Course Detail
Course Description
| Course | Code | Semester | T+P (Hour) | Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY | INT4213313 | Spring Semester | 3+0 | 3 | 6 |
| Course Program | Salı 15:30-16:15 Salı 16:30-17:15 Salı 17:30-18:15 |
| Prerequisites Courses | |
| Recommended Elective Courses |
| Language of Course | English |
| Course Level | First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree) |
| Course Type | Elective |
| Course Coordinator | Assist.Prof. Merve ATEŞ EREN |
| Name of Lecturer(s) | Assist.Prof. Merve ATEŞ EREN |
| Assistant(s) | |
| Aim | This course aims at introducing students to various topics on democratic and autocratic regimes. What is democracy? What makes a political regime democratic or autocratic? Why are some countries democracies while others are not? How do democracies die? How do democracies perform? What do we know about contemporary democratic backsliding? The course has been organized to cover basic conceptual tools, theories, and empirical findings to answer these questions. |
| Course Content | This course contains; Week 1 – Introduction,Week 2 – Classification of regimes-Conceptualization and measurement What is democracy?,Week 3 – Classification of regimes-Conceptualization and measurement What is autocracy?,Week 4 – Democratic consolidation, political culture, institutions, and popular support ,Week 5 – Hybrid regimes ,Week 6 – Transition to democracy I ,Week 7 – Transition to democracy II ,WEEK 8 – MIDTERM IN-CLASS,Week 9 – Domestic and international democracy promotion ,Week 10 – Democratic breakdown ,Week 11 – Military coups and autogolpes ,Week 12 – How do democracies perform? Policy making and outcomes in democracies ,Week 13 – Contemporary democratic backsliding ,Week 14 – Corruption, populism, and polarization ,Week 15 – Presentations & Review session. |
| Dersin Öğrenme Kazanımları | Teaching Methods | Assessment Methods |
| Understands alternative conceptualizations and measurements of democracy, summarizes the scholarly criteria for what makes a regime democratic and explains the example regime types based based on alternative criteria. | 10, 13, 14, 19, 23, 5, 9 | A, E |
| Identifies the characteristics of autocratic political regimes, compares different types of non-democratic political regimes. | 10, 13, 16, 19, 6, 9 | A |
| Identifies the terms democratic consolidation and political culture; explains the relationship between these terms and the survival of democratic regimes. | 10, 13, 16, 6, 9 | A |
| Classifies regimes along the autocracy-democracy continuum, identifies and exemplifies hybrid regimes. | 10, 16, 19, 6, 9 | A |
| Understands the phenomenon of democratization and summarizes alternative explanations for democratization. | 10, 16, 19, 6, 9 | A |
| Identifies why and how democracies collapse (or erode) and discusses the cases democratic breakdown(s) based on scholarly concepts and theories. | 10, 16, 9 | A |
| Identifies various forms of military interventions in politics and summarizes their short-term and long-term effects on the future of democracy. | 10, 16, 19, 9 | A |
| Understands the concept “governance” and its relationship with the regime types, and compares the performance and capacity of different political regimes in terms of economy, social welfare or international relations. | 10, 16, 9 | A |
| Identifies the concepts "populism, polarization and corruption," explains and exemplifies the relationship between these concepts and democratic backslidigin/breakdown. | 10, 16, 6, 9 | A |
| Teaching Methods: | 10: Discussion Method, 13: Case Study Method, 14: Self Study Method, 16: Question - Answer Technique, 19: Brainstorming Technique, 23: Concept Map Technique, 5: Cooperative Learning, 6: Experiential Learning, 9: Lecture Method |
| Assessment Methods: | A: Traditional Written Exam, E: Homework |
Course Outline
| Order | Subjects | Preliminary Work |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Week 1 – Introduction | Syllabus, course content and requirements |
| 2 | Week 2 – Classification of regimes-Conceptualization and measurement What is democracy? | • Schumpeter, J. A. 2003 [1942]. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. Taylor & Francis e-library. [Chapter 22] • Dahl, Robert A. 1971. Polyarchy. New Haven, CT.: Yale University Press. [Chapter 1] • Schmitter, P. C., & Karl, T. L. 1991. “What democracy is... and is not.” Journal of democracy, 2(3), 75-88. • Coppedge, M., Gerring, J., Altman, D., Bernhard, M., Fish, S., Hicken, A., . . . Teorell, J. 2011. Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: A New Approach. Perspectives on Politics, 9(2), 247-267. doi:10.1017/S1537592711000880 |
