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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: BA FSQ II - Seminar Introduction to Comparative Political Economy
Semester WS 2014/15
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 5
erwartete Teilnehmendenanzahl 30
Heimat-Einrichtung Politikwissenschaft
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin Freitag, 24.10.2014 14:15 - 15:45, Ort: (SR Emil-Abderhalden-Str. 6)
Teilnehmende The course is intended for fifth semester BA students to fulfill the requirement to attend successfully a course conducted in a foreign language. Students in other years of study may register on a space available basis.
Voraussetzungen Fifth semester BA status in Political Science. Students from other faculties and years admitted on a space available basis.
Lernorganisation Blockveranstaltung im Januar 2015.
Leistungsnachweis Studienleistung: Referat.
Modulleistung: Hausarbeit.

Each seminar participant is required to hold a 10-minute presentation on one of the
topics mentioned below (the number of presenters varies depending on the topic).
Whilst specific instructions for each topic are provided, all presentations need to
define central concepts, provide a succinct overview of the covered literature, and spark a classroom discussion. Hence, every presentation should conclude with at least
two relevant questions to open up the discussion. The PowerPoint presentations must
be sent to the instructor by January 6, 2015. As most of the topics build on each other,
it is crucial that all seminar participants do the assigned readings in order to follow
other presentations and integrate theirs into the flow of the course. Moreover, students
are required to write a research paper about a political economy issue of no less than 8
and no more than 12 pages (normal margins, 12 point font, Times New Roman,
double spaced).
Studiengänge (für) BA Politikwissenschaft 120,
BA Politikwissenschaft/Soziologie 180
SWS 2
Sonstiges The sessions are conducted in English. Course readings are primarily in English.

Assigned Readings:
Peter Hall and David Soskice 2001. “An Introduction to Varieties of Capitalism” in
Peter Hall and David Soskice, eds., Varieties of Capitalism. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1-44.
Wolfgang Streeck and Kathleen Thelen 2005, “Introduction: Institutional Change in
Advanced Political Economies” in Wolfgang Streeck and Kathleen Thelen, eds.,
Beyond Continuity: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies, New
York: Oxford University Press, 2005, 1-39.
Deeg, Richard 2010. "Institutional Change in Financial Systems", in Glenn Morgan,
John Campbell, Collin Crouch, Ove Kai Pedersen, and Richard Whitley eds., Oxford
Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis New York: Oxford University Press,
309-334.
Vitols, Sigurt 2004. "Changes in Germany’s Bank-Based Financial System: A
Varieties of Capitalism Perspective." Discussion Paper SP II 2004 – 03, Wissenschaftszentrum
Berlin für Sozialforschung.
Deeg, Richard 2005. "Change from within: German and Italian finance in the 1990s."
In Wolfgang Streeck and Kathlen Thelen eds., Beyond continuity: Institutional
Change in Advanced Political Economies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 169-202.
ECTS-Punkte 5

Räume und Zeiten

(SR Emil-Abderhalden-Str. 6)
Freitag, 24.10.2014 14:15 - 15:45
Keine Raumangabe
Freitag, 09.01.2015 14:15 - 20:00
Samstag, 10.01.2015 09:15 - 20:00
Sonntag, 11.01.2015 09:15 - 16:00

Kommentar/Beschreibung

This course surveys contemporary literature on political economy with a particular
focus on the comparative political economy of financial systems. The seminar is
organized into three sections. Section I deals with the genesis of political economy as
an academic discipline and situates the field at the intersection of its constituent
disciplines, political science and economics. In order to get a grasp of current issues
and the breadth of the field, the state of the literature in areas of particular interest to
political economists like labor market arrangements or economic voting will be
discussed. Section II provides the theoretical footing of this course. Different strands
of institutionalism, conceptualizations of institutional change, and the central
framework of literature on comparative capitalism, Varieties of Capitalism, will be
discussed. In addition, students will engage with concepts of corporate governance
regimes and financial configurations as well as mechanisms of financial change from
the timely subfield of comparative finance capitalism. In Section III participants will
apply the covered theory in a case study of the evolution of the German financial
system during the past three decades.

The scope of the course is comparative with the readings focused on advanced
industrialized economies. It will be largely conducted in seminar format, which means
that classroom discussions will be key to reaching our goals of familiarizing ourselves
with canonical models of political economy and identifying their strengths and
weaknesses with regards to empirics and theory. Besides gaining the confidence to
discuss current literature in English, seminar participants will explore questions of
central importance: Why and how do the internal logics of market economies differ?
What are institutions and how do they change? Do national financial systems
converge or remain resilient in the face of globalization and financialization?