PSIR502 COMPARATIVE POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT
| Course Code: | 3540502 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Political Science and International Relations |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Masters |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. ZÜLKÜF AYDIN |
| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The main aim of the course is to analyse the changing nature of politics in the developing world in the twenty-first century. In doing so the course emphasizes the interconnectedness political development, economic development and social development in an increasingly globalized world. A central goal of the course is to familiarize students with the main concepts and theories of political development and enable them to use them in the analysis of contemporary societies of the developing world. The state and society relations occupy a central position in trying to explore the nature of politics in the developing countries of Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. The course considers the relationship between political systems, democracy, poverty and development.
Course Content
This course surveys the problematiques of `development` and `modernization` in comparative politics; explore the emergence of the institutions and structures of capitalist modernity in a global comparative context, as well as the subsequent efforts to achieve/impose late-development; inter-disciplinary framework in order to avoid Eurocentrist biases of conventional comparative political analysis, such as a pre-determined division between East and West, North and South or `First World` and `Third World`.
Course Learning Outcomes
Having completed the course the sudents sould be able to: understand, and use comparative methodolgy; compare and contrast variety of forms of political systems; anlyse the processes of democracy and democratisation in variety of settings; link the process of globalistion with the existing socio-economic and political systems; situate the contemporary issuses of poverty, economic development within the context of globalisation; understand and explain global power relations and the role of inernational organisations in the political and economic developments of nation states