d87026 Electronic Democracy

CEVRO University
summer 2016
Extent and Intensity
0/0. Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Miloš Brunclík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Department of Political Science and International Relations – Departments – President – CEVRO University
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to analyse democracy and its procedures in the context of modern information and communication technologies that affect current understanding of politics, participation and democracy. The course combines theoretical and empirical approaches to demonstrate how new ICT influence patterns of party organization, new political issues, political marketing etc. Furthermore, ICT creates a pool of new issues that are brought to political agenda. The electronic world is becoming a target for states’ efforts to control electronic communication. These trends have given rise to so-called pirate parties – a new type of political parties not only in the Western world. A particular attention of the course shall be focused on the issue of electronic elections. As new technologies appear, they are used for different purposes, one of them being casting a ballot through various electronic devices – Internet, cell phone etc. The course is based on a collection of particular lectures devoted to these issues.
Syllabus (in Czech)

  • 1. New information technologies and democracy
    2. Digital divide
    3. On-line political marketing
    4. Pirate parties
    5. Electronic elections – definitions, pros and cons
    6. Internet elections in Norway
    7. Internet elections in Australia
    8. Internet elections in Estonia
    9. Final test
    10. Final presentations
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Zápočtový test Krátká prezentace na zadané téma Závěrečná seminární práce (prezentace)na studentem zvolené téma
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is also listed under the following terms summer 2013, spring 2017.
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