| 3 | Week 3 – Classification of regimes-Conceptualization and measurement What is autocracy? | • Lindstaedt, Natasha. 2020. “Authoritarian Regimes” in Comparative Politics, 5th Edition, edited by Daniele Caramani. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Chapter 6]. • Schedler, A. 2010. “Authoritarianism's last line of defense.” Journal of Democracy, 21(1), 69-80. • Svolik, M. W. 2009. “Power sharing and leadership dynamics in authoritarian regimes.” American Journal of Political Science, 53(2), 477-494. • Glasius, M. 2018. “What authoritarianism is… and is not: a practice perspective.” International Affairs, 94(3), 515-533. |
| 4 | Week 4 – Democratic consolidation, political culture, institutions, and popular support | • Schedler, A. 1998. What is democratic consolidation? Journal of democracy, 9(2), 91-107. • Svolik, M. 2008. Authoritarian reversals and democratic consolidation. American Political Science Review, 153-168. • Linz, Juan, and Alfred Stepan. 1996. “Toward Consolidated Democracies”. Journal of Democracy 7(2): 14-33. |
| 5 | Week 5 – Hybrid regimes | • Collier, D., & Levitsky, S. 1997. Democracy with adjectives: Conceptual innovation in comparative research. World politics, 49(3), 430-451. • Levitsky, Steven and Lucan Way 2002. ‘The rise of competitive authoritarianism.’ Journal of Democracy, 13(2): 51-65. • Diamond, Larry. 2002. “Thinking about Hybrid Regimes.” Journal of Democracy 13(2): 21- 35. • Morlino, Leonardo. 2009. “Are there hybrid regimes? Or are they just an optical illusion?” European Political Science Review 1: 273-296. |
| 6 | Week 6 – Transition to democracy I | • Moore, Barrington. 1966. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World. Boston: Beacon Press [Chapter 7]. • Lipset, S. M. 1959. “Some social requisites of democracy: Economic development and political legitimacy.” American political science review, 53(01), 69-86. • Inglehart, Ronald and Welzel, Christian. 2010. “Changing mass priorities: The link between modernization and democracy.” Perspectives on Politics, 8(2). |
| 7 | Week 7 – Transition to democracy II | • Carothers, Thomas. 2002. “The End of the Transition Paradigm,” Journal of Democracy 13, no. 1: 5-21. • Geddes, B., Wright, J. G., Wright, J., & Frantz, E. (2018). How dictatorships work: Power, personalization, and collapse. Cambridge University Press. [Chapter 8] • Acemoglu, Daron and James Robinson. 2006. Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Chapter 2] |
| 8 | WEEK 8 – MIDTERM IN-CLASS | |
| 9 | Week 9 – Domestic and international democracy promotion | • Teorell, Jan. 2010. Determinants of Democratization: Explaining Regime Change in the World, 1972–2006. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Chapter 5] • Brancati, Dawn. 2014. “Pocketbook Protests: Explaining the Emergence of Pro-Democracy Protests Worldwide.” Comparative Political Studies 47, no. 11: 1503-1530. • Levitsky, Steven and Lucan A. Way. 2006. “Linkage versus leverage - Rethinking the international dimension of regime change.” Comparative Politics 38 (4): 379. • Sandra Lavenex & Frank Schimmelfennig. 2011. “EU democracy promotion in the neighbourhood: from leverage to governance?” Democratization, 18:4, 885-909 |
| 10 | Week 10 – Democratic breakdown | • Bermeo, Nancy. 2003. Ordinary people in extraordinary times: The citizenry and the breakdown of democracy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. [Chapter 2] • Mainwaring, S., & Pérez-Liñán, A. 2013. “Democratic breakdown and survival.” Journal of Democracy, 24(2), 123-137. • Levitsky, Steven, and Daniel Ziblatt. 2018. How Democracies Die. New York: Crown. [Chapter 4 & 5] • Slater, D., Smith, B., & Nair, G. (2014). Economic origins of democratic breakdown? The redistributive model and the postcolonial state. Perspectives on Politics, 353-374. |
| 11 | Week 11 – Military coups and autogolpes | • Cheibub, Jos ́e Antonio. 2007. Presidentialism, parliamentarism, and democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press. [Chapter 1] • Geddes, B., Wright, J. G., Wright, J., & Frantz, E. (2018). How dictatorships work: Power, personalization, and collapse. Cambridge University Press. [Chapter 3] • Marinov, Nikolay, and Hein Goemans. 2014. “Coups and Democracy.” British Journal of Political Science, 44: 799-825 • Quinlivan, James T. 1999. “Coup-proofing: Its Practice and Consequences in the Middle East.” Quarterly Journal: International Security, 24(2): 131-165 |
| 12 | Week 12 – How do democracies perform? Policy making and outcomes in democracies | • Ross, Michael. 2006. ‘Is democracy good for the poor?’ American Journal of Political Science 50(4): 860-874. • Siegle, Joseph T., Michael Weinstein and Morton Halperin. 2004. “Why democracies excel.” Foreign Affairs 83(5): 57-72. • Pippa Norris. 2012. Making Democratic Governance Work: How regimes shape prosperity, welfare and peace. NY: CUP [Chapter 7] • Acemoglu, Daron and James A. Robinson. 2012. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty. London: Profile Books. [Chapter 1] |
