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First Year Politics Course PO51009D
UK and European Comparative Governance and Politics Module
Guide
2017-2018
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Unit Description
This unit introduces students to the comparative approach to
politics and government, in addition to establishing a
foundation for the understanding of the politics and governance
of three key European states: the UK, Germany, and Italy. The
first half of the unit is focused on the UK, while the second half
concentrates on the other two countries at the unit’s core. Some
reference will be made in both parts of the course to the politics
of the European Union and the Cold War. Students will not only
build an essential foundation for studying the politics of the
UK/EU polity in which we live, but will also develop their
knowledge of the use of comparative methods for the study of

politics.
Teaching arrangements
Lectures and seminars
The lectures are held in both the Spring and Autumn term at
9am on Fridays.
Seminar attendance is compulsory. You can check which
module you have been assigned to on-line at:
https://mytimetable.gold.ac.uk/SWS/2016-17/login.aspx
Feedback / Office hours
All the staff teaching on this module have regular office hours
in term time. You are welcome to talk to us about any aspect of
the module. Our office hours are on the VLe.
Aims and Learning Outcomes
Aims
The aims of this unit are to:
· introduce the politics and governance of the UK, Germany,
and Italy since 1945
· familiarise students with the comparative method in political
science
Learning outcomes
After completing this unit, students will be able to:
· demonstrate foundation knowledge and understanding of the
political systems of the UK, Germany, and Italy
· demonstrate foundation knowledge and understanding of the

political history of the European Union and the Cold War
· show familiarity with a range of secondary source materials
Advice
Please see the unit lecturers/tutors if you have any problems or
just want a chat about the unit – we are really happy to see
people! Details of when, where and how to get hold of us are on
the first page.
Assessment
This course is assessed by two coursework essays of 2,000-
2,500 words, each worth 50% of the total. Details of the
arrangements for the submission of the coursework essays can
be found in the Student Handbook. Students may be required to
give short presentations in the seminars, depending on the
seminar tutor.
Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)
This unit has a site on the college’s Virtual Learning
Environment which contains:
· PowerPoint lecture slides (posted on the VLE before the
lecture to aid note- taking)
· Facts and figures on general election results, major office
holders and party leaders, that you will find a useful resource
for the course.
There is also a Politics Virtual Office on the VLE which
contains material such as citations guides so that your essays
are properly referenced.
Reading
The lecture programme can only offer a number of angles on
what is a wide-ranging subject area. It is therefore very
important that students read as widely as possible. There are
plenty of sources of information for this course. For the first
half of the course, students may find it useful to look at:

· R. Grayson, British Politics: a beginner’s guide, One World,
2010
· R. Leach et al, British Politics, Palgrave, 2011
· R. Heffernan et al., (eds), Developments in British Politics 10,
Palgrave, 2016. For the second half of the unit, students are
recommended to purchase the following:
· D. P. Conradt, The German Polity (Houghton, Mifflin,
Harcourt, 9th edn., 2009 (previous editions by Longman)
· G.K .Roberts, German Politics Today. 3rd Edition (Manchester
University Press, 2016)
· John Foot, Modern Italy, Second Edition (Palgrave Macmillan,
2014)
· James L. Newell, The Politics of Italy, (CUP, 2010)
Useful comparative analyses of the whole unit are:
· Y. Mény and A. Knapp, Government and Politics in Western
Europe: Britain, France,
Italy, Germany (Oxford University Press, 1998).
· M. M. L. Crepaz and J. Steiner, European Democracies,
(Longman, London, Sixth Edition, 2009).
And good historical overviews of Europe since 1945 are:
· Tom Buchanan, Europe’s Troubled Peace 1945-2000,
Blackwell, 2012 (second edition).
· Tony Judt, Postwar. A History of Europe since 1945, William
Heinemann, 2005.
Lecture Topics
Part 1: Britain and the EU
1. Introduction: the study of British politics
2. Building post-war Britain 1: from war to welfare, 1939-51
3. Building post-war Britain 2: ‘consensus’ to crisis, circa
1951-1979
4. Building post-war Britain 3: Thatcherism, 1979-97

