Unit POLITICAL PARTIES AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- Course
- Communication studies
- Study-unit Code
- A003011
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Marco Damiani
- Teachers
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- Marco Damiani
- Hours
- 60 ore - Marco Damiani
- CFU
- 8
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2025
- Offered
- 2026/27
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline giuridiche, storico-politiche e filosofiche
- Sector
- SPS/11
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian. Non-Italian students and Erasmus students are invited to take the
course. Readings and other course material are also available in English.
Please contact the instructor by email (marco.damiani@unipg.it) for further details and to schedule an
appointment during the first week of the lessons. - Contents
- The aim is to study the political parties, the comparative political
system and the democratic governments. - Reference texts
- FOR ATTENDING STUDENTS (6 cfu): 1) D. della Porta, I partiti, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2015.
2) K. Pilati, Movimenti sociali e azioni di protesta, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2018.
FOR ATTENDING STUDENTS (9 cfu): 1) D. della Porta, I partiti, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2015.
2) K. Pilati, Movimenti sociali e azioni di protesta, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2018; 3) M. Damiani, Sinistra senza classi, Mondadori, Milano 2023.
FOR NO ATTENDING STUDENTS: Regardless of the options (6 or 9 ECTS credits), all non-attending students must add to the above syllabus the following text: L. Viviani, Sociology of Parties, Carocci, Rome, 2015. - Educational objectives
- At the end of the course students will have to know the basics of
literature on political parties and comparative political systems, and be
able to interpret the relationships between the political sphere, the
institutional sphere and models of democracy. In this regard, the
continuous tension between theoretical reflection and empirical
knowledge allow students to deepen national and international case
studies. - Prerequisites
- No prerequisites.
- Teaching methods
- The course includes frontal lectures by the teacher.
- Other information
- Additional information will be provided by the instructor during lectures and on the Department’s Unistudium platform.
- Learning verification modality
- The preparation of the students will be evaluated through a written test
on the books of the program. Only attending students can check it. - Extended program
- The course is aimed at deepening of: 1) political parties; 2) comparative
political system; 3) democratic governments. The program is also
published on Unistudium.