Periods
(2-Sep-2013
– 18-Oct-2013)
(21-Oct-2013
– 13-Dec-2013)
(7-Jan-2014
– 7-Mar-2014)
(10-Mar-2014
– 16-May-2014)
Lectures are open for all, but students need to register in NettiOpsu. The seminar group has places for 12 students, preference is given to RES programme students. Those interested in joining the seminar (8h) are asked to discuss this with the Jean Monnet professor Hanna Ojanen during the course.
Credits: lectures + learning diary 3 ECTS; seminar 2 ECTS
Course programme
10.9. Introduction (Hanna Ojanen)
- Europe and wider Europe; borders of Europe; European integration as a definer of Europe
12.9. EU enlargement, history (Hanna Ojanen)
- theoretical approaches to and explanations of enlargement
17.9. Widening and deepening, or differentiation? (Hanna Ojanen)
- the functions of widening on basic treaties, institutions, policies
19.9. Economic integration in the West and in the East during the Cold War (Dr.Soc.Sc. Suvi Kansikas, researcher, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki)
24.9. EU and its neighbourhood (Hanna Ojanen)
- ENP, EaP; neighbourhood and security policy: ESS and beyond
26.9. The EU’s energy policy in the wider Europe and Turkey as a case study (Dicle Korkmaz) (including introduction to the seminar sessions)
1.10. EU-Turkey (Hanna Ojanen)
3.10. EU-Russia (Hiski Haukkala)
8.10. The shared neighbourhood of EU and Russia (Hiski Haukkala)
10.10. Russia’s integration into global economy (Anni Kangas)
• International business communication in English – universal schemes of business language will be presented.
• Interpersonal skills in communicating and socializing will be practiced.
• Cultural aspects will be discussed and attitudes to international business.
The course consists of:
Lectures (12 hours, attendance in every lecture is required!)
Home assignment given by the teacher
Enrolment:
First 30 students will be taken in to the course. First priority will be given to the exchange/degree students of the School of Management. Compulsory and binding enrolment by email to business.school@uta.fi during 06.09.-12.09.2012
Inform your name, home university and student number of UTA (if you already have it).
EACH STUDENT ATTENDS TO TWO SEMINAR DAYS. DAYS ARE AGREED ON FIRST LECTURE.
2 and 3 periods according to the rule that the students staying in Tampere only in autumn semester are able to perform the course on 2nd period.
Seminar dates have been confirmed as following:
1) There is no seminar on the Nov 27.
2) Dec. 3 (10-16),
3) Dec. 4 (13-16)
4) Dec. 10 (10-16)
5) Dec 11 (11-16)
6) Dec 12 (14-17).
Michaela Batorova & Kari Lohivesi
Lectures are open for all, but students need to register in NettiOpsu. The seminar group has places for 12 students, preference is given to RES programme students. Those interested in joining the seminar (8h) are asked to discuss this with the Jean Monnet professor Hanna Ojanen during the course.
Credits: lectures + learning diary 3 ECTS; seminar 2 ECTS
Course programme
10.9. Introduction (Hanna Ojanen)
- Europe and wider Europe; borders of Europe; European integration as a definer of Europe
12.9. EU enlargement, history (Hanna Ojanen)
- theoretical approaches to and explanations of enlargement
17.9. Widening and deepening, or differentiation? (Hanna Ojanen)
- the functions of widening on basic treaties, institutions, policies
19.9. Economic integration in the West and in the East during the Cold War (Dr.Soc.Sc. Suvi Kansikas, researcher, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki)
24.9. EU and its neighbourhood (Hanna Ojanen)
- ENP, EaP; neighbourhood and security policy: ESS and beyond
26.9. The EU’s energy policy in the wider Europe and Turkey as a case study (Dicle Korkmaz) (including introduction to the seminar sessions)
1.10. EU-Turkey (Hanna Ojanen)
3.10. EU-Russia (Hiski Haukkala)
8.10. The shared neighbourhood of EU and Russia (Hiski Haukkala)
10.10. Russia’s integration into global economy (Anni Kangas)
The course discusses India's position and foreign and security policy in the changing international order from India's independence to the present. The focus in the course is in India's rise into one of the actors which will shape the future international order and the challenges the rise of India will present for the international community.
