Syllabus/achievement requirements
Literature marked with C are compiled in a compendium.
Harriss, J., Stokke, K. and Törnquist, O. (Eds.) (2004), Politicising Democracy. The New Local Politics of Democratisation. Houndmills: Palgrave. Selected chapters:
• Harriss, J., Stokke, K. and Törnquist (2004), O.: "Introduction: The New Local Politics of Democratisation". (26 pages)
• Sidel, J.: "Bossism and Democracy in the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia: Towards an Alternative Framework for the Study of ‘Local Strongmen’". (23 pages)
• Tharakan, P.K.M. (2004): "Historical Hurdles in the Course of the People’s Planning Campaign in Kerala, India". (21 pages)
• Stokke, K. and Oldfield, S. (2004): "Social Movements, Socio-economic Rights and Substantial Democratisation in South Africa". (22 pages)
• Rocamora, J. (2004): "More than Difficult, Short of Impossible: Party Building and Local Governance in the Philippines". (22 pages)
• Beckman, B. (2004): "Trade Unions, Institutional Reform and Democracy: Nigerian Experiences with South African and Ugandan Comparisons". (30 pages)
• Törnquist, O. (2004): "The Political Deficit of Substantial Democratisation". (23 pages)
Törnquist, O., Webster, N. and Stokke, K. (Eds.)(forthcoming 2009). Rethinking Popular Representation. Houndmills: Palgrave. Selected chapters:
• Törnquist, O. (forthcoming 2009a): "The problem is representation! Towards an analytical framework" (21 pages)
• Chandhoke, N. (forthcoming 2009): "What is the relationship between participation and representation?" (15 pages)
• Houtzager, P.T. and Lavalle, A.G. (forthcoming 2009): "The paradox of civil society representation: Constructing new forms of democratic legitimacy in Brazil". (15 pages)
• Stokke, K. and Selboe, E. (forthcoming 2009): "Symbolic Representation as Political Practice". (15 pages)
• van Klinken, G. (forthcoming 2009): "Patronage Democracy in provincial Indonesia". (19 pages)
• Baiocchi, G. and Heller, P. (forthcoming 2009): "Representation by design? Variaritions on Participatory reforms in Brazilian Municipios". (18 pages)
• Webster, N. (forthcoming 2009): "Representative governance or the cooptation of citizens? The status of service users in local politics in West Bengal" (15 pages)
• Harriss, John. (forthcoming 2009): "Compromised democracy: Observations on popular democratic representation from urban India" (13 pages)
• Beckman, B. (forthcoming 2009): "Trade unions and popular representation: Nigeria and South Africa compared". (15 pages)
• Törnquist, O., Quimpo, N. amd Tharakan, P.K.M. (forthcoming 2009): "Popular politics of representation: New experiences from Indonesia, Kerala (India) and the Philippines" (22 pages)
• Webster, N, Stokke, K, and Törnquist, O (forthcoming 2009): "From research to practice: Towards the democratic institutionalisation of nodes for improved representation". (8 pages)
Bastian, S. And Luckham R. (2003). Can democracy be designed? The politics of institutional choice in conflict torn societies. London and New York: Zed Books (Introduction, Ch 11, 38 pages) C
Berman, S. (2007). "The Vain Hope for “Correct” Timing". Journal of Democracy, 18(3): 14-17. (4 pages) Link
Collier, R.B. (1999). Paths Towards Democracy: The Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and South America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (chapter 5, 34 pages) C
Carothers, T. (2004). Critical Mission: Essays on Democracy Promotion. Washington, D.C. (pp. 167-217, 50 pages) C
Carothers, T. (2007a). "How Democracies Emerge. The “Sequencing” Fallacy". Journal of Democracy, 18(1): 12-27 (15 pages) Link
Carothers, T. (2007b). "Misunderstanding Gradualism". Journal of Democracy, 18(3): 18-22. (5 pages) Link
Fukuyama, F. (2007). "Liberalism versus State-Building". Journal of Democracy, 18(3): 10-13. (4 pages) Link
Heller, Patrick (2001). ‘Moving the state: the politics of democratic decentralization in Kerala, South Africa and Porto Alegre’ in Politics and Society 29:1 (pp 131-63) (32 pages) Link
Harriss, J. (2006). “Politics is a dirty river": But is there a ‘new politics’ of civil society? Perspectives from global cities of India and Latin America', in Power Matters: Essays on Institutions, Politics and Society in India. Delhi: Open University Press. (30 pages) C
Houtzager, P.P., Acharya, A. and Lavalle, A.G. (2007). Associations and the Exercise of Citizenship in New Democracies Evidence from Sáo Paulo and Mexico City. Brighton: IDS Working Paper 285. (32 pages) Link
