Localitatea: CLUJ - NAPOCA
Universitatea: UNIVERSITATEA BABES - BOLYAI
Facultatea: FACULTATEA DE STIINTE POLITICE, ADMINISTRATIVE SI ALE COMUNICARII
Contact
Adresa: Str. General Traian Mosoiu, nr 71, Cluj-Napoca, cod 400132
Telefon: +40264-431505
Fax: +40264-406054
Program objectives
This program aims at teaching its students fundaments of political science and specialized techniques for the management of political organization (social statistics, evaluation and negotiation). At the same time we will try to develop our students' managerial capabilities and promote an organizational culture that emphasizes efficiency and efficacy.
Curriculum
1st semester Political Organizations and Development
Management of Non-Governmental Organizations
Political Leadership
Negotiation in Organizations
Seminar on Case Study Method in Political Science
2nd semester Political Communication
The Analysis of Political Programs
Analysing, Representing and Interpreting Social Data
Organizational Ethics
Professors
Professor Vasile Boari, Ph.D.
Professor Liviu-Petru Zapartan, Ph.D.
Associate professor Catalin Baba, Ph.D.
Associate professor Gabriel Badescu, Ph.D.
Associate professor Ileana Petras-Voicu, Ph.D.
Associate professor Levente Salat, Ph.D.
Lecturer Irina Kantor, Ph.D.and tutors . (to be announced)
Program structure
Each semester is organized into 4 modules. Each of the modules has a length of 3 weeks during which only one course is scheduled.
For the 1st semester the course modules are scheduled as follows:
13-31 October - Political Organizations and Development
3-21 November - Negotiation in Organizations
24 November - 12 December - Management of Non-Governmental Organizations
15-21 December, 5-17 January - Political Leadership
For the 2nd semester the schedule of modules will be announced.
For each of the 8 courses tutorials will be scheduled every three weeks. Tutors will provide assistance with your coursework, as well as with your dissertation research.
Course syllabi
Political Organizations and Development
Delivered by: Assoc. Prof. Ileana Petras-Voicu, Ph.D.
Teaching assistant Daniel Pop
Course description and objectives:
The goal of the course is to introduce students to the key problems related to the understanding, interpreting and analysis of political organizations. The course mainly focuses on the study of two types of political organizations: political parties and interest groups. These are essential for the understanding of modern political systems and the evolution of democratic societies. The course is dedicated both to the study of comparative methods and the practical analysis of various party typologies, the formation of political parties, the institutionalization of parties, party systems. We also analyze the formation of interest groups and their system in nowadays Romania.
The course introduces and helps students to acquire the necessary skills to apply models of analysis to the study of political parties and interest groups. By this we expect to improve students' analytical skills necessary for their professional carrier. Given the applied character of the course we also expect to avoid passive and exclusively theoretical learning. Given all these we expect students to actively participate to both lectures and seminars.
At seminars students will be divided in two or three groups. Each student group will receive a different article. Articles present opposing arguments on the topic discussed. Materials will be either handed out or be available at the Faculty's library.
Evaluation:
Student work will be evaluated as follows:
- Weekly short essay assignment, representing 15% of the final grade. Only short essays submitted by the due date will be considered for evaluation and grading. Essays are expected to range between 500 and 1.000 words.
- Case studies will be elaborated by groups of three students on a topic agreed upon in advance with the instructor. Each student is required to participate in the elaboration of at least one case study. The length of the case studies will be between 15 to 25 a double spaced (12-font character) page. Case studies submitted in timely manner will count for up to 30% of the final grade. Late papers will not be accepted, except extraordinary circumstances. Students at the seminar on the topic of the week will present case studies.
- Active seminar participation, if substantial, will account for up to 10% of the final grade.
- Written final exam with exam questions including problems based on the course material. The exam will be a take home empirically based evaluation of previously settled political institutions. The results of the exam will count up to 45% of the final grade. Failing to take the exam (or, a less than 50% success rate) will lead to failing the course.
Course and seminar themes and topics:
1. Post-communist party systems and democratic procedures - strategies of democratization, party continuity and discontinuity, elite formation, different institutional structures and democratic procedures; the co-ordination of different political functions, the development of the pluralist policy process.
Seminar: Case study on forms of centralisation - decentralisation, and separation of power issues.
2. Political alignments and dimensions of competition - types of emerging political parties, political preference formation, historical legacies, party representation, emerging political legacies, types of citizen mobilization, programmatic competition etc.
Seminar: Case study on Expressive versus instrumental voting?
