Checking date: 19/04/2024


Course: 2024/2025

The Future of Democracy
(19620)
Bachelor in International Studies (Plan: 504 - Estudio: 305)


Coordinating teacher: FISHMAN , ROBERT MICHAEL

Department assigned to the subject: Social Sciences Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

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Objectives
To analyze major theories and arguments on the current challenges and the future of democracy.
Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
With setbacks, democracy has become the political benchmark in the international order. This course addresses the challenges of democracy today, from populism to technocracy to electoral authoritarianism. The course analyzes international trends in the democratization process as well as the internal mutations of current democracies.
Learning activities and methodology
THEORETICAL PRACTICAL CLASSES Knowledge and concepts students must acquire. Student receive course notes and will have basic reference texts to facilitatefollowing the classes and carrying out follow up work.Students partake in exercises to resolve practical problems and participatein workshops and an evaluation tests, all geared towards acquiring the necessary capabilities.Subjects with 6 ECTS are44 hours as a general rule/ 100% classroom instruction. TUTORING SESSIONS Individualized attendance (individual tutoring) or in-group (group tutoring) for students with a teacher. Subjects with 6 credits have 4 hours of tutoring/ 100% on- site attendance. STUDENT INDIVIDUAL WORK OR GROUP WORK Subjects with 6 credits have 98 hours/0% on-site.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40




Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
  • Achen, Christopher and Larry Bartels. Democracy for Realists. Princeton University Press. 2016
  • Dahl, Robert. On Democracy. Yale University Press. 1998
  • Della Porta, Donatella. Can Democracy Be Saved?. Polity Press. 2013
  • Levitsky, Steve and Daniel Ziblatt. How Democracies Die. Crown. 2018
  • Rosenbluth, Frances and Ian Shapiro. Responsible Parties . Yale University Press. 2018

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.