Syllabus/achievement requirements

Literature marked with a C are to be found in an article compilation which can be bought from Kopiutsalget at Akademika bookstore at Blindern campus.

Articles are available in E-journals that you will find by searching in the base of the University of Oslo Library

Basic books

Harriss, J., Stokke, K. and T?rnquist, O. (Eds.) (2004), Politicising Democracy. The New Local Politics of Democratisation. Houndmills: Palgrave. Selected chapters:

  • Harriss, J., Stokke, K. and T?rnquist O.(2004): "Introduction: The New Local Politics of Democratisation". (26 pages)
  • Sidel, J.: "Bossism and Democracy in the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia: Towards an Alternative Framework for the Study of ‘Local Strongmen’". (23 pages)
  • Tharakan, P.K.M. (2004): "Historical Hurdles in the Course of the People’s Planning Campaign in Kerala, India". (21 pages)
  • Stokke, K. and Oldfield, S. (2004): “Social Movements, Socio-economic Rights and Substantial Democratisation in South Africa” (20 pages)
  • Beckman, B. (2004): "Trade Unions, Institutional Reform and Democracy: Nigerian Experiences with South African and Ugandan Comparisons". (30 pages)
  • T?rnquist, O. (2004): "The Political Deficit of Substantial Democratisation". (23 pages)

T?rnquist, O., Webster, N. and Stokke, K. (Eds.)(2009). Rethinking Popular Representation. Houndmills: Palgrave. Selected chapters:

  • T?rnquist, O. (2009): "Introduction: The Problem is Representation! Towards an Analytical Framework" (21 pages)
  • Houtzager, P.T. and Lavalle, A.G. (2009): "The Paradox of Civil Society Representation: Constructing New Forms of Democratic Legitimacy in Brazil". (15 pages)
  • Stokke, K. and Selboe, E. (2009): "Symbolic Representation as Political Practice". (15 pages)
  • van Klinken, G. (2009): "Patronage Democracy in Provincial Indonesia". (19 pages)
  • Baiocchi, G. and Heller, P. (2009): "Representation by Design? Variations on Participatory Reforms in Brazilian Municipios". (18 pages)
  • Harriss, John. (2009): "Compromised Democracy: Observations on Popular Democratic Representation from Urban India" (13 pages)
  • Beckman, B. (2009): "Trade Unions and Popular Representation: Nigeria and South Africa Compared". (15 pages)
  • T?rnquist, O., Quimpo, N. amd Tharakan, P.K.M. (2009): "Popular Politics of Representation: New Experiences from Indonesia, Kerala (India) and the Philippines" (22 pages)
  • Webster, N, Stokke, K, and T?rnquist, O (2009): "From Research to Practice: Towards the Democratic Institutionalisation of Nodes for Improved Representation". (8 pages)

T?rnquist, O. (forthcoming 2012): Assessing Democratisation. A Critical Handbook with Indonesian Illustrations (chapters 1-7) (c.100 pp)

Additional texts

Bull, Benedicte (2007). “Comparing Critical Junctures. The Democratic Inclusion of Social Movements in Norway and Latin America”, Forum for Development Studies, 34(1):,63-89. (26 pages) Fronter

Cammack, D. (2007). "The Logic of African Neopatrimonialism: What Role for Donors?" Development Policy Review, 25 (5): 599-614. Lenke

Carey, J.M. and Reynolds, A. (2011). “Comparing the Arab Revolts: The Impact of Election Systems” Journal of Democracy, 22(4): 36-47. (11 pages) Link

Carothers, T. (2004). Critical Mission: Essays on Democracy Promotion. Washington, D.C., 167-217. (50 pages) C

Carothers, T. (2007a). "How Democracies Emerge. The “Sequencing” Fallacy". Journal of Democracy, 18(1): 12-27. (15 pages) Link

Carothers, T. (2007b). "Misunderstanding Gradualism", Journal of Democracy, 18(3): 18-22. (5 pages) Link

Chandhoke, N. (2011). ”Civil Society in India”, in Michael Edwards (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Civil Society, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 171-182. (11 pages)

Chatterjee, Partha (2001), “On Civil and Political Societies in Post-colonial Democracies”, in Sudipta Kaviraj and Sunil Khilnani (eds.), Civil Society: History and possibilities, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 165-179. (15 pages) C

