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Lehrende: Dr. Dietmar Schirmer
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
Orga-Einheit: Politics, Administration & International Relations
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
PPP
Semesterwochenstunden:
3
Credits:
5,0
Standort:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
5 | 35
Prioritätsschema: Standard-Priorisierung
Inhalte:
PPP is designed as an introductory course to Political Science. Our approach will be broad: We will begin with an overview of the various subdisciplines of political science and take a dip in Political Theory. We will spend some time discussing key concepts of modern politics such as “power,” “state,” “sovereignty,” and “nation”. We will take a closer look at key themes of Comparative Politics, such as regime types, regime change, democratization and democratic failure, and political economy. In the last section of the course, we will turn to the study of International Relations. Here, we will take a survey of the major theoretical paradigms of IR, discuss the politics of globalization, and investigate how political scienctists deal with the puzzle of European integration.
Lernziele:
The course seeks to familiarize students with the rationale, research questions, methods, and limits of Political Science. In particular, it is meant to be an offer for students pursuing a non-consecutive MA who want to catch up on Political Science.
Literatur:
Acemoglu and Robinson, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, New York 2012.
Gallagher/Laver/Mair, Represntative Government in Modern Europe, Open University Press, 5th ed. 2011.
Linz/Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Newton/van Deth, Foundations of Comparative Politics, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 3rd. ed. 2016.
O'Brien and Williams, Global Political Economy, Palgrave Macmillan, 4th ed., 2013.
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