Contemporary Democracy and Its Challenges
Informacje ogólne
Kod przedmiotu: | 2102-ERASMUS-CDIC |
Kod Erasmus / ISCED: |
14.1
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Nazwa przedmiotu: | Contemporary Democracy and Its Challenges |
Jednostka: | Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Studiów Międzynarodowych |
Grupy: |
Przedmioty 4EU+ (z oferty jednostek dydaktycznych) |
Punkty ECTS i inne: |
(brak)
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Język prowadzenia: | angielski |
Rodzaj przedmiotu: | obowiązkowe |
Skrócony opis: |
(tylko po angielsku) Democracy is one of the broadest, most often discussed and at times the most elusive concepts in social sciences. Based on the extant literature on the topic, this course reviews selected aspects related to contemporary democratic theory and practice in order to provide students with a greater ability to understand the mechanisms of political life. |
Pełny opis: |
(tylko po angielsku) The list of themes to be covered during the course does not aim to be comprehensive. Rather, it reflects instructor's main research interests as far as democracy is concerned. 1. Kick-off meeting 2. Models of democracy 3. Normative perspectives on representation and democracy 4. Measuring democracy 5. Patterns of democratization 6. Direct democracy 7. A debate 8. Political parties and democracy 9. Democracy beyond the nation-state 10. Views and evaluations of democracy 11. How to fix it 12. A debate 13. Summary 14. Examination |
Literatura: |
(tylko po angielsku) Selected reading materials: Dalton, Russell J., David M. Farrell, and Ian McAllister. Political Parties and Democratic Linkage: How Parties Organize Democracy. OUP Oxford, 2011. Gallagher, Michael, Michael Laver, and Peter Mair. Representative Government in Modern Europe. 5th ed. McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2011. Held, David. Models of Democracy. Polity Press, 2006. Inglehart, Ronald F., Christian Haerpfer, Patrick Bernhagen, and Christian Welzel, eds. Democratization. OUP Oxford, 2009. Mair, Peter. ‘Ruling the Void? The Hollowing of Western Democracy’. New Left Review 42 (2006). http://newleftreview.org/II/42/peter-mair-ruling-the-void. Runciman, David. The confidence trap: a history of democracy in crisis from World War I to the present. Princeton [N.J.]: Princeton University Press, 2013. |
Efekty uczenia się: |
(tylko po angielsku) Upon the completion of this course, the student KNOWLEDGE 1. knows the main models and types of democracy 2. understands related concepts, such as democratization SKILLS 1. Search the databases helping to analyse democracy 2. Compares mechanisms of democratization 3. Explains the relationship between democracy and political parties 4. Analyses the factors influencing the future of democracy SOCIAL COMPETENCES 1. Debates for or against specific solutions in complex written or oral statements |
Metody i kryteria oceniania: |
(tylko po angielsku) A written examination consisting 2-3 open-ended questions. |
Właścicielem praw autorskich jest Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych.