Lecturers:

Prof. Rumen Genov, PhD

Course Description:

Competencies:

SKILLS:

After completing successfully this course the students will:

1) know: the modern political systems and their functioning.

2) be capable of: comparative analysis of the political structures and processes.

Prerequisites:
PRELIMINARY REQUIREMENTS:

Students should have the following knowledge and/or skills:

Certain familiarity with principal terms and political theories is desirable but not obligatory; motivation, intellectual curiosity and willingness to understand and analyze the basic models of representative government and modern democracy are of primary importance.

Types:
Full-time Programmes

Types of Courses:
Lecture

Language of teaching:
English

Topics:

Bibliography:

SUGGESTED READINGS

Barker, B. Politics, Peoples and Government: Themes in British Political Thought since the Nineteenth Century (1994)

Beech, Matt, and Simon Lee. The Conservatives under David Cameron: Built to Last?, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)

Beech, M., and S. Lee. Ten Years of New Labour, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)

Blake, Jeremy. A History of the British Isles (Palgrave Macmillan, 1996, 1997, 2003).

Bogdanor, Vernon (Ed.) The British Constitution in the 20th Century (Oxford University Press, 2003).

Bogdanor, V. The Governance of Britain (Allen Lane/Penguin Books, 2005)

Brinkley, Alan. The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People (1992)

Churchill, Winston S. History of the English Speaking Peoples (Vol. 1-4, 1956–58)

Cohen-Almagor, R. The Scope of Tolerance: Studies on the Costs of Free Expression and Freedom of the Press (London and New York: Routledge, 2006).

Dahl, Robert. Democracy and Its Critics (Yale University Press, 1989)

Dahl, Robert. Democracy in the United States: Promise and Performance. 2nd ed. (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1973)

Devline, T. M. The Scottish Nation (1999)

Dorey, Peter. British Politics since 1945. Making Contemporary Britain. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995).

Ferguson, Niall. Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (New York: Basic Books, 2004).

Garard, J. Democratization in Britain: Elites, Civil Society, and Reform since 1800 (2002)

Gilbert, Martin. The Routledge Atlas of American History (2010)

Harrigan, John. Politics and American Future (New York: Random House, 1987)

Janda, Kenneth, Jeffrey M. Berry, Jerry Goldman. The Challenge of Democracy: Government in America. 2nd ed. (Boston, etc.: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1989)

Johnson, Paul Bede. A History of the American People (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997)

Johnson, Paul Bede. Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the Year 2000 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005)

Kearney, H. The British Isles: A History of Four Nations (1989)

Kennedy, David M.; Cohen, Lizabeth; Bailey, Thomas A. The American Pageant: A History of the Republic. 13th ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006).

Kennedy, Paul M. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (1987)

King, Anthony. Britain at the Polls. (2005)

Morgan, Kenneth Owen, Baron Morgan. (ed.) The Oxford History of Britain (1987, rev ed 2010)

Moodie, Graeme C. The Government of Great Britain (London: Methuen, 1968).

Norton, Philip. Parliament in British Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)

Norton, Philip, and X. Dai. (Eds.) The Internet and Parliamentray Democracy in Europe (London: Routledge, 2008).

Norton, Philip. British Polity. 4th ed. (New York and London: Longman, 2000; 5th ed., Prentice Hall; 2010)

Pugh, M. The Making British Politics, 1867-1939 (1982).

Pugh, M. State and Society: British Political and Social History, 1870-1992 (1994).

Roberts, Andrew. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 (2006).

Tindall, George Brown, and David E. Shi. America: A Narrative History (8th ed. 2009).

Young, J. Britain and European Unity, 1945-1999 (2000).

Assessment:

CONTROL DURING THE SEMESTER:

TEST 30 %

PARTICIPATION IN SEMINARS 20 %

TERM PAPER 50 %