Comparative Politics
15 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 2SK128
A revised version of the reading list is available.
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
Articles will be added
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
Articles will be added
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
Syllabus
- Syllabus valid from Spring 2024
- Syllabus valid from Spring 2023
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2021
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2020
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2019
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2018
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2017
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2016
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2015
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2014