Welcome to my teaching page! This is a page with a variety of teaching material of all kinds.
Several courses are available here, including my School-of-Research seminar on Comparative Politics and the Media and Politics class of the School of Public Affairs. I also add some general elements regarding the use of quantitative methods, relevant datasets, etc.
General readings comparative politics
I strongly recommend you consult some of the books below if you consider that you do not have a general understanding of comparative politics. You all HAVE TO read Lijphart!
De Vries, C. E., Hobolt, S. B., Proksch, S. O., & Slapin, J. B. (2021). Foundations of European politics: a comparative approach. Oxford University Press.
*Clark, W. R., Golder, M., & Golder, S. N. (2017). Principles of comparative politics. CQ Press
Newton, K., & Van Deth, J. W. (2005). Foundations of comparative politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dickovick, J. T., & Eastwood, J. (Eds.). (2019). Comparative Politics: Classic and Contemporary Readings. Oxford University Press.
Hague, R., Harrop, M. & McCormick, J., (2017), Political Science: a comparative introduction, Red Glob Press.
O’Neil, P. H. (2017). Essentials of comparative politics. WW Norton & Company.
Robinson, J. A., & Acemoglu, D. (2012). Why nations fail: The origins of power, prosperity, and poverty. Crown Business, New York.
Grossman, E., & Sauger, N. (2007). Les systèmes politiques des pays de l’Union européenne. Bruxelles: De Boeck.
*Lijphart, A. (1999). Patterns of democracy. Government forms and performance in thirty-six countries. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Mény, Y., & Surel, Y. (2008). Politique comparée. Paris: Montchrestien.
Ragin, C. (1987). The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies. Berkeley, C.A.: University of California Press.
Seiler, D. L. (2004). La méthode comparative en science politique. Paris: Armand Colin.
Strøm, K., Müller, W. C., & Bergman, T. (Eds.). (2003). Delegation and accountability in parliamentary democracies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Tsebelis, G. (2002). Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Caramani, D (ed.) (2017), Comparative Politics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
Data sources for Comparative Politics
Quality of government dataset
The dataset I most use for coursework, but also for research (sometimes). It combines a host of different data sources and there is cross-sectional version, a time-series version and an OECD countries version.
https://www.gu.se/en/quality-government/qog-data/data-downloads
Comparative Agendas
I have been involved for the past 20 years in the Comparative Agenda Project, an ambitious data collection effort that now extends to about 30 countries. We are currently thinking about depositing data in a public dataverse, but no decision has been taken.
https://www.comparativeagendas.net/datasets_codebooks
For more information, on this you may have a look at this open-access book.
Executive Approval Database
Tim Hellwig and Matt Singer have coordinated an interesting data-collection effort that has led to the creation of a publicly accessible dataset on the evolution of government approval in large set of countries going back in some cases to the immediate post-war period.