Politics in Central-Eastern Europe
Informacje ogólne
Kod przedmiotu: | 2102-ANG-L-D2PCEE |
Kod Erasmus / ISCED: |
14.6
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Nazwa przedmiotu: | Politics in Central-Eastern Europe |
Jednostka: | Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Studiów Międzynarodowych |
Grupy: |
Nauki Polityczne -ANG-DZIENNE I STOPNIA - 2 semestr 1 rok - przedmioty obowiązkowe |
Punkty ECTS i inne: |
(brak)
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Język prowadzenia: | angielski |
Założenia (opisowo): | The fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe brought democracy to the region for the first time in over forty years. Nevertheless, no country can escape its past and previous experience and structures can continue to exert an influence long after they have been officially swept away. Today, after thirty years of democratic rule in the region institutions and practices have been established and are ripe for study. What can we say of party development, electoral behaviour and executive-legislative relations? Have the specific democratic trajectories of countries in the region generated new or modified theories for political science? Are there similarities in comparative political developments across the region that lead us to believe there is a peculiarly 'Central and East European political science'? Although the class assumes no prior knowledge of Central and Eastern Europe, it does assume that students are familiar with basic concepts in political science such as regime types, party systems, electoral systems, etc. |
Tryb prowadzenia: | w sali |
Skrócony opis: |
The fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe brought democracy to the region for the first time in over forty years. Nevertheless, no country can escape its past and previous experience and structures can continue to exert an influence long after they have been officially swept away. Today, after thirty years of democratic rule in the region institutions and practices have been established and are ripe for study. What can we say of party development, electoral behaviour and executive-legislative relations? Have the specific democratic trajectories of countries in the region generated new or modified theories for political science? Are there similarities in comparative political developments across the region that lead us to believe there is a peculiarly 'Central and East European political science'? |
Literatura: |
- Bale, T. (2017) European Politics: A Comparative Introduction, Palgrave Macmillan - Zsuzsa C., Daina E. (eds.) (2021), Central and East European Politics Changes and Challenges, Fifth Edition, Rowman and Littlefield - White, S., Batt, J., and Lewis, P. G. (eds.) (2013) Developments in Central and East European Politics 5, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan - Rothschild, J., and Wingfield, N. M. (1999) Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War II, Oxford: Oxford University Press - Politics in Central Europe, an open-access journal (Editors: Ladislav Cabada and Šárka Waisová): https://www.politicsincentraleurope.eu/ |
Efekty uczenia się: |
Students will be able to: - Analyse the reasons for the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. - Apply theoretical approaches to democratic transition to the cases of Central and Eastern Europe. - Explain the nature of the new institutional systems in each country. - Analyse and explain the development of political parties and party systems. Also, be able to identify the major political parties and political actors across the region. - Critically examine the influence of nationhood and statehood on democratic development in the region. - Explain the influence of external factors on political developments, in particular, the influence of the European Union. |
Metody i kryteria oceniania: |
1. Attendance 2. Obligatory assignment per student 3. Activity in the class (discussions, preparation for the class) |
Właścicielem praw autorskich jest Uniwersytet Warszawski.