UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCUREȘTI

FACULTATEA DE ŞTIINŢE POLITICE

ȘTIINȚE POLITICE ÎN LIMBA ENGLEZĂ
Diplomă de licenţă în Ştiinţe Politice în limba engleză, 3 ani, învăţământ cu frecvenţă

Semestrul II,
SPE 2,

2017-2018
SP 1427
POLITICAL PARTIES AND IDEOLOGIES
obligatoriu/ compulsory

Dan Pavel
conf. univ. dr.

Brief description of the course:

The aim of this course is to describe and explain the main theories of political
parties & coalitions, and also the main political ideologies shared by followers, voters,
leaders and doctrinaires of those organizations. A significant section is dedicated to the
role of parties in modern and contemporary politics, in particular to their role in post-
communist Romania. The course examines also, from a critical perspective, some
theoretical contributions that appeared after the collapse of Soviet communism and
during the transition to democracy. The accuracy of traditional theories formulated in
Western democracies will be measured against the political reality of Central and Eastern
Europe, in particular Romania. Based on the study of some of the main theoretical and
analytical texts in the political science literature, class discussions will explore the nature
of modern politics and political parties. Students are encouraged to engage in the
empirical study of Romanian and foreign political parties and party systems, according
with a research methodology discussed in seminars. A special part of the collective
analysis and open debate will be related with the appearance of new political parties and
party systems all around the world, in Northern Africa, Middle East and Central Asia:
consolidation of democracy vs failed experiments, failed states.
The whole programming of courses & seminars is only an attempt to organize the
inclusion and succession of topics, but could be changed when the logic of teaching,
learning and researching offer better opportunities.

Requirements and evaluation:

The texts included in the course reader are mandatory readings. They are all
fundamental for understanding the nature, functions, organization, behavior, role, and
efficiency of parties in any political system. Any supplementary reading is also
encouraged. Only students with research interest, skills and talent will complete by the

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end of the semester a research paper on a political party, a party system, from Romania or
any other country, contemporary or old. The research draft is not mandatory, but the
students with original research hypotheses will be rewarded; students have the
opportunity to make a choice between research and the mandatory readings.
Students’ performance will be evaluated on the basis of active participation in
seminar discussions/presentations and mandatory readings, written tests, or research.
Active participation in seminar or course discussions help you to improve the final result.
The final grade= 2/3 semester activity (readings, class participation, mid-term
exam, or research draft and research paper) + 1/3 final summer exam;
There will be no final summer exam if you obtained the maximum grade in
research. Students with more than 6 absences during the semester will not be accepted at
the final summer exam.

NOTA:
Studenţii sunt obligaţi să cunoască politica de probitate intelectuală a Facultăţii: plagiatul, copiatul,
înşelătoria, multipla utilizare a unui referat, recursul nemărturisit la surse bibliografice sau la internet vor
conduce la anularea notei şi a creditelor alocate cursului.
Students should be aware of the Department’s policy of academic integrity: cheating, falsification, forgery,
multiple submission, plagiarism, complicity and computer misuse will result in the invalidation of both
grade and credits

Courses outline:

1. Week: February 20 – 24, 2017

Introductory course. Place of parties in social and political life; place of the
Topic:
general theory of parties in political science. Discussion about requirements and
evaluation.
Topic: Research seminar: political science writing & research; how to design & write a
research draft and a research paper

2. Week: February – March , 201

The first deadline : Research drafts;
Topic: Functions of political parties. Typologies of political parties.
Reading 1:
Richard Gunther and Larry Diamond, „Types and Functions of Parties”, in Larry
Diamond, Richard Gunther, Political Parties and Democracy [A Journal of Democracy Book]
(Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press, 2001) 3-39, [pdf];
Optional reading
Ralf Dahrendorf, “Parties and Populists", Project Syndicate, Aug 14, 2006,
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/parties-and-populists ;

3. Week: March 6 – 10,

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The second deadline : Research drafts ;
Topic : Several definitions of political
parties and their meanings – why do we
need several definitions?
Debate: which is the best/worst definition? Provide concrete examples for each
definition & examples of parties that do not fit into a definition or another;
Reading 2:
Joseph LaPalombara & Myron Weiner, “The Origin and Development of Political
Parties”, in LaPalombara & Weiner (eds.), Political Parties and Political Development,
3-42;
Topic: Functions of political parties. Typologies of political parties.

