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Lecturer(s)
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Charvát Jakub, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Introduction to the study, acquaintance with the literature and requirements for completing the course. 2. Theoretical traditions of studying democracy in plural societies: Almond´s Comparative Political Systems and its critics. 3. Theories of consociationalism. 4. Consociational democracy and its critics. 5. Theories of centripetalism/integrative majoritarianism. 6. Theories of integrative consensualism. 7. Theories of explicitism. 8. - 14. Selected case studies of institutional engineering in plural societies (Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, South Africa, Papua-New Guinea, Fiji, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Iraq etc.)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The specialized course deals with the issue of constitutional engineering in divided societies with the ambition to establish stable democracies here. The course is divided into two parts, the first (lecture) part is devoted to the theoretical presentation of this issue, the second (seminar) part of the course is then focused on the presentation and discussion of selected specific empirical cases.
The student is able to use professional terminology. The student distinguishes individual theoretical approaches by institutional engineering in plural societies. The student is able to characterize the specifics of selected countries. The student is familiar with the key topics of institutional engineering in plural societies.
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Prerequisites
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None
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
To successfully complete the course, active participation in discussions during seminars is required, credit seminar work presenting the results of own research.
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Recommended literature
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Bauerová, H. Bosna a Hercegovina jako konsociační demokracie. Praha, 2013. ISBN 978-80-86855-98-1.
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Cabada, L., Charvát, J., Stulík, O. Současná komparativní politologie: klíčové koncepty. 2015. ISBN 978-80-7380-577-7.
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Hloušek, V. - Kopeček, L. (ed.). Demokracie. Brno: IIPS, 2003.
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LIJPHART, A. Thinking about Democracy. London - New York, 2008.
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Reilly, B. Democracy and Diversity. New York, 2006. ISBN 978-0199238705.
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Reilly, B. Democracy in Divided Societies. Cambridge, 2001. ISBN 978-0511491108.
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Reilly, B., Reynolds, A. Electoral Systems and Conflict in Divided Societies. Washington, 1999. ISBN 9780309064460.
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Reynolds, A. (ed.). The Architecture of Democracy. Oxford, 2002. ISBN 978-0199246458.
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Říchová, B. Přehled moderních politologických teorií. Empiricko-analytický přístup v soudobé politické vědě. Portál, Praha. 2000.
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