Political Studies
Code
722071096
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Estudos Políticos
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Tiago Roma Fernandes
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
To understand and debate the main topics of contemporary comparative politics.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1.Protest and non-democratic regimes
2.Revolutions, 1945-1990s
3.Revolutions: Portugal
4.Social-Democracy in the developing world
5.Religion and modernity
6.Public sphere, liberalism and democracy
7.Civil society and Violence
8.Inequality and Democracy
Bibliography
Richard Sandbrook et al., Social Democracy in the Global Periphery. Origins, Challenges, Prospects, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 1-92, 147-174
José Casanova, Public Religions in the modern world, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1994, pp. 1-91, 211-234.
Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1989 (1962), pp. 1-141
Ashutosh Varshney, Ethnic conflict and civic life. Hindus and Muslims in India, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2002, pp. 1-111, 281-300.
Lawrence Jacobs et al., eds., Inequality and American Democracy, New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 2005, pp. 1-87
Teaching method
Presentation and discussion of the literature in class
Evaluation method
Final Essay: 60%
Participation in Class: 20%
Presentation in Class: 20%