Introduction to Political Science

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<< This syllabus was prepared for the undergraduate students of Sciences Po Paris (Reims campus) for the academic years 2016-17 and 2017-18. The course outline is archived on Academia.edu.

This conference aims first of all at helping students gain a comprehensive understanding of the main themes presented in the lecture and the assigned readings, thus contributing to their grasp of the fundamentals of Political Science. Second, the conference intends to provide students with both the methodological and conceptual tools necessary to successfully complete different types of oral and written assignments. Finally, the conference contains an important interactive dimension and will strongly encourage students to participate in class discussions. The course is divided into two large sections. The first section – “Systems and regimes” – will focus on the structural and institutional characteristics of politics and political competition. The second – “Actors and institutions” – will take a bottom-up approach to politics and show how it interacts with the structural features discussed in section one.

Preparation

For each conference, students are expected to have read all assigned readings and to have studied the content of the previous lectures and tutorials. Students are expected to study the literature carefully and prepare it in a critical and analytical way. There are lectures by the instructor, student presentations focusing on a critique of the articles, as well as general class discussion about the main issues. The lecturer will coordinate and lead the discussions together with the students that are assigned to give a presentation or participate in a debate. The students that are not directly involved in the presentation should demonstrate that they have prepared for the class by formulating two or three questions or critical reflections on the readings and presentations, based on their interests and knowledge as well as current events reported in the media. The core idea of the course is student participation.

Evaluation

The conference counts as 2/3 of the overall grade (a final exam at the end of the semester represents the remaining 1/3). The conference grade consists of the following types of evaluation: a mid-term exam (30%),an oral presentation (40%), and a reading summary (20%).A grade evaluating classparticipation, reviews and annotations of the main reading (cf. Hyphothesis document)counts for the remaining 10%.

  1. The mid-term examwill prepare students to write the final exam: students are required to answer one out of two essay questions and comment on one out of two texts. More information shall be available at a later stage during the semester, but useful examples of questions (from past year’s exams) can be found on the Moodle course page (Political Science by Emiliano Grossman).
  2. Theoral presentation is an individually-graded exercise based on a theme students choose during the first tutorial. Students are responsible for the compulsory readings, which are to be used to analyze the theme of the presentation. The presentation should not exceed 15 minutes for individual presentations, 20 minutes for joint presentations, and 30 minutes for debates involving two students plus a moderator. Students must present and critically assess the most important arguments related to the topic of the presentation.Acquiring public speaking skills is a fundamental part of the assignment; presentations must not be read. Power point presentations are to be submitted via email (no later than the day of the class session).
  3. Oral presentations must be accompanied by a detailed planto be submitted by email to the class (and the lecturer via Urkund)by 9 a.m. the latest on the Monday morning before the class session. Essays are to be submitted as .doc AND .pdf The lecturer will make the essay available to the rest of the class via the conference’s Moodle page (Political Science par Jean-Thomas Martelli). Please consider that late submissions will be penalized (1 point/20 per hour late).The presentationshall consist of a critical reflection on the basis of scientific texts. Students will show that they are able to grasp the most important arguments related to a topic and present them in a clearly structured way.
  4. Reading commentary. You will be asked to provide a critical analysis of one of the additional readings for this class. The lecturer will make the these readings available to the rest of the class via the conference’s Moodle page (Political Science Jean-Thomas MARTELLI (55577)(55778)). Further details about this presentation will be given on the first day of class.
  5. Review (R-5 mns sharp). As a reviewer (or discussant), you will discuss the oral presentation of the day. The aim of such task is to confront its main argument; draw connections with the main reading; give extra examples/illustration; agree/disagree with the plan, etc. In other words, based on your own understanding of the topic, you will discuss some points left unexplored by your fellow classmate.
  6. Class participationconsists in formal and informal exercises. Informally, students are always expected to prepare the compulsory readings, read the essay(s) and actively participate in the debate of each class, by asking questions prepared ahead of time and by trying to answer, and comment on, the points raised during the presentations. Students can expect to be called upon in case of insufficient spontaneous participation. Formally, each student will be discussant or debate moderator at least once, making reference whenever possible to other literature and readings of the course, as well as to current events which the students may know or consider relevant to discuss the topic.

