d24044 Democracy and International Election Observation

Vysoká škola CEVRO
jaro 2024
Rozsah
12/12/0. 3 kr. Ukončení: z.
Vyučující
PhDr. Pavel Pšeja, Ph.D. (přednášející)
PhDr. Pavel Pšeja, Ph.D. (cvičící)
Garance
PhDr. Pavel Pšeja, Ph.D.
Katedra bezpečnostních studií – Katedry – Rektor – Vysoká škola CEVRO
Rozvrh
Út 27. 2. až Út 30. 4. každé liché úterý 12:30–15:20 Učebna 103
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Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je otevřen studentům libovolného oboru.
Cíle předmětu
The course offers a comprehensive treatment of international election observation missions as a tool to promote democracy and good practices in the elections. Primarily, this course focuses upon the phenomenon of international electoral observation missions which in the last thirty years evolved in a powerful system of monitoring and policy recommendations, and are often perceived as a tool to point out to non-democratic features of many contemporary political regimes. To grasp the phenomenon in its complexity, the course aspires to approach it both from historical and theoretical, and also from practical perspective. After setting up appropriate framework dealing up with the evolution, problems, and practices of democracy and democratization, the course will present a thorough analysis of the electoral observation mechanisms and actors. This knowledge will then, in the last part of the course, provide the basis for practical exercises in which the students will try to test their ability to analyze selected cases of elections, and will participate in simulations of real electoral observation missions
Výstupy z učení
This course aspires to make the students familiar with the mechanisms and actors of the electoral observation missions, and to teach them to understand and analyze the theory and practices of the system of the international electoral observation.
Osnova
  • I. Introduction into elections, course assignments
  • II. Elections and democracy: historical overview
  • III. Democracy in practice: how it works (and fails)
  • IV. Relationship of democratic and non-democratic states since 1989
  • V. Democratization, democracy promotion, and election observation
  • VI. Actors and tools of election observation
  • VII. International election observation missions: structure and functions
  • VIII. Election observation in practice: STO, LTO, Core Team, local actors
  • IX. Case study 1 - Turkey
  • X. Case study 2 - Azerbaijan
  • XI. Case study 3 - Kosovo
  • XII. Simulation game, final wrap-up
Literatura
  • Cooley, Alexander Authoritarianism Goes Global: Countering Democratic Norms. Journal of Democracy, vol. 26, no. 3
  • OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Handbook
  • OSCE, EEAS, NDI, Carter Center etc. Relevant websites available at resources indicated in IS
  • OSCE/ODIHR e-learning course for election observers https://www.odihrobserver.org/
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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Studijní materiály
  • Statistika zápisu (nejnovější)
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