3. Political representation and the quality of democratic governance - democratic institutions (electoral laws and procedures), democratic accountability and responsiveness, policy versus mandate representation, absolute versus relative representation,
Seminar: Case studies on types of political representation?
4. Interest groups - interest groups definitions, types of interest groups, the role of interest groups, state capture by interest groups and so on.
Seminar: Case studies on policy networks.
5. The main groups of interests - interest group membership, key interest groups, internal dynamics, the club goods created by interest groups, entry barriers etc.
Seminar: Case studies on the opportunity of institutional change or when to change institutions?
6. The development of interest groups in Central and Eastern European countries - types of interest groups, the main interest groups, the membership of main interest groups, their impact on policy-making, and so on.
Seminar: Infrastructure policy - policy issues, actors, policy choices, decision mechanisms.
7. Cross-country comparison of political organizations: what can we learn by comparing institutions.
8. Methods of cross-country comparison of political institutions: comparability and other methodological issues; possible solutions.
Seminar: Case study on the relevance of the quantitative versus qualitative methodological divide.
Compulsory readings
Cigler, Allan J ; Loamis, Burdett A. - Interest Group Politics, Congressional Quarterly, 1995
Gabriel A. Almond, G. Bingham Powell, Jr. Comparative Politics Today, A World View, 6th edition, Harpers Collins College Publishers, 1996, p. 70-86, cap. 5. Interest Groups and Interest Articulation.
Harmel, Robert ; Svasand, Lars - Party Leadership and Party Institutionalisation : Three Phases of Development, in West European Politics, Nr. 16/1993, p. 67-88.
Herbert Kitschelt, Zdenka Mansfeldova, Radoslaw Markowski, Gabor Toka - Post-Communist Party Systems : Competition, Representation and Inter-Party Cooperation
La Palombara ; M. Weiner - Political Parties and Political Development, Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1996
Rod Hague, Martin Harrop and Shaun Berslin, Political Science. A Comparative Introduction, St. Martin`s Press, N.Y., 1992, cap.9. Interest Groups...
Petras Voicu, Introducere in sociologia politica, ed. Transilvania Press, 1994, cap. Grupurile de interes.
Wilson, James Q. - Political Organization, Oxford : Oxford University Press
*** Selection from Max Weber : The Theory of Social and Economic Organization. Translated by A.M. Henderson and Talcott Parsons, c. 1947, Oxford University Press
Further reading will be distributed before courses and seminars.
Negotiation in Organizations
Delivered by Prof. Liviu-Petru Zapartan, Ph.D.
Syllabus TBA
Political Leadership
Delivered by Assoc.Prof. Levente Salat, Ph.D.
Teaching assistant Mirela Nemes
The aim of the course:
This course is primarily concerned with the relationship between the managerial skills and competences of political leaders and the characteristics of the public sector organizations. Students will use a specific diagnostic technique - the Competing Values Assessment - to construct a case study section in which they will diagnose the leadership style of a particular political leader. Starting from the leadership style assessed they will comment on the type of behaviors expected, as well as on the way this behavior matches the characteristics of the organizational environment.
Bibliography:
Quinn, R.E., Faerman, S.R., Thompson, M.P., and McGrath, M.R. (1996) Becoming a Master Manager. A Competency Framework, Second edition, John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Evaluation:
Written examination: 50%.
