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030200.68«Политология» подготовки магистра
Government of Russian Federation
National Research University – Higher School of Economics
All-university Department of Public Policy
Syllabus of the course
‘Freedom of Political Assembly’
For Master degree in Political Science (030200.68)
for Master degree programme ‘Political Analysis and Public Policy’
Authors of the syllabus:
Heather McRobie, researcher in the Department of Public Policy
Professor Belyaeva, Head of Department, Department of Public Policy
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Moscow, 2015
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1. Scope of Use
The present syllabus is aimed at the faculty teaching this course, their teaching
assistants, and the students of the Master’s programme ‘Political Analysis and
Public Policy’ who wish to study the course ‘Freedom of Peaceful Assembly’ as an
elective course.
This syllabus meets the standards required by:
 Higher School of Economics
 Master’s programme ‘Political Analysis and Public Policy’
 Curriculum of the master’s programme ‘Political Analysis and Public
Policy’ as of 2013.
2. Learning outcomes
As a result of undertaking this course of study, students should:

Know the main definitions of freedom of peaceful assembly, the key
concepts that underpin the definition, and the guiding principles behind
the use of the concept of ‘freedom of peaceful assembly’ in public policy
discourse.

Be able to specify and outline both core concepts and academic debates
over what constitutes ‘freedom of peaceful assembly’, as well as specify
and outline several concrete case studies.

Critically engage with the literature that defines the parameters of
freedom of peaceful assembly, and situate it in broader public policy,
political science and social science debates about civil and political rights
and the state-citizen relationship.

Make their own research on appropriate case studies that illuminate the
principles of freedom of peaceful assembly, and present this research
appropriately.

Learn to participate in discussions relating to the literature on freedom of
peaceful assembly.
This course is a professional course taught to the Masters students of Public
Policy. This is an optional course that requires prior knowledge in political
science and/or related disciplines.
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The teacher of the course will ascertain the current level of knowledge and
existing conceptual frameworks of the students at the beginning of the course,
and be responsive to the class’s current level of knowledge and understanding.
The following knowledge and competences are needed to study the discipline

Knowledge of the existence international human rights system

Some knowledge of what is meant by a ‘right’, and the wider literature on
rights/human rights

The experience of – or the ability to – learn both independently and as
part of a group
3. Students’ Competences
By the end of the course, the students are expected to:

To give a coherent definition of freedom of political assembly, as well as
the related concepts of civil resistance, non-violent conflict, and structural
violence, and to be able to use these definitions appropriately in context,
and understand how they operate in political and policy discourse.

To consider the historical emergence of freedom of political assembly as a
civil and political right, and contextualise this in the broader discussion of
the historical emergence of two ‘kinds’ of rights – civil and political on the
one hand and economic, cultural and social on the other.

To analyse freedom of political assembly as a civil and political right and
situate it in the literature on civil and political rights, whilst recognising
the academic literature that points out the limitations to creating a binary
of two kinds of rights.

To ground the new knowledge – concepts and examples – learned in this
course in the wider knowledge the students are acquiring elsewhere in
the programme on the concept of ‘civil society’.

To consider the right to strike from the perspective of freedom of political
assembly, and assess the limitations of considering the right to strike
through this conceptual lens.

