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230028 SE B6 Democracy, autocracy and hybrid regimes (2025S)
Current Societal Developments
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Sa 01.02.2025 00:01 to Su 23.02.2025 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Sa 15.03.2025 23:59
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max. 25 participants
Language: German
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Important Grading Information:
The provision of all partial tasks is a prerequisite for a positive assessment, if not explicitly noted otherwise.The use of AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT) for the production of texts is only permitted if this is expressly requested by the lecturer (e.g. for individual work tasks).In order to ensure good scientific practice, the lecturer can provide for a "grading-related discussion" (plausibility check) of the written work submitted, which must be completed successfully.All students who received a place in the course are assessed if they have not deregistered from the course in due time or if they have not credibly shown an important reason for their failure to deregister after the cause for this reason does no longer apply
Students who credibly show an important reason (e.g. a longer illness) for the withdrawal from a course with continuous assessment are not assessed.
Whether this exception applies is decided by the lecturer. The request for deregistration must be submitted immediately.If any requirement of the course has been fulfilled by fraudulent means, be it for example by cheating at an exam, plagiarizing parts of a written assignment or by faking signatures on an attendance sheet, the student's participation in the course will be discontinued, the entire course will be graded as "not assessed" and recorded accordingly.
You can find these and other provisions in the study law: https://satzung.univie.ac.at/studienrecht/.In case you have received three negative assessments of a continuously assessed course and want to register for a fourth attempt, please make sure to contact the StudiesServiceUnit Sociology. (for more information see "third attempt for continuously assessed courses" https://soziologie.univie.ac.at/info/pruefungen/#c56313)The plagiarism-detection service (Turnitin in Moodle) can be used in course of the grading.
The provision of all partial tasks is a prerequisite for a positive assessment, if not explicitly noted otherwise.The use of AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT) for the production of texts is only permitted if this is expressly requested by the lecturer (e.g. for individual work tasks).In order to ensure good scientific practice, the lecturer can provide for a "grading-related discussion" (plausibility check) of the written work submitted, which must be completed successfully.All students who received a place in the course are assessed if they have not deregistered from the course in due time or if they have not credibly shown an important reason for their failure to deregister after the cause for this reason does no longer apply
Students who credibly show an important reason (e.g. a longer illness) for the withdrawal from a course with continuous assessment are not assessed.
Whether this exception applies is decided by the lecturer. The request for deregistration must be submitted immediately.If any requirement of the course has been fulfilled by fraudulent means, be it for example by cheating at an exam, plagiarizing parts of a written assignment or by faking signatures on an attendance sheet, the student's participation in the course will be discontinued, the entire course will be graded as "not assessed" and recorded accordingly.
You can find these and other provisions in the study law: https://satzung.univie.ac.at/studienrecht/.In case you have received three negative assessments of a continuously assessed course and want to register for a fourth attempt, please make sure to contact the StudiesServiceUnit Sociology. (for more information see "third attempt for continuously assessed courses" https://soziologie.univie.ac.at/info/pruefungen/#c56313)The plagiarism-detection service (Turnitin in Moodle) can be used in course of the grading.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Attendance is compulsory. To fulfil the requirements of this seminar, you will be expected to read the required reading for each seminar and actively participate; be prepared to actively engage in group discussions on the theories, concepts, themes and perspectives raised in the readings and to convey your interpretations and perspectives on the readings to the group in short presentations where required.Criteria for the evaluation of oral and written work:
1. Relevance of the chosen topic; clear communication; designation of own contribution.
2. Logical development and clear illustration of an argument and/or answer to a specific question.
3. Clear structure and appropriate presentation (introduction, main body and conclusion; clear structure, correct grammar and syntax).
4. Reference to academic literature covered in the seminar and correct citation style (Harvard or Chicago style); inclusion of bibliography.You must submit and pass all assignments to pass the course. A grade of at least a "4" is required to pass.Grading scale:
Very good 87,5% - 100
Good 75% - 87,49%
Satisfactory 62,5% - 74,99%
Pass 50% - 62,49%
Fail 0% - 49,99%
1. Relevance of the chosen topic; clear communication; designation of own contribution.
2. Logical development and clear illustration of an argument and/or answer to a specific question.
3. Clear structure and appropriate presentation (introduction, main body and conclusion; clear structure, correct grammar and syntax).
4. Reference to academic literature covered in the seminar and correct citation style (Harvard or Chicago style); inclusion of bibliography.You must submit and pass all assignments to pass the course. A grade of at least a "4" is required to pass.Grading scale:
Very good 87,5% - 100
Good 75% - 87,49%
Satisfactory 62,5% - 74,99%
Pass 50% - 62,49%
Fail 0% - 49,99%
Examination topics
Required readings for each seminar and further materials that will be made available on the Moodle learning platform.
