Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books and compendiums can be bought in Akademika bookstore at Blindern campus. You will need a valid semester card to buy compendiums.

Books

Donnelly, Marc, Norton Claire (2011), Doing History. Routledge. Ch. 1-10. (194p)

Gerring, John (2007) Case Study Research. Cambridge University Press. Ch. 1-6. (194p)

King, Gary, Robert O. Keohane and Sidney Verba (1994) Designing Social Inquiry. Princeton University Press. Ch. 1-5. (227p)

Trachtenberg, Marc, (2006), The Craft of International History. A Guide to Method. Princeton University Press, Ch.1-5. (168p.)

Online articles

AHR (2006), AHR conversation on transnational history, American Historical Review 12: 1441-1464. (23p)

Charmaz, Kathy (2003) “Qualitative interviewing and grounded theory analysis”, pp. 311-330 in James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gudrium (eds.) Inside Interviewing: New Lenses, New Concerns. London: Sage. (20p) [Fronter]

Clavin Patricia (2005) “Defining transnationalism”, Contemporary European History 14: 421-439. (18p)

Collier, David, and James Mahoney (1996). "Insights and Pitfalls: Selection Bias in Qualitative Research", World Politics, 49:1, 56–91. (36p)

Fujii, Lee Ann (2010) “Shades of truth and lies: interpreting testimonies of war and violence”, Journal of Peace Research 47, 2: 231-241. (11p)

Freedman, David A. (2010). "On Types of Scientific Inquiry: The Role of Qualitative Reasoning", in Henry E. Brady and David Collier (eds.), Rethinking social inquiry: diverse tools, shared standards. Rowman & Littlefield, 221–36. (16p).

Gaskarth, Jamie (2006) “Discourses and ethics: the social construction of British foreign policy”, Foreign Policy Analysis 2: 325-341. (17p)

Geddes, Barbara (1990) “How the cases you choose affect the answers you get: selection bias in comparative politics”, Political Analysis 2, 1: 131-150. (20p)

Hopf, Ted (2002) Social Construction of International Politics: Identities and Foreign Policies, Moscow, 1955 and 1999. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Ch. 1. (38p) [Fronter]

Levy, Jack S. (2008) “Case studies: types, designs, and logic of inference”, Conflict Management and Peace Science 25: 1-18. (18p)

Lieberman, Evan S. (2005) “Nested analysis as a mixed-method strategy for comparative research”, American Political Science Review 99, 3: 435-452. (18p)

Mahoney, James and Gary Goertz (2006) “A tale of two cultures: contrasting quantitative and qualitative research”, Political Analysis 14, 3: 227-249. (23p)

Maynard, Jonathan Leader (2013) “A map of the field of ideological analysis”, Journal of Political Ideologies 18, 3: 299-327. (29p)

Megoran, Nick (2006) “For ethnography in political geography: experiencing and re-imagining Ferghana Valley boundary closures”, Political Geography 25: 622-640. (19p)

Posner, Daniel (2004) “The political salience of cultural differences: why Chewas and Tumbukas are allies in Zambia and adversaries in Malawi”, American Political Science Review 98, 4: 529-546. (18p)

Rauh, Christian (2015) “Communicating supranational governance? The salience of EU affairs in the German Bundestag, 1991-2013”, European Union Politics 16: 116-138. (23p)

Sachsenmaier, Dominic (2012) Global History, in docupedia – Zeitgeschichte. Terms, Methods and Debates in Contemporary History

Tarrow, Sidney (2010). "The Strategy of Paired Comparison: Toward a Theory of Practice", Comparative Political Studies, 43:2, 230–59. (30p)

Wedeen, Lisa (2010) “Reflections on ethnographic fieldwork in political science”, Annual Review of Political Science 13: 255-72. (18p)

Online articles:

Total: 1051 pages

 

 

 

 

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