ID:
511134
Durata (ore):
80
CFU:
12
SSD:
SCIENZA POLITICA
Anno:
2024
Dati Generali
Periodo di attività
Secondo Semestre (24/02/2025 - 30/05/2025)
Syllabus
Obiettivi Formativi
The aim of the course is to introduce students to the main concepts of political science and international relations by providing them with the key tools for the study of politics, both in the domestic and international arena. The course will examine the creation, adjustment, and implementation of different rules and regimes that govern social, political, and economic relationships in an increasingly globalized world and that constitute the architecture of global governance.
By the end of the course, the student will be able to:
- distinguish and classify the main political institutions and international organizations according to their role, powers and functions;
- classify countries according to their level of democracy;
- distinguish and compare different types of political systems, electoral systems or party systems;
- understand models of policy making and their implication for contemporary political systems;
- understand the role and functions of a supranational polity;
- interpret political events through the theoretical and empirical instruments provided by the course;
- discuss political phenomena in appropriate conceptual and analytical terms.
- master the logics of functioning of the international arena
- distinguish the domestic political arena from the international arena in spatial and historical perspective (modern era different from other epochs, etc.)
- master the main theoretical approaches in International Relations
- distinguish and analyze the role and strategies of the actors operating in the international arena (states, corporations, IOs, alliances, etc.)
- master the historical and geo-political patterns that constitute and make current international politics (colonialism, regionalism, capitalism, the spread of democracy, etc.)
- get acquainted with the role, mandate, functions, and structure of key IOs as the UN, WB, FAO, WFP
By the end of the course, the student will be able to:
- distinguish and classify the main political institutions and international organizations according to their role, powers and functions;
- classify countries according to their level of democracy;
- distinguish and compare different types of political systems, electoral systems or party systems;
- understand models of policy making and their implication for contemporary political systems;
- understand the role and functions of a supranational polity;
- interpret political events through the theoretical and empirical instruments provided by the course;
- discuss political phenomena in appropriate conceptual and analytical terms.
- master the logics of functioning of the international arena
- distinguish the domestic political arena from the international arena in spatial and historical perspective (modern era different from other epochs, etc.)
- master the main theoretical approaches in International Relations
- distinguish and analyze the role and strategies of the actors operating in the international arena (states, corporations, IOs, alliances, etc.)
- master the historical and geo-political patterns that constitute and make current international politics (colonialism, regionalism, capitalism, the spread of democracy, etc.)
- get acquainted with the role, mandate, functions, and structure of key IOs as the UN, WB, FAO, WFP
Prerequisiti
There are no formal requirements.
Metodi didattici
Class teaching and in-class discussions.
Attendance is not compulsory, but warmly recommended
The course consists of lectures based on the texts indicated in the syllabus and the lecturers' power point presentations (these are an integral part of the programme). Particularly important is the active participation of the students that will be stimulated in class through the discussion of significant (past and current) political events, and group debates concerning salient topics in political science. Also, seminar sessions on specific topics selected by the instructor will take place in the second part of frontal lectures.
Complementary contents (suggested readings, videos, etc.) will be uploaded on Kiro.
Every student is responsible to check the kiro platform on a regular base.
Attendance is not compulsory, but warmly recommended
The course consists of lectures based on the texts indicated in the syllabus and the lecturers' power point presentations (these are an integral part of the programme). Particularly important is the active participation of the students that will be stimulated in class through the discussion of significant (past and current) political events, and group debates concerning salient topics in political science. Also, seminar sessions on specific topics selected by the instructor will take place in the second part of frontal lectures.
Complementary contents (suggested readings, videos, etc.) will be uploaded on Kiro.
Every student is responsible to check the kiro platform on a regular base.
Verifica Apprendimento
Final written exam based on the contents presented in the lectures (texts and slides), which will assess the knowledge acquired by the students during the lectures and their ability to analyze the main theoretical and empirical aspects presented during the course.
Testi
Caramani, D. (Ed.). (2023). Comparative politics. Oxford University Press, 6th Edition (except chapp. 2,3).
Pagden, A. (2024). Beyond States: Powers, Peoples and Global Order. Polity Press
The slides of the lecturers will be available on Kiro and are integral part of the programme.
Pagden, A. (2024). Beyond States: Powers, Peoples and Global Order. Polity Press
The slides of the lecturers will be available on Kiro and are integral part of the programme.
Contenuti
The course consists of two parts. After an introduction of the main features of Political Science as a discipline, with a particular focus on the comparative method, the course will tackle some of the main topics of the discipline. The first focus will be on the birth and formation of the modern state. After, the course will focus on democratic regimes and their characteristics, comparing them with non-democratic ones, and focusing on the phenomenon of democratic backsliding. It then proceeds by presenting the political process of democratic political systems, with a particular focus on: a) key actors (citizens, parties, interest groups, social movements) and institutions; b) the relationships between these actors, in terms of both electoral and non-electoral representation and accountability; c) the unfolding of these relationships in multilevel institutional contexts; d) the characteristics of the policy making process. Finally, the students will be introduced to the concept of governance, in order to grasp the main features of this model of post-hierarchical relationship that has challenged the traditional inter - and intra - state power arrangements and to the most prominent example of supranational polity, the European Union.
In the second part, the course will offer an international perspective on the political arena, introducing students to the discipline of International Relations, to its key theories and to its essential methodological toolkit. In particular, the course will first present the ‘international’ as a space of interaction where different actors socialize through different means as law, diplomacy, trade, war, etc. Then the course will offer a detailed overview on each of the key actors operating in the current international arena, as states, IOs, private actors and non-state actors, transnational movements and NGOs. It will be assessed how state actors gathered in international organizations (e.g. the United Nations, the World Health Organization) and regional organizations (e.g. the European Union) act in order to manage various crises and transformations that need collective action (e.g. climate change, infectious diseases and pandemics, food insecurity, trade/economic crises, etc.), and how these may have an overall impact on both domestic and international politics.
In the second part, the course will offer an international perspective on the political arena, introducing students to the discipline of International Relations, to its key theories and to its essential methodological toolkit. In particular, the course will first present the ‘international’ as a space of interaction where different actors socialize through different means as law, diplomacy, trade, war, etc. Then the course will offer a detailed overview on each of the key actors operating in the current international arena, as states, IOs, private actors and non-state actors, transnational movements and NGOs. It will be assessed how state actors gathered in international organizations (e.g. the United Nations, the World Health Organization) and regional organizations (e.g. the European Union) act in order to manage various crises and transformations that need collective action (e.g. climate change, infectious diseases and pandemics, food insecurity, trade/economic crises, etc.), and how these may have an overall impact on both domestic and international politics.
Lingua Insegnamento
INGLESE
Altre informazioni
A tutor will be available to provide explanation and assistance with course organization and contents.
The tutor Pietro Vago can be reached out at the following address:
The tutor Pietro Vago can be reached out at the following address:
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