XUVSRP3569 Introduction to Political Disciplines

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Winter 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 4 credit(s).
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Dušan Janák, Ph.D.
Institute of Public Administration and Social Policy – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to provide the students with development and structure of political discipline, with fundamental disciplines and the most important issues of present politics and with the role of the country and public administration in political processes. The tuition is with respect to other courses (Question of Democracy, Political System of the Czech republic, Political Parties, Movements and Doctrines, Political Systems of Central and Eastern Europe) conceived in three wider blocks. In the first one, the students acquire principal knowledge of development, subject and division of political discipline, of basic theoretical attitudes, of political philosophy and political ideology as well as of issue of democracy and totalitarianism. Another block provides brief typological survey of democratic governmental systems, political parties and partial systems, networks, elections and electoral systems. The final part of the lectures is dedicated to political communication, state, vertical division of state power, the role of public administration in political processes and chosen issues of political geography and geopolitics. The emphasis will be put on individual study of text-books and literature so that the students acquire basic information about the most important issues of present politics and political discipline from different points of view as well as the idea of comparative attitude to study of political institutions, phenomena and processes. The recommended literature enlarges gained information in some thematic blocks. The graduates have to manifest the knowledge of political terminology and basic theoretical findings, to be able to orient in current political development and apply gained knowledge on concrete examples and situations.
Syllabus
  • 1. Politics and political discipline (principal concepts and division)
    2. Political philosophy, political ideology
    3. Democracy and totalitarianism
    4. Political regimes - forms of government
    5. Political parties and partial systems
    6. Networks
    7. Elections and electoral systems
    8. Political geography
    9. Geopolitics
    10. Vertical structure of power in the state
    11. State administration in political process
    12. Political communication
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
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