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The Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Political Science
  • Political Philosophy
  • Critical Theory
  • Weekly Wrap Up
Key Ideas and Their Foundations
  • Welcome to Week 2
  • Understanding through theories/models
  • Politics as where?
  • Politics as how?
  • Power
  • Assessment
  • Weekly wrap up
Governments, Regimes and the State
  • Welcome to Week 3
  • Classification and Comparison
  • Aristotle's 'Classical' Typology
  • Contemporary Typologies
  • The State
  • Weekly Wrap Up
Political Ideologies
  • Introduction to Week 4
  • Liberalism
  • Conservatism
  • Socialism
  • Four Waves of Feminism
  • Assessment
  • End of Course 1

Democracy
  • Welcome to Week 1
  • Conceptualising Democracy
  • Classical and Protective Democracy
  • Developmental Democracy
  • People's Democracy
  • Weekly Wrap Up
Machinery of Government
  • Week 2 Introduction
  • Constitutions
  • The Legislature
  • The Executive
  • The Judiciary
  • Assessment
  • Weekly Wrap Up
Political Economy and Globalisation
  • Political Economy and Globalisation
  • What is political about the economy?
  • Enterprise and Social Capitalism
  • Statist Responses
  • Globalisation
  • Weekly Wrap Up
Identity Politics
  • Identity Politics
  • Class analysis
  • Economic Individualism
  • Typologies of Individuals
  • The Critique of Identity Politics
  • Assessment
  • Weekly Wrap Up

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