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Literature marked "C" is in a compendium, which is available at Akademika. All articles marked "Fronter" are available on the Fronter website (log on to https://fronter.uio.no/ using your UiO username and password).

Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd, Nicholas Aylott and Flemming Juul Christiansen (2007): “Social democrats and trade unions in Scandinavia: the decline and persistence of institutional relationships”, European Journal of Political Research 46, 5: 607-35. (29p) Fronter

Andersson, Jenny (2009): “Nostalgia and Nordic light: The Swedish model as utopia 1930-2007”, Scandinavian Journal of History 34, 3: 229-245. (17p) Fronter

Andersson, Jenny (2004): “A productive social citizenship? Reflections on the concept of productive social policies in the European tradition”, pp. 69-88 in L. Magnusson and B. Str?th (eds.): A European Social Citizenship. Preconditions for Future Policies from Historical Perspective. Brussels: P.I.E-Peter Lang. (20p) C

Anthonsen, Mette, Johannes Lindvall & Ulrich Schmidt-Hansen (2011): “Social democrats, unions and corporatism: Denmark and Sweden compared”, Party Politics 17, 1: 118-134. (19p) Fronter

Aylott, Nicholas (2002): “Let’s discuss this later: party responses to Euro-division in Scandinavia”, Party Politics 8, 4: 441-61. (21p) Fronter

Bergman, Torbj?rn & Kaare Str?m (2011): The Madisonian Turn. Political Parties and Parliamentary Democracy in Nordic Europe. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Ch. 3 (E. Damgaard): “Change and challenges of Danish parliamentary democracy”, ch. 6 (H.M. Narud & K. Str?m): “Norway: from H?ndsvaldian parliamentarism back to Madisonian roots?” (105p) Copy

Brandal, Nik, ?ivind Bratberg and Dag Einar Thorsen (2013): The Nordic Model of Social Democracy. Basingstoke: Palgrave. Ch. 5: “The Nordic Model in a Global Economy”, ch. 6: “The welfare state: the good life or dependency?” (49p) Fronter

Brochmann, Grete & Anniken Hagelund (2011): “Migrants in the Scandinavian welfare state. The emergence of a social policy problem”, Nordic Journal of Migration Research 1, 1: 13-24. (12p) Fronter

Christensen, Tom (2005): “The Norwegian state transformed?”, West European Politics 28, 4: 721-739. (19p) Link/Fronter

Engelstad, Fredrik (2004): “Democracy at work? Does democracy in working life make sense in the 21st century?” in ?. ?sterud and F. Engelstad (eds): Power and Democracy. Critical Interventions. London: Ashgate. (23p) C

Engelstad, Fredrik (2009): “Challenges to democracy: fairness and participation”, in M. Cherkaoui and P. Hamilton (eds.): Raymond Boudon. A life in Sociology, volume three, Oxford: Bardwell. (16p) C

Esping-Andersen, G?sta (1990): The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity Press. Pp. 9-78, 105-138, 221-229. (113p)

Halvorsen, Knut & S. Stjern? (2008): Work, Oil and Welfare: The Welfare State in Norway. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. Ch. 1 (16p) C

Hilson, M. (2008): The Nordic Model. Scandinavia Since 1945. London: Reaktion Books. Ch. 4 (pp 116-147). (32p) C

Ingebritsen, Christine (1998): The Nordic States and European Unity. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press. Ch. 7 (pp. 167-183). (17p) C

Johansson, Karl Magnus & G?ran von Sydow (2010): “Swedish social democracy and European integration: enduring divisions”, pp. 157-187 in Social Democracy and European Integration. The Politics of Preference Formation. London: Routledge. (31p) Fronter

Kjeldstadli, Knut (2009): “Should integration be the goal? A policy for difference and community”, in S. Alghasi, T. Hylland Eriksen & H. Ghorashi (eds.): Paradoxes of Cultural Recognition. Perspectives from Northern Europe. Farnham: Ashgate. pp. 59-73. (14p) C

