Бакалавриат
2021/2022
Введение в политологию
Статус:
Курс обязательный
Направление:
41.03.05. Международные отношения
Кто читает:
Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Где читается:
Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Когда читается:
2-й курс, 1, 2 модуль
Формат изучения:
без онлайн-курса
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Руднева Татьяна Сергеевна,
Чмель Кирилл Шамилевич
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
6
Контактные часы:
84
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 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 analyzes majoritarian and consensus democracies, parliamentary, presidential and mixed systems, and knows political implications of regime types
- A student analyzes non-elected institutions and democracies, knows the principal-agent framework
- A student analyzes social movements, knows political explanations for interest group influence
- A student analyzes vertical designs of government and understands what states are federal
- A student compares types and patterns of government and knows theories of coalition formation
- A student knows approaches to measuring democracy
- A student knows what are political parties, understands ьeasuring the number of parties, knows explaining party behavior, analyzes party positions
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
- ExamThe 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 examThe 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.
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