To familiarize themselves with (historical and contemporary) significant
cases of the exercise of freedom of political assembly.
Students’ competences expected by the end of the course:
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Competence
Ability to use English
language as a means of
communication
Ability to apply modern
research methods, interpret
the results of the research
and
present
them
professionally in accordance
with the rules of professional
ethics
Ability
to
analyze,
synthesize, and critically
summarize the information
Ability to make out and
represent results of the
performed work to report on
them
Ability to analyze, verify,
estimate completeness of
information in the course of
professional activity, upon
necessity
to
fill
and
synthesize
missing
information and to work in
the conditions of uncertainty
Ability
to
organize
multilateral
(including
intercultural) communication
and to operate it
Ability to use the received
knowledge and skills in
researches
of
political
systems,
institutes
and
processes, political subjects
and their interactions at
different levels of the
organization of society, in
studying of the sphere of
public
policy,
political
management and control,
political
and
civil
participation, human rights
Ability to keep up effective
communication
in
correlation with type of
audience (age, educational
level,
communicative
situation)
Code
Descriptors (indicators for
achievement the result)
Possesses skills to present the results
of their own research both in English
Applies a variety of philological
methods to analyze the subjectness of
freedom of peaceful assembly;
interprets and evaluates the impact of
the speech activities in the political
process
Educative forms and methods
aimed at generation and
development of the
competence
Presentation of the results of
homework tasks and
independent work
Analysis and discussion of
cases, results of homework and
independent work
Distinguishes various sources and
types of information, critically uses
information from different sources,
scientifically proves conclusions of
the research
Possesses skills of presentation and
report on the results of the executed
work
Analysis and discussion of
cases, results of homework and
independent work
Possesses skills to discover language
factors, relevant for interpretation of
the public utterance of the actor and
obtaining implicit information
The analysis of cases, work at
seminars, results of
independent work and
homeworks
Shows skills of initiation,
maintenance and correction of public
debate within the set perspective
Work at seminars in group,
results of tasks performance
Gives definitions of public dialogue,
its components and stages, applies a
complex technique of the
philological analysis to public
discourse, distinguishes discursive
peculiarities of political actors,
estimates quality of interaction and
its influence on decision-making
Presentations of results of
homework and independent
work
Possesses skills of purposeful public
communication in a dialogical mode
Performance and analysis of
tasks during seminars, analysis
and discussion of public
activity of actors taking into
account factors of
communicative suitability (i.e.,
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homework, and independent
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Ability to independently
prepare
generalizing
analytical materials (reviews,
notes,
reports,
recommendations, etc.) and
offers for the persons,
making decisions in the
political sphere.
the speaking situationdependent adequacy of speech
as judged by audience)
Analysis and discussion of
examples of analytical
products, results of homework
and independent work
Possesses skills of preparation of
analytical products
4. Place of course in the Master programme structure
This course is an elective one within the Master programme, taught in the first
semester of the second year of ‘Political Analysis and Public Policy’. It requires
the prior knowledge that students will have acquired during the foundational
courses of the first year of the programme (or equivalent levels of prior
knowledge in the case of visiting students) in political science and human rights.
This course is complementary to a number of other courses in the programme,
and consolidates and builds upon the knowledge and skills developed in these
course, in particular
 Global Actors in Public Policy
 National and International Mechanisms of Human Rights Protection
 Human Rights in Non-Western Countries
5. Course Plan
№
Lectur
es
Indepe
ndent
student
s’ work
Semina
rs
6
3
3
6
3
3
6
3
3
6
3
3
6
3
3
6
6
3
3
3
3
Total
hours
Topic
1. What is freedom of peaceful assembly? What are its
guiding principles?
2. Implementation and restriction freedom of peaceful
assembly
