POLITIČKA SOCIOLOGIJA

After passing the exam, the doctoral student will be able to: - understands the controversies and analyzes different concepts and approaches to the modern state, distinguishes the scope, boundaries of the state from its management capacity, analyzes the state as a normative framework and the field of the political decision-making process and sees the challenges faced by the national welfare state in the globalization framework and key, - distinguishes between different theoretical-analytical, normative and political-cultural approaches to civil society, analyzes the contribution of civil society actors to the stabilization and consolidation of democracy, but also the democratic limits and deficits of political and civil society organizations in post-authoritarian societies, - analyzes the dynamics of social conflicts and macro social changes - crises, wars and revolutions and recognizes models and methods of effective non-violent action, - perceives the challenges and opportunities that the globalization process opens up, but also its risks, such as the risk of sustainable growth, the spread of inequality and poverty, or terrorism, - analyzes the process and actors of democratization and recognizes and uses various criteria and indicators for "mapping and measuring" democracy, i.e. for its consolidation, - get to know the key value propositions and foundations of modern political ideologies, distinguish ideologies from the programs of political parties and become capable of analyzing political "families" in European and national parliaments