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Scandinavian Government and Politics, Summer 2012

Course Plan and Syllabus

Course Code: ISSSV 1850

Course Name: Scandinavian Government and Politics

Course Leader: Jeff Lugowe ([email protected])

Time: 8:15-10:00, M-F

Guide to abbreviations: C = compendium/course pack; D = digital article accessible oncourse website

Course description:

This course critically analyzes the Norwegian political system in a comparative Scandinavianperspective. The course takes up the following themes: the development of the Norwegian andScandinavian multiparty system; nation-building and evolving national identity in Norway; theScandinavian welfare state; globalization and European integration as experienced fromNorway; and the challenges and opportunities presented by migration to Norway andScandinavia and the increasing cultural and ethnic diversity it has brought.

Course requirements:

The course will comprise a mixture of lectures, group work, class discussions, studentpresentations, films and excursions. All students are expected to:

Attend class regularly- This is an intensive course that meets daily over six weeks. Becauseof its fast-paced nature, daily class attendance and participation in all excursions is mandatory.

Participate actively- Students are expected to come to class having completed the assignedreadings and prepared to contribute to class discussion.

Take the final exam - Students are required to sit the written final examination, which will beheld during the last week of classes. Admission to the exam is contingent on students havingattended at least 75% of class sessions during the term.

Assessment criteria:

Final exam: 75%

Participation in class discussions, class exercises and contribution to the Long Road to2013 group project: 25%

Students are graded according to the UiO scale (A, B, C, D, E, F)

Course readings:

A compendium containing most of the required readings will be distributed on the first day ofclasses. All remaining course readings are accessible online via TalisAspire.

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Date Topic/ Readings/ Lecturer Optional Readings

Week 1

June 25 Introduction to the course and each other

Themes of the course and required readingsOverview of semester scheduleCourse requirements and assessmentGetting to know each other

June 26 Nation-building in the case of Norway

Hilson, Mary. "Introduction: The Historical Meanings ofScandinavia." 11-24 (C1)

Heidar, Knut. "Chapter 1: Small-Scaled, Egalitarian, andTerritorially Based." 1-9 (C1)

Hylland Eriksen, Thomas. "Being Norwegian in a

Shrinking World: Reflections on Norwegian Identity." 11-37 (D)

Halvorsen, Knut andSteinar Stjern (2008)."Chapter 1: From Povertyto a Welfare State." 9-24(C1)

June 27 The development of the Norwegian and Scandinavianparty systems

Hilson, Mary. "Chapter 1: Consensual Democracies? TheNordic Political Model" (excerpts). 25-46 (C1)

Heidar, Knut. "Chapter 2: People, Society and History."11-31 (C1)

Wittrock, Bjrn. "The Making of Sweden" (excerpts). 52-63 (D)

Viby Mogensen, Gunnar. "Danes and their Politicians"(excerpts). 14-19 (C1)

Molin, Karl. "HistoricalOrientation" (excerpts).xvii-xxviii (C1)

June 28 Norwegian politics, I.

Heidar, Knut. "Chapter 4: Political forces and politicalparticipation" (excerpts). 61-70

Arter, David. "The Scandinavian party system(s) since1970: less uni-dimensional and less distinctive?" 46-62.

June 29 Norwegian politics, II.

The Economist. Norways election: rich but worried.

Film: Folk flest bor i Kina / Utopia: Nobody is perfect in aperfect country(NO)

Rokkan, Stein. "Chapter 3:Norway - numericaldemocracy and corporatepluralism." 70-115

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Week 2

July 02 Social democracy in Scandinavia

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar. "Norwegian social democracy andpolitical governance." 131-148 (C1)

Therborn, Gran. "A unique chapter in the history ofdemocracy: the Social Democrats in Sweden." 1-33

Meyer, Henning. "European Social Democracy in Crisis."67-69 (D)

The Economist. "The strange death of social-democraticSweden." 1-3 (D)

Tilton, Tim. "The role ofideology in SocialDemocratic politics." 409-427 (C2)

July 03 New social cleavages and the expansion of theScandinavian party spectrum

Hilson, Mary. "Chapter 1: Consensual Democracies? TheNordic Political Model" (excerpts). 46-55 (C1)

Arter, David. Chapter 5: The earthquake elections of1970-73 and the emergence of new party types. 103-32

July 04 The populist/far-right in Scandinavia

Albertazzi, Danielle and Duncan McDonnell. Introduction:the sceptre and the spectre. 1-11

Bjrklund, Tor and Jrgen Goul Andersen. Scandinaviaand the far right.

Hagelund, Anniken. The Progress Party and the problemof culture: immigration politics and right-wing populism inNorway. 147-163

Rydgren, Jens. Sweden: the Scandinavian exception.135-150

The Economist. The far right in northern Europe: on themarch.

The Economist. The Sweden Democrats: living with thefar right.

Guest lecturer: Tim Szlachetko, Barne- oglikestillingsdepartementet / Department of Children andEquality

July 05 Is this Norway? Exploring Oslos ghettos

Bangstad, Sindre. The Morality Police are coming!Muslims in Norways media discourses. (4 pages)

Excursion: semi-structured walk around a neighborhoodwith a high concentration of non-ethnic Norwegians

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July 06 The Nordic welfare state model

Hilson, Mary. "Chapter 3: The Nordic model of welfare"87-115

Manow, Philip. "Electoral rules, class coalitions and

welfare state regimes, or how to explain Esping-Andersenwith Stein Rokkan." 101-121

Esping-Anderson, Gsta."Chapter 1: The threepolitical economies of thewelfare state." 161-184

Week 3

July 09 The welfare state under fire

Huntford, Roland. "Introduction" and "Welfare as aninstrument of control." 7-13, 182-203

Callaghan, John. The Retreat of Social Democracy(excerpts). 122-127, 143-149

Esping-Anderson, Gsta. "Towards the good society,once again?" 1-25

Goul Andersen, Jrgen. "The Danish Welfare State asPolitics for Markets: Combining Equality andCompetitiveness in a Global Economy." 71-78

The Economist. "The Swedish model: Admire the best,forget the rest." 1-7

Film:Den brysomme mannen /The Bothersome Man(NO)

July 10 Parliamentary government and elections inScandinavia, I.

