College of Social Sciences and International Studies

College of Social Sciences and International Studies

Globalisation and Democratic Politics: the End of the Nation State?
Module POL3132 for 2021/2

Overview
Aims and Learning Outcomes
Module Content
Indicative Reading List
Assessment

Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL3132: Globalisation and Democratic Politics: the End of the Nation State?

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following

Principles and Types of Democracy

Democracy in history
Minimalist conceptions of Democracy
Democracy: Ideals and values
Political Equality
The Majority’s Rule
Representative Democracy
Participative Democracy
Deliberative Democracy and Public Reason
The conditions and the transformation of democracy

Self-government: territory and nation
Populism

Democracy and the civic community
Democracy and Multiculturalism
Democracy and Globalisation
Peoples and Borders: Cosmopolitan Democracy?
International and transnational 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
44	256	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 activity	44	2-hour weekly seminars with a mix of formal lecture, student-led seminar, collective discussion
Guided Independent study	256	A variety of private study tasks directed by module leader including Independent research and writing for presentation, for class engagement and for assessed essays.

Online Resources

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

Other Learning Resources

Online videos, documentaries, conference papers and online material

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.

Albert Weale, Democracy (Macmillan, 1995);

David Held, Models of democracy (OUP, 1997);

Anthony Smith, The Ethnic origins of nations (Blackwell, 1986);

David Miller, On nationality (OUP, 1995);

S. Caney, D. George and P. Jones (eds) National Rights, International Obligations (Westview Press, 1996);

Andrew Linklater, The Transformation of Political Community (Polity, 1997);

Amy Gutman and Charles Taylor, Multiculturalism (Princeton UP, 1992);

Alan Patten, Equal Recognition (2015);

Hannah Pitkin, The Concept of Representation (1967);

Michael Saward, The Representative Claim (2012);

Immanuel Kant, Political Writings (CUP, 1970);

Margaret Canovan, The People (2005);

Jan-Werner Müller, What is populism (2017);

I. Shapiro and C. Hacker-Cordon (eds) Democracy's Edges (CUP, 1999);

D. Archibugi, D. Held and M. Kohler (eds), Re-imagining political community (Polity, 1997);

C. Brown (ed), Political restructuring in Europe (Routledge, 1994);

Philippe Schmitter, How to democratize the European Union (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000)