Schedule

Date Time Activity   Location Lecturer
22.06.15
Monday
08:15-10:00

Introduction: Information about the course; getting to know each other. 

Arter (2008): chapter 1

Hylland Eriksen (1993)
Hilson (2008): Introduction.

ES Auditorium 6 Langsæther, P.E.
23.06.15
Tuesday
08:15-10:00

State- and nation-building in the case of Norway: 1814-2014

Heidar (2001): Chapter 1.

Heidar (2004): Chapter 1.

Stortinget (2014)
Arter (2008): Chapter 2.

Heidar (2001): Chapter 2
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24.06.15
Wednesday
08:15-10:00 Cleavages and social conflict in Scandinavia I: The Old Cleavages

Arter (2008): Chapter 3 & 4.

Knutsen (2004), pp 60-73

Optional:
Lipset & Rokkan (1967)
Langsæther (2014)
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25.06.15
Thursday
08:15-10:00 Cleavages and social conflict in Scandinavia II: New Cleavages?

Knutsen (2004), pp 73-80

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26.06.15
Friday
08:15-10:00 Party families and the Scandinavian party system

Arter (2008: ch. 5 & 6)

Mair & Mudde (1998)

Urwin (1997)
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29.06.15
Monday
08:15-10:00 The Old Right: Liberals and Conservatives

Kirchner (1988)
Leiphart & Svåsand (1988)

Venstre (2014)
von Beyme (1985)

Høyre (2014a)

Optional: Høyre (2014b)

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30.06.15
Tuesday
08:15-10:00 The Old Left: Communism & Social Democracy

Eriksen (1993)
Therborn (1992)

Meyer (2010)

Economist (2010)

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01.07.15
Wednesday
08:15-10:00 The Centre: Agrarian & Christian Democrats

Christensen (1997)
Senterpartiet (2014)

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02.07.15
Thursday
08:15-10:00 The New Left: Left Socialist and Green parties Christensen (1996)
Dolezal (2010)
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03.07.15
Friday
08:15-10:00 The New Right: Radical right parties in Scandinavia

Bjørklund & Goul-Andersen (2008)

Economist (2011a & 2011b)

Widfeldt (2010)

Optional: Kirchick (2011)
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06.07.15
Monday
08:15-10:00 Zooming in: Voting behaviour in Scandinavia

 Optional: Bengtsson et al. (2014)

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07.07.15
Tuesday
08:15-10:00 The Nordic welfare state I: History, structure, comparison.

Arter (2008), chapter 8


Esping-Andersen (1990): Chapter 1.
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08.07.15
Wednesday
08:15-10:00 The Nordic welfare state II: Still economically and morally viable?

Brandal et al. (2013): ch. 9.

Brochman (2011)

ES Auditorium 6 Langsæther, P.E.
13.07.15
Monday
08:15-10:00 Immigration I: Social Capital and the Welfare State

Delhey and Newton (2005)

Putnam (2007)

Kumlin and Rothstein (2005)

Optional: Langsæther (2013)
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14.07.15
Tuesday
08:15-10:00

Immigration II: Multiculturalism

Brochmann & Kjeldstadli (2008)
Kymlicka (2010)

Hilson (2008): Chapter 5

Hylland-Eriksen (2006)
Modood (2007)

Optional:

Hedetoft (2010)

Mouritsen (????)

Levey Brahm and Modood (2009)

ES Auditorium 6 Langsæther, P.E.
15.07.15
Wednesday
08:15-10:00

Immigration III: July 22.

Film: «This World: Norway's Massacre» (BBC documentary on July 22)

or «Til ungdommen»

Wollebæk (2012) 

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16.07.15
Thursday
08:15-10:00 Norden and the world I: The EU and European integration Arter (2008): Chapter 13 ES Auditorium 6 Langsæther, P.E.
17.07.15
Friday
08:15-10:00 Norden and the world II: Security policy & NATO Arter (2008): Chapter 12 ES Auditorium 6 Langsæther, P.E.
20.07.15
Monday
08:15-10:00 The Nordic welfare state III: Excursion to NAV   ES Auditorium 6 Langsæther, P.E.
21.07.15
Tuesday
08:15-10:00 Zooming in: Norway's foreign policy – a moral superpower?  Alm (2007)
Dahl (2006)
Economist (2013)
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22.07.15
Wednesday
08:15-10:00 Group presentation   ES Auditorium 6 Langsæther, P.E.
23.07.15
Thursday
08:15-10:00 Group presentation   ES Auditorium 6 Langsæther, P.E.
24.07.15
Friday
08:15-10:00 Group presentation   ES Auditorium 6 Langsæther, P.E.
27.07.15
Monday
08:15-10:00 Finishing the group presentations if we didn’t have time for all in week 5.

Contemporary political debates in Norway: What's hot?

Tentative: The topic may be

subject to change.

ES Auditorium 6 Langsæther, P.E.
28.07.15
Tuesday
08:15-10:00

Exam review: What & where, questions & answers, short summary

of the course.

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