Unit POLITICAL SCIENCE
- Course
- Political sciences and international relations
- Study-unit Code
- 10866010
- Curriculum
- Relazioni internazionali
- Teacher
- Alessandro Campi
- Teachers
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- Alessandro Campi
- Hours
- 70 ore - Alessandro Campi
- CFU
- 10
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2021/22
- 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):
P. Grilli da Cortona, P. Lanza, B. Pisciotta, L. Germano,Capire la politica, Terza Edizione, UTET, Novara, 2020;
Testi obbligatori di lettura:
Alessandro Campi, "Nazione e nazionalismi", Mondadori Scuola, Milano, 2021. - 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 (written test) and final oral exam
Nel caso l’emergenza sanitaria lo continui a richiedere, l’erogazione della didattica si svolgerà in modalità mista. - 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.