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Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Philomena Murray.
Prerequisite: Normally 25 points of first-year Politics; students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the 2nd/3rd-year coordinator.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject will:
- be knowledgeable about the discipline of comparative political analysis, the major approaches in comparative politics and their critiques;
- have critically examined the value of comparison on a thematic and cross-national basis;
- have critically explored the question of who runs the state in Western Europe;
- understand concepts of conflict, conflict resolution, consociationalism, forms of democracy and party politics through research into the particular cases of the Netherlands and Northern Ireland, Italy, France and Britain.
Content:
The subject focuses on the contemporary liberal democratic state in Western Europe. It introduces themes of political stability in pluralist societies; the boundaries of government; neo-corporatism and corruption in Europe as well as the concept and practice of consociational democracy. In particular, it examines, comparatively, ethnicity, racism and the rise of right wing extremism in Western Europe and the challenge of these issues to the state.
Assessment:
Essay work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
1. Politics, Faculty of Arts (v3, p152) : Next:166-229 | Prev:166-227
2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p163) : Next:166-229 | Prev:166-227
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Philomena Murray.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial each week.
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject will:
- be knowledgeable about the discipline of comparative political analysis, the major approaches in comparative politics and their critiques;
- have critically examined the value of comparison on a thematic and cross-national basis;
- have critically explored the question of who runs the state in Western Europe;
- understand concepts of consociationalism, forms of democracy and party politics through research into the particular cases of the Netherlands and Northern Ireland, Italy, France and Britain.
Content:
The subject focuses on the contemporary liberal democratic state in Western Europe. It introduces themes of political stability in pluralist societies; the problems of party government; neo-corporatism and interest politics in Europe as well as the concept and practice of consociational democracy. In particular, it examines, comparatively, ethnicity, racism and the rise of right wing extremism in Western Europe and the challenge of these issues to the state.
Assessment:
Essay work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
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2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p163) : Next:166-229 | Prev:166-227
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