Methodology

Formal assignments:

Presentation

The oral presentation is the opportunity to treat a theme or question using key texts in the political science literature. The student is encouraged to discuss the compulsory reading(s) and to bring out the key issues of a wider debate. In order to present diverse approaches to the question, it is essential to bring to bear other readings (cf. Additional readings), perspectives and/or examples. Since the time allotted does not allow the student to develop the entirety of the essay, oral presentations are a good opportunity to highlight and develop more fully a specific argument and/or example from the essay, without neglecting the presentation of the overall theoretical issues and framework. In that case, the choice of examples or case studies must be justified in the course of the presentation.

Discussant

Having conscientiously prepared the readings for the session as well as attentively listened to the oral presentation, the discussant will begin the general discussion by summarizing the important points of the presentation, raising critical questions and/or counter-examples, and providing additional analysis.

Attendance and late arrivals

Attendance is compulsory. All absences will have to be justified (e.g. medical certificate). In accordance with the Sciences Po guidelines, if a student misses more than 2 conferences, s/he fails the course.Students must be on time. Repeated late arrivals will be considered as absences and taken into account in the participation mark.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism (direct copying without citation of others’ words or thoughts) is a very serious issue and will not be tolerated. Sciences Po has an extremely severe policy in this respect. Note that Urkund will be used systematically to detect eventual cases of plagiarism in students’ assignments.

Calendar

Session 1 – Introduction: politics and political science (24 Jan. 2017)

General presentation and organization of the course, election of the class representative, methodological guidelines, distribution of the presentations and essays.                                                                          

Compulsory readings:

  • Skinner, Q., Machiavelli, Oxford, OUP, 1981, chapter 2.
  • Machiavelli, The Prince, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, Chapter 25.

Additional readings:

  • Sartori, Giovanni, “What is ‘Politics’?”, Political Theory, vol. I, no. 1, 1973, pp. 5-26.

Session 2 – Systems and regimes: the foundations of political order(31 Jan. 2017)

Compulsory readings:

  • Francis Fukuyama, The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011, chapter 5.

Presentation 1: Does political order exclude violence? 

Presentation 2: The State: a necessary evil?

Additional readings:

  • North, D.G, Wallis, J.J. & B.R. Weingast (2009), Violence and social orders, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
  • Stein Rokkan, (1999) State formation, nation-building, and mass politics in Europe: the theory of Stein Rokkan: based on his collected works, Oxford University Press. Introduction by
  • Dryzek, J.S., Honig, B., Phillips, A.(eds.) (2006),The Oxford handbook of political theory, Oxford, OUP.
  • Ostrom, E. (1990) Governing the commons, Cambridge, CUP.
  • Weber, M. (1964), The Theory of Social and Economic Organization, New York, Free Press. Translated and edited by Talcott Parsons.
  • Tilly, Charles (1985), “War making and state making as organized crime,” in Bringing the State Back In, ed. Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Theda Skocpol, Cambridge UP.
  • Khoury, Philip Shukry, and Joseph Kostiner (ed.). Tribes and state formation in the Middle East. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. 

Session 3 – System and regimes: the state, communities and collective identities (07 Feb.2017)

Compulsory readings:

  • Smith, A., “Invention and Imagination”, Ch.6 of Nationalism and Modernism, Routledge, NY, 1998.

Presentation 1: The nation and Europe – old and new nationalisms

Presentation 2: How does the state deal with identities?

Additional readings:

