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Political Science

Course title: Comparative studies on equal

opportunities policies Code:

NMG_NT128G5 Credits: 5

Type (lecture/seminar/practice/consultation) and number of contact hours: seminar

Evaluation method (end-term exam mark/ term mark / other): student presentation and

written exam

Suggested semester: fall

Frequency of availability: every fall semester

Language: English

Prerequisites (if any): -

Description

Aims: The major aim of the course is to introduce and analyse those rules, institutions and

procedures in the European Union that aim to struggle against discrimination, and those

instruments of the common EU policies that seek to promote the equal opportunities of in the

EU.

Competences to develop: By the end of the course and by utilizing the experiences gathered

from selected case studies, the students shall be able to understand and analyse the main

features, dilemmas, problems, and the key developments of the EU antidiscrimination and

equal opportunities policies and legal instruments.

Course content and schedule:

1. The main issues of antidiscrimination and equal opportunities and the relevant

international documents

2. Fundamental rights and their protection in the European Union, the Charter of

Fundamental Rights

3. Diversity in the European Union, the concept of European citizenship

4. The social policy of the European community from the beginnings to nowadays

5. The European Social Fund and the European Social Charter

6. The new directions of the common social policy in the light of the Lisbon Strategy

7. Equal treatment and the prohibition of discrimination in the EU law and policies. The

case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

8. EU institutions for the struggle against discrimination, the role of civic organizations

9. Antidiscrimination and equal opportunities in the European labour market

10. Gender equality in the European Union

11. Demographic changes, immigration and social inclusion in the European Union

12. Social protection in the European Union

Education management:

Asessment::

method of assessment: presentation and final written exam

mid-term requirement: Students are expected to participate actively in classes

and to give one in-class presentations about a selected case study during the

semester.

oral exam topics (if any):

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Compulsory reading:

Council Directive 2000/43/EC of 29 June 2000 implementing the principle of equal

treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin

Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general

framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation

Amiraux, Valérie and Guiraudon, Virginie (2010): Discrimination in Comparative

Perspective: Policies and Practices. American Behavioral Scientist, 53(12) 1691–

1714.

Chopin, Isabelle and Germaine, Catharina (2014): Developing Anti-discrimination

Law in Europe. The 28 EU Member States, the Former Yugoslav Republic of

Macedonia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Turkey compared. European

Commission.

Daly, Mary (2006): EU Social Policy after Lisbon. Journal of Common Market

Studies, Volume 44. Number 3. pp. 461–481.

European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights; European Court of Human Rights -

Council of Europe: Handbook on European non-discrimination law. Luxembourg:

Publications Office of the European Union, 2011.

de Witte, Bruno (2010): From a “Common Principle of Equality” to “European

Antidiscrimination Law”. American Behavioral Scientist, 53(12) 1715–1730.

Optional reading:

Discrimination in the EU in 2012. Special Eurobarometer 393.

Ellis, Evelyn and Watson, Philippa (2012): EU Anti-discrimination Law. Oxford UP.

Geddes, Andrew (2004): Britain, France, and EU Anti-Discrimination Policy: The

Emergence of an EU Policy Paradigm, West European Politics, 27:2, 334-353.

Kraus, Peter A. (2011): The politics of complex diversity: A European perspective.

Ethnicities, 12(1) 3–25.

Kraus, Peter A. and Kazlauskaite-Gürbüz, Ruta (2014): Addressing linguistic

diversity in the European Union: Strategies and Dilemmas. Ethnicities, Vol. 14(4)

517–538.

Krizsan Andrea, Skjeie, Hege, Squires, Judith eds. (2012): Institutionalizing

Intersectionality: The Changing Nature of European Equality Regimes. Houndmills,

Palgrave Macmillan.

Kukathas, Chandran (2002): Equality and Diversity. Politics Philosophy Economics,

1(2) 185–212.

Prügl, Elisabeth and Thiel, Markus eds. (2009): Diversity in the European Union.

New York, Palgrave Macmillan.

Schiek, Dagmar and Chege, Victoria eds. (2009): European Union Non-

Discrimination Law: Comparative Perspectives on Multidimensional Equality Law.

Abingdon, Routledge.

Verloo, Mieke (2006): Multiple Inequalities, Intersectionality and the European

Union. European Journal of Women's Studies, 13 (3), 211-228.

Verloo, Mieke ed. (2007): Multiple Meanings of Gender Equality. A Critical Frame

Analysis of Gender Policies in Europe. Budapest, CEU Press.

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Wrench, John (2011): Data on discrimination in EU countries: statistics, research and

the drive for comparability, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 34:10, 1715-1730.

Zapata-Barrero, Ricard and Triandafyllidou, Anna eds. (2012): Addressing tolerance

and diversity discourses in Europe. A Comparative Overview of 16 European

Countries. Barcelona, CIDOB. Barcelona Centre for International Affairs.

Supporting (compulsory/optional) digital materials:

EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA): http://fra.europa.eu/en

Person in charge of program: Dr. Horváth Ágnes

Person in charge of the course:

Instructor: Dr. Dobos Balázs

Instructor’s office hours: Monday 9-10 (Room 308) and by appointment

Preferred contact details: [email protected]

Online communication method:

http://fra.europa.eu/en

mailto:[email protected]

Political Science

Course title: Asia studies Code:

NBG_NT156G3 Credits: 3

Type (lecture/seminar/practice/consultation) and number of contact hours: LECTURE-

SEMINAR

Evaluation method (end-term exam mark/ term mark / other): END TERM MARK

Suggested semester: 3

Frequency of availability: weekly

Language:English


Description

Aims: to learn the strategic situation of Asia in the world in the light of the ongoing

changes, as well as the role of the most important countries in Asia and some outside

powers

Competences to develop: to be able to assess events in and around Asia, understand the

strategic changes


- the changing strategic situation in Asia

- international organiyations, ASEAN, etc.

- China

- Russia

- India

- Turkey

- Japan

- The”small tigers”

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Education management: weekly lectures, interactive discussion, presentations by

students

Asessment::

method of assessment: performance at lectures, presentations, exam

mid-term requirement: none

oral exam topics (if any): strategic analysis, country presentations

Compulsory reading:

CIA Factbook

Optional reading:

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Person in charge of program: dr. Horváth Ágnes

Person in charge of the course: dr. Guszmann Gergely

Instructor: dr. Gyarmati István

Instructor’s office hours:

Preferred contact details: email

Online communication method: -

Political Science

Course title: Democracies and democratization

processes in the world Code:

NMG_ES102K3 Credits: 3

Type (lecture/seminar/practice/consultation) and number of contact hours: LECTURE-

SEMINAR

Evaluation method (end-term exam mark/ term mark / other): END TERM MARK

Suggested semester:

Frequency of availability: weekly

Language:English


Description

Aims:

- to learn the substantive features of democracy, its indispensable elements

- to be able to distinguish between different forms of democracy

- different forms of democracy

- democratic changes throuthout the world in recent decades, democratic

transition

- case studies

Competences to develop: to be able to understand and analyze democracy and

democratic transition


- what is democracy

- the substance of democracy

- democratic institutions

- democratic procedures

- cheques and balances

- different forms of democracy

- democratic transition

- case studies

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Education management: weekly lectures, interactive discussion, presentations by

students

Asessment::

method of assessment: performance at lectures, presentations, exam

mid-term requirement: none

oral exam topics (if any): essence of democracy, democratic institutions and

procedures, democratic transition

Compulsory reading:

- https://web.stanford.edu/~ldiamond/iraq/WhaIsDemocracy012004.htm

- http://www.cap-press.com/pdf/waters_fm.pdf

https://web.stanford.edu/~ldiamond/iraq/WhaIsDemocracy012004.htm

http://www.cap-press.com/pdf/waters_fm.pdf

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- https://kellogg.nd.edu/publications/workingpapers/WPS/130.pdf

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Optional reading:


Person in charge of program: dr. Horváth Ágnes

Person in charge of the course: dr. Horváth Ágnes

Instructor: dr. Gyarmati István

Instructor’s office hours:

Preferred contact details: email


https://kellogg.nd.edu/publications/workingpapers/WPS/130.pdf

Political Science

Course title: Economic and social impacts of

globalization Code:

NMG_ES117G3 Credits: 5

Type (lecture/seminar/practice/consultation) and number of contact hours: Lecture, 2

Evaluation method (end-term exam mark/ term mark / other): term mark

Suggested semester: 3.