3. Freedom of peaceful assembly as a civil and political
right
4. The concepts of ‘civil resistance’ and ‘non-violent
conflict’; Gandhi and the principles of satyagraha.
5. The ‘conflict’ in non-violent conflict: structural
violence and police brutality
6. Civil society and freedom of peaceful assembly
7. The right to strike
5
Contac
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8. Identity and freedom of peaceful assembly
Total
6
3
6. Requirements and Grading
Type of
grading
Type of work
Current
Home work
Final
Exam:
Presentation
Written work: independent work of 8 pages linking
theories of freedom of peaceful assembly to a case study
Oral exam: explanation and defense of final
presentation (.ppt format)
6.1 Course Grade Criteria:
Homework: independent work of 8 pages: 50%
Examined presentation: 50%
The sum of the grades for the homework, independent work, the final presentation
(and grades associated with preparing and presenting it) and final examination will be
translated into a numerical grade.
Homework. Students will prepare independent work, submitted after the 5th week of
the course. The essay will consist of eight pages. The teacher will assess the student’s
knowledge of core theories and concepts of the course, the ability to apply them
appropriately to relevant case studies, as well as the relevance of evaluations, the
quality of presentation and the soundness of the logic of argumentation.
Final Exam. The final exam will be held in a dialogical form of discussion of
presentations on the topic selected by a student and endorsed by a teacher before the
exam. Each presentation (10 minutes) reports the results of the research of theory and
practice of freedom of peaceful assembly regarding a selected event or area and based
on the student’s essay. In the course of the exam the teacher evaluates the structure of
presentation, the student’s knowledge of core theories and concepts of the course and
the ability to apply these theoretical statements appropriately to relevant case studies,
taking into consideration how the student treats the subject: independence of opinion,
validity of opinion, relevance of arguments. The teacher asks additional questions,
and evaluates the understanding and argumentation of all the participants.
7. Course description
Topic 1: What is freedom of peaceful assembly? What are the guiding
principles of freedom of peaceful assembly?
Critically engage with all parts of the phrase ‘freedom of peaceful assembly’ –
‘freedom’, ‘peacefulness’ and the nature of an ‘assembly.’ Definitions of freedom
of peaceful assembly in human rights law and ODIHR/OSCE/Venice Commission
guidelines on what the ‘peaceful’ in peaceful assembly constitutes. The guiding
principles of freedom of peaceful assembly under international and European
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human rights law: legality, proportionality, non-discrimination, good
administration and the liability of the regulatory authority. Overview of the
topics to be surveyed for the rest of the course to situate this preliminary
information in wider conceptual landscape.
Core reading
ODIHR/ OSCE/ Venice Commission (2012). Guidelines on Freedom of Peaceful
Assembly. Available online at:
http://www.osce.org/baku/105947?download=true Last accessed 26.10.2015.
Dobson, William J (2011). ‘The most important freedom.’ Washington Post.
Available online at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/postpartisan/post/the-most-important-freedom/2011/04/01/AFvF2iKC_blog.html
Last accessed 26.10.2015.
Optional reading
Inzau, John D. (2012). Liberty’s Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly. New
Haven: Yale University Press.
Berlin, Isaiah (1958). Two Concepts of Liberty. In Isaiah Berlin (1969) Four
Essays on Liberty. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available online at:
http://spot.colorado.edu/~pasnau/seminar/berlin.pdf Last accessed
26.10.2015.
Salat, Orsolya (2015). The Right to Freedom of Assembly: A Comparative Study.
Bloomsbury Press.
Jarman, Neil, et al (1998). Politics in Public: Freedom of Assembly and the Right to
Protest, a Comparative Analysis. Democratic Dialogue publishers, Belfast,
Northern Ireland. Available online at:
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/dd/report8/report8.htm Last accessed 26.10.2015.
Topic 2: Implementation and restriction of freedom of peaceful assembly
Outline international human rights norms: the presumption in favour of the right
to freedom of assembly, and ‘legitimate’ restrictions on freedom of peaceful
assembly (to juxtapose with illegitimate restrictions in the case studies and
examples). Basic concepts: procedures, monitoring and implementation from
perspective of human rights law and guidelines of relevant IGOs. Focus on
