This course is no longer offered

10223 Democracies and Dictatorships in the 20th Century 1

Credits: 6 intermediate credits in Political Science or in Modern History

Prerequisites: none

Located within the framework of comparative politics, this course examines characteristics of various types of regimes and compares them. This comparison helps to distinguish significant differences between categories of regimes as well as the smaller differences between regimes within one category. The materials include the following books (in Hebrew):

Democracies – Democracy in Ancient Greece, by Rachel Zelnik; Britain: A Stable Democracy in a Changing World, by Stuart Cohen; The United States: A Liberal Democracy (collection of articles); Republican Regimes in 20th Century France, by Yair Seltenreich.

Dictatorships – The Soviet Union in the Stalinist Period: A Totalitarian Communist Regime, by Oded Eran; Nazi Germany: One Nation, One Reich, One Leader, by Amira Gelblum; Italian Fascism: Ideology and Politics, by Benyamin Neuberger; Spain between Dictatorship and Democracy: 1936-1977, by Shlomo Ben-Ami.

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1Beginning in Spring 2007, this course will no longer be offered. This has implications on programs of study in which this is a required course. For details, see the programs of study.

There is some overlap in the content of this and other courses. For details, see Overlapping Courses.