Reports of self-assessments of student's leadership competencies profiles: 50%
Lecture Topics:
1. Managerial leadership in political institutions - the competing values framework in analyzing managerial leadership
Quinn, R.E., Faerman, S.R., Thompson, M.P., and McGrath, M.R. - Chap. 1
2. The four management models within the competing values framework and the leadership roles they prescribe- the rational goal model (director and producer roles), the internal process model (coordinator and monitor roles), the human relations model (mentor and facilitator roles) and the open systems model (innovator and broker roles)
Quinn, R.E., Faerman, S.R., Thompson, M.P., and McGrath, M.R. - Chap. 1
3. Competing Values Self Assessment Technique
4. The director role competencies - taking initiative, goal-setting and delegating effectively
Quinn, R.E., Faerman, S.R., Thompson, M.P., and McGrath, M.R. - Chap. 2
5. The producer role competencies - personal productivity and motivation, motivating others, time and stress management
Quinn, R.E., Faerman, S.R., Thompson, M.P., and McGrath, M.R. - Chap. 3
6. The coordinator role competencies - planning, organizing and controlling
Quinn, R.E., Faerman, S.R., Thompson, M.P., and McGrath, M.R. - Chap. 4
7. The monitor role competencies - reducing information overload, analyzing information with critical thinking, presenting information
Quinn, R.E., Faerman, S.R., Thompson, M.P., and McGrath, M.R. - Chap. 5
8. The mentor role competencies - understanding yourself and others, interpersonal communication, developing subordinates
Quinn, R.E., Faerman, S.R., Thompson, M.P., and McGrath, M.R. - Chap. 6
9. The facilitator role competencies - team building, participative decision making, conflict management
Quinn, R.E., Faerman, S.R., Thompson, M.P., and McGrath, M.R. - Chap. 7
10. The innovator role competencies - creative thinking, managing change
Quinn, R.E., Faerman, S.R., Thompson, M.P., and McGrath, M.R. - Chap. 8
11. The broker role competencies - building and managing a power base, negotiating agreement and commitment, presenting ideas
Quinn, R.E., Faerman, S.R., Thompson, M.P., and McGrath, M.R. - Chap. 9
12. Self improvement techniques
Quinn, R.E., Faerman, S.R., Thompson, M.P., and McGrath, M.R. - Chap. 10
Political Leadership Seminars:
Interactive discussions and training on the following topics:
1. The challenges facing a new leader (2-3 meetings)
2. Techniques of facilitative leadership (2-3 meetings)
3. Techniques of situational leadership (2-3 mmetings)
Political Leadership Tutorials:
Guidelines for political leadership sections of case studies:
§ Assess the leader's profile
§ Evaluate the challenges faced by the leader's organization (political party, NGO, local government institution)
§ Discuss the match between the leadership style and the organizational challenges. Provide detailed description of at least three situations that can illustrate this relationship
§ Based on your assessments, design an action plan that will improve the leader's efficiency
Management of Non-Governmental Organizations
Delivered by Assoc.Prof. Levente Salat, Ph.D.
The aim of the course is to provide the participants with a deeper understanding of the role and organizational particularities of the non-governmental sector in the modern era, in general, and in the context of the post-communist transition, in particular. Issues of the emerging international civil society will be addressed as well.
Participants in the course, seminar and tutorial activities will acquire skills in understanding and interpreting the organizational culture of non-governmental organizations in particular and a wide range of organizations in general.
Interactive exercises will help the students to develop skills in project management, organizational audit and strategy development, and in assessing the relationships between organizational culture and leadership.
Lecture topics:
1. The relationship between the concepts of "civil society" and "NGO sector"
1. D. Colas: Civil Society and Fanaticism, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1977;
2. J. A. Hall (ed.): Civil Society. Theory, History, Comparison, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1996.
3. R. D. Putnam: "The Prosperous Community. Social Capital and Public Life". In: The American Prospect, Spring 1993, 34-42.
2. The role of voluntary organizations in development from the perspective of International Relations
1. J. Clark: Democratizing Development. The Role of Voluntary Organizations. West Hartford: Kumarian Press, 1991, chapter 4.
2. T. Tvedt: Angels of Mercy or Development Diplomats. NGOs & Foreign Aid, Oxford, Africa World Press, Trenton - James Currey, 1998.
3: Concepts and methods used in the study of the NGO sector
1. M. Weber: The Theory of Social and Economic Organization, London, The Free Press, Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1964;
2. D.H. Smith: "The Impact of the Nonprofit Voluntary Sector on Society", in: T.D. Connors (ed.): The Nonprofit Organization Handbook. NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1988.
4: A typology of attempts to define and classify the NGO sector
1. L. M. Salamon-H. K. Anheier: Defining the Nonprofit Sector. A Cross-National Analysis. Manchester-New York: Manchester University Press, 1997 (chapters 2, 3 and 4);
2. V. A. Hodgkinson-K. D. McCarthy: "The Voluntary Sector in International Perspective: An Overview", In: McCarthy-Hodgkinson-Sumariwalla: The Nonprofit Sector in the Global Community, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1992;
3. D.H. Smith-B.R. Baldwin: "The Nonprofit Sector", In: T.D. Connors (ed.): Op. Cit.
4. K. Milani: "Nonprofit Organizations in a Technical Pesrpective" In: T.D. Connors (ed.): Op. Cit.
5: Historical evolution and current particularities of the NGO sector I: Great Britain and the United States
1. J. Kendall-M. Knapp: "The United Kingdom", in: L. M. Salamon-H. K. Anheier: Op. Cit., 249-280;
2. L. M. Salamon: "The United Sates", in: Op. Cit., 280-321;
3. S. Saxon-Harold: "The Voluntary Sector in Britain, 1975-1989: A Statistical Overview", in: McCarthy -Hodgkinson-Sumariwalla: Op. Cit., 149-176;
4. R. M. Kramer: "Privatization in the Personal Social Services in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and in Italy", in: McCarthy-Hodgkinson-Sumariwalla: Op. Cit., 90-108.
