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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 21stCentury’ Comparative Social Research35.PDF

• ‘Problems and Options of Renewing Social Democracy’, inCROP Poverty BriefsNovember no 46 (Special Issue on the democratic developmental state). 2018.

  https://www.crop.org/viewfile.aspx?id=1550

• ‘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 RosarioThe 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, 2015PDF

• ‘Popular Aspirations, Decentralization and Local Democracy’ inImperative 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

• (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 Journal1(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’, inDagens 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 KasarinlanUniversity 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 2^ndedition 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’, inState 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’. InState 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 Grus20, 1986.) Follwed-up by: “Krav på fördjupad demokrati i Kerala ledde till valseger”, i Socialistisk Debatt, nr. 5, 1987.PDF

• ‘Class and Democracy inSouth 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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Articles and essays – Indonesia

• Lots of Votes – Little Voice: Indonesia’s 2019 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections',Pacific Affairs,2019, volume-92-no-3,PDF

• ‘The legacies of the Indonesian counter-revolution: New insights and remaining issues’Journal of Contemporary Asia(2019)PDF

• ‘The rise and crumbling of reformist populism in Indonesia’Jakarta Post29 and 30.10.19PDF

• How Long is Now? Of Indonesian reformasi and its belated reclaiming of the Cold War history. September 2019 inKyoto ReviewPDF

• ‘Indonesia’s New Populist Order and Diffused Progressives in Comparative Perspective’, inUniversity of the Philippines CIDS discussion paper series18-002 ISSN 2619–7448 (print) ISSN 2619–7456 (online), 2018https://issuu.com/up.cids/docs/up_cids_dp_series_18-002

• ‘New Social Democracy in the South? Reflections from India, Indonesia and Scandinavia in Comparative Perspective.’(2018) Op.cit. in section ‘Articles and Essays – General.’

• ‘What is Jakarta's Popular Politics a Case of?’ (in Hellman, J, Thynell, M. and van Voorst, R.Jakarta: Claiming Spaces and Rights in the City(2018), London and New York: Routledge) draft version PDF

• ‘Penyebab Kemandekan dan Jalan Menuju Demokratisasi’ inPrisma36, No. 1, 2017: pp 3-21, ISSN 0301-6269PDF

• (with Hasrul Hanif, Eric Hiariej, Willy P. Samadhi, ‘The Downside of Indonesia's Successful Liberal Democratisation and the Way Ahead. Notes from the Participatory Surveys and Case Studies’ 2000-2016,Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs1/2017.PDF

• ’Varför Stagnerar Demokratiseringen och vilken är vägen framåt? De Indonesiska Insikterna’, in Raino Malnes (red.)Velkomen til Statsvitenskap, Oslo: Gyldendal, 2016) PDF. In Indonesian : ‘Penyebab Kemandekan dan Jalan Menuju Demokratisasi’ inPrisma36, No. 1, 2017: pp 3-21, ISSN 0301-6269

• ’The Politics of Amnesia’Economic and Political Weekly3 Oct 2015 (full version) PDF(short versions with PDF in sectionJakarta Post&EPWand Scandinavia.)

• ‘Introduction’ (with Amalinda Savirani) in (Ed.) (with Amalinda Savirani)Reclaiming the State. Overcoming Problems of Democracy in Post-Soeharto Indonesia,Yogyakarta: PolGov and PCD Press 2015, ISBN 978-602-71962-3-0 , pages 1-18. op.cit.boo section

• ‘Bypassing the Problems of Democratisation’ (with Willy Purna Samadhi) in (Ed.) (with Amalinda Savirani)Reclaiming the State. Overcoming Problems of Democracy in Post-Soeharto Indonesia,Yogyakarta: PolGov and PCD Press 2015, ISBN 978-602-71962-3-0 , pages 95-116. op.cit. book section

• ‘Recommendation’ (with Amalinda Savirani, Eric Hiariej, Hasrul Hanif, Willy Purna Samadhi) in (Ed) (with Amalinda Savirani)Reclaiming the State. Overcoming Problems of Democracy in Post-Soeharto Indonesia, Yogyakarta: PolGov and PCD Press 2015, ISBN 978-602-71962-3-0 , pages 117-132. op.cit. book section

• ‘Stagnation or Transformation in Indonesia?’ Economic& Political WeeklyDecember 13, 2014 vol xlIX no 50. PDF.

