Danish Political Science Research School offers the following PhD-courses
during spring 2006.
Imperial Ideologies
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Dates: 2006/05/23 to 2006/05/27
Responsible: Professor Jens Bartelson, Department of Political Science,
University of Copenhagen
Recent changes in world politics have led some scholars to suggest that there
exists a global empire, however defined. Since what distinguishes empires
from other forms of political dominion is their reliance on different modes
of symbolic authority rather than sheer force, the presence of such symbolic
authority is frequently taken to be indicative of the existence of imperial
forms of power.Drawing upon recent state of the art studies of imperial
ideologies, the course aims to provide the participants with an understanding
of the crucial role that these ideologies have played in the past, as well
the tools necessary for analyzing imperial ideologies in our present world.
ECTS: 5
See further description: http://polforsk.dk/phdevents/single?nnn=1039
Interpretive Political Science
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Dates: 2006/03/06 to 2006/03/08
Responsible: The Danish Political Science Research School and Professor of
Political Science Mark Bevir
This Ph.d. course explores recent work on the theory and practice of
interpretive political science. It looks specifically at: the relationship of
interpretive political science to other approaches, philosophical issues of
interpretation, and analytic strategies for deploying an interpretive theory
to explore empirical cases.
Session one: Interpretive Political Science;
Session two: Theories of Interpretation;
Session three: Analytic Strategies and Empirical Cases.
ECTS: 3
See further description: http://polforsk.dk/phdevents/single?nnn=1031
Advanced Data analysis in the Social Sciences using Stata
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Dates: 2006/01/02 to 2006/01/06
Responsible: profesor Søren Risbjerg Thomsen, Department of Political
Science, Aahus University
The purpose of the course is to let the participants learn practical skills
in advanced quantitative data analysis. Special focus will be on those
methods developed within econometrics that are increasingly used for data
analysis within sociology and comparative politics. Thus, the methods will
primarily be applied to the kind of data used within these subjects. Since
SPSS lacks the necessary statistical tools, the participants will learn to
use the statistical package STATA. In general, STATA is increasingly used for
social science data analysis instead of SPSS.
ECTS: 5
See further description: http://polforsk.dk/phdevents/single?nnn=756
Institutional Organizational Analysis – Change and Transformation
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Dates: 2006/01/16 to 2006/01/19
Responsible: Professor Ann Westenholz, Institut for Organisation og
Arbejdssociologi, CBS
The course focuses on the school within institutional theory that is rooted
in sociology and not in economic theory. Within this boundary, first we
concern ourselves with the provocative foundational works of organizational
neoinstitutionalism. We will review institutional contributions, exploring
the unique, social constructionist approach used by organizational
sociologists. Next, we will turn to some of the more recent advances in
institutional analysis. Neoinstitutionalists are distinctive in that they are
both historical and interpretive in orientation, exploring historical change
and transformations in the meaning of organizational structures and
practices. We analyze how institutions are constructed and diffused; how
institutional elements are incorporated into and translated inorganizations
as well as how institutional change and institutional entrepreneurship is
taking place. We discuss diverse methodological approaches to the study of
institutionalization processes – macro- as well as micro approaches.
ECTS: 5
See further description: http://polforsk.dk/phdevents/single?nnn=997
Intersectional Analysis
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Dates: 2006/01/18 to 2006/01/21
Responsible: Forskerskolen Velfærdsstat og Forskeligh
The notion of intersectionality has been used in recent feminist debates in
order to conceptualize how gender interacts with other social
differentiations and power relations such as ethnicity, class, age and
sexuality in modern complex societies. The idea of intersectionality seeks to
capture the consequences of the intersection of several systems of
subordination both in relation to structures and in relation to constructions
of overlapping and multiple identities. The purpose of the Ph.D. seminar will
be to introduce and develop the notion of intersectionality and to present
and discuss examples on intersectional analysis. We have invited key-note
speakers who have been working with intersectional analysis and Danish
speakers to give papers and to participate in the discussions.
ECTS: 3 (2)
See further description: http://polforsk.dk/phdevents/single?nnn=1014
Principles of Social Policy - Challenges and Reconceptualisations
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Dates: 2006/01/26
Responsible: Associate professor, Dr. Catharina Juul Kristensen,
University of Roskilde
The aim of this one-day seminar is to discuss principles of social policy (in
a broad sense of the term) in contemporary European welfare states. Focus
will be upon challenges of the principles of universality and equality
occasioned by contemporary theoretical and political claims of recognition of
diversity. In Denmark thorough academic discussions of principles such as
these are surprisingly few. This seminar hopes to position the debate firmly
on the social scientific agenda, drawing upon the inspiring research from
international research environments, such as the critical social policy
research in Britain. Research on ethnicity, gender, and more generally
recognition of diversity and the simultaneous need for redistribution are
likewise drawn upon.
ECTS: 3
See further description: http://polforsk.dk/phdevents/single?nnn=1025
From Bureaucracy to Entrepreneurial Governance? Person, Ethics and
Organization in the New Public Management
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Dates: 2006/03/20 to 2006/03/21
The course has three central concerns. First, it focuses upon the purposes
and character of public administrative activity and outlines its distinctive
bureaucratic style, one that is formed from the unique nature of the tasks it
undertakes. In particular, attention focuses upon the role of the public
administration as an institution of government and its crucial role in
running a state. Special attention is paid to the ‘ethos’ of public
bureaucratic office and, in particular, its capacity to provide the public
bureaucrat with a distinctive ‘persona’ or ethical bearing and
status-conduct. Second, the course explores the emergence of the
‘entrepreneurial model’ and delineates its key characteristics. In
particular, it seeks to outline and analyse the ‘management culture’, or
organizational norms and techniques, that the entrepreneurial model espouses,
the characteristic ethics it advocates for the conduct of management, and the
new conceptions of what it means to perform ‘public service’ that it
introduces.
ECTS: 2½
See further description: http://polforsk.dk/phdevents/single?nnn=998
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Flemming Bjerke
The Danish Political Science Research School
Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen
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