THEORIES OF DEMOCRACY
2024/2025

FDV 20, Thu., 14.00–18.00

COURSE SCHEDULE

WEEK 1 – Intro + course overview

Feb. 20, 14h/FDV 20 

WEEK 2: Democracy in the End Times

Feb. 27, 14h/FDV20

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WEEK 3: Democracy: Verb or Noun?

Mar. 6, 14h/FDV 20 

Seminar: Held, Ch. 1, ‘Classical Democracy: Athens’

WEEK 4: A Short History of Democracy

Mar. 13, 14h/FDV 20
Seminar: Held, Ch. 2, ‘Republicanism: Liberty, Self-Government and the Active Citizen’

WEEK 5: Democracy in a Comparative Perspective

Mar. 20, 14h/FDV 20
Seminar: Held, Ch. 3, ‘The Development of Liberal Democracy: For and Against the State’

WEEK 6: Visit of the National Assembly

Mar. 27, 10h/
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WEEK 7: Democracy, participation and inclusion
Apr. 3, 10h/FDV 20
Seminar:
Held, Ch. 4, ‘Direct Democracy and the End of Politics’

WEEK 8: Democracy and media
Apr. 10, 10h/FDV 20
Seminar:
Held, Ch. 5, ‘Competitive Elitism and the Technocratic Vision’

WEEK 9: MIDTERM I
Apr. 17, 10/h/FDV 20
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WEEK 10: Democracy in the Age of Trumpism
Apr. 24, 10h/FDV 20
Seminar: Held, Ch. 6, ‘Pluralism, Corporate Capitalism and the State’

WEEK 11: NO CLASS
May 1
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WEEK 12: Democracy and the New Topography
May 8, 10h/FDV 20
Seminar: Held, Ch. 7, ‘From Postwar Stability to Political Crisis’

WEEK 13: Paradoxes of Democratization
May 15, 10h/FDV 20
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Held, Ch. 8, ‘Democracy after Soviet Communism’

Held, Ch. 9, ‘Deliberative Democracy and the Defence of the Public Realm’

WEEK 14: The Future of Democracy ?
May 22, 10h/FDV 20
Seminar:
Held, Ch. 10, ‘Democratic Autonomy’
Held, Ch. 11, ‘Democracy, the Nation-State and the Global System’

WEEK 15: MIDTERM II + FINAL EXAM
May 29, 10h/FDV 20
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