Political Sciences Department
Course units
Analytical description of the exams
Course specifications are coded as follows:
Lct Lecture
Smn Seminar
Cmp Compulsory
Cla Class
Lab Laboratory
Y One Year
#S Semester
#W Hours per week
#Cr Number of ECTS credits
Wr Written exam
Or Oral exam
Opt Optional
#P Quota of students if any
#T Term (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
Alphabetic list of the course units credits:
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW 9
AGRARIAN LAW 9
ANALYSIS OF THE POLITICAL LANGUAGE 9
BUSINESS ECONOMY 9
COMMERCIAL LAW 9
COMPARATIVE POLITICS 9
COMPARATIVE PUBLIC LAW 9
CONTEMPORARY HISTORY 10
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS 9
DOCTRINE OF THE STATE 9
ECCLESIASTIC LAW 9
ECONOMIC HISTORY 9
ECONOMIC POLICY 10
ECONOMY OF THE EUROPEAN INTEGRATION 9
ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY 9
ENGLISH LANGUAGE (A-L) 10
ENGLISH LANGUAGE (M-Z) 10
FRENCH LANGUAGE 10
GERMAN LANGUAGE 10
HISTORY AND INST. OF AFRICAN/ASIAN COUNTRIES 9
HISTORY AND POLITICS OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION 9
HISTORY AND SYSTEMS OF THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE STATE AND THE CHURCH IN THE MODERN AGE 9
HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THOUGHT 9
HISTORY OF JOURNALISM 9
HISTORY OF POLITICAL MOVEMENTS AND PARTIES 9
HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT (A-L) 10
HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT (M-Z) 10
HISTORY OF THE ECONOMIC THOUGHT 9
HISTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 9
HISTORY OF THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 9
HISTORY OF THE SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT 9
HISTORY OF THE TRADE UNIONS MOVEMENT 9
HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA 9
INSTITUTIONS OF PRIVATE LAW 9
INSTITUTIONS OF PUBLIC LAW (A-L) 10
INSTITUTION OF PUBLIC LAW (M-Z) 10
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY 9
INTERNATIONAL LAW 9
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS 9
ITALIAN AND COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 10
ITALIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM 9
LABOUR AND SOCIAL SECURITY LAW 9
LAW OF EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 9
MATHEMATIC FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES 9
MEDIEVAL HISTORY 9
METHODOLOGY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 9
MODERN AND CONT. HISTORY OF THE CHURCH AND OTHER CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS 9
MODERN HISTORY I 10
MODERN HISTORY II 9
MONETARY ECONOMY AND POLICY 9
PARLIAMENTARY LAW 9
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 9
PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES 9
POLITIC OF THE ENVIRONMENT 9
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY 9
POLITICAL ECONOMY 10
POLITICAL PARTIES AND PRESSURE GROUPS 9
POLITICAL SCIENCE 10
POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY 9
PUBLIC BODIES ACCOUNTANCY 9
PUBLIC ECONOMY 9
PUBLIC LAW OF THE ECONOMY 9
REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY 9
REGIONAL LAW 9
SANITARY ECONOMY 9
SCIENCE OF ADMINISTRATION 9
SCIENCE OF FINANCE 9
SOCIOLOGY (A-L) 10
SOCIOLOGY (M-Z) 10
SOCIOLOGY OF THE CULTURAL PROCESSES 9
SOCIOLOGY OF THE ORGANISATION 9
SPANISH LANGUAGE 10
STATISTICS 10
THEORY OF ORGANISATION 9
TRIBUTARY LAW 9
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW (Lct+Smn, Y, 3W, Opt, ..P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Giovanna Verardo
The course in administrative law includes a general part and a monographic one for the "privattizzazione" of the public employment and following modifications. The course will be divided in professorial lessons and in one seminar devoted mainly to the special part. .
AGRARIAN LAW (Lct+ Smn, S, 6W, Opt, 33P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Giulio Vignoli
Exam of the origin of EU law and agricultural main regulations.
ANALYSIS OF THE POLITICAL LANGUAGE (Lct+Smn, S, 6/8W, Opt, 88P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Paola Cella
The course analyses the political theory and praxis. In this context are considered the field, the subject and the function of the political communication and the lexical origin, the uses and the semantic development of the most important political terminology
BUSINESS ECONOMY ( Lct,S, 6W, Opt, 9Cr)
Prof. Giorgio Dellacasa
The firm and its organization. Management. General accountancy. Patrimonial state. Economic account. Budget. The course takes place in the Faculty of Jurisprudence.