6: Historical evolution and current particularities of the NGO sector II: France and Germany
1. Edith Archambault: "France", in: L L. M. Salamon-H. K. Anheier: Op. Cit., 103-128;
2. H. K. Anheier- W. Seibel: "Germany", in: L. M. Salamon-H. K. Anheier: Op. Cit., 128-169;
3. W. Seibel: "Government-Nonprofit Realationships in a Comparative Perspective: The Cases of France and Germany", in: McCarthy-Hodgkinson-Sumariwalla: Op. Cit., 205-230;
3. D. F. Bechmann: "The Mission, Purposes, and Function of Nonprofit Organizations in France", In: McCarthy-Hodgkinson-Sumariwalla: Op. Cit., 230-240.
7: Historical evolution and current particularities of the NGO sector III: Italy and Sweden
1. G. P. Barbetta: "Italy", in: L. M. Salamon-H. K. Anheier: Op. Cit., 169-188;
2. T. Lundström-F. Wijkström: "Sweden", in: L. M. Salamon-H. K. Anheier: Op. Cit., 215-249.
8: Historical evolution and current particularities of the NGO sector IV: Japan, India, Brazil and Egypt
1. Takayoshi Amenomori: "Japan", in: L. M. Salamon-H. K. Anheier: Op. Cit.,
188-275;
2. Siddhartha Sen: "India", in: L. M. Salamon-H. K. Anheier: Op. Cit., 401-446;
3. Leilah Landim: "Brazil", in: L. M. Salamon-H. K. Anheier: Op. Cit., 323-350;
4. Amani Kandil: "Egypt", in: L. M. Salamon-H. K. Anheier: Op. Cit., 350-369.
9: Historical evolution and current particularities of the NGO sector V: Northern Ireland, South Africa and Israel
1. Q. Oliver: "The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in a Divided Society: The Case of Northern Ireland", in: McCarthy-Hodgkinson-Sumariwalla: Op. Cit., 176-190;
2. K. Paul: "U.S. Corporate Philantrophy in South Africa: 1977-1989", in: McCarthy-Hodgkinson-Sumariwalla: Op. Cit., 108-126;
3. E. D. Jaffe: "The Role of Nonprofit Organizations Within the Ultra-Orthodox Community in Israel", in: McCarthy-Hodgkinson-Sumariwalla: Op. Cit., 290-305.
10. The NGO sector in the post-Communist Central-East Europe
1. Daniel Csanády: Improving Civil Society in Hungary, International Center For Not-For-Profit Law, 2001;
2. *** Study on the Development of Non-Governmental Organizations in the Republic of Moldova; Editura Arc, 2002.
11: The NGO sector in Romania
1. Legea 21/1924 si Ordonanta nr. 26 din 30 ianuarie 2000 cu privire la asociatii si fundatii, emisa de Guvernul Romaniei;
3. *** Cadrul legal al asociatiilor si fundatiilor din Romania, Fundatia pentru Dezvoltarea Societatii Civile, Bucuresti, 1998;
4. Adriana Tiron Tudor-Alexandra Mutiu: Asociatii si fundatii, Cluj-Napoca, Dacia, 2000;
5. Raluca Dumitriu: "Discutii in legatura cu ordonanta guvernului nr. 26/2000 cu privire la asociatii si fundatii", in: Dreptul, 2000/5;
6. *** Opinions and Perception about NGOs, IMAS, Bucuresti, Noiembrie 2000;
7. V. Dakova-B. Dreossi-J. Hyatt-A. Socolovschi: O prezentare a sectorului neguvernamental din Romania, Bucuresti, FDSC, Septembrie 2000.
12. The prospects of the international civil society
1. A. Colas: International Civil Society. Social Movements in World Politics. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2002;
Seminars:
1. Elements of organizational culture in non-governmental organizations (2 meetings);
2. Project management in non-governmental organizations (2-3 meetings);
3. Strategy development in non-governmental organizations (2-3 meetings).
Tutorial activities:
Students will be offered tutorial assistance during the whole program (both semesters), based on office hours and individual appointments. The appointed tutor(s) will guide the student in individual research and in elaborating the chosen case study.
Evaluation:
Written final examination: 50%
Participation in seminars: 50%
Analysis of Political Programs
Delivered by lecturer Irina Ana Kantor, Ph.D.
The course on the Analysis of the Political Programs is intending to offer a few analytical clues and methods for the research of current electoral or promotional political manifestos.
