Swedish name: Statsvetenskapliga analysinriktningar
This syllabus is valid: 2018-09-03 and until further notice
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Syllabus for courses starting between 2010-05-10 and 2012-05-13
Syllabus for courses starting between 2012-05-14 and 2013-05-26
Syllabus for courses starting between 2013-05-27 and 2013-06-02
Syllabus for courses starting between 2013-06-03 and 2014-08-31
Syllabus for courses starting between 2014-09-01 and 2015-08-30
Syllabus for courses starting between 2015-08-31 and 2016-06-26
Syllabus for courses starting between 2016-06-27 and 2018-09-02
Syllabus for courses starting after 2018-09-03
Course code: 2SV036
Credit points: 15
Education level: Second cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level:
Political Science: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Grading scale: VG Pass with distinction, G Pass, U Fail
Responsible department: Department of Political Science
Revised by: Head of Department of Political Science, 2018-05-29
Hay Colin
Political analysis : a critical introduction
Basingstoke : Palgrave : 2002 : xiii, 314 s. :
ISBN: 0-333-75002-0 (inb.)
Mandatory
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Doing political science and international relations : theories in action
Savigny Heather., Marsden Lee.
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan : 2011. : xiv, 321 s. :
ISBN: 0-230-24586-2 ¹65.00
Mandatory
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Theory and methods in political science
Lowndes Vivien, Marsh David, Stoker Gerry
Fourth edition : London : Palgrave : 2018 : 391 sidor :
ISBN: 978-1-137-60351-7
Mandatory
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Reflexive methodology : new vistas for qualitative research
Alvesson Mats, Sköldberg Kaj
Third edition : Los Angeles : Sage : 2018 : xii, 437 sidor :
ISBN: 9781473964242
Mandatory
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For each approach, the expected reading consists of a major book, a critical examination and an empirical application.
Why institutions matter : the new institutionalism in political science
Lowndes Vivien, Roberts Mark
Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan : 2013. : x, 236 pages :
ISBN: 978-0-333-92955-1
Mandatory
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Van Hees M.
Explaining institutions: a defence of reductionism
Included in:
European journal of political research [Elektronisk resurs]
Oxford : Blackwell : 1997- : 32 : pages 51-69 :
Mandatory
Nilsson Jens
Local Political Decision-Making: A Case of Rationality of Appropriateness
Included in:
Local government studies [Elektronisk resurs].
London : Taylor & Francis : 2001- : 41 : pages 917-936 :
Mandatory
Christensen Tom
Organization theory and the public sector
London : Routledge : 2007 : xv, 191 p. :
ISBN: 9780415433808
Search the University Library catalogue
The new Institutionalism: organizational factors in political life
March J. G., Olsen J. P.
Included in:
The American political science review[Elektronisk resurs]
[Washington, D.C., etc.] : American Political Science Association. : 78 : pages 734-749 :
What logics drive the choices of public decision-makers? [Elektronisk resurs]
Nilsson Jens, Lundmark Carina, Sandström Annica
Luleå : Luleå tekniska universitet : 2018 :
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-66964
ISBN: 978-91-7790-020-7
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Peters B. Guy.
Institutional theory in political science : the new institutionalism
Fourth edition. : Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub. : [2019] : xii, 293 pages :
ISBN: 9781786437921
Mandatory
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Belsey Catherine
Poststructuralism : a very short introduction
New York : Oxford University Press : 2002 : 117 s. :
ISBN: 0-19-280180-5
Mandatory
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Fleetwood Steve
Ontology in Organization and Managements Studies: A Critical Realist Perspective
Included in:
Organization [Elektronisk resurs]
London : Sage : 1999- : 12 : pages 197-222 :
Mandatory
Cole Mike
Might it be in the practice that it fails to succeed? A Marxist critique of claims for postmodernism and poststructuralism as forces for social change and social justice
Included in:
British journal of sociology of education [Elektronisk resurs].
