UE 2-4 International studies 2
Composante
Collège Etudes Européennes et Internationales (EEI)
Liste des enseignements
EC 24.1 Legal Systems
Composante
Collège Etudes Européennes et Internationales (EEI)
Heures d'enseignement
Legal Systems
EC 24.2 Political sciences 2
Composante
Collège Etudes Européennes et Internationales (EEI)
Heures d'enseignement
Political sciences 2
Plan (simplifié) du cours :
- Introduction - Defining political science
- I) Preliminary definition
- II) Object definition
- III) Methodological issues
- IV) Seminar’s objectives
- Chapter 1 - The Foundings : Political power and the state
- I) Forming society: Keeping social conflicts to an acceptable level
- II) Which state?
- Chapter 2 - Political competition
- I) Elections
- II) The political market
- Chapter 3 - Political actors
- I) Political parties
- II) Interest groups
- III) Media
The seminar will provide students with an understanding of the basic concepts and methods of political science, to explain how political power has been analysed and limited. Besides studying the debates surrounding the political science’s definition and methods of analysis, the seminar will highlight the main actors and processes that bring political phenomena to life.
The first semester will focus on actors (such as voters, political parties, or trade unions) and processes, to build a theorical frame, that will be used during the second semester, to analyse different political systems, especially France and the United States. The seminar will therefore combine a theoretical approach, by studying political theory; and a practical approach, by examining comparative politics.