5. Britain since Thatcher: from New Labour to the Coalition,
1997-
Reading week
6. ‘The Westminster Model’ and its decline
7. Parties and voting
8. Theories of representation: Women and ethnic minorities in
British Politics
9. Participation, pressure groups and social movements
10. Britain in the world
Part 2: Germany and Italy
11. Building post-war democracies 1: Fascism and Nazism
12. Building post-war democracies 2: Germany and Italy, 1945-
55
13. Building post-war democracies 3: European integration and
consolidation of democracy 1955-90
14. Germany and Italy, 1989-2014
15. Comparative institutions and constitutions
Reading week
16. Comparative governments
17. Comparative political cultures
18. Comparative parties and party systems
19. German Federalism vs Italian Regionalism
20. Comparative social movements
Seminars
Attendance in seminars is compulsory. The seminars enable
students to discuss the topics covered in the lectures and give
short presentations if required by the seminar tutor. Where short
presentations are required, questions and suggested reading can
be found on the VLE.
Essay Questions
Each essay contributes 50% to your overall assessment. Do not
write your name on it, only your student number.
Essays should include a full bibliography of works consulted or

referred to in the essay. Reference should be in either the
Harvard or MHRA format – both of which are available in the
‘Citations’ section of the Politics Virtual Office on the VLE.
Works
should be placed in alphabetical order and give details of
author(s), title, publisher and date of publication. You must also
cite your sources and ensure that any quotations are referenced
by page location. Essays must be expressed in your own words
and incorporate your own ideas. Plagiarism - the presentation of
another person's thoughts or words as your own - must be
avoided. You should consult the section on assessed coursework
in the Student Handbook for further guidance.
Essay questions are available on the VLE
Lecture Programme & Reading List
PART ONE: THE UK
1. Introduction: the study of British politics
No seminar reading
If you have time, and especially if you are unfamiliar with
British politics, it would be worth reading a good overview,
such as Richard Grayson’s, British Politics: a beginner’s guide,
One World, 2010.
2. Building post-war Britain 1: from war to welfare, 1939-51
Seminar Reading
Kevin Jeffreys, ‘Rebuilding Post-war Britain: Conflicting Views
of the Attlee Governments, 1945-51’, new perspective, 3(3),
March 1998. Available at
<http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~semp/conflict.htm>

Further reading
Paul Addison, The Road to 1945 (1994).
Brian Brivati & Harriet Jones eds., What Difference did the War
Make? (1993). Angus Calder, The People’s War (1992).
Peter Hennessy, Never Again: Britain, 1945-1951 (1992).
Kevin Jefferys, The Churchill Coalition and Wartime Politics,
1940-45 (1991). B Jones et al., Politics UK, 7th edn, Ch. 2
R Leach, et al, British Politics 2nd edn., Ch. 2
Kenneth O. Morgan, Britain since 1945: The People’s Peace
(2001), Chapters 1-3
3. Building post-war Britain 2: consensus to crisis? circa 1951-
1979
Seminar reading
Dennis Kavanagh, ‘The Postwar Consensus’, Twentieth Century
British History, 3(2), 1992
Further reading
Anthony Butler, ‘The End of the Post-war Consensus:
Reflections on Scholarly Uses of Political Rhetoric’, Political
Quarterly, 64(4), 1993
Colin Hay, ‘The Winter of Discontent Thirty Years On’, The
Political Quarterly, 80(4), October-December 2009
Kevin Hickson, ‘The Postwar Consensus Revisited’, Political
Quarterly, 75(2), 2004 Kenneth O. Morgan, Britain since 1945:
The People’s Peace (2001), Chapters 4-8. David Dutton, British
Politics Since 1945: The Rise and Fall of Consensus (1991).
Harriet Jones & Michael Kandiah eds., The Myth of Consensus:
New Views on British History, 1945-64 (1996).
R Leach, et al, British Politics 2nd edn., Ch. 2
David Marquand & Anthony Seldon eds., The Ideas that Shaped
Post-war Britain (1996).
H. Pemberton and L. Black., ‘The Winter of Discontent in
British Politics’, British Academy Review, 13, June 2009.
Available at:
<http://www.britac.ac.uk/pubs/review/13/index.cfm>

4. Building post-war Britain 3: Thatcherism, 1979-97
Seminar reading
Daniel Wincott, ‘Thatcher: Ideological or Pragmatic’,
Contemporary Record, 4(2), November 1990
Further reading
Andrew Gamble, Britain in Decline (1990).
Andrew Gamble, The Free Economy and the Strong State
(1988). Ian Gilmour, Dancing with Dogma: Britain under
Thatcherism (1993). Stuart Hall & Martin Jacques, New Times
(1989).
Dennis Kavanagh & Anthony Seldon eds., The Thatcher Effect
(1989
Peter Kellner, ‘Why the Tories were Trounced’, Parliamentary
Affairs 50, 4 (1997), pp.
616-630.
R Leach, et al, British Politics 2nd edn., Ch. 2 and 21
Margaret Thatcher The Downing Street Years and The Path to
Power (1993 & 1995). Hugo Young, One of Us: A Biography of
Margaret Thatcher (1993).
5. Britain since Thatcher: from New Labour to the Coalition,
1997-
Seminar reading
Andrew Chadwick & Richard Heffernan, The New Labour
Reader (2003), Introduction
Further reading: New Labour
Andrew Chadwick & Richard Heffernan, The New Labour
Reader (2003).
John Callaghan, Steven Fielding & Steve Ludlam eds.,
Interpreting the Labour Party: approaches to Labour politics and
history (2003)
James Cronin, New Labour’s Pasts (2004).
Anthony Giddens, The Third Way: The Renewal of Social

