Constitutions and institutional design in the Baltic States

The Objectives

To provide a general overview about the constitutions in the Baltic States
To provide a more detailed overview about the main governmental institutions in three Baltic States: parliaments and presidents
To introduce briefly local governmental system in the Baltic States

The Outcomes of the Learning Object:

The basic knowledge about the main features of the institutional design and political system in the Baltic States
The basic knowledge about the presidents and parliaments in the Baltic States: how they are working, what is their power
The basic knowledge about local governments in the Baltic States

The target group
Foreign students interested in the Baltic States

Learning material consits of:

2 video lectures: Part 1 (44 minutes) and Part 2 (25 minutes).
6 exercises

The video lectures for the 5th lecture of the course "Baltic Politics and Government".

Technical Requirements: no special software is required, only flash player (download Adobe Flash Player) and pdf reader (download Adobe Reader) are needed.
Passing the learning object takes approximately 8 academic hours

Author of the Learning Object:
Tõnis Saarts, lecturer of Political Science, Institute of Political Science and Public Administration, Tallinn University

This work is licensed under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License

Tõnis Saarts, Tallinn University 2009