32001 - Political Development

Learning outcomes

This course aims to explain the main concepts and analitycal tools dealing political development and democratization processes. Namely, a special enphasis is devoted to the features of the secular  path to democracy in the countries of Western Europe (first part of the class) and  to the complex and difficult processes of democratization in Latin American countries (second part of the class).

Course contents

This course aims to explain the main concepts and analitycal tools dealing political development and democratization processes. Namely, the first part of the lessons is devoted to the features of the secular  path to democracy in the countries of Western Europe, disentangling the conceptual couple state-nation with the works by Rokkan, Deutch, Hirschman, Barrington Moore, Polanyi and Tullio-Altan. The .second part deals with the complex and difficult process of democratization in Latin American countries through the concepts of political system, political regimen, civil society and political culture.

Readings/Bibliography

Program for 9 and 10 credits

First part (Europe)

- R. Cartocci, Dalla nazionalità alla cittadinanza in Europa, dispensa.

- A.O. Hirschman, Exit, Voice, and the Fate of the German Democratic Republic: An Essay in Conceptual History, in “ World Politics”, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Jan., 1993), pp. 173-202

- K. Polanyi, L'economia come processo istituzionale, in K. Polanyi (a cura di) Traffici e mercati negli antichi imperi, Torino, Einaudi, 1978, pp. 297-331.

- S. Rokkan, Formazione degli stati e differenze in Europa,  in Tilly, C. (a cura di) La formazione degli stati nazionali nell'Europa occidentale, Bologna, il Mulino, 1984, pp.405-426

- C. Tullio-Altan,  Ethnos e civiltà. Identità etniche e valori democratici, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1995, pp. 11-32,  42-55 e 59-77.

Second part (Latin America)

- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell'America Latina Contemporanea, Laterza, 2010.

- F.H. Cardoso, E. Faletto, Dipendenza e Sviluppo in America Latina. Milano, Feltrinelli, 1972

- G. Alberti (1991), Democracy by Default, Movimientismo and Social Anomie oppure G. Alberti (1996), Movimientismo and Democracy: An Analytical Framework in Ely Deniz (ed.) O Desafio da Democracia na America Latina. Rio: IUPERJ.

- G. O'Donnell (1994), Delegative Democracy, in “Journal of Democracy”, 5, pp. 55-69

 

Teaching methods

 

Assessment methods

Oral exam on both modules. Students may take a written test at the end of each of the two parts of the class. 

Teaching tools

texts, slides, powerpoint files

Office hours

See the website of Roberto Cartocci