Recent evidence points in the direction of EU becoming increasingly politicized and salient in domestic politics, with Europe as an issue also affecting the performance of parties in national and European parliamentary elections. Europe may thus not be in the minds of the citizens most of the time, but public opinion constrains elites and parties more than before. The objective of the course is to analyse why and how citizens and political parties oppose European integration. The course consists of lectures, seminars and an essay. In the seminars the students are expected to produce an essay and an oral presentation on a topic related to Euroscepticism.
http://www.uta.fi/jkk/pol/index/The Politics of Euroscepticism.pdf
Email registration to tapio.raunio@uta.fi by October 15 essential
Aims: 1) To describe, analyse, compare and contrast the nature of politics and policy-making in the five Nordic states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden 2) To adopt a thematic approach to understanding politics in the region Objectives/outcomes: 1) At the end of the course students should be able critically to review the main features of the political systems of the Nordic countries and to place Finnish practice in a wider comparative perspective. The course will start with an introduction to contemporary Scandinavian politics. It will proceed from the 'gold standard' of a set of strong, consensus-based democracies with comprehensive welfare systems. 'Paradise', so to speak, involved dominant social democrat-driven states, providing 'womb-to-tomb' protection underpinned by organised political societies displaying high levels of associationalism (social capital). Following the 'set-up' the question of 'paradise lost' will be considered by reference three macro-change processes and their ramifications. 1) Social structural change and changing patterns of political participation: from class-based to issue-based mobilisation; issue-based voting and inter-party competition; distinguishing interest in, and involvement in politics. 'Spectator Democracy' (Goul Andersen). 2) Party system change: from social democracy to 'disintegrating democracy' in Norway (Østerud), 'party-based democracy on trial' in Finland (Karvonen and Paloheimo). 3) Macro-economic change: the impact of globalisation and Europeanisation; the crisis in the euro-zone (albeit Finland is the only member); the rise of nationalist/chauvinist sentiment, reflected and reinforced in extreme/populist radical right parties, inter alia, the parliamentary breakthrough in 2010 of the [formerly neo-Nazi] Sweden Democrats. Evidence of anti-immigrant, anti-Islam sentiment. Anders Breivik; the Nokia 'bubble' bursts. Are the Nordic states making international news for all the wrong reasons? Following a critical examination of Scandinavian politics today, the course will revert in time to the completion of mass democracy and the introduction of proportional electoral systems. It will essay a longitudinal, socio-historical perspective with the focus on party-building and parties as a link between state and society. Lipset and Rokkans's four formative revolutions and an application of the Lipset and Rokkan model to the Nordic context. Sweden as the prototype of the five-party 'Scandinavian party system model' (Berglund and Lindström) and deviations from the Swedish protype. What about the parenthetical 's'? The first part of the course will conclude by examining the relative strengths of the historic party types. It will describe and analyse the electoral supremacy of social democracy in Denmark, Norway and most notably Sweden; the strength and resilience of agrarianism in Finland; the strength of the radical left in Norden; the merger of liberalism and conservatism in Iceland; the historic party system(s) from a voter perspective.
Course Schedule
October 22 Introduction. Seeing yourself as others see you
October 24 Sartori: “It is impossible to compare stones and rabbits” [How] can we compare the Nordic states?
October 29 What are the main features of the Nordic model? The ‘Admiration Society’ perspective
October 31 ‘Trouble in Paradise: On the hijab and Danish meatballs
November 5 Is the Nordic model too old for the catwalk?
November 7 The ‘Hell on Earth’ Scenario: American, British and Swedish ‘Hawks’
November 12 ‘Is there anything distinctive about Scandinavian Politics Today? [seminar]
November 14 Less, less, less and less: Whatever happened to the Nordic model?
November 19 Gender equality and the representation of minorities in Scandinavia
November 21 The advent of mass democracy and female tram drivers
November 26 The making of the Scandinavian party system model: Testing your ‘mental arithmetic’
November 28 How far was class the basis of Nordic party politics until the late 1960s?
December 3 New parties break the mould: The Earthquake elections of 1970-73
December 5 That ‘Thin Red Line’: Explaining the Strength of Scandinavian Social Democracy
December 10 From Class to Catchall Parties?: the Agrarian-Centre Parties
December 12 Conclusions
Email registration to david.arter@uta.fi by October 8 essential
Suoritukseen kuuluvan esseen voi tehdä myös suomeksi.
EACH STUDENT ATTENDS TO TWO SEMINAR DAYS. DAYS ARE AGREED ON FIRST LECTURE.
2 and 3 periods according to the rule that the students staying in Tampere only in autumn semester are able to perform the course on 2nd period.
Seminar dates have been confirmed as following:
1) There is no seminar on the Nov 27.
2) Dec. 3 (10-16),
3) Dec. 4 (13-16)
4) Dec. 10 (10-16)
5) Dec 11 (11-16)
6) Dec 12 (14-17).
Michaela Batorova & Kari Lohivesi
Virtual course in Moodle.
Registering by email to eero.palmujoki(at)uta.fi.
A web-based course
Registration in January 2014 in the following address:
The course is in English (a web-based course).