It is structured in two tracks, the first one dealing with some of the major theoretical approaches of the political and social identities framed in the political programs and ideologies and reflected in documents issued at diverse levels and sources by different political organizations; while the second one is focussing on the methodological aspects of the enquiry.
The course is based on data centered on the policy priorities publicly endorsed by several political organizations in their programs. A special regard is given to the political parties programs and their investigations which have been in the last fifty years in the full center of political scientists 'attention. The study is widely and heavily based on the volume Mapping Policy Preferences. Estimates for Parties, Electors and Governments 1945-1998, by Ian Budge, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Andrea Volkens, Judith Bara, Eric Tanenbaum with Richard C. Fording, Derek J. Hearl, Hee Min Kim, Michael McDonald, Silvia M. Mendes. Oxford University Press 2001.
The objective of the course is to provide practical skills for practical purposes in mid, pre electoral and electoral periods, and, as well, to encourage discourse analysis research in depth based on textual data.
Track one - New Discourse Theory
1. The constructuvist and the relationalist perspective on social identity.
2. New theories of discourse and the contemporary critique of ideology: Zizeks'cocktail of Lacan and Hegel.
3. The discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe and the perspectives on the collapse of commmunism.
Bibliography:
Jacob Torfing. New Theories of Discourse. Laclau, Mouffe and Zizek. Blackwell Publishers Ltd. 1999.
Track two - Content analysis
1. Manifesto content and government behaviour.
The computerized analyses of political texts. Content analysis: operationalizing formal approaches with manifesto data. Reliability and validity. Procedures of content analysis.
Bibliography:
Ian Budge and Judith Bara.Content Analysis and Political Texts, in Mapping Policy Preferences. Estimates for Parties, Electors and Governments 1945-1998, by Ian Budge, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Andrea Volkens, Judith Bara, Eric Tanenbaum with Richard C. Fording, Derek J. Hearl, Hee Min Kim, Michael McDonald, Silvia M. Mendes. Oxford University Press 2001. Pp. 1-16.
2. Uses of the method. Concerns of the method.
The uses of content analysis in creating the left-right scale of the political parties. Policy change and policy positions changes in overseas and continental democracies. Matching the Left-Right indicator with the historical record - Predictive validity. Hypothesis validity.
Bibliography:
Ian Budge and Hans-Dieter Klingemann. Finally! Comparative Over-Time Mapping of Party Policy Movement, in Mapping Policy Preferences. Estimates for Parties, Electors and Governments 1945-1998, by Ian Budge, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Andrea Volkens, Judith Bara, Eric Tanenbaum with Richard C. Fording, Derek J. Hearl, Hee Min Kim, Michael McDonald, Silvia M. Mendes. Oxford University Press 2001. Pp. 19-50.
3. Applications of the method.
Examination of the political organizations' programs. The description of the policy positions of the parties. The nature of the party space. Party competition and policy equilibria. Party policy and government coalitions. Party mandates and government outputs.
Bibliography:
Ian Budge and Judith Bara. Manifesto-Based Research: A Critical Review, in Mapping Policy Preferences. Estimates for Parties, Electors and Governments 1945-1998, by Ian Budge, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Andrea Volkens, Judith Bara, Eric Tanenbaum with Richard C. Fording, Derek J. Hearl, Hee Min Kim, Michael McDonald, Silvia M. Mendes. Oxford University Press 2001. Pp. 51-73.
4. The theory of the measurement.
An authoritative measure of party policy positions. The plausibility of Saliency theory in the measurement of party positions within specific issue areas. A level of analysis problem: specific issues versus overall ideological priorities. The match between coding distributions and its expectations - Face validity.
Bibliography:
Ian Budge. Theory and Measurement of Party Policy Positions, in Mapping Policy Preferences. Estimates for Parties, Electors and Governments 1945-1998, by Ian Budge, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Andrea Volkens, Judith Bara, Eric Tanenbaum with Richard C. Fording, Derek J. Hearl, Hee Min Kim, Michael McDonald, Silvia M. Mendes. Oxford University Press 2001. Pp.75-90.
5. Actual procedures applied.
The detailed questions of operationalization and measurement. Procedures of coordination and supervising the coding exercise of the programs. Coding units classiciation scheme and procedures. Quality control and validity.
Bibliography:
Andrea Volkens. Quantifying the Electoral Programs: Coding Procedures and Controls, in Mapping Policy Preferences. Estimates for Parties, Electors and Governments 1945-1998, by Ian Budge, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Andrea Volkens, Judith Bara, Eric Tanenbaum with Richard C. Fording, Derek J. Hearl, Hee Min Kim, Michael McDonald, Silvia M. Mendes. Oxford University Press 2001. Pp.93-109.