procedural issues such as notification, spontaneous assemblies, simultaneous
assemblies, counter-demonstrations and review/appeal mechanisms. Draw upon
ODIHR/OSCE/Venice Commission guidelines for overview of human rights
approach to policing assemblies; monitoring and media access.
Core reading
ODIHR/ OSCE/ Venice Commission (2012). Guidelines on Freedom of Peaceful
Assembly. Available online at:
http://www.osce.org/baku/105947?download=true Last accessed 26.10.2015.
Optional reading
Hamilton, Michael (2007). ‘Freedom of Assembly, Consequential Harms and the
Rule of Law: Liberty-Limiting Principles in the Context of Transition.’ In Oxford
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Journal of Legal Studies, Vol 27 Issue 1. Available online at:
http://ojls.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/1/75.full.pdf+html Last accessed
26.10.2015.
Topic 3: Freedom of peaceful assembly as a civil and political right
Introduce the idea of ‘civil and political rights’ in international human rights law,
versus ESC rights. Some discussion on how the two ‘types’ of rights have been
historically deployed (particularly as a terrain on which twentieth-century
geopolitical power struggles played out). Also highlight the interesting recent
work using the capabilities approach by Amartya Sen, Nussbaum et al, who argue
that the division between ‘civil and political’ rights on the one hand, and
‘economic, social and cultural’ rights on the other is misplaced, as the two ‘types’
of rights are mutually reinforcing.
Core reading
Berlin, Isaiah (1958). Two Concepts of Liberty. In Isaiah Berlin (1969) Four
Essays on Liberty. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
http://spot.colorado.edu/~pasnau/seminar/berlin.pdf Last accessed
26.10.2015.
[extracts from] Sen, Amartya (1999). Development as Freedom. Oxford University
Press. Available online at:
http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/ifi/INF9200/h12/readings/papers/
Sen.pdf Last accessed 26.10.2015.
Optional reading
Conte, Alex, Scott Davidson and Richard Burchill (2004). Defining Civil and
Political Rights. Ashgate Publishing, UK.
[extracts from] Nussbaum, Martha (1997). Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame
and the Law. Yale University Press. Available online at:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/hselibrary/reader.action?docID=10284181 Last
accessed 26.10.2015. **
Topic 4: The concepts of ‘civil resistance’ and ‘non-violent conflict’
Introduce the ideas and literature on ‘civil resistance’, such as work of James
King, Jack DuVall, Erica Chenoweth, ‘A Force More Powerful’ and the ideas within
this of how ‘civil resistance’ can be effective or ineffective. Some case studies can
be presented of where tactics from the paradigm of ‘civil resistance’ were selfconsciously deployed – such as Otpor in Serbia in 1990s-2000, the anti-Milosevic
movement self-consciously trained and used language and ideas of ‘civil
resistance.’ Introduce concept of ‘satyagraha’ and how it has been developed
since Gandhi’s era. Similarly acknowledge and critically engage with the
dissenting academic literature that criticizes the conceptual categories of ‘civil
resistance’ and ‘non-violent conflict.’
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Core viewing
----. ‘A Force More Powerful’ (1999).
Core reading
Gandhi, Mahatma (1938). ‘The Power of Satyagraha’. Available online at:
http://www.mkgandhi.org/momgandhi/chap35.htm
Gandhi, Mahatma (1938). ‘Non-Co-operaton’. Available online at:
http://www.mkgandhi.org/momgandhi/chap35.htm
Duvall, Jack (2010). ‘Civil Resistance and the Language of Power’.
openDemocracy. Available online at: https://opendemocracy.net/jackduvall/civil-resistance-and-language-of-power
Optional reading
Chenoweth, Erica and Maria J. Stephan (2012). Why Civil Resistance Works.
Columbia University Press, USA
Duvall, Jack (2008). ‘Civil Resistance and Alternatives to Violent Struggle’.
Conference Paper for 2008 conference at the International Centre for the Study of
Radicalisation and Political Violence. Available online at:
https://www.academia.edu/11837318/Civil_Resistance_and_Alternatives_to_Vi
olent_Struggle
Topic 5: The ‘conflict’ in non-violent conflict: structural violence and police
brutality. Keeping with the extensive literature on civil resistance, which uses
the idea of ‘non-violent conflict’ – is ‘conflict’ really a word to use to describe
peaceful resistance? Pros and cons of using this language, raising the academic
literature on this such as Johan Galtung’s idea of ‘structural violence’ and
‘institutional violence’. This engagement with the idea of institutional and
structural violence leads to the literature on police brutality, and ways of
