The course aims to provide students with the categories, methodological tools and fundamental questions of political science. In the first part, there will examined the main disciplinary traditions and their respective developments starting from the key concepts of the subject (State, nation, democratic and non-democratic regimes) as well as from the actors of the same (political elites, parties, interest groups) and by institutions (governments, parliaments, electoral systems). Once acquired the basic knowledge and critical tools, in the second part (monographic), instead, the different declinations of the 'political' will be analyzed and, in particular, the figure of the partisan and his relations with the terrorist in the global society, in Carl Schmitt's thought.

For attending students:

- G. CAPANO, S. PIATTONI, F. RANIOLO, Manuale di scienza politica, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017 (the chapters to be studied will be communicated during the lessons);
- C. SCHMITT, Teoria del partigiano, Adelphi, Milano, 2005.

For not attending students:

- P. GRILLI DI CORTONA, O. LANZA, B. PISCIOTTA, L. GERMANO, Capire la politica, Utet, Torino, 2016.
- C. SCHMITT, Il concetto di 'politico', in Id., Le categorie del 'politico', a cura di G.
G. Miglio e P. Schiera, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1972, pp. 87-208.
- C. SCHMITT, Teoria del partigiano, Adelphi, Milano, 2005.

Instead of the two Schmitt's books is it possible to study the following edited book:
M. Almagisti, C. Baccetti, P. Graziano (a cura di), Introduzione alla politologia storica, Carocci, Roma, 2018 (with the exception of the chapters n. 4 and 6).