Students attending Master's courses will be able to participate on a library course. At the course you will learn how to do searches in both national and international databases, and you will have the opportunity to search the articles that is on your curriculum.The course is voluntary, but we strongly recommend that students attend. More information to come.
Book
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 pp)
Sidel, J.: "Bossism and Democracy in the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia: Towards an Alternative Framework for the Study of ‘Local Strongmen’". (23 pp)
Tharakan, P.K.M. (2004): "Historical Hurdles in the Course of the People’s Planning Campaign in Kerala, India". (21 pp)
Stokke, K. and Oldfield, S. (2004): “Social Movements, Socio-economic Rights and Substantial Democratisation in South Africa” (20 pp)
Rocamora, J. (2004): “More than Difficult, Short of Impossible: Party Building and Local Governance in the Philippines (21 pp)
Beckman, B. (2004): "Trade Unions, Institutional Reform and Democracy: Nigerian Experiences with South African and Ugandan Comparisons". (30 pp)
T?rnquist, O. (2004): "The Political Deficit of Substantial Democratisation". (23 pp)
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 pp)
Chandhoke, N. (2009): “What is the Relationship between Participation and Representation?” (13 pp)
Houtzager, P.T. and Lavalle, A.G. (2009): "The Paradox of Civil Society Representation: Constructing New Forms of Democratic Legitimacy in Brazil". (15 pp)
Stokke, K. and Selboe, E. (2009): "Symbolic Representation as Political Practice". (15 pp)
Baiocchi, G. and Heller, P. (2009): "Representation by Design? Variations on Participatory Reforms in Brazilian Municipios". (18 pp)
van Klinken, G. (2009): "Patronage Democracy in Provincial Indonesia". (19 pp)
Harriss, J. (2009): "Compromised Democracy: Observations on Popular Democratic Representation from Urban India" (13 pp)
Beckman, B. (2009): "Trade Unions and Popular Representation: Nigeria and South Africa Compared". (15 pp)
T?rnquist, O., Quimpo, N. and Tharakan, P.K.M. (2009): "Popular Politics of Representation: New Experiences from Indonesia, Kerala (India) and the Philippines" (22 pp)
Webster, N, Stokke, K, and T?rnquist, O (2009): "From Research to Practice: Towards the Democratic Institutionalisation of Nodes for Improved Representation". (8 pp)
Stokke, K. and T?rnquist, O. (eds.) (2013). Democratisation in the Global South: The importance of transformative politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave. Selected chapters:
Stokke, K. and T?rnquist, O (a) “Transformative democratic politics”, (18 pp)
Stokke, K. and T?rnquist, O (b) “The relevance of the Scandinavian experiences”, (20 pp)
Heller P. “Participation and democratic transformation: Building effective citizenship in Brazil, India and South Africa” by (32 pp)
Bull, B. “Social movements and the “pink tide” governments in Latin America: Transformation, inclusion and rejection,” (24 pp)
Stokke, K. and T?rnquist, O (c) “Paradigmatic failures of transformative democratic politics: Indonesia and Sri Lanka in comparative perspective” in Stokke, K. and T?rnquist, O. (eds.) (2013). Democratisation in the Global South: The importance of transformative politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave. (pp 100-124) (24 pp)
Harriss, J. “Transformative democratic politics in liberalising India?” (24 pp)
Jordhus-Lier. D.C. “Trade unions and transformative democratic politics: Political representation and popular mobilisation during local government reform in South Africa” (21 pp)
Baiocchi, G., Braathen, E. and Teixeira, A.C. “Transformation institutionalized? Making sense of participatory democracy in the Lula era” (22 pp)
Manor, J. “Post-clientelist initiatives”, (10 pp)
Pratikno and Lay, C. “From populism to democratic polity: Problems and challenges in Solo, Indonesia,” (22 pp)
Stokke, K. and T?rnquist, O., “Policy implications” (d), (9 pp)