4. Week: March 13 – 17,

Topic : the Yin & Yang of modern politics – the Left & the Right.
Debates: When and why the Left-Right divide is the most relevant?
Parties of the Left/ parties of the Right. Movements, politicians,
issues, laws, of the Left/ Right.
How the Left and the Right shaped modern politics – the
Romanian case (the interwar period; post-communism); in USA; in
the «Old» Europe and the «New» Europe;
Reading 3:
Dan Pavel, „NOUL SISTEM. Cercetare asupra noilor tendinţe ale sistemului de
partide şi ale sistemului politic din România postcomunistă”, în Pavel, Democraţia bine
temperată, 29-100 [not new/ it was on your mandatory reading list last year]2;
Optional reading
Dan Pavel, „<<Partidul trădătorilor>>. Cercetare asupra malformaţiilor
instituţionale şi autoreglajelor sistemice ale democraţiei postcomuniste”, Sfera Politicii,
Vol. XX, nr 3 (169), mai-iunie 2012, http://www.sferapoliticii.ro/sfera/169/art02-Pavel.php .;

5. Week: March 20 – 24,

Traditional and new theories on the origins of political parties.
Reading 4:
Daniel L. Seiler, Partidele politice din Europa, traducere de Eugenia Zăinescu,
prefaţă de Sorin Bocancea (Iaşi: Institutul European, 1999), 13-79;

6. Week: March 27 – 31,

Topic : Seminar evaluation of the research drafts.

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Because the seminar on research will be repeated, and the deadline extended, some of the topics and
readings will be postponed, changed. I prefer quality teaching and learning: if a topic or a reading is not
clear, I will pay more attention.
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After two more rounds of general elections, the changes in the political system, in the party system, and
the new developments related with the crisis of the executive power (see my analysis on the urgency
ordinances between 1996-2016, and their negative impact, in particular OUG13), the crisis of the
legislative power, I want to complete a second edition of Democraţia bine temperată with new
analyses. Students analytical contributions are encouraged and will be rewarded.

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 Political conflicts, revolutions and the cleavage paradigm: cleavages in the
Western world and their relevance for former communist states and for the non-Western
world.
Reading 5:
Seiler, Partidele politice din Europa, 81-145;

Debates: which are the main cleavages of the Romanian political system?
Past and present cleavages in Europe – the West, Southern Europe, East
and Central Europe (former Communist countries);
Cleavages and party competion in the world;

7. Week: April 3 – 7,
Topic : Communist Parties and Fascist Parties around the world – before and after WW II/ the
collapse of communism. Case studies.
The totalitarian parties (Bolsheviks, Nazis, and the Romanian Communist Party).
The influence of the Romanian Communist Party on modern Romania, and its legacy
after the collapse of communist totalitarian regime.
Reading 6:
Ferdinand Muller-Rommel, „Small Parties in Comparative Perspective: The State
of the Art,” and Gordon Smith, „In Search of Small Parties: Problems of Definition,
Classification and Significance,” in Muller-Rommel, Pridham (eds.), Small Parties in
Western Europe, 1-21, 23-40;
Debate: the end of small parties or the end of small party politics?
Optional reading
OECD Public Governance Reviews, Financing Democracy. Funding Political
Parties and Election Campaigns and the Risk of Policy Capture (Paris: OECD
Publishing, 2016), http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-
Management/oecd/governance/financing-democracy_9789264249455-
en#.WLWDFhJ94kg%23page1 ; or
https://books.google.ro/books?id=SsODCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA93&lpg=PA93&dq=politic
al+parties+bibliography+2014&source=bl&ots=T2TDJG-
P2A&sig=pm5DLYyit9iRjDW3HTo6pvuBTdA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiI7I6H8r
LSAhWsZpoKHVqVBXQQ6AEIOjAG#v=onepage&q=political%20parties%20bibliogr
aphy%202014&f=false //

