B009867 - POLITICHE PUBBLICHE DELL'UNIONE EUROPEA

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Il corso offre una riflessione critica sulle principali politiche interne ed esterne della UE, facendo riferimento agli strumenti metodologici e concettuali sviluppati nell’ambito delle teorie del policy making europeo.

REQUIRED READING

Part one

Rosamond B., Theories of European Integration, Palgrave, 2000, pp. 50-81

Pierson P., “The Path to European Integration. A Historical Institutionalist Analysis”, Comparative Political Studies, 29 (2), 1996, pp.123-163

Wallace H., Policy Making in the European Union, 2010, Oxford University Press, pp.26-42.
Richardson J., Policy Making in the EU. Interests, ideas and garbage cans of primeval soup in Richardson J., (ed.) European Union – Power and Policy-Making, 2003, Routledge, pp. 3-30

Pollack M., “Creeping Competence: The Expanding Agenda of the European Community”, Journal of Public Policy, 14 (2), 1994, pp. 95-145.

Majone G., “The Rise of the Regulatory State in Europe”, West European Politics, 17(3), 1994, pp.77-101.

Radaelli C., “Idee e conoscenza nelle politiche pubbliche europee: tecnocrazia o politicizzazione?”, Rivista Italiana di Scienza della Politica", 29 (3)1999, pp. 517-546.

Part two

Wallace H., Policy Making in the European Union, 2010, Oxford University Press, pp. 207-226; 307-328; 357-378.

Marks G., Structural Policy and Multilevel Governance in the EC in Cafruny, Glenda, Rosenthal (eds) The State of the European Community, vol. 2, Boulder, 1993, pp.391-409.

Fargion V., Morlino L. Profeti S. (eds.) Europeizzazione e Rappresentanza territoriale. Il caso Italiano, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006, pp.11-21; 34-92; 125-179; 221-262;361-388.

Part three

Kukeleire S., European Security and Defence Policy: From Taboo to a Spearhead of EU Foregn Policy? In F. Bindi (ed.) The Foreign Policy of the European Union, Brookings Institution, 2010, pp. 51-72

Baracani E., Unione Europea e conflitti, Il Mulino , forthcoming, chapter 2.

Schoeman, M. “Of BRICs and Mortar: The Growing Relations between Africa and the Global South”, The International Spectator, 2011, 46:1, 33-51.
Carbone, M. The EU in Africa; Increasing Coherence, Decreasing Partnership, in F. Bindi (ed.) The Foreign Policy of the European Union, Brookings Institution, 2010, p.239-252.

Fargion V. and Mayer M., “The Social and Health Agenda in EU-Africa Relations: Past Contradictions and Future Opportunities”, Paper presented at the Conference “Production, Reproduction and Protection in the Welfare State”, Seoul, Korea, 25-27 August 2011.

The general aim of the course is to provide students with a critical understanding of policy making by EU institutions. At the end of the course it is expected that students will have an adequate understanding of what is at stake in the most important internal and external EU policies and of the factors influencing the relevant decision making process.

Students are expected to participate actively in the course; hence, they should complete the assigned reading before class. In addition, students will have to make a short presentation and a written essay ( no longer than 3,000 words) on a policy issue of their choice. The final exam consists of four short essays on the topics covered by the course .

The final exam is written ( four short essays on the topics covered by the course)

The first (and larger) part of the course focuses on the main theoretical approaches to European integration and its policy outcomes. Special attention will be paid to the two main integration theories - neo-functionalism and intergovernmentalism – before going into EU governance and policy making theories. The discussion of supra-national governance will be based on a selection of the main scholarly contributions on actors, timing, agenda setting, decision making rationales, policy types and the domestic impact of EU policy making. By taking stock of the theoretical perspectives reviewed, the second part of the course is devoted to a critical understanding of EU internal policies and their implications for Member States, with particular reference to budgetary, environmental, energy and cohesion policies. The third part of the course shifts the attention to EU external relations, by addressing the following topics: 1) Foreign Policy after the Lisbon Treaty; 2) EU external relations with: the Balkans and Turkey, Former Soviet Republics, The Mediterranean Region, The Middle East, US, Russia and China; 3) EU development co-operation with Africa.