FSS:POL407 Interest Groups and Soc. Mov. - Course Information
POL407 Interest Groups and Social Movements
Faculty of Social StudiesSpring 2013
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 9 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Milan Hrubeš, DiS., Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Aneta Pinková, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Stanislav Balík, Ph.D.
Division of Politology – Department of Political Science – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Iva Petříková
Supplier department: Division of Politology – Department of Political Science – Faculty of Social Studies - Timetable
- Tue 14:00–15:40 U32
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Political Science (programme FSS, N-PL)
- Sociology (programme FSS, N-SO)
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course the students shall be able to apply the most important theoretical concepts needed for the analysis of organized interests in a broader societal context, and to identify and compare various national and transnational systems of interest groups and social movements. Students shall also be able to describe the patterns of collective action and its key components particularly in the Czech Republic, selected Western European countries, at the EU level and in the US.
- Syllabus
- 1. Course Introduction and Organization
- 2. Interest Groups: Term and Definitions
- 3. Social Movements: Term and Definitions
- 4. Pluralism
- 5. Corporatism
- 6. Protest
- 7. Variations of Pluralism - organized interests in the USA and Great Britain
- 8. Variations of Corporatism – organized interests in Scandinavia
- 9. Variations of Protest - organized interests in France
- 10. Regimes of Transnational Collective Action - organized interests in the EU
- 11. Collective Action in the Czech Republic
- 12. Interest Group System in the Czech Republic
- 13. reading week
- Literature
- BALME, Richard and Didier CHABANET. European governance and democracy : power and protest in the EU. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008, xvii, 267. ISBN 9780742529359. info
- CÍSAŘ, Ondřej. Politický aktivismus v České republice: Sociální hnutí a občanská společnost v období transformace a evropeizace (Political Activism in the Czech Republic: Social Movements and Civil Society in the Eras of Transformation and Europeanization). Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2008, 187 pp. Politologická řada, sv. č. 28. ISBN 978-80-7325-168-0. URL info
- BERRY, Jeffrey M. and Clyde WILCOX. The interest group society. 4th ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2007, x, 212. ISBN 9780321430151. info
- Participace a zájmové organizace v České republice. Edited by Zdenka Mansfeldová - Aleš Kroupa. Vyd. 1. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství (SLON), 2005, 244 s. ISBN 8086429539. info
- HIX, Simon. The political system of the European Union. 2nd ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, xxii, 490. ISBN 033396182X. URL info
- CÍSAŘ, Ondřej. Transnacionální politické sítě: Jak mezinárodní instituce ovlivňují činnost nevládních organizací (Transnational Policy Networks: How International Institutions Influence the Activities of Nongovernmental Organizations). Brno: Masarykova univerzita, Mezinárodní politologický ústav, 2004, 181 pp. Monografie, sv. č. 11. ISBN 8021035919. info
- Pressure groups in british politics. Edited by Bill Coxall. 1st pub. Harlow: Longman, 2001, x, 205. ISBN 0582289947. info
- OLSON, Mancur. The logic of collective action :public goods and the theory of groups. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971, x, 186 s. ISBN 0-674-53751-3. info
- Teaching methods
- Teaching methods consist of lectures, and class discussions based on students´presentations.
- Assessment methods
- The final grade will be based on the evaluation of the final exam (maximum of 32 points) and position papers (maximum of 18 points each final-exam question gets between 0 and 10 points).
Evaluation:
A. 50-46 points
B. 45-42 points
C. 41-38 points
D. 37-34 points
E. 33-30 points
F. 29 points and less - Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2013, recent)
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