Comparative Politics in a Globalized World

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Antonios Vlassis

Language(s) of instruction

English language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

1) The State
2) Democratic and Authoritarian Rule
3) Executives, Legislatures, Courts
4) Bureaucracies and sub-national governments
5) Political communication
6) Interest groups and NGOs in world politics
7) International organizations
8) Compative regionalism(s)
9) European Union as a new political system
10) Globalization and the nation-state
11) Promoting democracy

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

This course is an essential introduction to the study of comparative politics for students of political science.
This course aims to introduce students to the key concepts, approaches and arguments that will enable them to successfully compare the structures of political systems, actors and political processes across the globe.
Taking into account the institutions of government on sub-national, national, regional and international levels, the course includes a wide range of case studies, focusing on the foundations of the political phenomenon, on institutions, as well as on wider political processes.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
 
The course will be taught entirely in English. Students will be required to read scientific articles, to write critical analysis note, to participate in class and to pass a written exam, all in English. Therefore advanced notions of English are required

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

- Cours ex cathedra
- Students will have to actively participate in class ;

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

All the sessions will be taught onsite in a classroom setting.
Online viewing with live course instruction using the platform Lifesize following the existing course and module timetables. 
 

Organisational adjustments related to the current health context

Recommended or required readings

• Daniele Caramani (Ed), Comparative politics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014.
• Tyler Dickovick, Jonathan Eastwood, Comparative politics : integrating theories, methods and cases, New York, Oxford University Press, 2016.
• Rod Hague, Martin Harrop, Shaun Breslin, Comparative government and politics: an introduction, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 2016.
• Lowell Barrington, Comparative politics: structures and choices, Boston, Wadsworth, 2013.
• John Baylis, Steve Smith, Patricia Owens, The globalisation of world politics: an introduction to international relations, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017.
  
• Margaret Karns and Karen Mingst, International Organizations: the politics and processes of global governance, Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2015.
  

Assessment methods and criteria

Below you will find information on the evaluation methods planned for in-person and remote exams as well as those planned for hybrid sessions. Depending on how the health crisis evolves, the chosen method will be communicated to you no later than one month before the start of the exam session.

Any session :

- In-person

oral exam

- Remote

oral exam

- If evaluation in "hybrid"

preferred remote


Additional information:

- Final written exam date: January 2021
The questions of the exam will be based on recommended readings and on the power-points of the course. It is a closed-book examination. 
- Research paper
*The work must be turned in before or on the due date. Late work will receive a 1-point reduction each day delayed.
 
**Due to Covid-19 reasons: possiblity to organise onine exam via Collaborate

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Schedule
Thursdays 11AM - 1PM  On-site classes and online viewing via lifesize. 

Contacts

Dr. Antonios Vlassis
avlassis@uliege.be