This course presents the basic macroeconomic subjects, the selection and analytic approach of which is adjusted to the needs – as all of the curriculum – of the political science students. Specifically, subjects and the method of studying the phenomenon of the total economy are discussed, as well as its explanation, and their significance for the wellbeing of the societies is highlighted. The economic growth, unemployment, domestic income restrictions and external income restrictions of the state, demand and offer of money, inflation and business circles, are Investigated, and in these terms, emerge the differences between abolitionist economic theories and economic thinking currents. Last, significant part of the course is dedicated to the discussion of economic, specifically macroeconomic politics (the logic, the targets, the means of politics), as well as the related debates. The European economies and, amongst them, the Greek economy, offer examples of empirical discussion.
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Principles and Institutions of Law
Nikolaos-Komninos Hlepas, Georgia Giannakourou - Undergraduate -
(A-)
Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
main notions-distinctions, sources of law, definition, the law as a legal, political and social phenomenon, historical development, theories and functions of law, fundamental notions and institutions of private and public law.
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Konstantinos Manasakis - Undergraduate -
(A+)
Department of Political Science, University of Crete
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Ιn the context of this course, students are guided to understand the historical evolution of Eastern Europe countries and ex-USSR since the communist takeover. The main goal fo the course is the presentation and the analysis of the main characteristics of the communist regimes.
During the courses there is a special focus on the history, the ideology and the structure of the communist political systems. In the end there is an approach on the period of the fall of communism and the democratic transition.
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Economic history teaches us that economic crises are an integral part of the capitalist system. The international economic reality of the last four decades, in particular, shows that economic crises occur with greater frequency and intensity, with even more disasterous consequences for the economies and societies. This course's goal is to investigate this trend, which tends to evolve to a major characteristic of the modern capitalist system.
The course's material, except for the book, consists of the tutor's presentations for each lecture, which are available online on the e-class platform, and of bibliography for each subject area which is handed to the students, which is also available on the e-class platform. Notice that the bibliography is mainly english.
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The course focuses on the subject of decisions by which the government influences the material and immaterial substance collective and individual underlying acting within the limits of its jurisdiction. Emphasis is placed on understanding the phenomenon of change in the field of public policy.
Issues to be discussed include: Why and under what conditions some issues manage to become priority issues to be addressed and some not? Why are some options for resolving issues preferred by governments than others ignored? What qualifies as a public problem and how the government agenda established? Why the new policies seldom implemented as planned? How assessed objectives and results? How reforms as intentional government action, they have more chances of success? To answer the above questions is examined with the help of tools from the field of the analysis of public policies how interests, options and institutional actors of the political process (politicians, administration) interact and lead to changes in public policy practitioners.
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Why are political phenomena are studied? What is the object of political science? What we define as science? What is the relation of empirical data to their interpretation and formulation of general hypotheses and theories: inductive and deductive approach. In what ways are created and tested theoretical assumptions about their validity: experiment and observation. Qualitative and quantitative approaches: statistical analysis, case analysis. Instructions for scientific working writing.
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Vasilios Dafermos - Undergraduate -
(A+)
Department of Political Science, University of Crete
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ioannis Karagiannis - Undergraduate -
(A-)
Department of Political Science, University of Crete
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Konstantinos Manasakis - Undergraduate -
(A+)
Department of Political Science, University of Crete
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