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| ULS5905 | Comparative Politics | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Alper Tolga BULUT | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The main objective of this course is to inform the students about the ongoing debates in the comparative politics literature and to help them gain skills that will enable them to analyze basic concepts and problems. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | Understand the main debates in the comparative politics literatüre | | | | PO - 2 : | Will be able to grasp the differences between regime types | | | | PO - 3 : | Will gain basic knowledge about parties, party systems, and party families | | | | PO - 4 : | Will be able to analyze the effect of electoral systems on government types | | | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| This course aims to analyze the development of the Comparative Politics field and therefore will cover the following topics: Methods in comparative politics, regime types, democracies and other systems, regime change, political culture, political parties and party systems, elections and electoral systems, government types, lobby groups. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | The development of the field of comparative politics | | | Week 2 | Methods in comparative politics | | | Week 3 | Poltical regimes | | | Week 4 | Hybrid regimes | | | Week 5 | Regime change | | | Week 6 | Democratization | | | Week 7 | political culture | | | Week 8 | change in political culture | | | Week 9 | midterm | | | Week 10 | party systems | | | Week 11 | elections and electoral systems | | | Week 12 | pressure groups and civil society | | | Week 13 | political parties | | | Week 14 | Government systems | | | Week 15 | presidentialism and parliamentary system | | | Week 16 | final exam | | | |
| 1 | Sayarı, Sabri ve Hasret Dikici Bilgin. 2014, Karşılaştırmalı Siyaset: Temel Konular ve Yaklaşımlar, İstanbul | | | |
| 1 | Lijphart, Arend. 2012., Demokrasi Modelleri, Ithaca 2012 | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 30/11/2020 | 1 | 30 | | In-term studies (second mid-term exam) | 12 | 22/12/2020 | 1 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 29/01/2021 | 1 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 5 | 14 | 70 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 6 | 5 | 30 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Ödev | 5 | 6 | 30 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 6 | 8 | 48 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 3 | 3 | | Total work load | | | 225 |
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