  • Lord Acton, « Nationality », in Gopal Balakrishnan (ed.), Mapping the nation, London, Verso/New Left Review, 1996 [1862].
  • Mill, J.S., “Of Nationality, as connected with Representative Government”, chapter 16 of Considerations on Representative Government, 1861.
  • Fredrik Barth (1969), Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The social organization of culture difference, London, George Allen & Uwin.
  • Anderson, Benedict (2006), Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, London; New York: Verso.
  • Stein Rokkan, (1999) State formation, nation-building, and mass politics in Europe: the theory of Stein Rokkan: based on his collected works, Oxford University Press. (only book copy available).
  • Mudde, Cas. Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, chapter 7.
  • Boswell, Christina (2000), “European Values and the Asylum Crisis,”International Affairs, 76:3, pp. 537-557.
  • Charles Taylor, Amy Gutman (eds.)(1992), Multiculturalism and the “Politics of recognition”, Princeton, Princeton University Press.
  • Startin, Nicholas. (2010), “Where to for the Radical Right in the European Parliament? The Rise and Fall of Transnational Political Cooperation,”Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 11:4, 429-449.
  • Halikiopoulou, Daphne, Kyriaki Nanou and Sofia Vasilopoulou. “The Paradox of Nationalism: The Common Denominator of Radical Right and Radical Left Euroscepticism”, European Journal of Political Research, 51:4 (2012), 504-539.
  • Van Dyke (1977), “The Individual, the State, and Ethnic Communities in Political Theory”, World Politics, 29:3, pp. 343-369.
  • Rouhana, N, and Ghanem, A. (1998). “The crisis of minorities in ethnic states: The case of Palestinian citizens in Israel.”International Journal of Middle East Studies, 30, pp. 321-346.
  • Peled, Yoav (1992), “Ethnic democracy and the legal construction of citizenship: Arab citizens of the Jewish state.”American Political Science Review, pp. 432-443.
  • Salamey, Imad. “Failing consociationalism in Lebanon and integrative options.”International Journal of Peace Studies(2009): 83-105.

Session 4 – System and regimes: democracy (21 Feb. 2017)

Compulsory readings:

  • Lijphart, A. (1999), Patterns of democracy; Yale University Press, chap. 2 & 3

Presentation 1: What defines democracy today, substance, procedure or polyarchy?

Presentation 2: Can democracy be exported?

Additional readings:

  • Beyme, K. von (2000) Parliamentary democracy, Basingstoke: MacMillan. (only book copy available)
  • Dahl, Robert (1971), Polyarchy, New Haven, Yale University Press. (only book copy available)
  • Huntington, S. (1991), The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth century, Norman, University of Oklahoma Press.
  • Lijphart, A. (1999) Patterns of democracy, New Haven, Yale University Press.
  • O’Donnell, Guillermo (1994), “Delegative democracy,”Journal of democracy, 5:1, 55-69.
  • Powell, B. (2000) Elections as instruments of democracy, New Haven, Yale University Press.
  • Schumpeter, J. (1942), Capitalism, socialism, and democracy, New York, Harper.
  • Schraeder, Peter (ed.) (2002), Exporting Democracy. Rhetoric vs. Reality, Boulder Colorado, Lynne Rienner Publisher.
  • Barany, Z. and Moser, G.R.(2009),Is Democracy Exportable?, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Session 5 – System and regimes: government, delegation and decision-making (28 Feb.2017)

Compulsory readings:

  • Tsebelis, George (2002), Veto Players, Princeton University Press, chap. 3 (selection).

Presentation 1: Can parliaments control public policies?

Presentation 2: Why are political systems more or less responsive?

Additional readings:

  • Urbinati, N. and Warren M. E. (2008), “The Concept of Representation in Contemporary Democratic Theory”, Annual Review of Political Science, June, DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.11.053006.190533.
  • Susan K. Schmidt, “The European Commission’s powers in shaping European policies,” in The Changing European Commission, ed. Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos (Manchester University Press, 2004), 105-120. (only book copy available)
  • Soroka, Stuart and Chris Wlezien (2010), Degrees of democracy. Politics, public opinion and policy, New York, Cambridge University Press.
  • STRØM K., MÜLLER W.C., BERGMAN T. (dir.) (2003), Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
  • Herbert Döring, Mark Hallerberg (ed.) (2004), Patterns of parliamentary behavior, Aldershot: Ashgate. (only book copy available)
  • Thomas Saalfeld (2000), “Members of parliament and governments in Western Europe: Agency relations and problems of oversight,”European Journal of Political Research, 37, 353–376.
  • Ulrich Sieberer (2011), “The Institutional Power of Western European Parliaments: A Multidimensional Analysis,”West European Politics, 34, 4, 731–754.
  • Tsebelis,G. (2002),Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work, Princeton University Press.
  • Baumgartner, Frank R. and Bryan Jones, The Politics of Attention: How Government Prioritizes Problems, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2005.
  • Tsebelis, George, and Xenophon Yataganas. “Veto Players and Decision-making in the EU After Nice.”JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 40.2 (2002): 283-307.
  • Benz, A. (2004). “Path-dependent institutions and strategic veto players: national parliaments in the European Union.” West European Politics, 27(5), 875-900.

