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1. Introduction (Kristian Stokke)

@ Stokke, K. (2018). Democratization in the Global South: From democratic transitions to transformative democratic politics. Geography Compass, 12(12), 1-15. DOI: 10.1111/gec3.12412 (15 pages)

Recommended additional readings:

@ Grugel, J. (2003). Democratization studies: Citizenship, globalization and governance. Government and Opposition 38(2): 238-264.  (27 pages)

 

2. Transitions to formal democracy (Kristian Stokke)

@ Carothers, T. (2002). The end of the transition paradigm. Journal of Democracy 13(1): 5-21. (17 pages)

@ Fukuoka, Y. (2014). Debating Indonesia's Reformasi: Bridging "Parallel Universes". Journal of Contemporary Asia, 44(3), 540-552. DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2014.895026 (13 pages)

@ M?ller, J., & Skaaning, S.-E. (2013). The Third Wave: Inside the Numbers. Journal of Democracy, 24(4), 97-109. DOI: 10.1353/jod.2013.0057 (14 pages)

@ Schmitter, P. C. (2017). The Role of Elites in Democratization. Journal of Chinese Political Science, 23(1), 33-46. DOI: 10.1007/s11366-017-9494-7 (14 pages)

@ Slater, D., & Wong, J. (2013). The Strength to Concede: Ruling Parties and Democratization in Developmental Asia. Perspectives on Politics, 11(3), 717-733. DOI: 10.1017/S1537592713002090 (17 pages)

Stokke, K., & Soe Myint Aung. (forthcoming). Transition to democracy or hybrid regime? The dynamics and outcome of democratization in Myanmar. European Journal of Development Research. (12 pages) – manuscript available on Canvas

Recommended additional readings:

@ IDEA. (2017). The Global State of Democracy 2017: Exploring Democracy’s Resilience. Stockholm: Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance.

@ Schmitter, P. C. (2010). Twenty-Five Years, Fifteen Findings. Journal of Democracy, 21(1), 17-28. DOI: 10.1353/jod.0.0144

 

3. Democratic decline and authoritarian resurgence (Kristian Stokke)

@ Diamond, L. (2015). Facing Up to the Democratic Recession. Journal of Democracy, 26(1), 141-155. DOI: 10.1353/jod.2015.0009 (15 pages)

@ Grigera, J. (2017). Populism in Latin America: Old and new populisms in Argentina and Brazil. International Political Science Review, 38(4), 441-455. DOI: 10.1177/0192512117701510 (15 pages)

@ Hadiz, V. R. (2017). Competing populisms in post-authoritarian Indonesia. International Political Science Review, 38(4), 488–502. DOI: 10.1177/0192512117697475 (15 pages)

@ Haggard, S., & Kaufman, R. R. (2016). Democratization During the Third Wave. Annual Review of Political Science, 19, 125-144. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-polisci-042114-015137 (20 pages)

@ Levitsky, S. & Way, L. (2002). The rise of competitive authoritarianism. Journal of Democracy 13(2): 51-65. DOI: 10.1353/jod.2002.0026 (15 pages)

@ Schmitter, P. C. (2015). Crisis and Transition, But Not Decline. Journal of Democracy, 26(1), 32-44. DOI: 10.1353/jod.2015.0004 (13 pages)

Recommended additional readings:

@ Freedom House. (2019). Freedom in the World 2019: Democracy in Retreat. Washington D.C.: Freedom House.

@ The Economist (2018). Democracy Index 2018: Me too? Political participation, protest and democracy. London: The Economist Intelligence Unit.

 

4. International engagement in political change (Kristian Stokke)

@ B?rzel, T. A. (2015). The noble west and the dirty rest? Western democracy promoters and illiberal regional powers. Democratization, 22(3), 519-535. DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2014.1000312 (17 pages)

@ Carothers, T. (2009). Democracy Assistance: Political vs. Developmental. Journal of Democracy, 20(1), 5-19. (15 pages)

@ Chen, D., & Kinzelbach, K. (2015). Democracy promotion and China: blocker or bystander? Democratization, 22(3), 400-418. DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2014.999322 (19 pages)

@ Hackenesch, C. (2015). Not as bad as it seems: EU and US democracy promotion faces China in Africa. Democratization, 22(3), 419-437. DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2014.1002476 (19 pages)

