Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
This course aims to examine political parties and electoral systems, which are among the major topics of political science. The emergence of political parties, their basic functions, party systems, party families shaped by political ideologies, party membership, voter support, and the role of parties in policy-making processes and government will be discussed, respectively. Then, based on the argument that political parties are in decline, the meaning and importance of political parties for contemporary political systems will be questioned. In the second part of the course, the institution of elections, which is indispensable for the establishment and legitimacy of political systems, and electoral systems, which refers to all kinds of regulations related to electoral processes, will be discussed. Majority and proportional representation electoral systems will be introduced in detail in the light of different applications, and then the relationship between electoral systems and party systems and their political consequences will be analyzed.
1. Course overview and introduction
2. Definition of political party, and theories
of party development
3. Functions of political parties, and party
systems
4. Political ideologies and party families
5. Party membership and candidate selection
6. Issue competition, agenda-setting, and
policy making
7. Parties in government and opposition, and
the crisis of political parties
8. Majoritarian and proportional electoral
systems
9. Consequences of electoral systems for
political systems
10. Presentations
11. Presentations
12. Presentations
13. Presentations
14. General evaluation of the course
Week 1:
Course overview and introduction
Week 2:
Definition of political party, and theories of party development
Pettitt, R.T. 2014. Contemporary Party
Politics, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.1-20, 43-59.
Week 3:
Functions of political parties, and party systems
Pettitt, R.T. 2014. Contemporary Party Politics, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.21-42.
Enyedi, Z. and Bertoa, F.C. 2023. “Party
Systems and Party Change”, The Routledge
Handbook of Political Parties. Ed.Carter, N. et al., London and New York:
Routledge, pp.30-41.
Wisendahl, E. 2022. Political Party Research –
An Overview, Springer (E-Book), pp.57-72.
Week 4:
Political ideologies and party families
Pettitt, R.T. 2014. Contemporary Party Politics, New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
pp.60-83.
Dennison, J. and Hunger, S. 2023. “Cleavage
Politics in the 21st Century”, The
Routledge Handbook of Political Parties. Ed.Carter, N. et al., London and
New York: Routledge, pp.115-124.
Week 5:
Party membership and candidate selection
Pettitt, R.T. 2014. Contemporary Party Politics, New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
pp.84-102, 103-123.
Scarrow, S. 2023. “Party Membership”, The Routledge Handbook of Political Parties.
Ed.Carter, N. et al., London and New York: Routledge, pp.56-67.
Week 6:
Issue competition, agenda-setting, and policy making
Pettitt, R.T. 2014. Contemporary Party Politics, New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
pp.84-102, 103-123.
Green-Pedersen, C. 2023. “Issue-Competition
and Agenda-Setting”, The Routledge
Handbook of Political Parties. Ed.Carter, N. et al., London and New York:
Routledge, pp.211-220.
Week 7:
Parties in government and opposition, and the crisis of political parties
Pettitt, R.T. 2014. Contemporary Party Politics, New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
pp.84-102, 103-123.
Green, Z. and Alexiadou, D. 2023. “Parties in
Government and Coalition”, The Routledge
Handbook of Political Parties. Ed.Carter, N. et al., London and New York:
Routledge, pp.232-242.
Week 8: Majoritarian and proportional
electoral systems
Farrell, D.M. 1997. Comparing Electoral Systems, London: Macmillan, pp.1-11
Reynolds, A. et al. 2008. Electoral System
Design – The New International IDEA Handbook, Stockholm: IDEA Publication,
pp.27-33.
Week 9:
Consequences of electoral systems for political systems
Farrell, D.M. 1997. Comparing Electoral Systems, London: Macmillan, pp.142-168