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.

Book

Dalton, Russell J. David M. Farrell, and Ian McAllister (2011/2013): Political Parties and Democratic Linkage: How Parties Organize Democracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Online articles

Albright, Jeremy (2010): “The Multidimensional Nature of Party Competition”, Party Politics, 16 (6): 699–719. 20 p.

Allan, James P. and Lyle Scruggs (2004): “Political Partisanship and Welfare State Reform in Advanced Industrial Societies”, American Journal of Political Science, 48 (3): 496–512. 16 p.

Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd (2014): “Political Parties as Organizations: from Structural Theory to the New Institutionalisms”. Unpublished discussion paper. 15 p. Will be available in Fronter.

Allern, Elin H. and Tim Bale (2012): "Political Parties and Interest Groups: Disentangling Complex Relationships", Party Politics, 18 (1): 7-25. 16 p.

Allern, Elin H. Tim Bale, Simon Otjes, Vibeke Wøien Hansen, Maiken Røed (2017): Relationships between Left-of-Centre Parties and Trade Unions in the 21^st Century: Evidence from 12 Mature Democracies. Conference paper, based on Allern, Elin H. and Tim Bale (2017, eds): Left-of-centre Parties and Trade Unions in the Twenty-First Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 25 p. Available in Fronter.

Baumgartner, Frank and Beth Leech (1998): Basic Interests: The Importance of Groups and in Politics and Political Science, ch. 1-4. 82 p. Available as E-book at UHS (may download PDF).

Beyers, Jan, Rainer Eising and William Maloney (2009): “Researching Interest Group Politics in Europe and Elsewhere: Much We Study, Little We Know?”, West European Politics, 31: 6: 1103-1128. 25 p.

Binderkrantz, Anne S. (2012): “Interest groups in the media: bias and diversity over time”, European Journal of Political Research 51: 117-139. 22 p.

Binderkrantz, Anne S. (2014): “Legislatures, Lobbying and Interest Groups”, ch. in Martin, Shane, Thomas Saalfeld, and Kaare W. Strøm (eds):The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 17 p. Available as E-book at UHS (may download PDF).

Binderkrantz, Anne S., and Simon Krøyer. 2012. “Customizing Strategy: Policy Goals and Interest Group Strategies.” Interest Groups and Advocacy, 1(1): 115-38. 34 p.

Dalton, Russell J. David M. Farrell, and Ian McAllister (2011/2013): Political Parties and Democratic Linkage: How Parties Organize Democracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (chapter 1,2, 5-9). 185 p. Paperback to be purchased.

Diani, Mario (1992): “The Concept of Social Movement”, The Sociological Review 40 (1): 1-25. 24 p.

Dür, Andreas, Patrick Bernhagen and David Marshall (2014):”Interest Group Success in the European Union: When (and Why) Does Business Lose?”, Comparative Political Studies, 48 (8) 951–983. 32p.

Giger, Nathalie and Heike Klüver (forthcoming): Voting against your constituents? How lobbying affects representation, American Journal of Political Science, published online 2015. 16 p.

Hopmann, David N., Christian Elmelund-Præstekær, Erik Albæk,  Rens Vliegenthart, and Claes H. de Vreese (2012): “Party Media Agenda-setting: How Parties Influence Election News Coverage”. Party Politics 18 (2): 173-91. 18 p.

Katz, Richard S. and Peter Mair (1995): “Changing Models of Party Organization and Party Democracy: The Emergence of the Cartel Party”, Party Politics 1: 5-28. 24 p.

Keeman, Hans (2006): “Parties and Government: Features of Governing in Representative democracies”, ch. 14 in Katz, Richard S. og William Crotty (red.): Handbook of Party Politics. London: Sage. Available as E-book at UHS (may download PDF). 16 p.

Klüver, Heike (2011): “The Contextual Nature of Lobbying: Explaining Lobbying Success in the European Union”, European Union Politics 12 (4): 483-506. 24 p.

