Syllabus/achievement requirements

Compulsory reading (sessions 1- 6):

Aidt, T. & Z. Tzannaatos: Unions and Collective Bargaining, 2002. World Bank. Introduction and Summary. pp 1- 16. 16 pp.

Avritzer, L.: Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America, 2002. Chapt. 2: Democratic Theory and the Formation of a Public Sphere, pp. 36- 54. 19 pp.

Beetham, David: Democracy and Human Rights, 1999. Cambridge: Polity Press.pp. 89-114. 25 pp.

Carother, T.: The end of the Transition Paradigm, in Journal of Democracy, Vol. 13, No. 1 January 2002, pp. 5 – 21. (http://www.politis.uqam.ca/contenu/pdf/pol8225_h03/paradigm.pdf). 17 pp.

Gill, Graeme: The Dynamics of Democratisation. Elites, Civil Society and the Transition Process, 2000. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, and London: Macmillan. pp 43-123, 235-242. 88pp.

Giugni, M.: Introduction. “Social Movements and Change, 1998. In Giugni, M. G.; D. McAdam & C. Tilly (eds.) From Contention to Democracy. Pp. xi to xxvi. 16 pp.

Hansen, Tomas Blom: The Saffron Wave. Democratic Revolution and the Growth of Hindu Nationalism in India, 1999. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 3- 59. 57pp.

Harriss, J.; K. Stokke & O. T?rnquist (eds.): The Politics of the 'Local' in Contemporary Discourses on Democracy. Introduction, 2003 forthcoming. 20 pp.

Hefner, W. Robert: Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratisation in Indonesia, 2000. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. pp x-xx, 3-20, 214-221. 24pp.

Hoogvelt, A.: Globalisation and the Post Colonial World, 1997. Houndmills: MacMillan. Chapter 6: Globalisation, pp. 114-131 & chapter 8: Africa: Exclusion and the containment of Anarchy. 38 pp.

Huntington, S. P.: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, 1997. pp. 19-39. 15 pp.

Inglehart, R.: Modernization and Postmodernization. Cultural, Economic and Political Change in 3 countries, 1997. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Chapter 6, pp. 160 – 215. 55 pp.

Mamdani, M.: Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism, 1996. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Ch. 1 and Conclusion, pp. 3-34 and 285-301. 47 pp.

Migdal, Joel S., Kohli, Atul, and Shue, Vivian: State Power and Social Forces, Domination and Transformation in the Third World, 1994. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 293-323. 30pp.

Sidel, John, T.: Capital, Coercion, and Crime. Bossism in the Philippines, 1999. Stanford: Stanford University Press. pp. 1-23, 140-154. 38pp.

T?rnquist, Olle: Politics and Development. A Critical Introduction, 1999. London, Thousand Oaks, New York. Chapter 12 pp. 123-133. 10pp.

T?rnquist, Olle: Popular Development and Democracy (with rural dimensions), 2001. Essays commissioned by UNRISD. Chapter 9, pp. 98-130. 32 pp.

T?rnquist, Olle: Assessing Problems and Options of Democratisation, Paper presented to the Conference “Democracy as Actual Practice: What does Democracy Actually Bring?”, Uppsala, March 12-13, 2003. 10 pp.

Torres, R.: Towards a Socially Sustainable World Economy. An analysis of the social Pillars of globalisation, Geneva: International Labour Organisation. pp. 19-31 & 54 – 68. 28 pp.

T?rres, L.: Bargaining for Radical Change, Paper presented to the Local Politics and Democratisation Workshop, November 2002, revised November 2003. 25 pp.

UNDP 2002: Deepening democracy by tackling democratic deficits, Chapter 3 in Human Development Report 2002. Deepening democracy in a fragmented world. Pp 63 – 83. 20 pp.

Total Approx.: 609 pp.

Recommended reading:

Avritzer, L.: Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America, 2002. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Bhagwati, J.: Free Trade Today, 2002. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Carothers, G.: A Reply to My Critics, 2002b. In Journal of Democracy, Vol. 13, No. 3, July 2002. pp. 33- 38.