| 13 | Week 13 – Contemporary democratic backsliding | • Haggard, S., & Kaufman, R. (2021). Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World (Elements in Political Economy). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
| 14 | Week 14 – Corruption, populism, and polarization | • E. Warren, Mark. "What does corruption mean in a democracy?" American journal of political science 48.2 (2004): 328-343. • McCoy, Jennifer, Rahman, Tahmina and Somer, Murat. 2018. “Polarization and the Global Crisis of Democracy: Common Patterns, Dynamics and Pernicious Consequences for Democratic Polities,” American Behavioral Scientist 62(1): 16-42. • Weyland, K. 2020. “Populism’s Threat to Democracy: Comparative Lessons for the United States.” Perspectives on Politics, 18(2), 389-406. |
| 15 | Week 15 – Presentations & Review session |
| Resources |
| Reading package including various journal articles and book chapters. |
Course Contribution to Program Qualifications
| Course Contribution to Program Qualifications | |||||||
| No | Program Qualification | Contribution Level | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||
| 1 | PC1. Students know the fundamental concepts, theories, research methods and analysis techniques used in the fields and sub-fields of Political Science and International relations. | ||||||
| 2 | PC2. Students understand the political, economic, social, and cultural relations among political systems, international actors, states and non-state actors; analyzes the reasons for the issues and problems in these fields, develop skills for systematic and critical thinking for alternative solutions. | ||||||
| 3 | PC3. Students of the program will be able to work at public and private institutions, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations. They will be able to involve in the foreign policy making, analysis, and implementation processes; manage project implementations, and shoulder responsibilities at different positions of decision-making processes. The multi-disciplinary perspective they have developed in the program facilitates following solution-oriented perspective at times of crisis, evaluating existing resolutions and developing new alternatives. | ||||||
| 4 | PC4. Students will be able to conduct scientific research in the fields and sub-fields of political science and international relations, analyze the results and report the findings to stakeholders. | ||||||
| 5 | PC5. Students will be able to conduct scientific research in the fields and sub-fields of political science and international relations, analyze the results and make scientific publications. | ||||||
| 6 | PC6. Students will be able to work as group leader in public and private institutions, plan and administer events and activities. | ||||||
| 7 | PC7. As a result of development of critical thinking, students stay open to change and development; adopt never-ending learning principle to their life. | ||||||
| 8 | PC8. Students use the appropriate oral and written language skills and adopt professional ethics in their communication while sharing results, analyses, and solution suggestions with colleagues and stakeholders | ||||||
| 9 | PC9. Students use English language skills in research and fields of expertise; easily follow international developments and communicates with international stakeholders. | ||||||
| 10 | PC10. Students use fundamental computer skills in communication with colleagues and stakeholders. | ||||||
| 11 | PC11. Students will be able to lead decision-making mechanisms, involve in policy making and analysis processes, and manage negotiation processes in public and private institutions. | ||||||
| 12 | PC12. Students will be able to develop original and scientific solutions and knowledge in their fields of expertise, create projects and act as a consultant to decision-making mechanisms. | ||||||
Assessment Methods
| Contribution Level | Absolute Evaluation | |
| Rate of Midterm Exam to Success | 40 | |
| Rate of Final Exam to Success | 60 | |
| Total | 100 | |
| ECTS / Workload Table | ||||||
| Activities | Number of | Duration(Hour) | Total Workload(Hour) | |||
| Course Hours | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Guided Problem Solving | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Resolution of Homework Problems and Submission as a Report | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Term Project | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Presentation of Project / Seminar | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Quiz | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Midterm Exam | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| General Exam | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Performance Task, Maintenance Plan | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total Workload(Hour) | 0 | |||||
