Syllabus/achievement requirements
Berman, S. (2006): The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp 152-176, 200-218 (pp. 40).
Berman, S. (1998): ‘Path dependency and Political Action: Reexamining Responses to the Depression’, Comparative Politics, 30, 4 July. (pp. 20). Link
Collier, R. B. (1999): Paths Towards Democracy: The Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and South America, Ch. 1-3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (pp. 100).
Esping-Andersen, G. (1988): Politics Against Markets: The Social Democratic Road to Power. Princeton. N.J: Princeton University Press. pp 3-178, 180-243, 314-324 (pp. 200).
Hagtvet, B. & E. Rudeng (1984): ‘Scandinavia: Achievements, Dilemmas, Challenges’, in Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 113, no.2. pp. 227-57 (pp. 30).
Halvorsen, K. And Stjern?, S. (2008): Work, Oil and Welfare: The Welfare State in Norway, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. Ch 1 and 10 (33 pp)
Kjeldstadli, K. (): “Norwegian History” (pp. 15).
Lindvall, J. & B. Rothstein (2006): ‘The Fall of the Strong State’, in Scandinavian Political Studies, Vol. 29, No 1, March. pp. 47-63 (pp. 17). Link
Moene, K. & M. Wallerstein (2006): ‘Social Democracy as a Development Strategy’, in P. Bardhan, S. Bowles and M. Wallerstein (ed.): Globalisation and Egalitarian Redistribution. Russel Sage Foundation. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. Working paper version. (pp. 29).Link
Nordby, T. (2004): ‘Patterns of Corporatist Intermediation’ in Heidar, K. Nordic Politics: Comparative perspectives. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. pp. 98-107 (pp. 10).
Rose, L. (2004): ‘Local government and politics’, Ch. 10 in Heidar, K. Nordic Politics: Comparative Perspectives, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget (pp. 18).
Rothstein, Bo (2004): ‘Social Capital in a working democracy’, Ch. 5 in ?sterud et al Power and democracy : critical interventions. Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate. pp.101-12.(pp.30).
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. (pp. 40).
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. (pp. 40).
Sellers, J.M. & Lidstr?m, A. (2007): “Decentralization, Local Government, and the Welfare State”, Governance 20(4):609-632. (pp.23) Link
Skjeie, H. & Siim, B. (2000): “Scandinavian feminist debates on citizenship”. International Political Science Review, vol. 21 no 4, 2000, pp 345-360. (pp.15) Link
Skjeie, H. & Siim, B. (2008): “Tracks, Intersections and dead ends: Multicultural challenges to state feminism in Denmark and Norway.” Ethnicities, Vol. 8 (3), pp. 322-344. (pp. 22) Link
Tr?g?rdh, Lars (1997): ‘Statist Individualism: On the Culturality of the Nordic Welfare State’ in S?rensen, ?. & B. Str?th, The Cultural Construction of Norden. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press. pp. 253-285. (pp. 25).
Tr?g?rdh, Lars (ed) (2007): State and Civil Society in Northern Europe: The Swedish Model reconsidered. Oxford & New York: Berghanh Book. Ch 1, 7, 8 (65 pp.).
West European Politics, Vol. 28, No. 4, Sept 2005 – Special Issue on norway: The Transformation of a Political System:
? ?yvind ?sterud: "Intro: The Pecularities of Norway"
? Tom Christensen: "The Norwegian State Transformed?"
? Hilmar Rommetvedt: "Norway: Resources count, but votes decide?"
? Harald Baldersheim & Fimreite: "Norwegian centre-periphery relations in flux"
? Kaare Str?m et. al: "A more fragile chain of governance in Norway"
? Knut Heidar: "Norwegian parties and the party system"
? Ola Listhaug: "Oil wealth dissatisfaction and political trust in Norway"
? Tommy Tranvik & Selle: "State and citizens in Norway"
? Nina C. Raaum: "Gender equality and political representation"
? Guldbrandsen & Engelstad: "Elite consensus on the Norwegian Welfare state model"
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Recommended readings (recommended for foreign students, compulsory for Scandinavian students)
Bergman, T. & K. Str?m (eds) (2004): ‘Parliamentary Democracy in Scandinavia: Shifting Dimensions of Citizen control’ in Scandinavian Political Studies (special issue), Vol 27, No. 2, June. pp. 89-225 (pp. 136). Link
Berman, S. (2006): The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press. (the rest of the book)
Lindvall, J. & B. Rothstein (2006): ‘The Fall of the Strong State’, in Scandinavian Political Studies, Vol. 29, No 1, March. pp. 47-63 (pp. 17). Link
Recommended readings (recommended for all)
Apter, David (1999): Scandinavian Politics Today, Manchester: Manchester University Press. Ch 1-4 and 7-8.
Apter, David (2006): Democracy in Scandinavia: Consensual, majoritarian or mixed? Manchester: Manchester University Press, ch 4, 6, and 7.
Callaghan, John (2000): The Retreat of social democracy, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Collier, R.B. (1999): Paths Towards Democracy: The Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and South America, Ch. 5. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Esping-Andersen, G. (1988): Politics Against Markets: The Social Democratic Road to Power. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. (the rest of the book)
Halvorsen, Knut and Stjern?, Steinar (2008): Work, oil and welfare: The welfare state in Norway. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget
Hernes, Helga (1987): “Welfare state and woman power. Essays in state feminism”. Universitetsforlaget. (in particular the introduction and conclusion chapters).
Hilson, Mary( 2008): The Nordic Model. Scandinavia since 1945, London: Reaktion Books.
Misgeld, Klaus , Molin, Karl and ?mark, Klas (1992) (eds), Creating Social Democracy: A Century of the Social Democratic Labor Party in Sweden. (Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Universiy Press).
Tr?g?rdh, L. (ed) (2007): State and Civil Society in Northern Europe: The Swedish Model reconsidered. Ch. 4. Oxford & New York: Berghanh Book. (pp. 39).