• (With Purwo Santoso, Amalinda Savirani, Eric Hiariej, HasrulHanif, Willy Purna Samadhi, Debbie Prabawati, Wening Hapsari M,) Executive Summary: Democracy Baseline Survey Power Welfare and Democracy(PWD) Universitas Gadjah Mada and University of Oslo, Jogjakarta: UGM, 2014. PDF in English

• ‘The Indonesian Marginalisation of Class Interests and Democracy’, translated and published in AE Priyono and Usman Hamid(eds.) Merancang Arah Baru Demokrasi: Indonesia Pasca Reformasi, Jakarta, KPG: 2014. PDF in Englishand in Indonesian

• ‘Popular Aspirations, Decentralization and Local Democracy’ op. cit. in section ‘Articles and Essays – General.’

• (With Stokke, Kristian) ‘Paradigmatic Failures of Transformative Democratic Politics: Indonesia and Sri Lanka inComparative Perspective’ Op.cit. in section‘Articles and Essays – General.’

• ‘Democratising Local Politics: The Case of Indonesia’, in (eds.) Saiful Mahdi, Muhammad Riza Nurdin, Local Democracy in Post-conflict society. The case of Aceh Selatan, Indonesia, Denpasar and Banda Aceh: Pustaka Larasan, ICAIOS and The Aceh Institute, 2013. PDF

• (With Leena Avonius, lead author, and Fadhli Ali) ‘Mapping Spaces for Democratic Participation In South Aceh’ in (eds.) Saiful Mahdi, Muhammad Riza Nurdin, Local Democracy in Post-conflict society. The case of Aceh Selatan, Indonesia, Denpasar and Banda Aceh: Pustaka Larasan, ICAIOS and The Aceh Institute, 2013. PDF

• ‘Democracy and the Left: Experiences From Indonesia’, in (eds.) Beckman, B and Ya’u, Y.Z, Organising for Democracy: Nigerian and Comparative Experiences,Stockholm and Kno: PODSU, AKCDRAT, CRD. (2012)PDF

• ‘Dynamics of Peace and Democratization. The Aceh Lessons’. Democratization’, ISSN 1351-0347, 18(3), (2011) pp. 823- 846.PDF

• ‘Research-Based Democracy Promotion. Lessons from Indonesia’, PCD Journal, ISSN 2085-0433. 2(1), pp. 1- 36. (2011) PDF

• (With Uning, Dara Meutia) ‘Lost in Translation, Lost in Elections’, in Olle Törnquist; Stanley Adi Prasetyo & Teresa Birks (eds.), The Role of Democracy for Peace and Reconstruction,2^ndedition, PCD Press, 2010. ISBN 978-979-17049-3-9. Ch 9, pp. 375 – 400. PDF available in the Anthology Section.

• (With Marhaban, Shadia; Meutia Uning, Dara & Djuli, M. Nur) ‘Up Date to Second Volume: Post Script-Political Vendetta or a Democratic Alternative’, in Olle Törnquist; Stanley Adi Prasetyo & Teresa Birks (eds.), The Role of Democracy for Peace and Reconstruction,2^ndedition, PCD Press, 2010. ISBN 978-979-17049-3-9. Up Date pp. 432 – 435. PDF available in the Anthology Section.

