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Short courses masters
Online
Course Governance and Political
Science
Winter (December)
& Summer (July)
Workload: 15 hours per week
Faculty: M. Rehm, T.
Papadopoulos
Assessment: participation in
online discussion forums, online
tests (multiple choice), online
final exam (essay question)
This
course explores key concepts
in political science and how
they relate to the study of
governance in different
fields of political science.
It is organised as an
introductory exploration to
the wider study of politics
and presupposes little or no
knowledge of politics or
governance and their diverse
literatures and
methodologies of
investigation.
The
course is organised along 5
modules. The first is an
introduction to what is
politics and how is it
studied. It is followed by
three modules corresponding
to three sub-fields of
political research; namely,
states and political systems,
policy and public
administration,
international relations and
regional integration.
Finally, there is a module
on the methodology and
techniques of political
research which, among other
topics, discusses the unique
characteristics of political
analysis.
In
this course, governance is
integrated into the study of
politics both as an object
of analysis and, crucially,
as an analytical approach
that cross-cuts all three
sub-fields/foci of political
research mentioned above. In
this respect the course
differs from a traditional
introduction to politics as
it discusses not only how
the variety of
macro-theoretical,
meso-theoretical and
methodological approaches
relate to the study of
governance but also how
studying governance brings a
conceptually and
analytically richer
perspective into the study
of governing societies.
Literature:
Heywood A. (2007)
Politics, Palgrave
Macmillan, Chapters 1,
2, 4, 5, 7, 20,
Mette Kjaer A. (2004)
Governance, Cambridge:
Polity, Chapters 1, 2, 3
Plus additional articles
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