Democracy and Global Governance
Objectives
The course aims to give students an understanding of the major analytical traditions, conceptual and methodological innovation, and themes researched in the field of Democracy and Global Government
General characterization
Code
73217164
Credits
7.0
Responsible teacher
Diogo Sassetti Ramada Curto
Hours
Weekly - 2
Total - 210
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
None
Bibliography
Nancy Bermeo, Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry and the Collapse of Democracy, Princeton University Press, 2003, pp. 1-65. Juan Linz, The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978 Peter --Gourevitch, Politics in Hard Times. Comparative Responses to International Economic Crises, Ithaca and London, Cornell -University Press, 1986. Carles Boix, Democracy and Redistribution, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003 Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005 Thomas Ertman, ed., Max Webers Economic Ethic of World Religions, Cambridge University Press, 2017 Michael Bernhard, Tiago Fernandes and Rui Branco, eds., Civil, Society, Inequality and Democracy: Cross-Regional Comparisons, Comparative Politics, April 2017 Evelyn Huber e John D. Stephens, Development and Crisis of the Welfare State. Parties and Policies in Global Markets, 2001
Teaching method
Lectures introducing the major themes of the course (60%), and presentation and discussion of assigned readings by students (40%).
Evaluation method
Evaluation method - Active participation in the classes is taken into account for the final marks(40%), One written essay at the end of the term(60%)
Subject matter
1.Democratic decay in the contemporary world. 2. The collapse of democracy in the interwar years. 3. Capitalist Globalization and Democracy Historical Perspectives. 4. Inequality and Democracy. 5. Hybrid regimes and the conditions for democracy in the developing world. 6. Religion and capitalism. 7. Globalization and economic and social policy. 8. Civil Society, Inequality, and Democracy. 9. Globalization and the welfare-state l