Democracy (1998).
Philip Gould, The Unfinished Revolution: How Modernisers
saved the Labour Party
(1999).
Richard Heffernan, New Labour and Thatcherism: Political
Change in Britain (2001). B Jones et al., Politics UK, 7th edn.,
Appendix
Simon Jenkins, Thatcher and Sons: A Revolution in Three Acts
(2007).
Further reading: the Coalition
Tim Bale, The Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron
(Updated and Revised Paperback) (Cambridge: Polity Press)
(2011)
Andrew Denham, Peter Dorey, Mark Garnett (eds.) From Crisis
to Coalition: The Conservative Party, 1997-2010 (2011)
Simon Griffiths, ‘What was Progressive in Progressive
Conservatism?’, Political Studies Review (January 2014)
Richard Hayton, Reconstructing Conservatism, (MUP), 2013
R. Heffernan et al. (eds.), Developments in British Politics 9,
2011, Introduction Heppell, T. and Seawright, D. (eds.), (2012)
Cameron and the Conservatives: The Transition to Coalition
Government (Basingstoke: Palgrave).
Simon Lee and Matt Beech (eds.), The Conservatives under
David Cameron: Built to Last? (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan), 2009
Simon Lee and Matt Beech, The Cameron-Clegg Government:
Coalition politics in an age of austerity (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan), 2011
Donald Sassoon, ‘European Social Democracy and New
Labour: Unity in Diversity?’,
Political Quarterly, 70, s1 (1999), pp. 19-36.
6. The Westminster Model and its decline
Seminar Reading
Dunleavy, Patrick (2006) The Westminster model and the
distinctiveness of British politics. In: Dunleavy, Patrick, Hay,

C.,Heffernan, R. and Cowley, P., (eds.), Developments in
British politics 8. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp.
315-341.
Further reading
R Brazier, Reshaping the British Political System 2008
V Bogdanor, The Coalition and the Constitution, Hart, 2011, ch.
7
P. Dorey, Policy Making in Britain: An introduction, Sage, 2014
(second edition), ch. 6 J Mitchell, 'The Westminster Model and
the state of the unions', Parliamentary Affairs
63 (1), 2010, pp. 85-8.
M Flinders, ‘The Half-hearted Constitutional Revolution’, in
Patrick Dunleavy et al (eds.),
Developments in British Politics 8, 2006
A Gamble, 'Remaking the Constitution', in P Dunleavy et al
(eds), Developments in British Politics 7.
David Judge, Political Institutions in the United Kingdom, Ch. 1
& pp. 24-32. D Kavanagh et al., British Politics, Ch. 3.
R Leach, B Coxall & L Robins, British Politics 2nd edn., Ch.
18.
Michael Moran, Politics and Governance in the UK 2nd edn.,
Ch. 6,9. D Oliver, Constitutional Reform in the United
Kingdom, Chs.1, 2 & 3.
D. Richards, ‘Changing patterns of executive governance’, in R.
Heffernan et al. (eds.),
R.A.W. Rhodes, Understanding Governance.
R.A.W. Rhodes and Mark Bevir, Interpreting British
Governance.
D Richards & M J Smith, Governance and Public Policy in the
UK, pp.4 & 47-9.
M Russell, ‘Constitutional politics’, in R. Heffernan et al.,
(eds.), Developments in British Politics 9.
Various authors, ‘Special issue: Constitutional Affairs in
Parliamentary Affairs 62, 4, 2009

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7. Elections and voting: who do we vote for and why?
Seminar reading
D Denver, ‘Elections and Voting’, in R. Heffernan et al., (eds.),
Developments in British Politics 9, Palgrave Macmillan 2011
Further reading
J Bartle and S Laycock, ‘Elections and Voting’, in Patrick
Dunleavy et al (eds.),
Developments in British Politics 8, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
H Clarke, D Sanders, M Stewart, and P Whiteley, Performance
Politics and the British Voter, 2009
D Denver, 'The results: How Britain voted', Parliamentary
Affairs 63 (4), 2010, pp. 588- 606
D Denver, Elections and Voters in Britain, Palgrave Macmillan,
2003, pp. 18-25.
G Evans and P Norris (eds.), Critical Elections: British Parties
and Voters in Long-Term Perspectives 1999
B Jones et al., Politics UK, 7th edn, 2010, 6-11 & 21.
Dennis Kavanagh and Philip Cowley, The British General
Election of 2010 (Palgrave, 2010)
D Kavanagh et al., British Politics, Ch.20
R. Leach et al, British Politics, Ch 5
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8. Theories of representation: Women and ethnic minorities in
British Politics
Seminar reading
R Campbell et al. (2010) 'Do women need women
representatives?', British Journal of Political Science 40, pp.
171-94.
Further reading
V Bryson, Feminist Debates, Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

