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This summary contains notes from all the lectures the University of Amsterdam gave for its Politics of Difference course. Description given by the University: This is the last compulsory component of the BSc program in Political Science. The course aims to introduce students to concepts and theories that will help them understand the politics of difference. The politics of difference refers to how power and political institutions categorize people into groups and how this generates inequality. T...

This summary contains notes from all the lectures the University of Amsterdam gave for its Political Economy course (FY) Description given by the University: The position of Political Economy (PE) within the Political Science programme is twofold. Firstly, PE is seen as the component of the discipline that studies government policy in relation to ‘the economy’, including delegated policy that is formed or implemented by supranational or international organisations such as the European Uni...

This summary contains notes from all the lectures the University of Amsterdam gave for its Democracies, Autocracies and Transitions course (FY). Description given by the University of Amsterdam: In the first part of the course we discuss theories and empirical research on the emergence, stability and performance of democratic regimes, and we discuss different types of democratic systems. What are recent trends and is there a crisis of representative democracy? In what ways has the ability of ...

This summary contains notes from all lectures the University of Amsterdam gave for the Law and Politics course (FY). The description for this course is: This project lets political scientists experience the interaction between law and politics through ‘doing law’: fulfilling assignments in which they are required to give legal advice, and given the tools to do so, in cases of great political salience. Students deliver briefs for imagined clients who experience the same legal problems in ...