Week: April 10 – 13, [April 14-20, 2017, holiday]

8.
Romanian political parties in the interwar period and after the collapse of
Topic :
communism. The end of small parties or the end of small party politics?
Reading 7:
Giovanni Sartori, „The Party Effects of Electoral Systems”, in Diamond, Gunther,
Political Parties and Democracy [A Journal of Democracy Book] (Baltimore and London: The John
Hopkins University Press, 2001), 90-105;
Giovanni Sartori, Parties and Party Systems, 39-50, 56-66, 71-80;

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 9. Week: April 24 – 28,
Topic : Typical parties for political families & political regimes:
How to analyze a party? How to analyze a party in its concrete political
context / as part of a political family ?
One liberal / conservative / socialist / totalitarian party, at student’s choice
Reading 8:
Giovanni Sartori, Parties and Party Systems,119-128, 131-144, 173-199; 217-232,
271-292;

10. Week: May 2 – 5,

Topic : Parties - political ideologies & political doctrines. Liberalism and liberal
political parties. Economic and political liberalism. Socialism, social-democracy and
socialist, social-democratic parties. Conservatism and neo-conservatism in Europe and
USA. Christian-democracy and popular, conservative, Christian-democrat parties.
Opportunistic, pragmatic and catch-all parties. Grand ideological families from the
Communist International to the contemporary Internationals. National/ nationalist parties
and internationalist parties. Anarchism from Bakunin to Wikipedia.
Reading 9:
Pavel, Huiu, “Nu putem reuşi decît împreună.” O istorie analitică a Convenţiei
Democratice, 1989-2000, 13-109 [not new/ it was on your mandatory reading list last year];

11.Week: May 8 – 12,

Inter-semestrial test. May , 201
Readings: The whole mandatory bibliography.

12. May 15 – 19,

Topic : Electoral systems and
party systems.
Reading 10: Arend Lijphart,
Electoral Systems and Party Systems. A Study on
Twenty-Seven Democracies, 1945-1990 (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press,
1994);

13. Week: May 22 – 26,

Topic: Ethnic and regional parties. Religious parties.
Debates: should we ban or encourage ethnic parties in Romania/ wherever?
Conceptual & Methodological challenges for the theories of political
parties, coalitions & ideologies: the new developments in the Islamic/ Arab world & all
around the world. Case studies: the strange case of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt;
The Party of God/ Hezbollah (Lebanon). New political parties in Europe: Team Stromach
(Austria); Jobbik (Hungary); Movimento 5 Stele/ the Five Stars Movements (Italy)
Partidul Poporului-Dan Diaconescu/PP-DD & Uniunea Nationala pentru Progresul
Romaniei/UNPR (Romania); . New political parties and movements in North America:
the Tea Party (USA)/ see the debate about the end of bipartisanship in USA;

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 Readings: Presentations on ethnic and regional parties based on a specific
bibliography for each and every topic. Presentation of the old & new parties, party
systems, political systems in the Islamic / Arab world
D.J. Sagar (editor), Political Parties of the World, 7th edition (London: John Harper
Publishing, 2009) [e];
see also Countries of the World and Their Leaders Yearbook 201
Supplementary readings:

14. Week: May –June , 201

Topic: Conclusions for the course political parties and ideologies. Evaluation of
the test results and research papers.
Topic : Deadline for research papers.
Readings:

Rezerve
Dan Pavel, ”Mitul <<părintelui >> fondator al democrației postcomuniste – Corneliu
Coposu”, în Cristian Fulger, Tudor Călin Zarojanu (editori), Seniorul Corneliu Coposu
(București: Humanitas, 2014), 62-75;
Debate: which is the best/worst definition? Provide concrete examples for each definition
& examples of parties that do not fit into a definition or another;
Rodney P. Carlisle (general editor), The Encyclopedia of Politics. The Left and the
Right, two volumes, Volume One: the Left, & Volume Two: the Right (Thousand
Oaks, London, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2005) [pdf];
Norberto Bobbio, Dreapta şi stînga (Bucureşti: Humanitas, 1999);

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Complete with my recent downloads, check folders & memory sticks & other sources.

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America, European left, India, Turkey.

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Typology”, Party Politics, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2003,
http://www.olemiss.edu/courses/pol628/guntherdiamond03.pdf ; published also in
Larry Diamond, Richard Gunther, Political Parties and Democracy [A Journal of Democracy
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(Oxford, UK and Cambridge Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1993);
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Delia Răzdolescu (Bucureşti: Humanitas, 1998);
- Samuel P. Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies (New Haven and
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Editura PRO, 1999);

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- Arend Lijphart, Democracy in Plural Societies. A Comparative Exploration (New
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(Iaşi: Polirom, 2000)/ ;
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Parties and Election Campaigns and the Risk of Policy Capture (Paris: OECD
Publishing, 2016), http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-

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Management/oecd/governance/financing-democracy_9789264249455-
en#.WLWDFhJ94kg%23page1 ; or
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litical+parties+bibliography+2014&source=bl&ots=T2TDJG-
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bibliography%202014&f=false //
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Cambridge University Press, 1976) [new pdf];
- Ioan Scurtu, Ion Alexandrescu, Ion Bulei, Ion Mamina, Stan Stoica, Enciclopedia
partidelor politice din România, cuvînt înainte de Ioan Scurtu (Bucureşti: Editura
Merona, 2003);
- Daniel L. Seiler, Les parties politiques (Paris: A. Colin, 1993), vezi şi traducerea
short version Daniel L. Seiler, Partidele politice din Europa, traducere de Eugenia
Zăinescu, prefaţă de Sorin Bocancea (Iaşi: Institutul European, 1999); 17-79; 81-
146;
- Martin Shefter, Political Parties and the State: The American Historical Experience
(Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994);
- W. Phillips Shively, The Craft of Political Research (Englewood Cliffs, New
Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1980);
- Norman Schofield, Itai Sened, Multiparty Democracy. Elections and Legislative
Politics (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006);
- Peter Schramm & Bradford P. Wilson, American Political Parties & Constitutional
Politics (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1993);
- Jae-Jae Spoon, Political Survival of Small Parties in Europe (Ann Arbor: The
University of Michigan Press, 2011)[pdf];
− Daniel Şandru, Reinventarea ideologiei. O abordare teoretico-politică (Iaşi:
Institutul European, 2010);
− Daniel Șandru, Ipostaze ale ideologiei în teoria politică, prefață de Dan Pavel
(Iași: Polirom, 2014);
- Rein Taagepera and Mathew s. Shugart, Seats and Votes: The Effects and
Determinants of Electoral Systems (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press,
1989);
- Ingrid Van Biezen, Political Parties in New Democracies. Party Organization in
Southern and East-Central Europe (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)6 [pdf];
- Francisco Veiga, Istoria Gărzii de Fier, 1919-1941. Mistica ultranaţionalismului,
traducere de Marian Ştefănescu (Bucureşti: Humanitas, 1993);
- Colin Ward, Anarchism. A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2004) [e];

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Several studies about political parties from a diversity of countries - Indonesia, Malaysia, Kuwait, Horn of
Africa, Sudan, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, South Africa, Turkey, Mauritius, Algeria, Hizbollah in
Lebanon etc.
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Chapters on parties and party systems in Portugal, Spain, Hungary, Czech Republic.

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- Max Weber, The Theory of Social and Economic Organization, translated by A. M.
Henderson and Talcott Parsons (New York: Oxford University Press, 1947);

Students are also encouraged to read political science journals in

order to complete their research on political parties. Political
science journals, and magazines: Sfera Politicii, 22, East European
Politics and Societies, Journal of Democracy, East European
Constitutional Review, Revista romana de stiinte politice
(Romanian Journal of Political Science), Romanian Political
Science Review. Studia Politica, The Romanian Journal of Society
and Politics, Polis, Altera, Revista de cercetări sociale; in 2013, a
fost lansată o nouă publicație trimestrială, Expert electoral,
publicată de către Autoritatea Electorală Permanentă, accesibilă la
adresa www.roaep.ro // daily newspapers collections from Romania.
Monitorul Oficial (vezi colecţia de Horărîri ale Guvernului
României şi alte acte normative). Internet sources;
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