Frequency of availability: every second Semester

Language: english


Description

Aims:

Globalization has strengthened significantly in the 21st century. These processes have an

impact on all the countries of the continent at the same time.

Competences to develop:

By the end of the course and by utilizing the experiences gathered from selected case studies,

the students shall be able to understand and analyse the main features, dilemmas, problems,

and the key developments of the globalization.


In the economy the followings provide the impulses to globalization: the modification of the

factors influencing economic growth, the shift in the demand towards virtually material free,

high quality, modern products and services, increased efficiency based on technical and

scientific advances, the growth in the significance of human development against capital

investments. The natural, labor and financial resource induced economic growth has seen the

emergence of an environment of knowledge intensive growth.

The newer levels of globalization have appeared in the history of the 20th century as factors

contributing to a radical and irreversible transformation of history and society. Corporate

Social Responsibility (CSR) with its origins in the USA, related to the social role played by

corporations by virtue of their economic weight and their power, has become a category in

the ethics of economy in Anglo-Saxon countries. During the recent decade’s abuse of

economic power, the irresponsible attitude of company’s vis-à-vis environment protection

has brought about scandals that caught the public attention. Crisis situations related to the

change in technical and labor market structures have also called the attention of employers to

their obligations towards employees in the field of labor and to their social responsibilities in

smaller or larger communities.


Place of the classes: …………. classroom

Time: …………………. (4 hours)

Allowed materials: laptop, notes, internet

At least 25% of students must be present in every class

If some of the lessons are not held on the date above, the time of the substituting class must

be arranged previously.

Asessment:

The maximum time of absences is 3. If it is more, unfortunately you cannot get a grade.

Definition of Globalization

Write 10 different definitions of globalization with the sources

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choose one, that you agree with, and explain why (minimum of 10 sentances)

choose one, that you do NOT agree with, and explain why (minimum of 10

sentances)

the essay must be minimum 2, maximum 5 pages long, without picture

make a PPT or Prezi presentation about your essay

due date: February 25.

2. Globalization Theories

for the class on the 25th of February:

select 2-3 different globalization theories, and in class, you will decide, who will do

which one

the date of presentation we will decide in the class

3. Articles for every class

select an article from the media, which is in the topic of globalization

the article can NOT be older than 1 week

bring the article with you to class

write a minimum 5 sentence long explanation, about why do you find it interesting

write 1 question, that you have, and would like to discuss in class

Compulsory reading:

1. 1956: The Hungarian Revolution and war for Independence. Edited by Lee Congdon,

Béla K. Király and Károly Nagy. Distributed by Columbia University Press, New York,

2006. 863-887.p.

2. Francis Fukuyama: State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

Századvég Publishing House, 2005

3. C. K. Prahalad: The Fortune At The Bottom Of The Pyramid. Social responsibility and

profits. HVG books 2005

4. Róbert Fidrich: Globalization and environment, MEK, 2004.

Optional reading:

5. Wayne Elvood: Globalization, HVG Publishing House, 2003.

6. Joseph L. Stiglitz: Globalization and its discontents, Napvilág Publishing House, 2003.

Supporting (compulsory/optional) digital materials: -

Person in charge of program: Dr. Agnes Horvath Head of department - PhD Professor,

Department of Politology, [email protected], [email protected]

Person in charge of the course: Réka Szemerkényi

Instructor: Dr. Agnes Horvath Head of department - PhD Professor, Department of

Politology, [email protected], [email protected]

Instructor’s office hours: Thursday 15.30-16.30

Preferred contact details: e-mail

Online communication method: http://politologia.uni-eger.hu/en/pol-eng/about-

us/contacts-for-international-studies





http://politologia.uni-eger.hu/en/pol-eng/about-us/contacts-for-international-studies


Political Science

Tantárgy neve: Ethno-political Conflicts Kódja:

NMG_NT153G5 Kreditszáma: 5

A tanóra típusa (ea./szem./gyak./konz.) és száma: gyak

Az értékelés módja (kollokvium/gyakorlati jegy/egyéb)/ Evaluation: presentation and written

exam

A tantárgy tantervi helye (hányadik félév): 3

Meghirdetés gyakorisága:

Oktatás nyelv (ha nem magyar): English

Előtanulmányi feltételek (ha vannak): -

Tantárgyleírás

Oktatási cél/Objectives: The course aims to introduce and analyse the elements of both the

theories of nationalism and the minority research, and to reveal the different aspects of

preventing and managing ethnopolitical conflicts. Putting the complex, multidisciplinary

issue into international and regional context, it primarily concentrates on the analysis of the

East-Central and Eastern European minority policies after the change of political system and

within this framework it summarizes the political and sociological background of the ethnic

majority-minority cleavages, the political elite’s dominant ideas on ethnic relations, and the

major developments.

Kialakítandó / fejlesztendő kompetenciák/ Competences: By the end of the course the

students shall be able to understand and analyse the main features, problems, and the key

developments of the interethnic relations and ethnic conflicts, especially in the East and

Central European context.

Az oktatás tartalma és tervezett ütemezése:

Themes:

1.) Introduction. The big picture: contemporary ethnic and nationalist movements, the

cross-national patterns of ethnic conflict

2.) Concepts of identity, ethnicity, nationhood, nationalism: primordialism,

constructivism, instrumentalism in the context of the East Central European historical

and cultural developments. Minority, minority policy and politics, minority rights

and constitutional approaches

3.) Conditions, causes and goals of ethnic conflicts: economic rivalry, struggle for

resources, cultural competition, language, religion, fear and insecurity, history,

stigma, psychology of group conflict

4.) Ethnic conflict and international norms, international security, international

intervention

5.) Dilemmas of democratic transitions

6.) Ethnic violence: war, riots, genocide

7.) Routes to stability – ending ethnic civil wars

8.) Routes to stability – institutional design and mechanism of conflict management:

consociationalism, power-sharing, electoral systems, federalism, decentralization,

partition. Multiculturalism.

Possible presentation topics: Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria, Dagestan, Chechnya,

Fergana Valley, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Kurdistan (Iraq, Turkey, Syria), Catalonia, Basque

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Country, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia,

Crimea and the Crimean Tatars, Russian-speaking populations in Estonia and/or Latvia;

Hungarian minorities in Romania and/or Slovakia; the Roma, Corsica, Cyprus, immigrant

minorities in Western Europe.

