27. 2. Class n°1: Introduction of essential concepts: government, governance, politics, policy

No reading

5. 3. Class n°2: Types of regimes

Reading: Cheibub, J.A. et al. (2010). „Democracy and Dictatorship Revisited.“ Public Choice 143 (1-2): 67-101.

12. 3. Class n°3: State and legitimacy

Reading: Barker, R. (1990) „Political Legitimacy.“ In Barker, R., Political Legitimacy and the State (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 20-44.

19. 3. Class n°4: Political parties and their role in non-democratic regimes

Reading: Shirah, R. (2016). „Electoral Authoritarianism and Political Unrest“, International Political Science Review 37(4), 470-484.

26. 3. Class n°5: Is democracy under the threat? The rise of populism

Reading: Mudde, C. (2004). „The Populist Zeitgeist”. Government and Opposition 39(4), 542-563.

2. 4. Class n°6: Policy problems

Reading: Rochefort, D. and Cobb, R. (1994). Problem Definition: An Emerging Perspective. In Cobb, R. and Rochefort, D., The Politics of Problem Definition: Shaping the Policy Agenda (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas), 1-31.

9. 4. Class n°7: Policy-making: How to make a policy and what´s next?

Reading: Perl, A. (2020). „Studying policy dynamics: policy cycles and regimes.“ In Capano, G. and Howlett, M. (eds) A Modern Guide to Public Policy (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited), 22-40.

16. 4. Class n°8: Corruption in politics

Reading: Liu, C. (2016) „Public Corruption: Causes, Consequences, and Cures.“ In Klassen, T.R. et al. (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Global Public Policy and Administration (Abingdon and New York: Taylor & Francis Group), 134-146.- reading online only through UKAZ database.

23. 4. no class

30. 4. Class n°9: Left- and right-wing politics and/or other cleavages

Reading: Kriesi, H. (2010). Restructuration of Partisan Politics and the Emergence of a New Cleavage Based on Values, West European Politics, 33(3), 673-685.

7. 5. Class n°10: European Left: what happened after the end of the welfare state? (M. Mejstřík)

Reading: March, L., Radical Left Success before and after Great Recession (2016). In March, L. and D. Keith, Europe´s Radical Left: From Marginality to Mainstream? (London: Rowman), 27-50.

14. 5. Class n°11 - Political parties and their role in non-democratic regimes

Reading: Shirah, R. (2016). „Electoral Authoritarianism and Political Unrest“, International Political Science Review 37(4), 470-484.