Information Package / Course Catalogue
Political Parties and Electoral Systems
Course Code: KAY217
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 6
Objectives of the Course

It aims to introduce students to research fields which covers political party system and interest groups in in consolidated and transition democracies and non democratic systems.

Course Content

Categorization of party groups, institutional framework that political parties working and social seperations that shaped parties political roots, interest groups and election behaviours taken into context.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Res. Assist. Fikret TOPAL
Learning Outcomes
1.Defines the terms related to political parties and political party classification.
2.Explains institutional frames, roots and interest groups of of political parties.
3.Compares different approaches related to political party systems.
4.Analysis competitive and institutional approaches about ideological changes at political parties and parties.
5.Evaluates the theories related to political parties and party systems in the matter of Turkish politics.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Ergun ÖZBUDUN, Siyasal Partiler, AÜ Hukuk Fakültesi Yay., Ankara, 1977.
2.Metin AYDOĞAN, Küreselleşme ve Siyasi Partiler, Umay Yayınları, İzmir, 2007.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
The subject and purpose, method and discussion of the relations between the political structure and the political parties, the parties on the introduction and discussion of the literature.
Week 2 - Theoretical
Party concept, origin, pressure groups, the differences with the parties, parties corresponds to the traditional community structure and function of political parties in modern society, in terms of the types of organization in comparison.
Week 3 - Theoretical
Liberalism and Political Parties. The recognition of the legal status of the parties, and the Constitutional law of the parties' entry. The evolution of Rousseau's theory of popular sovereignty and after.
Week 4 - Theoretical
Party types and the relationship between political ideologies. The emergence of disciplined mass parties and structures. Changing the structure of the Party organizations.
Week 5 - Theoretical
Social structures and party systems. The two-party political structures and social structures, dominated by the party type, fragmented political structures and the relationships between social conditions.
Week 6 - Theoretical
Party discipline. Parliamentary groups, co-chaired applications, loosely and tightly disciplined parties.
Week 7 - Theoretical
Electoral systems and parties' electoral politics
Week 8 - Theoretical
Intra-party democracy. Leader-based parties, democratic centralism, party congresses, organization-central relations. Bronze law of oligarchy.
Week 9 - Intermediate Exam
Midterms
Week 10 - Intermediate Exam
Midterms
Week 11 - Theoretical
Political participation and party membership. Voters, supporters, activists, individual and corporate membership in the party. Different types of parties and party membership countries functioning of the system.
Week 12 - Theoretical
Electoral systems. Absolute majority, proportional representation systems, single-turn, two-round elections, the dam applications, a narrow selection of similar practices of the region and party systems.
Week 13 - Theoretical
Party system in Turkey: the Republican People's Party of Union and Progress.
Week 14 - Theoretical
Turkish Political Parties in Multi-Party Period. The radical right, center, right, center, left and radical left-wing political parties, structures, operations.
Week 15 - Theoretical
Problems in the system of political parties and political parties in Turkey.
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%70
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory130339
Individual Work130452
Midterm Examination127128
Final Examination131132
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)151
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2026