Articles marked "K" is printed in a Compendium which can be bought at Kopiutsalget, Akademika.
Compulsory reading
I: Basic book:
Burnell, Peter and Randall, Vicky (eds) (2008): Politics in the Developing World, 2nd edition, New York: Oxford University Press, the following chapters and sections:
• Randall, Vicky: “Ch 1. Analytical Approches to the Study of Politics in the Developing World”, pp. 15-33 (18 pp)
• Chiriyankandath, James: “Ch 2. Colonialism and Post-Colonial Development”, pp.35-51 (16 pp)
• Pearce, Jenny: “Ch 5. Inequality”, pp.91-108 (17 pp)
• Scarritt, James R.: “Ch 6. Ethnopolitics and Nationalism”, pp.111-127 (16 pp)
• Haynes, Jeff: “Ch 7. Religion”, pp.129-146 (17 pp)
• Staudt, Kathleen: “Ch 8. Women and Gender”, pp.148-163 (15 pp)
• Ottaway, Marina: “Ch 9. Civil Society”, pp. 166-183 (17 pp)
• Schock, Kurt: “Ch 10. People Power and Alternative Politics”, pp. 186-206 (20 pp)
• Leftwich, Adrian: “Ch 11. Theorizing the State”, pp. 211-228 (17 pp)
• Smith, Brian: “Ch 12. State Building”, pp. 230-246 (16 pp)
• Doornbos, Martin: “Ch 13. State Collapse, Civil Conflict, and External Intervention”, pp. 249-266 (17 pp)
• Burnell, Peter: “Ch 14. Democratization”, pp. 269-288 (19 pp)
• Burnell, Peter: “Ch 15. Governance and Conditionality in a Globalising World”, pp. 291-310. (19 pp)
Sub-sum: (224 pp)
II: Additional readings
●Bull, Benedicte (2007). “Social Movements and the New Regimes in Latin America”, Forum for Development Studies 1-2007, 63-89 (26pp)
●Chabal, Patrick og Jean-Pascal Daloz (1999). Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument. Oxford: James Currey: del I, 1-44 (44 pp). K
●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
●Carothers, Thomas (2006): Confronting the Weakest Link. Aiding Political Parties in New Democracies. Carnegie Endowment: Washington D.C. pp. 3-17, 213-228 (29 pp) K
●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) K
●Harriss, J.; K. Stokke & O. Törnquist (eds.) (2004): “Introduction: The New Local Politics of Democratisation”, in Harriss, J.; Stokke, K and Törnquist, O (eds.): Politicising Democracy: The New Local Politics of Democratisation. Houndmills and New York: Palgrave. (21 pp.)
●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) K
●Khan, Mushtaq H (2005). "Markets, States and Democracy: Patron-Client Networks and the Case for Democracy in Developing Countries." Democratization, Vol.12 No.5, December 2005, pp. 707-724. (17 pp) Link
●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.) K
●Lust, Ellen (2009). “Competitive Clientelism in the Middle East”, Journal of Democracy, 20(3): 122-135 (13 pp) Link
●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)
●Moore, Mick, “Revenues, State Formation, and the Quality of Governance in Developing Countries”, International Political Science Review, vol. 25, no. 3. 297-319 (22 pp) Link
●Nordhaug, Kristen and Sundstøl-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) K
●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 Törnquist, O (eds.): Politicising Democracy: The New Local Politics of Democratisation. Houndmills and New York: Palgrave. (20 pp.)
●Sisk, Timothy D. (2008): “Peacebuilding as democratisation: findings and recommendations”, in Jarstad, A. K and Sisk, T. D. From war to Democracy: Dilemmas of Peacebuilding, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 239-259 (20 pp) K
●Stokke, K. and Selboe, E. (2009): "Symbolic Representation as Political Practice". in Törnquist, 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
●Tvedt, Terje (2009). "Why did England develop and China and India fail? A water system perspective on the industrial revolution". Manuscript. Centre for Advanced Studies Oslo. c. 20 pp Fronter
●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) K
●Törnquist, Olle (1999): Politics and Development. A Critical Introduction. London, Thousand Oaks, New York. pp. 7-14, 31-43, 54-117, 123-134 (93 pp) Fronter
●Törnquist, Olle (2004): "The Political Deficit of Substantial Democratisation", in Harriss, J.; Stokke, K. & Törnquist, O (eds.): Politicising Democracy: Local Politics and Democratisation in Developing Countries. (Ch. 1). Houndmills and New York: Palgrave. (20 pp.)
●Törnquist, Olle (2009): "The problem is representation! Towards an analytical framework", in Törnquist, O., Webster, N. and Stokke, K. (Eds.) Rethinking Popular Representation. Palgrave. (21 pp) K
●Webster, N, Stokke, K, and Törnquist, O (2009): "From research to practice: Towards the democratic institutionalisation of nodes for improved representation". in Törnquist, O., Webster, N. and Stokke, K. (Eds.) Rethinking Popular Representation. Palgrave. (8 pp) Fronter
(Sub-sum: 699 pp)
Total sum readings: 224 pp in basic book plus 699 pp = 923 pp
III Extra non-compulsory reading 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
-- Sørpolitikk og dannelse, s. 293-344