Session 6 – System and regimes: authoritarian regimes and transitions (7 March 2017)

Compulsory readings:

  • Acemoglu, D. and Robinson, J.A. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty. Crown, NY, 2012: 70-95; 428-443

Presentation 1: Why does pluralism persist under authoritarian regimes?

Presentation 2: How, when and why do revolutions (or coups) occur/fail to occur? 

Additional readings:

  • Michael Geyer and Sheila Fitzpatrick, Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared, 1st (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
  • O’Donnell, Guillermo, Schmitter, Philippe C., and Whitehead, Laurence (ed.) Transitions from authoritarian rule: comparative perspectives, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press,1991.
  • Acemoglu D. & J.A. Robinson, 2006, Economic origins of dictatorship and democracy, Ch 7. (only book copy available)
  • Gurr, T. (1970). Why Men Rebel, Princeton UP.
  • Humphreys, Macartan and Weinstein, Jeremy (2008),“Who fights? The Determinants of Participation in Civil War,”American Journal of Political Science, 52:2, 436-55.
  • Skocpol, T. (1979). States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China, Cambridge UP.
  • Tullock, Gordon(1971), “The paradox of revolution,”Public Choice, 11, pp.89-99.
  • Dahl, Robert. 1978. “Pluralism Revisited,”Comparative Politics, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 191-203.
  • Escribà-Folch, Abel. 2011. “Group Strength, Accountability and Growth under Dictatorship,” International Political Science Review, 32 (1): 5-22.
  • Derpanopoulos, George et al. 2016. “Are Coups Good for Democracy?”Research and Politics, 1-7.

Session 7 – System and regimes: development and democracy (14 March 2017)

Compulsory readings:

  • Olson, Mancur, “Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development”, American Political Science Review, Vol. 87, No. 3 (Sep., 1993), pp. 567-576

Presentation 1: Does democracy require development or does development require democracy?

Presentation 2: The future of the welfare state, from the retrenchment of US welfare to EU austerity.

Additional readings:

  • Esping-Andersen, Gosta (1990), The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Princeton, Princeton University Press.
  • Rothstein, Bo (2009), “Creating Political Legitimacy: Electoral Democracy versus Quality of Government”, American Behavioral Scientist 53: 311-330.
  • Bramall, Rebecca (2013), The Cultural Politics of Austerity, Basingstoke, Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Frances Fox Piven, (2000), “The politics of retrenchment: the US case,” in The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
  • Walter Korpi and Joakim Palme (1998), The paradox of redistribution and strategies of equality: welfare state institutions, inequality, and poverty in the western countries”, American Sociological Review, vol. 63, October, pp. 661-687.
  • Crum, B. (2013), “Saving the Euro at the Cost of Democracy?”,JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies.
  • Adam Przeworski et al. (2000), Democracy and development: political institutions and well-being in the world, 1950-1990, Cambridge University Press.(only book copy available)
  • David L. Epstein et al. (2006), “Democratic Transitions,”American Journal of Political Science 50, no. 3: 551-569.
  • Seymour Martin Lipset, “Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy,”The American Political Science Review 53, no. 1 (Mars 1959): 69-105.

Session 8 – Actors and institutions: individuals, socialization and political culture(21 March 2017)

Compulsory readings:

  • Inglehart, R.F. (2008), “Changing values among Western publics from 1970 to 2006”, West European Politics, 31:1-2, 130-146.

*Debate*

Question: Political cultures in Europe and the world: a clash of civilizations?

Additional readings:

  • Almond, Gabriel and Sidney Verba. The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations, Sage Publications, 1989, Ch. 1.
  • Ignazi, Piero (1992), “The silent counter‐revolution.”European Journal of Political Research, 22:1, pp. 3-34.
  • Putnam, Robert D. (1995).“Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital,”Journal of Democracy 6(1), pp. 65-78.
  • Inglehart, Ronald F. The Silent Revolution, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977, Ch. 1-6.
  • Huntington, S. (1996). The Clash of Civilizations, NY: Simon & Schuster.
  • Ignazi, P. (1996), “The crisis of parties and the rise of new political parties.”Party Politics, 4, pp. 549-566.
  • Franklin, M., Thomas, N., Mackie, t. and Valen, H. (1992).Electoral change, ECPR Press.(only book copy available)
  • Norris, Pippa, and Ronald Inglehart. “Islamic culture and democracy: Testing the’clash of civilizations’ thesis,” Comparative Sociology3 (2002): 235-263.
  • Ronald Inglehart; Pippa Norris (2003), “The True Clash of Civilizations,”Foreign Policy, No. 135, pp. 62-70.
  • Foa, Roberto Stefan, and Yascha Mounk. “The democratic disconnect,” Journal of Democracy3 (2016): 5-17.

