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Seminar: BA Aufbaumodul Regierungslehre und Policyforschung (Sem. IIg: French Politics) (in Englisch) - Details
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Course name Seminar: BA Aufbaumodul Regierungslehre und Policyforschung (Sem. IIg: French Politics) (in Englisch)
Subtitle The political system of France: transformations and challenges
Semester SS 2021
Current number of participants 8
maximum number of participants 30
Home institute Politikwissenschaft
participating institutes Regierungslehre und Policyforschung
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date Wednesday, 14.04.2021 13:00 - 14:30
Participants Studierende in den BA-Studiengängen Politikwissenschaft 60 / 90 / 120 / 180 LP
Lehramt Sozialkunde Förderschule / Sekundarschule / Gymnasium
Gäste lt. Modulhandbuch
Pre-requisites Wünschenswert:
- Erfolgreicher Abschluss des Basismoduls Regierungslehre und Policyforschung
- Erfolgreicher Abschluss des Moduls Einführung in die Politikwissenschaft
- ASQ Modul Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten
Learning organisation Regelmäßige Mitarbeit, Textlektüre, Referat, Hausarbeit (in einem von zwei Seminaren).
The classes will be held online on a weekly basis and will draw upon the assigned reading for the week:
documents must therefore be consulted prior to each session, so that they can be discussed
collectively in class. Scientific papers can be found in pdf format on the studIP platform, other
documents can be found using the URL links provided below.
Students will also be in charge of introducing each session with a short oral presentation (around 10-
15 minutes) in English focusing on the week’s theme, for which they will be required to go beyond the
assigned reading and bring new elements they find illuminating for the group to discuss. The rest of
the session will be dedicated to a form of interactive lecture, which allows for both moments of
collective discussion of the material, and moments of more traditional teaching.
Before the end of the semester, students will be required to write a research paper (10-15 pages) on
the theme of their choice that will constitute their grade for the semester. The last class will be
dedicated to the methodology of writing such research paper, but guidance and advice can and will be
provided along the course of the classes as well.
If you have questions or queries, please reach out.
Performance record 10 ETCS-Punkte ergeben sich aus dem Besuch der beiden Seminare (BA Aufbaumodul Regierungslehre und Policyforschung) im WiSe und SoSe und einer Hausarbeit (i.d.R. im Seminar im SoSe).
Studiengänge (für) BA-Studiengänge und siehe Modulhandbuch
SWS 2
ECTS points 10

Topics

https://uni-halle.webex.com/meet/claire.bloquet

Rooms and times

No room preference
Wednesday: 13:00 - 14:30, weekly

Comment/Description

This seminar is designed to give students a wide-ranged understanding of the French political system in its most recent form, and to provide them with the tools to find their way in the labyrinth of French politics drawing on up-to-date research.

We will focus first on the French institutional setting, as we figure out the key principles of national
and local government, the main electoral processes, and how the constitutional bodies interact: why
is the President so overbearing? What is the role for the Prime Minister? How does the Parliament play
into that equation? What weight, if any, does the local government have in such a unitary state?
We will then shift our focus to the parties battling to hold those positions of power. After a quick
historic look, we will more specifically try to understand the 2017 elections, which seem to have shifted
the whole party system on its head, and figure out what does the main players in the French political
landscape stand for today.

Relying on these strong foundations, we will dedicate our last three sessions to three deep-dives into
some of the major undercurrents in French politics in the recent past: the slow feminisation of politics
through the invention of legally-mandated electoral parity, the rise of the Constitutional Council, the
increasing tension around the French-specific brand of secularism, and the growing unease around
France’s place in the European Union.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "BA Aufbaumodul Regierungslehre SoSe 2021".

Registration mode

After enrolment, participants will manually be selected.

Potential participants are given additional information before enroling to the course.