Political Analysis

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The primary aim of this course is to provide students of Introduction to Political Analysis the requisite knowledge, theories, tools, and skills towards an adequate and coherent understanding of the nature of politics. At the end of this course students should be able to use the various approaches and tools to analyse the different political problems.

A list of topics:

1. Political analysis. Introduction.

2. The problem of the scope in political analysis

3. What is the nature of the ‘political’?

4. Analytical perspectives

5-7. Approaches to political analysis: traditional and modern

8. Society, economy and politics. The role of interdisciplinary perspectives to political analysis

9. Rational choice theory and political analysis

10. Political anthropology. Symbols, myths and rituals in politics.

11. Organizational bases of policy. Institutions in public spaces.

12. Media and politics

13. The language of politics. Analysis of public discourse.

14. Forecasts and recommendations as an effect of analytical work.

Principal textbooks:

Hay, C. (2002) Political Analysis: A Critical Introduction, London: Palgrave.

Marsh, D. and Stoker, J. (eds.) (2010) Theory and Methods in Political Science, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Karwat M., Pierzchalski F., Tobiasz M. (vol. eds) (2021) Constituents of Political Theory. Selected Articles of the Warsaw School of Political Theory, Peter Lang.

Additional materials:

R. Dahl, B. Stinebrickner, Modern Political Analysis, Prentice Hall, 6th ed., 2003;

The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis, ed. by Robert E. Goodin and Charles Tilly, New York: Oxford Univeristy Press, 2006;

E. Bardach, A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis. The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving, Washington: DC CQ Press, 2009;

Public Policy Analysis, ed. by Peter Knoepfel, Corrinne Larrue, Frédéric Varone and Michael Hill, Bristol: The Polity Press, 2007;

The argumentative turn in policy analysis and planning, F. Fischer and J. Forester (eds), Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993;

G. Majone, Evidence, Argument, and Persuasion in the Policy Process, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989;

J.P. Gunning, Understanding Democracy. An Introduction to Public Choice, Taiwan: Nomad Press, 2003;

J. G. March, J. P. Olsen, Redicovering Institutions: The Organizational Basis of Politics, New York: Free Press, 1989;

Journal articles:

J. G. March, J. P. Olsen, The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life, The American Political Science Review, Vol. 78, No. 3;

A. Finlayson, From Beliefs to Arguments: Interpretive Methodology and Rhetorical Political Analysis, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 2007 VOL 9.

J. Gerring, J. Yesnowitz, A Normative Turn in Political Science?, Polity, Volume 38, Number 1;