Introduction to Political Science

POL-100

Rabia Zaid

Fall Semester 2016-2017

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Lahore University of Management Sciences

 Lahore University of Management Sciences

POL 100- Introduction to Political Science

Fall 2016-2017

Instructor Rabia Zaid

Email Rabia.zaid@lums.edu.pk
Room No. 117 A HSS wing, ground floor

Office Hours Tuesdays, Thursdays 12-2

Course Basics
Credit Hours 4
Lecture 2 Per Week
Duration 1:50 hours
Tutorials/labs none

Course Distribution
Core
Elective
Open for Student Category
Close for Student Category
Core
Freshmen, sophomore
Juniors and seniors

Course Description
This course aims to explore basic concepts and ideas shaping Political Science in areas of
political theory, comparative politics and international relations.

Course Objectives
 Students will come to understand the means of inquiry in the social sciences
generally, and in political science in particular. This will include an understanding of
how knowledge about politics and government is generated by political scientists
working within their discipline.
To enable students to articulate concepts and ideologies which have shaped Political
Science.
Gain an understanding of how political ideologies and their impact on Modern day
world politics.
Get acquainted with key terminology.
Students will come to understand that there are various types of political systems
around the world, and that these may differ from each other with regard to their
individual political institutions, political culture, political ideologies, and public
policies.

Grading
Week/Lecture/ Topics Recommended Objective/Application
Module
Class Participation: 5% Readings
Lecture 1Examination: 35%
Midterm Introduction None Introduction to the
Final Examination: 35% Course
Lecture 2
Quiz 1: 10% What is politics? Heywood, Andrew, Concepts
Quiz 2: 10% 1997. Politics, in
Politics. London:
Macmillan Press, pp.
3-22

Lecture 3 Approaches and Robert J. Jackson and Concepts

Methods of Political Doreen Jackson,
Science Political Science
Yesterday and Today
in Comparative
Introduction to
Political Science
(1997), pp. 16-33
Lecture 4 Power and authority Concepts
And legitimacy Andrew Heywood,

Power Authority and

Legitimacy

In course packet
Lecture 5 Poliitcs and the State Heywood, Politics, Concepts and
Chapter 3, pp. 56-79 political institutions

Lecture 6 Nations and Heywood, Andrew, Political institutions

Nationalism 1997, Chapter 5 and ideological
Nationalism in streams
Political Ideologies:
An Introduction Third
Edition. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan,
2004. PP. 108-126

Lecture 7 Political culture and Heywood, Politics, Concepts

the media Chapter 8, pp. 171-
192
Lecture 8 Civil Society, Heywood, politics, Concepts,
Politics, society and chapter 6 pp. 151-170 institutions, political
identity process,
Lecture 9 Understanding Andrew Heywood Concepts, political
Ideology Chapter 1, process, ideological
Introduction to streams
understanding
Ideology in political
ideologies: An
introduction Third
Edition. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan
2004: 1-23
Lecture 10 Liberalism A Heywood, Chapter Ideological streams
2
Liberalism, pp-25-69
Lecture 11 Conservatism Heywood Chapter 3, Ideological streams
Conservatism

Lecture 12 Socialism Heywood Chapter 4 Ideological streams

Lecture 13 Fascism Heywood, Chapter 6 Ideological streams

Lecture 14 Feminism Chapter 8, political Ideological streams
ideologies 1992
edition
Lecture 15 Democracy in the Heywood, chapter 10 Concepts, ideologies,
modern world political process

Lecture 16 Mid-term
Lecture 17 The end of ideology Maya Lloyd The end Concepts, ideologies,
debate of ideology? In political process
Robert Eccleshall, et
al., Political
ideologies (2003). Pp.
217-242
Heywood, Chapter 12
Lecture 18 Constitutions, Laws Andrew Heywood Concepts, ideologies,
and Judiciary chapter 15 political process
Lecture 19 Assemblies Heywood, Politics, Institutions, political
chapter 14, pp. 309- process
330
Lecture 20 Political Executives Heywood, Politics, Political institutions,
and leadership chapter 13, pp. 284- political process
308
Lecture 21 Subnational politics Heywood chapter 7 Political institutions,
subnational politics political process
In politics. 12-137
Lecture 22: Political parties and Heywood, Chapter Political institutions,
Party systems 10, pp. 221-243 political process
Lecture 23: Electoral politics Heywood. Chapter 11 Political institutions,
and electoral Representation, political process
behavior Elections and Voting
in Politics, pp 205-
228
Lecture 24: Elites and Political Harold D. Lasswell, Political process
Leadership the Study of Political
Elites, in On Political
Sociology, pp114-134
Lecture 25 Pluralism and Andrew Heywood, Political process
Multiculturalism Politial Ideologies: An
Intorduction 5th edition,
Chapter 10, pp. 311-
334
Lecture 26 Globalization and Joseph Nye, Political process
Politics Interdependence,
Globalization and the
information Age in
Understanding
international Conflict:
An Introduction to
Theory and History
(2000). Pp. 177-206
Lecture 27 International politics Heywood, Chapter 8, Political process
Global Politics, pp.
139-162
Lecture 28: Word Order and Heywood, Politics,
global governance chapter 19, pp. 421-
442
Lecture 29 Course Review
Session 30 In Class Final
examination
Textbook(s)/Supplementary Readings:

1. Andrew Heywood, Political ideologies: An Introduction Third Edition. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
2. Andrew Heywood, Key Concepts in Politics (1997).
3. Joseph Nye, Interdependence, Globalization, and the Information Age in Understanding International
Conflict: An introduction to Theory and History (2000). PP. 177-206.
4. Anna Elisabetta Galeotti, Identity, Difference, Toleration in John S. Dryzek et al., The Oxford Handbook of
Political Theory (2006), pp. 564-580.
5. Harold D. Lasswell, The Study of Political Elites in On Political Sociology, pp. 114
6. Maya Lloyd, The end of ideology? in Robert Eccleshall, et al., Political Ideologies (2003), pp. 217-242.
7. Larry Diamond Toward democratic consolidation in Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner (eds.) The Global
Resurgence of Democracy 2nd edition, JHU Press: Baltimore, 1996: 227-240.