This course is designed to familiarize and equip students with the practical aspects of the functioning of state and public institutions. It will provide a various, often specific institutional and legal solutions used in modern democratic systems, as well as in nondemocratic. The main goal is not only to understand and explain how these democracy instruments work but also to show the practical aspects, expand students’ empirical knowledge of modern political systems through comparison of similarities and differences of political systems in selected countries.
Prerequisites
Scope
1. The essence and structure of political systems
2. Political systems in the modern world
3. Western democratic political systems
4. The dynamics in government systems in democratic countries
5. Political systems in Central and Eastern Europe
6. Transformation of Post-Socialist Countries
7. Political Systems of East and South Asia
8. Islamic Political systems
9. Military-political systems
10. Transformations of political systems in the modern world
Teaching methods
Lecture, self-study, conversation
Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification
Outcome description
Outcome symbols
Methods of verification
The class form
Assignment conditions
Activity during class, final test.
Recommended reading
Derbyshire J. Denis, Derbyshire Ian D., Encyclopedia of World Political Systems, M.E. Sharpe 1999.
Andrain Charles F., Comparative political systems: policy performance and social change, M.E. Sharpe 1994.
Cohen Ronald, Middleton John, Comparative Political Systems: Studies in the Politics of Pre-industrial Societies, American Museum of Natural History 1967.
The dictionary of political knowledge , D. Plecka, J. Marszałek -Kawa (eds.), Toruń 2019.
Further reading
Eatwell Roger, Matthiew Goodwin, National Populism. The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy, 2018.
Kasprowicz Dominika, Hess Agnieszka, Populism in Poland – between demagoguery and demophilia, "Srodkowoeuropejskie Studia Polityczne, no 2/2017
Kosowska-Gąstoł Beata, Sobolewska-Myślik Katarzyna, Does Novelty Necessarily Mean Change? New Political Parties within the Polish Party System, Politics in Central Europe, no 1/2019
Kosowska-Gąstoł Beata, Do enterpreneurial parties make any difference for polish politics? The case of the Palikot movement and Kukiz’15, Athanaeum no 63/2019.
Kruk Aleksandra, Refugee crisis – casus of Cottbus, Przegląd Narodowościowy (Review of Nationalities), no 8/2018
Merkovity Norbert, Introduction to attention-based politics, Przegląd Politologiczny, no 4/2017
Ptak, Arkadiusz, Selected forms of political activity of Polish women during system transformation, Some issues on women in political, media and socioeconomic space, ed. I. Andruszkiewicz, A. Balczyńska - Kosman, Poznań 2012, pp. 49 - 62.
Rosicki Remigiusz, Political topology of Europe, Przegląd Politologiczny, no 4/2019
Smoleń Kinga, Specifics of the so-called Islamic State (Specyfika tzw. Państwa Islamskiego), Athanaeum, nr 3/2020
Wincławska Maria, Why do Political Parties Fail?, Athanaeum, no 40/2013
Zaslavska Olga, The role of political traditions in the mechanics of political system of modern Ukraine, Easter Review, no 3/2014
Notes
Modified by dr hab. Aleksandra Kruk, prof. UZ (last modification: 28-04-2022 13:06)
