Unit POLITICAL SCIENCE

Course
Political sciences and international relations
Study-unit Code
10866010
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Alessandro Campi
Teachers
  • Alessandro Campi
Hours
  • 70 ore - Alessandro Campi
CFU
10
Course Regulation
Coorte 2018
Offered
2019/20
Learning activities
Caratterizzante
Area
Discipline politologiche
Academic discipline
SPS/04
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
International and Erasmus students are invited to take the course. Readings and other course
material are also available in English; written and/or oral exams, as detailed in the course program,
may be taken in English. Please contact the instructor for further details and to schedule an
appointment during the first week of the Fall/Spring Semester.
Contents
Main course: "The contemporary political science: interpreters and issue"

Seminar: "Nation and nationalisms in contemporary world""
Reference texts
Manuale (obbligatorio):
Gianfranco Pasquino, Nuovo corso di scienza politica, il Mulino, Bologna 2016;

Testi obbligatori di lettura:
Anthony D. Smith, "Nazione. Storia di un'idea", Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2017. The book of Smith is also available in English.
Educational objectives
A basic knowledge of the main theoretical approaches and conceptual tools for understanding and analyzing political processes and institutions in a comparative perspective. With a focus on italian political system.
Prerequisites
It may be useful for the studentS to have attended the course of History of Political Thought. It is instead necessary to have taken the exam in Contemporary History
Teaching methods
Face-to-face and seminars
Learning verification modality
Progress assessments and final oral exam
Extended program
The course - divided in two parts - will concentrate on following topics: birth and evolution of the nation state; democratic and non democratic regimes; political culture, political communication and political participation; interest groups; parties and party systems; electoral systems and party competition in advanced democracies; goverments and bureacracy; policy making; totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.

The seminar will address the theme of "nation" and "nationalism" from the point of view of political theory and contemporary political dynamics.
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