Lecture
Schedule
Introduction
1. What is Democracy?
Section
1: Athenian Democracy & The Roman Republic
2. Athenian Democracy
508-322BC: Descriptive Overview
3. Athenian Democracy
508-322BC: Critical Evaluation
4. The Roman Republic: Democracy or Oligarchy?
Section
2: Liberal Representative Democracy
5. What is Representative
Democracy? The Liberal Pluralist View
6. The English Revolution
1640-88: Background, Context and Key Actors
7. The English Revolution
1640-88: Main Events and Significance for the Historical Emergence of Liberal
Democracy
8. The Revolutionary Revival
of Democracy in France 1789-95: Background, Context and Key Actors
9. The Revolutionary Revival
of Democracy in France 1789-95: Main Events and Significance for the Historical
Emergence of Liberal Democracy
10. The American Revolution
1776-1791: Background, Context and Main Events
11. The US Constitution and Bill
of Rights: Redefining Democracy
12. The Liberal Justification of
Capitalism and Representative Democracy
13. The Liberal Critique of Socialism and
Participatory Democracy
Section
3: Socialist Participatory Democracy
14. The Marxist Critique of Capitalism:
Inequality, Crisis, Alienation, War, Climate Change
15. The Marxist Critique of
Representative Democracy
16. The Paris Commune 1871 and Socialist
Democracy
----------------Mid-Semester
Break----------------
17. The Russian Revolution 1917:
Significance and Main Events
18. The Russian Revolution 1917:
A Democratic Revolution?
19. The Rise and Fall of
Stalinism: Death of Socialism?
20. Revolution, Socialism and Participatory
Democracy
Section
4: Democracy in the 21st Century
21. The Debate between Socialists
and Liberals Concerning the Future of Democracy (1)
22. The Debate between
Socialists and Liberals Concerning the Future of Democracy (2)
23. The Feminist Critique of Liberalism and
Representative Democracy
24. Globalisation and Democracy: Is Globalisation
Undermining Democracy?
25. Cosmopolitan Social Democracy: A Feasible
Alternative to Neoliberalism?
26. Movements
for Progressive Change in the 21st Century: from the Seattle
anti-WTO Protests to the Arab Spring, Occupy, and Beyond
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