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This course aims to provide students with a general introduction to the salient issues surrounding the relationship between the Internet and Politics. It is structured around two broad questions. Firstly, how has politics affected the evolution of the internet both in the past and in the present? And secondly, how does the internet affect traditional forms of political activity and mobilisation?
The course provides an overview of (neo)-institutionalist approaches in political science. Besides introductory parts such as the various definitions of institutions we can find in the literature, the focus is on normative, sociological, economic and historical approaches. We will cover issues such as the birth and change of institutions, effects as well as reforms of institutions.