1a: Jämförande politik: Institutioner och arv, 15 hp. Comparative Politics: Institutions and Legacies, 15ECTS

• Amenta, Edwin, What we know about the development of social policy, Ingår i: 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, Ingår i: Child care policy at the crossroads: gender and welfare state restructuring, New York, Routledge, 2002 (15 s.)
• Clemens, Elisabeth; Cook, James M., Politics and institutionalism: explaining durability and change, Ingår i: Annual review of sociology., vol. 25, 1999, s. 441–466
• Collins, Kathleen, The logic of clan politics: evidence from the Central Asian, Ingår i: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, 2004
• Eckstein, Harry, A culturalist theory of political change., Ingår i: The American political science review, 1988, s. 789–804
• Eckstein, Harry, Unfinished business. Reflections on the scope of comaparative politics., Ingår i: Comparative political studies: a quarterly journal., s. 505–534 (Ej obligatoriskt. Not required. 30 s.)
• 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., Ingår i: Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003 (32 sid.)
• Hall, Peter, Political science and the three institutionalisms., Ingår i: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom., 1996, s. 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, Ingår i: Political science: the state of the discipline, Ny uppl., New York, Norton, 2002 (Ej obligatoriskt. Not required. 30 s.)
• Mahoney, Comparative historical analysis: achievements and agendas., Ingår i: Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003 (24 s.)
• Mahoney, Knowledge accumulation in comaparative historical research: the case of democracy and authoritarianism., Ingår i: Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003 (37 s.)
• Mahoney, Path dependence in historical sociology., Ingår i: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory., 2000, s. 507–548
• Mahoney, Strategies of causal assessment in comparative historical analysis., Ingår i: Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003 (31 s.)
• Mahon, Rianne, Gender and welfare sate restructuring: throough the lens of the child care, Ingår i: Child care policy at the crossroads: gender and welfare state restructuring., New York, Routledge, 2002 (20 s.)
• March, James, The new institutionallism: organizational factors in political life., Ingår i: The American political science review, 1984, s. 734–749
• Mazur, Amy, Feminist comparative policy: a new field of study., Ingår i: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research. (23 s.)
• Pierson, Paul, Big, slow-moving ... and invisible, Ingår i: Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003
• Pierson, Paul, Historical institutionalism in contemporary political science, Ingår i: Political science: the state of the discipline, Ny uppl., New York, Norton, 2002 (Ej obligatoriskt. Not required. 29 s.)
• 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?, Ingår i: Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003 (29 s.)
• Sewell, William, Three temporalirties: toward an eventful sociology, Ingår i: The historic turn in the human sciences, Ann Arbor, Univ. of Michigan Press, 1996, s. 245–280
• Skocpol, Theda, Doubly engaged social scence: the promise of comparative historical analysis., Ingår i: 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, Ingår i: American sociological review: official journal of the American Sociological Association., 1986, s. 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, Ingår i: Problems of post-communism., 2005, s. 12–22 (Finns i institutionen.)
• Weingast, Barry, Rational-choice institutionalism, Ingår i: Political science: the state of the discipline, Ny uppl., New York, Norton, 2002 (32 s.)

