Comparative politics

Comparative Politics: Institutions and Legacies, 15 ECTS

Same reading list as in the revised syllabus from 2009-05-07.

• 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
• Assignment preparation (In addition the students should choose from these articles in preparation for their assignment:Gottfried, Heidi and O'Reilly Jacqueline, 2002. 'Reregulating Breadwinner Models in Socially Conservative Welfare Systems: Comparing Germany and Japan', Social Politics, Spring 2002. (Germany and Japan)Jenson, Jane, 2008. 'Writing Women Out, Folding Gender In: The European Union 'Modernises' Social Policy', in Social Politics, Summer 2008. (EU)Kershaw, Paul, Pulkingham, Jane, and Fuller, Sylvia, 2008. 'Expanding the Subject: Violence, Care, and (In)Active Male Citizenship', in Social Politics, Summer 2008. (Men and care)Mayer, Victoria, 2008. 'Crafting a New Conservative Consensus on Welfare Reform: Redefining Citizenship, Social Provision and the Public/Private Divide', in Social Politics, Summer 2008. (USA)Peng, Ito, 2002. 'Social Care in Crisis: Gender, Demography, and Welfare State Restructuring in Japan', in Social Politics, Fall 2002. (Japan)Saxonberg, Steven & Szelewa, Dorota, 2007. 'The Continuing Legacy of the Communist Legacy? The development of family policies in Poland and the Czech Republic', in Social Politics, Fall 2007 (Poland and the Czech Republic)Von Wahl, Angelika, 2006. 'Gender Eauality in Germany: Comparing Policy Change across Domains' in West European Politics, Vol. 29, No. 3, 461–488. (Germany))
• Barrett, Scott, Why cooperate?: the incentive to supply global public goods, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007
• 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.)
• Bleijenberg, Inge; Roggeband, Conny, Equality Machineries Matter: The Impact of Women’s Political Pressure on European Social-Care Policies (in Social Politics, Winter 2007.)
• Bunce, Valerie; Wolchik, Sharon, Debating the Color Revolutions: Getting Real About the 'Real Causes', 2009 (in Journal of Democracy, Vol. 20, Number 1, pp. 69–73. (5 pages))
• Clemens, Elisabeth; Cook, James M., Politics and institutionalism: explaining durability and change, Ingår i: Annual review of sociology., vol. 25, 1999, s. 441–466 (Annual Review of Sociology, 25:441–466 (20 pp))
• Communist and Post-Communist Studies (Read ONE of the three following articles:Binnendijk, Anika Locke and Ivan Marovic (2007)" Power and persuasion: Nonviolent strategies to influence state security forces in Serbia (2000) and Ukraine (2004)" in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 39 (2006) 411–429. (19 pages)Kuzio, Taras (2006) 'Civil society, youth and societal mobilizations in democratic revolutions' in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 39, pp. 365–386. (22 pages) Theodor Tudoroiu, Theodor (2007) "Rose, Orange, and Tulip: The Failed Post-Soviet Revolutions" in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, pp 315–342. (28 pages))
• Darden, Keith; Gryzmala-Busse, Anna, The Great Divide. Literacy, Nationalism and the Communist Collapse (World Politics 2006, 59:1.)
• Easter, Gerald M, Personal Networks and Postrevolutionary State Building. Soviet Russia Reexamined (World Politics, vol 48, No 4.)
• 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, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006
• Gryzmala-Busse, Anna, Encouraging Effective Democratic Competition (East European Politics and Societies, 2007, 21: 91.)
• Hale, Henry, Regime Cycles. Democracy, Autocracy, and Revolution in Post-Soviet Eurasia (World Politics 58 (Oct 2005).)
• 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
• Hanson, Stephen E, The Uncertain Fututure of Russia,s Weak State Authoritarianism (East European Politics and Societies 2007:21,67.)
• Hay, Colin, : Structure, Agency and Historical Institutionalism, Ingår i: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom., 1998, s. 951–957
• Hedin, Astrid, Stalinism as a Civilization. New Perspectives on Communist Regimes, Ingår i: Political studies review, 2004, s. 166–184
• Kershaw, Paul, Carefair: Choice, Duty, and the Distribution of Care (in Social Politics, Fall 2006.)
• Kohli, Atul., State-directed development: political power and industrialization in the global periphery, Cambridge, UK ; a New York, Cambridge University Press, 2004
• 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.)
• 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, Politics in time: history, institutions, and social analysis, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, cop. 2004
• Schmidt, Vivien, Discursive Institutionalism: The Explanatory Power of Ideas and Discourse, 2008 (in Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 11, pp. 303–326. (24 pages))
• 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
• Stoner-Weiss, Kathryn, Resisting the state: reform and retrenchment in post-Soviet Russia, Cambridge ; New York, Cambridge University Press, cop. 2006
• 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
• Way, Lucan, The Real Causes of the Color Revolutions (in Journal of Democracy, July 2008, Volume 19, Number 3, pp. 55–69.)
• Widmalm, Sten, The Utility of Bonding Social Capital, 2005 (Journal of Civil Society. 1:1.)
• Widmalm, Sten, Western aid – more of hindrance than a help?, 2005 (Axess. Issue 9. URL: http://www.axess.se/english/2006/09/review_widmalm.php)