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Lecturer(s)
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Šimsa Martin, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. What is Liberal Democracy? Attempt to delimit. Standards and facts 2. Brief History of Democracy, Liberalism and Human Rights 3. Liberal democracy, religion and secularization 4. Liberal democracy and freedom, negative and positive liberty 5. Liberal democracy and institutions. Parliament, human rights, elections, political parties, laws, constitution, rule of law, procedures, procedural theory 6. Liberal democracy and the market, capitalism - critique of liberalism, critique of capitalism, socialism, neoliberalism 7. Liberal Democracy and Republicanism 8. Liberal Democracy and Justice 9. Communitaristic critique of liberalism 10. Libertarian, Conservative critique of liberal democracy 11. Deliberative Versions of Liberal Democracy 12. Agonal, averse, representative version of liberal democracy 13. Populism, nationalism, fake news, non-liberal democracy
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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Introduction, definition and discussion of liberalism, democracy and republicanism in political philosophy of the 20th and the 21st centuries.
The student will learn basic questions, discourse, institutions and issues related to liberal democracy.
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Prerequisites
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Liberal Democracy I
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Seminar work in the range of 6-10 standard pages on a topic to be approved by the lecturer. The seminar paper will focus on one of the basic questions or problems of liberal democracy. Reading at least three titles pertaining to liberal democracy.
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Recommended literature
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Dahl, R. Demokracie a její kritici. 1995.
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Habermas, J. Diskursivní teorie liberální demokracie. 2018.
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Popper, K. R. Otevřená společnost a její nepřátelé I - II. 1994.
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Rawls, J. Political Liberalism. 1993.
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Rawls, J. Teorie spravedlnosti. 1995.
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Sartori, G. Teoria demokracie. 1993.
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Shapiro, Habermas. Teorie demokracie dnes. 2002.
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Shapiro, I. Skutečný svět demokratické teorie. 2012.
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Schumpeter, J. Kapitalismus, demokracie a socialismus. 2004.
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Urbinati, N. Znetvořená demokracie: minění, pravda a lid. 2018.
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