• ‘The Indonesian Communist Party’, in Silvio Pons & Robert Service (eds.), A Dictionary of 20th-Century Communism, Princeton University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-691-13585-4. PDF

• ‘Introduction and Conclusion: From Liberal and Social Democratic Peace to Indonesian Normalisation’, in Olle Törnquist; Stanley Adi Prasetyo & Teresa Birks (eds.), The Role of Democracy for Peace and Reconstruction, 2^ndedition, PCD Press, 2010, ISBN 978-979-17049-3-9. Ch 1 pp. 1 – 46. PDF available in the Anthology Section.

• ‘Introduction and General Conclusions. Social Democratic Peace: To be Continued’, in, Törnquist, Olle, Prasetyo, Stanley, Adi, Birks, Teresa (eds.), 2009. The Role of Democracy for Peace and Reconstruction. Jogjakarta: PCD Press. PDF available in the Anthology Section.

• ‘Democracy in Aceh Diagnosis & Prognosis’, in, Törnquist, Olle, Prasetyo, Stanley, Adi, Birks, Teresa (eds.), 2009. The Role of Democracy for Peace and Reconstruction, Jogjakarta: PCD Press. PDF available in the Anthology Section.

• ‘Popular Politics of Representation. New Lessons from Indonesia, Kerala (India) and the Philippines’, Op.cit. in section ‘Articles and Essays – General.’

• ‘Indonesia’s Held Back Democracy and Beyond ‐ Introduction and Executive Briefing’, in (eds.) Willy Purna Samadhi and Nicolaas Warouw BuildingDemocracy on the Sand. Advances and Setbacks in Indonesia.Jakarta and Jogjakarta; Demos and PCD Press. First edition: December 2008.PDF

• ‘International Experiences (On Democratic Political Blocks)’; in Tempo, November(?), 2008 , Jakarta. 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

• ‘Introduction: Assessing Indonesian Democracy from Below’, in Törnquist, Olle (Ed. with Priyono, A.E and Samadhi, Willy P). Making democracy Meaningful. Problems and Options in Indonesia. Concluding report from Demos’ national survey. Jakarta, Jogjakarta, Singapore: Demos, PCD Press, ISEAS publishing house 2007. (1^stedition in Indonesian 2005) PDF

• ‘Summary and Conclusion’, in Törnquist, Olle (Ed. with Priyono, A.E and Samadhi, Willy P). Making democracy Meaningful. Problems and Options in Indonesia. Concluding report fromDemos’ national survey, Jakarta, Jogjakarta, Singapore: Demos, PCD Press, ISEAS publishing house, 2007. (1^stedition in Indonesian, 2005)PDF

• ‘Kjapt, Effektivt og Billig’, in Hagtvet, Bernt (Ed.)Folkemordenes Svarte Bok, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2008. (2^ndedition 2014) Also in English: ‘Quick, Efficient And Cheap’. PDF

• ‘Is Indonesia Democratic?’ Inside Indonesia, April, 2008.PDF

• Introduction and Executive Summary: Advances, Setbacks and Options, in (Ed.) (Törnquist, Olle with the Demos team): Democracy Building on The Sand. Advances and Setbacks in Indonesia.Executive and Summary Report from the 2^ndNational Expert-Survey on Problems and Options Indonesian Democracy, Jakarta: Demos, 2008.PDF

• ‘Muslim Politics and Democracy. The Case of Indonesia’, Journal of Indonesian Islam, 1, No. 1, 2007 (IAIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya). PDF

• ‘Has Democracy Stalled in Indonesia?’ in Seminar(New Delhi), 576, August, 2007. PDF

• ‘Workers in Politics. Why is Organised Labour Missing from the Democracy Movement?’, In Inside Indonesia, No. 86 April-June, 2006. PDF

• ‘Assessing Democracy From Below: A Framework And Indonesian Pilot Study’, Democratization,13 (2): 227-255, April, 2006. PDF

• ‘The Political Deficit of SubstantialDemocratisation’, op.cit. in section ‘Articles and Essays – General.’