COMMERCIAL LAW (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, 114P, Or, 9c)
Prof. Lorenzo De Angelis
A short history of the formation and evolution of the Commercial law. The codification.The entrepreneur and the enterprise: general characteristics and notions and systematic divisions.The firm.The societies.The modifications of the law of the societies related to the acceptance of the communitary law.The crisis of the enterprise. The procedures for the competition (outlines).Other kinds of unions among entrepreneurs.The discipline of the competition (outlines).The regulation of financial markets (outlines).
COMPARATIVE POLITICS (Lct+Smn, S, 6W, Opt, 81P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Stefano Monti Bragadin
Political culture and political structure; systemic functions; socialisation;process functions; articulation and interests' aggregation; formulation of the policies; governmental structures. Public policies: systemic production, results and retrospective actions; political goods; synchronic or diachronic comparisons.
COMPARATIVE PUBLIC LAW (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, 48P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Maria Benedetta Costa
The course proposes to revisit the form of the state and the ongoing revisions of the form of government of our republic in the light of a comparative experience.
CONTEMPORARY HISTORY (Lct+Smn, S, 6W, Cmp, 495P, Or, 10Cr)
Prof. Danilo Veneruso
The program of the course includes four parts: a) general history from 1815 to the present time; b) specialised course; c) explanations of different books; d) either seminars or critical presentation of books.
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, 129P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Bruno Soro
In the first part of this course we shall consider the main problems of development economics. Phases of development, population growth, structural change, the effects of technological progress, catching up and convergence are examined. In the second part modern theories of economic growth and the recent theories on "Why growth rates differ" are considered. The aim of this part is to establish whether they can offer a satisfying solution to these problems.
DOCTRINE OF THE STATE (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, 152P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Pierluigi Zampetti
Main lines of the doctrine of the State.
ECCLESIASTIC LAW (Lct+Smn, S, 3-6W Opt, 75P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Elsa Marantonio Sguerzo
The rules of the ecclesiastic law represent the discipline of specific cases from the point of view of the protection of the manifestations of the citizens' religious feeling . The course analyses the single institutes of the ecclesiastic law.
ECONOMIC HISTORY (Lct+Smn, S, da 6 a 10W, Cmp, Opt, Or, 116P, 9Cr)
Prof. Roberto Mantelli
The history of the most significant demographic and economic mutations from the origin of agriculture to our present age. The course deals with changes in the exploitation of sources of energy, in agricultural practices, in commercial and industrial structures, in the attitudes towards economic activities, etc.
ECONOMIC POLICY (Lct+Smn, S, 8W,Cmp, Wr, 457P, Or, 10Cr)
Prof. Giorgio Dellacasa
Opportunities, modalities and typologies of the public intervention concerning the economic cycle, inflation, development,international trade, international payments.
ECONOMY OF THE EUROPEAN INTEGRATION ( Lct, S, 6W, Opt, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Franco Praussello
Theories and policies of the international trade. International economy. Globalization of markets.interdependence of policies. Free trade. Customs Union. European Community and European Union. SME. Maastricht Treaty. Policies of industry, firm, competition, fishing. Policies of the employment.
ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, 96P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Sandro Segre
The course purposes to give a general view of the subject. Classical contributions to the sociology of the capitalism ( Marx, Weber, Sombart, Schumpeter, Polanyi ). The sociology of the economic power. The sociology of the industrial relations in Italy. The sociology of the labour-market
ENGLISH LANGUAGE (A-L) (Lct+Smn+Lab, S, 10W, Cmp, Wr+Or, 292P, 10Cr)
Prof. Goffredo Miglietta
A systematic study of the English language examining questions of phonology, morphosyntax and vocabulary. Practice in dictation, composition and translation with texts and subject matter drawn principally from the fields of politics, history, economics, sociology and law. Topical readings and discussion of aspects of the life, culture and principal institutions of Great Britain and the United States of America.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE (M-Z) (Lct+Smn+Lab, S, 10W, Cmp, Wr+Or, 282P, 10Cr)
Prof.ssa Gabriella Galliano
A systematic study of the English language examining questions of phonology, morpho-syntax and vocabulary. Practic dictation, composition and traslation with texts and subject matter drawn principally from the fields of politics, history, economics, sociology and law. Topical readings and discussion of aspects of the life, culture and principal institutions of Great Britain and the United States of America.
