- Docente: Roberto Cartocci
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SPS/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Local and Global Development (cod. 9200)
Learning outcomes
The course aims at developing the student's skills to detect and analyse the complex process of democratization, taking as paradigm the case of Western Europe. A special attention is focused on the interaction between the political-institutional dimension. on one side, and the economic dimension as well as the cultural one.
Readings/Bibliography
- R. Cartocci, Mappe del tesoro, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007.
- R. Cartocci, "Political Culture", in International Encyclopedia of Political Science, Sage, 2011, vol. VI, pp. 1967-1979
- Cartocci, R. Dalla nazionalità alla cittadinanza: un tortuoso percorso tra i diritti, 2009, file pdf
- 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, Cities, States, and Nations: A Dimensional Model for the Study of Contrasts in Development, in S. Eisenstadt and S. Rokkan (eds), Building States and Nations, Beverly Hills, Sage, 1974, vol. I, pp.73-97 (file pdf)
- C. Tullio-Altan, Ethnos e civiltà. Identità etniche e valori democratici, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1995, pp. 11-32, 41-55 e 59-77.
Teaching methods
Lessons supported by slides, with discussion of issues, problems, and examples from events and processes of international politics.
Assessment methods
(for all) Final oral exam. Students who regularly attend the course can take part in a written test at the end of lessons.
Teaching tools
Powerpoint slides, articles in international magazines and newspapers on topics of interest.
Office hours
See the website of Roberto Cartocci