| Dozent/in |
Dr. Niklas Hänze |
| Veranstaltungsart |
Masterseminar |
| Code |
HS261641 |
| Semester |
Herbstsemester 2026 |
| Durchführender Fachbereich |
Politikwissenschaft |
| Studienstufe |
Bachelor
Master |
| Termin/e |
Do, 17.09.2026, 10:15 - 14:00 Uhr, Intern, HS3 (Einführungsveranstaltung)
Do, 24.09.2026, 10:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 4.B01
Do, 08.10.2026, 10:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 4.B01
Do, 22.10.2026, 14:15 - 18:00 Uhr, 3.B55
Do, 05.11.2026, 10:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 4.B01
Do, 19.11.2026, 10:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 4.B01
Do, 03.12.2026, 10:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 4.B01
Do, 17.12.2026, 10:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 4.B01 |
| Umfang |
2 Semesterwochenstunden |
| Turnus |
14-täglich |
| Inhalt |
This course introduces students to the historical political economy of state building. The field examines how political and economic actors interact over time and how these interactions shape long-run institutional development. In the first part of the course, we discuss the foundations of historical political economy: its core questions, main methods, and seminal contributions. In the second part, we focus on the rise of the modern state. We ask where the modern state comes from, what its historical predecessors looked like, and why state capacity developed unevenly across societies. Particular attention is paid to the political and economic foundations of state building, including extraction, warfare, bargaining, religion, bureaucracy, economic institutions, and colonialism. The course takes a comparative perspective and explores how different historical trajectories produced distinct forms of statehood across the world. Throughout, students will engage with classic and contemporary scholarship on the origins of state capacity and the long-run development of political order.
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| Lernziele |
• Gaining an overview over the core theories in the field of historical political economy
• Understanding scientific methods used by political scientists to study history
• Being able to read and critically evaluate empirical and theoretical literature on state building
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| 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 |
Referat / Essay / Aktive Teilnahme (Besuch des Seminars, wöchentliche, kurze schriftliche Kommentare, aktive Mitgestaltung der Sitzungen)
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| Abschlussform / Credits |
Referat, Essay, Aktive Teilnahme / 4 Credits
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| Hörer-/innen |
Nach Vereinbarung |
| Kontakt |
niklas.haenze@uni-konstanz.de |
| Literatur |
- Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990–1992 (1992)
- North, Douglass C., and Barry R. Weingast. 1989. “Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England.” The Journal of Economic History 49 (4): 803–32.
- Jeffrey Herbst, States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control (2000).
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