Politics

Globalisation and Democratic Politics: the End of the Nation State?
Module POL3132 for 2017/8

Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL3132: Globalisation and Democratic Politics: the End of the Nation State?

This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

TERM 1: Principles and Types of Democracy
Week 1
General introduction to the module
Week 2
Democracy in history
Week 3
Minimalist conceptions of Democracy
Week 4
Democracy: Ideals and values
Week 5
Political Equality
Week 6
Discussion of Formative Work
Week 7
The Majority’s Rule
Week 8
Democracy and the Social Choice Paradoxes
Week 9
Representative Democracy
Week 10
Participative Democracy
Week 11
Deliberative Democracy and Public Reason
Week 12
Revision class of Term 1
TERM 2: The conditions and the transformation of democrac
Week 1
Limits to democracy: Delegation, and Accountability
Week 2
The conditions of Democracy I: Trust
Week 3
The conditions of Democracy I: Civil Society
Week 4
Self-government: territory and nation
Week 5
Democracy and the civic community
Week 6
Democracy and Multiculturalism
Week 7
Democracy and Globalisation
Week 8
Peoples and Borders: Cosmopolitan Democracy?
Week 9
Democracy in the EU
Week 10
International Democracy
Week 11
Democratic Global Civil Society
Week 12
Revision class of Term 2

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
44	256

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning and teaching activity	44	2-hour weekly seminars with a mix of formal lecture, student-led seminar, collective discussion
Guided Independent study	256	A variety of private study tasks directed by module leader including Independent research and writing.

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

Other Learning Resources

Online videos, documentaries, conference papers and online material