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POLI 4311

Selected Problems in Comparative Politics

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2025

Topics

  • 25 – Course Overview
  • 25 – Parliamentary Systems and Parliamentary Democracy
  • 25 – Delegation and Accountability
  • 25 – Electorate to Parliament I
  • 25 – Electorate to Parliament II
  • 25 – Parliament to Cabinet I
  • 25 – Parliament to Cabinet II
  • 25 – Cabinet to the Bureaucracy

Readings

  • Støm, Kaare, Wolfgang Müller, and Torbjörn Bergman. 2003. Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Available online through the Library Omni - Strøm, Kaare. Or see Brightspace and myReadings.)
  • Optional: Davidsson, Simon. 2025. “How Parliamentarism Developed in Western Europe.” British Journal of Political Science 55 (e53): 1-23.
  • Optional: Textbook, Chapter 2 (Lupia)
  • Bowler, Shaun. 2009. “Electoral Systems.” In The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions. Ed. Sarah Binder et al. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 577-594.
  • Aldrick, John. 2009. “Political Parties In and Out of Legislatures.” In The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions. Ed. Sarah Binder et al. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 555-576.
  • Optional: Lento, Tal and Reuven Y. Hazan. 2022. “The Vote of No Confidence: Towards a Framework for Analysis.” West European Politics 45(3): 502-527.
  • Sieberer, Ulrich. 2015. “Hire or Fire? The Link between Cabinet Investiture and Removal in Parliamentary Democracies.” In Parliaments and Government Formation: Unpacking Investiture Rules. Eds. Bjorn Erik Rasch, Shane Martin, and Jose Antonio Cheibub. New York: Oxford University Press. 309-329.
  • Mudde, Cas and Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser. 2017. Populism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pages 79-96.
  • Optional: Smith, David. 2007. The People’s House of Commons. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 19-32. (“Parliamentary Democracy”)
  • Optional: Textbook, Chapter 22
Sources