@ M?ller, J., & Skaaning, S.-E. (2013). Regime Types and Democratic Sequencing. Journal of Democracy, 24(1), 142-155. DOI: 10.1353/jod.2013.0010 (14 pages)

@ ?ni?, Z. (2017). The Age of Anxiety: The Crisis of Liberal Democracy in a Post-Hegemonic Global Order. The International Spectator, 52(3), 18-35. DOI: 10.1080/03932729.2017.1325133 (18 pages)

Recommended additional readings:

@ Carothers, T., & Samet-Marram, O. (2015). The new global marketplace of political change. Washington D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

@ Acharya, A. (2017). Global Governance in a Multiplex World. Badia Fiesolana: European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.

 

5. Politics of liberal, illiberal and hybrid peace (Kristian Stokke)

@ Goodhand, J., & Walton, O. (2009). The Limits of Liberal Peacebuilding? International Engagement in the Sri Lankan Peace Process. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 3(3), 303-323. DOI: 10.1080/17502970903086693 (21 pages)

@ Lewis, D., Heathershaw, J., & Megoran, N. (2018). Illiberal peace? Authoritarian modes of conflict management. Cooperation and Conflict, 53(4), 486-506. DOI: 10.1177/0010836718765902 (21 pages)

@ Mac Ginty, R. (2010). Hybrid Peace: The Interaction Between Top-Down and Bottom-Up Peace. Security Dialogue, 41(4), 391-412. DOI: 10.1177/0967010610374312 (22 pages)

@ Mac Ginty, R. (2010). No war, no peace: Why so many peace processes fail to deliver peace. International Politics, 47(2), 145-162. DOI: 10.1057/ip.2010.4 (18 pages)

@ Smith, C. Q. (2014). Illiberal peace-building in hybrid political orders: managing violence during Indonesia’s contested political transition. Third World Quarterly, 35(8), 1509-1528. DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2014.946277 (20 pages)

Recommended additional readings:

@ H?glund, K., & Kovacs, M. S. (2010). Beyond the absence of war: the diversity of peace in post-settlement societies. Review of International Studies, 36(02). DOI: 10.1017/s0260210510000069

@ Stokke, K. (2012). Peacebuilding as Small-State Foreign Policy. Norway’s Peace Engagement in a Changing International Context. International Studies 49: 207-231. DOI: 10.1177/0020881714532334

 

6. Political parties and democratic representation (Kristian Stokke)

@ Chandra, K. (2005). Ethnic Parties and Democratic Stability. Perspectives on Politics, 3(2), 235-252. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3688028 (18 pages)

@ Randall, V. (2007). Political Parties and Democratic Developmental States. Development Policy Review, 25(5), 633-652. (20 pages)

@ Sindre, G. M. (2018). From secessionism to regionalism: Intra-organizational change and ideological moderation within armed secessionist movements. Political Geography, 64, 23-32. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.02.004 (10 pages)

Stokke, K. (forthcoming). The party-state nexus in Myanmar: Military statebuilding and constrained development of political parties in Myanmar. In E. Mobrand & E. Hansson (Eds.), The Party-State Nexus in Asia. (12 pages) – manuscript available on Canvas

@ Thompson, M. R. (2016). The Moral Economy of Electoralism and the Rise of Populism in the Philippines and Thailand. Journal of Developing Societies, 32(3), 246-269. DOI: 10.1177/0169796x16652028 (24 pages)

@ Ufen, A. (2012). Party Systems, Critical Junctures, and Cleavages in Southeast Asia. Asian Survey, 52(3), 441-464. DOI: AS.2012.52.3.441 (24 pages)

 

7. Contentious politics of citizenship (Kristian Stokke)

@ Robins, S., Cornwall, A. & von Lieres, B. (2008). Rethinking 'citizenship' in the postcolony. Third World Quarterly 29(6): 1069-1086. DOI: 10.1080/01436590802201048 (18 pages)

@ Haarstad, H. (2007). Collective political subjectivity and the problem of scale. Contemporary Politics 13(1), 57-74. DOI: 10.1080/13569770701246237 (18 pages)

