Information Package / Course Catalogue
| Political Science and International Relations | |||||
| 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) Adequate knowledge of political history necessary to comprehend and effectively evaluate contemporary Political Science and International Relations issues. | |||
| 2) Understanding of the fundamental concepts that exist in the fields of social and behavioral sciences as well as the correlation between these concepts | |||
| 3) Ability to analyze the fundamental theories in the field Political Science and International Relations and to assess their reflections into practice | |||
| 4) Ability to critically discuss different aspects of theories and developments in Political Science and International Relations both individually and in the course of group work during classroom discussions. | |||
| 5) Ability to conduct research independently, or with a team, about the developments taking place in the international arena, make foreign policy analyses, develop research-based conflict resolution models, and prepare comprehensive reports using computers and relevant software | |||
| 6) Ability to take decisions as well as to implement these decisions by using the knowledge about the field and the skills that have been acquired during the undergraduate studies | |||
| 7) Ability to recognize the relations between scientific thought and ethical behavior; pay attention to being tolerant and properly defend different ideas, ideologies and belief systems | |||
| 8) Ability to work in international institutions and multicultural environments, with the help of the knowledge on different cultures, societies, political systems as well as linguistic skills acquired during the undergraduate studies | |||
| 9) Ability to display language skills in English at minimum B2 level enough for debating with colleagues on issues of Political Science and International Relations, and also display language skills in a second foreign language at minimum A2 level enough for communicating in daily life | |||
| 10) Ability to pursue lifelong learning as well as perform advanced/graduate studies in the field Political Science and International Relations and other social sciences disciplines in academic institutions at home and abroad |
Relation to Program Outcomes and Competences
| N None | S Supportive | H Highly Related |
| Program Outcomes and Competences | Level | Assessed by | |
| 1) | Adequate knowledge of political history necessary to comprehend and effectively evaluate contemporary Political Science and International Relations issues. | H | Exam |
| 2) | Understanding of the fundamental concepts that exist in the fields of social and behavioral sciences as well as the correlation between these concepts | H | Exam |
| 3) | Ability to analyze the fundamental theories in the field Political Science and International Relations and to assess their reflections into practice | H | Exam |
| 4) | Ability to critically discuss different aspects of theories and developments in Political Science and International Relations both individually and in the course of group work during classroom discussions. | H | Exam |
| 5) | Ability to conduct research independently, or with a team, about the developments taking place in the international arena, make foreign policy analyses, develop research-based conflict resolution models, and prepare comprehensive reports using computers and relevant software | S | Exam |
| 6) | Ability to take decisions as well as to implement these decisions by using the knowledge about the field and the skills that have been acquired during the undergraduate studies | N | |
| 7) | Ability to recognize the relations between scientific thought and ethical behavior; pay attention to being tolerant and properly defend different ideas, ideologies and belief systems | N | |
| 8) | Ability to work in international institutions and multicultural environments, with the help of the knowledge on different cultures, societies, political systems as well as linguistic skills acquired during the undergraduate studies | N | |
| 9) | Ability to display language skills in English at minimum B2 level enough for debating with colleagues on issues of Political Science and International Relations, and also display language skills in a second foreign language at minimum A2 level enough for communicating in daily life | S | Presentation |
| 10) | Ability to pursue lifelong learning as well as perform advanced/graduate studies in the field Political Science and International Relations and other social sciences disciplines in academic institutions at home and abroad | 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 | ||||||