30200 - POLITICAL SCIENCE
CLEAM - CLEF - CLEACC - BESS-CLES - BIEMF
Course taught in English
Go to class group/s: 31
First part
- What is politics?
- Analysing power: sources and types of power.
- Political regimes: democracy, authoritarianism and totalitarianism.
- The actors of democracy: political parties, interest groups. • The institutions of democracy: executive-legislative power relations.
- The rules of democracy: decision making and electoral process.
- The "levels" of democracy: between local and global.
Second part
This second part analyses the main characteristics of the Italian political system: history, empirical evidence and interpretation.
- Evolution of the Italian political system.
- Recent trends: change or continuity?
- Students may take two partial exams. In this case, the exam is considered as passed only if in both partial exams the grade is at least 18/30.
- Students may take a general exam.
Oral or written presentations are valid until the end of the AY 2014-2015.
- R. HAGUE, M. HARROP, Comparative Government and Politics. An introduction, Houndmills-Basingstroke: Macmillan, 2010
- M. COTTA, L. VERZICHELLI, Political Institutions in Italy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007