COURSE UNIT TITLE

: POLITICAL PARTIES AND ELECTORAL LAW

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KMY 6080 POLITICAL PARTIES AND ELECTORAL LAW ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Public Administration

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ZERRIN TOPRAK KARAMAN

Offered to

Public Administration

Course Objective

To learn the basic legal structure, rules and principles about political parties and election. To learn and analyse the basic regulations in international law, national law, legislation and dijudication about the political parties and election.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Have a command of the basic principles about political parties and election law
2   To learn the types and systems of political parties
3   To know the basis regulations in the international law about political parties
4   To learn the sources of national law about political parties
5   To learn the organisation and the obligation rules of political parties
6   To learn the basic rules and concepts about election, democracy and political parties
7   To learn the election systems
8   To learn the basis principles about elections in democracies
9   To learn the election system of our country

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction, core knowladges
2 Progress Of political parties
3 Enter of political parties in to the legal documents
4 Political parties in international law/comparative law
5 Political parties in Turkish law
6 Types and systems of political parties
7 Midterm
8 Freedom of political participation and legal principles, basic regulations in Code Political Parties
9 Core knowladges about election
10 Core knowladges about election in democracies
11 Election systems
12 Presentation
13 Presentation
14 General Review

Recomended or Required Reading

Main Literature: M.Kocak, Siyasal Partiler /Özcan.H/Yanık,M:/Siyasi Partiler Hukuku, etc.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Theorical expression, homework, representation, analysing the case and jurisprudence, analysing and discussing the representation and homework issue

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.25 + STT * 0.25 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE* 0.25 + STT * 0.25 + RST* 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

oguz.simsek@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 30 30
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 16 6 96
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 201

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.155
LO.254
LO.354
LO.444
LO.554
LO.644
LO.754
LO.844
LO.944