Course Details Language of Instruction French Level of Course Unit Bachelor's Degree Department / Program Political Science and International Relations Type of Program Formal Education Type of Course Unit Elective Course Delivery Method Face To Face Objectives of the Course This course aims to have students understand the analytical approaches to the study of political parties and election systems both globally and with a special focus in Turkey. Election Law, Politics, Political parties and Theory broadly examines election law at the national, subnational, and international or comparative levels. Titles in the course provide both empirical and theoretical analysis of topics and issues that affect voting, campaigns, and elections, and as such offer coverage of political as well as legal concerns and controversies. Useful for scholars, researchers, and practitioners in the field, volumes address such subjects as voting rights, reapportionment, ballot access, campaign finance reform, the courts and election regulation, and the role of actors including political parties and the media. The course’s ultimate goal is to build scholarship in this key area by seeking to understand how elections function in an increasingly complex, technological, and global community, and the ways in wh Course Content Throughout the course Public Law, Political Parties and Representative Democracy:A Framework for Comparative Analysis; Political Parties and Constitutions; The Gradual Legal Recognition of Political Parties; Requirements for Party Registration and Internal Organization; Regulating Party Candidate Selection Contests; Parties and the Conduct of Elections; The Public Funding of Election Campaigns and Political Parties; The Private Funding of Election Campaigns: Regulating Political Donations and Expenditures; Parties in Parliament: The Independence of the Legislature are discussed. In addition to main resource as the coursebook, each week the historical evolution of the political parties in Turkey is also studied, presented and discussed by the students with the following sequence: Political Structures Between (1815-1908) (İkinci Meşrutiyet’e Kadar Olan Dönemde Ortaya Çıkan Siyasi Cemiyetler); Political Parties Between 1908–1918 (II.Meşrutiyet Dönemi Siyasi Partileri); Political Parties Between 1918–1922 (Mütar Course Methods and Techniques Lecture Discussion based lecture Case study Group work Activities within a Student Body or Research Project Prerequisites and co-requisities None Course Coordinator None Name of Lecturers Prof.Dr. AHMET KESER ahmet.keser@hku.edu.tr Assistants None Work Placement(s) No Recommended or Required Reading Resources Gauja, Anika, (2010), Political Parties and Elections: Legislating for Representative Democracy, Ashgate Publishing Limited, Farnham, England. Çiftçi, O. Zahid, (2012), Osmanlı ve Cumhuriyet Döneminde Türkiye’de Siyasal Partiler, TODAİE Projesi, Ankara. Kabasakal, Mehmet (Der), (2013), Türkiye’de Siyasal Partiler, Okan Üniversitesi Yayını, Üretim: es Yayınları, İstanbul. Recommended: Kömür, Gökhan, (2015), Türk Siyasi Hayatında Çok Partili Siyaset Uygulamalarına Geçişi Hazırlayan Sebep ve Faktörler, Yayınlanmamış YL Tezi, Atatürk Üni. Sosyal Bilimler Ens. Kamu Yönetimi Anabilim Dalı, Erzurum. Recommended: Keser, Ahmet ve Kılıç, Burak, (2018), Seçim Sistemleri ve Ulusal Kültür, Kriter Yayınları, İstanbul. Course Notes Public Law, Political Parties and Representative Democracy: A Framework for Comparative Analysis (Introduction: Political Parties and Representative Democracy; Existing Literature on the Legal Regulation of Political Parties) Public Law, Political Parties and Representative Democracy: A Framework for Comparative Analysis (The Relationship Between Politics and the Law; Who Makes the Law? The Public–Private Distinction; The Countries for Analysis; The Body of Law Examined) Student Presentation and Discussion: Political Structures Between (1815-1908) (İkinci Meşrutiyet’e Kadar Olan Dönemde Ortaya Çıkan Siyasi Cemiyetler) Political Parties and Constitutions (Constitutions, Parties and the Institutional Design of Democracy; Explaining Constitutional Non-recognition) Student Presentation and Discussion: Political Parties Between 1908–1918 (II.Meşrutiyet Dönemi Siyasi Partileri) Political Parties and Constitutions (Social Attitudes Towards Political Parties; The Independence of Parliament and Burkean Notions Course Category Social Sciences %50 Field %50