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Semestrul I, anul univ. 2008-9

 

Tema propusă:

Teorii ale sistemului socialist

  

Scopul seminarului este acela de a cunoaşte unele dintre abordările teoretice asupra sistemului socialist. Acest lucru e cu atât mai necesar, în condiţiile în care cercetarea temei este în spaţiul românesc realizată din perspective sau exterioare ştiinţei politice (şi de multe ori într-o manieră prea puţin conceptuală), sau – dacă se încadrează în cadrul ştiinţei politice – sunt realizate fie din perspective teoretice deficitare, fie doar în perspective descriptive.

 

Tema 1. Teorii ale socialismului

Ferrero, M. (2004): A Rational Theory of Socialist Public Ownership, Rationality and Society, 16(4), pp. 371–397.

 

Bell, D. (1958): Ten Theories in Search of Reality: The Prediction of Soviet Behavior in the Social Sciences, World Politics, 10, 3, pp. 327-365)

Amann, R. (1986): Searching for an Appropriate Concept of Soviet Politics: The Politics of Hesitant Modernization?, British Journal of Political Science, 16, 4, pp. 475 – 494.

Kornai, The Socialist System, capitolele 1 -2.

 

Tema 2. Structura sistemului socialist

Kornai, The Socialist System, capitolele 3 – 5.

 

Tema 3. Coordonarea in socialism

Kornai, The Socialist System, capitolele 6 – 7

Robertson, P.G., Oskar Lange’s Theory of Socialist Planning, The Journal of Political Economy, 79, 2, 1971, pp. 562 – 577.

Trotsky, L., The Workers’ State, Thermidor and Bonapartism, First Published: July 1935 with the title: The Soviet Union Today, Source: New International [New York], Vol.2 No.4

 

 

Tema 4. Economia in socialism

Kornai, The Socialist System, capitolele 8 – 10.

Bodnar, Borocz, Housing Advantages for the Better Connected?, Social Froces, 76, 4, 1998, pp. 1275 – 1304.

 

Tema 5. Penuria in socialism

Kornai, The Socialist System, capitolele 11 – 12.

Schleifer, A., Vishny, R., Pervasive Shortages under Socialism, The RAND Journal of Economics, 23, 2, 1992, pp. 237 – 246.

 

Tema 6. Distributia

Kornai, The Socialist System, capitolele 13 – 14.

D. Chirot, Social Change in Communist Romania, Social Forces, 57, 1978, pp. 457 – 499.

 

Tema 7 – 8. Tranzitia de la sistemul classic

Kornai, The Socialist System, capitolele 16 – 21, 24.

 

Tema 9. Grupurile de interese în socialism

W.G. Skilling, Interest Groups in Communist Politics Revisited, World Politics, 36, 1983, pp. 1 – 27

White,St., Communist Systems and the ‘Iron Law of Pluralism’, BJPS, 8, 1, 1978, pp. 101 – 117

Schmitter, Philippe C., Modes of Interest Intermediation and Models of

Societal Change in Western Europe , Comparative Political Studies, 10:1

(1977:Apr.)

Bunce, V., The Political Economy of the Brezhnev Era: The Rise and Fall of Corporatism, BJPS, 13, 2, 1983, pp. 129 – 158.

 

Tema 10. Socialism si dictatură

Wintrobe, R., The Tinpot and the Totalitarian: An Economic Theory of Dictatorship, The American Political Science Review, 84, 3, 1990, pp. 849 – 872

Gary M. Anderson, Peter J. Boettke, Soviet venality: A rent-seeking model of the communist state, Public Choice 93: 37–53, 1997. 37

Eugenia Belova, Valery Lazarev, Why party and how much? The Soviet State and the party finance, Public Choice (2007) 130:437–456

 

Tema 11 – 12. Socialism si autocratie

Olson, M. (1993): Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development, The American Political Science Review, 87, 3, pp. 567 – 576.

Olson, M. (2000): Power and Prosperity. Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships, Basic Books, New York.

 

 

Bibliografia este minimală; studenţilor li se vor solicita şi alte lecturi relevante.

 

Cerinţe:

 

• Participarea activă la seminar – 25%
• Prezentarea a două position paper în cadrul seminarului – 25%
• Realizarea unei recenzii a unei cărţi pe tema discutată – 25%
• Examen final – 25%