Chatterjee, Partha, (2008). “Democracy and Economic Transformation”, in Economic and Political Weekly, April 19, 2008, pp.53-62 (9 pages) Fronter

Collier, R.B. (1999). Paths Towards Democracy: The Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and South America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 166-197 (31 pages) C

Dagnio, E. (2011). ”Civil Society in Latin America”, in Michael Edwards (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Civil Society, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 122-133. (11 pages)

Harriss, J. (2006). “Politics is a dirty river": But is there a ‘new politics’ of civil society? Perspectives from global cities of India and Latin America', in Power Matters: Essays on Institutions, Politics and Society in India. Delhi: Open University Press. (30 pages) C

Heller, P. (2001) ‘Moving the State: The Politics of Democratic Decentralization in Kerala, South Africa, and Porto Alegre’ in Politics & Society 29(1): 131-163. (32 pages) Link

Jenkins, R. (2001). ”Mistaking ’governance’ for ’politics’: foreign aid, democracy, and the construction of civil society”, in Sudipta Kaviraj and Sunil Khilnani (Eds.), Civil Society: History and Possibilities, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 250-268. (18 pages)

Lier, D.C. and Stokke, K. (2006). “Maximum Working Class Unity? Challenges to Local Social Movement Unionism in Cape Town”. Antipode, 38(4): 802-824. (22 pages)

Luckham, R., Goetz, A.M. and Kaldor, M. (2003). “Democratic Institutions and Democratic Politics”, in Sunil Bastian and Robyn Luckham (Eds), Can Democracy be Designed? The Politics of Institutional Choice in Conflict Torn Societies. London: Zed Books, 14-59. (45 pages)

Mamdani, M. (2001). ”Beyond Settler and Native as Political Identities: Overcoming the Political Legacy of Colonialism”. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 43(4): 651-664. (13 pages) Link

Manor, James (2010). “Beyond Clientelism: Digvijay Singh’s Participatory Pro-Poor Strategy in Madhya Pradesh”, in Price, P. and Engelsen-Ruud, A. Power and Influence in India: Bosses, Lords and Captains, London, New York and New Delhi: Routledge, pp. 193-213, 20 pp Fronter

Mansfield, E.D. and Snyder, J. (2007). "The Sequencing “Fallacy”". Journal of Democracy, 18(3): 5-9. (5 pages)Link

Mouzelis, N. (1998). "Modernity, Late Development and Civil Society". In. L. Rudebeck and O. T?rnquist (Eds.), Democratization in the Third World. Concrete Cases in Comparative and Theoretical Perspective. Basingstoke: Macmillan. (22 pages). C

Obadare, E. (2011). ”Civil Society in Sub-Saharan Africa” in Michael Edwards (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Civil Society, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 183-194. (11 pages)

Paris, R. (2004). "At War’s End. Building Peace After Civil Conflict". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1 and 2, pp. 13-51. (38 pages) C

Randall, V. (2007). "Political Parties and Democratic Developmental States". Development Policy Review, 25 (5): 633-652. Lenke

Rueschemeyer, D., Stephens, E.H. and Stephens, J.D. (1992). Capitalist Development and Democracy. Cambridge: Polity Press. (chapters 1, 11 pages) C

Stokke, K. (2010). “Civil Society in Sri Lanka during and after the 5th Peace Process: Changing Spaces for Advocating Political Transformations and Delivering Social Welfare”, in Jude Howell and Jeremy Lind (Eds.), Civil Society under Strain: Counter-Terrorism Policy, Civil Society and Aid Post-9/11. Sterling: Kumarian, 149-170. (21 pages)

Stokke, K. (2011). “Questioning Liberal Peace”. In Darley Jose Kjosavik and Paul Vedeld (Eds.), The Political Economy of Environment and Development in a Globalised World: Exploring the Frontiers. Essays in honour of Nadarajah Shanmugaratnam. Trondheim: Tapir, 321-341. (20 pages)

T?rnquist, O (2013).”Aceh - verandah of lost opportunities, Forthcoming in anthology from ICAIOS. (14 pages) Fronter

Sum c. 930 pages

Recommended introductory literature for those not having taken the STV2310 course on Politics and Development or equivalent:

Grugel, J. (2002). Democratization: A Critical Introduction. Houndmills: Palgrave. (at first hand chapters 2 and 3, 35 pages)

T?rnquist, O. (1999). Politics and Development: A Critical Introduction. London: Sage ?

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