Kriesi, Hanspeter, Anke Tresch and Margit Jochum (2007): “Going Public in the European Union: Action Reportoires of Western European Collective Political Actors”, Comparative Political Studies, 40 (1): 48–73. 25 p.

Little, C. & Farrell, D. “Party organization and party unity”. In Scarrow, S., Webb, P. & Poguntke, T. eds. Organizing Representation: Political Parties, Representation, and Power. Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2016. ca. 25 p. Available in Fronter.

Mahoney, Christine (2007a): "Networking vs. Allying: The Decision of Interest Groups to Join Coalitions in the US and the EU," Journal of European Public Policy, 14 (2): 366-383. 17 p.

Mahoney, Christine (2007b): "Lobbying Success in the United States and the European Union", Journal of Public Policy 27 (2): 35-56. 21 p.

Kölln, Ann-Kristin (forthcoming): “Party Membership in Europe: Testing Party-level Explanations of Decline”, Party Politics, published online 2014. 13 p.

Marshall, David (2014): “Explaining Interest Group Interactions with Party Group Members in the European Parliament: Dominant Party Groups and Coalition Formation”, Journal of Common Market Studies, 53 (2): 311–329. 18 p.

McMenamin, Iain: “If Money Talks, What Does It Say? Varieties of Capitalism and Business Financing of Parties”, World Politics 64 (1): 1-38.

Müller, Wolfgang (2000): “Political parties in parliamentary democracies: making delegation and accountability work”, European Journal of Political Research 37: 309–333. 25 p.

Rasmussen, Anne and Gert-Jan Lindeboom (2013): “Interest Group-Party Linkage in the 21^st Century: Evidence from Denmark, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom”. European Journal for Political Research, 52 (2): 264–89. 25 p.

Poguntke,Thomas, Susan E. Scarrow, og Paul D. Webb, med Elin H. Allern, Nicholas Aylott, Ingrid van Biezen, Enrico Calossi, Marina Costa Lobo, William P. Cross, Kris Deschouwer, Zsolt Enyedi, Elodie Fabre, David M. Farrell, Anika Gauja, Eugenio Pizzimenti, Petr Kopecký, Ruud Koole, Wolfgang C. Müller, Karina Kosiara-Pedersen, Gideon Rahat, Aleks Szczerbiak, Emilie van Haute, og Tània Verge (2016, online first):"Party rules, party resources and the politics of parliamentary democracies: How parties organize in the 21st Century", Party Politics, Volume 22: 6: 661-78. 18 p.

Saalfeld, Thomas and Kaare W. Strøm (2014): “Political Parties and Legislators”, ch. in Martin, Shane, Thomas Saalfeld, and Kaare W. Strøm (eds): The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 10 p. Available as E-book at UHS (may download PDF).

Salisbury, Robert H. (1969): “An exchange Theory of Interest Groups”, Midwest Journal of Political Science, 13 (1): 1-32. 32 p.

Scarrow, Susan E. (2006): “The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Modern Political Parties: The Unwanted Emergence of Party-Based Politics”, ch. 3 in Handbook of Party Politics. London: Sage. 10 s. Available as E-book at UHS (may download PDF).

Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger (2007): “New Modes of Campaigning”, ch. 40 in Dalton, Russell J. and Hans-Dieter Klingemann (eds): The Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available as E-book at UHS (may download PDF). 20 p.

Strøm, Kaare (1990): “A Behavioral Theory of Competitive Political Parties”, American Journal of Political Science, 34 (2): 565-598. 33 p.

Vassallo, Francesca og Clyde Wilcox (2006): “Party as Carrier of Ideas”, ch. 35 in Katz, Richard S. og William Crotty (red.): Handbook of Party Politics. London: Sage. 9 p. Available as E-book at UHS (may download PDF).

Yoho, James (1998): “The Evolution of a Better Definition of ‘Interest Group’ and its Synonyms”. Social Science Journal, 35 (2): 231-243. 12 p.

Total required reading: ca. 926 pages

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.