Syllabus/achievement requirements
Baldersheim, H. (2004): ‘Nordic regions in a European perspective’, Ch. 11, in Heidar, K. (ed) Nordic Politics: Comparative Perspectives. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget (pp.22).
Berman, S. (2006): The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp 152-176, 200-218 (pp. 40).
Berman, S. (1998): ‘Path dependency and Political Action: Reexamining Responses to the Depression’, Comparative Politics, 30, 4 July. (pp. 20). http://bc.barnard.edu/~sberman/articles/path%20dependency%20and%20political%20action.pdf
Christiansen, P. M. & Lise Togeby (2006): ‘Power and Democracy in Denmark: Still a Viable Democracy’, in Scandinavian Political Studies, Volume 29, No. 1, March. pp. 1-24 (pp. 24). http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/scps/29/1
Collier, R. B. (1999): Paths Towards Democracy: The Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and South America, Ch. 1-3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (pp. 100).
Esping-Andersen, G. (1988): Politics Against Markets: The Social Democratic Road to Power. Princeton. N.J: Princeton University Press. pp 3-178, 180-243, 314-324 (pp. 200).
Gustavsson, S. (2006): ‘What Makes Popular Government Self-reinforcing?’ in Scandinavian Political Studies, Vol. 29, No.1, March. pp. 65-74. (pp. 10). http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/scps/29/1
Hagtvet, B. & E. Rudeng (1984): ‘Scandinavia: Achievements, Dilemmas, Challenges’, in Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 113, no.2. pp. 227-57 (pp. 30).
Kjeldstadli, K. (): “Norwegian History” (pp. 15).
Lindvall, J. & B. Rothstein (2006): ‘The Fall of the Strong State’, in Scandinavian Political Studies, Vol. 29, No 1, March. pp. 47-63 (pp. 17). http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/scps/29/1
Moene, K. & M. Wallerstein (2006): ‘Social Democracy as a Development Strategy’, in P. Bardhan, S. Bowles and M. Wallerstein (ed.): Globalisation and Egalitarian Redistribution. Russel Sage Foundation. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. Working paper version. (pp. 29). http://www.oekonomi.uio.no/memo/memopdf/memo3503.pdf
Nordby, T. (2004): ‘Patterns of Corporatist Intermediation’ in Heidar, K. Nordic Politics: Comparative perspectives. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. pp. 98-107 (pp. 10).
Rose, L. (2004): ‘Local government and politics’, Ch. 10 in Heidar, K. Nordic Politics: Comparative Perspectives, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget (pp. 18).
Rothstein, Bo (2004): ‘Social Capital in a working democracy’, Ch. 5 in Österud et al Power and democracy : critical interventions. Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate. pp.101-12.(pp.30).
Rokkan, Stein (1970): ‘Norway: Numerical Democracy and Corporate Pluralism’, in Robert A. Dahl (ed) Political Oppositions in Western Democracies. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. (pp. 40).
Rokkan, Stein (1967): "Geography, Religion and Social Class: Crosscutting Cleavages in Norwegian Politics’, in S.M. Lipset og Stein Rokkan (eds.) Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-National Perspectives. New York: Free Press. (pp. 40).
Trägårdh, Lars (1997): ‘Statist Individualism: On the Culturality of the Nordic Welfare State’ in Sørensen, Ø. & B. Stråth, The Cultural Construction of Norden. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press. pp. 253-285. (pp. 25).
Trägårdh, Lars (ed) (2007): State and Civil Society in Northern Europe: The Swedish Model reconsidered. Oxford & New York: Berghanh Book. Ch 1, 7, 8 (65 pp.).
West European Politics, Vol. 28, No. 4, Sept 2005 – Special Issue on norway: The Transformation of a Political System:
• Øyvind Østerud: Intro: The Pecularities of Norway
• Tom Christensen: The Norwegian State Transformed?
• Hilmar Rommetvedt: Norway: Resources count, but votes decide?
• Harald Baldersheim & Fimreite: Norwegian centre-periphery relations in flux
• Kaare Strøm et. al: A more fragile chain of governance in Norway
• Knut Heidar: Norwegian parties and the party system
• Ola Listhaug: Oil wealth dissatisfaction and political trust in Norway
• Tommy Tranvik & Selle: State and citizens in Norway
• Nina C. Raaum: Gender equality and political representation
• Guldbrandsen & Engelstad: Elite consensus on the Norwegian Welfare state model
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Recommended readings (recommended for foreign students, compulsory for Scandinavian students)
Bergman, T. & K. Strøm (eds) (2004): ‘Parliamentary Democracy in Scandinavia: Shifting Dimensions of Citizen control’ in Scandinavian Political Studies (special issue), Vol 27, No. 2, June. pp. 89-225 (pp. 136). http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/scps/27/2
Berman, S. (2006): The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press. (the rest of the book)
Recommended readings (recommended for all)
Trägårdh, L. (ed) (2007): State and Civil Society in Northern Europe: The Swedish Model reconsidered. Ch. 4. Oxford & New York: Berghanh Book. (pp. 39).
Esping-Andersen, G. (1988): Politics Against Markets: The Social Democratic Road to Power. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. (the rest of the book)
Collier, R.B. (1999): Paths Towards Democracy: The Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and South America, Ch. 5. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.