FRENCH LANGUAGE (Lct+ Smn+Lab, S, 10W, Cmp, Wr+Or, 262P, 10Cr)
Prof.ssa Maria Giuseppina Pittaluga
The purpose of the course is to enable the students to acquire good oral and written comprehension ability, both in the basic language and in the microlanguage required for special purposes. The course, which is intended for beginners, medium and advanced students, will include a monographic course with exercises and practice at various levels.
GERMAN LANGUAGE (Lct, S, 6W, Wr+Or,Cmp, 51P, 10Cr)
Prof.ssa Monica Frommelt
The purpouse of the course is to develop the general knowledges of those who have already some preliminary notions of the language and in the same time to start the beginners to the comprehension and to the written production. The course is made by lessons and exercises.
HISTORY AND INSTITUTIONS OF AFRICAN AND ASIAN COUNTRIES (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, Or, 266P, 9Cr)
Prof. Danilo Veneruso
African history in the modern and contemporary age. Italian Capuchins' influence on Queen Zinga and the barbarian kingdoms of Matamba
HISTORY AND SYSTEMS OF THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE STATE AND THE CHURCH IN THE MODERN AGE (Lct+Smn, S, 6W, Opt, Or, 47P, 9Cr)
Prof. Giovanni Varnier
History and law regulations of the relations between civil and religious society in the modern age, particularly focusing on the importance of religion in Italy.
HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THOUGHT (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, 97P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Marco Ferrari
General course. The course includes the analysis of the contemporary political thought in the dynamics of its historical contexts from the beginning of the 19th century up to now, through the critical examination of the authors who discuss its political models, ideologies and orientation.
HISTORY OF JOURNALISM (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, 87P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof.ssa Marina Milan
The purpose of the general course is to explain the evolution of journalism from the origins to the present time and the cultural, political, economic, social, technological contexts which have determined the origin of the different kinds of journalism up to the consolidation of complex information systems. In the second part of the course it will be analysed the development of journalism in Italy with a critical view of the papers which have most influenced the growth of the Italian society, from the end of the 16th century up to now, with wide refernces to the history of the periodical press in Genoa between 1800 and 1900. The specialized course proposes the study in depth either of a particular historical period or of some issues. There will also be a seminar, almost always dealing with topical subjects (freedom of the press, implicit censorship, the journalist's role between information and lack of information, relations between press and television, etc.), aiming at orienting the student towards a correct verification of the historical context; this part of the course, which requires specific researches on the newspapers, ends with the presentation and discussion of a written dissertation.
HISTORY OF POLITICAL MOVEMENTS AND PARTIES (Lct+Smn, S, 6W, Opt, 51P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof.ssa M. Elisabetta Tonizzi
The course deals with the events of parties in Italy in the period between the Resistance and the ninety years. During the year seminars will be organized. The students who purpose to take the examination but who cannot attend the lessons are invited to get in touch with the teacher .
HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, 100P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Giuseppe Casale
The course deals with the evolution of the economic thought from the Greek age to the present time. The main doctrines of each period are considered, with particular emphasis on the Scholastic, Mercantilist, Physiocratic, Classical, Marxian, Neo-Classical thought. The concepts of Value, Money and Production are the guiding lines of the teaching program.
HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (Lct+Smn, S, 6W, Cmp,114P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Massimo De Leonardis
The program of the course includes three parts: a) a general one on International History either from 1815 to 1914 or from 1914 to 1992; b) a specialised course on a different subject every year; c) a seminar on Papal diplomacy
HISTORY OF THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, 36P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof.ssa Fernanda Mazzanti Pepe
The general course aims at putting in a historical context the contemporary problems relevant to the P.A. by identifying the evolutionary lines of the phenonmenon, regarding the structures, functions, activities and bureaucratic staff. Particular attention will be drawn to the Italian case since the Unification. The specialized course will deal with the topic of the local administration in Europe.
HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, 311P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Giancarlo Rovati
Sociological tradition and sociological theory: macro and micro perspectives. Functionalism: T. Parsons e R. K. Merton. Conflict theories and critical theories of the society: R. Dahrendorf, L. Coser, C. W. Mills; J. Habermas. Exchange theory: G. C. Homans, P. Blau. Phenomenological approach: A. Schuts, P. Berger; T. Luckmann. Symbolic internationalism: G. H. Mead, H. Blumer, E. Goffman. Ethnomethodology: H. Garfinkel.
HISTORY OF THE TRADE UNIONS MOVEMENT (Lct+Smn, S, 8W, Opt, 63P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof.ssa Adele Maiello
The course will illustrate, in a comparative way, the historical development of the unionist movements in some important Western European (Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain and Italy), North African (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia) and North American (Canada) countries.
HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA (Lct+Smn, S, 8W, Opt, 100P, Or, 9 Cr)
Prof. Susanna Delfino
During the course the most significant aspects of the history of the United States of America will be analysed in the light of the ongoing debate over democracy. Special attention will be drawn to the most recent historiographical revisions that have sprung out of the new and more articulated perceptions of the word democracy. !) A survey course of the U.S. history will constitute the necessary starting point for more specific analyses. 2) The special part of the course will deal with "The Afro-Americans in historical perspective". 3)A seminar will be organised on the following subject: "From the concept of frontier to the idea of "middle ground": toward a historical reconstruction of the evolution of the relationships between whites and Indians".
INSTITUTIONS OF PRIVATE LAW (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, 74P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Carlo Rossello
The general rules about the law.The persons and the family. The successions. The division of goods. The donation. The goods. The property. The rights on others' properties. The communion of goods.The possession.. The possessive actions. The obbligations. The contract in general and the single contractors. The unilateral promises. The credit titles.The management of others' business. The undue payment. The enrichment without cause. Illicit deeds. Entrepreneur and the society. The firm. The competition: the transgression. The evidence. The patrimonial responsibility. The insolvency and the competitional procedures. The jurisdictional tutelage of the rights. The prescription and the forfeiture.
INSTITUTIONS OF PUBLIC LAW (A-L) (Lct+Smn, S, 6W, Cmp,3 42P, Or, 10Cr)
Prof. Renato Balduzzi
General principles of administrative constitutional law: law; juridical system; the state; the relations between the state and the other sovereign juridical systems; the forms of state and goverment; the Constitution and the Italian constitutional events; the system of the Republic (included the public administration); the local autonomies ; the regions; the rights and the duties of the citizens;the constitutional revision; the Italian Constitutional Court
INSTITUTIONS OF PUBLIC LAW (M-Z) (Lct+Smn, S, 6W, Cmp,3 67P, Or, 10Cr)
Prof. Adriana Gardino
The course deals with the institutional study of the Italian Constitutional Law and the general principles of the Italian administrative law. In particular it analyses : a) the notion of 'law', 'system' and 'State'; b) the Constitution and the Italian constitutional history; c) the State system; d) the local autonomies; e) the citizens'rights and duties; f) the constitutional revision and the Italian Constitutional Court.
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY (Lct+Smn, S, 6W, Cmp, 142P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Franco Praussello
International trade; theory-balance of payment and foreign exchanges, international economic integration aspects of undevelopment.
INTERNATIONAL LAW ( Lct, Smn, S, 6W, Opt, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Francesco Munari
Basis, functions, sources of the international law. Subjects of the international law. The right of the treatise. Sovereignty of the States. Violations of the international law and the international responsability of the states.
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION (Lct+Smn, S, 8W, Cmp, 100P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Giulio Vignoli
The general part of the course deals with the establishment and activities of the govermental international organisations (without omitting the ties with the non- governmental organisations). Furthermore it analyses the problem of the "reserved rule" of the State and of the possibilities of interference by the organisations. The field of "human rights" represents a very good exemplification of the relationship between organisations and member states.
ITALIAN AND COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (Lct+Smn, S, 6W, Cmp, 534P, Or, 10Cr)
Prof. Adriano Giovannelli
The program of the course is about the study of the forms of the State and their dynamics, with particular attention to the state of classic democracy, in whose reference the problem of the forms of government will be broadly treated. A particular attention will be given to the parliamentary regime, examining its origin and evolution, the different models of rationalisation and the main mechanisms of stabilisation of the governments which have been experimented in the contemporary Europe, the forms of interaction among the constitutional aspects and the parties game, the impact of the electoral law on the latter, the typology of the relationship between the majority and the opposition. This analysis will be directed to a better understanding and a real evaluation of the Italian institutions, their crisis factors, the debate about their reform. The latter issue will be treated with particular attention because of the meaning of the support to the politcal engineering attached to it by the comparative perspective.
ITALIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, 36P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Andrea Mignone - Prof. Fulvio Venturino
The purpose of the course is to give to the students foundamental elements for an analysis of the Italian political system and its working. Lessons will be articulated in two forms. In the first the political facts happened in Italy in the post-war period are discussed through the exam of the main contributions advanced by the politological debate In the second, the events of ninety years will be examined referring particularly tothe changes in the party system and in the electoral behavior. .
LABOUR AND SOCIAL SECURITY LAW (Lct+Smn, S, 6W, Opt, 40P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Antonio Fontana
The labour law and its internal divisions. In particular the trade unions law. Its definition and position inside the legal system. The sources of production and knowledge. The professional organisation and the collective autonomy. The trade unions according to the system in force. The collective bargaining. The jointed bargaining : in particular the firm collective bargain. The strike, the lock-out and other instruments of unionist fighting, their evaluation, with particular attention to the interventions of the Italian Constitutional Court. The internal commissions, the councils of managements and the unionst representatives into the firm. The individual work contract. The work done and its reward. The power of direction and the disciplinary power. The cessation of work relation. Outlines of the most important work contracts, with a particular attention to the enrollment contract. Subjects, objects, contents and juridical nature of the social insurance relationship. Main kinds of social insurances, with a particular reference to the accident and occupational deseases insurance.
LAW OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (Lct+Smn, S, 6W, Opt, 33P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Giulio Vignoli
Exam of the origin of E U law and agricultural principal regulations.The organisation of the European Union. The sources of the E U law. The acts of the E U institutions. Relations between the E U system and the national and regional ones. The agricultural policy.
MEDIEVAL HISTORY (Lct+Smn, S, 8W, Opt, 30P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Francesco Panero
a) Institutes, Society, Economy (VI-XV century); b) Special subject, c) seminar
METHODOLOGY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, 71P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Renato Mannheimer
A first part of the course will analyse short anthological passages. A second part of the course foresees a wide analysis of the grammatical and syntactical notions and their application to the conversation level. The different meanings of the word "methodology": from the epistemology to the design of the research, to the statistical analysis of the data. The general logic of the social research. The design of the research: unity of the analysis; variables; indicators. The instruments of the social research. Questionnaires: questions and answers. The sources of the data for the social research. The principles of the statistical analysis for the social research: from the measures of the central trend to the multivaried analysis. The relations between variables and causal analysis.
MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY HISTORY OF THE CHURCH AND OTHER CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, 108P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Elsa Marantonio Sguerzo
The program of the course will deal with the following topics: ideology of christianity; christianity and social question; church and society in Italy during the Kulturkampf; paths of the "societas christiana". From Leone XII to the Second Vatican Council; the Lefebvre case; the "Lazzati case".
MODERN HISTORY I (Lct+Smn, S, 6W, Cmp, 344P, Or, 10Cr)
Prof. Maria Grazia Bottaro Palumbo
Formation of the modern State in Europe: centralizing tendencies and particularistic resistances in the processes of organization of political life. Phases and developments of international relations. Genesis of the "great" revolutions. Napoleonic Europe.
MODERN HISTORY II (Lct, S, 8W, Cmp, 64P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Renzo Repetti
Study in depth of issues and peculiar aspects of modern age history as advanced course for the sudents of the historical-political specialisation course. In particular the course deals with the topic: "the historical change in the modern age. Awareness of reality and political imagination: origin and development of the utopian thought."
MONETARY ECONOMY (Lct, S, 6W, 119P, Opt, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Giovanni Battista Pittaluga - Prof. ssa Rossana Sabatino
Functions, advantages and definitions of money. Mechanism of internal transmission and ways of monetary influence. Money demand. Financial intermediaries and money supply. The classic system and neutrality of money. Keynesian system. Monetarism. Inflation. Balance of payements and exchange rate. Monetary policy: objectives, news, rules and discretionary powers. Control techniques of monetary control. Monetary policy in Italy.
PARLIAMENTARY LAW (Lct+Smn, S, 6W, Opt, 33P,Or, 9Cr)
Prof. ssa Maria Benedetta Costa
After analysing the different sources of the parliamentary law and critically examining the organs and the representative institutes the course will particularly deal with the works of the Committee for the regulation and the reform perspectives.
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, 82P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof.ssa Alessandra Anteghini
The course is articulated in two parts. The general one concerns the Socialist State's theory. The special part goes deep into the study of the political and social problems of the XIXth century, with a special attention to the relations between socialism and feminism.
PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, 125P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof.ssa Rita Baldi
The course is articulated in a double perspective, methodological and historical, and it deals with the application of general principles of the epistemological and methodological analysis of the specific problems of the social sciences, with a particular attention to the problem of the explanation of the fundamental stages of the evolution of the scientific thought.
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, 288P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Alberto Capacci
Elements of general geography with a particular attention to the anthropic aspects and to the physical phenomena related to the human settlements and activities. General elements of cartography, economic cartography and notions about the use of the topographic map.
POLITICAL ECONOMY (Lct , S, 6W, Cmp, Wr, 341P, Or, 10Cr)
Prof. G. B. Pittaluga
Object and methods of the political economy. The market economy. Formation of the prices in completely competitive markets. The decision of consuming and the theory of the demand. Production, costs and proceeds of the entreprise in the perfect competition regime. Enterprise and industrial field in perfect competition regime. Non competitive markets and the principle of the full cost. The modern theory of enterprise and markets. Outlines of national accountancy. The general equilibrium and the "classic" macroeconomy. Keynesian macroeconomy and the unintentional unemployment. The joint function of the consumption. The effective request and the multiplier. The keynesian function of the investments, uncertainty and expectations. Money supply and demand. Monetary and fiscal policy in a closed economy. Macroeconomic equilibrium, inflation and public debt. Macroeconomic equilibrium and economic policy in an open economy.
POLITICAL PARTIES AND PRESSURE GROUPS (Lct+Smn, S, 6W, Opt, Wr, 53P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Andrea Mignone
The course intends to describe party systems/electoral systems on one side; on the other side pressure groups, lobbies and related classifications will be analysed in a comparative table during seminars and researches. The general part will examine the main theories about the subject and then will give further definitions, typologies and classifications related to parties and groups in order to single out the respective natures, ways of self-organising, techniques of action, pressure centres. A particular attention will be given to the relations between groups and parties, and between systems of parties and electoral systems. The monographic part will concern the study of some particular cases of the Italian political system.
POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, 78P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Stefano Monti Bragadin
Systems and subsystems within a multi-factorial analysis; interactions among economic, social, political and cultural system; cultural secularisation, structural differentiation and functional specialisation; socialisation and control, recruitment and maintenaince, communication and conversion; scarcity and organisation: conflict and cooperation, exchange and power, integration and change; industrialisation and modernisation, development and revolution; government and opposition, competition and participation; groups of interest, political parties and institutional offices; features of polyarchies and socialist systems; structure and dynamics of political forces and forms.
PUBLIC BODIES ACCOUNTANCY (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, 127P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Giuseppe Profiti - Prof. Antonio Scudieri
The public assignment agencies: technical characteristics of the appropriation and estimate accounts. The public accounting organisation. The State accountancy: an historical outline; the financial estimate instruments; the documents of financial formation; the annual budget; the financial law; the pluriannual budget;the execution of the annual budget and the procedure of revenues and expenses; the controls of the management activity; the State's general statement .The public bodies accountancy: definitions of the bodies; balance and management of the regions and of the minor territorial bodies of the national health service;budget and accountancy of the public economic bodies; characters and kinds of controls on the public bodies.The public debt: categories, organisation and management.The State and the public bodies treasury.
PUBLIC ECONOMY (Lct+Smn, S, 6W, Opt, 165P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Amedeo Fossati
The course offers, at the light of the latest evolution of the doctrine, an interpretative table of the most important aspects of the public intervention into the economics.
PUBLIC LAW OF THE ECONOMY (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, 48P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Renato Balduzzi
The course comprehends a general part, dedicated to an extensive analysis of the constitutional rules which are important for the individual subject, and a special part which studies the problem of privatisations.
REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, Or, 213P, 9Cr)
Prof. ssa Carla Pampaloni
The theory of the region in the geographical thought of the past and of the present. Examples of European regional unities. Regional geography applied to Liguria.
REGIONAL LAW (Lct+Smn, S, 6W, Opt, 37P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Paolo Siconolfi
The program of the course has a general part, related to the study of the history and the constitutional organisation of the regional autonomy, and a special part, which studies the system of the Liguria region.
SCIENCE OF ADMINISTRATION (Lct+ Smn, S, 6W, Cmp, 100 P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Bruno Bolognini
The course focuses on some conceptual instruments which explain the functioning of the administrative systems, with a particular attention to their institutional bases.
SCIENCE OF FINANCE (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, 198P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Giuseppe Casale
The subject deals with the theory of public finance from an economic and equity point of view. The economic effects of direct and indirect taxes as well as the effects of taxation on labor supply are studied from a macroeconomic point of view; policies of deficit spending and the theorem of Haavelmo are considered as well. General information about the legal aspects of the Italian fiscal system is given in order to discuss real cases.
SOCIOLOGY (Course A-L) (Lct+Smn, S, 6W, Opt, 291 P,Or, 10Cr)
Prof. Giorgio Sola
The fundaments of the theory of the classes: capitalism, socialism and sociological theory. Marx, Weber and Durkheim's contributions. Fundamental concepts of sociology. Definition of sociology. The logic of the sociological reasoning. The structure of the social action. Society and culture. The political system. The economic system. The socio-cultural system. Social formations and the bio-phsychical system. Population, territory and environment. Social inequalities. Social conflicts and movements. Criminality. Religion. Science and technology. Holism. History of the Italian sociology. Origins of the Italian sociology. A periodization of the Italian sociology. The age of promise. The age of certainty. The age of contradiction. The age of withdrawal. The age of rebirth and success. The age of consolidation and diffusion.
SOCIOLOGY (Course M-Z) (Lct+Smn, S, 6W, Opt, 291P, Or, 10Cr)
Prof. Giancarlo Rovati
Classics of sociology: Marx, Weber, Durkheim. Basic concepts and processes. Society constituent elements. Socialisation. Roles and social interactoin. Deviance and social control. Groups. Organisations. Community and society. Culture. Inequalities. Stratification and social mobility. Differences of age and gender. Ethnic inequalities. Institution. Family. Education. Religion. Economy and society. The political system. Social change. Population dynamics. Collective behaviour and social movements. Development theories. Thematic analysis: social stratification.
SOCIOLOGY OF THE CULTURAL PROCESSES (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, 58P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Giuliano Carlini
The course studies, after a theorical methodological introduction, the problems concerning the essence and the contents of culture as an important phase in the creation of the social reality and of the cultural processes which characterise it. Among the important cultural processes of our age the globalisation of social life is considered as cultural and the course analyses its specific aspects such as world-economies, large migrations and ethnic problems.
SOCIOLOGY OF THE ORGANISATION (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, 164P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Pierluigi Zampetti
Outlines of sociology of organisation. Enterprise organisation and the model of society: a) The splitting of the private property of the means of production. Liberal-socialist capitalism; b) Ricomposition and extension of private property and of the production means. People's capitalism and participative economy. The production system and the overcoming of ecological problems.
SPANISH LANGUAGE (Lct+Smn+Lab, S, 10W,Opt, Wr+Or, 248P, 10Cr)
Prof. ssa Anna Maria Mignone
The Spanish language course intends to give the students the theorical-practical linguistic knowledge to afford the study of historical-political texts , in order to approach the culture of Spanish-speaking countries and to discuss current topics .
STATISTICS (Lct+Smn, S, 6W, Cmp, 716P, Wr+Or, 10Cr)
Prof.ssa Valeria Maione
The main part of the course deals with descriptive statistics whose topics (mean, variability and form index, concentration, interpolation, refussion and correlation). Elements of inferencial statistics will taught (concept of probability,random events, basic theory of estimate and inference). Finally we will study the main natural socio-economics surveies by ISTAT, taken from "Rapporto sull' Italia" and "Conti degli Italiani"
THEORY OF THE ORGANISATION (Lct, S, 6W, Opt, 55P, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Bruno Bolognini
Decisional and communication processes in complex organisations. The course provides the students with the knowledge of some concepts and some theories which explain the regulation mechanisms of the complex organisations. The attention will be drawn to both the organisational decision processes and the communication mechanisms since they allow the transfer of decisions and of decisional premises into the organisation. Finally we will analyse the effects of the different decision and communication mechanisms on the behaviour of people who work in the organisations. A large space will be given to the historical analysis of the organizative thought.
TRIBUTARY LAW ( Lct, S, 6W, Opt, Or, 9Cr)
Prof. Lorenzo De Angelis
Tributes. Italian system of taxation. Constitutional principles. Tributary amounts. Taxable base. Facilitations. Exemptions. IRPEF, IRPEG, ILOR. Taxes.
HISTORY AND POLITICS OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION
HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT (A-L)
HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT (M-Z)
MATHEMATIC FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES