Essentials of Political Science Semester one
P2-POLA 1.
Course Syllabus 1. Requirements. The concept of politics and its historical expansion. 2. Politics, political, the ’political content’. 3. Development of political science. 4. Political system and its functions. 5. Elements of the political system. 6. The concept of political values. 7. The structuralistic-functionalistic conception of political systems. 8. Primary and secondary democratic political values. 9. The concept of pluralism, its types and fields. 10. History of the political pluralism theory and its practice in the US, the poliarchy. 11. Functions and nature of the political ideologies. 12. Major political ideologies and foundations of their circumscriptions. 13. Main types, sources and instruments of power theories. The legitimacy of the power and the political system. Curriculum/Requirements The curriculum based on the lectures and the compulsory readings. Compulsory Readings Bihari, Mihály – Pokol, Béla: Politológia, 2004. Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó (9. corrected, extended publication) Organizing Department of the Course: Institution of Political Science Director: Professor Máté Szabó Lecturer Dr. Mihály Bihari, professor Schedule/The date of lectures: 12-14, Wednesday
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Hungarian Politics (1944-2004) Semester one
P2-MP1.
Course Syllabus 1. Theoretical bases for studying Hungarian politics. 2. Major periods in Hungarian politics after 1944 (1944-1947) 3. Soviet-type Dictatorial Transformation of the Political System (1947-50) 4. Political despotism (1950-1953) 5. The politics of the ’new period’. 6. The first cabinet of Imre Nagy (1953-1956). 7. The revolution and independent war of 1956. I. 8. The revolution and independent war of 1956. II. 9. The formation of the Kádár-regime (1957-1963) I. 10. The formation of the Kádár-regime (1957-1963) I. 11. Tutorial meeting. Curriculum/Requirements The curriculum based on the lectures and the compulsory readings. Compulsory Readings Bihari, Mihály: Magyar politika 1944-2004. Osiris Publishing House, 2005. Organizing Department of the Course: Institution of Political Science Director: Professor Máté Szabó Lecturer Dr. Mihály Bihari, professor Schedule/The date of lectures: 8-10 am, Thursday
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Social Philosophy Semester One
P2-TFIL1.
Course Syllabus 1. Approaches to philosophy. 2. Philosophy as way of life. 3. Philosophy as wisdom of life. 4. Philosophy as a science I. (Phenomenology). 5. Philosophy as a science II. (Hermeneutics). 6. Philosophy as a science III. (Types of philosophy history writing). 7. Plato. 8. Aristotle. 9. The rise of the modern philosophy (Bacon, Descartes). 10. English Enlightenment (Locke, Berkeley) 11. Kant 12. Hegel 13. The ‘linguistic turn’ of philosophy (Wittgenstein). 14. The question of ‘being’ (Heidegger). Curriculum/Requirements The curriculum based on the lectures and the compulsory readings. Compulsory Readings Karácsony, András (ed.): Bevezetés a társadalomelméletbe. Budapest, 1999. Rejtjel Publishing House. Organizing Department of the Course: Department of Philosophy Senior Lecturer: Professor András Karácsony Lecturers Dr. Lajos Cs. Kiss, associated professor Dr. András Karácsony, professor Dr. Éva Karádi, associated professor Dr. Miklós Márton, assistant lecturer Schedule/The date of lectures: 8-9 am, Monday
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Economy Semester One
P2-KGT1.
Course Syllabus 1. Fundamentals of the economy. Analytical toolbox of economic analysis. History of economic theories and its directions. 2. The market and its mechanisms. Analysis of demand and supply. Market efficiency and market defeats. 3. Theory of consumer behaviour. Benefit equalization, balance in the consumption. Income and prices. 4. Company theory. Business organization, technological one, expenses, takings, profits. 5. Analysis of market structure from perfect competition to dominative markets (competitive, monopolistic, oligopolistic and monopolistically competing market mechanisms). 6. Factor markets – factor prices and incomes of the labour, land and capital market. 7. Market efficiency. The economic role of the government. The control of market power. Curriculum/Requirements The curriculum based on the lectures and the compulsory readings. Compulsory readings On basic level: Samuelson – Nordhaus: Közgazdaságtan, KJK-KERSZÖV 2002. pp. 3-314. On high level: Kopányi, Mihály (ed.): Mikroökonómia. Műszaki Publishing House. 2000. Organizing Department of the Course: Department of Economy Senior Lecturer: Dr. Judit Steiger, associated professor Lecturers Dr. Ildikó Ékes, mandatory lecturer Dr. Zsolt Czászy, mandatory lecturer Dr. Anna Kovács, associated professor Dr. Gyula Lőrinczi, assistant lecturer Dr. Judit Steiger, associated professor Dr. Béla Sebesi, associated professor Dr. Erzsébet Manheisz, mandatory lecturer Dr. András Kanizsai Nagy, mandatory lecturer
Béla Zsámboki, mandatory lecturer Schedule/The date of lectures: 8-10 am, Friday
