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Code - Course Title Course Type Laboratory + Practice ECTS
HUK567 - The State Theory I. SEMESTER 3 +0 6.0
Language of Instruction Türkçe
Course Type Elective Courses
Course Instructor(s) DR. ÖĞR. ÜYESİ UĞUR KARA
Mode of Delivery Face to face education
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Prerequisites There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.
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Recommended Resources Ağaoğulları, Mehmet Ali. Ulus-Devlet ya da Halkın Egemenliği. Ankara: İmge Kitabevi Yayınları, 2006.Ağaoğulları, Mehmet Ali. ve Köker, Levent. Kral-Devlet ya da Ölümlü Tanrı. İkinci Basım. Ankara: İmge Kitabevi Yayınları, 2000.Anderson, Benedict. Hayali Cemaatler: Milliyetçiliğin Kökenleri ve Yayılması. Çev.: İskender Savaşır. Dördüncü Basım. İstanbul: Metis Yayınları, 2007.Barry, N., An Introduction to Modern Political Theory, Macmillan Press, 1989.Cerny, P., “Restructuring the Political Arena: Globalisation and the Paradoxes of the Competition State”, Ed. R. Germain, Globalisation and Its Critics, Macmillan Press, 2000.Erözden, Ozan. Ulus-Devlet. Ankara: Dost Kitabevi Yayınları, 1997.Gray, J., Beyond the New Right, Routledge, 1993.Jessop, Bob. State Theory: Putting Capitalist States in Their Place. Second Edition. Polity Press, 1990.-----------. The Future of the Capitalist State, Polity Press, 2002.Kara, Uğur. Sosyal Devletin Yükselişi ve Düşüşü. Ankara: Maki Basın Yayın, 2004.Kaea, Uğur. Kültürel Kimlik Anayasal Vatandaşlık Özyönetim. Adana: Karahan Kitabevi, 2013.Pierson, Christopher. Beyond the Welfare State?: The New Political Economy of Welfare. Second Edition. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998.Sancar, Mithat. “Devlet Aklı” Kıskacında Hukuk Devleti. İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2000.
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Weeks Learning Outcomes Topics Teaching Methods
Week - 1 An Overview: State as a legal personality, State as a part of social formation
Week - 2 The emergence and distinctive features of the modern state
Week - 3 The rise of the nation-state: Characteristics of the nation-state
Week - 4 The issues resulting from the nation-state
Week - 5 The rise of the welfare state
Week - 6 The fall of the welfare state
Week - 7 Theories explaining the nature of the state: Liberal-conservative tradition
Week - 8 Marxist tradition, Classical Marxist interpretation, Non-reductionist attempts in Marxist tradition
Week - 9 Current debates: Cultural identity question
Week - 10 Current debates: Neoliberal restructuring of state
Week - 11 Current debates: Third World state in the era of neoliberal hegemony
Week - 12 Presentations
Week - 13 Presentations
Week - 14 Presentations

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