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.
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.
Bakker, R., de Vries, C., Edwards, E., Hooghe, L., jolly, S., Marks, G., Polk, J., Rovny, J., Steenbergen, M., and Vachudova, M. A. (2014). Measuring party positions in europe: The chapel hill expert survey trend le, 1999-2010. Party Politics.
Becher, M. and Christiansen, F. J. (2015). Dissolution threats and legislative bargaining. American Journal of Political Science, 59(3):641-655.
Benoit, K. and Laver, M. (2006). Party Policy in Modern Democracies. Routledge.
Benoit, K., Mikhaylov, S., and Laver, M. (2009). Treating words as data with error: Uncertainty in text statements of policy positions. American Journal of Political Science, 53(2):495-513.
Carroll, R. and Poole, K. (2014). Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies, chapter Roll-Call Analysis and the Study of Legislatures. Oxford University Press.
Castles, F. and Mair, P. (1984). Left-Right Political Scales: Some Expert Judgments. European Journal of Political Research, 12:73-88.
Cheibub, J. A., Elkins, Z., and Ginsburg, T. (2014). Beyond presidentialism and parliamentarism. British Journal of Political Science, 44(3):515-544.
Crombez, C., Groseclose, T., and Krehbiel, K. (2006). Gatekeeping. Journal of Politics, 2:322-334.
Cutler, J., De Marchi, S., Gallop, M., Hollenbach, F. M., Laver, M., and Orlowski, M. (forthcoming). Cabinet formation and portfolio distribution in European multiparty systems. British Journal of Political Science
Daubler, T., Benoit, K., Mikhaylov, S., and Laver, M. (2012). Natural sentences as valid units for coded political texts. British Journal of Political Science, 42(4):937-951.
Dewan, T. and Spirling, A. (2011). Strategic Opposition and Government Cohesion in Westminster Democracies. American Political Science Review, 102(2):337-358.
Diermeier, D. (2014). Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies, Chapter Formal Models of Legislatures. Oxford University Press
Diermeier, D. and Feddersen, T. J. (1998). Cohesion in Legislature and the Vote of Con dence Procedure. American Political Science Review,92(3):611-621.
Diermeier, D. and Krehbiel, K. (2003). Institutionalism as a Methodology. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 15(2).
Diermeier, D. and Merlo, A. (2004). An empirical investigation of coalitional bargaining procedures. Journal of Public Economics, 88(3-4):783-797.
Diermeier, D. and Stevenson, R. T. (2000). Cabinet Terminations and Critical Events. American Political Science Review, 94(3):627-640.
Eggers, A. C. and Spirling, A. (2014). Ministerial responsiveness in westminster systems: Institutional choices and house of commons. American Journal of Political Science, 58(4):873-887.
Eggers, A. C. and Spirling, A. (forthcoming). Party cohesion in westminster systems: Inducements, replacement and discipline in the house of commons, 1836 - 1910. British Journal of Political Science.
Falco-Fimeno, A. (2012). Parties getting impatient: Time out of office and portfolio allocation in coalition governments. British Journal of Political Science, 42(2):393-411.
Franchino, F. and H yland, B. (2009). Legislative involvement in parliamentary systems. American Political Science Review, 103(4):607-621.
Gabel, M. J. and Huber, J. D. (2000). Putting Parties in Their Place: Inferring Party Left-Right Ideological Positions from Party Manifestos Data. American Journal of Political Science, 44(1, January):94-103.
Glasgow, G. and Golder, S. N. (2015). A new approach to the study of parties entering government. British Journal of Political Science, 45(4).
Godbout, J.-F. and H yland, B. (forthcoming). Unity in Diversity? the Development of Political Parties in the Parliament of Canada, 1867 - 2011. British Journal of Political Science.
Golder, S. N. and Thomas, J. (2014). Portfolio allocation and the vote of no con dence. British Journal of Political Science, 44(1):29-39.
Herzog, A. and Benoit, K. (2015). The most unkindest cuts: Speaker selection and expressed government dissent during economic crisis. Journal of Politics, 77(4):1157-1175.
Huber, J. D. (1996). The Vote of Con dence in Parliamentary Democracies. American Political Science Review, 90(June):269-282.
Huber, J. D. and Inglehart, R. (1995). Expert Interpretations of Party Space and Party Locations in 42 Societies. Party Politics, 1:73-111.
Huber, J. D. and Lupia, A. (2001). Cabinet Instability and Delegation in Parliamentary Democracies. American Journal of Political Science, 45(1):18-33.
Hug, S. (2010). Selection Effects in Roll Call Votes. British Journal of Political Science, 40(1):225-235.
Laver, M. (1998). Models of Government Formation. Annual Review of Political Science, 1:1-25.
Laver, M. (2003). Government termination. Annual Review of Political Science, 6:23-40.
Laver, M. (2014). Measuring policy positions in political space. Annual Review of Political Science, 17:207-223.
Laver, M., Benoit, K., and Garry, J. (2003). Extracting Policy Positions from Political Texts Using Words as Data. American Political Science Review, 97(2):311-331.
Laver, M. and Shepsle, K. A. (1998). Events, Equilibria, and Government Survival. American Journal of Political Science, 42(1):28-54.
Martin, L. W. and Vanberg, G. (2004). Policing the Bargain: Coalition Government and Parliamentary Scrutiny. American Journal of Political Science,48(1):13-27.
Martin, L. W. and Vanberg, G. (2005). Coalition policymaking and legislative review. American Political Science Review, 99(1):93-106.
Martin, L. W. and Vanberg, G. (2014a). Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies, chapter Legislative Institutions and Coalition Government. Oxford University Press.
Martin, L. W. and Vanberg, G. (2014b). Parties and policymaking in multiparty governments: The legislative median, ministerial autonomy, and the coalition compromise. American Journal of Political Science, 58(4):979-996.
Muller, W. C. and Sieberer, U. (2014). Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies, chapter Procedure and Rules in Legislatures. Oxford University Press.
Proksch, S.-O. and Slapin, J. B. (2012). Institutional Foundation of legislative speech. American Journal of Political Science, 56(3):520-537.
Rasch, B. E. (2014). Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies, chapter Institutional Foundations of Legislative Agenda-Setting. Oxford University Press.
Slapin, J. B. and Proksch, S. O. (2008). A scaling model for estimating time-series party positions from texts. American Journal of Political Science,52(3):705-22.
Slapin, J. B. and Proksch, S.-O. (2014). Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies, chapter Words as Data: Content Analysis in Legislative Studies. Oxford University Press.
Spirling, A. (forthcoming). Democratization and lingustic complexity: The effect of franchise extension on parliamentary discourse, 1832 - 1915. Journal of Politics.
Str? m, K., Muller, W. C., and Smith, D. M. (2010). Parliamentary control of coalition governments. Annual Review of Political Science, 13:517-535.
Str? m, K. and Swindle, S. M. (2002). Strategic Parliamentary Dissolution. American Political Science Review, 96(3, September):575-591.
Warwick, P. V. (1999). Ministerial Autonomy or Ministerial Accommodation? Contested Bases of Government Survival in Parliamentary Democracies. British Journal of Political Science, 29(2):369-294.