London : Taylor & Francis : 1999- : 24 : pages 487-500 :
Mandatory
Callinicos Alex
Against postmodernism : a marxist critique
Cambridge : Polity : 1989 : 207 s. :
ISBN: 0-7456-0613-X
Search the University Library catalogue
Müller Martin
Lack and jouissance in hegemonic discourse of identification with the state
Included in:
Organization [Elektronisk resurs]
London : Sage : 1999- : 20 : pages 279298 :
Selby Jan
Engaging Foucault: Discourse, Liberal Governance and the Limits of Foucauldian IR
Included in:
International relations [Elektronisk resurs]
London : Sage : 2001- : 21 :
Discourse analysis as theory and method
Winther Jørgensen Marianne, Phillips Louise
London : Sage : 2002 : 229 s. :
ISBN: 0761971114
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Hindmoor Andrew
Rational Choice
Basingstoke : Palgrave : 2006 :
Mandatory
Pathologies of rational choice theory : a critique of applications in political science
Green Donald P., Shapiro Ian
New Haven : Yale University Press : cop. 1994 : xi, 239 s. :
ISBN: 0-300-05914-0
Mandatory
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Explaining modes of participation: a dynamic test of alternative rational choice models
Bäck Hanna, Teorell Jan, Westholm Anders
Included in:
Scandinavian political studies [Elektronisk resurs]
Oxford : Blackwell : 1998- : 34 : pages 74-97 :
Mandatory
Laver Michael
Private desires, political action [Elektronisk resurs] : an invitation to the politics of rational choice
London : SAGE : 1997 : PDF (163 s.) :
ISBN: 978-1-4462-1704-7
Search the University Library catalogue
Olson Mancur
The logic of collective action : public goods and the theory of groups
7th pr. : Cambridge : Harvard University Press : 1977 : x, [2], 186 s. :
ISBN: 0-674-53700-0
Search the University Library catalogue
Eriksson Lina.
Rational choice theory : potential and limits
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan : 2011. : 284 s. :
ISBN: 0230545084
Search the University Library catalogue
Gilboa Itzhak
Rational choice
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press : 2010 : xviii, 158 p. :
ISBN: 9780262014007
Search the University Library catalogue
At the beginning of the course, the students and the lecturer select three additional approaches for further study.
Budgeon Shelley
The Contradictions of Successful Femininity: third-Wave Feminism, Postfeminism and New Femininities
Included in:
New femininities
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan : 2011 : xxi, 336 p. :
Mandatory
Donovan Josephine
Feminist theory : the intellectual traditions
4. ed., rev. and expanded. : New York : Continuum : 2012. : xvi, 287 p. :
ISBN: 978-1-4411-6830-6
Mandatory
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Regional development policies and the constructions of gender equality: the Swedish case
Hudson C, Rönnblom M.
Included in:
European journal of political research [Elektronisk resurs]
Oxford : Blackwell : 1997- : 46 : pages 47-68 :
Mandatory
Dietz Mary G.
Current Controversies in Feminist Theory
Included in:
Annual review of political science.
Palo Alto, Calif. : Annual Reviews Inc. : Vol. 1(1998)- : 6 : pages 399-431 :
Evans Mary
The SAGE handbook of feminist theory
London : SAGE Publications : 2014 : 650 p. :
ISBN: 9781446252413
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Mohanty Chandra Talpade
Under western eyes. Feminist scholarship and colonial discourses.
Included in:
Feminist review.
London,c 1979- : 1979- : pages 61-88 :
Political theory and the ecological challenge
Dobson Andrew, Eckersley Robyn
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press : 2006 : 262 s. :
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip067/2006001738.html
ISBN: 0-521-54698-2
Mandatory
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Robinson J.
Squaring the Circle? Some Thoughts on the Idea of Sustainable Development
Included in:
Ecological economics
Amsterdam : Elsevier : 1989- : 48 : pages 369-384 :
Mandatory
Green political theory in a climate-changed world: between innovation and restraint
Symons Jonathan, Karlsson Rasmus
Included in:
Environmental politics [Elektronisk resurs].
London : Taylor & Francis : 2001- : 24 : pages 173-192 :
Mandatory
Dobson Andrew
Green political thought
4. ed. : London : Routledge : 2007 : xi, 225 s. :
ISBN: 0-415-40352-9
Mandatory
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Carter Neil
The politics of the environment : ideas, activism, policy
2. ed. : Cambridge ;a New York : Cambridge University Press : 2007 : xxi, 410 s. :
ISBN: 978-0-521-68745-4 (pbk.)
