Swedish Politics in a Comparative Perspective

Compulsory literature

Books 

Larsson, Torbjörn & Henry Bäck (2008). *G*overning and Governance in Sweden. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Lijphart, Arend (2012). Patterns of Democracy. 2nd edition. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Pierre, Jon (ed) (2015). The Oxford Handbook of Swedish Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Articles and Book Sections 

Aylott, Nicolas & Bolin, Niklas (2023) “A new right: the Swedish parliamentary election of September 2022”, West European Politics. Routledge, pp. 1–14.

Bale, Tim (2012). “Supplying the Insatiable Demand: Europe's Populist Radical Right”, Government and Opposition, 47:02, pp. 256-274.

Berg, Linda & Andrea Spehar (2013). “Swimming against the tide: why Sweden supports increased labour mobility within and from outside the EU”, Policy Studies, 34(2), 142-161.

Bergqvist, Christina (2015). “The Welfare State and Gender Equality”, in Pierre, Jon (ed) The Oxford Handbook of Swedish Politics pp. 55-68.

Blix, Mårten, and Henrik Jordahl (2021). 'Introduction', Privatizing Welfare Services: Lessons from the Swedish Experiment (Oxford; online edn, Oxford Academic, 18 Feb. 2021), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198867210.003.0001.

Cairney, Paul, and Anders Widfeldt (2015). "Is Scotland a Westminster-style majoritarian democracy or a Scandinavian-style consensus democracy? A comparison of Scotland, the UK and Sweden." Regional & Federal Studies 25.1 pp. 1-18.

Esping-Andersen, Gösta (1990). The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Chapter 1 page 9-34.Golder, M. (2016). ”Far Right Parties in Europe”, Annual Review of Political Science, 19, pp. 477- 497.

Hague, Rod, Harrop, M, & J, McCormick (2016). “Comparing government and politics: an overview”, in *C*omparative Government and Politics. An Introduction. Palgrave Macmillan. 10th edition, pp. 91- 106.

Inglehart, Ronald & Pippa Norris (2016). ”Trump, Brexit, and the rise of Populism: Economic have- nots and cultural backlash. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2818659[]”, in HKS Working Paper No. RWP16-026.

Inglehart, Ronald (2006). “Mapping global values”, Comparative Sociology 5(2-3), 115-136.

Jungar, Ann-Cathrine & Anders Ravik Jupskås (2014). ”Populist Radical Right Parties in the Nordic Region: A New and Distinct Party Family?", Scandinavian Political Studies, Vol. 37 – No. 3, 2014

Lane, Linda, and Birgitta Jordansson (2020). “How Gender Equal Is Sweden? An Analysis of the Shift in Focus under Neoliberalism.” Social Change 50(1): 28–43. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0049085719901067.

Lijphart, Arend (1971). “Comparative politics and the comparative method”, American political science review, 65(03), 682-693.

Lundell, Krister (2008). ”Electoral Reform and Party System Change: An Analysis of Nordic Elections with Two Different Electoral Systems”, Scandinavian Political Studies, Vol 31 No 4.

Mair, Peter (1996). "Party Systems and Structures of Competition," in Comparing Democracies:

Elections and Voting in Global Perspective, edited by Lawrence LeDuc, Richard G. Niemi, and Pippa Norris Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996.

Mudde, Cas (2013). ”Three decades of populist radical right parties in Western Europe: So what?”, European Journal of Political Research, 52:01, pp. 1-19.

Olivetti, Claudia & Barbara Petrongolo (2017). "The Economic Consequences of Family Policies: Lessons from a Century of Legislation in High-Income Countries”, NBER Working Paper No 23051, January.

Rothstein, Bo (2015) “The Moral, Economic and Political Logic of the Swedish Welfare State”, in Pierre, Jon (ed) The Oxford Handbook of Swedish Politics pages 69-83.

Sainsbury, Diane (1996). "Gender, equality and welfare states", in Gendering dimensions of welfare states. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 9-46.

Widfeldt, Anders (2008). ”Party change as a necessity - the case of the Sweden Democrats”, Representation, 44:03, pp. 265-276.

Wittrock, Björn (2004). “The making of Sweden”, Thesis Eleven, 77(1), 45-63.

Please note that additional ‘suggested’ reading will be added on canvas.