DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS – RECOMMENDED READING

The books listed below are taken from the Module Outlines for each module. This is intended to give you an idea of some of the books that you are likely to need throughout the first year of your studies. Module Outlines will be given out on the Monday of Intro Week.

You do NOT need to buy all of these books or read them all before commencing your studies. But you will find it useful to buy and read at least one for each course. They can all be purchased in paperback from the Waterstones website and you may be able to find some on the second hand online bookseller

POL109 COMPARING MODERN POLITIES

Ludger Helms, Presidents, Prime Ministers and Chancellors: Executive Leadership in Western Democracies, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Thomas Poguntke & Paul Webb (eds),The Presidentialization of Politics. A Comparative Study of Western Democracies, Oxford University Press, 2007

POL110 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT

Recommended for Purchase

John Morrow,History of Western Political Thought, Macmillan, 2005

David Boucher & Paul Kelly,Political Thinkers: From Socrates to the Present, OUP, 2003

Geraint Williams,Political Theory in Retrospect: From the Ancient Greeks to the 20th Century, Edward Elgar Publishing, 1992

POL111 THE POLITICS OF GLOBALISATION

There is no single ‘course textbook’, but either of the following are worth buying and reading.

John Baylis & Steve Smith, eds., The Globalization of World Politics, Oxford University Press, 2007

Jan. A. Scholte, Globalization: a Critical Introduction,

Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

POL112 British Politics

There is no single ‘course textbook’, but you are strongly recommended to purchase

one of the following:

Dennis Kavanagh, David Richards,

Martin Smith and Andrew Geddes, ‘British Politics’, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006

Stuart D McAnulla,‘British Politics: a Critical Introduction’, Continuum, 2006

John Kingdom,Government and Politics in Britain, 3rd Edition, Polity 2003

Colin Hay, ed.,British Politics Today, Polity 2002

David Richards and Martin Smith,Governance and Public Policy in the UK, Oxford University Press 2002

John Dearlove and Peter Saunders,Introduction to British Politics, 3rd Edition, Polity 2000

Cowley, P., Hay, C. and Heffernan, R ‘Developments in British Politics 9’,

(eds) (2011)Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

POL113 Introduction to Political Analysis

There is no single text book which deals with all the themes covered on this module. However, there are several books which provide a good introduction to many of the relevant issues, and students should give serious consideration to purchasing their own copy of one or more of these works. The most useful general books include:

Anthony H Birch,The Concepts and Theories of Modern Democracy, Routledge, 2000

John Hoffman & Paul Graham,Introduction to Political Concepts, Pearson, 2006

Andrew Heywood,Political Ideologies, Palgrave 2007

Andrew Heywood,Key Concepts in Politics, Palgrave, 2000

POL114 INTRODUCTION TO SECURITY STUDIES

There is no single course text book but these two books provide an excellent overview. Plus, the Paul Williams book is available on-line via the Sheffield Star search engine.

Paul Williams (ed.), Security Studies: An Introduction, Routledge 2008.

Alan Collins (ed.), Contemporary Security Studies, Oxford University Press, 2009.