6. The reliability of the procedures.
Testing the estimates of the party policy. Checks on the comparability of the data.
Bibliography:
Derek J. Hearl. Cheking the Party Policy Estimates: Reliability, in Mapping Policy Preferences. Estimates for Parties, Electors and Governments 1945-1998, by Ian Budge, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Andrea Volkens, Judith Bara, Eric Tanenbaum with Richard C. Fording, Derek J. Hearl, Hee Min Kim, Michael McDonald, Silvia M. Mendes. Oxford University Press 2001. Pp. 111-125.
7. The validity of the procedures.
The validity of the Manifesto data and the estimates derived from them. Construct validity - when the codings correlate with other measures of the same conceptual construct: the Left-Right scale construct. The manifestos scales: validity and reliability.
Bibliography:
Michael McDonald and Silvia M. Mendes. Checking the Party policy Estimates: Convergent Validity, in Mapping Policy Preferences. Estimates for Parties, Electors and Governments 1945-1998, by Ian Budge, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Andrea Volkens, Judith Bara, Eric Tanenbaum with Richard C. Fording, Derek J. Hearl, Hee Min Kim, Michael McDonald, Silvia M. Mendes. Oxford University Press 2001. Pp. 127-141
8. The role of the Manifesto estimates as standard for evaluating computerized analysis.
Content analysis as a bridge between qualitative and quantitative traditions. The development of content analysis provided by computerized analysis. Computerized analysis, a general standard for the evaluation and the basis of the comparison.
Bibliography:
Judith Bara. Using Manifesto Estimates to Validate Computerized Analysis, in Mapping Policy Preferences. Estimates for Parties, Electors and Governments 1945-1998, by Ian Budge, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Andrea Volkens, Judith Bara, Eric Tanenbaum with Richard C. Fording, Derek J. Hearl, Hee Min Kim, Michael McDonald, Silvia M. Mendes. Oxford University Press 2001. Pp.143-156.
9. From party preferences to government and electorate preferences - a know-how for making the inferences.
Coding procedures applied to the policy declarations of coalition governments. Manifesto data as supporters of indirect estimates of voter and government preferences in regard to Left-Right ideology. Party ideology, voter ideology, government ideology - measurement and comparisons. Government ideology and government policy declarations.
Bibliography:
Hee Min Kim and Richard C. Fording. Extending Party Estimates to Government and Electors, in Mapping Policy Preferences. Estimates for Parties, Electors and Governments 1945-1998, by Ian Budge, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Andrea Volkens, Judith Bara, Eric Tanenbaum with Richard C. Fording, Derek J. Hearl, Hee Min Kim, Michael McDonald, Silvia M. Mendes. Oxford University Press 2001. Pp. 157-176.
Analyzing, representing and interpreting social data
Delivered by Prof. Gabriel Badescu, Ph.D.
Teaching assistant Cosmin Marian
This course in statistics is designed to integrate research methods with the substance of political and social research. The course aims to develop the foundations of statistical thinking, and introduce the most important statistical and formal models used in social science research.
We will discuss the logic of the scientific method, research design (emphasizing survey research and experiments), statistical analysis of data, and the relevance of formal models.
The aims of this course are: a) to provide you with an understanding of how new knowledge is created, and 2) to outline the philosophies underpinning the scientific and other approaches to knowledge creation.
Outline of Lectures:
1. Introduction and Overview of Political Research. The scientific method. Deduction and introduction theory. The research topic or problem
Part 1. Statistical Analysis
2 Data. Types of data. Data Collection, Field research, Survey research, Summarizing Data
3 Hypothesis Testing
4 Inference and Sampling
5 Correlation, Associations, and Causality
6 Examples, Applications, Extentions
Part 2. Research design
7. Causes, Theories, and Experiments
8. Control, design, units of analysis. Experimental design. None-experimental designs.
9. Examples, Applications, Extentions
Part 3. Formal approaches
10. The Role of Models, Rational Choice, Collective Choice, and Voting Paradoxes
11. Group Decision Making by Majority Voting: The Median Voter Theorem
12. Examples, Applications, Extentions
13 Review
Readings:
Babbie, E. Survey Research Methods, Belmont, Calif. Wadsworth, 1973
Fink, A., How to sample in surveys, Sage Publications, Thousands Oaks, London, New York, 1995.
Johnson, J., Joslyn, R., Political science research methods, CQ Press, Washington, 1995.
Kalton, G., Introduction to survey sampling, Sage University Press, 1983.
Rotariu, T., (coord.). Metode statistice aplicate in stiintele sociale. Ed. Polirom, Iasi, 1999.
