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Collier, Ruth 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).
Engelstad, Fredrik (2004): ‘Democracy at Work? Does Democracy in Working Life Make Sense in the 21st Century?’, in Österud, Ö, and Engelstad, F, (eds), Power and Democracy. Critical Interventions, Hants and Burlington: Ashgate (pp 23 ) C
Engelstad, Fredrik (2009): ‘Challenges to Democracy: Fairness and Participation’, in M. and Hamilton, P. (eds), Raymond Boudon. A life in Sociology, volume three, Oxford: Bardwell (pp. 16) C
Esping-Andersen, Gösta (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). C
Esping-Andersen, Gösta (1990): The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity Press (c. 100 pp selected)
Hagtvet, Bernt & Erik 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). C
Halvorsen, Knut And Stjernø, Steinar (2008): Work, Oil and Welfare: The Welfare State in Norway, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. Ch 1 and 10 (33 pp) C
Kjeldstadli, Knut (2007): “Norwegian History” (pp. 15). C
Kjeldstadli, Knut (2009): ‘Should Integration be The Goal?, A Policy for Difference and Community’, in Sharam Alghasi, Thomas Hylland Eriksen og Halleh Ghorashi (eds.): Paradoxes of Cultural Recognition. Perspectives from Northern Europe, Ashgate, Farnham and Burlington 2009, pp.59-73. (14pp) C
Lindvall, Johannes & Bo Rothstein (2006): ‘The Fall of the Strong State’, in Scandinavian Political Studies, Vol. 29, No 1, March. pp. 47-63 (pp. 17). Link
Moene, Kalle & 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). Link
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Rose, Lawrence (2004): ‘Local government and politics’, Ch. 10 in Heidar, K. Nordic Politics: Comparative Perspectives, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget (pp. 18).
Rose, Lawrence (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). C
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Skjeie, H. & Siim, B. (2008): “Tracks, Intersections and dead ends: Multicultural challenges to state feminism in Denmark and Norway.” Ethnicities, Vol. 8 (3), pp. 322-344. (pp. 22) Link
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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). C
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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). Link
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)
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). Link
Recommended readings (recommended for all)
Apter, David (1999): Scandinavian Politics Today, Manchester: Manchester University Press. Ch 1-4 and 7-8.
Apter, David (2006): Democracy in Scandinavia: Consensual, majoritarian or mixed? Manchester: Manchester University Press, ch 4, 6, and 7.
Callaghan, John (2000): The Retreat of social democracy, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Collier, R.B. (1999): Paths Towards Democracy: The Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and South America, Ch. 5. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Esping-Andersen, G. (1988): Politics Against Markets: The Social Democratic Road to Power. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. (the rest of the book)
Ervasti, H, Fridberg, T, Hjerm, M, and Ringdal, K. (eds.) (2008): Nordic Social Attitudes in a European Perspective, Glos: Edward Elgar.
Halvorsen, Knut and Stjernö, Steinar (2008): Work, oil and welfare: The welfare state in Norway. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget Hernes, Helga (1987): “Welfare state and woman power. Essays in state feminism”. Universitetsforlaget. (in particular the introduction and conclusion chapters).
Hilson, Mary( 2008): The Nordic Model. Scandinavia since 1945, London: Reaktion Books.
Misgeld, Klaus , Molin, Karl and Åmark, Klas (1992) (eds), Creating Social Democracy: A Century of the Social Democratic Labor Party in Sweden. (Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Universiy Press).
Trägårdh, L. (ed) (2007): State and Civil Society in Northern Europe: The Swedish Model reconsidered. Ch. 4. Oxford & New York: Berghanh Book. (pp. 39).