Oktatásszervezés: class time: Monday 8:00-11:40

A kurzus teljesítésének a feltételei:

megszerzett ismeretek értékelési módja/ Evaluation: presentation and final

written exam

évközi tanulmányi követelmények:

o active in-class participation (20%)

o give one special presentation about certain ethnopolitical features of a

selected case study (a country, a minority, a conflict or an event) in class. The

presentations (person, topic, time) will be decided during the latter part of the

semester (30%).

o combined results of two written mid-term exams or final exam from the

course material, to be taken place in the exam period (50%).

szóbeli vizsga tételsora (ha van): -

Kötelező irodalom/Compulsory readings: (to be discussed later)

Ajánlott irodalom/Recommended readings:

Fowkes, Ben (2002): Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict in the Post-Communist World.

Houndmills, Palgrave.

Horowitz, Donald L. (1985): Ethnic Groups in Conflict. Berkeley, University of California

Press.

Guelke, Adrian ed. (2004): Democracy and Ethnic Conflict. Advancing Peace in Deeply

Divided Societies. Houndmills, Palgrave.

Lobell, Steven E., Mauceri, Philip eds. (2004): Ethnic Conflict and International Politics:

Explaining Diffusion and Escalation. Houndmills, Palgrave.

Rudolph, Joseph R. ed. (2003): Encyclopedia of Modern Ethnic Conflicts. Westport,

Greenwood.

Wimmer, Andreas (2004): Nationalist Exclusion and Ethnic Conflict. Cambridge,

Cambridge UP.

Wolff, Stefan (2006): Ethnic Conflict. A Global Perspective. Oxford, Oxford UP.

A kurzust teljesítését segítő (kötelező / ajánlott) digitális tananyagok:

Szakfelelős: dr. Horváth Ágnes

Tantárgy felelőse: dr. Szarka László

Tantárgy oktatásába bevont oktató: Dr. Terényi János

Az oktató fogadóórájának időpontja, helye és a bejelentkezés módja/ office hour:

Az oktató által előnyben részesített elérhetőség/ contact: [email protected]

A csoportos online kommunikáció módja és helye:


Political Science

Tantárgy neve: European civilization studies Kódja: NMG_NT100K3

Kreditszáma: 3

A tanóra típusa (ea./szem./gyak./konz.) és száma: lecture, 2 hours/week

Az értékelés módja (kollokvium/gyakorlati jegy/egyéb)/ Evaluation: presentation, written

exam

A tantárgy tantervi helye (hányadik félév): 1.




Tantárgyleírás

Oktatási cél/Objectives: Based on the general historical development, the major aim of the

course is to introduce and analyse the main historical, political, social and cultural features of

the European civilization, the dominant internal and external factors, and the relevant

theories in this field.

Kialakítandó / fejlesztendő kompetenciák/ Competences: By the end of the course and by

utilizing the experiences gathered from selected case studies, the students shall be able to

understand and analyse the main features, dilemmas, problems, and the key developments of

the European civilization.


Main themes:

1. Introduction. Basic concepts, theoretical overview. Parts and paths of the Western

civilization (Europe, America, Australia)

2. The main features of the Western civilization, the problem of the ‘core state’. The

place of Europe in Huntington’s civilization paradigm

3. The historical regions of Europe. The Eastern-Western division and the issue of

Central Europe. Consequences of the EU enlargement

4. The interpretations of Europe’s leading role in the 19-20th

centuries. The British,

French, Portugal empires and the impact of WWII

5. Religion, culture, society and politics in European civilization processes. The role of

Jewish-Christian, Catholic-Protestant cultures in the development of the European

civilization

6. The historical background of Europe’s loss of power in the 20th

century. Division and

place in the bipolar world. Interactions and conflicts between European, American

and other civilizations

7. The main historical features of European integration processes in the 20th

century, the

role of the German-French tandem, the visions and risks of Europe’s reunification

8. The transformation of the Slavic (Russian, Orthodox) civilization in the Soviet era.

The role and place of Slavic civilization in the Western civilization. Europe in the

Soviet foreign policy. The role of Soviet satellite states in the European and Soviet-

Russian civilizations

9. The impact of globalization and Americanization on the European civilization

processes

10. The dissolution and transformation of European empires. The role of the British

Commonwealth in the European civilization. The interactions between demographic

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trends and immigration. Issues of European centres and peripheries

11. The cultural background of the European civilization. The opportunities and

weaknesses of the European multiculturalism. Security and geopolitical approaches.

The challenges of globalization

12. The relationship between the EU and the Western civilization. Europeanization,

Eastern enlargement and the Eurasian concept of the Soviet geopolitics

13. Relations with the Chinese, Japanese, African civilizations. Immigration, diasporas,

economic cooperation and competition

Oktatásszervezés: class time: (Monday)



written exam

évközi tanulmányi követelmények: Students are expected to participate actively

in classes and to give one in-class presentations about a selected case study

during the semester.


Kötelező irodalom/Compulsory readings:

Davies, Norman (1996): Europe. A History. Oxford, Oxford UP. relevant chapters

Delanty, Gerard (1995): Inventing Europe. Idea, Identity, Reality. London, MacMillan.

Huntington, Samuel (2003): The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order.

New York, Simon and Schuster.


Berend T. Iván (2005): What is Central and Eastern Europe? European Journal of Social

Theory, 8(4): 401–416.

Elias, Norbert (2000): The Civilizing Process. Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic

Investigations. Oxford, Blackwell.

Giddens, Anthony (2003): Runaway World. New York, Routledge.

Hobsbawm, Eric (1990): Nations and Nationalisms since 1780. Programme, Myth, Reality.

Cambridge, Cambridge UP.

Llobera, Josep R. (2003): The Concept of Europe as an Idée-force. Critique of Anthropology,

Vol. 23(2) 155–174.

Mann, Michael (1997): Has globalization ended the rise and the rise of the nation-state?

Review of International Political Economy, 3. 472-496.

Pagden, Anthony ed. (2002): The Idea of Europe. From Antiquity to the European Union.

Cambridge, Cambridge UP.

Palmowski, Jan (2011): The Europeanization of the Nation-state. Journal of Contemporary

History, 46(3) 631–657.

Sakwa, Richard – Stevens, Anne eds. (2000): Contemporary Europe. London, Palgrave

MacMillan.

Tilly, Charles (1975): The Formation of National States in Western Europe. Princeton, N. J.:

Princeton UP.

Wolff, Larry (1994): Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the

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Enlightenment. Stanford, Stanford UP.


Szakfelelős: dr. Horváth Ágnes

Tantárgy felelőse: dr. Kaló Krisztina

Tantárgy oktatásába bevont oktató: dr. Dobos Balázs, dr. Terényi János


Monday 9:30-10 (Room 308) and by appointment

Az oktató által előnyben részesített elérhetőség/ contact: [email protected],

[email protected]

A csoportos online kommunikáció módja és helye:



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Course title: Comparative Constitutional

studies Code:

NMG_NT101K3 Credits: 3

Type (lecture/seminar/practice/consultation) and number of contact hours: 26

Evaluation method (end-term exam mark/ term mark / other): end-term exam

Suggested semester: 1

Frequency of availability: Fall semester

Language: English


Description

Aims:

Comparative constitutional law aims at comparing the constitutional or foundational laws of

more than one country, state. Through the journey students explore the differences in law

families, political institutions, fundamental rights, constitutional concepts such as

sovereignty, state, nationality, state institutions, constitutional courts, judicial review,

presidential and parliamentary democracies etc.

Understanding these concepts helps understand the political and economic transition post-

communist European countries went through, or helps interpret issues in European

integration. It also aims to introduce students to the institutional framework of the European

Union and highlights primary Union law. It also aims to emphasise how the constitutional

law of France, the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States impacted one another

and other states in Europe.


