This module is not currently running in 2025 to 2026.
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Private Study: 178
Contact Hours: 22
Total: 200
This module is available to all students on MA programmes within the School of Politics and International Relations.
It is also available as an elective module
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See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1. Apply the concepts, theories, methods of comparative politics to the study of the connections between statehood, nationality, and democracy
2. Identify the main factors that account for the historical rise of the modern state as the dominant form of political organisation
3. Understand the process through which the modern state has acquired national and democratic characters
4. Understand the main aspects of the process of state formation, structuring, restructuring, and termination across space and time and their connections with nationality and democracy
5. Identify the key contemporary challenges to the democratic national state and their likely future trajectory.
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