• Towards an Agenda for Meaningful Human Rights-Based Democracy. Executive Report From Demos’ 2nd Round Survey(with separate data summary) (with A. E. Priyono et al.), DEMOS: Jakarta, January 20, 2005.Extended versionin Economic and Political Weekly,XXXIX:10, March 6, 2004, with the name Problems and Options for Democratisation.

• The Problems And Options Of Indonesian Democratisation: Executive Report from Demos’ 1st Round Survey(with separate data summary) (with A. E. Priyono et al.). DEMOS: Jakarta, January 28, 2004. PDF

• ‘Labour and Democracy: Reflections on the Indonesian Impasse’, Journal of Contemporary Asia,34:3, 2004. PDF

• ‘Indonesia and the International Discourse on Democratisation: Problems and Prospects’, in Törnquist, Olle with Adi Prasetyo, Stanley and Priyono, A.E.) Indonesia’s Post-Soeharto Democracy Movement. Jakarta: Demos, 2003.

• ‘Labour and Democracy?’, in Törnquist, Olle with Adi Prasetyo, Stanley and Priyono, A.E.) Indonesia’s Post-Soeharto Democracy Movement. Jakarta: Demos, 2003.

• What’s Wrong with Indonesia’s Democratisation? Asian Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 30:3, 2002. PDF(Brief version published in Jakarta Post, April 10 and 11, 2001, and Economic and Political Weekly, April 14, 2001.)

• ‘Indonesia’s Democratisation’, in Haynes, J. (ed.): Democracy and Political Chance in the Third World,Routledge and ECPR, London and New York, 2001. PDF

• ‘Dynamics Of The Indonesian Democratisation’, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 21,No. 3, 2000; also in Economic and Political Weekly; April 29, 2000 and in Indonesia in anthology from ISAI. PDF

• Birth of the World's Third Largest Democracy - Part 1 & 2 -- Jakarta Post,Jakarta, 1999-07-02/03. Economic and Political Weekly, Bombay, 1999, XXXIV (26). ‘Födslen Til Verdens Tredje Störste Demokrati’ - Ny Tid, Oslo, 1999-09-03. PDF in Englishand inNorwegian.

• ’Kommer Studenterna att Lyckas?’ i Merdeka & Östtimor information8 – 1999, Svenska Dagbladet1999-02-20, och med titeln ’Vil Studentene Lykkes?’ i Ny Tid, 1999-02-19PDF

• 'The Indonesian Lesson', in Aspinall, E.; Klinken van, G.; Feith, H. (eds.):The last days of President Suharto,Monash Asia Institute. 1999, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 1998; 30 (3), and Conjuncture(Manila) Vol. 10:3, 1998, and in Crafting Indonesian Democracy, (ed. Liddle, W.R. Jakarta: PPW-LIPI, Ford Foundation and Mizan Pustaka, 2001. PDF

• ‘Movement Politics and Development: Preliminary Theoretical Notes on Some Concrete Cases in Kerala and Indonesia’ (2001), Op.cit. in section ‘Articles and Essays – General.’

• 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. Op.cit. in section ‘Articles and Essays – General.’

• ’Paradiset och det politiska våldet’, i Merdeka och Östtimorinformation. 1997; 3 också med titeln ‘Våldet i Paradiset’, i Dagens Nyheter1998-01-20 samt med titeln ‘Violence in Paradise’, in Economic and Political Weekly 1998-01:33(4) and with the title ‘The Dark Side of Paradise’, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 30:4 (1998); (also in Bahasa Indonesia in Indonesian media). PDF

• From New to Human Order in Indonesia? InNIAS nytt, 3, October 1996 and Economic and Political Weekly, October 5, 1996, PDFand (in briefer Swedish version) inSvenska Dagbladet med titeln Den Enda Vägen är den Smala Vägen, September 22, 1996.

