Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books

Levitsky, Steven and Daniel Ziblatt (2018). How Democracies Die. What History Reveals about Our Future. New York: Penguin. (231 pages)

Taylor, Steven L., Matthew S. Shugart, Arend Lijphart and Bernard Grofman (2014). A Different Democracy. American Government in a Thirty-One-Country Perspective. New Haven: Yale University Press. (350 pages)

Articles

Annals of Comparative democratization special issue, “Should Modernization theory survive” – 2018 (40 pages) (pdf).

Ansell, Ben, and David Samuels (2010). "Inequality and democratization: A contractarian approach." Comparative Political Studies 43: 1543-1574 (32 pages)

Boix, Carles, Michael Miller and Sebastian Rosato (2013). "A complete data set of political regimes, 1800–2007." Comparative Political Studies 46: 1523-1554 (32 pages)

Cheibub, José Antonio, Zachary Elkins and Tom Ginsburg (2014). “Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism”, British Journal of Political Science 44: 515-544 (30 pages)

Cheibub, José Antonio, Shane Martin and Bjørn Erik Rasch (2015). “Government Selection and Executive Powers: Constitutional Design in Parliamentary Democracies”, West European Politics 38: 969-996 (28 pages)

Coppedge, Michael, et al. (2011). "Conceptualizing and measuring democracy: A new approach." Perspectives on Politics 9: 247-267 (21 pages)

Coppedge, Michael, et al. (2016). "Measuring high level democratic principles using the V-Dem data." International Political Science Review 37: 580-593 (14 pages)

Cox, Gary W. (2006). “The Organization of Democratic Legislatures”. Chapter 8 in Donald A. Wittman and Barry R. Weingast, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy. Oxford University Press (21 pages) (pdf). 

Dahlum, Sirianne, and Carl Henrik Knutsen (2017). "Democracy by demand? Reinvestigating the effect of self-expression values on political regime type." British Journal of Political Science 47: 437-461. (25 pages)

Doucouliagos, Hristos, and Mehmet Ali Ulubaşoğlu (2008). "Democracy and economic growth: a meta‐analysis." American Journal of Political Science 52: 61-83. (23 pages)

Hegre, Håvard (2014). "Democracy and armed conflict." Journal of Peace Research 51: 159-172. (14 pages)

Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter (2017). “Trump, Condorcet and Borda: Voting paradoxes in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries”, European Journal of Political Economy vol. 50. (7 pages)

Ross, Michael (2006). "Is democracy good for the poor?" American Journal of Political Science 50: 860-874. (15 pages)

Scheve, Kenneth, and David Stasavage (2017). "Wealth Inequality and Democracy." Annual Review of Political Science 20: 451-468. (18 pages)

Stasavage, David (2016). "Representation and consent: why they arose in Europe and not elsewhere." Annual Review of Political Science 19: 145-162. (18 pages)

Strøm, Kaare, Wolfgang C. Müller and Daniel Markham Smith (2010). “Parliamentary Control of Coalition Governments”, Annual Review of Political Science 13: 517-535 (19 pages)

Tsebelis, George (1994). “Decision Making in Political Systems: Veto Players in Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, Multicameralism and Multipartyism”, British Journal of Political Science 25: 289-325 (37 pages).

Tsebelis, George (2017). “Time Inconsistency of Long Constitutions”, Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Summer 2017. pp. 42-45 (4 pages) (pdf).

Online articles:

• are available through the University Library databases.
• are limited to computers that are connected UiO's network. You can get access from home and when travelling.
• are easy to find. Tutorials and help to access journals and other restricted library resources.