Articles and essays – general & comparative


  • ‘Challenges for Social Democracy in the South’. In Bratberg, Ø, Brandal, N. and Thorsen D.E. (Eds.). ‘Social Democracy in the 21st Century’ Comparative  Social Research 35. PDF



  • ‘New Social Democracy in the South? Reflections from India, Indonesia and Scandinavia in Comparative Perspective’ In C. Tapscott, T. Halvorsen, T. and T. Cruz-Del Rosario The Democratic Development State. North-South Perspectives, (2018) Stuttgart: Ibidem. Draft version: PDF


  • ‘Social Democratic Development’, (2016) in Reinventing Social Democratic Deverlopment...op.cit. in anthology section


  • ‘Lineages of Democratic Development: India and Scandinavia (with John Harriss)’ (2016) in Reinventing Social Democratic Deverlopment...op.cit. in anthology section ‘What Are the Prospects Now for Social Democratic Development? (with John Harriss)’ (2016) in Reinventing Social Democratic Deverlopment...op.cit. in anthology section


    • ‘Demokratisering i det Globala Syd’, In Malnes, R and Thorsen, Dag Einar (Eds) Demokratisering: Historian og Ideene. Oslo: Dreyer, 2015 PDF


    • ‘Popular Aspirations, Decentralization and Local Democracy’ in Imperative of Good Local Governance: Challenges for the Next Decade of Decentralization, Edited by Joakim Öjendal and Anki Dellnäs, Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2013. PDF


    • (With Stokke, Kristian) ‘Experiences and Strategic Interventions in Transformative Democratic Politics’, in Kristian Stokke & Olle Törnquist (eds.), Democratization in the Global South: The Importance of Transformative Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 ISBN 9780230370036. Ch 14 pp. 302 – 311. PDF


    • (With Stokke, Kristian) ‘Paradigmatic Failures of Transformative Democratic Politics: Indonesia and Sri Lanka in Comparative Perspective’, in Kristian Stokke & Olle Törnquist (eds.), Democratization in the Global South: The Importance of Transformative Politics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, ISBN 9780230370036. Ch 5 pp. 100 – 124. PDF


    • (With Stokke, Kristian) ‘Transformative Democratic Politics’, in Kristian Stokke & Olle Törnquist (eds.), Democratization in the Global South: The Importance of Transformative Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, ISBN 9780230370036. Ch 1 pp. 3 – 20. PDF


    • ‘Is Social Democracy Being Undermined?’ Economic and Political Weekly. ISSN 0012-9976. XLVI(15), 2011, pp. 28- 31. PDF


    • ‘Decentralisation and New Popular Politics of Representation: Recent Experiences and Old Lessons’, in Journal of Parliamentary Studies,  1, June 2010. PDF


    • (With Nicolaas Warouw) ‘Approaching Democracy – Introductory Notes on Concepts’, in (eds.) Willy Purna Samadhi and Nicolaas Warouw Building Democracy on the Sand. Advances and Setbacks in Indonesia, Jakarta and Jogjakarta; Demos and PCD Press. First edition: December 2008. PDF


    • ‘Power, Conflict and Democracy: The Analytical Framework’, The PCD Journal1(1), 2008. PDF


    • (With Bastian, Sunil, Stokke, Kristian and Warouw, Nicolaas), ‘Introduction to the PCD Programme’, in The PCD Journal, Vol. 1:1, 2008. PDF

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    • ‘Popular Politics of Representation. New Lessons from Indonesia, Kerala (India) and the Philippines’, (with Tharakan, P.K.M. and Quimpo, Nathan) in Törnquist, Olle, (Ed) (with Kristian Stokke and Neil Webster) Rethinking Popular Representation, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009.PDF


    • ‘Introduction: The Problem is Representation! Towards an Analytical Framework’, in Törnquist, Olle, (Ed) (with Kristian Stokke and Neil Webster) Rethinking Popular Representation, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009. PDF

     

    • (With Kristian Stokke and Gyda Sindre), ‘Conflict Resolution and Democratisation in the Aftermath of the 2004 Tsunami. A Comparative Study of Aceh and Sri Lanka’, The PCD Journal 1(1), 2008. PDF


