Reg No: HS 2017/43

 

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Faculty Board of Arts and Social Sciences
Political Science

Course Reading

Political Science II

Valid from autumn semester 2017

 

Course Code: SVGB50
Course Title: Political Science II
Statsvetenskap II
Credits: 30
Degree Level: Bachelor


International relations

Books
Hill, Christopher & Smith, Michael . International Relations and the European Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (valda delar).

Scholte, Jan Aart. Globalization. A critical introduction.. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.

Articles
Barakat, Sultan & Larsson, Anna. "Fragile States: A Donor-serving Concept? Issues with Interpretations of Fragile Statehood in Afghanistan". Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. 2014/8/1. 21-41. Webbsite

Bellamy, Axel J. "The Responsibility to Protect: Added Value or hot air?". Cooperation and Conflict. 2013/48/3. 333-357.

Brown, Chris. "Tragedy, Tragic Choices and Contemporary International Political Theory". International Relations. 2007/21/1. 5-13. Webbsite

Coyne, Christopher J. "Reconstructing Weak and Failed States: Foreign Interventoin and the Nirvana Fallacy". Foreign Policy Analysis. 2006/2. 343-360. Webbsite

Goldstone, Jack A. "Pathways to State Failure". Conflict Management and Peace Science. 2008/25. 285-295. Webbsite

Lemay-Hébert, Nicolas. "Statebuilding without Nationbuilding? Legitimacy, State Failure and the Limits of the Institutionalist Approach". Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding . 2009/3/1. 21-45. Webbsite

Lödén, Hans. "Kan demokrati införas med våld? Fallet Irak". Internationella studier. 2006/ nr 4. 38-54. Available at the Studentcenter

Moravcsik, Andrew. "Is there a Democratic Deficit in World Politics? A Framework for Analysis". Government and opposition. 2004/39/2. 336-363. Webbsite

Reforming the Welfare State

Books
Baldersheim Harald & Rose, Lawrence E. Det kommunale laboratorium Teoretiske perspektiver på local politick og organisering. Last edition. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget. 328 sidor.

Montin Stig. Moderna kommuner. Last edition. Malmö: Liber. 232 sidor.

Pierson, Chris. Beyond The Welfare State? The New Political Economy of Welfare. Edition 3. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers , 2006. Pages: 150.

Rothstein, Bo (red). Politik som organisation. Förvaltningspolitikens grundproblem. Last edition. Stockholm: SNS Förlag. 324 sidor.

Articles

Reference
Lennart J Lundquist och Jon Pierre (red). Kommunal förvaltningspolitik. Lund: Studentlitteratur, 1995.

Articles and chapter in books
European parliament; Regionalisation in Europe, Executive summary and tables. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/workingpapers/regi/default_en.htm#108. Pages: 19-31.

Gren, J.. "New Regionalism and West Sweden: The Factors of Change in the Regionalism Paradigm". Regional & Federal Studies. 2002/12/3. 79-101 Kan laddas ned från nätet.

Olsen, J.. "The Many Faces of Europeanization". Journal of Common Market Studies. 2002/40/5. 921-952. Kan laddas ned från nätet.

Stegmann McCallion, M. ""EUropean Regionalization and the Swedish Regional Mess"". Reginal Studies. 2007/42/4. 579-592. Kan laddas ned från nätet.

Stegmann McCallion, M . ‘A ‘Europe of the Regions’: Swedish Regions as the Undead’ L’Europe en formation , Vol. 57, no 379. (2016).

Methods

Books
Bergström Göran & Boréus Kristina. Textens mening och makt. Last edition. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Esaisson, Peter, Gilliam, Mikael, Oscarsson, Henric, Wängnerud, Lena. Metodpraktikan . Last edition. Stockholm: Norstedts juridik.

Hjelm, Mikael & Lindgren, Simon. Introdukton till samhällsvetenskaplig analys. Malmö: Gleerups, 2010. Pages: 155.

Thurén, Torsten. Vetenskapsteori för nybörjare. Last edition. Stockholm: Liber.

Additional material
Additional matieral approx 350 pages.


 

Approved by the Faculty Board of Arts and Social Sciences, 31 August 2017