Session 9 – Actors and institutions: political competition, parties and institutions (28 March2017) 

Compulsory readings:

  • Downs, A., “The statics and dynamics of party ideologies”, chapter 8 of An Economic Theory of Democracy, Boston, Addison-Wesley, 1957.

Presentation 1: What are the effects of electoral laws on the political system?

Presentation 2: The extreme right in Europe. A threat to democracy?

Additional readings:

  • Golder, M. (2005), “Democratic electoral systems around the world, 1946–2000.”Electoral Studies1, pp. 103-121.
  • Lijphart, A. (1995),Electoral Systems and Party Systems, USA, Oxford University Press. (only book copy available)
  • Blondel, J. “Party Systems and Patterns of Government in Western Democracies,”Canadian Journal of Political Science, 1, 1968,pp. 180-203.
  • Duverger, M., Les partis politiques, Paris, Armand Colin, 1981 [1951]. (only book copy available)
  • Sartori, G., Parties and Party Systems: a Framework for Analysis, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1976.
  • Gallagher, Michael (1991). “Proportionality, disproportionality and electoral systems.”Electoral studies,1, pp.33-51.
  • Gallagher, M. (1992), “Comparing proportional representation electoral systems: Quotas, thresholds, paradoxes and majorities.”British Journal of Political Science, 4, pp. 469-496.
  • Gallagher, M., and Mitchell, P. (2005),Introduction to Electoral Systems,Oxford, Oxford University Press.(only book copy available)
  • Bernard Grofman and Arend Lijphart, Electoral laws and their political consequences (Algora Publishing, 1986). (Introduction, and Chapter 1 by Riker) (only book copy available)
  • Mair, Peter. The West European Party System, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990, Ch. 1, 20, 22, 24. (only book copy available)
  • Mudde, Cas. Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Bormann, Nils-Christian and Matt Golder. 2013. “Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946-2011.”Electoral Studies 32, 360-369.
  • Wodak, Ruth et al. (eds.),Right-wing populism in Europe: politics and discourse. A&C Black, 2013.

Session 10 – Actors and institutions: political competition, voters (04 April 2017)

Compulsory readings:

  • Pennings, P. “Voters, Elections and Ideology in European Democracies”, in H. Keman Comparative Democratic Politics: A Guide to Contemporary Theory and Research, SAGE, 2002

Presentation 1: Modes of political participation and the decline of turnout

Presentation 2: Does class still explain how people vote?

Additional readings:

  • Franklin, M. (2001), “How structural factors cause turnout variations at European Parliament elections.”European Union Politics, 3, pp. 309-328.
  • Dalton R. (2010), Ideology, partisanship, and democratic development, in LeDuc & al., Comparing democracies 3, Sage, 143-164.
  • Blais, A., Gidengil, E. and Nevitte, N. (2004) “Where does turnout decline come from?”European Journal of Political Research 2, pp. 221-236.
  • André Blais, R. K. Carty (1990), “Does proportional representation foster voter turnout?”, European Journal of Political Research, 18, Issue 2, pp. 167–181.
  • Gray, M., and Caul, M. (2000), “Declining voter turnout in advanced industrial democracies, 1950 to 1997 the effects of declining group mobilization.”Comparative political studies9, pp. 1091-1122.
  • Franklin, M., Lyons, P. and Marsh, M. (2004). “Generational basis of turnout decline in established democracies.”Acta Politica 2, pp.115-151.
  • Terry Nichols Clark, “The Breakdown of Class Politics” 34, no. 1-2 (2003): 17-32.
  • Geoffrey Evans, “The continued significance of class voting,”Annual Review of Political Science 3, no. 1 (6, 2000): 401-417.
  • Evans, J. (2004) Voters and voting, London, Sage.
  • Nonna Mayer, “What remains of class vote?,”inPolitics in France and Europe, ed. Pascal Perrineau and Luc Rouban (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
  • Dalton, R. & H-D. Klingemann (eds.) (2008),Political behaviour,Oxford, OU. (only book copy available)
  • Baiocchi, G. (2001), “Participation, Activism, and Politics: The Porto Alegre Experiment and Deliberative Democratic Theory,”Politics & Society, 29, pp.43-72.
  • Koopmans, R. (1996), “New social movements and changes in political participation in Western Europe.”West European Politics, 1, pp. 28-50.

