The plan of the course POLITICAL SCIENCE
Topical Module 1. Politics and political power
- Political science as a subject of study
- Subject and tasks of political science
- Definition, structure and functions of politics
- Political power
- Conception and structure of political power
- Political elites and political leadership
Topical Module 2. Political system of society
- Theory of political system
- Definition, structure and functions of political system
- Political regimes
- Political institutions
- State in political system
- Political parties and the party system
- Political culture
- Definition, structure and types of political culture
- Political ideology
- Political processes
- Conception and types of political processes
- Political conflicts and crises
- International policy
- International policy and international relations
- Geopolitics
Political Sciencequestions for examination
- Subject and method of political science. Place of political science in the system of social sciences.
- Definition and functions of politics.
- Political relationship, political consciousness and political organization as constituents of politics.
- Political thought of antiquity and medieval religious and political conceptions.
- Political thought of Modern Times.
- Definition of political power. Modern conceptions of political power.
- Structure of political power. Resources of political power.
- Principles of organization and functioning of political power.
- Conception of political elite. Classical and modern theories of elites.
- Political leadership. Classification of political leaders.
- Definition and mechanism of political system functioning.
- Typology of political systems.
- Political stability and political risk.
- Totalitarian political regime: definition and features. Historical types of totalitarianism.
- Conception and types of authoritarian political regime.
- Democratic political regime: definition and features.
- Peculiarities of post-totalitarian political regimes functioning and development.
- Conception and structure of civil society.
- State: conception, features and place in political system.
- Monarchy as a form of government. Peculiarities of monarchic institution in modern world.
- Conception and types of republic form of government.
- Unitary state system: conception and features.
- Federation: conception and main types in modern world.
- Legal state. Principles of legal state. Social orientation of legal state.
- Definition, features and functions of political party. Typology of political parties.
- Party systems in modern world.
- Groups of interests and groups of pressure.
- Social and political organizations and movements.
- Definition, features and functions of political culture.
- Typology of political cultures.
- Political stereotypes, political myths and political symbols.
- Political subcultures: conception and types.
- Definition, features and functions of political ideology.
- Classification of modern political ideologies.
- Conception and mechanisms of political socialization.
- Stages of political socialization.
- Political conduct: conception and types.
- Main forms of political participation. Electoral conduct.
- Conception and types of political protest.
- Political terrorism: substance and causes of beginning.
- Conception and main motives of political non-participation.
- Conception and types of political process.
- Political development and political modernization. Types of modernization.
- Political conflict: substance, structure and typology.
- Conception of political crisis. Models of crisis development of political conflicts.
- Ways of political conflicts solving.
- Elections: conception, functions and types.
- Conception and main types of electoral system.
- Conception and principles of international politics.
- International relations nowadays: characteristics and trends of development.
- Structure, functions and categories of geopolitics.
- Geopolitical analysis of modern international relations. Main geopolitical regions in modern world.
- Conception and classification of global problems of the present. Political ways of solving of global problems of mankind.
- International security and global political process: problems of new international political order forming.
LITERATURE to the course
- Arendt H. The Origins of Totalitarism. N.Y. 1951.
- Arendt H., Brzezinski Z. The Totalitarian Mind. N.Y., 1955.
- Barrow Clyde. The Intellectual Origins of New Political Science. – Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007.
- Carl B. Stokes: And the Rise of Black Political Power.
- Carter, April Direct Action and Liberal Democracy (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 6)– Taylor&Francis, 2012.
- Carter, April Authority and Democracy (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 5) – Taylor&Francis, 2012.
- Datta, Amlan Socialism, Democracy and Industrialization Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 53 – Taylor&Francis, 2012.
- David Hume Political Essays – Cambridge University Press, 2010
- Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken Political System – 2010
- Martin A. Miller The Foundations of Modern Terrorism: State, Society and the Dynamics of Political Violence – Cambridge University Press, 2013
- Political power essence, basic features and types of power. Concept of power – http://www.philosofy.dsmu.edu.ua/_doc/eng/Lecture 3 POLITICAL POWER.doc
- Political Science Lectures (in English) by Dept. of Political Science, Lund University – https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/political-science-lectures/id410318363
- Political Science. Archive of All Online Issues: Sep 1948 – Dec 2013 // http://pnz.sagepub.com/
- Robert E. Goodin, Hans-Dieter Klingemann The New Handbook of Political Science – Oxford University Press, 2012
- The Encyclopedia of Political Science, Volume 1-5 , By George T Kurian, James E Alt, Simone Chambers, Geoffrey Garrett, Margaret Levi, Paula D Mcclain – Oxford University Press, 2010. – 1801 р.