Comparative History Of Political Systems

Argomenti del programma: The course examines the political history of European democracy since 1945: the founding or re-founding of Western European democracies after the war; the drafting of new constitutions; the development of party systems; the evolution of the public sphere in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s; and the political challenges of the new millennium.

Argomenti del programma: Revolutions have been one of the most salient aspects of political modernity, or “the locomotives of history,” as Marx wrote in 1850. Beyond repeating the cliché that revolutions are the driving forces of social and political transformation, the goal in this class is to think through revolutions in their historical time as well as across history from the perspective of political anthropology.

Argomenti del programma: Comparative European History in the Twentieth century.