Schimdt, M., Understanding and using statistics. Basic concepts, Second Edition, Lexington, Massachusetts, Toronto, 1979.
Freedman D., Pisani R., Purves R., Adhikari A., Statistics, Second Edition, New York, London , 1991,
Axelrod, R, The evolution of cooperation. London: Penguin, 1984
Zagare, F., Game Theory. Concepts and Applications, Sage University Press, 1984
Finifter, A, (ed.), Political Science: The State of the Discipline. Washington, D.C.: American Political Science Association, 1993
Organizational ethics
Delivered by Prof. Vasile Boari, Ph.D.
Teaching assistant Horia Lupu
Course description:
The course main aim is to introduce the students in the contemporary debates about the place and the role of ethics in the life of political and non-political organizations. A major accent will be placed upon the aspects concerning corruption as well as upon the difference between the political and public sector organizations on the one hand and other types of organizations on the other.
Lecture topics:
I. Introducing ethics:
1. Defining ethics: the evolution of thinking:
a) ethics, morals, morality
b) the subject of ethics; the problem of good and bad
c) the methodology of ethics: the philosophical and the sociological perspectives
d) ethics and religion
e) the importance of ethics today
Singer, pp. 3-14, 91-106, 147-161
2. Contemporary ethics. Ethics in politics and in the public domain - current controversies:
a) classical ethical-political paradigms
b) ethics in politics in the XXI Century
c) the new ethical-political thinking and the crisis of contemporary politics
d) the specificity of the public domain ethics
Singer, pp. 205-219, 259-273
Richter, Burke, Doig, pp. 1-6
3. Four perspectives of ethics:
a) ethics as virtue
b) ethics as principle
c) ethics as consequence
d) ethics as responsibility
Richter, Burke, Doig, pp. 7-42
II. The ethics and the organizations:
4. Standards of ethics in different types of organizations:
a) universal values - general rules; professional standards
b) the public interest: ethics in politics and in public service
Richter, Burke, Doig, pp. 43-56
5. Ethical problems I - some blatant, some not so obvious:
a) political corruption and the problem of "dirty hands"
b) fraud, waste, abuse
c) graft, bribery, conflict of interest
d) lying and deception, secrecy and confidentiality
e) abuse of authority
Richter, Burke, Doig, pp. 57-61
Singer, pp. 373-384
6. Ethical problems II - facing corruption: macro and micro-corruption
7. The revisionist approach of corruption; systemic corruption.
Corruption and the transitional societies.
Heywood, pp. 163-210
Richter, Burke, Doig, pp. 61-69
III. Encouraging ethics, combating corruption:
8. Measures for combating corruption and encouraging ethics: establishing legal standards, organizational strategies, leadership and individual responsibility, encouraging ethics through education
Richter, Burke, Doig, pp. 147-174, 181-246, 281-297
9. Promoting ethics in politics and in public service:
a) ethics in politics: disclosure laws for election campaigns funding, regulating the conduct of MP's
b) ethics in public administration: strategies and measures at macro and micro-level
Heywood, pp. 123-143
Richter, Burke, Doig, pp. 175-180
10. Establishing standards of professionalism:
a) legislation on institutionalized human behavior: rights and binds against discrimination and abuse
b) professional ethical standards: medical ethics, academic ethics, business ethics
c) self-imposed: the codes of ethics of various organizations
Raz, pp. 44-60
Richter, Burke, Doig, pp. 247-281
Singer, pp. 354-366
11. Suggested debate no. 1: Ethics and corruption in international relations:
a) controversies of the past (foreign policy):
- the end of World War 2 and the Iron Curtain: Romania and Greece at the Yalta conference
- the atomic bomb and the Mutual Assured Destruction
b) debates over the present (International Governmental Organizations):
- towards the practice of a random humanitarian intervention? (Bosnia-Herzegovina and Cecenia; Kossovo and Rwanda-Burundi)
- the globalization and the problem of the accountability of the International Governmental Organizations (the European Union)
Gutmann; Thompson, pp. 5-27
Heywood, pp. 143-163
Singer, pp. 384-399
12. Suggested debate no. 2: Combating Corruption and Encouraging Ethics in
Romania - a case-study
Bibliography:
Cozic, Charles P. (ed.) - Politicians and Ethics, Greenhaven Press Inc., San Diego, 1996
Éthique sociale. Ethique sociale chrétienne, étique et solidarité, Actes du colloque d'Aix-en Provence, 3 et 4 julliet 1997, Collection "Ethique et Déontologie" dirigée par Jean-Yves Naudet, Centre de Recherches en Ethique Economique et des Afaires et des Déontologie Profesionelle, Librarie de l'Universite d'Aix-en-Provence, 1998
Gutmann, Amy; Thompson, Dennis (eds.) - Ethics and Politics. Cases and Coments, Nelson-Hall Publishers, Chicago, 1998, 3rd edition
Heywood, Paul (ed.) - Political Corruption, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1997
Raz, Joseph - Ethics in the Public Domain. Essays in the Morality Of Law and Politics, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995
Richter, William L.; Burke, Frances; Doig, Jameson W. (eds.) - Combating Corruption, Encouraging Ethics, ASPA, 1990, Washington, DC
Singer, Peter (ed.) - A Companion to Ethics, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1997
Evaluation:
- written final examination: 60%
- individual research report: 40%; each student will have to take part to a research project coordinated by the course instructors. The research has the aim to gather data about and to analyze the structures, provisions and policies which are dealing with the ethical aspects of intra and inter-organizational relations (codes of ethics, commissions of ethics) within and between various structures (political parties, NGO's, trade unions) form judetul Cluj.
