HISTORY AND THEORIES OF DEMOCRACY
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- Academic year
- 2021/2022
- Teacher
- ALBERTO CASTELLI
- Credits
- 6
- Curriculum
- Comunicazione pubblica e sociale
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- SPS/02
Training objectives
- 1) Knowledge of the fundamental principles of democracies
2) Understanding of the inner dynamics of democracies
3)Acquiring of the linguistic basis to understand and explain the democratic decision-making process. Prerequisites
- None. Some knowledge of history of political thought can be useful.
Course programme
- The most important problems of representative democracies are going to be discussed during the course. Both classical and contemporary issues of democratic theory and being dealt with.
Didactic methods
- Lessons are going to be recorded.
Learning assessment procedures
- Oral exam
Reference texts
- Il testo fondamentale è
Jan-Werner Muller, L'enigma democrazia. Le idee politiche nell'Europa del Novecento, Torino, Einaudi, 2012.
Oltre al libro di Muller, i candidati dovranno studiare uno a scelta dei seguenti testi:
N. Bobbio, Eguaglianza e libertà, Torino, Einaudi, 2020
Yves Mény, Popolo ma non troppo. Il malinteso democratico, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019.
Tzvetan Todorov, I nemici intimi della democrazia, Milano, Garzanti, 2012.
