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. L'ultima parte affronta l'attuale dibattito sulle riforme costituzionali.
Bartolini, S. Restructuring Europe, 2005, Oxford University Press, pp. 116-176; 248-412.
Wallace H., Policy Making in the European Union, 2010, Oxford University Press, pp.45-104.
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
Majone G., "The Rise of the Regulatory State in Europe", West European Politics, 17(3), 1994, pp.77-101.
Part two
Wallace H., Policy Making in the European Union, 2010, Oxford University Press, pp. 181-281; 381-400; 431-455.
Schoeman, M. "Of BRICs and Mortar: The Growing Relations between Africa and the Global South", The International Spectator, 2011, 46:1, 33-51.
Fargion, V. and Mayer M., "Refocussing Development Co-operation in Africa: the EU as a Global Health Champion?" paper presented at the 20th International Conference of Europeanists, Amsterdam, 25-27 June 2013, Session on "the EU and Development Policy Around the World".
Part Three
Weiler J. and Wind M. (eds.) European Constitutionalism beyond the State, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Obiettivi Formativi
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.
Prerequisiti
There are no specific prerequisites.
Metodi Didattici
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.
Modalità di verifica apprendimento
The final exam consists of five short written essays on the topics covered by the course. Students will have three and a half hours to complete the assignment.
Programma del corso
The first part of the course provides the conceptual tools for grasping the essential features of the European integration process and its policy outcomes. Considering the importance and pervasiveness of EU policies, the key aim of the first module is to understand how such policies are made, or - to put it differently - "the decisions (or non-decisions)by EU public authorities facing choices between alternative courses of public action". 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 a selection of EU internal and external policies. The case studies are selected to illustrate the variety of policy-making patterns, from extesive delegation to supranational institutions - as in trade policy and the common agricultural policy - to relatively loose coordination among member states, as in foreign policy and development cooperation. The analysis reflects an interpretation of EU integration as a process of boundary trascendence,redefiniton, shift and change , which fundamentally alters the nature of the European States. Against this backdrop, the third part of the course - taught by professor Andrea Bosco - concentrates the attention on future prospects of the ongoing process by focussing in particular on the current debate on constitutional reforms at the EU level. In detail the third module will address the following topics:a)Historical outline of the European constitutional debate and attempts to draft a European Constituion;b)the Making of the Lisbon Treaty;c)Constitutional debate beyond Lisbon;d)what is democracy? e) what is federalism?