POLb1124 Introduction into the geography election

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Michal Pink, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Šárka Pittnerová (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Michal Pink, Ph.D.
Department of Political Science – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Lucie Pospíšilová
Supplier department: Division of Politology – Department of Political Science – Faculty of Social Studies
Prerequisites
! POL248 Introd. into the geogr. elect. && !NOW( POL248 Introd. into the geogr. elect. )
Basic knowledge from introduction in to the political sciences.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Main objetive of the course is to provide students more detailed knowledge of political support of political parties within the legislative bodies of countries in and outside the EU. At the end of the course, the students will better understand voting behaviour in the countires and differences between the various regions.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students should be able to understand and explain why political aprties win elections in selected regions.
Syllabus
  • Weekly schedule of lectures: 1. Intorduction to the topic, literature and requirements of the course, registration of presentations. 2. Delimitation of elecoral geography as a sub-disciplin of political science, relationship with political geography, demography and other social science dispiclins. Terminology (region, political region, electoral district etc.) 3. Electoral geography of the Czech Republic.. 4. Electoral geography of France 5. Electoral geography of Great Britan. 6. Electoral geography of postcommunist countries / Poland. 7. Electoral geography of USA and Canada. 8. Electoral geography of Germany, Austria. 9. Electoral geography of Scandinavian countries. 10. Electoral geography of Italy. 11. Electoral geography of Ukraine and Romania 12. Credit and final seminar.
Literature
    required literature
  • LEIB, Jonathan a Nicholas QUINTON. 2011. On the Shores of "Moribund Backwater"? Trends in Electoral Geography Research Since 1990. In WARF, Barney a Jonathan LEIB. Revitalizing electoral geography. 2. vyd. Burlington: Ashgate, s. 9-30
  • Johnston, Ron; Pattie, Charles. 2012. Learning electoral geography? Party campaigning, constituency marginality and voting at the 2010 British general election. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. Vol. 38 Issue 2, p 285-298.
  • Michael E. Shin and John Agnew. 2007. The geographical dynamics of Italian electoral change, 1987 - 2001. Electoral Studies, Volume 26, Issue 2, June 2007, Pages 287-302.
  • KYLOUŠEK, Jakub, Michal PINK a Jakub ŠEDO. 2007. Volební mapa města Brna. Brno: CDK.
  • Agnew, J. 2007. "Remaking Italy? Place Configurations and Italian Electoral Politics under the 'Second Republic,'" Modern Italy, 12/1, 17-38.
  • KOSTELECKÝ, Tomáš, Renáta MIKEŠOVÁ, Markéta POLÁKOVÁ, Daniel ČERMÁK, Josef BERNARD and Martin ŠIMON. Geografie výsledků parlamentních voleb : vzorce volebního chování v Česku 1992-2013. Vydání první. Praha: Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., 2015, 209 stran. ISBN 9788073302849. info
  • ŘÍCHOVÁ, Blanka. Přehled moderních politologických teorií : [empiricko-analytický přístup v soudobé politické vědě]. Vyd. 2. Praha: Portál, 2006, 303 s. ISBN 8073671778. info
  • DENVER, D. T. Elections and voters in Britain. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, xii, 212. ISBN 0333751914. URL info
Teaching methods
Lectures, seminars, working groups, presentation of students work.
Assessment methods
To pass successfully, you need to get 30 points out of 50. Overall assessment: 30 b. – exam test, 16 b. – continuous performance of tasks for individual hours, 4 b. – personal activity in class, presentation. Grading: A: 50-46 B: 45-42 C: 41-38 D: 37-34 E: 33-30, F: 29 and less
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Teacher's information
Fraudulent fulfillment of study obligations Teaching at FSS MU assumes that students know the study regulations and that they do not commit fraudulent fulfillment of study obligations, especially copying in exams and plagiarism, i.e. passing off other people's ideas as their own and taking over the ideas of other authors without indicating authorship. Plagiarism is one of the most serious ethical offenses in the academic environment, it denies the mission of the university and the purpose of study. From a legal point of view, plagiarism is the theft of someone else's intellectual property. Fraudulent fulfillment of study obligations cannot be tolerated at FSS under any circumstances. Any case of fraudulent behavior will be punished with the most severe penalty, namely unconditional expulsion from the course. We recommend that students familiarize themselves as thoroughly as possible with the problem of plagiarism and ways to avoid it.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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