Information Package / Course Catalogue
| Business Administration | |||||
| Bachelor | Length of the Programme: 4 | Number of Credits: 240 | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF: Level 6 |
Ders Genel Tanıtım Bilgileri
| School/Faculty/Institute | Faculty of Econ., Admin. and Social Sciences | ||||
| Course Code | POLS 428 | ||||
| Course Title in English | Democracy and Democratization | ||||
| Course Title in Turkish | Democracy and Democratization | ||||
| Language of Instruction | EN | ||||
| Type of Course | Flipped Classroom | ||||
| Level of Course | Seçiniz | ||||
| Semester | Fall | ||||
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| Estimated Student Workload | 120 hours per semester | ||||
| Number of Credits | 5 ECTS | ||||
| Grading Mode | Standard Letter Grade | ||||
| Pre-requisites | None | ||||
| Expected Prior Knowledge | None | ||||
| Co-requisites | None | ||||
| Registration Restrictions | Only Undergraduate Students | ||||
| Overall Educational Objective | Gain an understanding of the process of democratization from social, historical and comparative perspectives | ||||
| Course Description | This course is a survey of the literature on democracy and democratization. We will focus on the process of democratization from social, historical and comparative perspectives. Our course will cover many countries, but the focus will be thematic rather than regional. After discussing alternative definitions of democracy and democratization, we will examine the key elements of various democratization and de-democratization processes. We will then turn to the concept of “democratic consolidation” and discuss its shortcomings that led to the emergence of notions like “defective democracies” and “hybrid regimes”. In the last two weeks of the course we will discuss the future prospects and challenges for democracy and democratization in Turkey and other countries around the world. | ||||
| Course Description in Turkish | Demokrasi ve demokratikleşmeye dair literatürün köşe taşlarının tartışıldığı bu derste demokratikleşme sürecine toplumsal, tarihsel ve mukayeseli bir perspektiften yaklaşacağız. Ders çerçevesinde bir dizi ülke ve bölge ele alınsa da temel yaklaşımımız kronolojik değil tematik olacak. Farklı demokrasi ve demokratikleşme tanımlarını ele aldıktan sonra çeşitli demokratikleşme ve otoriterleşme süreçlerinin kilit özelliklerini ele alacağız. Demokratik konsolidasyon kavramını ve bu kavramsallaştırmanın eksiklikleri nedeniyle ortaya çıkan defolu demokrasiler ve melez rejimlere kategorilerini inceleyeceğiz. Dersin son iki haftasında demokrasinin ve demokratikleşmenin Türkiye ve dünyadaki seyrinine dair muhtelif senaryoları ele alacağız. |
Course Learning Outcomes and CompetencesUpon successful completion of the course, the learner is expected to be able to:1) To distinguish and map different conceptualizations of democracy as a contested notion 2) To understand the historical and social origins of democratization processes in different parts of the world 3) To compare historical waves of democratization and de-democratization |
| Program Learning Outcomes/Course Learning Outcomes | 1 | 2 | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1) Has a broad foundation and intellectual awareness with exposure to mathematics, history, economics, and social sciences | |||
| 2) Demonstrates knowledge and skills in different functional areas of business (accounting, finance, operations, marketing, strategy, and organization) and an understanding of their interactions within various industry sectors | |||
| 3) Applies theoretical knowledge as well as creative, analytical, and critical thinking to manage complex technical or professional activities or projects | |||
| 4) Exhibits an understanding of global, environmental, economic, legal, and regulatory contexts for business sustainability | |||
| 5) Demonstrates individual and professional ethical behavior and social responsibility | |||
| 6) Demonstrates responsiveness to ethnic, cultural, and gender diversity values and issues | |||
| 7) Uses written and spoken English effectively (at least CEFR B2 level) to communicate information, ideas, problems, and solutions | |||
| 8) Demonstrates skills in data and information acquisition, analysis, interpretation, and reporting | |||
| 9) Displays computer proficiency to support problem solving and decision-making | |||
| 10) Demonstrates teamwork, leadership, and entrepreneurial skills | |||
| 11) Displays learning skills necessary for further study with a high degree of autonomy |
Relation to Program Outcomes and Competences
| N None | S Supportive | H Highly Related |
| Program Outcomes and Competences | Level | Assessed by | |
| 1) | Has a broad foundation and intellectual awareness with exposure to mathematics, history, economics, and social sciences | N | |
| 2) | Demonstrates knowledge and skills in different functional areas of business (accounting, finance, operations, marketing, strategy, and organization) and an understanding of their interactions within various industry sectors | N | |
