Contemporary political systems 2104-L-Z3WSPO

Term of political system. Subsystems: institutional, normative, communicational, functional. Political system environment. Ideas, values and norms in political system. Constitutional principles. Political pluralism and monism. Forms of legal institutionalization in political system. Institutions in political system: political parties, groups of interests, public organs. Political system's mechanisms. Elections, Coalitions, Opposition. Political parties' system. Types of contemporary political systems. Democratic, authoritarian and totalitarian state. Monarchies and republics. Parliamentary-cabinet, cabinet- parliamentary, presidential, mixed, parliamentary-committee system. Unitary and other forms of state. Autonomy. Liberal, social and ecological state. System transformations in contemporary world. Waves of democratization. Forms of withdrawing from real socialism in Eastern Europe. Directions and state of system transformation in post-communist countries. Regimes of Eastern Europe. Types of eastern European political systems. Head of the State, parliament, political parties, groups of interest in Eastern Europe. EU political system.