| Dersin AKTS Kredisi = Toplam İş Yükü (Saat)/30*=(0/30) | 0 | |||||
| ECTS of the course: 30 hours of work is counted as 1 ECTS credit. | ||||||
Detail Informations of the Course
Course Description
| Course | Code | Semester | T+P (Hour) | Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY | INT4213313 | Spring Semester | 3+0 | 3 | 6 |
| Course Program | Salı 15:30-16:15 Salı 16:30-17:15 Salı 17:30-18:15 |
| Prerequisites Courses | |
| Recommended Elective Courses |
| Language of Course | English |
| Course Level | First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree) |
| Course Type | Elective |
| Course Coordinator | Assist.Prof. Merve ATEŞ EREN |
| Name of Lecturer(s) | Assist.Prof. Merve ATEŞ EREN |
| Assistant(s) | |
| Aim | This course aims at introducing students to various topics on democratic and autocratic regimes. What is democracy? What makes a political regime democratic or autocratic? Why are some countries democracies while others are not? How do democracies die? How do democracies perform? What do we know about contemporary democratic backsliding? The course has been organized to cover basic conceptual tools, theories, and empirical findings to answer these questions. |
| Course Content | This course contains; Week 1 – Introduction,Week 2 – Classification of regimes-Conceptualization and measurement What is democracy?,Week 3 – Classification of regimes-Conceptualization and measurement What is autocracy?,Week 4 – Democratic consolidation, political culture, institutions, and popular support ,Week 5 – Hybrid regimes ,Week 6 – Transition to democracy I ,Week 7 – Transition to democracy II ,WEEK 8 – MIDTERM IN-CLASS,Week 9 – Domestic and international democracy promotion ,Week 10 – Democratic breakdown ,Week 11 – Military coups and autogolpes ,Week 12 – How do democracies perform? Policy making and outcomes in democracies ,Week 13 – Contemporary democratic backsliding ,Week 14 – Corruption, populism, and polarization ,Week 15 – Presentations & Review session. |
| Dersin Öğrenme Kazanımları | Teaching Methods | Assessment Methods |
| Understands alternative conceptualizations and measurements of democracy, summarizes the scholarly criteria for what makes a regime democratic and explains the example regime types based based on alternative criteria. | 10, 13, 14, 19, 23, 5, 9 | A, E |
| Identifies the characteristics of autocratic political regimes, compares different types of non-democratic political regimes. | 10, 13, 16, 19, 6, 9 | A |
| Identifies the terms democratic consolidation and political culture; explains the relationship between these terms and the survival of democratic regimes. | 10, 13, 16, 6, 9 | A |
| Classifies regimes along the autocracy-democracy continuum, identifies and exemplifies hybrid regimes. | 10, 16, 19, 6, 9 | A |
| Understands the phenomenon of democratization and summarizes alternative explanations for democratization. | 10, 16, 19, 6, 9 | A |
| Identifies why and how democracies collapse (or erode) and discusses the cases democratic breakdown(s) based on scholarly concepts and theories. | 10, 16, 9 | A |
| Identifies various forms of military interventions in politics and summarizes their short-term and long-term effects on the future of democracy. | 10, 16, 19, 9 | A |
| Understands the concept “governance” and its relationship with the regime types, and compares the performance and capacity of different political regimes in terms of economy, social welfare or international relations. | 10, 16, 9 | A |
| Identifies the concepts "populism, polarization and corruption," explains and exemplifies the relationship between these concepts and democratic backslidigin/breakdown. | 10, 16, 6, 9 | A |
| Teaching Methods: | 10: Discussion Method, 13: Case Study Method, 14: Self Study Method, 16: Question - Answer Technique, 19: Brainstorming Technique, 23: Concept Map Technique, 5: Cooperative Learning, 6: Experiential Learning, 9: Lecture Method |
| Assessment Methods: | A: Traditional Written Exam, E: Homework |
Course Outline
| Order | Subjects | Preliminary Work |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Week 1 – Introduction | Syllabus, course content and requirements |
