- Docente: Piero Ignazi
- Credits: 10
- SSD: SPS/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (cod. 8042)
Learning outcomes
The course intends to develop the knowledge acquired in the basic courses of Political Science, Contemporary History, History of the European Political Systems. Student must have a solid knowledge in these fields before taking this course.
In the course students will learn the different paths and the different outcomes of the process of democratization in Europe, and their effect on the various national party systems.
At the end of course students should become confident with these processes as well as with the institutions and the party systems of the countries analyzed.
Course contents
The course analyses the process of democratization and its institutional outcomes with particular reference to the party and party systems in Europe.
The first part of the course offers the theoretical backgrounds for the analysis. The second part focuses on the single country-cases of consolidated democracies in Europe.
Specific attention will be devoted to the changes in parties and party systems since the 1980s.
Readings/Bibliography
For the first part:
1) S. Rokkan, Stato, Nazione e Democrazia in Europa. il Mulino, 2002, limitatamente alle pagine 203-226 e 403-446.
2) P.Grilli di Cortona, Come gli stati diventano democratici, Laterza 2009
3) L.Bardi, Partito e sistemi di partito, Il Mulino 2006, limitatamente alle pagine 7-121, 145-196, 245-286.
4) S. Fabbrini, Politica Comparata, Laterza 2009, escluso il cap 1
5) S. Vassallo (a cura di) Sistemi politici comparati, Il Mulino 2005, limitatamente ai capitoli 1,2, 3, 5, 6.
Moreover, for those countries not covered by the above-mentioned texts, students have to study either the notes taken in class, or a list of references which will be provided during the course.
Per Belgio e Olanda:
-Kris Deschouwer: “The colour purple. The end of predictable politics in the Low Countries”, in Paul Webb et al. (eds) Political parties in advanced industrial democracies, Oxford university press, 2002, pp. 151-180.
- Kris Deschouwer: “Political Parties and the Erosion of Voter Loyalty in Belgium” in P.Mair, W.Muller, and F.Plasser (eds) Political parties and Electoral Change, Sage, 2004, pp: 179-206.
Per la Scandinavia:
- Jan Sundberg: “The Scandinavian party model at the crossroads” in Paul Webb et al. (eds) Political parties in advanced industrial democracies, Oxford university press, 2002, pp: 181-216.
Per l'Austria:
- Kurt-Richard Luther: “Austria: From Moderate to Polarized Pluralism”, in Broughton, D., and Donovan, M. (eds.), Changing party systems in Western Europe Pinter, 1998, pp: 118-142.
- Kurt-Richard Luther: “The FPÖ: From Populist Protest to Incumbency”, in Peter Merkl and Leonard Weinberg (eds) Right-Wing Extremism in the Twenty-First Century, Frank Cass, 2003, pp: 191-219.
Per l' Irlanda:
- J.Coakley and M.Gallangher, Politics in the Republic of Ireland, Routledge 2004, pp. 50-68, 135-157.
Per la Svizzera:
- Clive Church The politics and government of Switzerland, Palgrave, 2004, pp: 26-32, 60-70.
- Wolf Linder, Swiss Democracy, St Martins, 1994, pp: 18-25,29-33, 44-49, 85-87, 99-100.
Teaching methods
Lectures. Comments, questions and whatever clarification is needed are always welcomed during class.
Assessment methods
Written examination (four to five questions). If they want, Erasmus/Overseas students are allowed to write in English, French or Spanish.
Teaching tools
transparencies
Office hours
See the website of Piero Ignazi