conceptualising the police-protester interaction and dynamic. Also introduce
Foucauldian perspectives on idea of ‘peacefulness’ and ‘non-peacefulness’ as
constructs of state power, the ‘respectability politics’ of who is allowed to protest
and how.
Core reading
Galtung, Johan (1969). ‘Violence, Peace and Peace Research.’ Journal of Peace
Research, Vol. 6, No. 3. (1969), pp. 167–191. Available online at:
http://proxylibrary.hse.ru:2119/stable/pdf/422690.pdf Last accessed
26.10.2015. **
Ho, Kathleen (2007). ‘Structural Violence as a Human Rights Violation’. Available
at: http://projects.essex.ac.uk/ehrr/V4N2/ho.pdf
Optional reading
Gilligan, James (1997). Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic. Vintage
Books.
. ----. (2014). ‘Extending the carceral system: Foucault and Ferguson’. Available
online at: http://thelitcritguy.com/2014/08/18/extending-the-carceral-systemferguson-and-foucault/
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Vitale, Alex (2015). ‘No, Protests Against Police Brutality Are Not Increasing
Crime. The Nation. Available online at:
https://www.academia.edu/15399461/_No_Protests_Against_Police_Brutality_A
re_Not_Increasing_Crime
Vitale, Alex (2014). ‘Why police are rarely indicted for misconduct’. Al Jazeera
America. Available online at:
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/11/ferguson-policemisconductdarrenwilsongrandjury.html
Topic 6: ‘Civil society’ and freedom of peaceful assembly. Introduce concepts
that students may not be familiar with from their learning elsewhere on the
Masters programme, such as ‘protest publics’ (in juxtaposition to ‘protest
movements’) and literature on the sociology of protest ‘alliances’. Introduce
from political philosophy from the Enlightenment onwards on ‘the citizen-state
relationship’, the role of citizenship in freedom of assembly – freedom of
assembly as an assertion of citizenship. Situate this in the literature on
deliberative democracy and participatory democracy from Rousseau onwards.
Core reading
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1762). The Social Contract. [English translation
available]
Linz, Juan J., and Alfred C. Stepan (1996). Problems of Democratic Transition and
Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Optional reading
Zaytsev, D and Vsevolod Gerasimov (2015). ‘Protest public as the drivers of
political change in Russia and Brazil: comparative analysis’. Available online at:
http://paperroom.ipsa.org/papers/paper_34283.pdf
Topic 7: The right to strike. Building upon the previous topic of the statecitizen relationship, and ‘what it means to assemble’, critically engage with the
question of whether the right to strike is part of the ‘right to freedom of peaceful
assembly.’ Survey the international legal protections of this, the historical
emergence of ‘labour law’ – is the right to strike a civil and political right, or
primarily a ‘labour right’? Gendered dimensions – the exercise of the ‘right to
strike’ historically dependent on organised labour, as labour markets are
gendered (e.g domestic workers, ‘maids’ etc, were historically, in the west, often
women), is the ‘right to strike’ a gendered right? This topic leads to the literature
on the interplay between ‘civil society’ and ‘trade unions’.
Core reading
[selection from] Novitz, Tonia (2003). International and European Protection of
the Right to Strike. Oxford University Press. Available online at:
http://proxylibrary.hse.ru:2221/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198298540.00
1.0001/acprof-9780198298540 Last accessed 26.10.2015. **
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Optional reading
Ewing, K.D (1991). The Right to Strike. Oxford University Press: Oxford
Monographs on Labour Law. Available online at:
http://proxylibrary.hse.ru:2221/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198254393.00
1.0001/acprof-9780198254393 Last accessed 26.10.2015. **
Kang, Susan L (2002). Human Rights and Labour Solidarity. University of
Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Available online at:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/hselibrary/reader.action?docID=10642659 Last
accessed 26.10.2015. **
Topic 8: Identity and freedom of peaceful assembly. This final topic links the
new knowledge and conceptual tools presented in the course with the literature
they have covered elsewhere in the Masters programme, i.e identity and action
in freedom of peaceful assembly, and the literature on whether assembly is
always ‘goal-oriented’ or rather also ‘identity-oriented.’
Core reading
Opp, Karl-Dieter (2009). Theories of Political Protest and Social Movements. A
Multidisciplinary Introduction, Critique and Synthesis. Routledge, UK. Available
online at: http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/577966405.pdf Last accessed
