Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL3172: Political Participation

This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

1 Introduction
2 Valuing Participation
3 Theories of Participation
4 Voter Turnout
5 Participation in Parties
6 Movements, Revolutions and Revolts
7 The Internet
8 Political Knowledge
9 Referendums
10 Deliberative Democracy

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
22	128	0

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	150	Teaching is conducted through introductory lectures, followed by student-led seminars. The main emphasis is on weekly seminar presentations, for which all students are expected to read background materials to make possible their active participation in discussion.

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Norris, Pippa, (2002) Democratic Phoenix. Reinventing Political Activism, Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
Franklin, Mark N., (2004). Voter Turnout and the Dynamics of Electoral Competition in Established Democracies Since 1945. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
Milner, Henry, (2002) Civic Literacy. How Informed Citizens Make Democracy Work, University Press of New England,
Pattie, Charles, Patrick Seyd, and Paul Whitely, (2004) Citizenship in Britain: Values, Participation, and Democracy. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,