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*
• 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*
• Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther, Poor economics: a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty, 1. ed., New York, Public Affairs, c2011Obligatorisk*

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.

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

• Widmalm, Sten, Decentralisation, Corruption and Social Capital: From India to the West, Sage Publications, 2008Obligatorisk*
• Rothstein, Bo, The quality of government: corruption, social trust, and inequality in international perspective, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2011Obligatorisk*

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*
• From contention to democracy, Lanham, Md., Rowman & Littlefield, cop. 1998Obligatorisk*
• Uba, Katrin, The contextual dependence of Movements Outcomes: A Simplified Meta-Analysis, Mobilization, 2009Obligatorisk* (Mobilization, 14(12):433–448)

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

More articles will be announced when course begins.

• Ghonim, Wael, Revolution 2.0: the power of the people is greater than the people in power: a memoir, London, Harper Collins, 2012Obligatorisk*
• Howard, Philip N; Hussain, Muzammil M, The upheavals in Egypt and Tunisia: The role of digital media, Ingår i: Journal of democracy, vol. 22, nr. 3, 2011Obligatorisk*

* Obligatorisk