R Campbell, “The Politics of Diversity” in R. Heffernan et al.,
(eds.), Developments in British Politics 9
S Childs, J Lovenduski & R Campbell, Women at the Top,
Chapters 2 & 3, 2005 Hansard Society, Changing Numbers,
Changing Politics?, 2005. Available at:
<http://www.hansardsociety.org.uk/blogs/downloads/archive/20
07/08/23/Wo men-at-the-Top-2005.aspx>
R Leach et al., British Politics, 2nd edn. 2011, Ch. 22. J
Lovenduski, Feminizing Politics, Polity Press, 2005
J Mansbridge, Should Blacks Represent Blacks and Women
Represent Women? A Contingent "Yes". The Journal of Politics,
61 (3), 1999, pp. 628-657
A Philips, The Politics of Presence, Clarendon Press, 1995
HF Pitkin, The Concept of Representation, University of
California Press, 1967 B Sones, M Moran & J Lovenduski,
Women in Parliament, The New Suffragettes, Politicos, 2005
W Stokes, Women in Contemporary Politics, Polity Press, 2005
9. Participation, pressure groups and social movements
Seminar reading:
W Grant, ‘Pressure politics: A politics of collective
consumption?’ Parliamentary Affairs 58 (2), pp. 366-79
Recommended reading
T Bentley, Everyday Democracy, Demos, 2005. Available at:
<http://www.demos.co.uk/files/everydaydemocracy.pdf> I
Budge et al., The New British Politics, 4th edn, Chs. 13, 17 &
18.
R Heffernan, ‘Pressure group politics’, in R. Heffernan et al.,
(eds.), Developments in British Politics 9.
B Jones et al., Politics UK, 7th edn., Chapters 9, 10 & 11. R
Leach et al., British Politics, 2nd edn. 2011, Ch. 8.
M Moran, Politics and Governance in the UK, 2nd ed. 2011, Ch.
8. W Grant, Pressure Groups and British Politics.
G Jordan, 'Politics without parties: a growing trend?',
Parliamentary Affairs, July 1998. The Power Commission,

Power to the People: The Report of Power: An Independent
Inquiry into Britain’s Democracy, The POWER Inquiry, 2006.
Available at:
<http://makeitanissue.org.uk/devlog/2007/01/the_power_commi
ssion_was_est ab.php>
G Stoker, Why Politics Matters, Palgrave Macmillan 2006
G Stoker, “Anti-Politics in Britain” in R. Heffernan et al.,
(eds.), Developments in British Politics 9
Unlock Democracy, Taking the Initiative: The Case for Citizen-
Led Decision Making, 2007.
Available at: <http://www.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/wp-
content/uploads/2007/08/text.pdf>
10. Britain in the world: Empire, Europe and globalization
Seminar reading:
Michael Moran, Politics and Governance in the UK (2015), Ch.
11
Recommended reading
I. Bache & Andrew Jordan eds., The Europeanization of British
Politics (2006).
T. Buchanan, Europe’s Troubled Peace 1945-2000, Blackwell,
2012 (second edition).
P. Dorey, Policy Making in Britain: An introduction, Sage, 2014
(second edition), ch. 7 B Jones et al., Politics UK, 7th edn.,
Chapter 2, 25 and 27
A. Gamble, “And Another Thing ... The Legacy of Empire” in B
Jones et al., Politics UK, 7th edn
A. Gamble, “Britain in the World” in R. Heffernan et al. (eds.),
T. Judt, Postwar. A History of Europe since 1945, William
Heinemann, 2005. D Kavanagh et al., British Politics, chs. 6-9
and 31
R. Leach et al., British Politics, chs. 15 and 24
N. Rees, “European Integration and the European Union” in B
Jones et al., Politics UK, 7th edn., Ch. 27

