RESEARCH SEMINAR IN POLITICAL SCIENCE
Code
73207106
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Estudos Políticos
Credits
10
Weekly hours
-
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
To associate PhD students to current research projects, thus contributing to improve their methodological abilities and technical skills both in quantitative and qualitative analysis.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
Students research (bibliographic review, and primary sources and data collection) will focus on two major themes: (i) State, civil society and democracy; (ii) patterns of political elite recruitment. The contents of the syllabus are central issues in the agenda of contemporary political science and the core of two research projects currently funded by FCT, led by the academic responsible for the Seminar.
Bibliography
Almeida, P. Tavares de, et al., coord. (2012), Société civil et démocratie en Europe du Sud, nº temático de PÔLE SUD: Revue de science politique de lEurope méridionale, Montpellier, nº 37.
Almeida, P. Tavares de, and A. Costa Pinto (2012), EXPERT AND NON-PARTISAN MINISTERS IN PORTUGUESE DEMOCRACY, working paper apresentado no XXII World Congress of Political Science, Madrid, 8-12 July 2012.
Dowding, Keith, and Patrick Dumont, eds. (2008), THE SELECTION OF MINISTERS IN EUROPE, London & New York, Routledge.
Maloney, W.A., and J.W. van Deth (2008), CIVIL SOCIETY AND GOVERNANCE IN EUROPE, London, Edward Elgar Publ..
Teaching method
In the seminar sessions the working hypotheses and preliminary results of the above-mentioned research projects are presented and discussed, as well as the students progress reports on their bibliographic and empirical research.
Evaluation method
Students will be evaluated on the basis of a written essay (max. 15 pages), either a critical review of the bibliography or an original research based on primary sources, to be presented and discussed in the final classes. Active participation in the classes is taken into account for the final marks.