Master's Degree Programme in Democracy and Global Transformations
- Guest lecture: Michael Saward (Open University, UK)
- Guest lecture: Donatella della Porta (EUI, Italy)
- Guest lecture: Jan Aart Scholte (University of Warwick, UK)
- Program's Opening Seminar
7. & 9.9.2010
Welcome!
Democracy in global, national and local contexts
"Democracy and Global Transformations" is a two-year research-oriented programme (120 ECTS) designed to provide the graduate students with a profound understanding of theory and practice of democracy in global, national and local contexts. Upon successful completion of the programme, students receive a Master of Social Sciences degree (M.Soc.Sc.).
The programme has a common core, but students apply and are accepted to either the Politics or World Politics study line. Both deal with global, national and local challenges for democracy, but from different theoretical perspectives. The Politics study line focuses more on the transformations of national political systems, while World Politics studies the different contexts in global perspectives.
The study of global contexts examines the possibilities and limits of global and cosmopolitan democracy. Examples include the democratisation of multilateral institutions such as the World Bank, the WTO and the IMF and the creation of new regulatory institutions. Other important actors in the global contexts are corporations and transnational social movements.
The study of national contexts focuses on the comparative study of different national political systems, political behaviour within the state and the challenges to territorially based political organization in the age of globalizations.
The study of local contexts examines the possibilities for local democracy and the relationship beteween local social movements, state politics and international organizations.