USESED055 Regional and Ethnic Parties

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Winter 2016
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Dr. hab. Malgorzata Myśliwiec (lecturer)
Dr. hab. Malgorzata Myśliwiec (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Dr. hab. Malgorzata Myśliwiec
Institute of Central European Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives (in Czech)
The course is divided into two parts. The first one extends the basic theoretical knowledge about the idea of conflicts and cleavages in modern societies, definitions of nation, nationality, national minority and ethnic minority, specifics of multinational, multiethnic and multicultural societies, horizontal and vertical organization of power in mulitnational (multiethnic and multicultural) state, electoral systems and the idea of the state-wide-parties and non-state-wide-parties. The second part is focused on the case studies with the purpose to obtain the necessary empirical knowledge about the position of ethnic and regional parties in surveyed European countries.
Syllabus (in Czech)
  • 1. Conflicts and cleavages in modern societies;
    2. Nation, nationality, national minority and ethnic minority - definitione and interpretation;
    3. Horizontal and vertical organization of powers in mulitnational, multiethnic or multicultural state - examples and their political consequences;
    4. Electorl systems and their political consequences for the substate enities;
    5. State-wide-parties, non-state-wide-parties, ethnic and regional parties in party systems of modern European states;
    6. Non-state-wide parties in Catalonia and the Basque Country;
    7. Non-state-wide parties in other regions of Spain;
    8. Non-state-wide parties in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland;
    9. Non-state-wide parties in Belgium;
    10. Non-state-wide parties in France;
    11. Non-state-wide parties - other European examples;
    12. Proto political parties (ethnic and regional) in Polish Voivodship of Silesia.
Literature
    required literature
  • DE WINTER, L., GÓMEZ-REINO, M., LYNCH, P. (eds.). Autonomist Parties in Europe: Identity Politics and the Revival of the Terrirorial Cleavage. Barcelona: ICPS, 2006. info
  • LIJPHART, A. Constitutional Design for Divided Societies, "Journal of Democracy", Vol. 15, nr 2, April 2004. 2004. info
  • DE WINTER, L., TÜRSAN, H. (eds.). Regionalist parties in Western Europe. London-New York: Routledge, 1998. info
  • DE WINTER, L., SEILER, D.L., NEWELL, J.L., MANNHEIMER, R., MONTA. Non-state Wide Parties in Europe. Barcelona: ICPS, 1994. info
  • HROCH, M. Obrození malých evropských národů. Sv. 1, Národy severní a východní Evropy. Praha : Universita Karlova, 1971. info
    recommended literature
  • TOUBEAU, S. Electoral Contestabillity and the Representation of the Regionalist and Nationalist Parties in Europe. Brussels: Centre Maurits Coppieters, 2009. info
  • HROCH, M. Comparative studies in modern European history : nation, nationalism, social change. Burlington: Ashgate Variorum, 2007. info
  • HOROWITZ, D.L. The Deadly Ethnic Riot. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. info
  • LINZ, J.J. Democracy, multinationalism and federalism. Working Paper núm. 103. Madrid: Instituto de Juan March, 1997. info
  • LYNCH, P. Minority Nationalism and European Integration. Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 1996. info
  • SMITH, A.D. The Ethnic Origins of Nations. Oxford: Wiley, 1988. info
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2017, Winter 2018.
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