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Politics
Author: Heiko Pleines
Instructor: Klaus Segbers and Inna Melnykovska
Credits: 8
Main goals
- To identify and apply various approaches to the study of Soviet-type systems and transformation processes
- To elaborate an overview of the main challenges facing the newly established political systems
- To become familiar with information sources
General topics
- Main features and legacies of Soviet-type systems
- Different ways of regime change
- Political regimes in Eastern Europe
- Impact of international factors and globalizing contexts
- Eastern Europe as a region and the role of area studies
Assignments
Students will usually write essays applying theoretical approaches on selected cases.
Example task from the Politics Module
Think about a research question in the field of Russian and East European studies that could be fruitfully examined by using either rational choice, historical, sociological or discursive institutionalism. Explain your choice: why rational choice/historical/sociological/discursive institutionalism is suitable to study your question? Contribute your short commentary to the discussion board. Read the questions posted by others and comment on them: Do you agree with your classmate or you think that their questions could be studied using different strand of institutionalism?
Module abstract
Please find a reading example here: Politics.
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