Students attending Master's courses will be able to participate on a library course. At the course you will learn how to do searches in both national and international databases, and you will have the opportunity to search the articles that is on your curriculum.The course is voluntary, but we strongly recommend that students attend. More information to come.
Books
Beach, Derek & Rasmus Brun Pedersen (2016) Causal Case Study Methods: Foundations and Guidelines for Comparing, Matching and Tracing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Chs. 5-6. (53pp)
Bennett, Andrew & Jeffrey T. Checkel (eds.) (2014) Process Tracing. From Metaphor to Analytic Tool. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chs. 1-4, 8. 10. (158pp)
Jackson, P.T. (2011) The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations. London: Routledge. Chs. 1, 3, 4-7 (194pp)
Schatz, Edward (ed.) (2009) Political Ethnography. What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Power. Chicago: Chicago University Press. Chs. 1-3, 5, 7, 12-13, Conclusion. (193pp)
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.
Fairclough, Norman (2003) Analysing Discourse. Textual Analysis for Social Research. London: Routledge. Ch. 2: Texts, social events and social practices (18p) 3: Intertextuality and assumptions (23p) (41pp)
Fairclough, Norman (2003) Analysing Discourse. Textual Analysis for Social Research. London: Routledge. Ch. 2: Texts, social events and social practices (18p) 3: Intertextuality and assumptions (23p) (41pp)
Gains, Francesca (2011) ‘Elite ethnographies: potential, pitfalls and prospects for getting “up, close and personal”’, Public Administration 89(1): 156-66. (11pp)
Hay, Colin (2011) ‘The new hermeneutics of public administration’, Public Administration 89(1): 167-82. (16pp)
Hopf, Ted (2002) Social Construction of International Politics: Identities and Foreign Policies, Moscow, 1955 and 1999. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Ch. 1.: Constructivism at home: theory and methods. (38pp)
Kelle, Udo (2001) ‘Sociological explanations between micro and macro and the integration of qualitative and quantitative methods’, Forum: Qualitative Social Research 2(1). (22pp)
Maynard, Jonathan Leader (2013) ‘A map of the field of ideological analysis’, Journal of Political Ideologies 18(3): 299-327. (29pp)
Moravcsik, Andrew (1999) ‘Is something rotten in the state of Denmark? Constructivism and European integration’, Journal of European Public Policy 6, 4: 669-81. (13pp)
Moravcsik, Andrew (2014) ‘Trust, but verify: the transparency revolution and qualitative international relations’, Security Studies 23: 663-88. (26pp)
Neumann, Iver B. (2011) ‘Entry into international society reconceptualised: the case of Russia’, Review of International Studies 37, 2: 463-84. (22pp)
Panizza, Francisco & Romina Miorelli (2013) ‘Taking discourse seriously: discursive institutionalism and post-structuralist discourse theory’, Political Studies 61: 301-18. (18pp)
Reisigl, Martin and Ruth Wodak (2009) ‘The discourse-historical approach’, ch. 4 in Ruth Wodak and Michael Meyer (eds.) Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis. London: Sage. (35p)
Schmidt, Vivien (2013) ‘Speaking to the markets or to the people? A discursive institutionalist analysis of the EU's sovereign debt crisis’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 16(1): 188-209. (22p)
Small, Mario Luis (2011) ‘How to conduct a mixed methods study: recent trends in a rapidly growing literature’, Annual Review of Sociology 37: 57-86. (30p)
Zuern, Michael and Jeff Checkel (2005) ‘Getting socialized to build bridges: Constructivism and rationalism, Europe and the nation-state’, International Organization 59(4): 1045-79. (33pp)