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Modern parties in Europe - JPM574
Title: Moderní strany v Evropě
Guaranteed by: Department of Political Science (23-KP)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual: from 2019 to 2022
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, C [HT]
Capacity: 50 / unknown (25)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Miloš Brunclík, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Miloš Brunclík, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Miloš Brunclík, Ph.D. (26.10.2021)
The course is intended for master's level students. It is designed as a series of lectures about new types of political parties that are new/modern in organisational and ideological terms. The key distinction between "traditional" and "modern" as far as ideology (policies) is concerned is the theory by S. M. Lipset and S. Rokkan (1967). Political parties which do not fit in this distinction are considered as modern parties.These are, for example, left-wing libertarian parties, including green parties and pirate parties. Also included are the radical-right / left populist parties, the Eurosceptic parties. The course also discusses other types of parties that are not essential from a practial (electoral) point of view, but are important from a theoretical perspective. From the organizational point of view, the course covers some of organisational developments since the 1960s with regard to the declining party membership, the growing importance of party leaders, the professionalization of party activities, etc. In this respect, for example, electoral-professional parties, cartel parties, business parties, cyber parties, etc. are presented.

As of 2023/2023 academic year, the course will be taught in English only as Modern Political Parties in Comparative Perspective.
Course completion requirements -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Miloš Brunclík, Ph.D. (25.10.2021)

There are two major requirements

1) Regular tests on a weekly basis reflecting readings allocated for each lecture. The tests take place on the Moodle on-line platform. The tests make 33 per cent of the final grade.

2) Final exam. The exam makes 67 per cent of the final grade.
Literature -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Miloš Brunclík, Ph.D. (26.10.2021)

Bickerton, Christopher a Carlo Invernizzi Accetti. 2017. Populism and technocracy: opposites or complements? Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 20(2): 186-206.

Jääsaari, Johanna, and Daniel Šárovec. 2021. "Pirate Parties: The Original Digital Party Family."  pp. 205-226. In Digital Parties. The Challenges of Online Organisation and Participation. Ed. by Oscar Barberà, Giulia Sandri, Patricia Correa and Juan Rodríguez-Teruel. Springer.

Daalder, Hans. 1992. A crisis of party? Scandinavian Political Studies 15(4): 269-288.

Havlík, Vlastimil a Aneta Pinková.  2012. Populisté, protestní strany, outsideři? Nĕkolik poznámek ke konceptualizaci populistických politických stran. Rexter 10(2): 121-153.

Katz, Richard S. and Peter Mair. 1995. Changing models of party organization and party democracy: the emergence of the cartel party. Party Politics 1(1): 5-28.

Leconte, Cécile. 2015. From pathology to mainstream phenomenon: Reviewing the Euroscepticism debate in research and theory. International Political Science Review 36(3): 250 –263. 

Lucardie, Paul. 2000. Prophets, Purifiers and Prolocutors Towards a Theory on the Emergence of New Parties. Party Politics 6(2): 175-185.

Margetts, Helen. 2001. "The cyber party." ECPR Joint Session Workshops.

Poguntke, Thomas. 2002.  Green Parties in National Governments: From Protest to Acquiescence. Environmental Politics 11(1): 133-145

Rydgren, Jens. 2005. Is extreme right-wing populism contagious? Explaining the emergence of a new party family. European Journal of Political Research 44(3): 413-437.
Teaching methods -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Miloš Brunclík, Ph.D. (25.10.2021)

The course is based on lectures and regular readings on a weekly basis on the Moodle platform.
Syllabus -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Miloš Brunclík, Ph.D. (26.10.2021)
  1. Introduction: the role of political parties in modern democracies
  2. Organisational changes of political parties
  3. Cyber parties
  4. Memberless parties
  5. Business-firm parties
  6.  Left-libertarian parties - Green partries
  7. Left-libertarian parties - pirate parties
  8. Populist parties
  9. Radical-right wing populist parties
  10. Populism, technocracy and democracy
  11. Eurosceptical parties
  12. Other parties - feminist parties, animal parties, joke parties.
 
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