The first session is on 12 October from 12.30 to 14.00. The last session on 01 February 2018. The course is taught by Achim Goerres, Hayfat Hamidou and Sabrina J. Mayer.
Please register through the LSF registration procedure. If you encounter any problems, please contact Ms Hamidou at hayfat.hamidou@uni-due.de
This English-taught seminar at MA level introduces students to political psychology from a comparative perspective, one of the quickest growing sub-disciplines of political science.
How do individuals arrive at decisions in political contexts? What effect does the institutional context have on their decision-making? Which institutional roles are most prone to individual influences? How does decision-making vary between liberal-democratic and other political systems? To what extent are political elites different when taking a decision, compared with “ordinary citizens”? What effect does individual decision-making have on political output and most importantly good governance? Is there something like “good” and “bad” leadership with regard to decision-making?
The course requires students to read English texts and write several marked essays in English.
Working language will be English unless all participants have grown up in a German-speaking environment.
Participation in all weekly sessions is mandatory as the ideas emerging from the discussions and the oral usage of scientifc English are central to the learning objectives of this course. The attendance is capped at 30 students.
Target audience:
students from all MA political science study courses |
