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At the end of this course students will
- Be able to distinguish the key aspects of party organisation
- Be thoroughly conversant with the most up to date research on all aspects of party organisation
- Understand the impact party organisation on party behaviour and its knock-on effect for descriptive representation and party policies.
- Have assessed and critiqued the debates on the legitimacy of political parties, especially in the context of the use of new technology for intra-party democracy
- Understand political parties as a unit of analysis and the importance of this approach in understanding in-country variation of party behaviour and representation.
- Have developed student’s independent research capabilities
- Have an awareness of the most up to date datasets of political parties and the quantitative and qualitative methods of comparing and analysing political parties
- Have enhanced teamwork, presentation and writing skills
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 0 |
Seminar (or Webinar) | 24 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 200 |
Total | 224 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Assignment: Written outline of research on political party design | Unspecified | n/a | Graded | No | 20 |
Assignment: Written review of randomly chosen classmate’s research outline | Unspecified | n/a | Graded | No | 20 |
Assignment: Research paper with comparative component | Unspecified | n/a | Graded | No | 60 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Summer | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
Individually to students, provided within 20 days of the deadline of assignments, in line with UCD regulations.