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European Constitutional and Parliamentary History P2-EAP1. Semester One Course Syllabus 1. State, law, constitution – the basic concepts of constitutional and parliamentary history. 2. The model of transition: the constitutions of the barbarian states. 3. The early medieval model: The features of the Frankish constitution. 4. The succession states of the Frank Empire I. The French constitution. 5. The succession states of the Frank Empire II. The constitution of German Empire. 6. The ‘corrected’ version of feudalism: The English constitution. 7. European regions – the northern periphery. 8. The southern region: Spain, Italy, the Balkan. 9. Specific development of Central-Eastern-Europe. 10. Beyond the political borders of Europe: Byzantium and its peripheries. 11. Periods of European history, changes of constitutional history (patrimony, feudalism, Estates) 12. Constitutional theories – the medieval constitution 13. Forms of representation and its development – The beginnings of English representation; English Parliament – The beginnings of French representation; French Estates-General – The beginnings of German representation; the imperial assembly. 14. The beginnings of Hungarian representation; the parlamentum generale, the Diet – the Hungarian historical constitution. 15. Report. Curriculum/Requirements The curriculum based on the lectures and the compulsory readings. Compulsory readings Mezey, B. – Szente, Z.: Európai parlamentarizmus és alkotmánytörténet. Budapest, 2003. Osiris Publishing House. Organizing Department of the Course: Department of History of Hungarian State and Law. Senior Lecturer: Dr. Barna Mezey, professor Lecturers Dr. Barna Mezey, professor Dr. Kinga Bódiné Beliznay, assistant lecturer Dr. György Képes, assistant lecturer
Dr. Zoltán Szente, senior research fellow Dr. Levente Völgyesi, assistant lecturer Schedule/The date of lectures: 4-6 pm, Thursday Room
Contemporary Hungarian Society Semester One
P2-MMT1.
Course Syllabus 1. The arrangement of society: structure and stratification theories. Main trajectories of the change of the Hungarian societal structure in the 20th century. 2. The effect of the democtraic transition period on the structure of the Hungarian society – old and new structures (strata, groups). The polarization of the society. 3. The rise and dissolution of working class. Commute and the world of commuters. 4. The metamorphosis of peasantry and peasant society. 5. The ways of intelligence. 6. Middle strata and middle class in Hungarian society. 7. Hungarian entrepreneurs and the modernization. 8. The formation of the new elite and its social function. 9. The unemployment and the problems of its management. 10. Pensioners and the pensioner way of life. 11. Young generation: the conflicts of starting a carrier. 12. Ethnic arrangement of Hungary. 13. Religional arrangement of Hungarian society. 14. Tutorial meeting. Curriculum/Requirements The curriculum based on the lectures and the compulsory readings. Compulsory readings Bőhm, A.: Mai magyar társadalom. Rejtjel Publishing House, Budapest, 2003. Organizing Department of the Course: Institution of Political Science Director: Professor Máté Szabó Lecturer Dr. Antal Bőhm, professor Schedule/The date of lectures: 2-6 pm, Monday
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Political and Legal Sociology Semester One Course Syllabus 1. The formation, methodology, fields of sociology. 2. The early period of sociology. 3. The sociology of E. Durkheim and M. Weber. 4. The functionalism. 5. Modern sociological theories. 6. Sociology in Central-Europe. 7. Social structure, arrangement, mobility. 8. Poverty, middle class and elite – researches in Hungary. 9. The main directions in the sociology of organizations. 10. The sociological and social psychological features of the group. 11. Theories of deviance, deviances in Hungary. 12. Socialization. 13. Modernization. 14. Postmodern society – postmodern science. 15. Tutorial meeting. Curriculum/Requirements The curriculum based on the lectures and the compulsory readings.
P2-JSZ1.
Compulsory Readings Kulcsár, K.: Jogszociológia. Bp., 1997, Kultúrtrade Publishing House. Boros, L. (ed.): Segédanyag a jogszociológia általános részének tanulmányozásához. Budapest, 1996. ELTE ÁJK Organizing Department of the Course: Department of Legal Sociology Senior Lecturer: Dr. Zoltán Fleck, associated professor Lecturers Dr. László Boros, associated professor Dr. András Bozóki, associated professor Dr. Zoltán Fleck, associated professor Dr. Ágnes Gyulavári, assistant professor Dr. Attila Kormány, assistant lecturer Dr. Gábor Nagy, assistant professor Schedule/The date of lectures:
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Introduction to Social and Legal Theory Semester One
P2-TJB1.
Course Syllabus 1. The functional dimension of the society: Weber, Parsons, Luhmann, Habermas. 2. The theories of the domination: Marx, Hilferding, Károly Polányi. 3. The correction of functional system theory: the professional systems of institutions. 4. The marketization and the rolling back of state organization. 5. The development of a global order of domination. 6. The cleavages of transatlantic financial groups. 7. The western civilization and its challenges. 8. The double construction of society. 9. Global political organizations. 10. The role of the political think tanks and political foundations in formation of political will. Curriculum The curriculum based on the lectures and the compulsory readings. Compulsory Readings Pokol, B.: Globális uralmi rend. Kairosz Publishing House, Budapest 2005. Organizing Department of the Course: Institution of Political Science Director: Professor Máté Szabó Lecturer Dr. Béla Pokol, professor Schedule/The date of lectures: Monday
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