26.10.2015.
Salat, Orsolya (2015). The Right to Freedom of Assembly: A Comparative Study.
Bloomsbury Press.
Optional reading
Klandermans, Bert (2005). ‘Politicised Collective Identity: Collective Identity and
Political Protest’ in Thye and Lawler (eds). Social Identification in Groups.
Available online at:
http://proxylibrary.hse.ru:2100/doi/pdfplus/10.1016/S08826145%2805%2922006-4 Last accessed 26.10.2015. **
Jarman, Neil, et al (1998). Politics in Public: Freedom of Assembly and the Right to
Protest, a Comparative Analysis. Democratic Dialogue publishers, Belfast,
Northern Ireland. Available online at:
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/dd/report8/report8.htm Last accessed 26.10.2015.
Opp, Karl-Dieter (1989). The Rationality of Political Protest. Westview Press, USA.
** Readings accessed through HSE e-library.
7.1 Case studies to be taught
These case studies are to be taught as seminars or classes, or given to students as
assignments for them to research and then present to the other students so that
the whole group is given an overview of them. As there are of course hundreds
of possible case studies, listed here ones that the teacher either prior knowledge
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of from research, or believes are particularly relevant to illuminating the topic of
freedom of peaceful assembly as a whole. These cases and others will be
discussed with the students and form the core of the possible examples to use for
the students’ essays and presentations.
Historically significant cases that also provide conceptual tools and insight
into theories:
-Anti-apartheid protests in South Africa and anti-apartheid solidarity in the west;
anti-Vietnam protests in the US; the American civil rights movement in the
1960s; the ‘Prague Spring’/1968 as a historical moment; the Arab revolutions of
2011 and the ‘Arab spring’ as a historical moment.
-2014 Bosnian protests and plenums: good case study to highlight the variable of
the shift from ‘assembly’ to other forms of collectivities (i.e the plenums).
-Occupy movement: good case study for the issue/idea/tensions within a
“leaderless movement.”
-Euromaidan and Electric Y.erevan: good recent case studies for issues of
identity and freedom of assembly
-Anti-austerity protests, c.2010 to present: ‘anti-austerity’ protests are a good
prism through which to explore a number of ideas such as transnational idea
sharing, the dynamic between protests and political parties, and also
encroachment on freedom of political assembly (as in the UK case where
protesters were ‘kettled’ by the police). The four countries that may work best
to explore these ideas may be: Spain, Italy, UK and Greece.
8 Teaching Methods and Recommendations
The course is interactive and uses a number of complimentary teaching methods.
Lectures by the teacher will be combined with participatory class discussions of
the required readings, and with independent work by the students. Students are
required to make reports and oral presentations of their homework.
8.1 Recommendations for course teacher
It is recommended to use interactive teaching methods which allow for most
student participation such as: discussions, case studies, role plays. The course is
intended to be based on real-life case studies, multimedia examples and current
events.
8.2 Recommendations for students
The course format mixes lectures and group discussion. Students should take
notes and participate in the dialogue. The course is an interdisciplinary one,
combining different research approaches based on philological science adapted for
public policy understanding and public interaction development, therefore students
are expected to visit lectures: there is not much relevant reading.
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The rule of forming cumulative grade
Current work grade formula is:
Оcurrent = Оhomework
Cumulative grade formula is:
Оcumulative = 0,4·Оcurrent+ 0,3·Оindependent work + 0,3·Оclassroom work;
During the whole course, students receive tasks corresponding with the topics of
related class and developing the subject discussed in the class, both by independent
reading, or by the analysis of texts proposed by a teacher according to question(s)
provided by a teacher. Independent work is to be reported in the class with
presentation in .ppt format in necessary. Teacher estimates student’s knowledge of the
specific theories and concepts.
Regarding the classwork, teacher estimates student’s participation in the discussion,
relevance of comments and level of understanding of the particular topic.
Final cumulative grade formula is:
Оfinal = 0,5·Оexam + 0,5·Оcumulative
Rounding of numbers in calculating of the grades is arithmetial.
