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Democratic Statehood

Course code

RIT6013.YK

old course code

RIT6013

Course title in Estonian

Demokraatlik riiklus

Course title in English

Democratic Statehood

ECTS credits

4.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

To develop basic understanding of the operation of contemporary state and democratic political system.
To develop basic competences for handling state and democracy in writing bachelor thesis.

Brief description of the course

Introduction, launching the course. The state: concept and historical development. Basic parameters and operating mechanisms of contemporary statehood. Democracy: concept and main approaches. Democratic political systems: basic parameters. Liberal democratic statehood, europeanisation and globalisation.
Student independent work includes studying the course materials and preparing for examination and/or writing the final essay.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- has basic understanding of the operation of contemporary state and democratic political system;
- has basic competences for handling state and democracy in writing bachelor thesis.

Teacher

Gerly Elbrecht

Prerequisite course 1

State, Politics and Government (RIT6101.YK)

Study programmes containing that course