• Civil Society and Divisive Politicisation: Experiences from Popular Efforts at Democratisation in Indonesia, in Özdalga, E.; Persson, S. (ed.): Civil Society, Democracy and the Muslim World, Swedish Research Institute & Curzon Press, Istanbul. 1997. PDF

• ‘Is it Possible to Renew Third World Marxism? Old Problems and new perspectives from India, Indonesia and the Philippines’, Op.cit. in section ‘Articles and Essays – General.’

• ’Notes on the State and Rural Change in Java and India’. Op.cit. in section ‘Articles and Essays – General.’

• ’Marxismens Kris och den Politiska Strategin i Indien och Indonesien’, Op.cit. in section ‘Articles and Essays – General.’

• Struggle for Democracy - A New Option in Indonesia? Report on contemporary Indonesia within the project "Problems of radical political strategy under the rise of a new capitalism. South and Southeast Asia in a comparative perspective", The Akut-series No. 33, Uppsala, 1984. PDF

Articles and essays – India

• ’Staten och den sociala kraften’ (kampen mot Covid-19 i Sverige & Kerala)https://www.dagensarena.se/essa/staten-och-den-sociala-kraften/

• Kerala Efforts at Inclusive Development - In View of the Global Crisis of Social Democracy Puthupally Raghavan Memorial Lecture 2018, November 2018, Kerala Council for Historical Research working paper Vol 1. Thiruvananthapuram www.kchr.inPDF

• ‘New Social Democracy in the South? Reflections from India, Indonesia and Scandinavia in Comparative Perspective’ (2018) Op.cit. in section ‘Articles and Essays – General.’

Jetty in Kerala backwaters. (With friend and mentor Michael Tharakan.)

• ‘Lineages of Democratic Development: India and Scandinavia (with John Harriss) (2016) inReinventing Social Democratic Development...op.cit.in anthology section.

• ‘Comparative Notes on Indian Experiences of Social Democracy: Kerala And West Bengal’, inReinventing Social Democratic Development... (2016) cit. in anthology section

• ‘Comparative Notes on Indian Experiences of Social Democracy: Kerala and West Bengal’, (with John Harrss), Draft version. CSES working paper (No 29), Kochi, 2015.PDF

• ‘Popular Aspirations, Decentralization and Local Democracy’ (2013) cit. in section ‘Articles and Essays – General.’

• ‘Decentralisation and New Popular Politics of Representation: Recent Experiences and Old Lessons’, (2010) Op.cit. in section ‘Articles and Essays – General.’

• Communism in the Indian Sub-Continent, in Silvio Pons & Robert Service (eds.), A Dictionary of 20th-Century Communism, Princeton University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-691-13585.PDF

• ‘Popular Politics of Representation. New Lessons from Indonesia, Kerala (India) and the Philippines’, (2009) Op.cit. in section ‘Articles and Essays – General’.

• ‘The Political Deficit of Substantial Democratisation’, (2004) Op.cit. in section ‘Articles and Essays – General’.

• The Politics of Democratic Decentralisation, in Decentralisation in Kerala: Experiences and Lessons, (Ed.) M.A. Oommen, New Delhi: Institute of Social Sciences & Har-Andand Publications, 2007.PDF

• ‘Movement Politics and Development: Preliminary Theoretical Notes on Some Concrete Cases in Kerala and Indonesia’ (2001), Op.cit. in section ‘Articles and Essays – General.’

• Movement, Politics and Development. The Case of Kerala, Social Scientist, 29: 11-12, 2001.PDF

• Of New Popular Politics of Development: The Kerala Experience, in Parayil, Govindan. (ed.): Kerala:The Development Experience. Reflections on Sustainability and Replicability, Zed Books, London, 2000. Också på norska med titeln ’Ny Folkelig Utviklingspolitikk – Erfaringer Fra Kerala’, i Engelsen-Ruud & Frøystad et. al India Idag,Cappelen Akademika¸Oslo, 1999, og på svenska ’Inte Bara Tillväxt Utan Också Utveckling. Erfarenheter Från Kerala’ i Socialistisk Debatt2/99). PDF in English, in Norwegianand in Swedish

• ‘Popular Movements and Organisation in Development and Demo­cratisation’: Tentative Conclusions from the Philippines, Kerala and Indonesia, (...) 2^ndedition 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’. (1998) Op.cit. in section ‘Articles and Essays – General.’

