EPOKA UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
COURSE SYLLABUS
COURSE INFORMATIONCourse Title: POLITICAL THEORY |
| Code | Course Type | Regular Semester | Theory | Practice | Lab | Credits | ECTS |
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| PIR 811 | B | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| Academic staff member responsible for the design of the course syllabus (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) | NA |
| Lecturer (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours: | Salih Özcan , Monday14:00-17:30 |
| Second Lecturer(s) (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours: | NA |
| Teaching Assistant(s) and Office Hours: | NA |
| Language: | English |
| Compulsory/Elective: | Elective |
| Classroom and Meeting Time: | E 210 |
| Course Description: | The Module of Political Theory will cover all of political theories from the time of Aristotle to 2010. The module will discuss the classical ideas such as the state, freedom, equality, justice and classical ideologies namely liberalism, conservatism, socialism and as well as contemporary ideologies such as feminism, multiculturalism, fundamentalism and ecologism. Further, the module will attempt to focus on democracy and democratization process in the world and the contribution of Muslim and Eastern scholars to the western political ideas and ideologies. Consequently, the module will enhance not only understanding of students but also it will develop their ability to formulate current problem within frame work of political theory. |
| Course Objectives: | Political Theory (Introduction to Political Theory) Module is designed for Master and PhD Students in order to give information about politics and political theories. It is known that some of these students have not been thought the subject at all. This is not a disadvantage for those students, because we aimed to convey basic terms on the subject This module will provide clear understanding for students on political theory. It will illustrate ‘students why an understanding of theory is crucial to an understanding of issues and events in a rapidly shifting global political landscape. Bringing together classic and contemporary political concepts and ideologies into one book, this new text introduces the major approaches to political issues that have shaped the modern world, and the ideas that form the currency of political debate’. |
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COURSE OUTLINE
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| Week | Topics |
| 1 | Introductory Class. What is Political Theory? Hoffman, J. & Graham, P. (2015), Introduction Heywood, A. (2015), Chapter 1: What is Political Theory? Goodwin, B. (2014), Chapter 1: What is Political Theory? Vincent, A. (2004), Chapter 1: An eclectic subject Freeden, M., (2004), Chapter 1: Ideology, Political Theory and Political Philosophy, in Gaus & Kukathas (Eds.) Handbook of Political Theory, Sage Dryzek, John S., Bonnie Honig and Anne Phillips (Eds.) (2006), Chapter 1: Introduction |
| 2 | Power, Authority, the State and Sovereignty Hoffman, J. & Graham, P. (2015), Part 1 Introduction: What is Power? Chapter 1: The State? Heywood, A. (2015), Chapter 5: Power, authority and legitimacy (pp.109-130) & Chapter 3: Politics, government and the state (pp.67-79) & Chapter 4: Sovereignty, the nation and transnationalism (pp.81-89) Goodwin, B. (2014), Chapter 13: Power, Authority and the State McKinnon, C. (Ed.) (2008), Chapter 1: Political Authority and Obligation & Chapter 2: Nation and State (pp.33-39) |
| 3 | Freedom Hoffman, J. & Graham, P. (2015), Chapter 2: Freedom Heywood, A. (2015), Chapter 9: Freedom, Toleration and Identity (pp.237-250) Goodwin, B. (2014), Chapter 14: Freedom and Rights (pp.362-371 & 380-385) McKinnon, C. (Ed.) (2008) Chapter 5: Liberty Carter, Ian (2003) “Liberty”, in R. Bellamy & A. Mason (eds.) Political Concepts, Manchester: Manchester University Press. |
| 4 | Equality & (Social) Justice Hoffman, J. & Graham, P. (2015), Chapter 3: Equality & Chapter 4: Justice Heywood, A. (2015), Chapter 10: Equality, Social Justice and Welfare (pp.268-287) Goodwin, B. (2014), Chapter 16: Social Justice and Equality McKinnon, C. (Ed.) (2008) Chapter 7: Equality & Chapter 8: Social Justice |
