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15466
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| Year |
3
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| Semester |
S1
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| ECTS Credits |
6
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| Workload |
OT(15H)/TP(45H)
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| Scientific area |
Ciência Política
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Entry requirements |
n.a.
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Learning outcomes |
This curricular unit aims to familiarise the students with the transformation techniques of ballots into mandates, the repercussions of the different electoral systems in the political representation, the determinants of the electoral behaviour and the electoral geography of Portugal.
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Syllabus |
1. Presidential elections
1.1 Majority System
1.2 Plurality System
1.3 Conditioned Plurality System
1.4 Majority-Plurality System
1.5 The quasi-direct election
2. Parliamentary elections: the proportional systems
2.1 Representation threshold
2.2 The mathematical formula
2.3 The electoral constituencies
2.4 The levels of mandates appointment
2.5 Measure and comparability of the proportionality
2.6 Classification
3. Parliamentary elections: the majority systems
4. Parliamentary Election: The Mixed Systems
5. Impact of the voting system
5.1 The majority/proportional debate
5.2 Electoral systems and party systems
5.3 Electoral systems and women’s representation
5.4 Electoral system and the representation of the minorities
5.5 The reform of the electoral systems
6. Political behaviours
6.1 The socio-structural theories of the vote
6.2 Theories of the rational choice
6.3 Spatial and directional voting theories
6.4 Economic theories
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Main Bibliography |
Arzheimer, S. et al. orgs. (2017). The Sage Handbook of Electoral Behaviour. London: Sage.
Dalton, P. (2006). Swing Voters: Understanding Late Deciders in Late Modernity. New York: Hampton Press.
Herch, E. (2015). Hacking the Electorate: How Campaigns Percieve Voters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lisi, M. (2019). Eleições. Campanhas Eleitorais e Decisão de Voto em Portugal. Lisboa: Edições Sílabo.
Lobo, M., J. Curtice orgs. (2015) Personality Politics? The Role of Leader Evaluations in Democratic Elections. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Magalhães, P. (2011). Sondagens, Eleições e Opinião Pública. Lisboa: Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.
Mughan, A. (2000). Media and the Presidentialization of Parliamentary Elections. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Powel, G. (2000). Elections as Instruments of Democracy. Yale: Yale University Press.
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
The course unit will be taught in the form of seminars. Each seminar requires the preparation of a previously distributed text and the discussion, in the classroom, of the questions addressed by the text. The weekly performance of each student will be evaluated and publicized.
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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