Class 1 Constitutions and Constitutionalism

Readings: Sartori, Giovanni. 1962. Constitutionalism. A Preliminary Discussion. The American political science review 56(4): 853-864

Class 2 Democratic Regime Types

Readings: Elgie, Robert. 2005. From Linz to Tsebelis: three waves of presidential/parliamentary studies?. Democratization 12(1): 106-122.

Class 3 Heads of States in a Comparative Perspective

Readings: Tavits, Margit. 2009. Presidents with prime ministers: Do direct elections matter?. Oxford: Oxford University Press chapter 1

Class 4 Constitutional Conventions

Readings: Taylor, Greg. 2014. Convention by consensus: Constitutional conventions in Germany. International Journal of Constitutional Law 12(2): 303-329.

Class 5 Political System of the USA (I)

Readings: US Election Booklet 2020

Class 6 Political System of the USA (II)

Readings: Marshall, William. 2008. Eleven reasons why presidential power inevitably expands and why it matters."Boston University Law Review 88: 505-522

Class 7 Political System of the USA (III)

Readings: Heitshusen, Valerie. 2020. Introduction to the Legislative Process in the U.S. Congress. Congressional Research Service.

Class 8 Political system of the United Kingdom (I)

Readinigs: Louhglin, Martin. 2015. The British Constitution: a very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Introduction and chapter 1.

Class 9 Political system of the United Kingdom (II)

Readings: Garnett, Mark and Philip Lynch. 2009. Exploring the British Politics. 2nd edition. London: Pearson and Longman. Chapter 8.

Class 10 Political system of the United Kingdom (III)

Readings: Garnett, Mark and Philip Lynch. 2009. Exploring the British Politics. 2nd edition. London: Pearson and Longman. Chapter 7.

Class 11 Political system of France

Knapp, Andrew, and Vincent Wright. 2006.The government and politics of France. Routledge. Chapter 4.

Class 12 Political system of Germany

Saalfeld, Thomas. 2003. Germany: Multiple Veto Points, Informal Co-ordination, and Problems of Hidden Action. In: Strøm, Kaare, Torbjörn Bergman, and Wolfgang C. Müller, eds. Delegation and accountability in parliamentary democracies. Oxford University Press (p. 347-375).