Syllabus/achievement requirements

Articles marked "C" is printed in a Compendium which can be bought at Kopiutsalget, Akademika.

Compulsory reading

I: Basic book:

Burnell, Peter and Randall, Vicky, Rakner, Lise (eds) (2010): Politics in the Developing World, New York: Oxford University Press. The new 3rd edition

The following chapters:

? Randall, Vicky: “Ch 1. Analytical Approches to the Study of Politics in the Developing World”

? Chiriyankandath, James: “Ch 2. Colonialism and Post-Colonial Development”

? Randall, Vicky and Rakner, Lise: Ch 3. “Institutional Perspectives”

? Pearce, Jenny: “Ch 6. Inequality”

? Scarritt, James R.: “Ch 7. Ethnopolitics and Nationalism”

? Haynes, Jeff: “Ch 8. Religion”

? Staudt, Kathleen: “Ch 9. Women and Gender”

? Ottaway, Marina: “Ch 10. Civil Society”

? Schock, Kurt: “Ch 11. People Power and Alternative Politics”

? Leftwich, Adrian: “Ch 12. Theorizing the State”

? Suhrke, Astri and Torunn Wimplemann Chaudhary: "Ch 13. From Conflict to Peacebuilding"

? Burnell, Peter: “Ch 14. Democratization”

? Burnell, Peter and Lise Rakner: “Ch 15. Governance and Aid Conditionality in a Globalising World”

Sub-sum: (c. 225 pp)

II: Additional readings

●Bull, Benedicte (2007). “Comparing critical junctures. The democratic inclusion of social movements in Norway and Latin America”, Forum for Development Studies 1-2007, 63-89 (26pp) C

●Carothers, T. (2007a). "How Democracies Emerge. The “Sequencing” Fallacy". Journal of Democracy, 18(1): 12-27 (15 pp) Link

●Carothers, T. (2007b). "Misunderstanding Gradualism". Journal of Democracy, 18(3): 18-22. (5 pp) Link

●Chibber, Vivek (2005): “The Politics of a Miracle: Class Interests and State Power in Korean Developmentalism” in Coates, David, Varieties of Capitalism, Varities of Approaches, Houndmills: Palgrave, pp. 122-138 (16 pp) C

●Done, Richard F., Ritchie Bryan K. And Slater, Dan, (2005): "Systematic Vulnerability and the Origins of Developmental States: Northeast and Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective”, International Organization 59, pp. 327-361 (34 pp). Link

●Fung, Archon and Wright, Erik Olin (2003): “Thinking about Empowered Participatory Governance”, in Fung, A, and Wright, E.O. (eds) Deepening Democracy. Institutional innovations in empowered participatory governance. London and New York: Verso, pp. 3-42. (39 pp) C

●Harriss, J.; K. Stokke & O. T?rnquist (eds.) (2004): “Introduction: The New Local Politics of Democratisation”, in Harriss, J.; Stokke, K and T?rnquist, O (eds.): Politicising Democracy: The New Local Politics of Democratisation. Houndmills and New York: Palgrave. (21 pp.) C

●Jarstad, Anna K. (2008): “Dilemmas of war-to-democracy transitions: theories and concepts”, in Jarstad, A. K and Sisk, T. D. From war to Democracy: Dilemmas of Peacebuilding, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 17-36 (19 pp) C

●Mansfield, E. D. and Snyder, J. (2007). "The Sequencing “Fallacy”". Journal of Democracy, 18(3): 5-9. (5 pp) Link

●Kohli, A. and Shue V. (1994): “State Power and Social Forces: on political contention and accommodation in the Third World”, in Migdal, J. S., Kohli, A, and Shue, V. (eds): State Power and Social Forces, Domination and Transformation in the Third World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 293-323. (30 pp.) C

●Migdal, Joel S. (1988): Strong Societies and Weak States. State-Society Relations and State Capabilities in the Third World. Princeton N.J: Princeton University Press. pp. 3-41, 259-277 (70 pp) C

●Nordhaug, Kristen and Sundst?l-Eriksen, Stein (2006): “The Politics of Survival in the Making of Weak and Strong States”, in Forum for Development Studies, No.2-2006. pp. 237-265 (28 pp) C

●Sidel, J, T (2004): “Bossism and Democracy in the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia: Towards an Alternative Framework for the Study of ‘Local Strongmen’’, in Harriss, J.; Stokke, K. and T?rnquist, O (eds.): Politicising Democracy: The New Local Politics of Democratisation. Houndmills and New York: Palgrave. (20 pp.) C

● So, Alvin Y. (2007) ‘Peasant Conflict and the Local Predatory State in the Chinese Countryside’, The Journal of Peasant Studies 34: 560—81 (21pp) C

● Stokke, Kristian (2010): “The Soft Power of a Small State. Discursive Constructions and Institutional Practices of Norway’s Peace Engagement”, Forthcoming in the PCD Journal. (c.25pp)

●Stokke, K. and Selboe, E. (2009): "Symbolic Representation as Political Practice". in T?rnquist, O., Webster, N. and Stokke, K. (Eds.) Rethinking Popular Representation. Palgrave. (15 pp) Fronter

●Tvedt, Terje (2006). "The international aid system and the non-governmental organisations: A new research agenda", Journal of International Development, 18, 677-690 (13 sider) Link

●Tvedt, Terje (2007). "International Development Aid and Its Impact on a Donor Country: A Case Study of Norway", European Journal of Development Research, 19:4, pp. 614 - 635, (21 pp) Link

●Therborn, G. (1992). "The right to vote and the four world routes to/through modernity". In R. Thorstendahl (Ed.) State Theory and State History. London: Sage. (31 pp) C

●T?rnquist, Olle (1999): Politics and Development. A Critical Introduction. London, Thousand Oaks, New York. pp. 7-14, 31-117, 119-134 (108 pp) Fronter

●T?rnquist, Olle (2009): “Indonesia’s Held Back Democracy and Byeond: Introduction and Executive Briefing”, in Samadhi, W. P. and Warouw, N. Building Democracy on the Sand, Jogjakarta and Jakarta: PCD Press and Demos. pp 1-18 (18pp) C

●T?rnquist, Olle (2011): Institutional Nodes of Representation and Popular Political Capacities Manuscript (c.10 pp) Fronter

●Webster, N, Stokke, K, and T?rnquist, O (2009): "From research to practice: Towards the democratic institutionalisation of nodes for improved representation". in T?rnquist, O., Webster, N. and Stokke, K. (Eds.) Rethinking Popular Representation. Palgrave. (8 pp) Fronter

(Sub-sum: 598 pp)

Total sum readings: 225 pp in basic book plus 598 pp = 823 pp

III Extra non-compulsory reading

1. for all: additional chapters in the basic book

2. for Scandinavian speaking students: Tvedt, Terje. (2009). Utviklingshjelp, utenrikspolitikk og makt. Den norske modellen. (2 utg), Oslo: Gyldendal akademisk, "Et nasjonalt godhetsregime. Teorier, begreper og metode" (s 17-38); -Den norske modellen, s. 39-56 -S?rpolitikk og dannelse, s. 293-344

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