CEVRO:d137957 Modern Party Politics in Eu - Course Information
d137957 Modern Party Politics in Europe
CEVRO Universityfall 2018
- 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 provide students with knowledge about new types of political parties that have emerged in Europe since 1970s and which do not perfectly fit the traditional Lipset and Rokkans scheme of cleavages and parties that result from them. The new parties, some of which can be treated as "niche parties" are discussed from the perspective of their new policies, organization, membership and position in respective party systems. The rise of new types of parties is analyzed in context of changing modern societies, important process that directly affect party politics, shifting values and changing policy priorities in a globalized world. The course is focused on relevant and electorally successful parties such as green parties, radical-right wing parties, eurosceptical parties, populist parties to name the most important ones. The course also discuss other parties that are relevant mainly in terms of new types of organization (cyber parties) or policies (pirate parties, feminist parties, single-issue parties and like).
- Syllabus (in Czech)
Introduction: the importance of political parties in modern democracies
New types of political parties in terms of organization
Business-firm parties
Cyber parties
Left-libertarian parties I: Green parties
Left-libertarian parties II: Pirate parites
Populist parties
Radical right-wing populist parties
Eurosceptical parties
Other parties: feminist parties, animal parties and joke parties
Final test
- Assessment methods (in Czech)
- Course requirements: 1) Mid-term test 2) Final-test 3) In-class presentation
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.