L. Thorlakson, “Britain’s Place in the European Union” in in R.
Heffernan et al. (eds.),
PART TWO: GERMANY AND ITALY
11. Building post-war democracies 1: Fascism and Nazism
Recommended reading
D. P. Conradt, The German Polity, Longman, 2009, pp. 1-16.
G. K. Roberts, German Politics Today, MUP, 2016, pp. 1-23.
James L. Newell, The Politics of Italy. Governance in a Normal
Country, CUP, 2010. pp. 9- 46.
Further reading
D. Sassoon, Contemporary Italy. Introduction and chs 1-4, 5, 8
Martin Bull and James Newell, Italian Politics: Adjustment
under Duress, London: Polity, 2005, Chs 1 & 2
M. Fulbrook (ed.), German History since 1800, Arnold, 1997,
Chs. 8-15; 16-17.
J. Stephenson, ‘The rise of the Nazis: Sonderweg or spanner in
the works?’, in M. Fulbrook (ed.), German History since 1800,
Arnold, 1997, pp. 318-65.
G. Martel (ed.), Modern Germany Reconsidered 1870 –1945,
Chs. 1, 2, 6, 9, 10, 12.
M. Roseman, ‘National Socialism and modernisation’, in R.
Bessel (ed.), Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, Cambridge
University Press, 1996, pp. 197-229.
G. Smith, Democracy in Western Germany, Dartmouth, 1990,
pp. 1-43.
M. Fulbrook, Germany 1918-1990. The Divided Nation,
Fontana, London 1991, pp. 129- 348.
Carl Levy, 'From Fascism to “Post-Fascists”: Italian Roads to
Modernity', in R. Bessel (ed.), Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany:
Comparisons and Contrasts, CUP, 1996, pp. 165-196.
R. Absalom, Italy since 1800. A Nation in the Balance?
Longman, 1995. Chs 1-7, 12

M. Clark, Modern Italy, 1871-1995. 2nd Edn. Longman, 1996.
Parts 1-4
G. Nowell-Smith, ‘Italy: Tradition, Backwardness and
Modernity’ in Z. G. Barański and R. Lumley (eds), Culture and
Conflict in Postwar Italy, Macmillan, 1990.
Koff & Koff, Italy: From the First to the Second Republic.
Routledge, 2000. Ch. 3
P. O’Dochartaigh, Germany since 1945, Palgrave Macmillan,
2004, pp. 1-36.
12. Building post-war democracies 2: Germany and Italy 1945-
55
Recommended reading
M. Roseman, ‘Division and stability: the Federal Republic of
Germany, 1949-1989’, in M. Fulbrook (ed.), German History
since 1800, Arnold, 1997, pp. 365-90.
G. K. Roberts, German Politics Today, 2016, pp. 36-51.
Klaus Larres and Panikos Panayi (eds.), The Federal Republic
of Germany since 1949, Longman, London, 1996, pp. 3-34; 74-
168.
Paul Ginsborg, A Contemporary History of Italy. Society and
Politics 1943-1988, Penguin, 1990, Chapters 3-6.
H. Partridge, Italian Politics Today. Manchester UP, 1998. Ch.
1, 6, 7, 8
Erik Jones and Gianfranco Pasquino (eds.), The Oxford
Handbook of Italian Politics, OUP, 2015, pp. pp. 255-267.
13. Building post-war democracies 3: European integration and
consolidation ofdemocracy 1955-90
Recommended Reading
D. P. Conradt, The German Polity, 2009, pp. 17-40.
Geoffrey K. Roberts, German Politics Today, mUP, 2016, pp. 1-
23.

P. McCarthy, The Crisis of the Italian State. From the Origins
of the Cold War to the Fall of Berlusconi. Macmillan, 1995.
Esp. chs 1, 2, 8
C. Duggan, ‘Italy in the Cold War Years and the Legacy of
Fascism’ in C. Duggan and C. Wagstaff (eds), Italy in the Cold
War. Politics, Culture & Society, 1948-58. Berg, 1995.
D. W. Ellwood, ‘Italy, Europe and the Cold War: The Politics
and Economics of Limited Sovereignty’ in C. Duggan and C.
Wagstaff (eds), Italy in the Cold War. Politics, Culture &
Society, 1948-58. Berg, 1995.
Paul Ginsborg, A Contemporary History of Italy. Society and
Politics 1943-1988, Penguin, 1990, chapters, 7-11.
Handbook of Italian Politics, pp. 268-308.
G. J. Glaessner German Democracy, pp.43-64.
Further reading
G J Glaessner, Germany Democracy, Berg, 2005, pp.1-10
M. Fulbrook (ed.), German History since 1800, Arnold, 1997,
pp. 365- 476.
P. Pulzer, ‘Model or Exception - Germany as a Normal State?’,
in Gordon Smith et.al. (eds.), Developments in German Politics
2, Macmillan, 1996, pp. 303-16.
G. Smith et al. (eds.), Developments in German Politics 2,
Macmillan, 1996, pp. 194-232.
K. Larres and P. Panayi (eds.)., The Federal Republic of
Germany since 1949, Longman, 1996, pp. 191-208.
P. Ginsborg 'Explaining Italy's crisis' in S. Gundle & S. Parker
(eds), The New Italian Republic. Routledge, 1996, pp.19-39.
D. Sassoon, Contemporary Italy. 2nd Edn. Longman, 1997. Ch.
5
under Duress, London: Polity, 2005, Ch 1
R. Absalom, Italy since 1800. A Nation in the Balance?
Longman, 1995. Ch. 12
M. Clark, Modern Italy, 1871-1995. 2nd Edn. Longman, 1996.
Part 4: ch. 20