- analytical skills

- understanding legal texts

- presentation skills

- debating skills

- English vocabulary

- tolerance

- working together


- Introduction, basic concepts for discussion, topics to be explored

- What is a Constition?

- Sovereignity

- Nationality

- Models of executive power (parliamentary and presidential systems)

- The Fundamental Law of Hungary: main actors; Head of State, Head of Government,

the Parliament

- Models of judicial power: the constitutional court;

- The Hungarian Constitutional Court

- Marbury v. Madison - the First Case of Judicial Constitutional Review

- Comparing parliamentary and presidential systems through an example

- Turkish Constitutional Law

- the concept of law in Islam

- EU and national constitutions

- Constitutions of South America

- Human Rights: UN General Charter on Human Rights (1948); European Convention

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on Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1950)

- Constitutional questions related to the death penalty

- The right to die

- The right to abortion

- Summary


Classes shall be held in room B-308. (personally or through skype consultations)

Block classes may be held outside the classroom where students most organize their own

transport.

Electronic kits may be used: laptop, internet, notes

25% of students enrolled in the class must be present on the courses

Asessment:

- students are expected to work on two topics of their choice

- presentations should be prepared with the aim of generating debate

- debate should be facilitated by the presenter

- feed-back is continuous

- peer-review is present

- personal consultation is on request

method of assessment:

o after their presentations and through their work as facilitators, peers are also

expected to give feed-back

o end-of-term papers are assessed and graded together with the above

mid-term requirement:

o all students are expected to research two topics of interest

o these topics are then unfolded in front of the class, a debate is facilitated

o by the end of term, the topics are written-up in 3-5 pages essays including the

results of the debate as well


o there is no further oral exam

Compulsory reading:

Szabó Miklós: Jogi alapfogalmak. Miskolc, Bíbor Kiadó, 2003., ISBN 963 9466 409

Legény Krisztián (szerk.): Összehasonlító alkotmányjog, Complex Kiadó, Budapest,

2006., ISBN: 9789632248837

Kukorelli István (Szerk).: Alkotmánytan, Osiris Kiadó, Budapest, 2006., ISBN:

9633898048

G. Stone, Cass R. Sunstein, Louis M. Seidman, Pamela S. Karlan, Mark V. Tushnet:

Constitutional Law, Hardcover, Aspen Pub, 2005.

Erwin Chemerinsky: Constitutional Law, Hardcover, Aspen Pub, 2005.

David M. O'Brien: Constitutional Law and Politics, W W Norton & Co Inc, 2002.

USA Constitution: http://constitutioncenter.org/constitution/full-text

Fundamental law of Hungary www.parlament.hu

http://constitutioncenter.org/constitution/full-text

http://www.parlament.hu/

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Optional reading:

http://www.uscirf.gov/reports-briefs/special-reports/comparative-study-constitutions-

muslim-countries-2005?option=com_content&task=view&id=1887&Itemid=1

http://www.mkab.hu/ ; http://www.mkab.hu/dokumentumok/alkotmanybirosagi-szemle

http://pdba.georgetown.edu/Constitutions/constitutions.html

UN General Charter on Human Rights (1948);

European Convention on Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1950)

Marbury v. Madison - the First Case of Judicial Constitutional Review

http://www.uscirf.gov/reports-briefs/special-reports/comparative-study-constitutions-

muslim-countries-2005?option=com_content&task=view&id=1887&Itemid=1

http://iszlam.com/irodalom/az-idealis-muszlim-no/item/1158-idealis-muszlima-10-resz-a-

nok-jogai-az-iszlamban

http://iszlam.com/irodalom/az-idealis-muszlim-no/item/1010-idealis-muszlima-6-resz-

szemermes-oltozkodes


Yes, minister! : A diplomatic incident

ttp://www.veoh.com/watch/v22895768dge3B2yP?h1=Yes+Prime+Minister+2.3+-

+A+Diplomatic+Incident

France: http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/english/

Person in charge of program: Dr. Horváth Ágnes tanszékvezető főiskolai tanár, Politológia

Tanszék, [email protected], [email protected]

Person in charge of the course: Dr. Horváth Ágnes tanszékvezető főiskolai tanár,

Politológia Tanszék, [email protected], [email protected]

Instructor: Dr. Szalay Klára, Politológia Tanszék, [email protected]

Instructor’s office hours: on request

Preferred contact details: e-mail and skype

Online communication method: skype, assistant students are in charge of facilitating

communication between the instructor and the course participants. Course participants may

contact the instructor personally through e-mail and skype.

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Political Science

Course title: European case-studies of

discrimination Code:




written exam

Suggested semester: spring

Frequency of availability: every spring semester

Language: English


Description

Course objectives

The major aim of the course is to familiarize students with the history and human rights

background of non-discrimination law. Since the French Revolution, equality is one of the

founding principles of modern democratic states, and it takes a central place in modern

political and legal thinking as well. A further aim of the seminar is to analyse the basic

historic principles of non-discrimination law and to give the students a good knowledge of

rules, institutions and procedures in the European Union that are able and also obliged to

struggle against discrimination. We shall analyse the international norms that prohibit the

discrimination of minorities and norms that promote minority rights (the two types of

international regulations concerning minorities).

Competences to develop

By the end of the course and by utilizing the experiences gathered from selected historical

case studies, the students shall be able to understand and analyse the main features,

dilemmas concerning discrimination, and to argue in a relevant manner about issues of

antidiscrimination.


I. Theoretical framework 1. Introduction to the course and terminology (Ethnicity, race, culture, identity,

equality)

2. Theoretical background – main paradigms in sociology, political philosophy, and

political science

3. Definitions and forms of discrimination, protected grounds of discrimination,

historical background

II. Policy implications 4. Racial or ethnic origin

5. Case Study: The Roma/ Gypsies/ Travellers

6. Religion or belief

7. Gender equality

8. Sexual orientation

9. Assumed and associated discrimination

10. Multiple discrimination

11. The main issues of antidiscrimination and equal opportunities

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12. Diversity and equality in the European Union, the idea of European citizenship

13. NGO’s for civil rights

14. Liberal theories of collective/minority rights and ethnocultural

neutrality of the state

Assessment: Student participation is a very important component of this course. We assume full and

active engagement with the readings, lectures, and discussions in the class. Students will also

be expected to give one in-class presentation. The presentation covers a chosen article from

the weekly class readings and should take up no more than 15 min. Presentations are made

during the first part of the class. Oral exam at the end of the term.

Compulsory reading:

Bagihole, Barbara (1997) Equal Opportunities and Social Policy: Issues of gender,

race and disability, London: Longman, Chapter two: What is Equal Opportunities?

pp. 31-47

Eriksen, T. H.: “Ethnicity, Race, Class and Nation “, text 4, in Hutchinson, John,

Smith Anthony, eds. (1996) Ethnicity, Oxford- New York: Oxford University Press,

pp. 28-31 EU race equality directive "Implementing the Principle of Equal Treatment Between

Persons Irrespective of Racial or Ethnic Origin" Directive 2000/43/EC (adopted on 29 June 2000)*

Parekh, Bhikhu (2000) Rethinking Multiculturalism: Chapter 7: The Political

Structure of Multicultural Society

Optional reading:









517–538.



Palgrave Macmillan.


1(2) 185–212.