Session 11 – Actors and institutions: political participation and collective action(11 April 2017)

Compulsory readings:

  • Freeman, J., “The origins of the Women’s Liberation Movement”, American Journal of Sociology, vol. 78, no. 4, pp. 792-811, reprinted in Jeff Goodwin & James Jasper (eds.), The social movements reader, Oxford, Blackwell, 2003.

Presentation 1: How do social movements emerge?

Presentation 2: Transnational activism: from Global Justice to the Occupy movement

Additional readings:

  • Kriesi, H., et al.(2002), “New social movements and political opportunities in Western Europe.”European journal of political research 2, pp. 219-244.
  • Della Porta, D., and Diani, M..Social movements: An introduction. Wiley.com, 2009.
  • Della Porta, D., Kriesi, H. and Rucht, D. (2009)Social Movements in a Globalizing world (second expanded edition). Palgrave Macmillan.(only book copy available)
  • McAdam, D., McCarthy, J. and Mayer N., eds. (1996)Comparative perspectives on social movements: Political opportunities, mobilizing structures, and cultural framings. Cambridge University Press.(only book copy available)
  • Khatib, Lina and Ellen Lust, eds. (2014), Taking to the Streets. The Transformation of Arab Activism, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.(only book copy available)
  • Diani, M., and McAdam, D. eds. (2003)Social Movements and Networks: Relational Approaches to Collective Action: Relational Approaches to Collective Action. Oxford University Press.
  • Lijphart, Arend (1997), Unequal Participation: Democracy’s Unresolved Dilemma, American Political Science Review 91 (1): 1-14.
  • Tilly, Charles (2003),“Inequality, democratization, and de-democratization,”Sociological Theory 21:1, 37-43.
  • Donatella Della Porta, Massimiliano Andretta, Lorenzo Mosca, Herbert Reiter, Globalization from below: Transnational Activists and Protest Networks, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2006.
  • Jackie G. Smith, Globalization and resistance: transnational dimensions of social movements, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, 2002. (only book copy available)
  • Sidney Tarrow (2005), The New Transnational Activism, Cambridge University Press,
  • Ishkanian, A., Glasius, M., & Ali, I. S. (2013). Reclaiming democracy in the square? Interpreting the movements of 2011-12.Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
  • Leonidas Oikonomakis and Jérôme E. Roos, “The Crisis of Representation and the Resonance of the Real Democracy Movement from the Indignados to Occupy”

Session 12 – Conclusion: democracy, government and governance in a globalized world (18 April 2017)

Compulsory readings:

  • Kriesi, H-P., et al.(2008), West European politics in the age of globalization, chap. 1. 

*Debate*

Question: Euro-enthusiasts vs. Eurosceptics. Globalists vs.Anti-Globalists. Who is who, and who should prevail?

Additional readings:

  • Bartolini, Stefano, Restructuring Europe. Centre formation, system building and political structuring between the nation state and the European Union, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005.
  • Hix, Simon. The Political System of the European Union, Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, Ch. 1, 2, 3 and 13.
  • Schmitter, Philippe C. How to Democratize the European Union…And Why Bother?, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000, Ch. 1. (only book copy available)
  • Majone, Giandomenico, Dilemmas of European Integration. The Ambiguities and Pitfalls of Integration by Stealth, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, Ch. 10.
  • Stefano Bartolini and Simon Hix, “Politics: the Right or the Wrong Sort of Medicine for the EU?”Notre Europe Policy paper no. 19, 2006, https://www.notre-europe.eu/media/policypaper19-en.pdf?pdf=ok.
  • Peter Mair, “Political Opposition and the European Union,”Government and Opposition, 2007, vol. 42, no. 1, 1-17.
  • Minnich, Daniel J. “Veto players, electoral incentives and international commitments: The impact of domestic institutions on intergovernmental organization membership.” European Journal of Political Research 44.2 (2005): 295-325.