| 5 | What is Ideology? Liberalism Hoffman, J. & Graham, P. (2015), Part 2 Introduction: What is ideology? & Chapter 8: Liberalism Heywood, A. (2017), Chapter 1: Political ideologies and why they matter? & Chapter 2: Liberalism Goodwin, B. (2014), Chapter 2: Ideology & Chapter 3: Liberalism Ball et al. (2017) Part1: The Concept of Ideology & Part 3: Liberalism Vincent, Andrew (2010), Chapter 2: Conservatism Eccleshall, Robert et al. (2003), Chapter 2: Conservatism (R. Eccleshall) Wright, Anthony, & Eatwell, Roger (Eds.) (1993), Chapter 2: Conservatism (R. Bellamy) Goodin, Robert E., Philip Pettit, and Thomas Pogge (eds.) (2007), Chapter 14: Conservatism (A. Ryan) |
| 6 | Conservatism Hoffman, J. & Graham, P. (2015), Chapter 9: Conservatism Heywood, A. (2017), Chapter 3: Conservatism Goodwin, B. (2014), Chapter 7: Conservatism Vincent, Andrew, (2010), Chapter 3: Conservatism Ball et al. (2017) Part 4: Conservatism Eccleshall, Robert et al., (2003), Chapter 3: Conservatism (R. Eccleshall) Wright, Anthony, & Eatwell, Roger (Eds.) (1993), Chapter 3: Conservatism (by N. O’Sullivan) Goodin, Robert E., Philip Pettit, and Thomas Pogge (eds.), (2007), Chapter11: Conservatism, (by A. Quinton & A. Norton) |
| 7 | Marxism – Socialism Hoffman, J. & Graham, P. (2015), Chapter 10: Socialism Heywood, A. (2017), Chapter 4: Socialism Goodwin, B. (2014), Chapter 4: Marxism & Chapter 5: Socialism Lowndes, V., Marsh, D. and Stoker, G. (Eds.), (2018) Chapter 7: Marxism: A Global Perspective (R. Kiely) Ball et al. (2017) Part 5 & 6: Socialism and Communism Vincent, Andrew, (2010), Chapter 4: Socialism Eccleshall, Robert, et al. (2003), Chapter 4: Socialism (Vincent Geoghegan) Wright, Anthony, & Eatwell, Roger (Eds.) (1993), Chapter 4: Social democracy & Democratic Socialism (A. Wright) & Chapter 5: Marxism and Communism (J.V. Femia) Goodin, Robert E., Philip Pettit, and Thomas Pogge (Eds.) (2007), Chapter 17: Socialism (P. Self & M. Freeden), & Chapter 15: Marxism (B. Hindess) |
| 8 | Theoretical Approaches. Behavioural Analysis Lowndes, V., Marsh, D. and Stoker, G. (Eds.), (2018) Chapter 2: Behavioral Analysis (D. Sanders) Inanna Hamati-Ataya (2012) Behavioralism, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies (DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.376) Adcock, R. (2007) ‘Interpreting Behavioralism’ in Modern Political Science: Anglo-American Exchanges Since 1880, edited by Robert Adcock, et al., Princeton University Press, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central Adcock, R. (2007) ‘Interpreting Behavioralism’ in Robert Adcock, et al. (Eds.) Modern Political Science: Anglo-American Exchanges Since 1880, Princeton University Press |
| 9 | The Institutional Approach (Institutionalism) Lowndes, V., Marsh, D. and Stoker, G. (Eds.), (2018) Chapter 4: Institutionalism (V. Lowndes) Lowndes, Vivien, Mark Roberts (2013), Why Institutions Matter: The New Institutionalism in Political Science, Palgrave Peters, B. Guy (1999) Institutional theory in political science: the new institutionalism, Pinter |
| 10 | Constructivism and Interpretive Theory Lowndes, V., Marsh, D. and Stoker, G. (Eds.), (2018) Chapter 5: Constructivism and Interpretive Theory (C. Parsons) Kanzian, Christian, Sebastian Kletzl, and Katharina Neges (Eds.) (2017), Realism, Relativism, Constructivism, Berlin: De Gruyter (Relevant Chapters) Roberts, P. (2007) Political Constructivism, Routledge |
| 11 | Feminist and Gendered Approach Hoffman, J. & Graham, P. (2015), Chapter 14: Feminism Heywood, A. (2017), Chapter 8: Feminism Goodwin, B. (2014), Chapter 9: Feminism Lowndes, V., Marsh, D. and Stoker, G. (Eds.), (2018) Chapter 6: Feminist and Gendered Approaches Vincent, Andrew (2010), Chapter 7: Feminism Eccleshall, Robert, et al. (2003), Chapter 8: Feminism (R. Wilford) Wright, Anthony & Eatwell, Roger (Eds.) (1993), Chapter 9: Feminism (V. Bryson) Goodin, Robert E., Philip Pettit, and Thomas Pogge (Eds.) (2007), Chapter 13: Feminism, (Jane Mansbridge and Susan Okin) |
| 12 | Normative Theory Lowndes, V., Marsh, D. and Stoker, G. (Eds.), (2018) Chapter 10: Normative Political Theory (C. Armstrong) Marsh, D. and Stoker, G. (Eds.) (2010), Chapter 8: Normative Theory (S. Buckler) Maija Setälä (1999), Referendums and Democratic Government: Normative Theory and the Analysis of Institutions |
