DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS
RECOMMENDED READING
The books listed below are taken from the Module Outlines for each module. This is
intended to give you an idea of some of the books that you are likely to need throughout
the first year of your studies. Module Outlines will be given out on the Monday of Intro
Week.
You do NOT need to buy all of these books or read them all before commencing your
studies. But you will find it useful to buy and read at least one for each course. They
can all be purchased in paperback from the Waterstones website
http://www.waterstones.com and you may be able to find some on the second hand online
bookseller http://www.abebooks.co.uk
POL109 COMPARING MODERN POLITIES
Ludger Helms,
Presidents, Prime Ministers and
Chancellors: Executive Leadership in
Western Democracies, Palgrave Macmillan,
2005
Thomas Poguntke & Paul Webb (eds),
The Presidentialization of Politics. A
Comparative Study of Western
Democracies, Oxford University Press,
2007
POL110 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN POLITICAL
THOUGHT
Recommended for Purchase
John Morrow,
History of Western
Macmillan, 2005
Political
Thought,
David Boucher & Paul Kelly,
Political Thinkers: From Socrates to the
Present, OUP, 2003
Geraint Williams,
Political Theory in Retrospect: From the
Ancient Greeks to the 20th Century, Edward
Elgar Publishing, 1992
POL111 THE POLITICS OF GLOBALISATION
There is no single ‘course textbook’, but either of the following are worth buying and
reading.
John Baylis & Steve Smith, eds.,
Jan. A. Scholte,
The Globalization of World Politics, Oxford
University Press, 2007
Globalization: a Critical Introduction,
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
POL112 BRITISH POLITICS
There is no single ‘course textbook’, but you are strongly recommended to purchase
one of the following:
Dennis Kavanagh, David Richards,
Martin Smith and Andrew Geddes,
‘British Politics’, Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2006
Stuart D McAnulla,
‘British Politics: a Critical Introduction’,
Continuum, 2006
John Kingdom,
Government and Politics in Britain, 3rd
Edition, Polity 2003
Colin Hay, ed.,
British Politics Today, Polity 2002
David Richards and Martin Smith,
Governance and Public Policy in the UK,
Oxford University Press 2002
John Dearlove and Peter Saunders,
Polity 2000
Introduction to British Politics, 3rd Edition,
Cowley, P., Hay, C. and Heffernan, R
(eds) (2011)
‘Developments in British Politics 9’,
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
POL113 INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL ANALYSIS
There is no single text book which deals with all the themes covered on this module.
However, there are several books which provide a good introduction to many of the
relevant issues, and students should give serious consideration to purchasing their own
copy of one or more of these works. The most useful general books include:
Anthony H Birch,
The Concepts and Theories of Modern
Democracy, Routledge, 2000
John Hoffman & Paul Graham,
Introduction to Political Concepts, Pearson,
2006
Andrew Heywood,
Political Ideologies, Palgrave 2007
Andrew Heywood,
Key Concepts in Politics, Palgrave, 2000