Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Law :: International Relations

INTRODUÇÃO À CIÊNCIA POLÍTICA - 2018/2019

1º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 6

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor Manuel Monteiro
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutor Manuel Monteiro

Class type and School hours

Orientação Tutorial : 1 Horas
Teórico-prática : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

Conceived as Art, but studied essentially as Science, the Politics occupies essentially of the Power. To understand the Power, not only in the plan of the existing rules for the dispute that on it if verifies, but also to perceive that groups, for pressure or persuasion, can condition or until modifying the choices of the citizens, is the objective of this discipline.

Specific Aims/Objectives

- To understand the distinction of concepts as NATION, PEOPLE, POPULATION and CITIZENSHIP;
- To understand the STATE, in its various ways, and the SOVEREIGNTY idea in its traditional context, and in the light of the current European and international conjuncture;
-To distinguish the Form from the Power, the Headquarters of the Power, as estimated of agreement of the difference between the formal Democracy and the real Democracy;
-To know the principles of the Political Participation , as well as the rules of its application.

Skills to be acquired

The learning offered for this discipline allows to the students the attainment of knowledge on the way as if it processes the activity politics in the State, taking them to know it who it decides and which the possessed legitimacy for the taking of decisions. The transmitted formation will endow the pupils wants in the preparation for the study of other substances in the scope of the international relations, the law, sociology and the economy, it still wants for a solid preparation in the active exercise of its citizenship.

Teaching Procedures

The education of this disciplines understands: - Theoretician-Practical lessons, for the transmission of contents and exemplificação of related concrete situations with these contents; - lessons of Tutorial Orientation in view of helping to the students to one correcta bibliographical research and one correcto agreement of the boarded substances.

Programme

1. The POLITICS and SCIENCE POLITICS
1,1 What it is the Politics?
1,2 What it is Science Politics?
1.2.1.The Power (soon introduction)
1.2.1.1The Fact Politician
2. The distinction between NATION, PEOPLE, POPULATION and CITIZENSHIP
2.1 The Nation in the cultural direction and the politiciandirection
2,2 The People while Nation and the People while joint of Nations
2,3 Population
2,4 The Citizenship: the concept and the attribution of the citizen statute, in Portuguese constitutional picture
3. The POWER
3,1 Notion of Power
3,2 The Power in the ditatoriais States and democratic States
3.2.1 The distinction between the concepts of Power and Authority
3.3. The Fight for the Power
3.3.1 Causes for the fight for the Power
3.3.2 Forms of the fight of the Power
3.4. The Form, the Headquarters and the Ideology of Power (the formal Democracy and the real Democracy)
3.4.1 The Form of Power
3.4.2 The Ideology of Power
3.4.3 the Headquarters of Power
4. SOVEREIGNTY
4,1 What it is the Sovereignty?
4.2 The national Sovereignty and popular Sovereignty
4,3 The national Sovereignty in the context of European Union
4,4 The national Sovereignty in the context of the Globalization and Mundialização
5. STATE
5,1 What it is the State?
5.2 The constituent elements of the State
5,3 The traditional ends of the State
5,4 Forms of State
6. The PARTICIPATION and the REPRESENTATION POLITICS in the Regimes Democratic
6,1 The models and the conditions of participation politics
6.1.1 Participativ democracy
6.1.2 The Direct democracy (the REFERENDUM) 6.1.3 The representative democracy
6,2 The electoral census as participation condition effective politics
6.2.1 The Electoral systems in Portuguese constitutional picture
7. The SYSTEM PORTUGUESE POLITICIAN
7,1 The distinction between Regimen Politician, System Politician and Form of Government.
7.2 The Form of Government, in Portugal
7,3 The government system, in Portugal

Evaluation Type

The continuous evaluation includes - Presence and participation in the lessons - Two written tests - Presentation of a verbal work

Teaching Resources

Picture Retroprojector and Acetatos Computer/projector/PowerPoint removed journalistic periodical Parts, audiovisuais magazines and ways. Mediateca Library Half informáticos with linking to the Internet

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Politics, Power, Nation, State, Democracy

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography