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ATS2699

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 22 December 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Arts

Organisational Unit

Politics and International Relations

Coordinator(s)

Dr Nick Economou

Offered

Clayton

  • First semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

This is an advanced unit in Politics which concentrates on the political party system. It involves an examination of:

  1. the emergence of the party system in liberal democratic states
  2. the organisation and ideologies of the parties
  3. the role of parties in the political life of liberal democratic states
  4. the comparison of the Australian party system with party systems in other liberal democratic states
  5. the relationship between political parties and social movements
  6. the relationship between the party system and the electoral system.

A theme of the subject will be the way the parties exercise political power in liberal democracies

Outcomes

  1. To foster an understanding of the importance of political parties as organizational forms by which citizens in a liberal democracy seek to influence governance;
  2. To foster a comparative understanding of how parties and party systems are organized in liberal democratic states
  3. To develop a knowledge of the contribution political science has made to the theorizing about parties and party systems;
  4. To foster an understanding of the applicability of theories about organisation and power to an analysis of political parties
  5. To develop a clear understanding of the forms and dynamics of inter-party and intra-party politics, and the impact this has on debates about public policy and governance;
  6. To develop advanced analytical skills so that graduates can analyse organisational power and communicate these skills by way of coherent argument in tutorial situations, and to present rigorously analytical research essays.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 60%
Exam: 40%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr Nick Economou

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Politics

Prerequisites

Twelve credit points of first-year Arts units. It is highly recommended that students only take this unit after they have completed two gateway units in Politics.

Prohibitions

ATS3699