1b: Politsk teori, 15 hp. Political Theory 15 ECTS

• Apel, Karl-Otto, Etik och kommunikation, Göteborg, Daidalos, 1994 (utdrag ca 30 sid.)
• Democracy., Malden, MA, Blackwell Publishers, 2002 (utdrag ca 120 sid.)
• Engagemang, mångfald och integration: om möjligheter och hinder för politisk jämlikhet: rapport från Integrationspolitiska maktutredningen, Stockholm, Fritzes offentliga publikationer, 2004
• Gadamer, Hans-Georg, Sanning och metod: i urval, Daidalos, 1997 (ca. 70 s.)
• Gaus, Gerald F., Contemporary theories of liberalism., London, SAGE, 2003
• Hobbes, Thomas d 1588-1679; Curley, Edwin M., Leviathan: with selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668, Hackett Publishing Co., 1994 (utdrag ca 100 sid.)
• Lundström, Mats, Engagemang och opartiskhet, Ingår i: Engagemang, mångfald och integration: om möjligheter och hinder för politisk jämlikhet: rapport från Integrationspolitiska maktutredningen, Stockholm, Fritzes offentliga publikationer, 2004
• Lundström, Mats, Tre demokratibegrepp i svensk statskunskap, Ingår i: Demokratins konstitutionella val, Stockholm, City Univ. press, 2001
• MacIntyre, Alasdair C., Whose justice? Which rationality?, Notre Dame, Ind., Univ. of Notre Dame Press, cop. 1988 (kapiteln 18 och 19, 40 sidor.)
• Pateman, Carole, The problem of political obligation: a critique of liberal theory, Cambridge, Polity in association with Blackwell, 1985, cop. 1979
• Plamenatz, John, Introduction, Ingår i: Man and society: political and social theories from Machiavelli to Marx. n Vol. 1, p From the Middle Ages to Locke, London, Longman, 1992
• Platon, Skrifter. Bok 3: Staten, Atlantis, 2003 (100 s.)
• Rationality and institutions: essays in honour of Knut Midgaard on the occasion of his 60th birthday, February 11, 1991, Oslo, Universitetsforlaget, 1992 (23 sid.)
• Rorty, Richard, Kontingens, ironi och solidaritet, Studentlitteratur, 1997 (ca. 20 sid.)
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Kulturen och människan: två avhandlingar, Daidalos, 1992 (ca 70 sid.)
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Om samhällsfördraget eller Statsrättens grunder, Stockholm, Natur och kultur, cop. 1994 (bok 2 och 3; ca 30 sid.)
• Scanlon, Thomas M, Contractualism and utilitarianism, Ingår i: Utilitarianism and beyond, Cambridge U.P., 1982
• Skinner, Quentin, Seeing things their way, Ingår i: Visions of politics.: Vol. 3, Hobbes and civil science, Cambridge University Press, 2002
• Skinner, Quetin, Meaning and understanding in the history of ideas, Ingår i: Visions of politics.: Vol. 3, Hobbes and civil science, Cambridge University Press, 2002 (40 sid.)
• Tralau, Johan, Leviathan, beast of myth, and the riddle of Hobbes, Ingår i: Cambridge Critical Companion to Leviathan, Fulltext, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007 (22 sid.)
• Åsard, Erik, Quenton Skinner and his critics., Ingår i: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift., 1987

1c: Förvaltningspolitik och studiet av staten, 15 hp. Governnance and the state, 15 ECTS.

• Evans, Peter B.; Rueschemeyer, Dietrich; Skocpol, Theda, Bringing the state back in., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985
• Fukuyama, Francis, State-building: governance and world order in the twenty-first century, London, Profile, 2004
• Hill, Michael J., The public policy process, 4. ed., Harlow, Pearson Longman, 2005
• Lipsky, Michael, Street-level bureaucracy: dilemmas of the individual in public services, New York, Russell Sage Foundation, cop. 1980
• Multi-level governance, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004
• Pierre, Jon; Peters, B. Guy, Governance, politics and the state., Basingstoke, Macmillan ; New York, 2000
• Poggi, Gianfranco, The state: its nature, development and prospects, Oxford, Polity, 1990
• Self, Peter, Government by the market?: the politics of public choice., Boulder, Colo., Westview Press, 1993
• Skocpol, Theda, States and social revolutions: a comparative analysis of France, Russia, and China, Cambridge, Cambridge U.P., 1979

1d: Internationell politik, 15 hp. International Politics, 15 ECTS.

• Barnett, Michael N., Rules for the world: international organizations in global politics, Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 2004
• Buzan, Barry, The United States and the great powers: world politics in the twenty-first century., Cambridge, Polity, 2004
• Frost, Mervyn, Ethics in international relations: a constitutive theory, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996
• McSweeney, Bill, Security, identity and interests: a sociology of international relations, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999
• Tickner, J. Ann, Gendering world politics: issues and approaches in the post-Cold War era., New York, Columbia University Press, 2001
• Williams, Michael C. (Michael Charles), The realist tradition and the limits of international relations., Cambridge ; New York, Cambridge University Press, 2005

1e: Politisk ekonomi och välfärdspolitik

• Blyth, Mark, Great transformations: economic ideas and institutional change in the twentieth century., New York, Cambridge University Press, 2002
• Esping-Andersen, Gøsta, The three worlds of welfare capitalism, Cambridge, Polity, 1990
• Ferrera, Maurizio, The boundaries of welfare: European integration and the new spatial politics of social protection, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005
• Pontusson, Jonas, Inequality and prosperity: social Europe vs. liberal America, Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 2005

