CAL 6032: Democracy, democratization and Human Rights (2018-2020)

NỘI DUNG MÔN HỌC/ COURSE SYLLABUS

1. Course objective :

2. Course content summary

3.Criteria for Evaluation and Exam:

One paper (hand-in in Vietnamese or English)                                        20 %

Class Participation and                                                                             15 %   

Group Assignment/Presentation                                                              15 %

Final exam                                                                                                50 %.

Mid term paper:

The paper will be two academic paper in English of around 1500-2000 words, of publishable standard (this means a critical analytical paper.  The paper topic is “............................................................”.

COURSE DETAILS

Lecture outline

Lecture 1

What is democracy?

Issues to be covered: Liberal democracy and its Critics. The main dimensions of democracy (contestation and popular participation). Can democracy be measured? Multi-tired systems of democracy; devolution of power.

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Lecture 2

Channels of democratic influence – numerical democracy and corporate pluralism

This lecture will reflect on different channels of democratic politics, and draws upon Scandinavian  (in particular Norwegian experiences)

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Lecture 3

What drives democratization? Internal and external factors

This lecture will address the concepts of democratic transition and consolidation, and refer to works of in particular Guillermo O’Donnell, Juan Linz and Thomas Risse.

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Lecture 4

Democracy and development – the SDGs?

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Lecture 5

Democracy and democratization in Vietnam

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Lecture 6

Democracy in comparison: Different models of democracy

Global democracy – a system in deficit?

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Lecture 7

Open lecture:

May address The future of democracy? A human right to democracy?  Local democracy? Institutional democracy?

Literature:

READING LIST (in Vietnamese)

1. Robert A.Dahl, On Democracy, 2015
2. Larry Diamond, The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World, 2008
3. Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao  (ed), Asian New Democracies: The Philippines, South Korea and Taiwan. Compared, 2014

(ENG: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/51180639.pdf )

4. Selection of articles on Democracy and Democratization

Additional syllabus (recommended): TO BE COMPLETED

5. Robert A. Dahl. Polyarchy
6. Guillermo O’Donnel, Transition to Democracy,1986
7. Juan Linz. Transition to Authoritarian Rule
8. Georg Sørensen. Democracy and democratization, Westview Press, 1993.
9. Nathan J. Brown. The Dynamics of Democratization. Dictatorship, Development and Diffusion. John Hopkins University Press, 2011.
10. Held. Democracy in the World Order