| 2 | Week 2 – Classification of regimes-Conceptualization and measurement What is democracy? | • Schumpeter, J. A. 2003 [1942]. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. Taylor & Francis e-library. [Chapter 22] • Dahl, Robert A. 1971. Polyarchy. New Haven, CT.: Yale University Press. [Chapter 1] • Schmitter, P. C., & Karl, T. L. 1991. “What democracy is... and is not.” Journal of democracy, 2(3), 75-88. • Coppedge, M., Gerring, J., Altman, D., Bernhard, M., Fish, S., Hicken, A., . . . Teorell, J. 2011. Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: A New Approach. Perspectives on Politics, 9(2), 247-267. doi:10.1017/S1537592711000880 |
| 3 | Week 3 – Classification of regimes-Conceptualization and measurement What is autocracy? | • Lindstaedt, Natasha. 2020. “Authoritarian Regimes” in Comparative Politics, 5th Edition, edited by Daniele Caramani. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Chapter 6]. • Schedler, A. 2010. “Authoritarianism's last line of defense.” Journal of Democracy, 21(1), 69-80. • Svolik, M. W. 2009. “Power sharing and leadership dynamics in authoritarian regimes.” American Journal of Political Science, 53(2), 477-494. • Glasius, M. 2018. “What authoritarianism is… and is not: a practice perspective.” International Affairs, 94(3), 515-533. |
| 4 | Week 4 – Democratic consolidation, political culture, institutions, and popular support | • Schedler, A. 1998. What is democratic consolidation? Journal of democracy, 9(2), 91-107. • Svolik, M. 2008. Authoritarian reversals and democratic consolidation. American Political Science Review, 153-168. • Linz, Juan, and Alfred Stepan. 1996. “Toward Consolidated Democracies”. Journal of Democracy 7(2): 14-33. |
| 5 | Week 5 – Hybrid regimes | • Collier, D., & Levitsky, S. 1997. Democracy with adjectives: Conceptual innovation in comparative research. World politics, 49(3), 430-451. • Levitsky, Steven and Lucan Way 2002. ‘The rise of competitive authoritarianism.’ Journal of Democracy, 13(2): 51-65. • Diamond, Larry. 2002. “Thinking about Hybrid Regimes.” Journal of Democracy 13(2): 21- 35. • Morlino, Leonardo. 2009. “Are there hybrid regimes? Or are they just an optical illusion?” European Political Science Review 1: 273-296. |
| 6 | Week 6 – Transition to democracy I | • Moore, Barrington. 1966. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World. Boston: Beacon Press [Chapter 7]. • Lipset, S. M. 1959. “Some social requisites of democracy: Economic development and political legitimacy.” American political science review, 53(01), 69-86. • Inglehart, Ronald and Welzel, Christian. 2010. “Changing mass priorities: The link between modernization and democracy.” Perspectives on Politics, 8(2). |
| 7 | Week 7 – Transition to democracy II | • Carothers, Thomas. 2002. “The End of the Transition Paradigm,” Journal of Democracy 13, no. 1: 5-21. • Geddes, B., Wright, J. G., Wright, J., & Frantz, E. (2018). How dictatorships work: Power, personalization, and collapse. Cambridge University Press. [Chapter 8] • Acemoglu, Daron and James Robinson. 2006. Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Chapter 2] |
| 8 | WEEK 8 – MIDTERM IN-CLASS | |
| 9 | Week 9 – Domestic and international democracy promotion | • Teorell, Jan. 2010. Determinants of Democratization: Explaining Regime Change in the World, 1972–2006. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Chapter 5] • Brancati, Dawn. 2014. “Pocketbook Protests: Explaining the Emergence of Pro-Democracy Protests Worldwide.” Comparative Political Studies 47, no. 11: 1503-1530. • Levitsky, Steven and Lucan A. Way. 2006. “Linkage versus leverage - Rethinking the international dimension of regime change.” Comparative Politics 38 (4): 379. • Sandra Lavenex & Frank Schimmelfennig. 2011. “EU democracy promotion in the neighbourhood: from leverage to governance?” Democratization, 18:4, 885-909 |
| 10 | Week 10 – Democratic breakdown | • Bermeo, Nancy. 2003. Ordinary people in extraordinary times: The citizenry and the breakdown of democracy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. [Chapter 2] • Mainwaring, S., & Pérez-Liñán, A. 2013. “Democratic breakdown and survival.” Journal of Democracy, 24(2), 123-137. • Levitsky, Steven, and Daniel Ziblatt. 2018. How Democracies Die. New York: Crown. [Chapter 4 & 5] • Slater, D., Smith, B., & Nair, G. (2014). Economic origins of democratic breakdown? The redistributive model and the postcolonial state. Perspectives on Politics, 353-374. |
| 11 | Week 11 – Military coups and autogolpes | • Cheibub, Jos ́e Antonio. 2007. Presidentialism, parliamentarism, and democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press. [Chapter 1] • Geddes, B., Wright, J. G., Wright, J., & Frantz, E. (2018). How dictatorships work: Power, personalization, and collapse. Cambridge University Press. [Chapter 3] • Marinov, Nikolay, and Hein Goemans. 2014. “Coups and Democracy.” British Journal of Political Science, 44: 799-825 • Quinlivan, James T. 1999. “Coup-proofing: Its Practice and Consequences in the Middle East.” Quarterly Journal: International Security, 24(2): 131-165 |
