Il corso offre una riflessione critica sulle politiche interne ed esterne della UE, facendo riferimento agli strumenti metodologici e concettuali sviluppati nell'ambito delle teorie del policy making europeo.
- O. COSTA and N. BRACK, How the EU really works, Ashgate, 2014, chapters 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 e 9.
- H. WALLACE, M. POLLACK, A.YOUNG, Policy making in the European Union, OUP, 2010, chapter 8 (181-205), chapter 9 (207-229), chapter 10 (229-252), chapter 11 (253-281) and chapter 17 (401-430).
- Stefano BARTOLINI, Restructuring Europe, OUP, 2005, chapter 2: 56-103.
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Stefano BARTOLINI, “Tra Formazione e Trascendenza dei confini. Integrazione europea e stato-nazione”, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 2004/2:167-195.
- M. FERRERA, A. HEMERIJCK, M.RHODES, The future of Social Europe, Chapter 3 (Welfare Regimes and Adjustment Problems).
- Paul PIERSON, “ The Path to European Integration: a Historical Institutionalist Analysis”, Comparative Political Studies , 1996, no.2 only section 1 and 2:128-148.
- G. MAJONE, “The rise of the Regulatory State in Europe”, West European politics 1994, no.3: 77- 101.
- M. HARTLAPP, J.METZ, C.RAUTH, “Linking Agenda setting to coordination structures: Bureaucratic Politics inside the European Commission”, European Integration, 2013, no.4: 425-441.
- V. FARGION, S. PROFETI, L. MORLINO, “Europeanization and Territorial Representation. The Case of Italy”, West European Politics, 2006/4: 757-783.
- Jean-Claude BARBIER, The Road to Social Europe, Routledge, 2013, chapter 3: 36-61.
Students that have taken part in the EU simulation do not have to read the chapters on the Common Agricultural Policy and EU Enlargement Policy.
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 oral presentation and the short paper will be taken into account for the final grading ( 25 percent). The final exam consists of four short written essays on the topics covered by the course. Students will have three and a half hours to complete the assignment.Required readings will be reduced by 30 percent for students participating in the EU Simulation with James Madison University.
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,and to shed light on 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 and the third part of the course are 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.