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Course, academic year 2010/2011
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Political Science I - JPB003
Title: Politologie I
Guaranteed by: Department of Political Science (23-KP)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual: from 2009 to 2010
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
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
Guarantor: prof. Miroslav Novák, Dr.
Teacher(s): prof. Miroslav Novák, Dr.
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Annotation -
Last update: NOVAK (12.09.2011)
The aim of the two-semester course is to provide introduction to political science. The lectures of the first semester focus on the rise of modern political science, its major theories, its division as well as some of major concepts related to politics. A special attention is given to different understanding of what political theory is.
Successful accomplishment of the course is conditioned by thorough study of compulsory literature.

Aim of the course -
Last update: NOVAK (16.12.2008)

The aim of the two-semester course is to provide introduction to political science.

Literature -
Last update: NOVAK (16.12.2008)

Compulsory literature for the first semester:

Aristotelés, Politika, Rezek, Praha (1.vyd. 1939) 1998 nebo novější slov. překl. Aristoteles, Politika, Pravda, Bratislava 1988 (nedávno vyšlo 2. kapesní vydání) 4., 5. a 6. kniha

R.Aron, Demokracie a totalitarismus, Atlantis, Brno 1993

M.Weber, Politika jako povolání, Orbis, Praha 1929 (nebo novější překlad v: M.Weber, Metodologie, sociologie a politika, Oikoymenh, Praha 1998)

M.Weber, ?Věda jako povolání?, v: Metodologie, sociologie a politika, Oikoymenh, Praha 1998, slov. překl.: "Veda ako povolanie" v: K metodológii sociálnych vied, Pravda, Bratislava 1983)

M.Novák, Mezi demokracií a totalitarismem, Mezinárodní politologický ústav Masarykovy university, Brno 2008

M.Novák, "Aristotelova politická sociologie a moderní reprezentativní demokracie", Sociologický časopis, roč. 37, č.4/2001, s.405-423.

M.Novák, ?Popper versus Schumpeter: srovnání dvou neklasických teorií demokracie?, Sociologický časopis, roč. 39, č.1/2003, s. 11-36

M.Novák, ?Mezi primátem politiky a ekonomickým rozvojem: Aronova sociologická koncepce industriálních společností?, Sociologický časopis, roč. 41, č.5/2005, s.801-821. (všechny tři moje výše zmíněné stati ze Sociologického časopisu lze zdarma stáhnout z internetu)

Recommended literature for the first semester:

A.Heywood, Politologie, Eurolex Bohemia, Praha 2004

D.Berg-Schlosser, T.Stammen, Úvod do politické vědy, ISE, Praha 2000

L.Cabada, M.Kubát et al., Úvod do studia politické vědy, Eurolex Bohemia, Praha 2002

M.Weber, "Ze sociologie mocenských struktur", in: M.Weber, Autorita, etika a společnost, Mladá Fronta, Praha 1997, s.47-222.

Teaching methods -
Last update: NOVAK (30.09.2013)

The lectures are also accompanied with a seminar. In the seminar students present a paper focused on a topic chosen in collaboration with the teacher of the seminar.

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: NOVAK (12.09.2011)

The lectures are also accompanied with a seminar. In the seminar students present a paper focused on a topic chosen in collaboration with the teacher of the seminar.

Requirments:

Exam: oral or written (depending on the number of students). The exam is based on the lectures and required readings.

Syllabus -
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Content:

1.-3. Introduction: terms: "political science", its classification. Historical development of political science as an independent scientific discipline. Political sociology and sociology of politics according to G. Sartori. International classification of political science.

4.-7. What is politics/policy/polity? Two conceptions of political science. Power, rule and legitimacy (M. Weber). Aims and functions of politics. Politics and society: politics-superstructure (Marxism) and primacy of politics (Aron); elitism (Michels, Pareto, Mills) and pluralism (Aron, Dahl). Political and non-political politics.

Political culture G.Almond, S.Verba). Conflict, competition and integration.

8.-10. What is political theory? Do paradigms exist in political science?

11.-13. Classical and modern political thought: antic political thought and Christian thought on politics. Modern political thought - first (Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke) and second (Hegel, Marx) wave of modernity. Schumepter's non-classical theory of democracy and its influence.

 
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