Heidar, Knut. "Chapter 4: Political forces and politicalparticipation" (excerpts). 70-85

Heidar, Knut. "Chapter 3: Political institutions." 33-59

TV show screening:Borgen (DK)

van der Eijk, Cees andMark N. Franklin."Studying elections,parties and voters"(excerpts). 27-46

July 11 Parliamentary government and elections inScandinavia, II.

Heidar, Knut. "Norwegian parties and the party system:steadfast and changing." 807-833

Class exercise: forming a coalition government

July 12 No Classes: Long Weekend

July 13 No Classes: Long Weekend

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Week 4

July 16 Is Norway a multicultural country?

Brochmann, Grete and Knut Kjeldstadli. "Newcomers inthe era of the nation state, 1814 to 1940," "Postwar

growth and open borders and "Immigration andimmigrants in the 1970s" (excerpts). 87-109, 192-212

Hylland Eriksen, Thomas. "The Pakistani Norwegians." 1-2

Hylland Eriksen, Thomas. "The Norwegians who don'texist." 1-2

Kymlicka, Will. "The rise and fall of multiculturalism? Newdebates on inclusion and accomodation in diversesocieties." 32-49

Modood, Tariq (2007). Chapter 1: Is MulticulturalismAppropriate for the 21st century?, in Multiculturalism: acivic idea, Polity Press, Cambridge. 1-20

July 17 Norwegian politics up close

Excursion: Stortinget (Parliament)

Please note: excursion organized together withContemporary Norwegian Society (ISSSV 1753) from 1-

3pm today. Class will NOT be held in the morning.

July 18 Norwegian politics on the big screen

Film: Oljeberget/ The Rich Country(NO)

Please note: film screening organized together with

Contemporary Norwegian Society (ISSSV 1753) from 1-3pm today. Class will NOT be held in the morning.

July 19 Debates about diversity in Scandinavia: theMohammed caricatures case study

Hedetoft, Ulf. "Denmark versus multiculturalism." 111-129

Levey Brahm, Geoffrey and Tariq Modood. "Chapter 10:

Liberal democracy, multicultural citizenship and theDanish cartoon controversy." 216-243

Mouritsen, Per. "Chapter5: The particularuniversalism of a Nordiccivic nation. Commonvalues, state religion and

Islam in Danish politicalculture." 70-89

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July 20 Who gets to be Norwegian? Debating national identityin an era of growing diversity

Gullestad, Marianne. "Imagined kinship: the role ofdescent in the rearticulation of Norwegian ethno-nationalism" in Neo-Nationalism in Europe and Beyond.

69-87

Hylland Eriksen, Thomas. Diversity versus difference:Neo-liberalism in the minority debate. 13-36

Please note: class today to be held jointly with

Contemporary Norwegian Society from 1-3pm. Class willNOT be held in the morning.

Week 5

July 23 The politics of asylum in Scandinavia

Excursion: IMDi (Integrering- og Mangfoldsdirektoratet /

Directorate for Integration and Diversity)

Brekke, Jan Paul and Monica Five Aarset. Why Norway?Understanding asylum destinations (excerpts). 9-14, 37-48, 89-98

Hervik, Peter. The emergence of neo-nationalism inDenmark. 92-106

July 24 The Long March to 2013

Group presentations on the political parties and the2013 elections to the Stortinget.

July 25 Norwegian political cultureCase studies: gender equality and the environment

Lister, Ruth. Gender, citizenship, and social justice in theNordic countries: the views from the outside. 215-221

Skjeie, Hege and Birte Siim. Scandinavian feministdebates on citizenship. 345-360

Selle, Per. Environmentalism between state and localcommunity: why Greenpeace has failed in Norway. 391-

407

July 26 The European Union: to join or not to join? Part I

Pettersen, Per Arnt, et. al. "The 1994 E.U. referendum inNorway: continuity and change." 257-81

Lindstrm, Ulf. "Breaking the impasse, part I: Socialdemocracy finding a social democratic Europe? in Euro-Consent, Euro-Contract, or Euro-Coercion? 81-97

Cini, Michelle (2007).Chapter 1: Introduction

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July 27 The European Union: to join or not to join? Part II

The Economist. Jens Stoltenberg, Norways cautiousprime minister.

The Economist. To opt in or not to opt in.

Week 6

July 30 Contemporary political debates in Denmark andSweden.

Klingemann, Hans-Dieter. Appendix I: Parties, electionsand politics (excerpts). 267-269, 272-274.

March, Luke. Modern democratic socialists or old-stylesocial democrats? (excerpts) 102-107.

The Economist. The Swedish model: admire the best,

forget the rest.

The Economist. The Swedish election: moderate andhappy.

The Economist. Swedens general election: stalemate inSweden.

The Economist. Swedens Social Democrats: fadingcharms.

The Economist. Swedish Social Democrats: in thedumps.

The Economist. Danish politics: to vote, or not to vote?

The Economist. Denmarks election: a left turn forDenmark.

The Economist. Danish politics: Helles horridhoneymoon.

July 31 Exam review

August 1 Final written exam

August 2

August 3

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