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Introduction to Political Science
Category 'Best Course for Career Development'
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Compulsory course (International Program 'International Relations and Global Studies')
Area of studies:
International Relations
Delivered by:
Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs
When:
2 year, 1, 2 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Tatiana Rudneva
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
6
Contact hours:
82
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 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 analyzes majoritarian and consensus democracies, parliamentary, presidential and mixed systems, and knows political implications of regime types
- A student analyzes non-elected institutions and democracies, knows the principal-agent framework
- A student analyzes social movements, knows political explanations for interest group influence
- A student analyzes vertical designs of government and understands what states are federal
- A student compares types and patterns of government and knows theories of coalition formation
- A student knows approaches to measuring democracy
- A student knows what are political parties, understands ьeasuring the number of parties, knows explaining party behavior, analyzes party positions
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
- Democracies and democratisation
Assessment Elements
- Oral examA student is questioned verbally by the examiner to assess their knowledge.
- Mock exam 1
- Mock exam 2
- Seminar activity
Interim Assessment
- 2023/2024 2nd module0.1 * Mock exam 1 + 0.1 * Mock exam 2 + 0.4 * Oral exam + 0.2 * Seminar activity + 0.2 * Seminar activity
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