Laclau, E. (2007). On Populist Reason. London: Verso. (chapter 1, 17 pages) C
Lier, D. C. and Stokke, K. (2006). "Maximum Working Class Unity? Challenges to Local Social Movement Unionism in Cape Town". Antipode 38(4): 802-824. (23 pages) Link
Mamdani, M. (1996). Citizen and Subject. Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism. Princeton: Princeton University Press (chapters 1 and 8, 48 pages) C
Mansfield, E.D. and Snyder, J. (2007). "The Sequencing “Fallacy”". Journal of Democracy, 18(3): 5-9. (5 pages) Link
Mouzelis, N. (1998). "Modernity, Late Development and Civil Society". In. L. Rudebeck and O. Törnquist (Eds.), Democratization in the Third World. Concrete Cases in Comparative and Theoretical Perspective. Basingstoke: Macmillan. (22 pages). C
Paris, R. (2004). At War’s End. Building Peace After Civil Conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1 and 2, pp. 13-51. (38 pages) C
Shanmugaratnam, N. and Stokke, K. (2008). "Development as a Precursor to Conflict Resolution: A Critical Review of the Fifth Peace Process in Sri Lanka". In: N. Shanmugaratnam (Ed.). Between War and Peace: in Sudan and Sri Lanka: Deprivation and Livelihood Revival. Oxford: James Currey. Pp. 93-115. (23 pages) Link
Rudolph, S.H. (2004). "Is Civil Society the Answer?" In S. Prakash and P. Selle (Eds.), Investigating Social Capital. Comparative Perspective on Civil Society, Participation and Governance. London: Sage. (24 pages) C
Rueschemeyer, D., Stephens, E.H. and Stephens, J.D. (1992). Capitalist Development and Democracy. Cambridge: Polity Press. (chapters 1, 11 pages) C
Sjögren, A. (2001). "State, Civil Society and Democratisation: Theoretical Debates Past and Present". In B. Beckman, E. Hanson and A. Sjögren (Eds.), Civil Society and Authoritarianism in the Third World. Stockholm University, Department of Political Science. (28 pages). C
Stokke, K. with Törnquist, O. and Sindre, G.M (2008). "Conflict resolution and democratisation in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami: A comparative study of Aceh and Sri Lanka". PCD Journal 1(1). (26 pages) Link
Therborn, G. (1983). "The rule of capital and the rise of democracy". In Held, D. et.al States and Society, Oxford: Martin Robertson (11 pages)
Törnquist, O (2008). "Indonesia’s held back democracy and beyond: Introduction and executive briefing". In. Samadhi, W.P and Warouw, N. (eds) Democracy building on the sand. Advances and setbacks in Indonesia. (17 pages) C
Törnquist, O (2009b). Aceh: from liberal to social democratic peace. Paper to International conference on civil conflict and its remedies in Banda Aceh 23-24 February , 2009. (c 20 pages.)
Törnquist, O. and Warouw, N. (2008). "Approaching democracy: Introductory notes on concepts and methods". In In. Samadhi, W.P and Warouw, N. (eds) Democracy building on the sand. Advances and setbacks in Indonesia. (22 pages) C
de Zooeuw, J. (2008). ’Understanding the political transformation of rebell movements’, in de Zooeuw, (ed), From soldiers to politicians. Transforming rebel movements after civil war. Boulder: Lynne Rienner. Ch 1 (33 pages) C
Handouts (10 pages)
Sum: 988 pages
Recommended readings that may be referred to in the lectures:
Beckman, B., Akwetey, E. and Lindström, L. (2000). Labour Unions, Social Pacts and Democratization. UNRISD.
Grugel, J. (2002). Democratization: A Critical Introduction. Houndmills: Palgrave. (individually selected pages for extensive reading, at first hand in chapters 2 and 3, 35 pages)
Schönleitner, Günther (2004): "Can Public Deliberation Democratise State Action?: Municipal Health Councils and Local democracy in Brazil" (30 pp) in Harriss, J., Stokke, K. and Törnquist, O. (Eds.) (2004), Politicising Democracy. The New Local Politics of Democratisation. Houndmills: Palgrave.
Smith, B.C. (2007). Good Governance and Development, Houndmills, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan (individually selected pages for extensive reading, 35 pages)
Törnquist, O. (1999). Politics and Development: A Critical Introduction. London: Sage. (pages 5-15, 31-40 and chapters 5-11 for extensive reading, 25 pages)
Törnquist, O. (forthcoming 2009c). "Civic Action and Deficit Democracy". In: P. Selle and S. Prakash (Eds.), Beyond Civil Society. London: Routledge. (16 pages)
Törnquist, O. (2009d). "Democracy in Aceh. Diagnosis and prognosis". In Törnquist, O, Adi Prasetyo, S, and Birks, T (eds), Aceh: The role of democracy for peace and reconstruction. Jogjakarta: PCD Press (21 pages)