    • ‘Beyond the Confusion of Rights and Democracy – Assessing Beetham’s Democracy Assessment’, Nordisk Tidsskrift for Menneskerettigheter, Nordic Journal of Human Rights. Vol. 24, Nr.1:2006. PDF


    • ‘The Political Deficit of Substantial Democratisation’, in (Eds.) Harriss, Stokke and Törnquist, Politicising Democracy: Local Politics and Democratisation in Developing Countries, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004. PDF


    • ‘Introduction: The New Local Politics of Democratisation’, in (Eds.) Harriss, Stokke and Törnquist, Politicising Democracy: Local Politics and Democratisation in Developing Countries, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004. PDF


    • ‘Assessing Problems and Options of Democratisation’, in Lars Rudebeck (Ed.), Democracy as Actual Practice: What Does Democracy Really Bring?, Uppsala: Collegium for Development Studies at Uppsala University, 2003. PDF


    • ‘Movement Politics and Development: Preliminary Theoretical Notes on Some Concrete Cases in Kerala and Indonesia’, in Beckman, B., Hansson, E., and Sjögren, A (eds.): Civil Society and Authoritarianism in the Third World, PODSU/Stockholm University, Stockholm, 2001. PDF


    • ’Lärdomar Av Asienkrisen’, i Baldersheim, H., Hagtvet, B. and Heidar, K (eds). Statsvetenskaplige utsyn. Politiske tema og tenkemåter i en oppbruddstid, HøyskoleForlaget, Kristiansand, 2001. PDF (also as public lecture in English, ‘Lessons From The Asia Crisis’, to the Institute for Development Studies, Bonn, October 16, 2000. Short version: ‘Tandlös Tiger’, in Dagens Nyheter/Essä, May 10, 2000. PDF


    • Crisis in East Timor in Economic and Political Weekly(Bombay) Vol. XXXIV:39, 1999) PDF


    • ‘Whither Studies of Asian Democratisation’? in Kasarinlan University of the Philippines. 1997; 12 (1) and Economic and Political Weekly. 1998-01; 33 (3). PDF


    • ‘Popular Movements and Organisation in Development and Demo­cratisation’: Tentative Conclusions from the Philippines, Kerala and Indonesia, in: Democratisation in the Third World. Concrete Cases in Comparative and Theoretical Perspective,(Eds.) Lars Rudebeck and Olle Törnquist, Uppsala University 1996. PDF version of the 2nd edition is under the title ‘Making Democratisation Work: From Civil Society and Social Capital to Political Inclusion and Politicization – Theoretical Reflections on Concrete Cases in Indonesia, Kerala and the Philippines’. In Törnquist, O.; Rudebeck, L.; with Rojas, V. (eds.): Democratization in the Third World: Concrete Cases in Comparative and Theoretical Perspective, Macmillan (London) and St. Martin's (New York), 1998. PDF


    • ‘Is it Possible to Renew Third World Marxism?’ Old Problems and new perspectives from India, Indonesia and the Philippines, in The Theoretical Heritage from Marx and Weber in Development Studies,(John Martinussen (Ed.), RUC, 1994. PDF


    • ‘Rent Capitalism, State, and Democracy’, in State and Civil Society in Indonesia (Ed. Arief Budiman), Centre of  South East Asian Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, 1990.PDF


    • ’Notes on the State and Rural Change in Java and India’. In State and Civil Society in Indonesia (Ed. Arief Budiman), Centre of  South East Asian Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, 1990.PDF

     

    • ’Marxismens Kris och den Politiska Strategin i Indien och Indonesien’, i Socialistisk Debatt, nr. 5, 1986. (Also, somewhat altered, in Danish: ’Socialistisk Strategi på Prøve: Om behovet for demokratisk kamp i Asien’, in Grus 20, 1986.) Follwed-up by: “Krav på fördjupad demokrati i Kerala ledde till valseger”, i Socialistisk Debatt, nr. 5, 1987. PDF


    • ‘Class and Democracy in South and Southeast Asia’: Some critical notes, in Cooperation and Conflict, Vol XX, 1985 (pp.113-125) PDF


    • ’Från Parasitär Till Progressiv Imperialism?’ i Att tillämpa Marx, Arbetarkultur, 1979. PDF

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