Postgraduate Module Descriptor

POLM157: Global Issues in European Politics

This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Basic reading: 

-          Ferrin, M., & Kriesi, H. (Eds.). (2016). How Europeans view and evaluate democracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

-          Flynn, D., B. Nyhan and J. Reifler (2017). The nature and origins of misperceptions: understanding false and unsupported beliefs about politics. Political Psychology 38 (S1): 127–150.

-          Foa, R. S., & Mounk, Y. (2016). The democratic disconnect. Journal of Democracy, 27(3), 5-17.

-          Golder, M. (2016). Far right parties in Europe. Annual Review of Political Science, 19, 477-497.

-          Hutter, S., E. Grande and H. Kriesi (eds) (2016). Politicising Europe: Integration and Mass Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

-          Inglehart, R., & Norris, P. (2017). Trump and the Populist Authoritarian Parties: The Silent Revolution in Reverse. Perspectives on Politics, 15(2), 443-454.

-          Marks, G., Hooghe, L., Nelson, M., & Edwards, E. (2006). Party competition and European integration in the East and West: Different structure, same causality. Comparative Political Studies, 39(2), 155-175.

-          Risse, T. (2010). A Community of Europeans? Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

-          Rupnik, J. (2016). Surging Illiberalism in the East. Journal of Democracy, 27(4), 77-87.

-          Toshkov, D. (2016). Research Design in in Political Science. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.