To be found in an article compilation which can be bought at Kopiutsalget at Akademika bookstore at Blindern campus
Andrae, G., and B. Beckman. (2011) “Lagos Tailors, Trade Unions, and Organisations in the Informal Economy.” Paper to the workshop Reintegrating African Informal Economies, organized jointly by the London School of Economics and the NordicAfrica Institute, LSE, London, December 12–13, 2011, as revised. (15 pp)
Brandell, Inga (2012). "Globalisation, Rentier States, Labour and Democracy", in Beckman, Ya’u (eds.) Organising for Democracy, Stockholm University, pp 50-60 (10 pp)
Carothers, T. (2004). Critical Mission: Essays on Democracy Promotion. Washington, D.C., 167-217. (50 pp)
Chatterjee, P.(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 pp)
Jarstad, Anna K. (2008): “Dilemmas of war-to-democracy transitions: theories and concepts”, in Jarstad, A. K and Sisk, T. D. From war to Democracy: Dilemmas of Peacebuilding, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 17-36 (19 pp)
Stokke, Kristian (2013). Conceptualizing the Politics of Citizenship. PCD Journal. Vol. 5(1) (10 pp)
Downloadable articles, books and other texts
You can search the articles and e-books in the e-journal database available at the University of Oslo Library. This requires having access to and being logged onto the UiO system. Contact the Reference Services at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library if you have problems finding the literature.
T?rnquist, O. (2013). Assessing the Dynamics of Democratisation: Transformative Politics, New Institutions, and the Case of Indonesia. New York: Palgrave (pp 1-123)
Bull, B.(2007). “Comparing Critical Junctures: The Democratic Inclusion of Social Movements in Norway and Latin America”, Forum for Development Studies, 34(1):,63-89. (26 pp)
Carothers, T. (2007a). "How Democracies Emerge. The “Sequencing” Fallacy". Journal of Democracy, 18(1): 12-27. (15 pp)
Carothers, T. (2007b). "Misunderstanding Gradualism", Journal of Democracy, 18(3): 18-22. (5 pp)
Khan, M. H. (2005) “Markets, States and Democracy: Patron-client Networks and the Case for Democracy in Developing Countries.” Democratization 12, no. 5, pp. 704–724. (20pp)
Mansfield, E.D. and Snyder, J. (2007). "The Sequencing “Fallacy”". Journal of Democracy, 18(3): 5-9. (5 pp)
Rothstein, Bo. (2011) "Anti-corruption: the indirect ‘big-bang’ approach’", Review of International Political Economy, 18:2, 228-250 (22pp)
Therborn, G, (2012) ‘Class in the 21st Century’, New Left Review, 78, Nov-Dec. pp. 5-29 (24 pp)
Therborn, G. (2014) “New Masses?”, New Left Review, 85, Jan-Feb. pp 7-16. (9 pp)
Fronter
Harriss, J. and T?rnquist, O (2014), Comparative notes on Indian Experiences of Social democracy: Kerala, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, in Reinventing Social democratic Development: Insights from Indian and Scandinavian Intersections (Eds. Chandhoke, Engelstad, Harriss and T?rnquist) (15 pp)
Harriss, J. and T?rnquist, O, (2014a) Reinventing Social Democratic Development: Insights from Indian and Scandinavian Experiences in Wider Comparative Perspective Conference paper and draft concluding chapter in Reinventing Social democratic Development: Insights from Indian and Scandinavian Intersections (Eds. Chandhoke, Engelstad, Harriss and T?rnquist) (15 pp)
Stokke, Kristian (2014). Notes on ‘guiding democracy’ in Burma, (10 pp)
T?rnquist, O. (with Engelstad. F. and Harriss, J.) (2014) ‘Introduction’, in Reinventing Social democratic Development: Insights from Indian and Scandinavian Intersections (Eds. Chandhoke, Engelstad, Harriss and T?rnquist) (10 pp)
Total required reading: 844
Extra non-compulsory Reading
This literature is not part of the required reading. The purpose of the recommended reading is to broaden and deepen the understanding of the subjects addressed in the course.
Carothers, Thomas and De Gramont, Diane (2013). Development Aid Confronts Politics. The Almost Revolution. Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment.
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 pp)