| 13 | Islamic Political Thought Heywood, A. (2017), Chapter 11: Islamism Browers, Michaelle (2004) “Modern Islamic Political Thought”, in Handbook of Political Theory, Gerald F. Gaus & C. Kukathas (eds.), London: Sage Dryzek , John S., Bonnie Honig, and Anne Phillips (Eds.), (2006) Chapter 16: Changing Interpretations of Modern and Contemporary Islamic Political Theory, (Roxanne L. Euben) Hoffman, J. & Graham, P. (2015), Chapter 17: Fundamentalism Ball et al. (2017) Part 10: Radical Islamism Goodwin, B. (2014), (pp.206-208 & 444-446) Vincent, Andrew (2010), Chapter 10: Fundamentalism Goodin, Robert E., Philip Pettit, and Thomas Pogge (Eds.), (2007), Chapter 16: Fundamentalisms, (R. Scott Appleby) Ibrahim Abu-Rabi' (2006) The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought, Wiley-Blackwell |
| 14 | Contemporary Political Issues, Students’ Presentations |
| Prerequisite(s): | N/A |
| Textbook: | 1-) John Hoffman and Paul Graham (2015), Introduction to Political Theory, Third Edition, Routledge, 2-A) Vivien Lowndes, David Marsh and Gerry Stoker (Eds.) (2018), Theory and Methods in Political Science, Fourth Edition, Palgrave-Macmillan 2-B) David Marsh and Gerry Stoker (Eds.) (2010), Theory and Methods in Political Science, Third Edition, Palgrave-Macmillan 3-) Andrew Heywood (2015), Political Theory, An Introduction, Fourth Edition, Palgrave 4-) Barbara Goodwin (2014), Using Political Ideas, Sixth Edition, Wiley 5-) Andrew Heywood (2017), Political Ideologies, An Introduction, Sixth Edition, Palgrave 6-) Catriona McKinnon (Ed.) (2008), Issues in Political Theory, Oxford University Press 7-) Andrew Vincent (2010), Modern Political Ideologies, London: Wiley-Blackwell 8-) Robert Eccleshall et al. (2003), Political Ideologies, An Introduction, Third edition, Routledge 9-) Anthony Wright, Roger Eatwell (Eds.) (1993), Contemporary Political Ideologies, Pinter Publisher 10-) Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit, and Thomas Pogge (Eds.) (2007) A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, Second edition, Blackwell 11-) Ball, Terence, Dagger, Richard, and O’Neill, Daniel L, (Eds.) (2017) Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader, Routledge |
| Other References: | 1-) Jan-Erik Lane & Svante Ersson, (1996) Comparative Politics, An Introduction and New Approach, Polity Press. 2-) John S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig and Anne Phillips (Eds.) (2006) Oxford Handbook of Political Theory, Oxford University Press. 3-) David Leopold & Marc Stears (Ed.), (2008) Political Theory, Methods and Approaches, Oxford University Press. 4-) Andrew Vincent, (2004) The Nature of Political Theory, Oxford University Press 5-) Michael Freeden, (1996) Ideologies and Political Theory: A Conceptual Approach, Clarendon Press. 6-) Lyman Tower Sargent, (2009) Contemporary Political Ideologies: A Comparative Analysis, Fourteenth Edition, Wadsworth- Cengage Learning 7-) John Schwarzmantel, (2008) Ideology and Politics, Sage 8-) Kanzian, Christian, Sebastian Kletzl, and Katharina Neges (Eds.) (2017), Realism, Relativism, Constructivism, Berlin: De Gruyter 9-) Peri Roberts (2007) Political Constructivism, Routledge 10-) Vivien Lowndes, Mark Roberts (2013), Why Institutions Matter: The New Institutionalism in Political Science, Palgrave 11-) B. Guy Peters (1999) Institutional theory in political science: the new institutionalism, Pinter 12-) Robert Adcock, et al. (Eds.) (2007) Modern Political Science: Anglo-American Exchanges Since 1880, Princeton University Press 13-) Maija Setälä (1999), Referendums and Democratic Government: Normative Theory and the Analysis of Institutions, Palgrave Macmillan UK 14-) Ibrahim Abu-Rabi' (2006) The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought, Wiley-Blackwell Homepages: 1-) http://colinfarrelly.blogspot.com/2006/04/what-is-political-theory.html, accessed on 26 November 2018 2-) http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-politics/, accessed on 26 November 2018 3-) http://oxfordre.com/politics/browse?t0=ORE_POL:REFPOL012, accessed on 26 November 2018 4-) http://www.oxfordreference.com/page/philosophy, accessed on 26 November 2018 |
| Laboratory Work: | N/A |
| Computer Usage: | N/A |
| Others: | No |
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COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
