Participation, Deliberation and New Technologies
Objectives
This course offers a broad and updated overview of these and other theoretical and practical developments with respect to the concept of ‘political participation’ within a context of important social transformation. Students will be familiarised with the topics under discussion by contacting with different strands of theoretical and applied scholarship. Although the contents of the course stem from a global outlook, this will be whenever possible be complemented with relevant insights from the Portuguese case. By successfully completing this course, students will be able to frame the concept of political participation as being intimately attached to the realm of democratic regimes. In addition to these theoretical insights, students are expected to acquire knowledge on the asymmetries and inequalities of access to new (and old) modes of political participation.
General characterization
Code
02104636
Credits
10.0
Responsible teacher
Available soon
Hours
Weekly - 4
Total - 280
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
Bennett, W. Lance, e Alexandra Segerberg. 2012. «The Logic of Connective Action». Information, Communication & Society 15(5): 739–68.
Dalton, Russell J. 2019. Citizen Politics: Public Opinion and Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications Ltd.
Lilleker, Darren G., e Karolina Koc-Michalska. 2017. «What Drives Political Participation? Motivations and Mobilization in a Digital Age». Political Communication 34(1): 21–43.
Norris, Pippa. 2007. «Political activism». Em The Oxford handbook of comparative politics, eds. Carles Boix e Susan Carol Stokes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 628–49.
Quaranta, Mario. 2015. Political Protest in Western Europe: Exploring the Role of Context in Political Action. Springer International Publishing.
Teorell, Jan. 2006. «Political Participation and Three Theories of Democracy: A Research Inventory and Agenda». European Journal of Political Research 45(5): 787–810.
Teaching method
Theoretical lectures discussions of the texts assigned to each class, in which all students should be engaged. Debates will also be held about relevant topics, as well as presentations by guest specialists on the various themes. Students should send reading reports of the assigned readings before the beginning of every class.
Evaluation method
Evaluation Method - Attendance and Participation(15%), Reading assignments(20%), Written Essay(65%)
Subject matter
- Political participation: definitions and concepts;
- The relevance of participation for different modes of political participation;
- Modes of participation and the expansion of political action repertoires;
- Online political participation and its specificities;
- Patterns and inequalities of political participation;
- The frontiers and future of participation.
Programs
Programs where the course is taught: