Tantárgy adatlap

A tantárgy szakmai tartalma: This discussion based course examines relevant social, political, and economic problems of Asian emerging markets from a comparative perspective. It focuses on institutions, economic development, and systemic transformations, through exploring the interaction of politics and economics. Topics include the concept of the developmental state, authoritarian resilience, survival of communism, transition processes, prospects of democratization, clientelism, corruption and rent seeking.

Évközi tanulmányi követelmények: Students are expected to complete all the required readings before every class, and to contribute actively to the discussions. For every reading, there will be a discussion leader, who does a short, five-to-ten-minute opening presentation, to get the discussion started, while two other students will act as discussants. The main output of the course will be a seminar paper of about 20 pages. The topic of the paper (which must be related to one of the subjects discussed) must be submitted by session 4, including a few bibliographic suggestions, while the outline of the paper, including a tentative bibliography, by session 6. The final paper will be due one week after the last session.

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Az értékelés módszere: 
Final paper: 50%,
Presentations: 30%,
Participation: 20%.
The grades are as follows:
0-50%: Fail (1), 51-62%: Pass (2), 63-74%: Satisfactory (3), 75-86%: Good (4), 87-100%: Excellent (5).

Tananyag leírása: 
The Developmental State: Concepts and Theories.
The Developmental State: Asian Variants.
Authoritarian Resilience in China.
Prospects of Democratization and the Survival of Communism in Asia.
Reform and Transition.
Clientelism, Rent Seeking and Corruption.

Órarendi beosztás: According to Neptun.

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• The complete reading list will be available in the syllabus.

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