Books and compendiums can be bought in Akademika bookstore at Blindern campus. You will need a valid semester card to buy compendiums.
Books
Arter, David (2016): Scandinavian Politics Today. Third Edition. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 437 pages.
Knutsen, Oddbj?rn ed. (2017): The Nordic models in political science. Challenged, but still viable?, Bergen Fagbokforlaget. 264 pages.
- Baldersheim et al. (2017): “LOCAL AND REGIONAL GOVERNMENT IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES: CO-OPERATIVE DECENTRALIZATION”
- Berntzen (2017): “STATE- AND NATION-BUILDING IN THE NORDIC REGION: PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS”
- Bjurstr?m & Christensen (2017): GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS AND STATE REFORMS
- Christensen et al. (2017): KNOWLEDGE REGIMES IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES
- Heidar & Rasch (2017): POLITICAL REPRESENTATION AND PARLIAMENTARISM
- Knutsen (2017a): “INTRODUCTION: THE NORDIC MODELS”,
- Knutsen (2017b): “POLITICAL PARTIES AND PARTY SYSTEMS”
- Knutsen (2017c): “SOCIAL CLEAVAGES AND POLITICAL VALUE CONFLICTS”
- Knutsen (2017d): “CONCLUSIONS: ARE THE NORDIC MODELS STILL VIABLE”
- Pedersen & Kuhnle (2017): “THE NORDIC WELFARE STATE MODEL”
- Rommetvedt (2017): “SCANDINAVIAN CORPORATISM IN DECLINE”
- Teigen & Skjeie (2017): “THE NORDIC GENDER EQUALITY MODEL"
To be found in an article compilation which can be bought at Kopiutsalget at Akademika bookstore at Blindern campus
Compendium I
Egeberg, Morten (2005): "The EU and the Nordic Countries: Organizing Diversity?" in Simon Bulmer and Christian Lequesne (eds.): The Member States of the European Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 23 p.
Mouritzen, Poul Erik (2010): "The Danish Revolution in Local Government: How and Why"? chapter 2 in Harald Baldersheim and Larry Rose (eds.): Territorial Choice. The Politics of Boundaries and Borders. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 21 p.
Rose, L. og St?hlberg, K. (2005): The Nordic Countries: Still the 'promised land'? I Denters B and Rose LE. (2005) Comparing local governance : trends and developments, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 17s.
Sandberg, Siv (2011): "The Nordic regions: Institutional development and public debate 1999-2009", chapter 2 in Harald Baldersheim et al. (eds.): The Rise of the networking region. Aldershot: Ashgate. 15 p.
S?rensen, ?ystein and Bo Str?th (1997): “Introduction: The Cultural Construction of Norden”, pp. 1-24 in ?ystein S?rensen and Bo Str?th, The Cultural Construction of Norden, Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 24 p.
Compendium II
Heidar, Knut (2004c): "Comparative Perspectives on the Northern Countries” in Heidar, Knut (ed.) (2004): Nordic Politics. Comparative Perspectives, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. 9 p.
Matlary, Janne Haaland (2004): "The Nordics and the EU” in Heidar, Knut (ed.) (2004). 15 p.
Nyhamar, Tore (2004): "Security policies from constraints to choice” in Heidar, Knut (ed.) (2004). 18 p.
Downloadable articles, books and other texts
You can search the articles and e-books in the e-journal database available at the University of Oslo Library. This requires having access to and being logged onto the UiO system. Contact the Reference Services at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library if you have problems finding the literature.
Barth, E., Moene, K. and Willumsen, F. (2014) 'The Scandinavian model - An interpretation'. Journal of Public Economics 117 (Sept):60-72.13 p.
Brochmann, G. and Hagelund, A. (2011): "Migrants in the Scandinavian Welfare State. The emergence of a social policy problem", Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 1 (1), 13-24. 12 p.
Daloz, Jean-Pascal (2007): “Political Elites and Conspicuous Modesty: Norway, Sweden, Finland in Comparative Perspective”, in Comparative Social Research, Vol. 23, 173-212. 30 p.
Economist (2013): Special report on the Nordic countries: Northern lights, London: The Economist, February 2nd, 2013. 14 pages (the contributions in the report are listed in the right margin in the online version. Click on them to read them. These are 'Northern lights', 'More for less', 'The ins and the outs', 'Global niche players', 'If in doubt, innovate', 'Cultural revolution', 'The rich cousin', 'The secret of their success').
Kaotto, Mikko (2010) The Nordic countries (Chapter 40) i Castles, F., Leibfried, S., Obinger, H. and Pierson, C. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. Oxford University Press. 19 p.
Saxi, H?kon Lunde (2010): "Norwegian and Danish Defence Policy: A Comparative analysis of the post-Cold War era”, in Defence and Security Studies, no. 1, pp. 61-125 65 p.
Sum: 996 pages
Online articles:
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