Political Science
Code
LL104
Department
Área de Ensino
Credits
4
Teacher in charge
Armando Marques Guedes
Weekly hours
3
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
To make available to future jurists a balanced image, given in the light of contemporary Political Science, of some of the characteristics of present societies, deemed as more useful for their training: the legal and political transformations accompanying globalization and the reactions to it.
Subject matter
What is Politics: from the science of power to its study. The cientificity of the study of Politics: the “paternity” of the subject-matter and the distinction of distinction of facts and values as a determining element. The great currents of PoliticAL Science: from political philosophy to sociology. Forms of power: political regimes and systems in their classical and contemporary formats. Historical experiences of power: polis, Empire, State, totalitarianism. The emrgence of new types of political organization: integration and jural-political reconfigurations of the global world. Interdependence, sovereignty and the future of the nation-State. Territorial and universal jurisdictions; the frontiers of community. From community to cosmopolis: are there universal values? Democracies and representation: plebescitarianism, direct democracy and representative one. Contemporary political ideas: Rights and Lefts – conservatims, liberalism , socialism. Modern States and globalization.
Bibliography
Anderson, Benedict (1991), Imagined Communities. Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism, Verso, London e New York.
Linklater, Andrew (1998), The Transformation of Political Community, Polity, Cambridge.
Held, David, et al. D. Held, A. McGrew, D. Goldblatt e D. Perraton (1999), Global Transformations. Politics, Economy and Culture, Polity Press, Cambridge
Marques Guedes, Armando (2005), Estudos sobre Relações Internacionais, Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros.
Espada, João Carlos, Plattner, Marc e Wolfson, Adam (2007), Direita e Esquerda? Divisões Ideológicas no Século XXI, Lisboa, Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
Azevedo Correia, Jorge (2009), “O regresso da Comunidade e a ascensão da religião: três contributos para a fundamentação do liberalismo”, Negócios Estrangeiros 14: 241-264.
Shirky, Clay (2009), Here Comes Everybody. The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, Allen Lane, Penguin Books.
Morozov, Evgeny (2011), The Net Delusion. The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, Public Affairs, New York.
Cerca de 70 outras referências são disponibilizadas aos alunos em fotocópias e colocados na net.Teaching method
Participated classes with a first section as a lecture, then followed by discussion.
Evaluation method
Written examination.