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Instructor: Dr. György Majtényi

Instructor’s office hours: Wednesday 12-13 (Room 308) and by appointment

Preferred contact: via email


Political Science

Course title: European peace treaties: the

1919-20 Versailles Treaties and the 1947 Paris

Treaty

Code:

NMG_NT151K3 Credits: 3

Type (lecture/seminar/practice/consultation) and number of contact hours: lecture


written exam



Language: English


Description

Aims: The major aim of the lecture course is to present the European peace settlements

following both World Wars, with particular geographical focus on East Central and South

Eastern Europe. The peace settlements after WWI and WWII brought new conditions for

most nations of East Central Europe. The substance of the 1919-1920 transformation was the

shift from multi-ethnic dynastic empires to smaller and more homogenous nation-states, or

to smaller multi-ethnic states in certain cases and which later became confirmed in the Peace

of Paris in 1946-1947. In order to introduce the main reasons and consequences of the

process, it firstly aims to identify the issues and problems with which the Peace Conferences

had to deal and the difficulties that delegations encountered in formulating the peace treaties.

Further, by introducing the most significant outcome of the peace conferences it seeks to

critically analyse the major strengths and weaknesses, and to highlight the problems that

were created in the transformed international arena of both the interwar and the Cold War

eras.

Competences to develop: By the end of the course the students shall be able to understand

and analyse the main features, problems, and the key developments of post-war peace

settlements in the 20th

century Europe.


Themes:

Nations and states in East Central (Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Western part of the

tsarist Russia, Eastern part of the German Empire) and South Eastern Europe at the

beginning of the 20th

century

The military objectives of WWI

The organization, decision-making and personalities of the Versailles peace

conference

The new states and boundaries of the region

Majorities, minorities and the protection of minorities in the interwar period

The military objectives of WWII

Conferences during WWII

The organization of the Paris peace conference and the peace treaties

Outlook: minorities under Communism

Outlook: presentation of other selected peace treaties and regimes after 1947

Education management: class time: Monday 15:30-17:10 (404)

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Asessment::

method of assessment: presentation and final written exam

mid-term requirement: Students are expected to participate actively in classes

and to give one in-class presentations about a selected case study during the

semester.


Compulsory reading:

Colin Gray (2009): Mission improbable, fear, culture, and interest: peace-making,

1943–1949. In: Williamson Murray; Jim Lacey (eds.): The making of peace. Rulers,

states, and the aftermath of war. Cambridge UP. 265-292.

Marks, Sally (2003): The Illusion of Peace. International Relations in Europe, 1918-

1933. Houndmills, Palgrave. 1-28.

Williamson Murray (2009): Versailles: the peace without a chance. In: Williamson

Murray; Jim Lacey (eds.): The making of peace. Rulers, states, and the aftermath of

war. Cambridge UP. 209-239.

Optional reading:

Chaszar, Edward (1981): The problem of national minorities before and after the

Paris peace treaties of 1947. Nationalities Papers, 2.

Dockrill, Michael; Fischer, John eds. (2001): The Paris Peace Conference, 1919.

Peace without Victory? Houndmills, Palgrave.

Goldstein, Erik (1992): Wars and Peace Treaties 1816-1991. London, Routledge. 40-

66.

Graebner, Norman A.; Bennett, Edward M. (2011): The Versailles Treaty and Its

Legacy. The Failure of the Wilsonian Vision. Cambridge UP.

Kertesz, Stephen (1992): The Last European Peace Conference: Paris 1946. Conflict

of Values. http://hungarianhistory.com/lib/lasteu/lasteu.pdf

MacMillan, Margaret (2002): Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed The World.

New York, Random House.

Marks, Sally (2003): The Illusion of Peace. International Relations in Europe, 1918-

1933. Houndmills, Palgrave.

Sharp, Alan (1991): The Versailles Settlement: Peacemaking in Paris, 1919. New

York, St. Martin’s Press.

Schechtman, Joseph B. (1951): Decline of the International Protection of Minority

Rights. Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 4. No. 1.

Slavicek, Louise Chipley (2010): The Treaty of Versailles. New York, Chelsea

House.


The World War I Document Archive: http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/

The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles: The Remaking of Europe in 1919:

http://www.ctevans.net/Versailles/Index.html


http://hungarianhistory.com/lib/lasteu/lasteu.pdf

http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/

http://www.ctevans.net/Versailles/Index.html

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Political Science

Tantárgy neve: National identity and

foreign policy in the Euro-Atlantic region Kódja: NMG_NT106K5 Kreditszáma: 5

A tanóra típusa (ea./szem./gyak./konz.) és száma: seminar, 4 hours/week

Az értékelés módja (kollokvium/gyakorlati jegy/egyéb)/ Evaluation: presentation, written

exam

A tantárgy tantervi helye (hányadik félév): 3




Tantárgyleírás

Oktatási cél/Objectives: The major aim of the course is to analyse the impact of national

identities in the foreign policies of the member states of the European Union and NATO as

well as their impact on the decision making process of these organizations.

Kialakítandó / fejlesztendő kompetenciák/ Competences: By the end of the course and by

utilizing the experiences gathered from selected case studies, the students shall be able to

understand and analyse the main features, dilemmas, problems, and the key developments of

the foreign policies of the most important countries in the Euroatlantic area as well as the

ways and means to mould these often diverse national interests into a coherent multilateral

external action.


Themes:

13. The understanding of national identity and national interests in the European Union.

Power, capabilities, world-view, role conception, strategic culture and political will.

14. Foreign policy making in the member states of the European Union; bureaucratic,

diplomatic and political levels.

15. Europeanization of national foreign policies in the framework of Common Foreign

and Security Policy after the Lisbon Treaty; national adaptation to EU external action

and the projection of national foreign policy agendas onto the EU level.

16. “Multilateralization” of national foreign policies in the wider EU framework and the

process of European socialization.

17. The evolution of the intergovernmental method; the development of a complex

institutional system to merge the responsibilities of the European Commission, the

Council and the Member States into a multifaceted foreign policy mechanism.

18. Mutual political solidarity and the multilayered system of cooperation in the practical

conduct of EU foreign policy.

19. Special features of the Common Security and Defence Policy. The relationship

between NATO and CSDP; the role of national security policies in defining the scope

and competences of CSDP.

20. Specificities in terms of member states’ foreign policy interests promotion in NATO

and EU.

21. Trends in the evolution of the transatlantic relationship.

22. Case studies: Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Nordic states, the Visegrad

countries.

23. Different sensibilities among the EU member states as to the strength of the

transatlantic bond, the relationship with the EU’s southern and eastern

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neighbourhood, as well as to contemporary global challenges.

24. The transatlantic relationship in the foreign policy of the United States.

Oktatásszervezés: class time: Monday 11:50-15:20 (B.IV.404)



written exam

évközi tanulmányi követelmények: Students are expected to participate actively

in classes and to give one in-class presentations about a selected case study

during the semester.


