30200 - POLITICAL SCIENCE
CLEAM - CLEF - CLEACC - BESS-CLES - BIEMF
Course taught in English
Go to class group/s: 31
First part:
- What is politics? How to study it?
- Power: conceptual debates and their political relevance.
- State and sovereignty: history, contemporary challenges, relationships between the local and the global.
- Nationalism and citizenship.
- Democracy as organization of power and as resistance to power.
- Political participation: political culture, parties, interest groups, social movements.
- The rules of democracy: decision making, electoral process, laws and constitutions
Second part:
This second part analyses the main characteristics of the Italian political system: history, empirical evidence and interpretation.
- Evolution of the Italian political system.
- Recent trends: change or continuity?
will be able to choose between two options: a partial exam at the end of the first part of the course (45 percent of the final grade), and one at the end of the second part (45 percent); or one cumulative exam at the end of the course (90 percent). The students will also choose over the semester one text from a further readings selection to present to their colleagues or to review in a written report (10 percent).
for Non-attending students:
will be taking one more substantial cumulative exam at the end of the course (100 percent of the final grade).
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R. HAGUE, M. HARROP, Comparative Government and Politics. An introduction, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 (9th edition)
M. COTTA, L. VERZICHELLI, Political Institutions in Italy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007 -
Articles for further reading on reserve at the Bocconi Library