Lindvall, Johannes & Bo Rothstein (2006): “The fall of the strong state”, Scandinavian Political Studies 29, 1: 47-63. (17p). Fronter

Rasch, Bj?rn Erik (2011): “Why minority governments? Executive-legislative relations in the Nordic countries”, pp. 41-61 in Thomas Persson & Matti Wiberg (eds.): Parliamentary Government in the Nordic Countries at a Crossroads. Stockholm: Santérus Academic Press. (21p) C

Raaum, Nina C. (2005) “Gender equality and political representation: a Nordic comparison”, West European Politics 28, 4: 872-897. (26 s) Fronter

Rokkan, Stein (1967): “Geography, religion and social class: crosscutting cleavages in Norwegian politics”, in S.M. Lipset og Stein Rokkan (eds.): Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-National Perspectives. New York: Free Press. (40p). C

Rokkan, Stein (1966): “Norway: numerical democracy and corporate pluralism”, in Robert A. Dahl (ed.): Political Oppositions in Western Democracies. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. (40 p). C

Rothstein, Bo (2004): “Social capital in a working democracy”, Ch. 5 in ?yvind ?sterud et al.: (eds.): Power and Democracy: Critical Interventions. Farnham: Ashgate, pp.101-12. (30p) C

Rothstein, Bo & Lars Tr?g?rdh (2007): “The state and civil society in an historical perspective: the Swedish case”, in L. Tr?g?rdh (ed.): State and Civil Society in Northern Europe. The Swedish Model Reconsidered. Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 229-253. (35p) C

Sejersted, Francis (2011): The Age of Social Democracy, Norway and Sweden in the Twentieth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp 1-12. (12p) C

Sellers, Jeffrey M. & Anders Lidstr?m (2007): “Decentralization, local government, and the welfare state”, Governance 20, 4: 609-632. (23p) Fronter

Skjeie, Hege & Birte Siim (2008): “Tracks, intersections and dead ends: multicultural challenges to state feminism in Denmark and Norway.” Ethnicities 8, 3: 322-344. (23p) Fronter

Stokke, Kristian (2010): “The soft power of a small state. Discursive constructions and institutional practices of Norway’s peace engagement”, PCD Journal 2, 1: 137-173. (37p) Fronter

Stokke, Kristian and Olle T?rnquist (2012): “The relevance of the Scandinavian experiences”, in Democratization in the Global South: The importance of transformative politics’ Basingstoke: Palgrave. (24p) Fronter

Tranvik, Tommy & Per Selle (2005): “State and citizens in Norway: organisational society and state-municipal relations”, West European Politics 28, 4: 852-171. (20p) Fronter

Tr?g?rdh, Lars (2002): “Sweden and the EU: welfare state nationalism and the spectre of ‘Europe’”, pp. 130-181 in Lene Hansen & Ole W?ver (eds.): European Integration and National Identity: The Challenge of the Nordic States. London: Routledge. (52p) Copy

Tr?g?rdh, Lars (1997): “Statist individualism: on the culturality of the Nordic welfare state”, in ?ystein S?rensen & Bo Str?th (eds.): The Cultural Construction of Norden. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press. pp. 253-285. (25p). C

Tvedt, Terje (2006): “The international aid system and the non-governmental organisations: A new research agenda”, Journal of International Development, 18: 677-690. (14p) Fronter

?berg, Per Ola, Torsten Svensson, Peter Munch Christiansen, Asbj?rn N?rgaard, Hilmar Rommetvedt, and Gunnar Thesen (2011): “Disrupted exchange and declining corporatism: government authority and interest group capability in Scandinavia”, Government and Opposition 46, 3: 365-391. (27p) Fronter

?sterud, ?yvind (2005): “Introduction: the peculiarities of Norway”, West European Politics 28, 4: 705-720. (16 p) Fronter

Total: 1.035 pages.

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