FSS:POL596 Czech Politics after 1989 - Course Information
POL596 Czech Politics after the November 1989
Faculty of Social StudiesAutumn 2016
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 7 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. Lubomír Kopeček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Lubomír Kopeček, Ph.D.
Division of Politology – 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 - Timetable
- Mon 11:30–13:00 U41
- 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)
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course, students should be able to understand and explain key moments and events of Czech politics after 1989.
- Syllabus
- 1. Introduction; 2. Communist regime and society; 3. Charter 77 and opposition; 4. Birth of the Civic Forum; 5. Building of the new political regime; 6. Economic reform, privatisation and neoliberal Zeitgeist; 7. Lustrations; 9. Crises of the Czech-Slovak relationships; 10. Czech right-wing and left-wing parties and their leaders; 11. Evaluation of new Czech democracy.
- Literature
- KOPEČEK, Lubomír. Éra nevinnosti. Česká politika 1989-1997 (The Age of Innocence. Czech Politics 1989 to 1997). Brno: Barrister & Principal, 2010, 380 pp. edice Politika, ekonomika a mezinárodní vztahy. ISBN 978-80-87029-98-5. URL info
- SUK, Jiří. Labyrintem revoluce : aktéři, zápletky a křižovatky jedné politické krize : (od listopadu 1989 do června 1990). Vyd. 2. Praha: Prostor, 2009, 507 s. ISBN 9788072602193. info
- Teaching methods
- seminars, class discussion, reading.
- Assessment methods
- Position papers, presentation and written examination.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2016, recent)
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