Kötelező irodalom/Compulsory readings:

Kaukeleire, Stephan-Delreux, Tom: The Foreign Policy of the European Union. Second,

Revised Edition. Palgrave MacMillan, 2014

Zoltán Horváth: Handbook on the European Union. Fourth Edition in English. Hvgorac Lap-

és Könyvkiadó Kft., Budapest, 2011

NATO Handbook. Public Diplomacy Division. NATO. Brussels, 2014

US National Security Strategy 2015. https://www.whitehouse.gov/

A Global Strategy for the European Union (europa.eu/globalstrategy)


Aggestam, L. European Foreign Policy and the Quest for a Global Role – Britain, France and

Germany (Routledge, 2014)

Baun, M. and Marek, D. (ed.) The New Member States and the European Union: Foreign

Policy and Europeanization (Routledge, 2013)

Hadfield A., Manners, I. and Whitman, R. (eds.): Foreign Policies of EU Membes States

(Routledge, 2014)

Wong, R. and Hill,C. (eds.) National and European Foreign Policies: Towards

Europeanization (Routledge, 2014)

Kagan, R.: Of Paradise and Power. America and Europe in the New World Order (Random

House, 2004)

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www.europa.eu (website of the European Union)

www.eeas.europa.eu (website of the European External Action Service)

www.iss.europa.eu (website of the European Union Institute for Security Studies)

www.nato.int (official site of NATO)

Szakfelelős:dr. Horváth Ágnes

Tantárgy felelőse: dr. Guszmann Gergely

Tantárgy oktatásába bevont oktató: dr. Terényi János


Monday 9-10 (Room 404) and by appointment

Az oktató által előnyben részesített elérhetőség/ contact: [email protected]

A csoportos online kommunikáció módja és helye: –

http://www.europa.eu/

http://www.eeas.europa.eu/

http://www.iss.europa.eu/

http://www.nato.int/

Political Science

Course title: Theories of Nationalism and

Multiculturalism and Practices Code: NMG_NT156K5 Credits: 5

Type (lecture/seminar/practice/consultation) and number of contact hours: lecture

Evaluation method (end-term exam mark/ term mark / other): student presentation and written

exam

Suggested semester: fall

Frequency of availability: every fall semester

Language: English


Description

Aims: The major aim of the lecture course is to introduce and analyse the main theoretical

approaches towards studying nationalism and multiculturalism as well as their practical

implications.

Competences to develop: By the end of the course the students shall be able to understand and

analyse the main features, dilemmas, problems, and the key developments of the theories and

practices of nationalism and multiculturalism.


9.) Introduction. Why does nationalism still matter?

The concept of “nation”. Council of Europe Recommendation 1735 (2006).

http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/Xref-XML2HTML-

en.asp?fileid=17407&lang=en

Calhoun, Craig: Is it time to be postnational? In: Nations Matter. Culture, History, and

the Cosmopolitan Dream. Abingdon, Routledge, 2007. 11-26.

Walzer, Michael: The New Tribalism: Notes on a Difficult Problem. In: Beiner, Ronald

(ed.): Theorizing Nationalism. State University of New York Press, 1999. 205-218.

Hobsbawm, Eric: Nationalism in the Late Twentieth Century. In: Nations and

Nationalisms since 1780. Programme, Myth, Reality. Cambridge, Cambridge UP. 1990.

163-192.

10.) Early nationalist thought

Fichte: Addresses to the German Nation. Eighth Address. http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-

dc.org/pdf/eng/12_enlightphilos_doc.8_english.pdf

Herder: Ideas for a Philosophy of History. Book VII.

https://ia802604.us.archive.org/8/items/outlinesaphilos00churgoog/outlinesaphilos00ch

urgoog.pdf

Renan, Ernest: What is a nation? In: Woolf, Stuart (ed.): Nationalism in Europe, 1815

to present. A reader. London, Routledge, 1996. 48-60.

Lord Acton: Nationality. In: Balakrishnan, Gopal (ed.): Mapping the nation. London,

Verso, 1996. 17-38.

Mill: Nationality. In: Woolf, Stuart (ed.): Nationalism in Europe, 1815 to present. A

reader. London, Routledge, 1996. 40-47.

https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/mill/john_stuart/m645r/chapter16.html

http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/Xref-XML2HTML-en.asp?fileid=17407&lang=en

http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/Xref-XML2HTML-en.asp?fileid=17407&lang=en

http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/pdf/eng/12_enlightphilos_doc.8_english.pdf

http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/pdf/eng/12_enlightphilos_doc.8_english.pdf

https://ia802604.us.archive.org/8/items/outlinesaphilos00churgoog/outlinesaphilos00churgoog.pdf

https://ia802604.us.archive.org/8/items/outlinesaphilos00churgoog/outlinesaphilos00churgoog.pdf

https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/mill/john_stuart/m645r/chapter16.html

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: Considerations on the Government of Poland. 1772

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Publications/Detail/?id=125482

11.) The rise of nationalist movements

Hroch, Miroslav: From National Movement to the Fully-formed Nation: The Nation-

building Process in Europe. In: Balakrishnan, Gopal (ed.): Mapping the nation.

London, Verso, 1996. 78-97.

Hroch, Miroslav: Real and constructed: the nature of the nation. In: Hall, John A. (ed.):

The State of the Nation. Ernest Gellner and the Theory of Nationalism. Cambridge,

Cambridge UP, 1998. 91-106.

Anderson, Benedict: Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of

Nationalism. London, Verso, 2006. 1-46.

Smith, Anthony D.: The nation: invented, imagined, reconstructed? Millennium –

Journal of International Studies, 1991/3. 353-368.

12.) Typologies of nationalism

Brubaker, Rogers: “Civic” and “Ethnic” Nationalism. In: Ethnicity without Groups.

Cambridge, Harvard UP. 2004. 132-146.

Brubaker, Rogers: The French Revolution and the Invention of National Citizenship.

In: Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. Cambridge, Harvard UP.

1992. 35-72.

Eriksen, Thomas A.: What is ethnicity? In: Ethnicity and Nationalism. Anthropological

Perspectives. London, Pluto Press, 1993. 1-17.

Hans Kohn: Western and Eastern Nationalism. In: John Hutchinson – Anthony Smith

(eds.): Ethnicity. New York, Oxford UP. 1996. 162-164.

13.) Nationalism and modernism I.: nations as the product of industrial-capital

society


Nationalism. London, Verso, 2006. 1-46.

Gellner, Ernest: Nations and nationalism. Oxford, Blackwell, 1983. 19-52.

Hobsbawm, Eric: Nationalism in the Late Twentieth Century. In: Nations and

Nationalisms since 1780. Programme, Myth, Reality. Cambridge, Cambridge UP. 1990.

14-45.

14.) Nationalism and modernism II.: the nation and the state. Nationalism and

state-building

Giddens, Anthony: A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism: Power,

Property and the State. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1981. 182-202.

Breuilly, John: Reflections on Nationalism. In: Woolf, Stuart (ed.): Nationalism in

Europe, 1815 to present. A reader. London, Routledge, 1996. 137-154.

Mann, Michael: Has globalization ended the rise and the rise of the nation-state?

Review of International Political Economy, 1997/3. 472-496.

Brass, Paul: Ethnicity and Nationalism: Theory and Comparison. New Delhi, Sage,

1991. 247-299.

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Publications/Detail/?id=125482

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Tilly, Charles: Reflections on the History of European State-Making. In: The

Formation of National States in Western Europe. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton UP. 1975.

17-50.

Linz, Juan J. – Stepan, Alfred: Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation.

Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe. Baltimore – London,

The John Hopkins UP, 1996.

15.) Primordialism and Ethno-symbolism

Geertz, Clifford: The integrative revolution: primordial sentiments and politics in the

new states. In: Old societies and new states: the quest for modernity in Asia and Africa.

New-York/N.Y./USA 1963: The Free Press of Glencoe & London/UK 1963: Collier-

Macmillan. 105-157

Smith, Anthony D.: Myths and Memories of the Nation. Oxford, Oxford UP. 1999. 1-

27; 125-147.

16.) Beyond nationalism? Beyond the nation-state?

Brubaker, Rogers: Ethnicity without groups. In: Ethnicity without Groups. Cambridge,

Harvard UP, 2004. 7-27.

Brubaker, Rogers: Myths and Misconceptions in the Study of Nationalism. In. John

Hall (ed.): The State of the Nation: Ernest Gellner and the Theory of Nationalism.

