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Course Description
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Course Name
Dictatorships and Revolutions
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Host University
Victoria University of Wellington
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Location
Wellington, New Zealand
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Area of Study
International Politics, International Relations, Political Science
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Language Level
Taught In English
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Prerequisites
40 100-level POLS/INTP pts;
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Course Level Recommendations
Upper
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Credit Points
20 -
Recommended U.S. Semester Credits5
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Recommended U.S. Quarter Units7
Hours & Credits
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Overview
This introduces students to the nature and varities of modern dictatorship and non-democracy, the cause of their emergence, and the processes that lead to their collapse and transformation. Our focus will be on developing concepts and tools useful for the analysis of a wide variety of cases. 70% internal assessment, 30% examination. This course may also be able to be taken towards a major in INTP. See major requirements for details.
Learning Objectives
Students who pass this course should be able to:
1. identify existing non-democracies, and articulate similarities and differences among nondemocracies
2. identify the mechanisms by which non-democratic regimes and dictators keep themselves
in power, as well as the ways in which their power is constrained
3. critically evaluate the systematic advantages and evils of various forms of non-democracy
4. understand the processes leading to the emergence, transformation, or overthrow of nondemocratic regimes
5. critically use and evaluate quantitative and statistical data about political regimes
6. summarise and explain important current research in political science about dictatorships
and revolutions.Assessment
Project & paper- 40%
Blog posts explaining specific readings- 20%
Blog posts- 10%
Final exam- 30%
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