Political parties in Europe - JPB202
Title: Politické strany v Evropě
Czech title: Politické strany v Evropě
Guaranteed by: Department of Political Science (23-KP)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual: from 2023
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: 25 / unknown (22)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. Michel Perottino, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): doc. Michel Perottino, Ph.D.
Pre-requisite : {Group of pre-requisites for JPB202 (JPB168 or JPB185)}
Is incompatible with: JPB353
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Annotation -
The course deals with political parties of selected European countries. We will focus mainly on France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Poland, and Romania.
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the development of parties in these countries on the basis of the socio-historical approach and subsequently to focus concretely on some parties (ideology, organization). At the same time, some approaches, concepts, and theories that will be used to analyze the presented parties will be presented.
The subject of the course is not only to present basic factual data but also to reflect on how to grasp political parties from a political science perspective. Therefore, the theoretical introduction will be an important element.
Last update: Perottino Michel, doc., Ph.D. (26.10.2019)
Aim of the course -

The aim of the course is to prepare students for other subjects devoted to political parties (Czech Political Parties, Theory of Political Parties and Sociology of Political Parties), respectively. political systems of Europe.

Last update: Perottino Michel, doc., Ph.D. (26.10.2019)
Literature -

Vít Hloušek, Lubomír Kopeček: Politické strany : původ, ideologie a transformace politických stran v západní a střední Evropě, Praha : Grada, 2010

Petr Fiala, Jan Holzer, Maxmilián Strmiska a kol.: Politické strany ve střední a východní Evropě : ideově-politický profil, pozice a role politických stran v postkomunistických zemích, Brno : Masarykova univerzita, 2002

Jiří Kunc: Stranické systémy v re/konstrukci, Praha : SLON, 2000

Maxmilián Strmiska ... [et al.]: Politické strany moderní Evropy : analýza stranicko-politických systémů, Praha : Portál, 2005

 

Recommended bibliography

Kris Deschouver (ed.): New Parties in Government: In Power for the First Time, Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science, 2011

Michal Klíma: Volby a politické strany v moderních demokraciích, Praha : Radix, 1998

Hanspeter Kriesi: West European politics in the age of globalization, Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Luther Kurt Richard a Deschouver, Kris: Party Elites in Divided Societies: Political Parties in Consociational Democracy, Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science, 1999

Jiří Malíř, Pavel Marek a kolektiv: Politické strany : vývoj politických stran a hnutí v českých zemích a Československu 1861-2004, Brno : Doplněk, 2005.

Leonardo Morlino: Democracy between consolidation and crisis: parties, groups, and citizens in Southern Europe, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Miroslav Novák: Systémy politických stran. Úvod do jejich srovnávacího studia, Praha : SLON, 1997

Pavel Pšeja: Stranický systém České republiky : politické strany a jejich vývoj 1989-1998, Brno : Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2005

Říchová, Blanka, Úvod do současné politologie, Praha, Portál, 2002

Maxmilián Strmiska: Regionální strany, stranické systémy a teritoriálně-politický pluralismus : pojetí a typologie evropských regionálních stran a regionálních stranických soustav, Brno : AP, 2005

Giovanni Sartori: Strany a stranické systémy : schéma pro analýzu, Praha : Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2005

Last update: Perottino Michel, doc., Ph.D. (26.10.2019)
Requirements to the exam -

The prerequisite for successful completion of this course is a written examination based on lectures and literature (the list of recommended literature should be specified during the lectures).



Last update: Perottino Michel, doc., Ph.D. (21.11.2023)
Syllabus -
1) Theoretical introduction: how to analyze a political party.

2) France, socio-historical development of political parties in France, examples: Socialist Party, Republicans and LREM.

3) Italy, socio-historical development of political parties in Italy, examples: Communist Party of Italy, Berlusconi´s Parties, Five Star Movement and League of the North

4) Spain, socio-historical development of political parties in Spain, examples: People's Party, Ciudadanos and Podemos

5) Belgium, socio-historical development of political parties in Belgium, examples: Socialist Party and Reform Movement, NVA, Vlams belang

6) Romania, socio-historical development of political parties in Romania, examples: Socialist Party, National Liberal Party and others.
Last update: Perottino Michel, doc., Ph.D. (17.09.2023)