Introduction to Political Science

2020/2021

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

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Кредиты

Кто читает:

Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики

Статус:

Курс обязательный

Когда читается:

2-й курс, 1, 2, 4 модуль

Преподаватели

Арбатли Эким

Руднева Татьяна Сергеевна

Чмель Кирилл Шамилевич

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The working language of the course is English. The course is designed to serve as an introduction to politics in a globalised world, with a particular focus on how political science tries to understand and explain cross-country differences and cross-time differences between countries.

Learning Objectives

• Introduce students to the main differences between democratic and non-democratic regimes, and between different models of democratic government
• Introduce students to how political preferences are formed, how voters behave, how parties compete, how interest groups form, and how electoral systems shape behaviour
• Explain how political institutions work, such as presidential and parliamentary systems, single-party and coalition governments, federalism, and courts and central banks
• Explain how political behaviour and institutions shape policy outcomes, such as economic performance, public spending, and immigration and environmental policies
• Prepare students for further courses in political science

Expected Learning Outcomes

• A student knows the history of the discipline and subfields
• A student knows approaches to measuring democracy
• A student analyzes and compares the left-right dimension? mapping political preferences, cleavages and voting behavior, strategic voting
• A student analyzes and compares types of electoral systems and political consequences of electoral systems
• A student knows what are political parties, understands ьeasuring the number of parties, knows explaining party behavior, analyzes party positions
• A student analyzes social movements, knows political explanations for interest group influence
• A student analyzes majoritarian and consensus democracies, parliamentary, presidential and mixed systems, and knows political implications of regime types
• A student compares types and patterns of government and knows theories of coalition formation
• A student analyzes vertical designs of government and understands what states are federal
• A student analyzes non-elected institutions and democracies, knows the principal-agent framework

Course Contents

• What is political science? Main approaches in the field Methods in political science
• Political preferences and voting behavior
• Political parties
• Social movements and interest groups
• Regime types, agenda setters and veto players
• Coalition and single- party government
• Federalism and decentralization
• Delegation of power
• Economic performance and equality
• Satisfaction with democracy
• Defining and measuring democracy Explaining democracy

Assessment Elements

• Seminar
• Exam
  The final examination is organised by the University of London as a three hour written exam via VLE platform. The student will be given a choice of twelve questions, out of which exactly three must be answered in any order. Each question must be answered in the form of a free response essay.
• Written exam
  The final examination is organised by the University of London as a three hour written exam. The student will be given a choice of twelve questions, out of which exactly three must be answered in any order. Each question must be answered in the form of a free response essay.
• Seminar
• Exam
  The final examination is organised by the University of London as a three hour written exam via VLE platform. The student will be given a choice of twelve questions, out of which exactly three must be answered in any order. Each question must be answered in the form of a free response essay.
• Written exam
  The final examination is organised by the University of London as a three hour written exam. The student will be given a choice of twelve questions, out of which exactly three must be answered in any order. Each question must be answered in the form of a free response essay.

Interim Assessment

• Interim assessment (4 module)
  Gfinal = 0,20* GUoLwritten exam + 0,40*2MOCK exam + 0,40* Gseminar

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Hosein, A. (2016). Political Science : The Study of Nations, Government, and Governing. New York: Britannica Educational Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1151416
• Leonardo Morlino, Dirk Berg-Schlosser, & Bertrand Badie. (2017). Political Science : A Global Perspective. London: SAGE Publications Ltd. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2273334
• Roskin, M. G. (2014). Political Science: An Introduction, Global Edition (Vol. Thirteenth edition). New York: Pearson. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=nlebk&AN=1419818

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Potz, M. V. aut. (2020). Political Science of Religion Theorising the Political Role of Religion by Maciej Potz. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.1676310614