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. REPRESENTAÇÃO, DELIBERAÇÃO E IDEOLOGIA NAS DEMOCRACIAS LIBERAIS 1. Representação política e ideológica: modelos teóricos, partidos políticos, e sistemas eleitorais 2. Deliberação colectiva e opinião pública: contributos para a democracia 3. O discurso do fim da ideologia e a dicotomia esquerda-direita: persistência e validade, novas e velhas clivagens 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: 1º - Assiduidade e participação nas aulas, nomeadamente no debate dos textos apresentados (assiduidade mínima exigida: 70% das aulas) ponderação de 20% para a média final; 2º - Apresentação oral de artigo (s)/ capítulo(s) na aula ponderação de 30%; 3º - 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 DALTON, Russell (2019), Citizen Politics, Washington, CQ Press. KRIESI, Hanspeter; GRANDE, Edgar; LACHAT, Romain; DOLEZAL, Martin; BORNSCHIER, Simon; FREY, Timotheos (2008), West European politics in the age of globalization, Cambridge; NY: CUP. FISHKIN, James (2018), Democracy when the people are thinking, Oxford: OUP. POWELL, G. Bingham Jr. (2000), Elections as Instruments of Democracy, New Haven e Londres: Yale 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

• LEITURAS COMPLEMENTARES PARTE I - REPRESENTAÇÃO, DELIBERAÇÃO E IDEOLOGIA NAS DEMOCRACIAS LIBERAIS 1. Representação Política e Ideológica: Modelos Teóricos, Partidos Políticos, e Sistemas Eleitorais ACHEN, Christopher H. e BARTELS, Larry M. (2017), Democracy for realists: Why elections do not produce responsive government, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. ANDEWEG, Rudy B. e THOMASSEN, Jacques (2005), Modes of political representation: Toward a new typology?, Legislative Studies Quarterly, xxx, 4, pp. 507-528. BELCHIOR, Ana M. (2013), Explaining left-right party congruence across European party systems. A test of micro and macro level models, Comparative Political Studies, 46(3), pp. 352-386. HUBER, J., e Powell, G. B. Jr. (1994), Congruence between Citizens and Policy Makers in Two Visions of Liberal Democracy, World Politics, 46, pp.291-326. MCDONALD, Michael, e Ian Budge (2005), Elections, Parties, and Democracy: Conferring the Median Mandate, Oxford: Oxford University Press. NAURIN, Elin, Stuart Soroka, e Niels Markwat (2019), Asymmetric accountability: An experimental investigation of biases in evaluations of governments' election pledges, Comparative Political Studies, 52(13-14), pp.2207-2234. 2. Deliberação colectiva e opinião pública: contributos para a democracia ALTHAUS, Scott L. (2003), Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics. Opinion Surveys and the Will of the People, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. BARTELS, Larry (2016), Unequal Democracy. The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age, 2ªed., Princeton e Oxford: Princeton University Press. HOBOLT, S. B., e KLEMMENSEN, R. (2008), Government responsiveness and political competition in comparative perspective, Comparative Political Studies, 41(3), pp.309-337. MANSERGH, L. E. and THOMSON, R. 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Following political influencers, internal political efficacy and participation among youth. Political Communication, 40(2), 147-172. Jacobs, L., Close, C., & Pilet, J. B. (2025). The angry voter? The role of emotions in voting for the radical left and right at the 2019 Belgian elections. International Political Science Review, 46(1), 144-159. Jeroense, T., & Spierings, N. (2023). Political participation profiles. West European Politics, 46(1), 1-23. Kim, D. H., & Ellison, N. B. (2022). From observation on social media to offline political participation: The social media affordances approach. New Media & Society, 24(12), 2614-2634. Kostelka, F., Singh, S. P., & Blais, A. (2024). Is compulsory voting a solution to low and declining turnout? Cross-national evidence since 1945. Political Science Research and Methods, 12(1), 76-93. Lau, R. R., Patel, P., Fahmy, D. F., & Kaufman, R. R. (2014). Correct voting across thirty-three democracies: A preliminary analysis. 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