Course Schedule

Start > Leuphana Bachelor (B.A./B.Eng./B.Sc./LL.B.) -> Major Politikwissenschaft (ab Studienbeginn WiSe 24/25) -> Vertiefung: Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft: Vergleichende Institutionenforschung

Lehrveranstaltungen

European party systems from a comparative perspective (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Sarah Engler

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Donnerstag | 14:15 - 15:45 | 14.10.2024 - 31.01.2025 | C 14.202 Seminarraum

Inhalt: The seminar offers an overview of party systems in the old and new democracies of Europe. While the first part of the seminar deals with theories on political divides, party strategies, and voting behavior that have mainly emerged from a look at Western European democracies, the second part of the course focuses on party competition in Central and Eastern Europe and in the context of the supranational European Union. Core questions that we cover in this seminar among others: How can we understand and conceptualize political divides and to what extent do they differ across countries? How can we explain the success of green and populist radical right parties and the mainstream parties' reaction towards them? To what extent does the authoritarian past of post-communist countries still matter in party politics today?Is political competition always programmatic, or what other strategies do parties apply to attract voters?

The limits of comparing: Problematizing comparative politics in its politico-economic context (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Adrià Alcoverro

Termin:
 14-täglich | Dienstag | 12:15 - 15:45 | 14.10.2024 - 31.01.2025 | C 14.203 Seminarraum

Inhalt: The main idea of this course is to problematise the notion of comparison in political science. Comparison is a very strong subfield in political science that has been pivotal in the development of the discipline. Its holistic take, often employing institutionalized politics as an object of analysis, allows the categorization different institutional orders by the means of comparison to produce rich descriptions as well as concepts. Nonetheless, comparative politics operates within a given order of things, meaning that the larger politico-economic context in which comparison occurs is presented in a static form and normally it is not part of the object of analysis. For that reason, the changes in the larger politico economic order and the influence that these might have in liberal democratic institutions are not fully addressed. At the same time, the political movements and events occurring outside the realm of institutional politics in civil society are often neglected. Also forms of informal political relations entrenched within liberal democratic institutional orders, such as clientelism in different forms, are frequently not grasped. Still, comparative politics has undergone important theoretical and normative transformations proving its capacity to introduce critical approaches. This course points towards this direction in an attempt to comprehend the political in an increasingly complex world.