Literature marked with a C are to be found in an article compilation which can be bought from Kopiutsalget at Akademika bookstore at Blindern campus.
Articles from journals are available for free in E-journals that you will find by searching in the base of the University of Oslo Library
Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd, Nicholas Aylott and Flemming Juul Christiansen (2007): “Social democrats and trade unions in Scandinavia: the decline and persistence of institutional relationships”, European Journal of Political Research 46, 5: 607-35. (29p)
Andersson, Jenny (2009): “Nostalgia and Nordic light: The Swedish model as utopia 1930-2007”, Scandinavian Journal of History 34, 3: 229-245. (17p)
Aylott, Nicholas (2002): “Let’s discuss this later: party responses to Euro-division in Scandinavia”, Party Politics 8, 4: 441-461. (21p)
Bergman, Torbjörn & Kaare Strøm (eds.) (2011): The Madisonian Turn. Political Parties and Parliamentary Democracy in Nordic Europe. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Ch. 1 K. Ström & T. Bergman): “Parliamentary democracies under siege?”, ch. 6 (H.M. Narud & K. Strøm): “Norway: from Høndsvaldian parliamentarism back to Madisonian roots?”, ch. 7 (T. Bergman): “Swedish democracy: crumbling political parties, a feeble Riksdag, and technocratic power holders?”, ch. 9 (C. Kite): “East-west conflict and Europeanization: international effects on democratic politics in the Nordic states”, ch. 10 (T. Bergman, K. Strøm): “The Nordics: Demanding citizens, complex polities”. (234p)
Brandal, Nik, Øivind Bratberg & Dag Einar Thorsen (2013): The Nordic Model of Social Democracy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Ch. 3: “Towards a Nordic model (1916-1940)”, ch. 5: “The Nordic model in a global economy”, ch. 6: “The welfare state: the good life or dependency?”, ch. 9: “The sustainability of the welfare state”, ch. 10: “Liberty, empowerment and community”. (106p)
Brochmann, Grete & Anniken Hagelund (2011): “Migrants in the Scandinavian welfare state. The emergence of a social policy problem”, Nordic Journal of Migration Research 1, 1: 13-24. (12p)
Christensen, Tom (2005): “The Norwegian state transformed?”, West European Politics 28, 4: 721-739. (19p)
The Economist (2013): “The next supermodel”. Editorial, 2 February 2013. Available at http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21571136-politicians-both-right-and-left-could-learn-nordic-countries-next-supermodel (3p)
Engelstad, Fredrik (2004): “Democracy at work? Does democracy in working life make sense in the 21st century?” in Ø. Østerud and F. Engelstad (eds.): Power and Democracy. Critical Interventions. London: Ashgate. (23p) C
Häikiö, Liisa & Bjørn Hvinden (2012): “Finding the way between universalism and diversity: a challenge to the Nordic model”, ch. 5 in Anneli Anttonen et al. (eds.): Welfare State, Universalism and Diversity. London: Edward Elgar. (21p)
Halvorsen, Knut & Steinar Stjernø (2008): Work, Oil and Welfare: The Welfare State in Norway. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. Ch. 1 (16p) C
Hilson, Mary (2008): The Nordic Model. Scandinavia Since 1945. London: Reaktion Books. Ch. 4: “Between East and West? The Nordic countries in international relations” (32p) C
Ingebritsen, Christine (1998): The Nordic States and European Unity. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press. Ch. 7 (pp. 167-183). (17p) C
Lindvall, Johannes & Bo Rothstein (2006): “The fall of the strong state”, Scandinavian Political Studies 29, 1: 47-63. (17p).
Nevers, Jeppe (2011). “Reformism and Nordic democracy: a journey in Danish political thought”, pp. 165-178 in Jussi Kurunmäki and Johan Strang (eds.): Rhetorics of Nordic Democracy. Helsinki: Studia Fennica. (14p)
Rothstein, Bo (2004): “Social capital in a working democracy”, ch. 5 in Øyvind Østerud et al.: (eds.): Power and Democracy: Critical Interventions. Farnham: Ashgate, pp.101-12. (30p) C
Sejersted, Francis (2011): The Age of Social Democracy, Norway and Sweden in the Twentieth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press. “Introduction”, ch. 12: “What happened to economic democracy?”, ch. 13: “From equality to freedom?”. (79p) C
Sellers, Jeffrey M. & Anders Lidström (2007): “Decentralization, local government, and the welfare state”, Governance 20, 4: 609-632. (23p)
Skjeie, Hege & Birte Siim (2008): “Tracks, intersections and dead ends: multicultural challenges to state feminism in Denmark and Norway.” Ethnicities 8, 3: 322-344. (23p)
Stokke, Kristian (2010): “The soft power of a small state. Discursive constructions and institutional practices of Norway’s peace engagement”, PCD Journal 2, 1: 137-173. (37p)
Stokke, Kristian & Olle Törnquist (2012): “The relevance of the Scandinavian experiences”, in Democratization in the Global South: The importance of transformative politics’ Basingstoke: Palgrave. (22p)
Trägårdh, Lars (2002): “Sweden and the EU: welfare state nationalism and the spectre of ‘Europe’”, pp. 130-181 in Lene Hansen & Ole Wæver (eds.): European Integration and National Identity: The Challenge of the Nordic States. London: Routledge. (52p)
Trägårdh, Lars (1997): “Statist individualism: on the culturality of the Nordic welfare state”, in Øystein Sørensen & Bo Stråth (eds.): The Cultural Construction of Norden. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press. pp. 253-285. (25p). C
Trägårdh, Lars & Bo Rothstein (2007): “The state and civil society in an historical perspective: the Swedish case”, in L. Trägårdh (ed.): State and Civil Society in Northern Europe. The Swedish Model Reconsidered. Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 229-253. (35p) C
Tvedt, Terje (2006): “The international aid system and the non-governmental organisations: A new research agenda”, Journal of International Development, 18: 677-690. (14p)
Öberg, Per Ola, Torsten Svensson, Peter Munch Christiansen, Asbjørn Nørgaard, Hilmar Rommetvedt, and Gunnar Thesen (2011): “Disrupted exchange and declining corporatism: government authority and interest group capability in Scandinavia”, Government and Opposition 46, 3: 365-391. (27p)
Østerud, Øyvind (2005): “Introduction: the peculiarities of Norway”, West European Politics 28, 4: 705-720. (16 p)
Total: 964 pages.