Prof. Marco Giuliani

• Type B exam (minimum attendance rate 80%) is based on a reading list that will be provided at the beginning of the course. Each reading is compulsory and has to be completed before the lecture.

Argomenti del programma: There are two different attendance requirements, connected with two types of exams: Type A exam requires the standard 50% rate of attendance, while the more demaning Type B exam requires a 80% rate of attendance. During the course, students will be exposed to some of the most relevant debates within the field of political science on the actual functioning of modern democratic systems.

Argomenti del programma: The course for attending students reviews the construction and performance of two opposite models: Consensus and Westminster democracy. We will start scrutinizing the ten variables used by A. Lijphart to represent the differences between those two models: electoral systems, party systems, cabinets, executive-legislative relationships, interest groups, territorial division of power, parliaments, constitutions,…