Arbor, Univ. of Michigan Press, 1996, p. 245–280
- 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
- State feminism and political representation, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005
- Swidler, Ann, Culture in action: symbols and strategies, Part of: American sociological review: official journal of the American Sociological Association., 1986, p. 273–286
- 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
- van Post, Hans, Political culture and neo-patrimonialism under Leonid Kuchman, Part of: Problems of post-communism., 2005, p. 12–22
- Weingast, Barry, Rational-choice institutionalism, Part of: Political science: the state of the discipline, Ny uppl., New York, Norton, 2002
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