Бакалавриат 2020/2021

Введение в политологию

Лучший по критерию «Полезность курса для расширения кругозора и разностороннего развития»

Статус: Курс обязательный (Программа двух дипломов НИУ ВШЭ и Лондонского университета по международным отношениям)

Направление: 41.03.05. Международные отношения

Кто читает: Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики

Где читается: Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики

Когда читается: 2-й курс, 1, 2, 4 модуль

Формат изучения: без онлайн-курса

Преподаватели: Арбатли Эким, Розенберг Дина Яновна, Руднева Татьяна Сергеевна, Чмель Кирилл Шамилевич

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 6

Контактные часы: 84

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The working language of the course is English. The course is designed to serve as an introduction to politics in a globalised world, with a particular focus on how political science tries to understand and explain cross-country differences and cross-time differences between countries.

Learning Objectives

• Introduce students to the main differences between democratic and non-democratic regimes, and between different models of democratic government
• Introduce students to how political preferences are formed, how voters behave, how parties compete, how interest groups form, and how electoral systems shape behaviour
• Explain how political institutions work, such as presidential and parliamentary systems, single-party and coalition governments, federalism, and courts and central banks
• Explain how political behaviour and institutions shape policy outcomes, such as economic performance, public spending, and immigration and environmental policies
• Prepare students for further courses in political science

Expected Learning Outcomes

• A student knows the history of the discipline and subfields
• A student knows approaches to measuring democracy
• A student analyzes and compares the left-right dimension? mapping political preferences, cleavages and voting behavior, strategic voting
• A student analyzes and compares types of electoral systems and political consequences of electoral systems
• A student knows what are political parties, understands ьeasuring the number of parties, knows explaining party behavior, analyzes party positions
• A student analyzes social movements, knows political explanations for interest group influence
• A student analyzes majoritarian and consensus democracies, parliamentary, presidential and mixed systems, and knows political implications of regime types
• A student compares types and patterns of government and knows theories of coalition formation
• A student analyzes vertical designs of government and understands what states are federal
• A student analyzes non-elected institutions and democracies, knows the principal-agent framework

Course Contents

• What is political science? Main approaches in the field Methods in political science
• Political preferences and voting behavior
• Political parties
• Social movements and interest groups
• Regime types, agenda setters and veto players
• Coalition and single- party government
• Federalism and decentralization
• Delegation of power
• Economic performance and equality
• Satisfaction with democracy
• Defining and measuring democracy Explaining democracy

Assessment Elements

• Seminar
• Exam
  The final examination is organised by the University of London as a three hour written exam via VLE platform. The student will be given a choice of twelve questions, out of which exactly three must be answered in any order. Each question must be answered in the form of a free response essay.
• Written exam
  The final examination is organised by the University of London as a three hour written exam. The student will be given a choice of twelve questions, out of which exactly three must be answered in any order. Each question must be answered in the form of a free response essay.
• Seminar
• Exam
  The final examination is organised by the University of London as a three hour written exam via VLE platform. The student will be given a choice of twelve questions, out of which exactly three must be answered in any order. Each question must be answered in the form of a free response essay.
• Written exam
  The final examination is organised by the University of London as a three hour written exam. The student will be given a choice of twelve questions, out of which exactly three must be answered in any order. Each question must be answered in the form of a free response essay.

Interim Assessment

• Interim assessment (4 module)
  Gfinal = 0,20* GUoLwritten exam + 0,40*2MOCK exam + 0,40* Gseminar

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Hosein, A. (2016). Political Science : The Study of Nations, Government, and Governing. New York: Britannica Educational Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1151416
• Leonardo Morlino, Dirk Berg-Schlosser, & Bertrand Badie. (2017). Political Science : A Global Perspective. London: SAGE Publications Ltd. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2273334
• Roskin, M. G. (2014). Political Science: An Introduction, Global Edition (Vol. Thirteenth edition). New York: Pearson. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=nlebk&AN=1419818

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Potz, M. V. aut. (2020). Political Science of Religion Theorising the Political Role of Religion by Maciej Potz. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.1676310614