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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Politologie

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 711-2303/01
Abbreviation Polit
Course title Politologie
Credits 2
Coordinating department Department of Social Sciences
Course coordinator Mgr. Roman Rakowski, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Political science in the complex of social sciences
2. Politics as a social phenomenon
3. History of the political thought
4. Political systems and political regimes
5. Democracy, elections and political institutions
6. The concept of ideology and its variations
7. Liberalism, socialism, conservatism
8. Fascism, communism, racism
9. New ideologies (environmentalism, feminism, religious fundamentalism, multiculturalism)
10. Political actors and interest groups
11. Influence of the Information and Communication Technologies
12. Globalization and transnational organizations
13. Threat of the depoliticization, populism and post-democracy
14. Politics, power and technology

Literature

Heywood, A.: Political Theory. London 2007.
Judt, T, Snyder, T. Thinking the Twentieth Century.2013

Advised literature

Heywood, Andrew. Political Ideologies. 5th edition. Palgrave Macmillan 2012
Judt, Tony. Postwar : a history of Europe since 1948-1990, London 2010