Political Communication
Delivered by Assoc.Prof. Catalin Baba, Ph.D.
Syllabus TBA
Seminar on Case Study Method in Political Science
Teaching assistant Andrei Gheorghita
Description and Goals:
This seminar aims to examine the case study method for doing political science. The strength and weaknesses of this approach will be considered. Emphasis will also be placed on the mechanisms of doing case studies.
The seminar will be run primarily as a lecture. However, I actively encourage questions, interruptions, opinions, and comments. More active interaction is expected during the practice sessions in the end of each lecture.
By the end of the seminar, students should be able to:
- understand the concepts that form the bases for case study methodology;
- develop a case study design;
- collect and analyze data for a case study;
- integrate the case study method into the general frame of the social science methodology.
Requirements:
It is expected that every student will do all the reading and attend all the class meetings.
Office Hours:
I will hold office hours two hours per week following a schedule announced during the first class meeting. I am also available at different other times, but prior arrangements (through e-mail) are needed.
Students should check their e-mail regularly for updates, announcements, corrections, etc. I suggest them to exchange phone numbers or e-mail addresses in order to keep in contact.
Topics and Readings:
1. Case study and theory in political science
Case, case study, comparative study - concepts and definitions.
The utility of case studies.
Typology of cases: representative cases, prototypical cases, deviant cases, crucial cases, archetypal cases.
Typology of case studies: configurative-idiographic study, disciplined-configurative study, heuristic case studies, plausibility probes, crucial case studies. (Harry Eckstein).
Mandatory reading:
Eckstein, Harry, "Case Study and Theory in Political Science", in F. I. Greenstein & N. W. Polsby (eds.), Handbook of Political Science, vol. 7, Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1975, pp. 79-137.
Further reading:
Stake, R. E., "Case Studies", in N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (eds.), Handbook of Qualitative Research, London: Sage, 1994.
2. Basic epistemological issues. Critiques of the case study
The issues of validity and reliability in case studies.
Incommensurability
Generalizing with small number of cases.
Rethinking the case study.
Developing the case study research frame
Mandatory reading:
Stoecker, Randy, "Evaluating and Rethinking the Case Study", Sociological Review, Vol. 39, Nr. 1, February 1991, pp. 88-112.
3. Case study as a research method. From qualitative to quantitative
Data collection.
Case selection.
Traditions of inquiry.
Data analysis and representation.
Integrating methods.
The need to compare.
Mandatory reading:
Ilut, Petru, Abordarea calitativa a socioumanului, Iasi: Polirom, 1997, pp. 105-112.
Further reading:
Creswell, John W., Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design. Choosing Among Five Traditions, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1998, pp. TBA.
Travers, Max, Qualitative Research Through Case Studies, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2002, pp. TBA.
4. Comparative case studies. Causality and causal inference
Why compare?
What is comparable?
Individualizing versus generalizing.
Causality and causal inference.
Mandatory readings:
Sartori, Giovanni, "Comparing and Miscomparing", Journal of Theoretical Politics, Vol. 3, Nr. 3, 1991, pp. 243-257.
King, Gary; Robert Keohane & Sidney Verba, Fundamentele cercetarii sociale, Iasi: Polirom, 2000, pp. 53-55.
Peters, B. Guy, Comparative Politics. Theory and Methods, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 1998, pp. 137-155 (Ch. 6, "The Case Study").
Further reading:
Ragin, Charles, The Comparative Method. Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, pp. 34-52 (Ch. 3, "Case-oriented Comparative Methods").
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