@ Hapsari, M. (2017). Constructing palm oil justice movements in Indonesia: Citizenship and collective identity. In E. Hiariej and K. Stokke (eds.), Politics of Citizenship in Indonesia. Jakarta: Yayasan Obor Indonesia. (22 pages)

@ Leitner, H., Sheppard, E. & Sziarto, K. M. (2008). The spatialities of contentious politics. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 33(2), 157-172. (16 pages)

@ Lodge, T., & Mottiar, S. (2015). Protest in South Africa: motives and meanings. Democratization, 23(5), 819-837. DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2015.1030397 (19 pages)

S?rb?e, C. (forthcoming). From Noise to Voice: Brazil’s ‘June uprisings’ and political subjectification. (12 pages) – manuscript available on Canvas

Recommended additional reading:

@ Stokke, K. (2017). Politics of citizenship: Towards an analytical framework. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, 71(4), 193-207. DOI: 10.1080/00291951.2017.1369454

 

8. Politics of urban citizenship in the Global South (Marianne Millstein)

@ Bénit-Gbaffou, C. (2012). Party politics, civil society and local democracy – Reflections from Johannesburg. Geoforum, 43(2), 178-189. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.08.006 (12 pages)

@ Hammett, D. (2017). Introduction: exploring the contested terrain of urban citizenship. International Development Planning Review, 39(1), 1-13. DOI: 10.3828/idpr.2017.1 (13 pages)

@ Holston, J. (2009). Insurgent Citizenship in an Era of Global Urban Peripheries. City & Society, 21(2), 245-267. DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-744X.2009.01024.x (23 pages)

@ Lemanski, C. (2017): Unequal citizenship in unequal cities: participatory urban governance in contemporary South Africa. International Development Planning Review 39: 15-35. DOI: 10.3828/idpr.2017.2 (21 pages)

@ Millstein, M. (2017). Rights, identities and belonging: Reflections on the everyday politics of urban citizenship in Delft, Cape Town. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, 71(4), 253-267. DOI: 10.1080/00291951.2017.1369457 (15 pages)

@ Mohan, G. (2007). Participatory Development: From Epistemological Reversals to Active Citizenship. Geography Compass, 1(4), 779–796. DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2007.00038.x (18 pages)

Recommended additional reading:

@ Refstie, H. & Millstein, M. (2019). Does Participatory Planning Promise Too Much? Global Discourses and the Glass Ceiling of Participation in Urban Malawi. Planning Theory & Practice, 20(2), 241-257. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2019.1606928 (17 pages)

 

9. Citizenship in the world of work (David Jordhus-Lier)

@ Houeland, C. (2017). Between the street and Aso Rock: the role of Nigerian trade unions in popular protests. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 36(1), 103-120. DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2017.1396297 (18 pages)

@ Jordhus-Lier, D. (2017). Claiming industrial citizenship: The struggle for domestic worker rights in Indonesia. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, 71(4), 243-252. DOI: 10.1080/00291951.2017.1369453 (10 pages)

@ Gleiss, M. S. (2014). How Chinese labour NGOs legitimize their identity and voice. China Information, 28(3), 362-381. DOI: 10.1177/0920203X14550376 (20 pages)

@ von Holdt, K. (2013). South Africa: the transition to violent democracy. Review of African Political Economy, 40(138), 589-604. DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2013.854040 (16 pages)

Recommended additional reading:

@ Jordhus-Lier, D. C. (2013). Trade unions and democratic transformative politics: Political representation and popular mobilization during local government reform in South Africa. In K. Stokke & O. T?rnquist (Eds.), Democratization in the Global South: The Importance of Transformative Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan.

 

10. Conclusion: Lessons and policy implications (Kristian Stokke)

@ Stokke, K. & T?rnquist, O. (2013). Experiences and strategic interventions in transformative democratic politics. In K. Stokke and O. T?rnquist (eds.), Democratization in the Global South: The Importance of Transformative Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, pp. 302-311. (10 pages)

@ Webster, N., Stokke, K. & T?rnquist, O. (2009). Democratic insitutionalisation of nodes for improved popular representation. In O. T?rnquist, N. Webster and K. Stokke (eds.), Rethinking Popular Representation. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 223-234. (12 pages)

 

Sum: 800 pages

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