Currículo

Debates e Controvérsias Contemporâneas em Ciência Política 01733

Contextos

ECTS

12.0 (para cálculo da média)

Objectivos

No final da UC os estudantes deverão ser capazes de reconhecer a diversidade prevalecente nos sistemas políticos democráticos contemporâneos, e de enunciar alguns dos seus principais problemas e desafios. Deverão também conseguir reconhecer diferentes orientações e análises científicas, assim como posições divergentes entre as correntes de pensamento principais da Ciência Política contemporânea. Por fim, os estudantes deverão conseguir identificar alguns dos tópicos centrais da pesquisa nesta área científica, em que prevalecem ambiguidades e/ou lacunas, em que assentam algumas dos principais debates e controvérsias actuais da disciplina.

Programa

PARTE I. MOVIMENTOS SOCIAIS E INFRA-ESTRUTURAS DA POLÍTICA 1. Movimentos sociais e processos políticos 2. O desenho democrático entre tecnologias, inovações e disputas 3. O espaço urbano como arena política PARTE II. PARTICIPAÇÃO POLÍTICA E COMPORTAMENTO ELEITORAL 1. Participação Política: tipologias e inovação 2. Participação Eleitoral: factores explicativos e estratégias de incentivo 3. Comportamento Eleitoral: dos modelos clássicos aos debates contemporâneos

Método de Avaliação

A avaliação ao longo do semestre apoia-se em 3 elementos fundamentais: 1. Participação nas aulas, nomeadamente no debate dos textos apresentados (assiduidade mínima exigida: 70% das aulas) ponderação de 20% para a média final; 2. Apresentação oral de artigo (s)/ capítulo(s) na aula ponderação de 30%; 3. Elaboração de um trabalho escrito de revisão bibliográfica sobre uma das temáticas analisadas, de acordo com as orientações dadas em sala, ponderação de 50%.

Carga Horária

Bibliografia

Principal

• PARTE I della Porta, D., & Diani, M. (2020). Social movements: An introduction (2ª ed.). Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Earl, J., & Kimport, K. (2011). Digitally enabled social change: Activism in the internet age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Rossi, F. M. (Ed.). (2023). The Oxford handbook of Latin American social movements. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Young, I. M. (2002). Inclusion and democracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. PARTE II Blais, A., e Daoust, J.-F. (2020). The motivation to vote: Explaining electoral participation. Vancouver: UBC Press. Dassonneville, R., Barbosa, T., Blais, A., McAllister, I. e Turgeon, M. (2023). Citizens under compulsory voting: A three-country study. Cambridge e Nova Iorque: CUP. Freire, A. (2001). Modelos do comportamento eleitoral. Lisboa: Celta Editora. Gallego, A. (2015). Unequal political participation worldwide. Cambridge: CUP. Lobo, M. C., & Espírito-Santo, A. (2024). O eleitorado português no século XXI. Lisboa: Tinta da China.:

Secundária

• PARTE I Accornero, G. (2016). The revolution before the revolution: Late authoritarianism and student protest in Portugal. New York: Berghahn Books. Barreneche, C., & Lombana-Bermudez, A. (2024). Data in movement: Social movements, data activism, and the struggle for justice in the digital age. Berkeley: University of California Press. Baumgarten, B., Daphi, P., & Ullrich, P. (2014). Conceptualizing culture in social movement research. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Benford, R. D., & Snow, D. A. (2000). Framing processes and social movements: An overview and assessment. Annual Review of Sociology, 26, 611-639. Bennett, W. L., & Segerberg, A. (2012). The logic of connective action: Digital media and the personalization of contentious politics. Information, Communication & Society, 15(5), 739-768. Bosi, L., Giugni, M., & Uba, K. (2016). The consequence of social movements. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Carvalho, T. (2022). Contesting austerity: Social movements and the left in Portugal and Spain (2008–2015). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press Chatterjee, P. (2004). The politics of the governed: Reflections on popular politics in most of the world. New York: Columbia University Press. Chenoweth, E. (Ed.). (2025). How AI can support democracy movements: Summary report of a research and practice workshop. Cambridge: Harvard Kennedy School, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Diani, M., & Bison, I. (2004). Organizations, coalitions, and movements. Theory and Society, 33(3-4), 281-309. Fillieule, O., & Accornero, G. (2016). Social movement studies in Europe: The state of the art. Oxford/NYC: Berghahn Books.. Jasper, J., & Duyvendak, J. (Eds.). (2015). Breaking down the state: Protestors engaged with authorities. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Jian, C. (et al.). (Eds.). (2018). The Routledge handbook of the global sixties: Between protest and nation-building. Abingdon: Routledge. 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