The Transformation of the Communist Successor Parties in Central Europe and Influence of the West European Leftists - JMM358

• Title: The Transformation of the Communist Successor Parties in Central Europe and Influence of the West European Leftists
• Guaranteed by: Department of German and Austrian Studies (23-KNRS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2015 to 2016
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 15 / unknown (15)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• 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. JUDr. Vladimír Handl, CSc.; PhDr. Martin Mejstřík
• Teacher(s): doc. JUDr. Vladimír Handl, CSc.; PhDr. Martin Mejstřík

Annotation

Last update: PhDr. Martin Mejstřík (16.01.2013)

The academic course analyse the historical development and the transformation of the West European communist parties as well as the successor parties in the post-soviet bloc. The main attention is focused on the model case of the Italian Communist Party and on the integration of its transformation to the general transformation model. It will be also analysed the connection between the West and the East European communists and especially "the export" of political and ideological models from the West to the East. Within the course is also planned the debate with one of the members of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia.

Course completion requirements

Last update: PhDr. Martin Mejstřík (31.01.2019)

 

The final vote is composed 20% from attendance at lectures, 10% from active participation, 30% from the written essay and the final 40% from the written exam after sending the paper.

Final grading:

 

·       A: 100-91 points

·       B: 90-81 points

·       C: 80-71 points

·       D: 70-61 points

·       E: 60-51 points

·       F: <51 points

 

Literature

Last update: HANDL (04.06.2020)

Krouwel, A., "Otto Kirchheimer and the Catch-All Party", West European Politics, Vol. 29, No. 1, Jan 2006, pp. 23-34.

Weinberg, L., The Transformation of Italian Communism, New Brunswick: New Brunswick Press, 1995, pp. 45-94.

Perottino, M., "Change and Continuity of the French Communist Party", in: Trajectories of the Left, ed. Kopeček, L., Brno: DSCS 2005, pp. 68-81.

Verge, T., "The Spanish United Left - The Belated and Troublesome Transition from Policy to Office-seeking", In: Left Parties in National Governments, ed. Olsen, J., Koss, M., Hough, D., Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp. 87-105.

March, L., Mudde, C., "What´s Left of the Radical Left? The European Radical Left After 1989: Decline and Mutation", Comparative European Politics, No. 3, 2005, pp. 23-49.

Sloam, J., "West European Social Democracy as a Model of Transfer", In: Learning from the West, ed. Hough, Paterson, Sloam, London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 67-83.

Kitschelt, H., Mansfeldová, Z., Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation and Inter-Party Cooperation,Cambridge:CambridgeUniversity Press, 1999, pp. 19-42 a 383-407.

Ishyiama, J.T., Bozóki, A., "Adaptation  and Change: Characterizing the Survival Strategies of the Communist Successor Parties", Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2001, pp.33-50.

Grzymala-Busse, A., Redeeming the Communist Past, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 19-69.

Hough, D., Koss, M., Olsen, J., The Left Party in Contemporary German Politics,Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 153-165.