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| 1 | At the end of the course the students will be able to discuss the classical ideas such as the state, freedom, equality, justice and classical ideologies namely liberalism, conservatism, socialism and as well as contemporary ideologies such as feminism, multiculturalism, fundamentalism and ecologism. |
| 2 | Democracy and democratization process in the world and the contribution of Muslim and Eastern scholars to the western political ideas and ideologies will be wellknown from the students. |
| 3 | At the end of the course, the students will develop their ability to formulate current problem within frame work of political theory. |
| 4 | This module will provide clear understanding for students on political theory |
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COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO... PROGRAM COMPETENCIES
(Blank : no contribution, 1: least contribution ... 5: highest contribution) |
| No | Program Competencies | Cont. |
| Doctorate (PhD) in Political Science and International Relations Program | ||
| 1 | Having and using advanced knowledge and comprehension supported by textbooks including actual knowledge in political sciences and international relations literature, materials and the other scientific resources. | 5 |
| 2 | Analyzing data, ideas and concepts of current political issues and international relations, determining complex events and topics, making discussions and developing new suggestions in accordance with researches. | 5 |
| 3 | Having knowledge and thought about actual topics and problems together with their historical, social and cultural aspects. | 5 |
| 4 | Introducing those who are interested in politics and international events with the topics of Political Science and IR and teaching clearly the problems and the types of solutions. | 4 |
| 5 | Improving skills of working together with the main social science disciplines and other disciplines which are related to Political Science and International Relations. | 5 |
| 6 | Improving critical thinking and skills in making research independently. | 5 |
| 7 | Developing solutions about the problems and conflicts which are common in national and international arena. | 4 |
| 8 | Improving skills for leadership and research and analyze capacity of those who is responsible with national and international ones. | 4 |
| 9 | Knowing any foreign language enough to communicate with colleagues and understand actual researches and articles. | 2 |
| 10 | Gaining IT skills to use computer and technology) in order to reach actual knowledge. | 1 |
| 11 | Gaining skills to follow societal, scientific and ethic values during collecting, interpreting, conducting of data related to social and political developments. | 4 |
| 12 | Having consciousness about human rights and environment. | 4 |
| 13 | Gaining the skills to follow actual developments and pursue long-life learning. | 4 |
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COURSE EVALUATION METHOD
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| Method | Quantity | Percentage |
| Presentation |
1
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15
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| Project |
1
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15
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| Term Paper |
1
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25
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| Final Exam |
1
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35
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| Attendance |
10
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| Total Percent: | 100% |
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ECTS (ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD)
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| Activities | Quantity | Duration(Hours) | Total Workload(Hours) |
| Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice) | 16 | 2 | 32 |
| Mid-terms | 0 | ||
| Assignments | 1 | 70 | 70 |
| Final examination | 1 | 50 | 50 |
| Other | 1 | 50 | 50 |
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Total Work Load:
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250 | ||
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Total Work Load/25(h):
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10 | ||
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ECTS Credit of the Course:
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10 | ||