S. Gundle & S. Parker (eds), The New Italian Republic: From
the Fall of the Berlin Wall to Berlusconi. Routledge, 1996.
P. McCarthy, The Crisis of the Italian State. From the Origins
of the Cold War to the Fall of Berlusconi. Macmillan, 1995. Ch.
8
8
Anna Cento Bull and Adalgisa Giorgio (eds.), Speaking Out and
Silencing. Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s,
Legenda, London, 2006.
14. Germany and Italy, 1989-2016
Recommended Reading
Tom Buchanan, Europe’s Troubled Peace 1945-1950,
(Blackwell, 2012), Chapter 11, 12. Tony Judt, Postwar. A
History of Europe since 1945 (William Hennemann 2005).
C. Levy, 'Racism, Immigration and New Identities in Italy', in
A. Mammone, E. G. Parini and G. A. Veltri (eds.), The
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy. History, politics,
society, Routledge, 2015, pp. 49-63.
Special Section; The State of Italy- A Conference held at the
Watson Institute for International Studies 29-30 October 2013,
Brown University’, Journal of Modern Italy, 19, 4, 2014, pp.
375-423.
A. Mammone and Giuseppe A. Veltri (eds.), Italy Today. The
Sick Man of Europe, Routledge, 2010.
A. Mammone, Ercole Giap Parini, and Giuseppe A. Veltri
(eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy.
History. Politics, Society, Routledge, 2015.
John Foot, Modern Italy, Second Edition, Palgrave Macmillan,
2014, pp. 235-247. James L. Newell, The Politics of Italy, CUP,
2010, Chap 1.
David P. Conradt, The German Polity, Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt, 2009, Chap. 2.
J. K. Anderson, ‘Modell Deutschland: from the Bonn to the

Berlin Republic’, in S. Colvin and M. Taplin (eds), The
Routledge Handbook of German Politics & Culture, Routledge,
2015 pp. 71-84.
M. Cotta & L. Verzichelli, Political Institutions in Italy, OUP,
2007, pp. 255-261.
G. Roberts, German Politics Today, MUP, 2016, Chapters 2, 10-
11.
S. Green et .al., The Politics of the New Germany, Routledge,
2007.
P. O)’ Dochartaigh, Germany since 1945, Plagrave Macmillan,
2004, pp. 178-257.
M. G. Schmidt, Political Institutions in the Federal Republic of
Germany, OUP, 2007, Chapters 6-7.
D. Conradt, The German Polity, Longman, 2009, Chapters 7-9.
James L .Newell, The Politics of Italy, CUP, 2010, Chapters 2-
4.
Handbook of Italian Politics, OUP, 2015, pp. 309-340.
15. Comparative Institutions and Constitutions
Recommended Reading
Conradt, The German Polity, Longman, 2009, Chapters 7-9.
G. K. Roberts, German Politics Today, 2016, Chapters 3, 7-8.
James L. Newell, The Politics of Italy, CUP, 2010, Chapters 2-
4. John Foot, Modern Italy, Second Edition, Chapter 2.
Ercole Giap Parini, and Giuseppe A. Veltri (eds.), The
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy, Routledge,
Chapters 8, 18.
Eric Langenbacher, ‘The Political and Constitutional Order’, S.
Colvin and M. Taplin (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of
German Politics & Culture, Routledge, 2015, pp. 87-104.
Handbook of Italian Politics, OUP, pp. 71-131.

