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The rise of Populism (2235.YR.015336.1)

General information

Type:

 OPT

Curs:

 2

Period:

 S semester

ECTS Credits:

 3 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group Teacher Department Language
Year 2 Lorne Nolan Richards Derecho internacional, Comparado y de la Unión Europea ENG

Prerequisites

First Year Global Governance

Previous Knowledge

Previous knowledge of glabal politics and political theory is desired but not essential.

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

To introduce the students to the political phenonemon of poulism

Methodology

A range of texts will be analysed looking at the phenonemon of populism and its increase in recent years.
Students will be expected to be proactive and participative.

Assessment criteria

Final exam 80%
Class participation/presentations 20%

Bibliography

Altemeyer B, Right-Wing Authoritarianism. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press. (Manitoba University Press, 1981)
Krastev, Ivan ?The Age of Populism: Reflections on the Self-Enmity of Democracy', European View, 10.1 (2011),
Levitsky, Steven and Ziblatt, Daniel ?How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future' Penguin 2018.
McDonnell, Duncan. ?A Weekend in Padania: Regionalist Populism and the Lega Nord', Politics, 26.2 (2006)
Mudde, Cas 'Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Mudde, Cas and Rovira Kaltwasser, Critstóbal ?Populism. A Very Short Introduction.' OUP 2017.
Mudde, CasPopulist Radical Right Parties in Europe. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Müller, Jan-Werner: What is Populism? Penguin 2017
Olivas Osuna, Jose Javier ?Deconstructing and Comparing Populism: The Cases of SNP and Catalan Independence Parties', 2019.
Schmitt, Carl 'Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy.' 1926.

Timetable and sections

Group Teacher Department
Year 2 Lorne Nolan Richards Derecho internacional, Comparado y de la Unión Europea

Timetable Year 2

From 2024/2/13 to 2024/5/14:
Each Tuesday from 8:00 to 10:30. (Except: 2024/3/26)