Dictatorship, Transition, and Democracy

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Continuous assessment: oral presentations, clearing of doubts and task supervision by the professors; oral and task presentations and debate by the students.

Learning Outcomes

The student must able to carry a reflection on epistemological and theoretical questions based on contemporary political, economic, social,and cultural phenomena; to enhance the ananlysis  of the political-juridical and of the policies implemented in Portugal,in Europa and in the World in the contemporaneous period;to compare the mode of action of "open systems" (liberal, demoliberal, and democratic) with the mode of action of dictatorial regimes (autocratic, authoritarian and totalitarian); to point to the transition stages' specificity between "open regimes" and dictatorships; to discuss the concepts inherent to the transition questions, namely those of memory and transitional justice policies.

Intervention skills can be aquired for the historiographical debate concerning these problematics as well as in-depth knowledge about the traits of "open regimes", dictatorships and political-institutional situations. 

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Political-institutional models in the contemporaneous period.

2. "Open regimes" (liberal, demoliberal, and democratic).

3. Dictatorships (autocratic, authoritarian, and totalitarian).

4. Transition processes.

5. Memory policies.

6. Contemporary challenges.

Head Lecturer(s)

Rui Luís Vide da Cunha Martins

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Other: 100.0%

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