Coleman, J. S.: Social capital in the creation of human capital, 1988. in American Journal of Sociology. 1994.

Dollar, D.: Globalisation, Inequality and Poverty, 2001. World Bank.

Hadenius, A.: Democracy and Development, 1992. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 6 (pp. 112 – 127).

Harriss: Depoliticising Development: The World Bank and social capital, 2001. New Dehli: LeftWord Books.

Hyman, G.: Tilting the Straw Man, 2002. In Journal of Democracy, Vol. 13, No. 2, July 2002. pp. 26 - 32.

Kohli, A., Evans, P., Katzenstein, P.J., Przeworksi, A., Rudolph, S.H., Scott, J.C., and Skocpol, T.: The Role of Theory in Comparative Politics: A Symposium, 1995. World Politics, 1:48.

O’Donnell, G.: In Partial defense of an Evanescent “Paradigm", in Journal of Democracy, Vol. 13, No. 3, July 2002. pp. 6-12.

Nodia, G.: The Democratic Path, in Journal of Democracy, Vol. 13, No. 3, July 2002. pp. 13 – 19.

Plattner, M. F.: Globalisation and Self-Government, 2002. in Journal of democracy, Vol. 13, No. 3. pp. 54 – 67.

Putnam, R.: Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, 1993. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Rueschmeyer, D.; E. Stephens & J. Stephens: Capitalist Development and Democracy, 1992. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

T?rnquist, Olle: Politics and Development. A Critical Introduction, 1999. London, Thousand Oaks, New York.

Wollack, K.: Retaining the Human Dimension, in Journal of Democracy, Vol. 13, No. 3, July 2002. pp. 20-25.

Compulsory reading for area studies:

Africa:

Bayart, J.F.: The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly, 1993. London: Longman. 272 pp.

Chabal, P. and JP Daloz: Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument, 1999. Oxford: James Currey. Chapters 1-3 & 7-10. 117 pp.

Englebert, P.: State Legitimacy and Development in Africa, 2000. Boulder: Lynne Rienner. 193 pp.

Total: 582 pp

Latin America:

BOOTH, John A. & Mitchell A. SELIGSON: ths to Democracy and the Political Culture of Costa Rica, Mexico, and Nicaragua, 1994. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers. in Larry DIAMOND (ed.) Political Culture & Democracy in Developing Countries, pp. 99-130. 31pp.

GWYNNE, Robert N. & Cristóbal Kay: atin America transformed: changing paradigms, debates and alternatives, 1999. New York: Oxford University Press. in Robert N. Gwynne and Cristóbal Kay (eds.) Latin America Transformed: Globalization and Modernity, pp. 2-30. 28pp.

KARL, Terry Lynn: The Hybrid Regimes of Central America, 1995. Journal of Democracy, Vol.6, No.3. pp. 72-86. 14pp.

LINZ, Juan J. & Alfred STEPAN: Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation. Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe, 1996. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Part III pp. 151-230. 79pp.

O’SHAUGHNESSY, Laura Nuzzi and Michael Dodson: Political Bargaining and Democratic Transitions: A Comparison of Nicaragua and El Salvador, 1999. Journal of Latin American Studies, 31. pp. 99-127.

PEELER, John: Building Democracy in Latin America, 1999. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers. 202 pp.

P?REZ-STABLE, Marifeli: Caught in a Contradiction: Cuban Socialism between Mobilization and Normalization, Comparative Politics, Vol. 32, No. 1, October 1999. pp. 63-82. 19pp.

RUESCHEMEYER, Dietrich, Evelyne Huber Stephens and John D. Stephens (eds.): Capitalist Development and Democracy, 1992. Cambridge: Polity Press. pp 155 – 268. 113pp.

VAN COTT, Donna Lee: Indigenous Peoples and Democracy, 1994/1995. in Van Cott (ed.) Indigenous Peoples and Democracy in Latin America (The Inter-American Dialogue), pp. 1-28. 28 pp.

Total: 429 pp

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