Universiteit van Amsterdam (UVA) • Political Science

This summary contains notes from all the lectures the University of Amsterdam gave for its Protest Politics course. Description given by the University: Major political transformations such as the Fall of the Berlin Wall are frequently triggered by collective protests by citizens outside conventional political channels. This activity of citizens in social movements also creates fertile grounds for numerous seemingly ‘small-scale’ public policies ranging from cycling infrastructure to gay...

This summary contains notes from all the lectures the University of Amsterdam gave for its Core module - International relations (CMIR). Description given by the University: International Relations (IR) is a field of study focused on political relations that cross national borders. Most centrally, those relations are between nation-states representing the people in country territories, but IR also focuses on sub-national governmental actors and various kinds of non-state actors such as intern...

This summary contains notes from all the lectures the University of Amsterdam gave for its Violence & security. Paradigms and debates course. Description given by the University: This course provides a framework for understanding and analyzing conflict and security at both the international level and the domestic level. We will explore the factors that influence the occurrence of war and peace, as well as the effects of violence. Students will engage with different theoretical approaches to ex...

This summary contains notes from all the lectures the University of Amsterdam gave for its Politics of Difference course. Description given by the University: This is the last compulsory component of the BSc program in Political Science. The course aims to introduce students to concepts and theories that will help them understand the politics of difference. The politics of difference refers to how power and political institutions categorize people into groups and how this generates inequality. T...

This summary contains notes from all the lectures the University of Amsterdam gave for its Political Economy course (FY) Description given by the University: The position of Political Economy (PE) within the Political Science programme is twofold. Firstly, PE is seen as the component of the discipline that studies government policy in relation to ‘the economy’, including delegated policy that is formed or implemented by supranational or international organisations such as the European Uni...

This summary contains notes from all the lectures the University of Amsterdam gave for its Democracies, Autocracies and Transitions course (FY). Description given by the University of Amsterdam: In the first part of the course we discuss theories and empirical research on the emergence, stability and performance of democratic regimes, and we discuss different types of democratic systems. What are recent trends and is there a crisis of representative democracy? In what ways has the ability of ...

This summary contains notes from all lectures the University of Amsterdam gave for the Law and Politics course (FY). The description for this course is: This project lets political scientists experience the interaction between law and politics through ‘doing law’: fulfilling assignments in which they are required to give legal advice, and given the tools to do so, in cases of great political salience. Students deliver briefs for imagined clients who experience the same legal problems in ...