Cambridge, Cambridge UP. 1998. 272-305.

17.) Nationalism and democracy. Old and new nationalisms and democracy in

Europe

Kymlicka, Will: Federalism and Secession: East and West. In: Máiz, Ramón and

Requejo, Ferran (eds.): Democracy, Nationalism and Multiculturalism. London, Frank

Cass, 2005. 108-126.

Kymlicka, Will: Western Political Theory and Ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe. In:

Kymlicka, Will and Opalski, Magda (eds.): Can Liberal Pluralism be Exported?

Oxford, 2001. 13-106.

Miller, David: Against Global Democracy. In: Breen, Keith and O’Neill, Shane (eds.):

After the Nation? Critical Reflections on Nationalism and Postnationalism.

Bastingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 141-160.

18.) Nationalism and liberalism: recognition and pluralism. Multiculturalism

Berlin, Isaiah: The Crooked Timber of Humanity. London, John Murray, 1990. 70-90.

238-261.

Taylor, Charles: Philosophical Arguments. Cambridge, Harvard UP, 1995. 225-256.

Walzer, Michael: Spheres of Justice. A Defense of Pluralism and Equality. Basic

Books, 1983. 6-10, 26-63, 312-316.

Taylor, Charles: Nationalism and modernity. In: Hall, John A. (ed.): The State of the

Nation. Ernest Gellner and the Theory of Nationalism. Cambridge, Cambridge UP,

1998. 191-218.


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Asessment::

method of assessment: presentations and final written exam

mid-term requirement: Students are expected to give two in-class presentations

about selected articles during the semester.


Compulsory reading: (see above)

Optional reading:


Nationalism. London, Verso, 2006.

Balakrishnan, Gopal (ed.): Mapping the nation. London, Verso, 1996.

Beiner, Ronald (ed.): Theorizing Nationalism. State University of New York Press,

1999.

Breen, Keith and O’Neill, Shane (eds.): After the Nation? Critical Reflections on

Nationalism and Postnationalism. Bastingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Brubaker, Rogers: Ethnicity without Groups. Cambridge, Harvard UP. 2004.

Couture, Jocelyne – Nielsen, Kai – Seymour, Michel (eds.): Rethinking Nationalism.

Calgary, University of Calgary Press, 1998.

Dahbour, Omar – Ishay, Micheline R. (eds.): The nationalism reader. New Jersey,

Humanities Press, 1995.

Delanty, Gerard and Kumar, Krishan (eds.): The SAGE Handbook of Nations and

Nationalism. Sage, 2006.

Eley, Geoff – Suny, Ronald Grigor (eds.): Becoming National. A Reader. New York –

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996.

Gellner, Ernest: Nations and nationalism. Oxford, Blackwell, 1983.

Guibernau, Montserrat – Hutchinson, John (eds.): Understanding Nationalism.

Cambridge, Polity Press, 2001.

Hall, John A. (ed.): The State of the Nation. Ernest Gellner and the Theory of

Nationalism. Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1998.

Hobsbawm, Eric: Nations and Nationalisms since 1780. Programme, Myth, Reality.

Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1990.

Hutchinson, John – Smith, Anthony D. (eds.): Nationalism. Critical Concepts in

Political Science. London – New York, Routledge, 2000. Vol. I-V.

Pecora, Vincent P. (ed.): Nations and Identities. Classic Readings. Malden – Oxford,

Blackwell, 2001.

Perival, Sukumar (ed.): Notions of nationalism. Budapest – London – New York,

Central European UP, 1995.

Smith, Anthony D.: Myths and Memories of the Nation. Oxford, Oxford UP. 1999.

Spencer, Philip – Wollman, Howard (eds.): Nations and Nationalism. A Reader.

Edinburgh, Edinburgh UP, 2005.

Taylor, Charles: Philosophical Arguments. Cambridge, Harvard UP, 1995. 225-256.

Woolf, Stuart (ed.): Nationalism in Europe, 1815 to present. A reader. London,

Routledge, 1996.

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http://www.nationalismproject.org/


Political Science

Course title: Parties and Party Systems in

International Comparison

Code:

NMG_NT124K3

LMG_NT124K3

Credits: 3

Type (lecture/seminar/practice/consultation) and number of contact hours: Lecture

Evaluation method (end-term exam mark/ term mark / other): End-term exam mark

Suggested semester: MA 1st semester

Frequency of availability: Yearly (Fall semester)

Language: English

Prerequisites (if any): None

Description

Aims:

The objective of this course is to give an overview of key dynamics in contemporary

European party politics and their societal background, including the fading away of

traditional social cleavages in European societies and its political consequences, the main

functions and features of political parties and party systems in modern liberal democracies,

the basic characteristics of contemporary European party families as well as of electoral

systems and voting behaviour.


This course aims to improve the general political sense and analytical skills of students with

the aim of making them prepared to elaborate more in-depth analyses of dynamics and trends

in contemporary European politics beyond the level of everyday public discourse.


Day 1

1. Introduction

2. The emergence and evolution of political parties in modern democracies

3. The main functions and features of political parties and political foundations in

contemporary politics

Readings:

• Gallagher, Michael – Laver, Michael – Mair, Peter: Representative Government in Modern

Europe. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill, 2011. pp. 326-358 [Inside European political parties]

• Katz, Richard S.: Political Parties. In: Caramani, Daniele (ed.): Comparative Politics.

Oxford: University Press, 2011. pp. 219-235 [Political parties]

• Magone, José M.: Contemporary European Politics. A comparative introduction. London –

New York: Routledge, 2011. pp. 342-355 [Political parties]

Day 2

4. Contemporary European societies and politics

5. Party systems

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Readings:

• Crouch, Colin: Change in European Societies since the 1970s. In: Goetz, Klaus H. – Mair,

Peter – Smith, Gordon (eds.): European Politics. Pasts, presents, futures. London – New

York: Routledge, 2009. pp. 14-38


Europe. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill, 2011. pp. 278-321 [Cleavage Structures and Electoral

Change]

• Webb, Paul: Political Parties, Representation and Politics in Contemporary Europe. In:

Jones, Erik – Heywood, Paul M. – Rhodes, Martin – Sedelmeier, Ulrich (eds.):

Developments in European Politics. Basingstoke – New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

pp. 65-80

Day 3

6. Political party families in contemporary European politics

Reading:


Europe. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill, 2011. pp. 238-277 [Party Families]

Day 4

7. European political parties (Europarties) and European political foundations

8. Electoral systems and electoral behaviour

Reading:


Europe. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill, 2011. pp. 366-411 [Elections, Electoral Systems and

Referendums]

Education management: Lectures of this course are held in half-a-day blocks.

Asessment:

method of assessment: Students sit a written exam based on the lectures and the

readings at the end of the semester.

mid-term requirement: Students conduct a personal interview with a politician who

is member of an elected assembly on European, national or local level, and report

back in writing on the main findings of this discussion.

oral exam topics (if any): None

Compulsory reading: Please see above

Optional reading: None

Supporting (compulsory/optional) digital materials: None

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Person in charge of program: Dr. Ágnes Horváth

Person in charge of the course: Dr. Zoltán Simon

Instructor: Dr. Zoltán Simon

Instructor’s office hours: Upon personal contact via e-mail


Online communication method: None


Political Science

Course title: Women and Politics Code:

NBG_NT178K5 Credits: 5

Type (lecture/seminar/practice/consultation) and number of contact hours: Lecture, 4

Evaluation method (end-term exam mark/ term mark / other): exam mark

Suggested semester: 5.

