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WiSe 21/22: The Input Side of Politics – Parties and Social Movements in Europe

Jochen Roose

Information for students

ACHTUNG! Diese LV wird online und zeitABhängig durchgeführt.
CAUTION! This course will take place online with (some) fixed dates.

Additional information / Pre-requisites

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six text summaries or term paper
presentation

Comments

In democracies people have various ways to feed their interests, ideas and preferences into the political system. People are invited and expected to participate. This applies first and foremost to elections, but also other channels of political participation are open, such as demonstrations and social movements. The aim of the seminar is not to offer space for general political discussions on participation and strengths or weaknesses of democracies. Instead, we will ground a profound analysis in literature and theories. The seminar is centered on two intermediary actors between people and the political system: parties and social movements. We will introduce the concepts of party and social movement respectively, discuss main theories of the two fields, and work on the links between the two. The course will conclude with case studies on either parties or social movements, in which the theories are applied. The case studies are presented in a two-day-meeting, at the end of the seminar. close