FVP:USESEC129 Non-Democratic Regimes and Tra - Course Information
USESEC129 Non-Democratic Regimes and Transition Theory
Faculty of Public Policies in OpavaSummer 2018
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Guaranteed by
- 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
- Central European Studies (programme FVP, B6702-MTS)
- Course objectives
- The course Non-Democratic Regimes and Transition Theory is focused on the theories and typologies of the non-democratic regimes including a transition theory and its types. The attention is paid mainly to the individual principal theories of the non-democratic regimes, i.e. totalitarian and authoritarian regimes and the nature of their functioning, next the main classification models of the transitions from the non-democratic regimes to democracy, a theory of consolidation of these regimes and topical discussions on so called semi-democratic (hybrid) regimes. The aim of the course is to present a theory and practice of the non-democratic regimes and to master the methods of application of this theory to political science.
- Syllabus
- 1. Between democracy and non-democracy: Principal terms and definition of the field
2. Theory and typology of the non-democratic regimes
3. Theory and typology of a totalitarianism
4. Theory and typology of the authoritarian regimes
5. Criticism of a theory of non-democratic regimes
6. The Transition Theory: democratization waves, models of democratization and transformation
7. The Transition Theory: identity of a removed regime and influence on transition
8. The Transition Theory: typology of termination of non-democratic regimes, stages of transition
9. Theory of Consolidation
10. Semi-democratic regimes
11. Theory of hybrid regimes
12. To potential trajectories of a development of the theories of non-democratic regimes and the transition theory
- 1. Between democracy and non-democracy: Principal terms and definition of the field
- Literature
- required literature
- BALÍK, S. - KUBÁT, M. Teorie a praxe totalitních a autoritativních režimů. Praha: Dokořán, 2004. info
- DVOŘÁKOVÁ, V. a KUNC, J. O přechodech k demokracii. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 1994. info
- recommended literature
- BROOKER, P. Non-Democratic Regimes. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. info
- HAERPFER, CH. W. Democratization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. info
- LINZ, J. J. Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes. London: Boulder, 2000. info
- LINZ, J. J. a STEPAN, A. Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation. Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 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 theories and typologies of the non-democratic, totalitarian, authoritarian, semi-democratic and hybrid regimes and knowledge of theory of transition. The participation in the seminars in a form of discussions on the seminar paper´s topic and its continuous processing and running presentation of an achieved progress.
- Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2018, recent)
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