Main group 1

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, 2004Compulsory*
• Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther, Poor economics: a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty, 1. ed., New York, Public Affairs, c2011Compulsory*

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Part II: State Building and Regime Dynamics in Post-Communist Eurasia

• Engvall, Johan, The state as investment market: kyrgyzstan in comparative perspective., Pittsburgh, Univ of Pittsburgh Press, 2016Compulsory*

Articles will be added

Part III: Decentralization, Corruption and Social Capital - Determinants for Modernization

• Widmalm, Sten, Decentralisation, corruption and social capital: from India to the West, Thousand Oaks, SAGE Publications, 2008Compulsory*

Part IV: The role of political mobilization - the social and political change

• Bosi, Lorenzo; Giugni, Marco; Uba, Katrin, The consequences of social movements, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016Compulsory*

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Part V: Modern China

• Fewsmith, Joseph, The logic and limits of political reform in China, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013Compulsory*

Articles will be added

* Compulsory