1f: Jämförande författningspolitik

• Algotsson, Karl-Göran, From majoritarian democracy to vertica separation of power., Ingår i: Scandinavian political studies, s. 51–65.
• Balinski, Michel L.; Young, H. Peyton, Fair representation :meeting the ideal of one man, one vote, New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, cop. 1982
• Christiano, Thomas, An Argument for Democratic Equality, Ingår i: Philosophy and democracy :an anthology, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003, s. 39–68
• Colomer, Joseph M.; Negretto, Gabriel L., Can Presidentialism Work Like Parliamentarism?: Government and Opposition 40:1, 2005
• Cook, B, Principal-Agent Models of Political Control of the Bureaucracy: American Political Science Review 83, 965-978, 1989
• Davidsson, Lars, I linje med partiet?: maktspel och lojalitet i den svenska riksdagen, 1. uppl., Stockholm, SNS förlag, 2006
• Dunleavy, Patrick; Margetts, Helen, Understanding the Dynamics of Electoral Reform: International Political Science Review 16, 1995
• Dworkin, Ronald, The Majoritarian Premise and Constitutionalism, Ingår i: Philosophy and democracy :an anthology, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003, s. 241–258
• Dworkin, Ronald, What Is Equality? Part 4: Political Equality, Ingår i: Philosophy and democracy :an anthology, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003, s. 116–137
• Filippov, Mikhail; Ordeshook, Peter C.; Shvetsova, Olga (Olga Vitalievna), Designing federalism: a theory of self-sustainable federal institutions., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
• Gustavsson, Sverker, Författningsomvandling, Ingår i: Konsten att hävda en uppfattning: en vänbok till Sverker Gustavsson, Stockholm, Santérus, 2007, s. 159–171
• Hermansson, Jörgen, Med Irland som förebild: anmälan av Claus stolpes avhandling Metoder vid presidentval. En utvärdering, Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift 101:1
• Holmström, Barry, Domstolar och demokrati: den tredje statsmaktens politiska roll i England, Frankrike och Tyskland = [Courts and democracy]: [the political role of the judiciary in England, France and Germany]., Uppsala, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1998 (Bokens sista avsnitt.)
• Kelsen, Hans, Den rena rättsläran – dess metod och grundbegrepp: Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift 1933, 193-244
• Sartori, Giovanni, Comparative constitutional engineering: an inquiry into structures, incentives and outcomes, 2. ed., Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1996
• Schmitt, Carl, Political theology :four chapters on the concept of sovereignty, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, cop. 1985 (De två första kapitlen ska läsas.)
• Shugart, Matthew, Electoral Efficiency and the Move to Mixed-Member Systems: Electoral Studies 20, 2001
• Strom, Kaare, Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies: European Journal of Political Researsh 37, 2000
• Waldron, Jeremy, The Constitutional Conception of Democracy, Ingår i: Democracy., Malden, MA, Blackwell Publishers, 2002, s. 51–83

1g: Jämförande europeisk politik 7,5 hp /Comparative European Politics 7,5 ECTS

• Berman, Sheri, The primacy of politics: social democracy and the making of Europe's twentieth century, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006
• Grzymala-Busse, Anna Maria, Rebuilding Leviathan: party competition and state exploitation in post-communist democracies, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007
• Lijphart, Arend, Patterns of democracy: government forms and performance in thirty-six countries., New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1999

1h: Europeiskt samgående 15 hp / European Integration 15 ECTS

• Bartolini, Stefano, Restructuring Europe: centre formation, system building and political structuring between the nation-state and the European Union, Oxford, Oxford University Press., 2005
• Moravcsik, Andrew, The choice for Europe: social purpose and state power from Messina to Maastricht., Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press
• Scharpf, Fritz W., Governing in Europe: effective and democratic?, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999

