The course is an introduction to the comparative analysis of
political institutions, and to the dynamics of modern democracies. It focuses
mainly on electoral systems, party systems, executives, parliaments and other
elements of the institutional setup of different countries, as well as the
performance of diverse political systems.
Students learn how to apply concepts and methods to the analysis of everyday political problems, in order to critically read articles in leading newspapers, blogs, and weekly journals. They will also use statistical tools and the Stata software to perform simple quantitative analyses on economic and political data.
- Docente titolare: Marco Giuliani
The course aims at providing students with the method, tools and categories of comparative law to be applied to understand, from a diachronic and synchronic point of view, the legal traditions and the variety of forms of State, forms of Government and centre-periphery relations (included secession processes) of countries belonging to different geopolitical areas and sharing different concepts of Constitution. Therefore particular attention will also be paid to the crisis of constitutionalism and to new conceptual categories, such as "abusive constitutionalism", "authoritarian constitutionalism", "hybrid constitutionalism" and "unstable constitutionalism", with a view to studying new phenomena regarding the legal transplant of human rights protection and the separation of powers principles only in nominal terms.
- Docente titolare: Caterina Filippini
- Docente titolare: Lucio Valent
- Docente titolare: Silvia Salini
- Docente titolare: Kim Serena Grego