Bachelor
2024/2025
Democracy and Democratization
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:
4 year, 1, 2 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Iryna Zhyrun
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
4
Contact hours:
56
Course Syllabus
Abstract
In this course we will consider various aspects of the conditions of democracy, the processes of democratisation, and the breakdown of democratic regimes. This course will cover the following topics: Conceptualising democracy: General criteria for democracy, and particular forms of semi-democracy. Delegative democracy, illiberal democracy and biased states. Democratic consolidation. Process of democratisation: Paths to democracy. Comparative historical studies. Conditions of Democracy and its maintenance: The concept of democratic legitimacy and the functioning of liberal democracy in advanced capitalist societies. Transitions to Democracy: Forms of non-democracy and transitional paths towards democratisation. Democratic breakdown and reconstruction: Mass society theories and theories of class conflict. Modernisation theory and later criticisms. Democracy and war. Democratic reconstruction and its problems wn.