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Ukončeno v akademickém roce 2010/2011

Political Science

Type of study Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 711-0303/14
Abbreviation Polit
Course title Political Science
Credits 2
Coordinating department Department of Social Sciences
Course coordinator Mgr. Tomáš Jarmara, Ph.D.

Osnova předmětu

1.Politics and political science
2. The rise and development of political science
3. The definition of democracy, history and theory of democracy, representative democracy
4. The state, state forms over time. The state in modern political thought
5. Political system as set of institutions, political organizations, interest groups and the relationships between those institutions.
6. Political party, Nonpartisan, Single-party, two-party, and multi-party governments
7. The Voting system, aspects of voting systems, proportional and major voting system
8. The ideology as organized collection of ideas, history of the concept of ideology. Political ideology: liberalism, conservatism and socialism
9. Political culture of the nations, states, and other groups
10. Civil society and democracy

Povinná literatura

HEYWOOD, Andrew. Political Ideologies. 2012 5th edition. Palgrave Macmillan

Doporučená literatura

JUDT, Tony. Postwar : a history of Europe since 1948-1990. 2010 London
JUDT,Tony, SNYDER, Timothy. Thinking the Twentieth Century. 2013 Palgrave MacMilan