Frequency of availability: every second Semester

Language: english


Description

Aims:

The major aim of the course is to learn about the history of women in politics, the goals, and

forms. The goal is to learn about researches and results of women`s studies, and to analyze

male and female roles in different cultures, societies. The students will get a point of view on

female movements and their role in the Hungarian and international aspects.


The students will be able to

understand women`s equal rights

learn about human relationships, values, to deal with conflicts and to lead micro

societies.

voluntary and community service`s structural background, associations legal,

economical

background, and use of these informations

personal and social communication

working on studies, researches based on the lessons

better understanding of social integration and equal rights


The lessons focuses on women`s political roles in 3 aspects:

a) Study of a country: Students will be able to present the history and the present of

women`s political and social roles in the chosen country.

b) Leading female politicans: students will present and evaluate the biography of a

female politican.

c) Female politicans, female`s role in politics in the media: analyzing articles choosen

by students.

1-4. Women in politics

Women in the changing societies: political, legal changes

Ideologies relate differently to equal rights. The goal is to get a better understanding of the

differences and their reasons.

Ideological background of women`s roletaking

Suffrage: Key question?

5. Female political leaders

6. Female in the Hungarian public life

7. Female in the European public life

8. Female movements in the United States

9. Female movements in the Anglo-Saxon world

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10. Women in the Arabian world

11. Women in the chineese and indian public life


Place of the classes: ………. classroom

Time: ………………….. (4 hours)

Allowed materials: laptop, notes, internet

At least 25% of students must be present in every class

If some of the lessons are out of class, the way must be organized privately.

Asessment:

2 written final exams, the average of the exams must be above 51%. Students, whose final

tests are above 80% and active in class have the opportunity to receive an offered grade (4,5)

Requirements:

Presentation of a country (20%)

Political presentation (20%)

Analyzing daily press articles (20%)

1 written test: 40%

To succeed, the results of all of the listed above must be at least 51%. The evaluation of the

presentation happens right after it, the students will reach these results maximum 3 days

after.

Evaulation: 0-51% = 1; 52-61% = 2; 62-72% = 3; 73-83% = 4; 84-100% = 5

If the student would like to improve on the grades, new topics will be given for presentation

or research.

evaluation of the learned objectives: during the whole year

requirements during the semester:

analyze of countries,

articles in the agreed times,

articles for every class test the week before the ending of semester.

The completed presentations must be sent in one week after the presentation.

If the student does not meet the requirements, due dates can be changed, based on

personal reconsideration.

Compulsory reading:

Gyurgyák János: Politikai ideológiák. In: Mi a politika? Századvég Kiadó, Budapest,

1994. 262-320. o.

Pongrácz Tiborné: Nem szerepek társadalmi megítélése. Egy nemzetközi

összehasonlító vizsgálat tapasztalatai. In: Szerepváltozások. Jelentés a nők és férfiak

helyzetéről. Szerk.: Nagy Ildikó, Pongrácz Tiborné, Tóth István György. TÁRKI,

Budapest, 2005.

Női esélyegyenlőség Európában. Szerk.: Pető Andrea. Balassi Kiadó, Budapest,

2003.

Nagy Beáta: Nők és férfiak a vezetésben. In: Szerepváltozások. Jelentés a nők és

férfiak helyzetéről. Szerk.: Nagy Ildikó, Pongrácz Tiborné. TÁRKI, Budapest, 2009.

Társadalmi nemek képe és emlékezete Magyarországon a 19-20. században. Szerk.:

Pető Andrea. In: Korall – társadalomtörténeti folyóirat, 2005. ISSN 1586-2410

Optional reading:

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John Stuart Mill: A szabadságról. Századvég, Budapest, 1994.

Magyar liberalizmus. Századvég, Budapest, 1993.


Szerepváltozások: Jelentés a nők és férfiak helyzetéről 2009

http://www.tarki.hu/hu/publications/CGR/2009/index.html

Women in Parliaments 1945-1995

http://www.ipu.org/PDF/publications/women45-95_en.pdf

Person in charge of program: Dr. Agnes Horvath Head of department - PhD Professor,


Person in charge of the course: Dr. Agnes Horvath Head of department - PhD Professor,


Instructor: Dr. Agnes Horvath Head of department - PhD Professor, Department of

Politology, [email protected], [email protected]

Instructor’s office hours: Thursday 15.30-16.30

Preferred contact details: e-mail

Online communication method: http://politologia.uni-eger.hu/en/pol-eng/about-

us/contacts-for-international-studies

http://www.tarki.hu/hu/publications/CGR/2009/index.html

http://www.ipu.org/PDF/publications/women45-95_en.pdf









Political Science

Course title: European case-studies of

discrimination Code:




written exam



Language: English


Description

Course objectives

The major aim of the course is to familiarize students with the history and human rights

background of non-discrimination law. Since the French Revolution, equality is one of the

founding principles of modern democratic states, and it takes a central place in modern

political and legal thinking as well. A further aim of the seminar is to analyse the basic

historic principles of non-discrimination law and to give the students a good knowledge of

rules, institutions and procedures in the European Union that are able and also obliged to

struggle against discrimination. We shall analyse the international norms that prohibit the

discrimination of minorities and norms that promote minority rights (the two types of

international regulations concerning minorities).

Competences to develop

By the end of the course and by utilizing the experiences gathered from selected historical

case studies, the students shall be able to understand and analyse the main features,

dilemmas concerning discrimination, and to argue in a relevant manner about issues of

antidiscrimination.


I. Theoretical framework 15. Introduction to the course and terminology (Ethnicity, race, culture, identity,

equality)

16. Theoretical background – main paradigms in sociology, political philosophy, and

political science

17. Definitions and forms of discrimination, protected grounds of discrimination,

historical background

II. Policy implications 18. Racial or ethnic origin

19. Case Study: The Roma/ Gypsies/ Travellers

20. Religion or belief

21. Gender equality

22. Sexual orientation

23. Assumed and associated discrimination

24. Multiple discrimination

25. The main issues of antidiscrimination and equal opportunities

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26. Diversity and equality in the European Union, the idea of European citizenship

27. NGO’s for civil rights

28. Liberal theories of collective/minority rights and ethnocultural

neutrality of the state

Assessment: Student participation is a very important component of this course. We assume full and

active engagement with the readings, lectures, and discussions in the class. Students will also

be expected to give one in-class presentation. The presentation covers a chosen article from

the weekly class readings and should take up no more than 15 min. Presentations are made

during the first part of the class. Oral exam at the end of the term.

Compulsory reading:

Bagihole, Barbara (1997) Equal Opportunities and Social Policy: Issues of gender,

race and disability, London: Longman, Chapter two: What is Equal Opportunities?

pp. 31-47

Eriksen, T. H.: “Ethnicity, Race, Class and Nation “, text 4, in Hutchinson, John,

Smith Anthony, eds. (1996) Ethnicity, Oxford- New York: Oxford University Press,

pp. 28-31 EU race equality directive "Implementing the Principle of Equal Treatment Between

Persons Irrespective of Racial or Ethnic Origin" Directive 2000/43/EC (adopted on 29 June 2000)*

Parekh, Bhikhu (2000) Rethinking Multiculturalism: Chapter 7: The Political

Structure of Multicultural Society

Optional reading:









517–538.



Palgrave Macmillan.


1(2) 185–212.









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Instructor: Dr. György Majtényi

Instructor’s office hours: Wednesday 12-13 (Room 308) and by appointment

Preferred contact: via email


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