Syllabus/achievement requirements

Obligatory reading:

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Benito, Gabriel R.G., Larimo, Jorma, Narula, Rajneesh and Pedersen, Torben, "Multinational Enterprises from Small Economies: Internationalization Patterns of Large Companies from Denmark, Finland and Norway", International Studies of Management and Organization, 32(1), 2002: 57-78. 21 pp Link

Blonigen, Bruce A. (2005) “A Review of the Empirical Literature on FDI Determinants”. Atlantic Economic Journal, vol. 33(4), pp. 383–403. 21 pp Link

Caporaso, James (2007) “The Three Worlds of Regional Integration Theory”, in Paolo Graziano and Maarten P. Vink (eds.): Europeanization – New Research Agendas. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillian, pp 23-34. 11 pp K

Claes, Dag Harald (2001) The Politics of Oil Producer Cooperation. Boulder: Westview Press, chapter “Norway – From Freeriding to Cooperation”, pp. 297-352 55 pp K

Claes, Dag Harald (2003) ‘Globalisation and State Oil Companies: the Case of Statoil’, in Journal of Energy and Development 29(1): 43-64. 21 pp Fronter

Claes, Dag Harald and John Erik Fossum (2004) ‘Norway, the EEA and Neo-liberal globalism’ in Stephen Clarkson and Marjorie Griffin Cohen: Governing under Stress – Middle Powers and the Challenge of Globalization. London: Zed Books 2004, pp. 51-69. 18 pp K

Claes, Dag Harald (2002) ‘The process of Europeanisation –Norway and the Internal Energy Market’ in Journal of Public Policy, 22(3): 299-323. 24 pp Link

Frieden, Jeffrey and Ronald Rogowski (1996) ‘The Impact of the International Economy on National Policies: An Analytical Overview’ in: Helen Milner and Robert Keohane, eds. Internationalization and Domestic Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 25 – 47 22 pp K

Hall, Peter A. and David Soskice (2001). “An Introduction to Varieties of Capitalism” in Peter A. Hall and David Soskice [eds.] Varieties of Capitalism – The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 68 pp K

Hveem, Helge (1991) "Developing an Open Economy. Norway’s Transformation 1845-1975", in Magnus Blomstr?m and Patricio Meller, eds. Diverging Paths. A Century of Scandinavian and Latin American Economic Development. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, pp. 275 - 305. 30 pp K

Hveem, Helge (1996) ?Sovereign Business. How Norwegian Shipowners Faced Changing International Competition?, in Yair Aharoni, ed. Changing Role of State Intervention in Services in an Era of Open International Markets. Binghamton, NY.: New York State University Press, pp. 127 - 157. 30 pp K

Hveem, Helge, Carl Henrik Knutsen and Asmund Rygh (2008) Foreign Direct Investment and Political Systems in Host Countries. The Case of Norway. Paper. 25 pp Fronter

Hveem, Helge, Carl Henrik Knutsen and Asmund Rygh (2011) Foreign Direct Investments and the State. Does Ownership Matter? Business and Politics, BE Press, no. 1, forthcoming 2011 20 pp Fronter

Ingebrigtsen, Christine (2010) “Katzenstein’s Legacy 25 years After: Small States in World Markets.” European Political Science. 9:359-64 6 pp Link

Katzenstein, Peter J. (1985) Small States In World Markets. Industrial Policy in Europe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Chapters 1 and 2, 60 pp K

Knutsen, Sverre and Einar Lie (2002) “Financial Fragility, Growth Strategies and Banking Failures: The Major Norwegian Banks and the Banking Crisis 1987-92”, Business and History, vol. 44, no. 2 (April): 88 – 111 22 pp Link

Kosonen, Pekka (2001) “Globalization and the Nordic Welfare States”, in Robert Sykes, Bruno Palier and Pauline M. Prior (eds.) Globalization and the European Welfare States. Houndmill, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 153-172 20 pp K

Lake, David A. (2009) Open Economy Politics: A Critical Review. Department of Political Science, University of California San Diego. Paper. 30 pp Link

Lange, Even and Helge Pharo (1991) “Planning and Economic Policy in Norway 1945 – 1960”, Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 16, no. 3: 215-235 20 pp K

Langhelle, Oluf and Hilmar Rommetveit (2004) “The role of Parliament in foreign affairs and WTO negotiations: the case of Norway”, World Trade Review, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 189-223. 34 pp Link

Levi-Faur, David (2004) ‘On the “Net Impact” of Europeanization - The EU’s Telecoms and Electricity Regimes Between the Global and the National’ in Comparative Political Studies, 37:1 pp 3-29. 26 pp Link

