DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and Social Work
Academic Year 2016/2017 - 1° Year - Single / L-40 Curriculum

SCIENZA POLITICA

Teaching Staff

Learning Objectives

• APPROACHES, METHODS AND CONCEPTS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
  
  The main objective is an introduction to the basic concepts, methods, and approaches used in Political Sciences to provide students with the basic tools for understanding the logic that govern contemporary political systems.
• POLITICAL REPRESENTATION AND GOVERNMENT: ACTORS AND PROCESSES
  
  Identify, define and analyze the institutions, actors and processes typical of contemporary democracies
• DEMOCRACY AND NON DEMOCRACY
  
  Definition and analysis of contemporary political regimes and processes of democratization

Detailed Course Content

• APPROACHES, METHODS AND CONCEPTS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
  

  MODULO 1 Definitions of Politics. Internal and international’s dimension of politics. Theories and research methods in Political science. The territorial dimension of politics.

• POLITICAL REPRESENTATION AND GOVERNMENT: ACTORS AND PROCESSES
  

  Parties and party systems. Interest groups. Elections and electoral systems. Parliaments, governments, constitutional engineering. Public policies and decision making

• DEMOCRACY AND NON DEMOCRACY
  

  The non-democratic regimes. Democracy and democratization. Elite and ruling classes. The construction of democracy in Italy and Spain

Textbook Information

• APPROACHES, METHODS AND CONCEPTS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
  

  Pietro Grilli di Cortona, Orazio Lanza, Barbara Pisciotta, Luca Germano Capire la politica. Seconda edizione. Utet-Università, Torino, 2016, Chapters first, second and third

• POLITICAL REPRESENTATION AND GOVERNMENT: ACTORS AND PROCESSES
  

  Pietro Grilli di Cortona, Orazio Lanza, Barbara Pisciotta, Luca Germano, Capire la politica. Seconda . Utet-Università, Torino,2016 ,Chapters. seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth and twelfth.

• DEMOCRACY AND NON DEMOCRACY
  

  1)Pietro Grilli di Cortona, Orazio Lanza, Barbara Pisciotta, Luca Germano, Seconda edizione. Utet-Università, Torino, 2016, Chapters fourth, fifth, sixth.

  2) Orazio.Lanza, Tra “complesso del tiranno” ed “ossessione della stabilità”: il disegno delle istituzioni democratiche dopo la caduta del fascismo e del franchismo. SocietàMutamentoPolitica, [S.l.], p. 143-178, lug. 2015. ISSN 2038-3150. Free download to this page Internet: http://www.fupress.net/index.php/smp/article/view/16404.