Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books

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, 7-9). 134 p

Articles found in compendium

Allern Elin H. and Tània Verge (2017): “Still Connecting with Society? Political Parties’ Formal Links with Social Groups in the 21st century?”, ch. 5 in Poguntke, Thomas, Susan E. Scarrow and Paul D. Webb (eds): Organizing Representation: Political Parties, Participation, and Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 29 p.

Little, C. & Farrell, D. (2017) “Party organization and party unity”, ch. 12 n Scarrow, S., Webb, P. & Poguntke, T. eds. Organizing Representation: Political Parties, Representation, and Power. Oxford University Press. 21 p.

 Online articles

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

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

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.

Beyers, Jan (2017). “Comment On: What Is Access? A Discussion of the Definition and Measurement of Interest Group Access by Binderkrantz and Pedersen. European Political Science: 16: 320-21. 2 p.

Binderkrantz, Anne S. and Helene Helboe-Pedersen (2017): “What Is Access? A Discussion of the Definition and Measurement of Interest Group Access. 16: 306-319. 13 p.

Binderkrantz, Anne S., Laura Chaqués Bonafont and Darren R. Halpin (2016): “Diversity in the News? A Study of Interest Groups in the Media in the UK, Spain and Denmark”, British Journal of Political Science, 47: 313–328. 15 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

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

Dür, Andreas and Gemma Matteo (2013):  Gaining access or going public? Interest group strategies in five European countries. European Journal of Political Research 52: 660–686. 26 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.

Finseraas, Henning and Kaare Vernby (2011): “What parties are and what parties do: partisanship and welfare state reform in an era of austerity”. Socio-Economic Review, 9 (4): : 613–638. 25 p.

Giger, Nathalie and Heike Klüver (2016): Voting against your constituents? How lobbying affects representation, American Journal of Political Science, 60 (1): 190–205 16 p.

Hojnacki, Marie, David C. Kimball, Frank R. Baumgartner, Jeffrey M. Berry, and Beth L. Leech (2012): ‘Studying Organizational Advocacy and Influence: Reexamining Interest Group Research’. Annual Review of Political Science: 2012: 379-99. 20 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.

Junk, Wiebke M. and Anne Rasmussen (2018): “Framing by the Flock: Collective Issue Definition and Advocacy Success”, Comparative Political Studies. Published online, p. 1-31. 30 p. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414018784044

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

Klüver, Heik (2018): “Setting the Party Agenda: Interest Groups, Voters and Issue Attention”. British Journal of Political Science, published online, p. 1-22, doi:10.1017/S0007123418000078.  21 p.

Meyer, Thomas M., Martin Haselmayer and Markus Wagner (2017): “Who Gets into the Papers? Party Campaign Messages and the Media”, British Journal of Political Science, published online, p. 1-22, doi:10.1017/S0007123417000400. 21 p.

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 (2016): “Party Membership in Europe: Testing Party-level Explanations of Decline”, Party Politics, 22 (4): 465–477. 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 (2012): “If Money Talks, What Does It Say? Varieties of Capitalism and Business Financing of Parties”, World Politics 64 (1): 1-38. 37 p.

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):"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).

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: ca. 950 pages.

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