Literature for SK1135, Swedish Politics in a Comparative Perspective, spring 2010
Department of Political Science
SK1135, Swedish Politics in a Comparative Perspective, 15 Higher education credits
Course Literature, spring 2010
Mandatory Literature
Books
Larsson, Torbjörn & Henry Bäck (2008). Governing and Governance in Sweden.
Lund: Studentlitteratur, chapter 2, 4, 7 and 13.
Articles
Dahlerup, Drude & Lenita Freidenwall (2005). Quotas as a ‘Fast track’ to Equal
Representation for Women – Why Scandinavia is no longer the model.
International Feminist Journal of Politics, vol. 7/1, p.26-48.
Hay, Colin (2006). What’s Globalization Got to Do with It? Economic
Enterdependence and the Future of European Welfare States. Government and
Opposition, 41(1):1-22.
Lindbom, Anders (2001). Dismantling the Social Democratic Welfare Model? Has
the Swedish Welfare State Lost Its Defining Characteristic? Scandinavian Political
Studies, 24(3):171-193.
Ruth, Arne (1984). The Second New Nation: The Mythology of Modern Sweden.
Daedalus, vol. 113, p.53-96.
Towns, Ann (2002). Paradoxes of (In) Equality. Something is Rotten in the Gender
Equal State of Sweden. Cooperation and Conflict, 37(2):157-179.
Book Sections
Elder, et al (1982). The Scandinavian States: the Consensual Democracies. The
Consensual Democracies? Oxford: Martin Robertsson, p.9-28.
Hanock, Donald (1998). The context of Swedish Politics. Politics of Western Europe.
New Jersey: Chatham, p.433-445.
Sainsbury, Diane (1996). Gendering dimensions of welfare states. Gender, equality
and welfare states. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, p.33-46.
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Birgitta Niklasson, e-mail: birgitta.niklasson@pol.gu.se, phone: +46 (0)730 228660
Literature for SK1135, Swedish Politics in a Comparative Perspective, spring 2010
Optional Literature
Political Parties
Sören Holmberg, “Are Political Parties Necessary?” Electoral Studies 22 (2003), 287299
Merle Black, “The Transformation of the Southern Democratic Party,” The Journal of
Politics 66:4 (November 2004), 1001-1017.
Marks, G., Hooghe, L., Nelson, M., Edwards, E., 2006. Party competition and
European integration in east and west, different structure, same causality.
Comparative Political Studies 3 (2), 155-175.
David Samuels, “Presidentialized Parties: The Separation of Power and Political Party
Organization and Behavior.” Comparative Political Studies May 2002
Michael Coppedge. 1998. “The Dynamic Diversity of Latin American Party
Systems.” Party Politics 4(4): 547-568
Lubbers, Marcel, Me´rove Gijsberts, and Peer Scheepers. 2002. ‘‘Extreme RightWing Voting in Western Europe.’’ European Journal of Political Research
41:345–378.
Electoral Systems
Gerring, John. 2005. “Minor Parties in Plurality Electoral Systems." Party Politics
11.1: 79-107.
Boix, Carles. 1999. “Setting the Rules of the Game: The Choice of Electoral
Systems in Advanced Democracies.” American Political Science Review 93(3):
609-24
Mozaffar, Shaheen, James Scarritt, and Glen Galaich. 2003. ”Electoral Institutions,
Ethnopolitical Cleavages and Party Systems in Africa’s Emerging Democracies.”
American Political Science Review 97:379-90
Kunicova and Rose-Ackerman, 2005. Electoral Rules as Constraints on Corruption.
British Journal of Political Science 35(4): 573-606
Birch, Sara, 2007. Electoral systems and the manipulation of elections, Comparative
Political Studies 40 (12): 1533–1556.
Political Systems
North, Douglass and Barry Weingast (1989), "Constitutions and Commitment: The
Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth Century
England", Journal of Economic History, vol.49 no.4, pp.803-832.
Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson (2003) “The Rise of
Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth”, American
Economic Review, vol.95, no.3, pp.546-579
Przeworski, Adam and Fernando Limongi (1997) “Modernization: Theories and
Facts”, World Politics, vol.49. no.2, pp.155-183
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Course Coordinator:
Birgitta Niklasson, e-mail: birgitta.niklasson@pol.gu.se, phone: +46 (0)730 228660
Literature for SK1135, Swedish Politics in a Comparative Perspective, spring 2010
Gerring, John, Philip J. Bond, William T. Barndt, and Carola Moreno. 2005.
“Democracy and Economic Growth: A Historical Perspective.” World Politics,
57(3): 323–64.
Bartels, Larry (2005) “Homer Gets a Tax Cut: Inequality and Public Policy in the
American Mind”, Perspectives on Politics, vol.3, no.1, pp.15-31
Charron, Nicholas and Victor Lapuente. Forthcoming. “Does Democracy Produce
Quality of Government?” European Journal of Political Research
Regional and Central Governments
Ron Watts,”Federalism Federal Political Systems, and Federations,” Annual Review
of. Polit. Sci. 1998. 1:11737
Joseph Zimmerman, “Congressional Preemption During the George W. Bush
Administration,” Publius: The Journal of Federalism 37 (Summer 2007).
Daniel J. Elazar. 1997. “http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=01925121%28199707%2918%3A3%3C237%3ACUAFS%3E2.0.CO%3B23Contrasting Unitary and Federal Systems”, International Political Science
Review, vol. 18, no.3, 327-251
Thomas Fleiner. “Recent Developments of Swiss Federalism”. Publius: The Journal
of Federalism 2002 32(2):97-124;
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Course Coordinator:
Birgitta Niklasson, e-mail: birgitta.niklasson@pol.gu.se, phone: +46 (0)730 228660