Further Reading
Germany OUP, 2003, Chapters 2-4.
G. K. Roberts, German Politics Today, Manchester University
Press, 2009. Chapters 3-7.
K. H. Goetz 'Government at the Centre' in S Padgett et al. (eds)
Developments in German Politics 3, 2003, pp. 17-37
11 and Ch. 12
R. J. Dalton, Politics in Germany, Harper Collins, 1993, second
edition, pp. 349-53.
G. J. Glaessner German Democracy, Berg, 2005, ch.5
W. E. Paterson and D. Southern, Governing Germany,
Blackwell, 1991, chs 3 & 6.
G. Smith et. al. (ed.), Developments in German Politics 2,
Macmillan, 1996, chs. 2 & 7.
ch. 2.
D. Hine, Governing Italy, Oxford UP, 1993, Ch. 5 and 6
P. Furlong, Modern Italy: Representation and Reform.
Routledge, 1994. Ch. 3-6
2 and 4
C. Levy, Italian Regionalism: History, Identity and Politics,
Berg, 1996.
under Duress, London: Polity, 2005, Chs 3-6.
2007, pp. Chapters, 4-6, 8.
16. Comparative Governments
Recommended Reading
D. P. Conradt, The German Polity, Houghton Miflin Harcourt,
2009, Chapters 7-9.
G. K. Roberts, German Politics Today, MUP, 2016, Chapters
3, 7-8.

James L. Newell, The Politics of Italy, CUP. 2010, Chapters 2-
4.
Further reading
Germany, OUP. 2007, Chapters 2-4,
K. H. Goetz 'Government at the Centre' in S Padgett et al. (eds)
Developments in German Politics 3, 2003, pp. 17-37
Press, 2009, pp. Chapters 3-8.
G. Andrews Not a normal country: Italy after Berlusconi, Pluto
Press, 2005, pp.17-40
P. Ginsborg Silvio Berlusconi, Verso, 2004, chapter 5
C. Clemens and W. Paterson, The Kohl Chancellorship, Frank
Cass, 1998
Blackwell, ch. 7.
ch. 2.
G. Smith “The Resources of a German Chancellor”, West
European Politics, vol. 14, no. 2, 1991
J. Foot Modern Italy Palgrave, 2003, 164-173
P. Furlong, Modern Italy: Representation and Reform.
Routledge, 1994. Ch. 5
P. Ginsborg ‘The ambitions of Silvio B’ New Left Review 21,
2003, pp.21-64
D. Hine, Governing Italy, Oxford UP, 1993, Ch. 7
2
under Duress, London: Polity, 2005, Chs 3-6.
2007, 4-6, 8.

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17. Comparative political cultures
Recommended Reading
D. P. Conradt, The German Polity, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2009, Chapter 4.
G. K. Roberts, German Politics Today, MUP, 2016, Chapter 3.
John Foot, Modern Italy (Second Edition), Palgrave Macmillan,
2014, pp. 39-46; 180-196. James L. Newell, The Politics of
Italy, CUP, 2010, Chapter 5.
Sarah Colvin and Mark Taplin (eds.), The Routledge Handbook
of German Politics & Culture, Routledge, 2015, pp. 147-162;
181-197; 230-249.
Handbook of Italian Politics, OUP, 2015, pp. 3-70; pp. 409-
464;pp. 608-644; pp. 668- 684
Further Reading
D.P. Conradt (1989), ‘Changing German political culture’ in G.
A. Almond and S. Verba (eds.), The Civic Culture Revisited,
Newbury Park: Sage, pp. 212-72.
J. Kocka, ‘The difficult rise of civil society: societal history of
modern Germany’, in M. Fulbrook (ed.), German History since
1800, Arnold, 1997, pp. 493-511.
P.H, Merkl, ‘A New German Identity’ in G. Smith et. al (eds.),
Developments in German Politics, Macmillan, 1992, pp. 327-48.
R. J. Dalton, Politics in Germany, HarperCollins, 1993, pp. 107-
200.
John Dickie, ‘Imagined Italies’, in D. Forgacs and R. Lumley
(eds.), Italian Cultural Studies: An Introduction, Oxford
University Press, 1996.
P. Ginsborg, ‘The political culture of Italy’, Modern Italy, 1,1,
pp. 3-17.
R. D. Putnam, (1993), Making Democracy Work. Civic
Traditions in Modern Italy, Princeton University Press.
S. Green, The Politics of Exclusion: Immigration, Residence
and Citizenship Policy in Germany, 1955-2002, Manchester

University Press, 2003.
E. Nathans, The Politics of Citizenship in Germany, Berg, 2004,
pp. 235-264.
M. Minkenberg, ‘The politics of citizenship in the new
republic’, West European Politics, 26:4, 2003, pp. 219-240.
S. Green et. al, The Politics of the New Germany, Routledge,
Chapter 6.
K. Calavita, Immigrants at the Margins: Law, Race and
Exclusion in Southern Europe, CUP, 2005.
‘Italy’s “Second-Generations’: The Sons and Daughter of
Migrations, Bulletin of Italian Politics, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2010, pp.
5-120, http://www.gla.ac.uk/bip
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18. Comparative parties and party systems
Recommended Reading
D. P. Conradt, The German Polity, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2009, Chapters 5, 6.
G. K. Roberts, German Politics Today, MUP. 2016, Chapters
4, 5.
2014, pp. 197-247.
James L. Newell, The Politics of Italy, CUP, 2010, Chapters 5,
7.
Andrea Mammone, Ercole Giap Parini, and Giuseppe A. Parini
(eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy,
Routledge, 2015, Chapter 13-17.
Sara Colvin and Mark Taplin (eds.), The Routledge Handbook
of German Politics & Culture, Routledge, pp. 105-118.
Further reading
under Duress, London: Polity, 2005, Ch 3.