Mandatory
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Danermark Berth
Explaining society : critical realism in the social sciences
London : Routledge : 2002 : 221 s. :
ISBN: 041522182X
Mandatory
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Fletcher Amber, J.
Applying Critical Realism in Qualitative Research: Methodology Meets Method
Included in:
International journal of social research methodology [Elektronisk resurs].
London : Taylor & Francis : 1999- : 20 : pages 181-194 :
Mandatory
Kurki M.
Critical realism and causal analysis in international relations
Included in:
Millennium [Elektronisk resurs]
London : Millennium Publ. Group : 1971- : 35 : pages 361-378 :
Mandatory
Archer Margaret Scotford
Realist social theory : the morphogenetic approach
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press : 1995 : 354 s. :
ISBN: 0-521-48176-7
Search the University Library catalogue
Tourish Dennis
Evidence Based Management, or Evidence Oriented Organizing? A critical realist perspective
Included in:
Organization [Elektronisk resurs]
London : Sage : 1999- : 20 : pages 173-192 :
Mandatory
Marxism and social science
Gamble Andrew, Marsh David, Tant Tony
Basingstoke : Macmillan : 1999 : 381 s. :
ISBN: 0-333-65595-8
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Burnham Peter
Class, capital and crisis. A return to fundamentals
Included in:
Political studies review [Elektronisk resurs]
Oxford : Blackwell : 2003- : 8 : pages 27-39 :
Mandatory
Pearce Carol
A critique of Marxism-Leninism as theory and praxis
Included in:
Review of African political economy [Elektronisk resurs]
19uu- : pages 102-114 :
Mandatory
The new 'hidden abode': reflections on value and labour in the new economy
Böhm Steffen, Land Chris
Included in:
Sociological review (Oxford) [Elektronisk resurs]
Oxford : Blackwell : 1997- : 60 : pages 217-240 :
Creaven Sean
Marxism and realism : a materialistic application of realism in the social sciences
London : Routledge : 2000 : 325 s. :
ISBN: 0-415-23622-3
Search the University Library catalogue
Loomba Ania
Colonialism/postcolonialism
Third edition. : 2015 : 304 pages :
ISBN: 1138807184
Mandatory
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Postcolonialism, feminism, and religious discourse
Donaldson Laura E, Kwok Pui-lan
New York : Routledge : 2002 : 219 s. :
ISBN: 0-415-92887-7 (inb.)
Mandatory
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Rattansi Ali
Postcolonialism and Its Discontents
Included in:
Economy and society [Elektronisk resurs]
London : Routledge : 2000- : 26 : pages 480-800 :
Mandatory
Reimerson Elsa
Between nature and culture: Exploring space for indigenous agency in the Convention on Biological Diversity
Included in:
Environmental politics [Elektronisk resurs].
London : Taylor & Francis : 2001- : 22 : pages 992-1009 :
Mandatory
Orientalism
Said Edward W., Sjöström Hans O.
[Ny utg.] : Stockholm : Ordfront : 2000 : 517 s. :
ISBN: 91-7324-794-4
Search the University Library catalogue
Hay Colin
Political analysis : a critical introduction
Basingstoke : Palgrave : 2002 : xiii, 314 s. :
ISBN: 0-333-75002-0 (inb.)
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Doing political science and international relations : theories in action
Savigny Heather., Marsden Lee.
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan : 2011. : xiv, 321 s. :
ISBN: 0-230-24586-2 ¹65.00
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Theory and methods in political science
Lowndes Vivien, Marsh David, Stoker Gerry
Fourth edition : London : Palgrave : 2018 : 391 sidor :
ISBN: 978-1-137-60351-7
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
For each approach, the expected reading consists of a major book, a critical examination and an empirical application.
Why institutions matter : the new institutionalism in political science
Lowndes Vivien, Roberts Mark
Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan : 2013. : x, 236 pages :
ISBN: 978-0-333-92955-1
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Van Hees M.
Explaining institutions: a defence of reductionism
Included in:
European journal of political research [Elektronisk resurs]
Oxford : Blackwell : 1997- : 32 : pages 51-69 :
Mandatory
Nilsson Jens
Local Political Decision-Making: A Case of Rationality of Appropriateness
Included in:
Local government studies [Elektronisk resurs].
