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Political Parties in Comparative Perspective - JPM056
Title: Political Parties in Comparative Perspective
Guaranteed by: Department of Political Science (23-KP)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual: from 2023
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (35)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
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.
Incompatibility : JPM574
Is incompatible with: JPM574
Annotation
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 organizational 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, and the Eurosceptic parties. The course also discusses other types of parties that are not essential from a practical (electoral) point of view but are important from a theoretical perspective. From the organizational point of view, the course covers some of organizational developments since the 1960s with regard to 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.

The course is located on moodle.cuni.cz
Last update: Brunclík Miloš, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (20.06.2024)
Course completion requirements
  1. Online Quizzes. Each session is completed with readings and a quiz. Students have 14 days to complete the quiz. The weekly quizzes are worth 22 percent of the final grade.
  2. Course Paper. The course paper is based on party policy analysis. The course paper is worth 27 percent of the final grade.
  3. Final Exam. The exam is based on lectures and readings. The final exam is worth 51 percent of the final grade.

The detailed information about all the above course requirements are on moodle.cuni.cz

 

Last update: Brunclík Miloš, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (18.09.2024)
Literature

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.

Cowell‐Meyers, Kimberly. 2017. "The contagion effects of the feminist initiative in Sweden: Agenda‐setting, niche parties and mainstream parties." Scandinavian Political Studies 40(4): 481-493.

van Haute, Emilie, ed. 2016. Green parties in Europe (conclusion). Routledge.

Hooghe, Liesbet and Gary Marks. 2018. "Cleavage theory meets Europe’s crises: Lipset, Rokkan, and the transnational cleavage," Journal of European Public Policy 25(1): 109-135.

Hopkin, Jonathan, and Caterina Paolucci. 1999. "The business firm model of party organisation: Cases from Spain and Italy." European journal of political research 35(3): 307-339.

Ignazi, Piero. 2014. "Power and the (il) legitimacy of political parties: An unavoidable paradox of contemporary democracy?." Party Politics 20(2): 160-169.

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. 

Mudde, Cas. 2004. "The populist zeitgeist." Government and opposition 39(4): 541-563.

Otjes, Simon. 2020. "All on the same boat? Voting for pirate parties in comparative perspective." Politics 40(1): 38-53.

Rydgren, Jens. 2005Is extreme right-wing populism contagious? Explaining the emergence of a new party family. European Journal of Political Research 44(3): 413-437.

Last update: Brunclík Miloš, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (20.06.2024)
Teaching methods

The course is based on lectures and regular readings on a weekly basis on the Moodle platform (moodle.cuni.cz). During the lectures, students are encouraged to participate in a discussion.

Last update: Brunclík Miloš, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (20.06.2024)
Syllabus
  1. Introduction: the role of political parties in modern democracies
  2. Origins of political parties
  3. Party types (organisation)
  4. Business-firm parties
  5. Left-libertarian parties I
  6. Left-libertarian parties II
  7. Left-libertarian parties III
  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.

All the lectures are accompanied by PowerPoint presentations available at moodle.cuni.cz

Last update: Brunclík Miloš, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (20.06.2024)
 
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