Governing Societies 2: Political Analysis of Democratic Political System - JSB725

• Title: Governing Societies 2: Political Analysis of Democratic Political System
• Guaranteed by: Department of Public and Social Policy (23-KVSP)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 7
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unknown (24)
• 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
• Guarantor: PhDr. Vilém Novotný, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): PhDr. Vilém Novotný, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses for incoming students

Annotation

The project-based course will introduce students to the political analysis of governing in contemporary societies. The lectures will provide an overview of the main political science and policy studies perspectives and key concepts from the three dimensions – policy, polity, and politics. The students will engage these concepts in the simulation game where they will analyze and communicate a position of particular political actor toward a selected policy measure within a political system. The students will thus learn how to understand governing liberal democracies through the lens of political analysis.

Last update: Novotný Vilém, PhDr., Ph.D. (15.09.2024)

Literature

Essential reading:
Caramani, Daniele (ed.) (2020). Comparative Politics (5th edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press. - selected chapters
Dahl, Robert A., & Stinebrickner, Bruce (2003). Modern Political Analysis (6th edition). Upper Saddle River: Pearson.
 
Further recommended reading:
Colebatch, Hal K. (2009). Policy: Concepts in the Social Sciences. (3rd edition).  Maidenhead & New York: Open University Press.
Dahl, Robert A. (2015).  On Democracy (2nd edition).  New Haven & Yale: Yale University Press.
John, Peter (2012). Analyzing Public Policy (2nd edition). London: Routledge.
 
Topical texts to each studied case will be determined ad hoc for particular issues. Extracts from these books and all other required readings listed in the schedule will be provided in the course electronically via Moodle (https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=11512).

Last update: Novotný Vilém, PhDr., Ph.D. (19.09.2022)

Teaching methods

The course takes place on:

Lecture, Thursday 12.30-13.50, room B103b, 3.10. (L1), 17.10. (L2), 31.10. (L3), 14.11. (L4), 28.11. (L5), 12.12. (L6)

Seminar, Thursday 12.30-13.50, room B103b, 10.10. (S1), 24.10. (S2), 7.11. (S3 – will be replaced), 21.11. (S4), 5.12. (S5), 19.12. (S6)

(for more details see the Moodle https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=11512).

Hours requirements for students (1 ECTS = 30h):
Lectures and seminars attendance                                          18 h
Reading of the background texts for each topic (6x 2 texts)                48 h
Paper-related tasks (+ team work)                                           40 h
Feedback to final draft of the analytical paper                                   8 h
Analytical paper (+ team work)                                               60 h
Preparation for the final simulation game (presentation + negotiations)      24 h
Self-study                                                                     12 h
Total                                                                            210 h

Last update: Novotný Vilém, PhDr., Ph.D. (15.09.2024)

Entry requirements

This course is primarily open to the Social Sciences program’s students. The participation of students from other study programs is limited by the left capacities in the course.

Please note that the course is not opened to students of the following Czech undergraduate ISS programs: (1) Sociologie se specializacemi, (2) Sociologie a sociální politika, (3) Politologie a veřejná politika.

Last update: Novotný Vilém, PhDr., Ph.D. (15.09.2024)