| 12 | Week 12 – How do democracies perform? Policy making and outcomes in democracies | • Ross, Michael. 2006. ‘Is democracy good for the poor?’ American Journal of Political Science 50(4): 860-874. • Siegle, Joseph T., Michael Weinstein and Morton Halperin. 2004. “Why democracies excel.” Foreign Affairs 83(5): 57-72. • Pippa Norris. 2012. Making Democratic Governance Work: How regimes shape prosperity, welfare and peace. NY: CUP [Chapter 7] • Acemoglu, Daron and James A. Robinson. 2012. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty. London: Profile Books. [Chapter 1] |
| 13 | Week 13 – Contemporary democratic backsliding | • Haggard, S., & Kaufman, R. (2021). Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World (Elements in Political Economy). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
| 14 | Week 14 – Corruption, populism, and polarization | • E. Warren, Mark. "What does corruption mean in a democracy?" American journal of political science 48.2 (2004): 328-343. • McCoy, Jennifer, Rahman, Tahmina and Somer, Murat. 2018. “Polarization and the Global Crisis of Democracy: Common Patterns, Dynamics and Pernicious Consequences for Democratic Polities,” American Behavioral Scientist 62(1): 16-42. • Weyland, K. 2020. “Populism’s Threat to Democracy: Comparative Lessons for the United States.” Perspectives on Politics, 18(2), 389-406. |
| 15 | Week 15 – Presentations & Review session |
| Resources |
| Reading package including various journal articles and book chapters. |
Course Contribution to Program Qualifications
| Course Contribution to Program Qualifications | |||||||
| No | Program Qualification | Contribution Level | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||
| 1 | PC1. Students know the fundamental concepts, theories, research methods and analysis techniques used in the fields and sub-fields of Political Science and International relations. | ||||||
| 2 | PC2. Students understand the political, economic, social, and cultural relations among political systems, international actors, states and non-state actors; analyzes the reasons for the issues and problems in these fields, develop skills for systematic and critical thinking for alternative solutions. | ||||||
| 3 | PC3. Students of the program will be able to work at public and private institutions, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations. They will be able to involve in the foreign policy making, analysis, and implementation processes; manage project implementations, and shoulder responsibilities at different positions of decision-making processes. The multi-disciplinary perspective they have developed in the program facilitates following solution-oriented perspective at times of crisis, evaluating existing resolutions and developing new alternatives. | ||||||
| 4 | PC4. Students will be able to conduct scientific research in the fields and sub-fields of political science and international relations, analyze the results and report the findings to stakeholders. | ||||||
| 5 | PC5. Students will be able to conduct scientific research in the fields and sub-fields of political science and international relations, analyze the results and make scientific publications. | ||||||
| 6 | PC6. Students will be able to work as group leader in public and private institutions, plan and administer events and activities. | ||||||
| 7 | PC7. As a result of development of critical thinking, students stay open to change and development; adopt never-ending learning principle to their life. | ||||||
| 8 | PC8. Students use the appropriate oral and written language skills and adopt professional ethics in their communication while sharing results, analyses, and solution suggestions with colleagues and stakeholders | ||||||
| 9 | PC9. Students use English language skills in research and fields of expertise; easily follow international developments and communicates with international stakeholders. | ||||||
| 10 | PC10. Students use fundamental computer skills in communication with colleagues and stakeholders. | ||||||
| 11 | PC11. Students will be able to lead decision-making mechanisms, involve in policy making and analysis processes, and manage negotiation processes in public and private institutions. | ||||||
| 12 | PC12. Students will be able to develop original and scientific solutions and knowledge in their fields of expertise, create projects and act as a consultant to decision-making mechanisms. | ||||||
Assessment Methods
| Contribution Level | Absolute Evaluation | |
| Rate of Midterm Exam to Success | 40 | |
| Rate of Final Exam to Success | 60 | |
| Total | 100 | |