Universität Wien

210055 LK BAK7: Vergleichende Analyse von Politik (2019W)

(engl.)

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 21 - Politikwissenschaft
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Details

max. 50 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Montag 07.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Montag 14.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Montag 21.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Montag 28.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Montag 04.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Montag 11.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Montag 18.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Montag 25.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Montag 02.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Montag 09.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Montag 16.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Montag 13.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Montag 20.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Montag 27.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

The course language is English! This means that class discussions, weekly assignments, written tests and the term paper must be completed in English.
Goals: This course provides an introduction to comparative politics. A central goal is to introduce students to basic theoretical and empirical concepts of comparative politics, as well as to tackle concrete research examples from high-quality scientific articles. Students are expected to learn how to read efficiently scientific literature, practice the usage of central concepts and arguments in discussions and exercise scientific writing.
Method: A central aspect of this course is a thorough reading of the selected literature, its discussion in class and scientific writing.
Contents: The course deals with various selected topics from comparative politics including:
- Empirical Research
- Elections & Electoral Systems
- Parties & Party Systems
- Voting Behavior
- Parliaments & Legislation
- Governments & Policy-Making
- Legislative Politics in Parliamentary Systems
- Supranational Institutions
- Constitutions & Constitutional Courts

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Requirements and Grading:
Students are required to attend all meetings. It is allowed to miss up to 2 classes, but students must attend the first class. Students are expected to complete the assigned readings (1 scientific article and 1 chapter from Caramani (2017)) each week and be ready for class discussions. This means that class participants should be prepared to summarize and discuss any required reading when called upon.
Grading of the course will be based on the following three components:
(1) 30% - Class attendance, participation in class discussions and weekly home assignments.
(2) 15 % - Mid-term test
(3) 15 % - Final test
(4) 40 % - Timely submission of a term paper (min. 3000, max. 4000 words).

The term paper should pose a research question embedded in the scientific literature, develop theoretical expectations (testable hypotheses) and propose a research design to test the theoretical expectations. Class participants are NOT required to gather data and analyze it. In essence, the term paper should include a title page, an abstract, an introduction, literature review, theory, a research design, conclusions, and references and is practically a half of a standard scientific article.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

The minimum requirement is the completion of each of the four class components (see above). In order to be graded, students can miss up to 2 classes, have to write the mid-term and final tests and submit the term paper on the set deadlines.
Plagiarism and Ghostwriting are strictly forbidden. To make sure that these rules are not violated in some occasions students will be required to provide an oral discussion of their written work.

Prüfungsstoff

Required Literature

Literatur

Books:
Caramani, D. (2017) Comparative Politics, 4th Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Powner, L. (2015) Empirical Research and Writing. A Political Science Student’s Practical Guide, Los Angeles: CQ Press.

The full literature is listed on the syllabus available on Moodle.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:21