COURSE OUTLINE

Week/ Lecture/ Module Topics Recommended

Readings
Objectives/
Application
Lecture 1 What is politics? Andrew Heywood. What is
politics? in Politics. London:
Macmillan Publishers, 1997:
3-22.
Concepts
Lecture 2 Development of Political
Science
Robert J. Jackson and
Doreen Jackson, Political
Science Yesterday and
Today in Comparative
Introduction to Political
Science (1997), pp. 16-33.
Concepts
Lecture 3 Power and authority Andrew Heywood. Political
Ideas and Concepts: an
introduction London:
Macmillan Publishers, 1994:
Chapter 4
Concepts
Lecture 4 Emergence of the modern
state
Gianfranco Poggi. The State,
its Nature, Development and
Prospects. UK: Polity Press
1990: 19-34
Concepts and political
institutions
Lecture 5 Nations and Nationalism Political institutions and
ideological streams
Lecture 6 Political culture and
socialization
Concepts
Lecture 7 Civil society
Andrew Heywood Chapter
5, Nationalism in Political
ideologies: An Introduction
Third Edition. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004:
155-187
Andrew Heywood, Political
Culture and Legitimacy in
Key Concepts in Politics
(1997), pp. 185-203.
Larry Diamond Toward
democratic consolidation
in Larry Diamond and Marc
Plattner (eds.) The Global
Resurgence of Democracy
2
nd
edition, JHU Press:
Baltimore, 1996: 227-240.
Concepts, institutions,
political process,
Lecture 8 Understanding ideology Andrew Heywood, Chapter
1, Introduction:
Understanding Ideology in
Political ideologies: An
Introduction Third Edition.
New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2004: 1-23
Concepts, political
process, ideological
streams
Lecture 9 Liberalism A Heywood, Chapter 2,
Liberalism, pp: 25-69
Ideological streams
Lecture 10 Conservatism Heywood, Chapter 3,
Conservatism, pp. 69-83.
Ideological streams
Lecture 11 Socialism Heywood, Chapter 4,
Socialism, pp. 105-117
and 143-54
Ideological streams
Lecture 12 Fascism Ideological streams
Lecture 13 Feminism Ideological streams
Lecture 14 Democracy in the modern
world
Heywood, Chapter 6
Fascism Political
Ideologies (1992 Edition),
pp. 171-192.
Heywood, Feminism,
Chapter 8, Political
Ideologies (1992 Edition),
pp. 216-241
Heywood, Chapter 10
Democracy Political
Ideologies, (1992 Edition),
pp. 269-294
Concepts, ideologies,
political process
Lecture 15 Mid-term
Lecture 16 The end of ideology
debate
Maya Lloyd, The end of
ideology? in Robert
Eccleshall, et al., Political
Ideologies (2003), pp. 217-
242.
Concepts, ideologies,
political process
Lecture 17 Functions of the state Andrew Heywood, Chapter
5 The State in Politics.
London: Macmillan
Publishers, 1997: 83-99
Political institutions,
political process
Lecture 18 Constitutions, laws and
judiciary
Constitutions, Laws and
Judiciaries
Heywood, Chapter 14
Constitutions, the Law and
Judiciaries in Politics, pp.
273-358.
Institutions, political
process
Lecture 19 Assemblies and Political
Executives
Heywood, Chapters 15, 16
Assemblies, Political
Executives pp. 294-336.
Political institutions,
political process
Lecture 20 Levels of government Heywood, Chapter 7,
Subnational Politics in
Politics. pp.122-137.
Political institutions,
political process
Lecture 21 Political parties and
interest groups
Heywood, Chapters 12 and
13 Parties and Party
Systems and Groups,
Interest and Movements in
Politics, pp. 230-268.
Political institutions and
political process
Lecture 22 Electoral politics and
electoral behaviour
Heywood. Chapter 11
Representation, Elections
and Voting in Politics, pp.
205-228.
Political institutions and
political process
Lecture 23 Elites and Political
Leadership
Harold D. Lasswell, The
Study of Political Elites in
On Political Sociology, pp.
114-134.
Political process
Lecture 24 Pluralism and
Multiculturalism
Anna ElisabettaGaleotti,
Identity, Difference,
Toleration in John S.
Dryzek et al., The Oxford
Handbook of Political
Theory (2006), pp. 564-
Political process
580.
Lecture 25 Globalization and politics Joseph Nye,
Interdependence,
Globalization, and the
Information Age in
Understanding International
Conflict: An introduction to
Theory and History (2000).
PP. 177-206.
Political concepts,
political process
Lecture 26 International politics Heywood, Chapter 8,
Global Politics in Politics,
pp. 139-162.
Political concepts,
political process
Lecture 27 Peace and Conflicts "The Spiral of International
Security" in Richard Little
and Michael Smith eds.,
World Politics (1991),
pp.91-101
Political concepts,
political process
Lecture 28 Course review