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Course content
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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Course: "A Crisis of Democracy?" The aim of the course is to introduce the students to one of the most important questions of contemporary political theory, i.e., if and in what sense is democracy in "crisis". Populism, which is often said to be the cause of this crisis, did not come to being ex nihilo. One does not have to accept the authoritarian methods of populist politicians in order to ask if and to what extent their voters legitimately long for an alternative to the contemporary democracy. The course introduces the most discussed of these alternatives -- epistocracy, deliberative democracy, and populism itself -- along with the criticism these alternatives are subjected to by the defenders of the "traditional" representative democracy; especially by the defenders of the party system and the so called minimalist model of democracy.
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Prerequisites
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance, Dialog
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Recommended literature
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