Syllabus for the group led by Professor Lenka Rovná:

Every student will be responsible for:

1) Class Participation and Oral Presentation

Each student will prepare for class by doing the designated readings, the designated oral presentation during the course and actively participating in the work of designated working group (presentations on the lecture topics and debates on the topic of the working group) and the class discussions.

Two unexcused absences can be tolerated.

2) Paper (December 1)

Each student will write an 8 page (double-spaced) research paper. “Is Liberal Democracy Dead?”

Each student will write a paper based on readings on liberal democracy and monitor the debates about the current situation. Detailed instructions will be given during the class.

Quotations and the complete list of sources are compulsory. The paper will be sent electronically to the address lenka.rovna@ruk.cuni.cz

Requirements for the class:

Paper (8 pages) 30%

Oral presentation 40%

Active participation in the class 30%

Introduction

The work methods

Identification of the problems studied in the groups, division into groups and preparation for online oral presentations and position papers

Europe: perception of Europe, European values, a continent in the making, in: Tim Bale, European Politics, A Comparative Introduction, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2005, pp. 1 – 31

The nation state and Democracy in Europe

Daniel Caramani, Comparative Politics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2020, pp. 69 – 102

Catherine E.de Vries, Sara B. Hobolt, Sven-Olivier Proksch, Jonathan B. Slapin, Foundation of European Politics, A Comparative Approach, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2021, pp. 19 - 31

Cleavages in Europe, religious, ethnic, economic, social and ?…, in: Jan Eric Lane and Svante Ersson, Politics and Society in Western Europe, Sage Publication, London, 1999, pp. 37 – 75

Daniel Caramani, Comparative Politics, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2020, pp. 231 - 251

Political Parties, history, typology, and specifics in Europe, in: Jan Eric Lane and Svante Ersson, Politics and Society in Western Europe, Sage Publication, London, 1999, pp. 76 – 108

Inside European Political parties, how are political parties functioning? Are they still relevant?, in: Michael Gallagher, Michael Laver, Peter Mair, Representative Government in Modern Europe, Institutions, parties and Governments, Boston, McGraw Hill, 4th edition, 2005, pp. 307-339

Daniel Caramani, Comparative Politics, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2020, pp. 211 – 230

Catherine E.de Vries, Sara B. Hobolt, Sven-Olivier Proksch, Jonathan B. Slapin, Foundation of European Politics, A Comparative Approach, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2021, pp. 132 - 154

Elections and Electoral systems, Current elections, Formation of the Parliament, in: Michael Gallagher, Michael Laver, Peter Mair, Representative Government in Modern Europe, Institutions, parties and Governments, Boston, McGraw Hill, 4th edition, 2005, pp. 340-380

in: Edited by Paul Heywood, Erik Jones and Martin Rhodes, Developments in West European Politics 2, Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2002, pp. 94 – 114

Daniel Caramani, Comparative Politics, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2020, pp. 178 - 192

Catherine E.de Vries, Sara B. Hobolt, Sven-Olivier Proksch, Jonathan B. Slapin, Foundation of European Politics, A Comparative Approach, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2021, pp. 89 – 111

Building and maintaining the government+ case studies, in: Michael Gallagher, Michael Laver, Peter Mair, Representative Government in Modern Europe, Institutions, parties and Governments, Boston, McGraw Hill, 4th edition, 2005, pp. 381-421

in: Gabriel A.Almond, Russel J.Dalton, G.Bingham Powell, Jr., Kaare Strom, European Politics Today, Pearson Longman, New York, 3^rd edition, 2006, pp. 62 – 83

Daniel Caramani, Comparative Politics, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2020, pp. 141 - 158

Catherine E.de Vries, Sara B. Hobolt, Sven-Olivier Proksch, Jonathan B. Slapin, Foundation of European Politics, A Comparative Approach, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2021, pp. 171 - 191

Politics outside Parliament, in: Michael Gallagher, Michael Laver, Peter Mair, Representative Government in Modern Europe, Institutions, parties and Governments, Boston, McGraw Hill, 4th edition, 2005, pp. 441-461

Daniel Caramani, Comparative Politics, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2020, pp. 252 - 266

Catherine E.de Vries, Sara B. Hobolt, Sven-Olivier Proksch, Jonathan B. Slapin, Foundation of European Politics, A Comparative Approach, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2021, pp. 203 - 205

European Integration and the nation state, in: Simon Bulmer and Christian Lequesne, The Member States of the European Union, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 25-69

Politics in the European Union from the member state point of view, in: Gabriel A.Almond, Russel J.Dalton, G.Bingham Powell, Jr., Kaare Strom, European Politics Today, Pearson Longman, New York, 3^rd edition, 2006, pp. 457 – 509

Daniel Caramani, Comparative Politics, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2020, pp. 419 - 438

Catherine E.de Vries, Sara B. Hobolt, Sven-Olivier Proksch, Jonathan B. Slapin, Foundation of European Politics, A Comparative Approach, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2021, pp.

From Government to governance, in: Edited by Paul Heywood, Erik Jones and Martin Rhodes, Developments in West European Politics 2, Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2002, pp. 151 – 183

Multilevel Governance

Territorial Politics and the New Regionalism + case studies, in: Edited by Paul Heywood, Erik Jones and Martin Rhodes, Developments in West European Politics 2, Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2002, pp. 201 – 220

Daniel Caramani, Comparative Politics, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2020, pp. 267 – 280, 193 - 210

Catherine E.de Vries, Sara B. Hobolt, Sven-Olivier Proksch, Jonathan B. Slapin, Foundation of European Politics, A Comparative Approach, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2021, pp. 32 - 51

Debate on the topics of the Group 1 – 2

Debate on the topics of the Group 3 - 4

Debate on the topics of the Group 5 - 6

Working groups and the topics:

Is Populism on the Rise? –
Lessons from the recent elections –
Is there a West East cleavage again? –
Changing the EU again? What has to be changed? –
Democracy is in crisis in Europe –
The EU and the USA, the inseparable couple? –