Comparative Politics: Modernisation in comparative perspective, 15 ECTS

Part I: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Perspectives on Development

• Kohli, Atul., State-directed development: political power and industrialization in the global periphery, Cambridge, UK ; a New York, Cambridge University Press, 2004Obligatorisk*
• 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, New York, Penguin Press, 2006Obligatorisk*
• Widmalm, Sten, Western aid – more of hindrance than a help?, 2005Obligatorisk* (Axess. Issue 9. URL: http://www.axess.se/english/2006/09/review_widmalm.php)
• Lipset, S M, Some Social Requisites of Democracy - Economic Development and Political Legitimacy, The American Political Science Review, 1959Obligatorisk*

This part consists of one lecture and one seminar. Examination form: written exam.

Part II: State and Nation-building in Post-Communist Europe

• Howard, Marc Morjé, The weakness of civil society in post-communist Europe, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2003Obligatorisk*

Articles may be added later.

This part consists of one lecture and one seminar. Examination form: Written exam.

Part III: Decentralisation, Corruption and Social Capital - Determinants for Modernisation

• Rose-Ackerman, Susan, Corruption and government: causes, consequences, and reform, Cambridge University Press, 1999Obligatorisk* (Preface and chapters 1, 2, 6, 10,11)
• Widmalm, Sten, Decentralisation, Corruption and Social Capital: From India to the West, Sage Publications, 2008Obligatorisk*

This part consists of one lecture, one seminar, and the showing of one film. Examination form: written exam.

Part IV: The role of political mobilisation in a modern world

• Luders, Joseph E., The civil rights movement and the logic of social change, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2010Obligatorisk*
• Baumgartner, Frank R., Lobbying and policy change: who wins, who loses, and why, Chicago, [Ill.], University of Chicago Press, 2009Obligatorisk*
• Andrews, Kenneth, Social movements and policy implementation: The Mississippi civil rights movement and the War on Poverty, 1965-1971, American Sociological Review, 2001Obligatorisk*
• Amenta, Edwin; Caren, Neal; Olasky, Sheera Joy, Age for Leisure? Political Mediation and the Impact of the Pension Movement on US Old-Age Policy, American Sociological Review, 2005Obligatorisk*
• Dür, Andreas, Interest Groups in the European Union: How Powerful Are They?, West European Politics, 2008Obligatorisk*
• Klüver, Heike, Lobbying in the European Union: The power of information, General Conference of the European Consortium of Political Science, 2009Obligatorisk* (Paper presented at the 5th General Conference of the European Consortium of Political Science, Potsdam, 10–12 September 2009 [an example of on-going research])
• Soule, Sarah A; King, Brayden G, The Stages of the Policy Process and the Equal Rights Amendment, 1972-1982, American Journal of Sociology, 2006Obligatorisk* (American Journal of Sociology 111(6): 1871–1909.)
• Uba, Katrin, The contextual dependence of Movements Outcomes: A Simplified Meta-Analysis, Mobilization, 2009Obligatorisk* (Mobilization, 14(12):433–448)

This part consists of two (!) lectures and one seminar. Examination form: Written exam.

Part: V: The "Arab Spring" - Late modernisation, or something else?

Readings: Articles (to be announced).

This part consists of one lecture and one seminar. Examination form: Final exam.

* Obligatorisk