Registration in December 2013, starting 1st of December. See
Aims: 1) To describe, analyse, compare and contrast the nature of politics and policy-making in the five Nordic states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden 2) To adopt a thematic approach to understanding politics in the region
Objectives/outcomes: 1) At the end of the course students should be able critically to review the main features of the political systems of the Nordic countries and to place Finnish practice in a wider comparative perspective. This teaching period the focus will be on the incidence of high-volatility elections since 1970; the advent and significance of new parliamentary parties (many short-lived); types of new parties on the basis of the process of their origination (Arter 2012); entrepreneurial parties; 'rooted new parties' backed by a 'promoter organisation' (Bolleyer and Bytzek 2013); 'persistent new parties'. The travails of the 'old' 'pole parties' (Rokkan/Sundberg): for example, the Swedish Centre (formerly Agrarian Party) is in danger of not making the 4 per cent national qualifying threshold in 2014 whilst three years earlier its Finnish counterpart plummeted to an historic nadir. In similar fashion, the Social Democrats reached new depths in Sweden (2010) and Finland (2011) and the Danish party has not been the largest party since the turn of the new millennium. The rise of protest parties on the radical right. Turning from parties to the electoral rules and the procedures, the lectures will cover candidate selection (recruitment) procedures (centralised/decentralised); preferential voting systems (Finland, Sweden, Denmark); closed-list PR (Norway); electoral systems as incentive structures; intra-party candidate competition and personal-vote-seeking; candidate types; parties' electoral strategies (pre-electoral alliances, joint lists etc); election campaigns, the main issues; changing campaign styles (canvassing etc); the digitalisation of election campaigns; voters and the Internet (Karlsen 2010); voting machines (Finland); candidate use of websites, blogs, Facebook etc. The 'electoral connection': who do MPS represent, how do they represent them and what do voters expect their representatives to do?
Course Schedule
January 14 Introduction: Why hold elections?
January 16 The Scandinavian electoral systems
January 21 Proto-parties and the Road to Mass Democracy
January 23 PR, Red/Green Parties and the Completion of the Scandinavian Party System Model
January 28 Berglund and Lindström’s ‘Parenthetical ‘S’ question
January 30 The Thaw, the Earthquake and the Rise of Populist Protest
February 4 New ‘Party Families’ – Greens, Christian Democrats and Eco-Socialists
February 6 Individualised Voting and Individualised Campaigning
February 11 Is Party-Based Democracy in Scandinavia in Trouble?
February 13 SEMINAR: “What are the principal determinants of voting behaviour in Scandinavia today?”
February 18 SEMINAR: “How far would you agree that preferential voting systems are more democratic?”
February 20 Conclusions
Email registration to david.arter@uta.fi by December 13 essential
Virtual course in Moodle.
Registering by email to eero.palmujoki(at)uta.fi.
A web-based course
Registration in January 2014 in the following address:
The course is in English (a web-based course).
Registration in December 2013, starting 1st of December. See
Aims: 1) To describe, analyse, compare and contrast the nature of politics and policy-making in the five Nordic states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden 2) To adopt a thematic approach to understanding politics in the region
Objectives/outcomes: 1) At the end of the course students should be able critically to review the main features of the political systems of the Nordic countries and to place Finnish practice in a wider comparative perspective. The broad focus in this final teaching period will be on legislative-executive relations and i) whether there is a distinctive Nordic parliamentarism, and ii) whether there is a Nordic model of government and iii) whether there has been a 'presidentialisation' of the executive. Topics covered will include 'How democratic are the Nordic parliaments?' The corollary of this question will be determining the evaluative criteria and reflecting on the influence of the premises of participatory democracy and deliberative democracy in the region. Referenda and citizens' initiatives. A discussion of semi-presidential government will take due note of the new constitution in Iceland and changes to the presidential office in Finland. the size, structure and partisan composition of governments; the frequency of minority governments (Denmark, Sweden and earlier Norway); 'surplus majority' governments (Finland); the shift towards 'bloc coalitions and potential alternation in government (Norway and Sweden); the persistence of across-the-blocs, 'anything goes' governments in Finland; The government at work (including informal sessions); the demise of semi-president government in Finland; what sort of president do Finns want? Towards a 'presidential' prime minister in the Scandinavian countries?
COURSE PROGRAMME
The course will be structured around four overarching themes:
- Rules, behaviour and Nordic democracy in comparative perspective: Did Lijphart get it right?
- The Scandinavian model of government: Is it just a distant memory?
- Is there a distinctive Nordic model of parliamentarism?
- Is there a ‘crisis of democracy’ in the Nordic states?
Seminar questions will include:
a) What do Nordic MPs do?
b) Can we speak of prime ministerial government in Scandinavia?
c) ‘Minority governments work best where they are most common’ How far is this true in Scandinavia?
d) ‘The institution of the presidency is simply outdated’
e) How useful is the notion of ‘policy style’?
f) Does Scandinavian government deserve its reputation for transparency?
Email registration to david.arter@uta.fi by March 1 essential