Mattli, Walter and Ngaire Woods (2009) “In Whose Benefit? Explaining Regulatory Change in Global Politics”, in W. Mattli and N. Woods (eds.) The Politics of Global Regulation. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, pp. 1-43 43 pp K

Melchior, Arne (2005) The Norwegian Import Regime for Agriculture. NUPI, Paper no. 684. 25 pp K

Mommer, Bernard (2002) Global Oil and the Nation State, chapter 3: ‘Public Governance of Mineral resources: Fundamentals’ pp 88-106. 22 pp K

Persson, Torsten and Guido Tabellini (2004), “Constitutions and Economic Policy”. The Journal of Economic Perspectives 18 (1): 75-98. 24 pp Link

Prior, Pauline and Robert Sykes (2001) “Globalization and the Welfare States: Evaluating the Theories and Evidence”, in R. Sykes, B. Palier and P. Priord (eds.) Globalization and European Welfare States. Houndmill, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 195-229 34 pp K

Rogowski, Ronald (1987). “Trade and the Variety of Democratic Institutions”. International Organization 41(2): 203-223. 21 pp Link

Schwartz, Herman (2010) “Small States in the Rear-View Mirror: Legitimacy in the Management of Economy and Society”, European Political Science Review, 9:365-74 10 pp Link

Sejersted, Francis (2001) “Capitalism and Democracy: A Comparison between Norway and Sweden”, In Halldor Byrkjeflot et als (eds) The Democratic Challenge to Capitalism. Management and Democracy in the Nordic Countries. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget, pp. 87-119 32 pp K

Tran?y, Bent Sofus (2000) “Bad Timing: Re-commodification, credit reform and crises of co-ordination in Norway and Sweden in the 80s and 90s”, in R. Geyer, C. Ingebrigtsen and J. Moses (red.) Globalization, Europeanization and the end of Social Democratic Strategies? London: Macmillan. 20 pp K

Tran?y, B. S. (2009) “Recommodification, Residualism, and Risk: The Political Economy of Housing Bubbles in Norway”, in Herman M. Schwartz and Leonard Seabroke (eds.) The Politics of Housing Bubbles and Busts. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 97-121 24 pp Fronter

Tran?y, B. S. (2011): "Norway – The Accidental Role Model" in The Political Economy of Sovereign Wealth Funds, Xu Yi-chong and Gawdat Bahgat (eds.), Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan Fronter

Tvedt, Terje (2007) “International Development Aid and Its Impact on a Donor Country: A Case Study of Norway”, in European Journal of Development Research, 19,4: 614-635 21 pp Link

WTO Secretariat (2008) NORWAY – Trade Policy Review. Intro and ch. 2. Geneva. 16 pp K

?sterud,?yvind (2004) “Democracy beyond Borders? The European Case”, in F. Engelstad and ?. ?sterud, eds. Power and Democracy. Critical Interventions. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, pp. 169-181 13 pp Fronter

Total 923 pp

Recommended literature (not obligatory)

(To be supplemented before and during the course)

Baumol, William J., Robert E. Litan and Carl J. Schramm (2007). Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Gourevitch, Peter (1986) Politics in Hard Times. Comparative Responses to International Economic Crises. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Hveem, H. (1987) “Small Countries under Great Pressure. The Politics of National Vulnerability during International Restructuring”, Cooperation and Conflict, XXII, 4:193-208.

Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2009). The Economic Growth Effect of Constitutions Revisited. Oslo: Department of Political Science, University of Oslo. Working Paper (under review).

Langhelle, Oluf and Hilmar Rommetveit (2004) “The role of Parliament in foreign affairs and WTO negotiations: the case of Norway”, World Trade Review, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 189-223.

Mj?set, Lars (1987) “Nordic Economic Policies in the 1970s and 1980s”, International Organization, 41,3:403-456.

North, Douglass C. (1990). Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Persson, Torsten (2005). "Forms of democracy, policy and economic development". Working Paper.

Persson, Torsten and Guido Tabellini (2003). The Economic Effects of Constitutions. Cambridge, MA.: The MIT Press.

Reinert, Erik S. (1999) “The Role of the State in Economic Development”, in Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 26, No. 4/5, 1999, pp. 268-326. Also: SUM - Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Working Paper No. 5/1997.

Scharpf, Fritz (1999) Governing in Europe. Effective and Democratic? Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Schmitt, John and Ben Zipperer (2006) “Is the U.S. a Good Model for Reducing Social Exclusion in Europe?” Post-Autistic Economics Review, no. 40:2-17. Also appeared in International Journal of Health Services, 2007. Accessible at www.paecon.net.

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