• ‘Beyond Romanticism: Remarkable Popular Reorganising’ (invited contribution to Kerala Debate), in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 1998; 30 (4).PDF

• ‘Democratisation and the Radical Political Project in Kerala’, (with P.K. Michael Tharakan) in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol XXXI: 28, 29, 30, 1996. (For link, seeThe Next Leftin section ‘Books’.

• ‘Is it Possible to Renew Third World Marxism?’ Old Problems and new perspectives from India, Indonesia and the Philippines,(1994) Op.cit. in section ‘Articles and Essays – General.’

• ‘Communists And Democracy: Two Indian Cases And One Debate’, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 23:2, 1991 also in When democracy makes sense: Studies in the democratic potential of third world popular movements, AKUT, Uppsala, 1992 (Ed.) Lars Rudebeck. PDF

• ’Notes on the State and Rural Change in Java and India’. InState and Civil Society in Indonesia(1990) cit. in section ‘Articles and Essays – General.’

• ’Krav på fördjupad demokrati i Kerala ledde till valseger’, Socialistisk Debatt, nr. 5, 1987.

Articles and essays – Philippines

• ‘Popular Politics of Representation. New Lessons from Indonesia, Kerala (India) and the Philippines’, (with Tharakan, P.K.M. and Quimpo, Nathan) (2009) Op.cit. in section ‘Articles and Essays – General.’

• ‘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,(1996) ... and ‘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’.(1998) Op.cit. in section ‘Articles and Essays – General.’

• ‘Popular Movements and Politics of Democratisation. The Philippine Experience in Comparative Perspective’ in (Eds.) Manoranjan Mohanty and Partha Mukherji with Olle Törnquist, People’s Rights: Social Movements, and the State in the Third World,Sage Publications, New Delhi, Thousand Oaks and London, 1998. PDF

• Whither Studies of Asian Democratisation? in KasarinlanUniversity of the Philippines. 1997 (op.cit. in articles/essays-general section with PDF)

• ‘Is it Possible to Renew Third World Marxism? Old Problems and new perspectives from India, Indonesia and the Philippines’, (1994) Op.cit. in section ‘Articles and Essays – General.

• ‘Democratic "Empowerment" And Democratisation Of Politics: Radical popular movements and the May 1992 Philippine elections’, in Kasarinlan(University of the Philippines) Vol. 8:3,1993 and in Third World Quarterly, Vol 14:3, 1993. PDF

• ’Vem slåss nu för demokrati i Filippinerna?’ i SIDA Rapport, nr. 1, 1991. Also in English: ‘Who Is Now Fighting For Democracy In The Philippines?’ PDF in Swedishand in English

• ’Kan medelklassen bära upp nyfödd demokrati?’ (Filippinerna) i SIDA Rapport6 1992. PDF

• Communists and Democracy in the Philippines, in Economic and Political Weekly(Bombay) Vol XXVI, No. 27-28 and 29, 1991. Also with the title ‘Democracy And The Philippine Left’ in Kasarinlan(University of the Philippines) Vol. 6, No. 1-2, 1990.PDF

Articles and essays – re. Scandinavia

• 'Nya lärdomar från ett gammalt folkmord'

  https://www.dagensarena.se/essa/nya-lardomar-fran-ett-gammalt-folkmord/

• ’Demokrati och fack i global rävsax’https://www.dagensarena.se/essa/demokrati-och-fack-global-ravsax/

• ’Staten och den sociala kraften (kampen mot Covid-19 i Sverige & Kerala)https://www.dagensarena.se/essa/staten-och-den-sociala-kraften/

• ‘Lineages of Democratic Development: India and Scandinavia (with John Harriss) (2016) inReinventing Social Democratic Development...op.cit.with PDF in anthology section

• ‘Implications for Scandinavian Social Democracy and International Cooperation’ (2016) inReinventing Social Democratic Development...op.cit. with PDF in anthology section.

