2023/2024
Современная политическая наука
Статус:
Маго-лего
Кто читает:
Департамент политики и управления
Когда читается:
3, 4 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
6
Контактные часы:
64
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The goal of this course is to introduce to students the latest mainstream works from the leading international journals in Political Science and Comparative Political Economy. Why some countries are stuck in technological backwardness, while others prosper? Why in some countries people enjoy longer and healthier lives? What is the role of political institutions in answering these questions? What is the political economy of the US Congress’ organization? Are bureaucrats motivated by ideology or career concerns? Also, I will introduce today’s hot topics in Political Science and tie them to the current events. What role does Internet play in contemporary social movements? Does social media help overcome collective action problem or just disseminate more information? Who are trolls and how they manipulate public opinion? Why far rights are gaining their momentum? Why did “the efficient secret” of the UK Parliament disappear when it came to Brexit? Along answering these theoretical questions, we will touch upon the empirical concerns (endogeneity problems, null-hypothesis testing in frequentist models) and their possible solutions: instrumental variables, research discontinuity design, Bayesian analysis).
Learning Objectives
- First, it seeks to provide a broad overview of the current state of the literature in several key areas of contemporary Political Science.
- Second, the course also seeks to provide students with a better understanding of modern methodological tools and research design, as well as how to apply them to developing and critiquing a research agenda. The course places particular emphasis on the potential pitfalls of causal analysis, how to spot them in the works of others, and how to attempt to overcome them in one's own work.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- To understand the state of the art in the discipline, and how this recent work fits into the grand arc of research in Political Science
- to understand the modern methodological tools and research design, as well as how to apply them to developing and critiquing a research agenda.
- to have the necessary tools to constructively critique the work of others, as well as an understanding of how to use these tools to design cutting edge research of their own.
Course Contents
- Causal Inference and the Scientific Enterprise
- Vote Choice and Responsibility
- Economic Voting and Clientalism
- Identity Politics
- Non-Economic Voting and Ideology
- Democratic Parties, their Influence, and Representation
- Electoral Rules and their Origins
- Autocracies
- Autocratic Institutions and Policymaking
- Political Protests
- Civil War and Violence
- The Politics of Reform
- Institutions, Investment, and Property Rights
- Corruption and Governance
- The Welfare State and Inequality
Assessment Elements
- Participation 3 moduleActivity at seminars - taking part in discussions, discussions of seminar materials, meaningful comments based on lectures and mastered literature
- Perticipation 4 moduleActivity at seminars - taking part in discussions, discussions of seminar materials, meaningful comments based on lectures and mastered literature
- ProjectGroup work of students as part of the study of a block of topics devoted to the types of electoral systems, voters' preferences, and the peculiarities of influencing the opinions of voters within the framework of election campaigns. A group of 3-5 students selects a real case of elections held in the period 2022/2023 (the country and level of elections are chosen by the students independently and agreed upon with the seminar teacher). The selected case is analyzed according to the parameters studied during the lecture and presented at the last 2 seminars of the module in the form of a group presentation.
- EssayWriting an essay containing a critical analysis of one of the articles to be discussed in seminar classes. The essay must be written and submitted before the date of the seminar at which the relevant article is analyzed.
- Written exam
Interim Assessment
- 2023/2024 4th module0.25 * Essay + 0.175 * Participation 3 module + 0.175 * Perticipation 4 module + 0.15 * Project + 0.25 * Written exam
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- A new politics of identity : political principles for an interdependent world, Parekh, B., 2008
- Bakshy, E., Messing, S., & Adamic, L. A. (2015). Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook. Science, 348(6239), 1130–1132. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa1160
- Druckman, J. N., & Levendusky, M. S. (2019). What Do We Measure When We Measure Affective Polarization? Public Opinion Quarterly, 83(1), 114–122. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfz003
- Economic voting, , 2002
- Kreuzer, M. (2010). Historical Knowledge and Quantitative Analysis: The Case of the Origins of Proportional Representation. American Political Science Review, (02), 369. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.cup.apsrev.v104y2010i02p369.392.00
- Leemann, L., & Mares, I. (2014). The Adoption of Proportional Representation. Journal of Politics, 76(2), 461–478. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022381613001394
- Protest : studies of collective behavior and social movements, Lofland, J., 2007
- Reuter, O. J., & Gandhi, J. (2011). Economic Performance and Elite Defection from Hegemonic Parties. British Journal of Political Science, (01), 83. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.cup.bjposi.v41y2011i01p83.110.00
- Wimmer, A. (2018). Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart. Survival (00396338), 60(4), 151–164. https://doi.org/10.1080/00396338.2018.1495442
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Bonneau, C., & Cann, D. (2015). Party Identification and Vote Choice in Partisan and Nonpartisan Elections. Political Behavior, 37(1), 43–66. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-013-9260-2
- Shepherd, B. E., Jarrett, R., & Fu, L. (2016). Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences: An Introduction. Biometrics, 72(4), 1387–1388. https://doi.org/10.1111/biom.12615