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B028834 - ELECTORAL SYSTEMS HISTORY
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Academic Year 2019-20
Coorte 2019 - Second Cycle Degree in POLITICS, INSTITUTIONS AND MARKET
Course year
First year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Political and Social Sciences (DSPS)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
SPS/03 - HISTORY OF POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
42
Teaching Term
24/02/2020 ⇒ 29/05/2020
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Teaching Language
italian
Course Content
The course is devoted to the cultures of voting from classical antiquity to nowadays. If during the last 250 years the vote is become the main tool, for every citizen, to participate in the political life of a national community, it represents a far more ancient presence in the institutional panorama. The course presents the various uses to which it has been directed throughout the centuries, aiming at better understanding the limits and the future of our electoral democracies.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
The students who attend the class will prepare their exam by the means of the materials distributed during the lessons. To those who cannot attend the course it is requested the study of both these textes:
a. Bernard Manin, Principi del governo rappresentativo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010;
b. Raffaele Romanelli, Electoral systems and social structures: a comparative perspective, in How did they become voters?, edited bY R.Romanelli, London, Kluwer Law, 1998, pp. 1-36
a. Bernard Manin, Principi del governo rappresentativo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010;
b. Raffaele Romanelli, Electoral systems and social structures: a comparative perspective, in How did they become voters?, edited bY R.Romanelli, London, Kluwer Law, 1998, pp. 1-36
Learning Objectives
Making the student able to face and to critically discuss a long-term institutional subject, through an active participation to the class.
Prerequisites
General preparation in modern history and political science.
Teaching Methods
The class is conducted in seminar form. Didactic materials will be distributed during the semester.
Type of Assessment
The test at the end of the lessons will be in oral form.