London : Taylor & Francis : 2001- : 41 : pages 917-936 :
Mandatory
Christensen Tom
Organization theory and the public sector
London : Routledge : 2007 : xv, 191 p. :
ISBN: 9780415433808
Search the University Library catalogue
The new Institutionalism: organizational factors in political life
March J. G., Olsen J. P.
Included in:
The American political science review[Elektronisk resurs]
[Washington, D.C., etc.] : American Political Science Association. : 78 : pages 734-749 :
What logics drive the choices of public decision-makers? [Elektronisk resurs]
Nilsson Jens, Lundmark Carina, Sandström Annica
Luleå : Luleå tekniska universitet : 2018 :
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-66964
ISBN: 978-91-7790-020-7
Search the University Library catalogue
Peters B. Guy
Institutional theory in political science : the new institutionalism
3., [rev.] ed. : London : Continuum : 2012 : 222 s. :
ISBN: 9781441192868 (hbk.)
Search the University Library catalogue
Belsey Catherine
Poststructuralism : a very short introduction
New York : Oxford University Press : 2002 : 117 s. :
ISBN: 0-19-280180-5
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Fleetwood Steve
Ontology in Organization and Managements Studies: A Critical Realist Perspective
Included in:
Organization [Elektronisk resurs]
London : Sage : 1999- : 12 : pages 197-222 :
Mandatory
Cole Mike
Might it be in the practice that it fails to succeed? A Marxist critique of claims for postmodernism and poststructuralism as forces for social change and social justice
Included in:
British journal of sociology of education [Elektronisk resurs].
London : Taylor & Francis : 1999- : 24 : pages 487-500 :
Mandatory
Callinicos Alex
Against postmodernism : a marxist critique
Cambridge : Polity : 1989 : 207 s. :
ISBN: 0-7456-0613-X
Search the University Library catalogue
Müller Martin
Lack and jouissance in hegemonic discourse of identification with the state
Included in:
Organization [Elektronisk resurs]
London : Sage : 1999- : 20 : pages 279298 :
Selby Jan
Engaging Foucault: Discourse, Liberal Governance and the Limits of Foucauldian IR
Included in:
International relations [Elektronisk resurs]
London : Sage : 2001- : 21 :
Discourse analysis as theory and method
Winther Jørgensen Marianne, Phillips Louise
London : Sage : 2002 : 229 s. :
ISBN: 0761971114
Search the University Library catalogue
Hindmoor Andrew
Rational Choice
Basingstoke : Palgrave : 2006 :
Mandatory
Pathologies of rational choice theory : a critique of applications in political science
Green Donald P., Shapiro Ian
New Haven : Yale University Press : cop. 1994 : xi, 239 s. :
ISBN: 0-300-05914-0
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Explaining modes of participation: a dynamic test of alternative rational choice models
Bäck Hanna, Teorell Jan, Westholm Anders
Included in:
Scandinavian political studies [Elektronisk resurs]
Oxford : Blackwell : 1998- : 34 : pages 74-97 :
Mandatory
Laver Michael
Private desires, political action [Elektronisk resurs] : an invitation to the politics of rational choice
London : SAGE : 1997 : PDF (163 s.) :
ISBN: 978-1-4462-1704-7
Search the University Library catalogue
Olson Mancur
The logic of collective action : public goods and the theory of groups
7th pr. : Cambridge : Harvard University Press : 1977 : x, [2], 186 s. :
ISBN: 0-674-53700-0
Search the University Library catalogue
Eriksson Lina.
Rational choice theory : potential and limits
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan : 2011. : 284 s. :
ISBN: 0230545084
Search the University Library catalogue
Gilboa Itzhak
Rational choice
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press : 2010 : xviii, 158 p. :
ISBN: 9780262014007
Search the University Library catalogue
At the beginning of the course, the students and the lecturer select three additional approaches for further study.
Budgeon Shelley
The Contradictions of Successful Femininity: third-Wave Feminism, Postfeminism and New Femininities
Included in:
New femininities
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan : 2011 : xxi, 336 p. :
Mandatory
Donovan Josephine
Feminist theory : the intellectual traditions
4. ed., rev. and expanded. : New York : Continuum : 2012. : xvi, 287 p. :
ISBN: 978-1-4411-6830-6
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Regional development policies and the constructions of gender equality: the Swedish case
Hudson C, Rönnblom M.
