| Dozent/in |
Prof. Dr. Thomas Poguntke |
| Veranstaltungsart |
Masterseminar |
| Code |
HS231295 |
| Semester |
Herbstsemester 2023 |
| Durchführender Fachbereich |
Politikwissenschaft |
| Studienstufe |
Bachelor
Master |
| Termin/e |
Mi, 20.09.2023, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, Hörsaal 8
Fr, 20.10.2023, 09:15 - 17:00 Uhr, 3.B52
Sa, 21.10.2023, 09:15 - 17:00 Uhr, 3.B52
Fr, 24.11.2023, 13:15 - 17:00 Uhr, 4.B47 (Terminierung 3)
Fr, 24.11.2023, 09:15 - 13:00 Uhr, 4.B47
Sa, 25.11.2023, 09:15 - 17:00 Uhr, 4.B51 |
| Umfang |
2 Semesterwochenstunden |
| Turnus |
Blockveranstaltung |
| Inhalt |
Parties play a central role in democratic governance around the globe. However, many doubt that they are doing it well. The writings on the wall are manifold: The decline of former core parties, the fragmentation of party systems, the rise of populist challenger parties, the rise of populist leaders within and past established parties – the list could easily be continued. To be sure, not all of these problems are a direct results of party failure. To a considerable degree, parties may simple suffer from the effects of wider societal wider societal trends over which they have little control.
Also, it is debateable whether or not all these changes really indicate a crisis of democracy. While the decline of the traditional French parties may not be a problem for democracy, the continuing strength of Le Pen’s political party certainly is. Similarly, the ongoing changes in the Italian party system may not be problematic, but the tendency to take refuge to non-party Prime Ministers may be a sign of democratic erosion. Brazilian democracy has been under severe stress ever since Bolsonaro was elected president even though he was only backed by a minor party but fought successful social media election campaign. The list could be extended to African or Asian democracies.
Clearly, we need a set of criteria to determine what a ’crisis of democracy’ involves. This will be done in the first part of the course. Thereafter, we turn to a series of country studies to shed a clearer light on a number of suitable cases. The core reading for the course will be a forthcoming book on political parties in 23 countries. While a set of countries has been selected to ensure appropriate coverage of different cases, several additional cases can be chosen by seminar participants from the countries that are included in the forthcoming book.
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| E-Learning |
https://lms.uzh.ch/url/RepositoryEntry/17430413683 |
| Lernziele |
Students will be familiarized with the comparative literature on political parties and the challenges to democracy; they will understand the contributions political parties can make (or fail to make) to democratic governance |
| Voraussetzungen |
Good command of English language |
| Sprache |
Englisch |
| Begrenzung |
Teilnahmebeschränkung vorbehalten; Studierende ab dem 3. Semester werden bevorzugt. |
| Anmeldung |
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| Prüfung |
active participation, submission of questions on core texts and short presentation in class: 4 credits
as above plus marked essay: 4 or 6 credits (BA or MA).
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| Abschlussform / Credits |
Aktive Teilnahme, Referat (benotet) / 4 Credits (für alle Module ohne anderslautende Angabe)
Aktive Teilnahme mit Zusatzleistung / 5 Credits (für Modul Hauptseminar)
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| Hinweise |
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| Hörer-/innen |
Nein |
| Kontakt |
thomas.poguntke@doz.unilu.ch
poguntke@hhu.de |
| Material |
Will be supplied via OLAT |
| Literatur |
-Berg-Schlosser, Dirk (2017): Contemporary Problems and Future Perspectives of Empirical Research on Democracy. In: Philipp Harfst, Ina Kubbe and Thomas Poguntke (eds.) Parties, Governments and Elites. The Comparative Study of Democracy Wiesbaden, SpringerVS.
-Boese, Vanessa A. , Nazifa Alizada, Martin Lundstedt, Kelly Morrison, Natalia Natsika, Yuko Sato, Hugo Tai and Staffan Lindberg (2022): Autocratization Changing Nature? Democracy Report 2022, Gothenburg, Varieties of Democracy Institute (V-Dem). https://v-dem.net/media/publications/dr_2022.pdf.
-Levitsky, Steven and Ziblatt; Daniel (2018): How Democracies Die, VIKING.
-Merkel, Wolfgang/Kneip, Sascha (eds.) (2018): Democracy and Crisis. Challenges in Turbulent Times. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
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