Course Literature
SASH63 Swedish Politics – Past and present
Books
Almqvist, Kurt & Kay Glans (eds.) (2004).The Swedish Success Story?, pp. 9-46, 61-120, 147-160, 175-197, 269-293, 160 pp.
Bäck, Henry & TorbjörnLarsson (2008).Governing and Governance in Sweden, 304 pp.
Hadenius, Stig (1999). Swedish Politics During the 20th Century: Conflict and Consensus, 5th Edition, 176 pp. [Available in compendium]
Articles
Algotsson, Karl-Göran (2001).“From Majoritarian Democracy to Vertical Separation of Powers: Sweden and the European Union”, Scandinavian Political Studies,24(1), pp. 51-65, 15 pp. [Available in LUBsearch]
Andersson, Jenny (2009). “NordicNostalgiaandNordic Light: the Swedish model as Utopia 1930-2007”, Scandinavian Journal of History, 34:3, pp. 229-245, 17 pp.[Available in LUBsearch]
Berggren,HenrikLars Trädgårdh (2010).“PippiLongstocking: The Autonomous Child and the Moral Logic of the Swedish Welfare State”, in Mattsson, Helena & Wallenstein, Sven-Olov (eds.), Swedish Modernism.Architecture, Consumption and the Welfare State, pp. 10-23, 14 pp. [Available in compendium]
Blyth, Mark (2001). “The Transformation of the Swedish Model: Economic Ideas, Distributional Conflicts, and Institutional Change”, World Politics, 54:1, pp. 1-26, 27 pp. [Available in LUBsearch]
Bonoli, Giuliano (1997). “Classifying Welfare States: a Two-dimension Approach”,
Journal of Social Policy, 26:3, pp. 351-372, 22 pp. [Available in LUBsearch]
Eduards, Maud (1991). “Toward a Third Way: Women’s Politics and Welfare Policies in Sweden”, Social Research, 58, no 3, pp. 677-705, 29 pp. [Available in LUBsearch]
Esping-Andersen, Gøsta (1992, 2000). “The Making of a Social Democratic Welfare State”, in Misgeld, Klaus, Molin, Karl & Åmark, Klas (eds), Creating Social Democracy: A Century of the Social Democratic Labor Party in Sweden¸pp. 35-66, 32 pp. [Available on google.books]
Hegeland, Hans & Ingvar Mattson (2000).“Another Link in the Chain: The Effects of EU Membership on Delegation and Accountability in Sweden”, The Journal of Legislative, Studies 6(1), pp. 81-104, 24 pp. [Available in LUBsearch]
Levin, Paul T. (2009).“The Swedish Model of Public Administration: Separation of Powers – The Swedish Style”, Journal of Administration and Governance 4(1), pp. 38-46, 9 pp. [Available in LUBsearch]
Lewis, Jane & Gertrude Åström (1992). “Equality, Difference, and State Welfare: Labor Market and Family Policies in Sweden”, Feminist Studies, Vol. 18, Issue 1, pp. 59-87, 29 pp.[Available in LUBsearch]
Lindbom, Anders (2001). “Dismantling the Social Democratic Welfare Model? Has the Swedish Welfare State Lost its Defining Characteristics?”,Scandinavian Political Studies, 24:3, pp. 171-193, 23 pp.[Available in LUBsearch]
Lundberg, Urban & KlasÅmark (2001).“Social Rights and Social Security: The Swedish Welfare State, 1900-2000”, Scandinavian Journal of History, 26:3, pp. 157-176, 20 pp. [Available in LUBsearch]
Sainsbury, Diane (2004). ”Women’s Political Representation in Sweden: Discursive Politics and Institutional Presence”, Scandinavian Political Studies, 27:1, pp. 65-87, 23 pp. [Available in LUBsearch]
Stråth, Bo (2004). “Nordic Modernity: Origins, trajectories and prospects”, Thesis Eleven, 77, pp. 5-20, 16 pp. [Available in LUBsearch]
Östling, Johan (2011). “The Rise and Fall of Small-State Realism: Sweden and the Second World War”, in Stenius, Henrik, MirjaÖsterberg& Johan Östling(eds.), Nordic Narratives of the Second World War: National Historiographies Revisited, pp. 127-147, 21 pp. [Available in compendium]
In sum about 960 pp. Some additional texts will be added for student assignments.