General information
| Course type | AMUPIE |
| Module title | Modern Models of Government: History and Analogy |
| Language | English |
| Module lecturer | prof. UAM dr hab. Przemysław Krzywoszyński |
| Lecturer's email | drpk@amu.edu.pl |
| Lecturer position | university professor |
| Faculty | Faculty of Law and Administration |
| Semester | 2025/2026 (summer) |
| Duration | 30 |
| ECTS | 5 |
| USOS code | 10-MMG-w-Erasm |
Timetable
Module aim (aims)
Making participants familiar with a modern models of government in the historical and theoretical context.
Recognizing analogies between models of government in Europe, Americas and Asia.
Presentation of historical models of government and their role in the contemporary society.
Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)
none
Syllabus
1. Organizational class
2. Univocity, Analogy, Equivocity
3. Basic models of power
4. Types of monarchy
5. Oligarchy
6. Magnate oligarchy (Poland and the Republic of Venice).
7. Sources of Modern European Democracy
8. Polish Noble’s Democracy II
9. French Revolution and early constitutionalism
10. Empire and colonies I
11. Empire and colonies II
12. Europe/Latin America
13. Europe/Asia
14. Distributism
15. Crisis and perspectives
Reading list
(selection, excerpts from):
G. Contarini, The Republic of Venice: De Magistratibus et Republica Venetorum, ed. F. Sabetti, Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2022.
R. Harvey, Liberators: Latin America's Struggle for Independence, 1810-1830, Woodstock, New York: Overlook Press 2000.
M. P. Holt, The French Wars of Religion 1562–1629, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
P. Krzywoszyński, The Origins of Religious Liberty within Modern Democracy: Some Remarks on Poland’s Golden Freedom, Annales Universitatis Curie-Skłodowska Lublin – Polonia, Sectio K, Vol. XIX, 2, 2012, p. 105-113.
P. Krzywoszyński, The Polish Nobles’ Democracy: between Ancient and Modern Democracy, “Philosophia. Revista de Filosophía”, Vol. 81, Núm.1., 2021, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Filosofía, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, p. 29-49.
J. Michalski, Rousseau and Polish Republicanism, Warsaw: PWN 2015.
G. H. Sabine, T. L. Thorson, A History of Political Theory, Hinsdale, Illinois: Dryden Press 1973.
J. L. Talmon, The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy, London: Mercury Books 1961.
The Polish-Lithuanian Monarchy in European Context, c.1500–1795, ed. by R. Butterwick, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York: Palgrave Publishers Ltd. 2001.
Ch. Tilly, Democracy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2006.