Reading list
Bozóki-Hegedűs (2018): An externally constrained hybrid regime: Hungary in the European Union Source: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13510347.2018.1455664
Knott, E. (2018). Perpetually “partly free”: lessons from post-Soviet hybrid regimes on backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe. East European Politics, 34(3), 355-376.
Levitsky, S., & Way, L. A. (2010). Competitive authoritarianism: Hybrid regimes after the Cold War. Cambridge University Press.
Cianetti, L., Dawson, J., & Hanley, S. (2018). Rethinking “democratic backsliding” in Central and Eastern Europe–looking beyond Hungary and Poland.
Brownlee, J. (2009). Portents of pluralism: How hybrid regimes affect democratic transitions. American Journal of Political Science, 53(3), 515-532.
Knott, E. (2018). Perpetually “partly free”: lessons from post-Soviet hybrid regimes on backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe. East European Politics, 34(3), 355-376.
Levitsky, S., & Way, L. A. (2010). Competitive authoritarianism: Hybrid regimes after the Cold War. Cambridge University Press.
Cianetti, L., Dawson, J., & Hanley, S. (2018). Rethinking “democratic backsliding” in Central and Eastern Europe–looking beyond Hungary and Poland.
Brownlee, J. (2009). Portents of pluralism: How hybrid regimes affect democratic transitions. American Journal of Political Science, 53(3), 515-532.
Association in the course directory
Im auslaufenden Bachelorstudiengang Soziologie: Äquivalent zu BA T2 Workshop Gesellschaftsdiagnosen
Last modified: Fr 10.01.2025 00:02
Autoritäre bzw. autokratische Ideen und sogenannte Hybrid-Regime in den letzten Jahrzehnten gewinnen immer mehr an Popularität. Die „Big-Five“-Länder (Russland, China, Venezuela, Iran und Saudi-Arabien) entwickelten ein politisches „Know-how-Exportsystem“ und riefen eigene „antiimperialistische“ Regionalorganisationen (z.B. die Eurasische Wirtschaftsunion, die Shanghaier Organisation für Zusammenarbeit, die Bolivarianische Allianz für die Völker unseres Amerika) als Alternative zu den Vereinten Nationen, der Weltbank oder dem IWF ins Leben, um Hybrid-Regime zu unterstützen. Für ihre Kredite müssen die begünstigten Länder weniger politische Vorgaben erfüllen (wie z.B. liberale demokratische Normen und Werte), aber größeren wirtschaftlichen Einfluss für die Gläubiger garantieren. Dieser Aufschwung der Hybrid-Regimen bzw. das Prozess der Hybridisierung ist auch in Europa (z.B. im heutigen Ungarn, Serbien oder in der Slowakei) zu beobachten, aber der Aufschwung der von diesen oben erwähnten Ländern unterstützten rechtspopulistischen und rechtsradikalen Parteien auch in Westeuropa ein Gefahr für liberalen Demokratien und Intergrität der EU darstellen (siehe Beispiele wie die FPÖ, AFD, RN in Frankreich, Fratelli d'Italia, PVV in den Niederlanden, Vlaams Belang in Belgien, Vox in Spanien usw.).In diesem Seminar werden zum einen die demokratischen Merkmale ausgewählter europäischer Länder anhand der Unterdimensionen der Freedom House-Messung analysiert: politische Rechte (Wahlverfahren), politischer Pluralismus und Partizipation, Funktionsweise der Regierung, bürgerliche Freiheiten (Meinungs- und Glaubensfreiheit), Vereinigungs- und Organisationsrechte, Rechtsstaatlichkeit, persönliche Autonomie und individuelle Rechte. Andererseits analysieren und vergleichen wir auf der Grundlage der Daten des European Social Surveys 2012-2020 das demokratische Engagement und die Demokratiedefizit-Wahrnehmuneng der europäischen BürgerInnen mit den oben genannten Ländermerkmalen, um Diskrepanzen zwischen dem demokratischen Modell und der Funktionsweise eines bestimmten Landes und den demokratischen "Ansprüchen" der BürgerInnen zu verstehen: d.h. die Einbettung der Demokratie. Drittens analysieren wir den Aufschung der rechtspopulistischen und rechtsextremen Parteien, Gründe und Ursachen dieses Aufschwungs und Rechtsrucks und die anti-demokratische Gefahr, die sie bedeuten.