USESEC127 Political Doctrines and Ideologies

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Winter 2019
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Petr Slováček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Petr Slováček, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Petr Slováček, Ph.D.
Institute of Central European Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Contact Person: Mgr. Lubomír Hlavienka, Ph.D.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
FAKULTA(FVP) && TYP_STUDIA(B) && FORMA(P)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course presents the political ideologies and doctrines as constructions of thought, value systems and political maps enabling the individuals to be familiar with political environment and at the same time facilitating to evaluate their political practice. The students will become familiar both with single political concepts of the political ideologies and doctrines and with their practical concepts including the examples from history. The attention is paid mainly to the political bases of "major ideologies" - liberalism, conservatism, socialism, communism, nationalism, fascism, anarchism, feminism, and environmentalism but also their significant modifications, so called "peripheral ideologies" stemming from their foundations.
Syllabus
  • 1. Conception of ideology, concepts, development, approaches and definitions
    2. Ideological spectrum and ideological values
    3. Liberalism (classical liberalism; modern liberalism)
    4. Conservatism (authoritarian conservatism; paternalistic conservatism; new right)
    5. Socialism (revolutionary socialism; evolutionary socialism; social democracy)
    6. Nationalism (liberal nationalism; conservative nationalism; anti-colonialism; political Islam)
    7. Fascism and Nazism (military nationalism; corporatism; Nazism; contemporary racism)
    8. Communism (Bolshevism; Trotskyism; Maoism; Marxism-Leninism; post-Marxism)
    9. Anarchism and libertarianism (mutualism; anarcho-communism; individualist anarchism; anarcho-capitalism; post-anarchism)
    10. Feminism (liberal feminism; Marxist and socialist feminism; third-world feminism; radical feminism; anarcha-feminism; post-structural feminism)
    11. Environmentalism (reformist environmentalism; eco-socialism; anarcho-primitivism; reactional environmentalism)
    12. Post-ideological world?
Literature
    required literature
  • HEYWOOD, A. Politické ideologie. Praha: Eurolex Bohemia, 2005. info
  • FREEDEN, M. Ideology: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. info
    recommended literature
  • FREEDEN, M. - SARGENT, L. T. - STEARS, M. (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. info
  • VINCENT, A. Modern Political Ideologies. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. info
  • FREEDEN, M. Ideologies and Political Theory. A Conceptual Approach. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
A written test examining the knowledge of development of individual political doctrines and ideologies (including the subtypes), their values, contradictions, practices and strategies. The participation in the seminars in a form of discussions on the topic of seminar work and its continual processing and presentation of achieved progress.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2016, Winter 2017, Winter 2018.
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