• ‘What Are the Prospects Now for Social Democratic Development? (with John Harriss)’ (2016) in Reinventing Social Democratic Development...op.cit. with PDF in anthology section

• (With Stokke, Kristian) ‘The Relevance of the Scandinavian Experiences’, in Kristian Stokke & Olle Törnquist (eds.), Democratization in the Global South: The Importance of Transformative Politics.Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, ISBN 9780230370036. Ch 2 pp. 21 – 41. PDF

• ‘Is Social Democracy Being Undermined?’ (2011)Economic and Political Weekly cit.with PDF in article/essays - general section
  

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(Peer reviews and endorsements excluded. Texts before 1978 and between 1991-2006 not yet retrieved.)

For review articles, see sections with articles and essays.

• Törnquist, Olle (2006). Stefan Eklöf: Power and Political Culture in Suharto's Indonesia. and Edward Aspinall: Opposing Suharto: Comprimnise, Resistance, and Regime Change in Indonesia.Democratization. ISSN 1351-0347. 13(2)PDF

• Törnquist, Olle (2006). Teresia Rindefjäll: Democracy Beyond the Ballot Box: Citizen Participation and Social Rights in Post-Transition Chile. Statsvetenskaplig Tidsskrift.  ISSN 0039-0747 (4). PDF

• Törnquist, Olle (2000). James T. Siegel: A New Criminal Type in Jakarta: Counter Revolution Today, ETHNOS Journal of Anthropology, 2000 (No.2). PDF

• Törnquist, Olle (1991).Gillian Hart: Power, Labour and Livelihood. Processes of Change in Rural Java (University of California Press, 1986), in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars,  23, no. 2, 1991. PDF

• Törnquist, Olle (1991).  Berggren: En okänd värld–Malaykulturen & ASEAN-länderna, i SIDA Rapport, 6/91. PDF

• Törnquist, Olle (1989). Sören Sommelius: Indiens kämpande Kerala, i SIDA Rapport, nr. 3, 1989. PDF

• Törnquist, Olle (1988). Tariq Ali: Nehrus & Gandhis - en indisk dynasti, i Bokbox, 95, 1988. PDF

• Törnquist, Olle (1988).Gunnar Heckscher: Asiatiskt maktspel, (1986), i Bokbox, nr. 94, 1988. PDF

• Törnquist, Olle (1985). P.T. Bauer: Biståndsmyten, i Tiden 2, 1985. PDF

• Törnquist, Olle (1982).Sune Sunesson: Byråkrati och historia. Fem studier i politik och organisation, Bokcaféets månadsbulletin, nr. 64/65, 1982. PDF
• Törnquist, Olle (1978). Limqueco et.al: Filippinerna - från kolonialism till undantagstillstånd, Bokcaféts månadsbulletin  25/, 1978. PDF

   Lexica

• Filippinerna: Statsskick och politik, i Nationalencyklopedin,Vol 6, 1991. Bra Böcker. PDF

• Indonesien: Statsskick och politik, i Nationalencyklopedin,Vol 9 1992. reviderad upplaga, Bra Böcker. 1999. PDF

• Modernisering, beroendeteori, patron-klient, kolonialism, utvecklingsland. i Østerud, Ø.; Goldmann, K.; Pedersen, M.N. (ed.): Statsvitenskapelig Leksikon Universitetsforlaget, Oslo. 1997. PDF