In the Master Degree Certificate, the final grade will be written down.
10. Reading and Materials
Core viewing:
---- (1999). ‘A Force More Powerful’
Core reading
Berlin, Isaiah (1958). Two Concepts of Liberty. In Isaiah Berlin (1969) Four
Essays on Liberty. Oxford University Press, UK.
Chenoweth, Erica and Maria J. Stephan (2012). Why Civil Resistance Works.
Columbia University Press, USA.
Conte, Alex, Scott Davidson and Richard Burchill (2004). Defining Civil and
Political Rights. Ashgate Publishing, UK.
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Duvall, Jack (2010). ‘Civil Resistance and the Language of Power’.
openDemocracy. Available online at: https://opendemocracy.net/jackduvall/civil-resistance-and-language-of-power
Galtung, Johan (1969). ‘Violence, Peace and Peace Research.’ Journal of Peace
Research, Vol. 6, No. 3. (1969), pp. 167–191.
Gandhi, Mahatma (1938). ‘The Power of Satyagraha’. Available online at:
http://www.mkgandhi.org/momgandhi/chap35.htm
Gandhi, Mahatma (1938). ‘Non-Co-operaton’. Available online at:
http://www.mkgandhi.org/momgandhi/chap35.htm
Jarman, Neil, et al (1998). Politics in Public: Freedom of Assembly and the Right to
Protest, a Comparative Analysis. Democratic Dialogue publishers, Belfast,
Northern Ireland, UK.
Linz, Juan J., and Alfred C. Stepan (1996). Problems of Democratic Transition and
Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe.
Johns Hopkins University Press, USA.
Opp, Karl-Dieter (2009). Theories of Political Protest and Social Movements. A
Multidisciplinary Introduction, Critique and Synthesis. Routledge, UK.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1762). The Social Contract. [English translation
available]
Salat, Orsolya (2015). The Right to Freedom of Assembly: A Comparative Study.
Bloomsbury Press, UK.
Sen, Amartya (1999). Development as Freedom. Oxford University Press, UK.
Optional reading
---. (2014). ‘Extending the carceral system: Foucault and Ferguson’. The Lit Crit
Guy blog. Available online at: http://thelitcritguy.com/2014/08/18/extendingthe-carceral-system-ferguson-and-foucault/
Duvall, Jack (2008). ‘Civil Resistance and Alternatives to Violent Struggle’.
Conference Paper for 2008 conference at the International Centre for the Study of
Radicalisation and Political Violence. Available online at:
https://www.academia.edu/11837318/Civil_Resistance_and_Alternatives_to_Vi
olent_Struggle
Ewing, K.D (1991). The Right to Strike. Oxford University Press: Oxford
Monographs on Labour Law, UK.
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Gilligan, James (1997). Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic. Vintage
Books, UK.
Hamilton, Michael (2007). ‘Freedom of Assembly, Consequential Harms and the
Rule of Law: Liberty-Limiting Principles in the Context of Transition.’ In Oxford
Journal of Legal Studies, Vol 27 Issue 1. Available online at:
http://ojls.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/1/75.full.pdf+html
Inzau, John D. (2012). Liberty’s Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly. Yale
University Press, USA.
Kang, Susan L (2002). Human Rights and Labour Solidarity. University of
Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights, USA.
Klandermans, Bert (2005). ‘Politicised Collective Identity: Collective Identity and
Political Protest’ in Thye and Lawler (eds). Social Identification in Groups.
Mutz, Diana C (2006). Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative Versus Participatory
Democracy. Cambridge University Press, UK.
Novitz, Tonia (2003). International and European Protection of the Right to Strike.
Oxford University Press, UK.
Nussbaum, Martha (1997). Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame and the Law.
Yale University Press, USA.
Opp, Karl-Dieter (1989). The Rationality of Political Protest. Westview Press, USA.
Salat, Orsolya (2015). The Right to Freedom of Assembly: A Comparative Study.
Bloomsbury Press, UK.
Vitale, Alex (2014). ‘Why police are rarely indicted for misconduct’. Al Jazeera
America. Available online at:
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/11/ferguson-policemisconductdarrenwilsongrandjury.html
Vitale, Alex (2015). ‘No, Protests Against Police Brutality Are Not Increasing
Crime. The Nation. Available online at:
https://www.academia.edu/15399461/_No_Protests_Against_Police_Brutality_A
re_Not_Increasing_Crime
Zaytsev, D and Vsevolod Gerasimov (2015). ‘Protest public as the drivers of
political change in Russia and Brazil: comparative analysis’. Available online at:
http://paperroom.ipsa.org/papers/paper_34283.pdf
10. Equipment
The course requires
 Presentation equipment
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Multimedia equipment
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