Germany, OUP. 2007, Ch. 5.
Press, 2000, pp. 80-9.
G. Smith 'The “New Model” Party System' in S Padgett et al.
(eds) Developments in German Politics 3, 2003, pp. 82-100
14
G. J. Glaessner Germany Democracy, Berg, 2005, pp.101-122
P. Pulzer, ‘Political Ideology’, in G. Smith et.al. (eds.),
Developments in German Politics, Macmillan, 1992, pp. 303-26.
chs. 3 &5.
Blackwell, 1991, ch. 7.
R. J. Dalton, Politics in Germany, HarperCollins, 1993, second
edition, pp. 278-326.
G. Braunthal, Parties and Politics in Modern Germany,
Westview, 1996.
D. Hine, Governing Italy, Oxford UP, 1993, Ch. 3.
S. Gundle & S. Parker (eds), The New Italian Republic.
Routledge, 1996. Parts II and III
P. Allum, ‘The Changing Face of Christian Democracy’, in C.
Duggan and C. Wagstaff (eds), Italy in the Cold War. Politics,
Culture & Society, 1948-58. Berg, 1995.
C. Shore, Italian Communism. Pluto, 1990.
H. Partridge, Italian Politics Today. Manchester UP, 1998. Chs
4, 5 and 8
S. Waters, '”Tangentopoli” and the Emergence of a New
Political Order in Italy', West European Politics, (1994), vol.
17, no. 1: 169-82.
V. Bufacchi & S. Burgess, Italy Since 1989: events and
interpretations, Macmillan, 1998
West European Politics, vol. 20, no. 1 (1997) Crisis and
Transition in Italian Politics.
Special Issue.

2007, Chapters 1-3.
Journal of Modern Italian Studies, ‘Mapping Contemporary
Catholic Politics, Vol. 21, No. 3, 2016, pp. 399-510.
19. German Federalism and Italian Regionalism
Recommended Reading
D. P. Conradt, The German Polity, Ninth Edition, Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt, 2009, Ch. 9.
G. K. Roberts, German Politics Today, MUP. 2016, Chapter 6.
James L. Newell, The Politics of Italy, CUP, 2010, Chapter 3.
Further Reading
2014, pp. 60-62; 123-128. Plus: the further readings in Lecture
15.
20. Comparative social movements
Recommended Reading
D. Della Porta, Social movements, political violence and the
state: a comparative analysis of Italy and Germany, Cambridge,
1995, pp. 25-47
James L. Newell, The Politics of Italy, CUP. 2010, Ch. 6.
D. P. Conradt, The German Polity, 2009, Chapters 4 & 5
Andrea Mammone, Ercole Giap Parini, and Giuseppe A. Veltri
(eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy.
History, Politics, Society, Routledge, 2015, Chapters 4 (Carl
Levy) and 19.
Further reading
K-W Brand 'The Political Culture of the New Social
Movements' in D Berg-Schlosser and R Rytlewski (eds.)
Political Culture in Germany, Macmillan, 1993, pp.116-125

A H Cooper, Paradoxes of Peace: German Peace Movements
since 1945, University of Michigan Press, 1996, pp. 275-285
R Koopmans Democracy from Below: New Social Movements
and the Political System in West Germany Westview Press,
1995
R Schmidt “From 'Old politics' to 'new politics': three decades
of peace protest in West Germany' in Contemporary Political
Culture, Sage, 1989, pp. 174-198
A Scott Ideology and the New Social Movements, Unwin
Hyman, 1990, chapter 4
P. Ginsborg, Silvio Berlusconi, Verso, 20004, pp.168-174
P. Ginsborg, A History of Contemporary Italy, Penguin, 1990,
chapter 9
D. Della Porta, Social movements, political violence and the
state: a comparative analysis of Italy and Germany, Cambridge,
1995, pp. 85-95
S. Tarrow 'The Phantom at the Opera: Political Parties and
Social Movements of the 1960s and 1970s in Italy' in RJ Dalton
and M Kuechler (eds.) Challenging the Political Order: New
Social and Political Movements in Western Democracies Polity,
1990, pp.251-276
S. Tarrow Democracy and Disorder: Protest and Politics in Italy
1965-1975, 1989, Oxford University Press

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