ECTS - PWSZ im. Witelona w Legnicy

The Witelon University of Applied Sciences in Legnica - Field: Political science
ECTS Course Catalogue 2010/2011
ECTS credits
5
1. Course title
Parties and Party Systems – non-stationary studies
2. Course contents
Lecture and classes
Criteria and definitions of political party. Functioning of political party. Evolution of political party model –
from notables to mass party. The families of political parties (communist, conservative, ultra right-wing).
Conception of organization’s institutionalization by Ph. Selznick. State’s political party model in the countries of
West and Middle-East Europe. Political party model in European Union. The principles of political party
funding. Typologies of party systems. Classifications of political parties by G. Smith, J. Blondel, R. Herbut and
H. Herzog. Interparty competition. Multivariate competition area (economical and axiological extent.
Institutional determinants and their influence on interparty competition mechanism, on party system.
3. Prerequisites
None
4. Learning outcomes
Graduate knows the main political science categories within political parties’ functioning. He or she can
compare complex elements of party system structure and has an ability to identify mechanisms of mutual
relations in interparty competition (e.g. elective, coalition). He or she acquires the abilities of comparable,
analytical perceiving of state’s (national) party systems evolutions of European countries as well as of European
Union party system.
5. Recommended reading
A. Antoszewski, R. Herbut, Demokracje zachodnioeuropejskie. Analiza porównawcza, Wyd. UWr., Wrocław
1998.
R. Herbut, Teoria i praktyka funkcjonowania partii politycznych, Wyd. UWr., Wrocław 2002.
W. Jednaka (red.), Wstęp do teorii partii i systemów partyjnych, Wyd. TERRA Wyższej Szkoły Zarządzania
i Marketingu we Wrocławiu, Poznań-Wrocław 2000.
M. Moshe, Partie, ich instytucjonalizacja i modele organizacyjne, [w:] Władza i społeczeństwo 2,
J. Szczupaczyński (wyb. i opr.), Wyd. Naukowe SCHOLAR, Warszawa 1998.
M. Walecki (red.), Finansowanie polityki. Wybory, pieniądze, partie polityczne, Wydawnictwo Sejmowe,
Warszawa 2000.
R. Wiszniowski, Marketing wyborczy, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa – Wrocław 2000.
6. Type of course
Obligatory
7. Teaching team
Department of Political Science
8. Course structure
Form Number of hours Semester Year
Lecture 12 IV II
Classes 12 IV II
Laboratory
Project
Seminar
Other
Total student’s
workload
9. Assessment methods
Exam
10. Language of instruction
Polish
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