Syllabus/achievement requirements

Students will have access to articles when they have a UiO username and password. 

Rosenberg, Marshall 2005, Ch. 1 “The Two Questions” and Ch.11 “Dealing with Conflict and Confrontation” in Speak Peace in a World of Conflic: What You  Say Next Will Change Your World.  Puddler Dancer Press

Dahl, Robert,  Polyarchy, 1971, Yale University Press, pp. 1-16 

Kendall-Taylor, A. Lindstaedt, N. and Frantz, E. [2019], Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes, Oxford University Press. Chapter 2 – Defining Democracy  Decolonizing democracy: Intersections of philosophy and postcolonial theory: Ferit Güven Lexington Books, 2015, ix+120 pp., ISBN: 978-0739199572 

“Please Vote For Me” - documentary 

Welzel, Christian, Theories of Democratization. In Haerpfer, C. [2020], Democratization, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press 

Berg-Schlosser Dirk, Long Waves and Conjunctures of Democratization. In Haerpfer, C. [2020], Democratization, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press 

Putnam, Robert, Making Democracy Work, pp. 3-7 and 83-120 (Chapter 4). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.  

Tarrow, Sidney, “Making Social Science Work Across Space and Time: A Critical Reflection on Robert Putnam’s Making Democracy Work.” American Political Science Review 90 No. 2 (June 1996): 389-397.  
https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.uio.no/stable/2082892

Bermeo, Nancy,  Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.  

Stepan, Alfred, "Political Leadership and Regime Breakdown: Brazil." In Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan, eds., The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes, Vol. 3, Latin America, pp. 110-137. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.  

Acemoglu, Daron and James A. Robinson, Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, pp. xi-xiv 

Mainwaring, Scott and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America: Emergence, Survival, and Fall, pp. 29-62. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 

Brinks, Daniel and Michael Coppedge, "Diffusion Is No Illusion: Neighbor Emulation in the Third Wave of Democracy." Comparative Political Studies 39 No. 4 (2006): 463-489. https://doi-org.ezproxy.uio.no/10.1177%2F0010414005276666  

Brown, Archie,  “Transnational Influences in the Transition from Communism.” Post-Soviet Affairs 16 No. 2 (April-June 2000): 177-200. https://doi-org.ezproxy.uio.no/10.1080/1060586X.2000.10641485

Linz, Juan and Alfred Stepan, Chapter 2 “’Stateness,’ Nationalism, and Democratization,” in Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp. 16-37.

O’Donnell, Guillermo,  “On the State, Democratization, And Some Conceptual Problems: A Latin American View with Glances at Some Post- Communist Countries,” World Development, Vol. 21, No. 8, 1993 https://doi-org.ezproxy.uio.no/10.1016/0305-750X(93)90048-E

Gamboa, Laura, “Opposition at the Margins: Strategies against the Erosion of Democracy in Colombia and Venezuela.” Comparative Politics, 2017. https://doi-org.ezproxy.uio.no/10.5129/001041517821273044

Schedler, Andreas, “The Criminal Subversion of Mexican Democracy.” The Journal of Democracy 25 No. 1 (January 2014): 5-18. https://muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.uio.no/article/535531

Tarek, Masoud, "Has the Door Closed on Arab Democracy?" Journal of Democracy 26, no. 1 (2015): 74-87.https://muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.uio.no/article/565640

Grand, Alfred Stepan and Juan J. Linz, “Democratization Theory and the ‘Arab Spring’,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 24, no. 2 (2013): 15-30. https://muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.uio.no/article/504616 

Schmitter, Philippe C., and Nadine Sika. "Democratization in the Middle East and North Africa: A More Ambidextrous Process?." Mediterranean Politics 22.4 (2017): 443-463. https://doi-org.ezproxy.uio.no/10.1080/13629395.2016.1220109

Safwan Masri, Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly, Chapter 1, "Can Tunisia Serve as a Model?" http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.uio.no/10.5089/9781484308653.002

Bellin, Eva "Drivers of Democracy: Lessons from Tunisia," Crown Center, Brandeis University, Middle East Brief 75, August 2013 http://www.brandeis.edu/crown/publications/meb/meb75.html               

Buzogány, Aron. "Illiberal democracy in Hungary: authoritarian diffusion or domestic causation?." Democratization 24.7 (2017): 1307-1325.  https://doi-org.ezproxy.uio.no/10.1080/13510347.2017.1328676

Beissinger, Mark R. "The semblance of democratic revolution: Coalitions in Ukraine's orange revolution." American Political Science Review 107.3 (2013): 574-592. 
https://doi-org.ezproxy.uio.no/10.1017/S0003055413000294

Applebaum, Anne. "Polarization in Poland: A Warning From Europe." The Atlantic (2018). 
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/poland-polarization/568324/

John Garrard, Democratization in Britain: Elites, Civil Society and Reform since 1800, pp. 1-7, 20-98, 105-120, 279-283. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002.  

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, pp. and 1-5. 

Levitsky, Steven and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die, pp. 1-10, Chapters 4 and 5. 

Schedler, Andreas “The Criminal Subversion of Mexican Democracy.” The Journal of Democracy 25 No. 1 (January 2014): 5-18. Kurt Weyland, “The Threat from the Populist Left.” Journal of Democracy 24 No. 3 (July 2013): 18-32.
https://muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.uio.no/article/535531

Wilpert, Greggory, “Venezuela’s Experiment in Participatory Democracy,” in Thomas Ponniah and Jonathan Eastwood, eds., The Revolution in Venezuela: Social and Political Change under Chávez, pp. 99111 and 114-125. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2011.  

Dahlum, Sirianne. 2019. Modernization Theory – What do we know after 60 years? Annals of Comparative Democratization 16(3): 4-6. https://mk0apsaconnectbvy6p6.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2018/10/2018_16_3-Annals_of_CD_September.pdf https://mk0apsaconnectbvy6p6.kinstacdn.com/wpcontent/uploads/sites/26/2018/10/2018_16_3-Annals_of_CD_September.pdf 

Boix, Carles. & Stokes, Susan C. 2003. Endogenous Democratization. World Politics 55(4 ): 517-549. 
https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.uio.no/stable/25054237

Lipset, Seymour Martin. 1959. “Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy.” American Political Science Review 53(1):69–105. 
https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.uio.no/stable/1951731

Przeworski, Adam & Limongi, Fernando. 1997. Modernization: Theories and Facts. World Politics 49(1): 155-183.  
https://muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.uio.no/article/36370

Knutsen, Carl Henrik. 2015. Why democracies outgrow autocracies in the long run: Civil liberties, information flows and technological change. Kyklos 68(3): 357-384. 
https://doi-org.ezproxy.uio.no/10.1111/kykl.12087

Knutsen, Carl Henrik. 2012 Democracy and Economic Growth: A Review of Arguments and Results. International Area Studies Review 15(4):393-415. 
https://doi-org.ezproxy.uio.no/10.1177/2233865912455268

Baum, Matthew A. and David A. Lake. 2003. The Political Economy of Growth: Democracy and Human Capital. American Journal of Political Science 47(2):333–347. https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy.uio.no/doi/full/10.1111/1540-5907.00023

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