| 3) | Applies theoretical knowledge as well as creative, analytical, and critical thinking to manage complex technical or professional activities or projects | N | |
| 4) | Exhibits an understanding of global, environmental, economic, legal, and regulatory contexts for business sustainability | N | |
| 5) | Demonstrates individual and professional ethical behavior and social responsibility | N | |
| 6) | Demonstrates responsiveness to ethnic, cultural, and gender diversity values and issues | N | |
| 7) | Uses written and spoken English effectively (at least CEFR B2 level) to communicate information, ideas, problems, and solutions | N | |
| 8) | Demonstrates skills in data and information acquisition, analysis, interpretation, and reporting | N | |
| 9) | Displays computer proficiency to support problem solving and decision-making | N | |
| 10) | Demonstrates teamwork, leadership, and entrepreneurial skills | N | |
| 11) | Displays learning skills necessary for further study with a high degree of autonomy | N |
| Prepared by and Date | BARIŞ ÇETİN CAN EREN , January 2024 |
| Course Coordinator | CANSU GÜLEÇ |
| Semester | Fall |
| Name of Instructor | Öğr. Gör. BARIŞ ÇETİN CAN EREN |
Course Contents
| Week | Subject |
| 1) | Ancient Roots: The Demos of Plato and Aristotle |
| 2) | Liberal Conceptions: Tocqueville’s Associational Democracy |
| 3) | Direct Democracy |
| 4) | Competitive Elitism |
| 5) | Deliberative Regimes |
| 6) | Democracy and Capillary Power |
| 7) | Economic Development and Democratization |
| 8) | Landowning Classes, Peasants and the Battle of Democracy |
| 9) | Workers and Democracy |
| 10) | Civil Society and Democratization |
| 11) | State Capacity and Democratization |
| 12) | Waves of Democracy |
| 13) | Democractic Consolidation |
| 14) | Global Trends |
| Required/Recommended Readings | Aristotle The Politics. Ed. Carnes Lord. Chicago, 1984. Collier, D., & Levitsky, S. (1997). Democracy with adjectives: Conceptual innovation in comparative research. World politics, 49(03), 430-451. Collier, Ruth Berins. Paths toward democracy: The working class and elites in Western Europe and South America. Cambridge University Press, 1999. Diamond, L. (2015). Facing Up to the Democratic recession. Journal of Democracy, 26(1), 141-155. Dahl, R. A. (1973). Polyarchy: Participation and opposition. Yale University Press. Fukuyama, F. (2015). Why is Democracy Performing so Poorly?. Journal of Democracy, 26(1), 11-20. Huntington, S. P. (1993). The third wave: Democratization in the late twentieth century (Vol. 4). University of Oklahoma press. Lenin, V. (1992). The state and revolution. Penguin UK. Levitsky, Steven, and Lucan Way. "The Myth of Democratic Recession." Journal of Democracy 26.1 (2015): 45-58. Lipset, S. M. (1959). Some social requisites of democracy: Economic development and political legitimacy. American political science review, 53(01), 69-105. Lipset, Seymour Martin. "The social requisites of democracy revisited: 1993 presidential address." American sociological review (1994): 1-22. Marx, Karl. The First International and After. Vol. 3. Vintage Books, 1974. Merkel, Wolfgang. "Embedded and defective democracies." Democratization 11.5 (2004): 33-58. Moore, B. (1993). Social origins of dictatorship and democracy: Lord and peasant in the making of the modern world (Vol. 268). Beacon Press. Putnam, Robert D., Robert Leonardi, and Raffaella Y. Nanetti. Making democracy work: Civic traditions in modern Italy. Princeton university press, 1994. Rueschemeyer, D., Stephens, E. H., & Stephens, J. D. (1992). Capitalist development and democracy. Cambridge, UK. Schumpeter, J. A. (1947). Capitalism. Socialism, and Democracy. New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Tilly, C. (2008). Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Tocqueville, Alexis de. "Democracy in America, edited and abridged by Richard D." Heffner (New York: New American Library, 1956) (1956). Tocqueville, A. (1998). The Old Regime and the Revolution, trans. Alan S. Kahan. | ||||||||||||
| Teaching Methods | Lecture and debates based on readings | ||||||||||||
| Homework and Projects | A research paper to be submitted at the end of the semester | ||||||||||||
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| Course Administration |
erenc@mef.edu.tr MEF university values academic integrity. Therefore, all students must understand the meaning and consequences of cheating, plagiarism and other academic offences under the code of student conduct and disciplinary procedures. Any improper behavior, academic dishonesty or plagiarism is subject to the YÖK Disciplinary Regulation. |
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ECTS Student Workload Estimation
| Activity | No/Weeks | Hours | Calculation | ||||
| No/Weeks per Semester | Preparing for the Activity | Spent in the Activity Itself | Completing the Activity Requirements | ||||
| Course Hours | 14 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 70 | ||
| Project | 1 | 21 | 1 | 22 | |||
| Homework Assignments | 14 | 1 | 14 | ||||
| Quiz(zes) | 14 | 1 | 14 | ||||
| Total Workload | 120 | ||||||
| Total Workload/25 | 4.8 | ||||||
| ECTS | 5 | ||||||