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

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Part II: Civil Society, Democratic Consolidation and Regime Change in Eastern Europe

• Howard, Marc Morjé, The weakness of civil society in post-communist Europe, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2003Obligatorisk*
• Bunce, Valerie; Wolchik, Sharon L., Defeating authoritarian leaders in postcommunist countries, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2011Obligatorisk*

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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*

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

• Ghonim, Wael, Revolution 2.0: the power of the people is greater than the people in power: a memoir, London, Harper Collins, 2012Obligatorisk*
• Brynen, Rex, Beyond the Arab spring: authoritarianism & democratization in the Arab world, Boulder, Colo., Lynne Rienner, 2012Obligatorisk*

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* Obligatorisk