Included in:
European journal of political research [Elektronisk resurs]
Oxford : Blackwell : 1997- : 46 : pages 47-68 :
Mandatory
Dietz Mary G.
Current Controversies in Feminist Theory
Included in:
Annual review of political science.
Palo Alto, Calif. : Annual Reviews Inc. : Vol. 1(1998)- : 6 : pages 399-431 :
Evans Mary
The SAGE handbook of feminist theory
London : SAGE Publications : 2014 : 650 p. :
ISBN: 9781446252413
Search the University Library catalogue
Mohanty Chandra Talpade
Under western eyes. Feminist scholarship and colonial discourses.
Included in:
Feminist review.
London,c 1979- : 1979- : pages 61-88 :
Political theory and the ecological challenge
Dobson Andrew, Eckersley Robyn
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press : 2006 : 262 s. :
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip067/2006001738.html
ISBN: 0-521-54698-2
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Robinson J.
Squaring the Circle? Some Thoughts on the Idea of Sustainable Development
Included in:
Ecological economics
Amsterdam : Elsevier : 1989- : 48 : pages 369-384 :
Mandatory
Green political theory in a climate-changed world: between innovation and restraint
Symons Jonathan, Karlsson Rasmus
Included in:
Environmental politics [Elektronisk resurs].
London : Taylor & Francis : 2001- : 24 : pages 173-192 :
Mandatory
Dobson Andrew
Green political thought
4. ed. : London : Routledge : 2007 : xi, 225 s. :
ISBN: 0-415-40352-9
Search the University Library catalogue
Danermark Berth
Explaining society : critical realism in the social sciences
London : Routledge : 2002 : 221 s. :
ISBN: 041522182X
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Kurki M.
Critical realism and causal analysis in international relations
Included in:
Millennium [Elektronisk resurs]
London : Millennium Publ. Group : 1971- : 35 : pages 361-378 :
Mandatory
Tourish Dennis
Evidence Based Management, or Evidence Oriented Organizing? A critical realist perspective
Included in:
Organization [Elektronisk resurs]
London : Sage : 1999- : 20 : pages 173-192 :
Mandatory
Archer Margaret Scotford
Realist social theory : the morphogenetic approach
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press : 1995 : 354 s. :
ISBN: 0-521-48176-7
Search the University Library catalogue
Marxism and social science
Gamble Andrew, Marsh David, Tant Tony
Basingstoke : Macmillan : 1999 : 381 s. :
ISBN: 0-333-65595-8
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Burnham Peter
Class, capital and crisis. A return to fundamentals
Included in:
Political studies review [Elektronisk resurs]
Oxford : Blackwell : 2003- : 8 : pages 27-39 :
Mandatory
Pearce Carol
A critique of Marxism-Leninism as theory and praxis
Included in:
Review of African political economy [Elektronisk resurs]
19uu- : pages 102-114 :
Mandatory
The new 'hidden abode': reflections on value and labour in the new economy
Böhm Steffen, Land Chris
Included in:
Sociological review (Oxford) [Elektronisk resurs]
Oxford : Blackwell : 1997- : 60 : pages 217-240 :
Creaven Sean
Marxism and realism : a materialistic application of realism in the social sciences
London : Routledge : 2000 : 325 s. :
ISBN: 0-415-23622-3
Search the University Library catalogue
Loomba Ania
Colonialism/postcolonialism
Third edition. : 2015 : 304 pages :
ISBN: 1138807184
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Postcolonialism, feminism, and religious discourse
Donaldson Laura E, Kwok Pui-lan
New York : Routledge : 2002 : 219 s. :
ISBN: 0-415-92887-7 (inb.)
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Rattansi Ali
Postcolonialism and Its Discontents
Included in:
Economy and society [Elektronisk resurs]
London : Routledge : 2000- : 26 : pages 480-800 :
Mandatory
Orientalism
Said Edward W., Sjöström Hans O.
[Ny utg.] : Stockholm : Ordfront : 2000 : 517 s. :
ISBN: 91-7324-794-4
Search the University Library catalogue