Unit CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL SYSTEMS

Course
Politics, administration, territory
Study-unit Code
A001476
Curriculum
Politiche del territorio
Teacher
Cristina Baldassini
Teachers
  • Cristina Baldassini
Hours
  • 63 ore - Cristina Baldassini
CFU
9
Course Regulation
Coorte 2022
Offered
2022/23
Learning activities
Affine/integrativa
Area
Attività formative affini o integrative
Academic discipline
SPS/02
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
The course studies the specific features of contemporary political systems, with particular focus on their historical and cultural foundations; part of the course will be devoted to the crisis of contemporary democracy.
Reference texts
Texts for attending students:
a) H. Arendt, Le origini del totalitarismo [tit. or. The Origins of Totalitarianism], Einaudi 2009 (only third part: Totalitarianism);
b) a text assigned in class.

Texts for non-attending students:
a) D. Fisichella, Totalitarismo. Un regime del nostro tempo, Pagine 2016;
b) S. Cassese, La democrazia e i suoi limiti, Il Mulino 2018;
c) L. Di Gregorio, Demopatia. Sintomi, diagnosi e terapia del malessere democratico, Rubbettino 2019.
Educational objectives
The course aims at examining the institutions and the ideologies which characterize political systems in the contemporary world. The course aims also at providing the capability to analyse contemporary political systems.
Prerequisites
General knowledge about contemporary history, history of political thought, political science.
Teaching methods
Lectures and class discussions.
Other information
cristina.baldassini@unipg.it
Learning verification modality
For students who attend the course, assessment consists of one mid-course exam and one end-of-course exam. During the mid-course exam students will be required to present a text to the class. The final exam is oral, lasts about 20 minutes and is on topics covered in the course. The purpose of the final exam is to ascertain the level of individual students' knowledge of program contents and their ability to express them in a clear and appropriate manner.
Non-attending students must sit a single oral exam, lasting about 30 minutes, with questions on the contents of three texts assigned in the program.
Extended program
The course studies the specific features of contemporary political systems. Particular attention will be devoted to : a) problems and perspectives of democracies in the 21st century; b) authoritarian and totalitarian regimes of the 20th century.
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