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Introduction to Political Science (POLS104)

This course focuses both on the different structures and the different ways in which people may influence the single most powerful organization in each society, the state. Clarification of such concepts as: science; politics; power; authority; nation; state; constitution; political system; democratic and authoritarian states; organs (e.g. parliament, council of ministers, head of state, supreme court) and functions of states (e.g. legislative, executive, judicial); separation of power; division of power; presidential and parliamentary forms; unitary and federal systems; civil society; political participation.

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