| Dozent/in |
Silvia-Gabriela Porciuleanu, MA |
| Veranstaltungsart |
Masterseminar |
| Code |
HS251636 |
| Semester |
Herbstsemester 2025 |
| Durchführender Fachbereich |
Politikwissenschaft |
| Studienstufe |
Bachelor
Master |
| Termin/e |
Mi, 24.09.2025, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, Intern, HS 5 (Einführungsveranstaltung)
Fr, 03.10.2025, 09:15 - 17:00 Uhr, 3.B01
Sa, 04.10.2025, 09:15 - 15:30 Uhr, 3.B01
Fr, 21.11.2025, 09:15 - 17:00 Uhr, 3.B01
Sa, 22.11.2025, 09:15 - 15:30 Uhr, 3.B01 |
| Umfang |
2 Semesterwochenstunden |
| Turnus |
Blockveranstaltung |
| Inhalt |
How do people vote? How stable are the parties?, or What are the main issues on the political agenda? These questions are often answered in political science based solely on the Western experience. In this course, we will explore the political behaviour of people, parties and party systems from a Central and Eastern European (CEE) perspective. High volatility of parties, unstable party system, low partisanship and disengagement with politics are some of the few particularities of the CEE parties and voters. We will account for the historical legacies of totalitarian regimes, the process of democratization and the challenges of the transition to explain these issues, and we will look at how well classical theories in political behaviour and party systems can be applied to the political context of Central and Eastern European countries.
The first part of the course will focus on the parties and party systems in Central and Eastern Europe. We will discuss how left and right are different in these countries, what the main cleavages are, and the stability and change of the parties and party systems. In the second part of the course, we will look more at individual political behaviour, focusing on the effects of living in the communist regime and the years of transitions. In one lesson, we will also discuss the main attitudes in CEE towards current international developments. In the final part, students will present how their research interests can be explored in the region, looking at already existing studies and proposing new research ideas. From a methodological perspective, throughout the course, we will try to answer the question of how different these countries are today compared to the Western ones and how we can include them in future research.
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| Lernziele |
- Students will learn the main characteristics of Central and Eastern European politics;
- Students should be able to account for regional and historical differences in their future works;
- Students will be up-to-date with the most recent developments in the field, including the use of advanced methods to study less accessible regions;
- Students should be motivated after this course to include CEE countries in their own research and understand the limitations of Western-centred studies; |
| Voraussetzungen |
Level of study: Master seminar open for advanced Bachelor and for Master students |
| Sprache |
Englisch |
| Anmeldung |
***Wichtig*** Um Credits zu erwerben ist die Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung über das UniPortal zwingend erforderlich. Die Anmeldung ist ab zwei Wochen vor bis zwei Wochen nach Beginn des Semesters möglich. An- und Abmeldungen sind nach diesem Zeitraum nicht mehr möglich. Die genauen Anmeldedaten finden Sie hier: http://www.unilu.ch/ksf/semesterdaten |
| Leistungsnachweis |
No exam.
Active participation and short final presentation / 4 credits
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| Abschlussform / Credits |
Aktive Teilnahme (Essay) / 4 Credits
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| Hörer-/innen |
Nach Vereinbarung |
| Kontakt |
silvia.porciuleanu@eui.eu |
| Literatur |
Articles and books will be provided prior the course.
Preliminary list:
- Auerbach, Kiran, and Bilyana Petrova. 2022. “Authoritarian or Simply Disillusioned? Explaining Democratic Skepticism in Central and Eastern Europe.” Political Behavior 44 (4): 1959–83. doi:10.1007/s11109-022-09807-0.
- Bértoa, Fernando Casal. 2014. “Party Systems and Cleavage Structures Revisited: A Sociological Explanation of Party System Institutionalization in East Central Europe.” Party Politics 20 (1): 16–36. doi:10.1177/1354068811436042.
- Emanuele, Vincenzo, Alessandro Chiaramonte, and Sorina Soare. 2020. “Does the Iron Curtain Still Exist? The Convergence in Electoral Volatility between Eastern and Western Europe.” Government and Opposition 55 (2): 308–26. doi:10.1017/gov.2018.25.
- Enyedi, Zsolt, and Kevin Deegan-Krause. 2017. “Voters and Parties in Eastern Europe.” In The Routledge Handbook of East European Politics, 169–83.
- Kostelka, Filip, and Jan Rovny. 2019. “It’s Not the Left: Ideology and Protest Participation in Old and New Democracies.” Comparative Political Studies 52 (11): 1677–1712. doi:10.1177/0010414019830717.
- Haughton, Tim, and Kevin Deegan-Krause. 2015. “Hurricane Season: Systems of Instability in Central and East European Party Politics.” East European Politics and Societies: And Cultures 29 (1): 61–80. doi:10.1177/0888325414566072.
- Pop-Eleches, Grigore, and Joshua A. Tucker. 2017. Communism’s Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes. Princeton Studies in Political Behavior. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
- Rovny, Jan, and Jonathan Polk. 2017. “Stepping in the Same River Twice: Stability amidst Change in Eastern European Party Competition.” European Journal of Political Research 56 (1): 188–98. doi:10.1111/1475-6765.12163..
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