Politisk sociologi och kulturanalys 15 hp

• Adman, Per; Strömblad, Per, Utanför demokratin.: D. 3 Resurser för politisk integration, Norrköping, Integrationsverket, 2000
• Almond, Gabriel A., A discipline divided: schools and sects in political science, Newbury Park, Sage, 1990 (Sage, ch. 5 (The Study of Political Culture).)
• Barrling Hermansson, Katarina, Partikulturer: kollektiva självbilder och normer i Sveriges riksdag., Uppsala, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2004
• Brown, Wendy, Regulating aversion: tolerance in the age of identity and empire, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 2006
• Chabal, Patrick; Daloz, Jean-Pascal, Culture troubles :politics and the interpretation of meaning, London, Hurst, cop. 2006
• Coleman, James S., Foundations of social theory, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard Univ. Press, 1990 (Ch. 12 (social capital).)
• Demokrati och medborgarskap, 1. uppl., Stockholm, SNS (Studieförb. Näringsliv och samhäl, 1998 (Kapitel 2–5: "Att påverka sin situation", "Att påverka samhället", "Tre-tredjedelssamhället?" och "Makten över dagordningen", s. 25–108.)
• Dryzek, John S., Post-communist democratization: political discourses across thirteen countries, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002
• Foucault, Michel; Gröndahl, Britta; Johansson, Per Magnus, Sexualitetens historia. Bd 1, Viljan att veta., [Ny utg.]/ bearbetad och fackgranskad av Per Magnus Johansson ; förord: Per Magnus Johansson, Göteborg, Daidalos, 2002 (Det går även bra att läsa den engelska versionen:Foucault , Michel : The history of sexuality Vol. 1, The will to knowledgeHarmondsworth : Penguin, 1990 - 168 s.ISBN: 0–14-026868–5Libris: 2812558)
• Gibson, James, Social networks, civil society, and the prospects for consolidating Russia's democratic transition., Ingår i: American journal of political science: quarterly journal of the Midwest Political Science Association., s. 51–68
• Granovetter, Mark, The strength of weak ties., Ingår i: American journal of sociology.., s. 1360–1380
• Hedin, Astrid, The politics of social networks: interpersonal trust and institutional change in post-communist East Germany, Lund, Dept. of Political Science [Statsvetenskapliga institutionen], 2001 (Kap. 3, 4, 6, 7.)
• Inglehart, Ronald; Welzel, Christian, Modernization, cultural change, and democracy: the human development sequence, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2005
• Isaac, Jeffrey C., Power and Marxist theory: a realist view, London, Cornell University Press, 1987
• La Due Lake, Ronald; Robert Huckfeldt, Social capital, social networks and political participation., Ingår i: Political psychology: journal of the International society of political psychology, s. 567–584
• Laraña, Enrique; Johnston, Hank; Gusfield, Joseph R, New social movements: from ideology to identity, Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1994 (S. 3–57; 101–133; 185–208.)
• Measures of political attitudes, San Diego, Calif., Academic Press, Press, c cop. 1999 (Brady, Henry E. 1999. "Political Participation", s. 737–801.)
• Morris, Aldon D.; Mueller, Carol McClurg, Frontiers in social movement theory, New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1992 (pp. 133–155.)
• Nagel, Jack H., Participation, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall ; a London : b Prentice-Hall International, c1987 (Kap. 3.)
• Pampel, Fred C., Sociological lives and ideas: an introduction to the classical theorists, New York, N.Y., Worth, cop. 2000 (ch 1 (Karl Marx), ch 3 (Max Weber).)
• Passionate politics: emotions and social movements, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2001
• Putnam, Robert D., Den ensamme bowlaren: den amerikanska medborgarandans upplösning och förnyelse, 1. uppl., Stockholm, SNS förl., 2001 (S. 14–66.)
• Rice, Tom W; Feldman, Civic culture and democracy from Europe to America., Ingår i: The journal of politics, 1997, s. 1143–1172
• Saxonberg, Steven, The Czech Republic before the new millennium: politics, parties and gender, Boulder ; a New York, East European monographs ; b Colombia University Press, 2003 (Kap. 5.)
• Saxonberg, Steven, The fall: a comparative study of the end of communism in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Poland, Amsterdam, Harwood Academic, cop. 2001 (Kap. 2, 8, 10.)
• Teorell, Jan, Demokrati och deltagande: Tre ideal i teorin och praktiken, Ingår i: Demokratins mekanismer., 1. uppl., Malmö, Liber, 2003
• The second generation of democratic elites in Central and Eastern Europe, Warsaw, IPS, 2000 (Aareleid-Tart, Aili "Political Generations in Estonia: A Historical Background to the Formation of the Contemporary Political Scene".)
• Verba, Sidney; Nie, Norman H.; Kim, Jae-On, Participation and political equality: a seven-nation comparison, Cambridge, Cambridge U.P., 1978 (Kapitel 1: "Introduction", s. 1–22.)
• Verba, Sidney, Voice and equality: civic voluntarism in American politics, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, cop. 1995 (Kap. 9, 269–287.)
• Weber, Max, Max Weber: selections from his work, New York, Crowell, 1963 (S. 59–82.)