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Instructors: Associate Professor Dr. Alexander Bürgin
Event type:
Seminar
Org-unit: Politics, Administration & International Relations
Displayed in timetable as:
Governance und Recht
Hours per week:
3
Credits:
6,0
Note: In your exam regulations, differing credits may have been specified.
Location:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
10 | 24
Priority scheme: Standard-Priorisierung
Course content:
Building on 113072 Politik der EU (Polity, Politics & Policies of the EU), this course will further deepen selected topics of European politics. This seminar is thus more advanced and more specialized. Among others, we will analyze case studies on the explaining power of major theories of European integration, the power balance between EU institutions and member states, political contestation and public opinion on the EU, questions of the so-called "democratic deficit'', selected policy fields, and the external influence of the EU. Students will read the literature in advance (usually two research articles) to prepare themselves for the discussion of the content and implications of the reading in class. We will engage with academic articles in-depth, also by discussing the research design and methods applied in these studies.
Topics covered include:
- Major theories of European integration: case studies on realist vs. liberal intergovernmentalism, intergovernmentalism vs. supranationalism, functionalism, postfunctionalism and normative institutionalism
- Agenda Setting: The role of the European Commission
- Implementation and compliance monitoring
- Bargaining in the Council
- Party politics in the European Parliament
- The role of interest groups
- The democratic deficit debate/Public contestation and public opinon, e.g. rise of Eurosceptic parties, Brexit
- The external influence of the EU, e.g. international climate policy, crisis diplomacy
Educational objective:
Students learn key principles of EU law as well as core aspects of governance arrangements within different policy areas within the EU’s multilevel system. Moreover, students develop the ability to identify important hurdles to EU decision-making as well as sources of implementations and enforcement problems. Finally, students are able to critically reflect on the problem-solving capacity of the EU’s multilevel system.
Further information about the exams:
Proposal for our teaching agreement
The performance is graded in two parts, which are weighted for the final grade as follows:
– Midterm 50% (tests and forum contributions 50%; presentation 50%)
– Term Paper (50%)
The tests (3-4) are based on the weekly readings (usually two research articles) and ask for a short summary of the key argument/message of the author/s (4-5 sentences). The intension of the (3-4) forum contributions is to think about the argument/message of the author/s and develop your own thoughts/comments on the topic (4-10 sentences).
In your presentation you should either assess the performance of the EU in a policy area not covered in class or deal with another aspect of EU governance. Presentations are scheduled for the last session/s. Based on your presentation you write a term paper on the same topic (around 10 pages).
Mandatory literature:
Preliminary Reading List (will be updated before the semester start)
- Moravcisk (2013) Did power politics cause European integration Andrew Moravcsik (2013) Did Power Politics Cause European Integration? Realist Theory Meets Qualitative Methods, Security Studies, 22:4, 773-790, DOI:10.1080/09636412.2013.844511
- Moravcsik. A. (1991) Negotiating the Single European Act: National Interests and Conventional Statecraft in the European Community, International Organization 45(1), pp. 19-56.
- Christiansen, T. (2002) The role of supranational actors in EU treaty reform, Journal of European Public Policy, 9:1, 33-53, DOI: 10.1080/13501760110104163.
- Schimmelfennig (2008) Entrapped Again: The Way to EU Membership Negotiations with Turkey, UCD Dublin, European Institute Working Paper 08-8.
- Schimmelfennig, F. (2018) European integration (theory) in times of crisis. A comparison of the euro and Schengen crises, Journal of European Public Policy, 25:7, 969-989.
- Tömmel, I. (2017) The standing president of the European Council: intergovernmental or supranational leadership?, Journal of European Integration, 39:2, 175-189,DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2016.1277717
- Derek Beach & Sandrino Smeets (2020) New Institutionalist Leadership – how the new European Council-dominated crisis governance paradoxically strengthened the role of EU institutions, Journal of European Integration, 42:6, 837-854, DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2019.1703966.
- Nugent, N. and Rhinard, M. (2016) Is the European Commission really in decline? JCMS 54(5): 1199-1215.
- Bürgin, A. (2020) Modernization of Environmental Reporting as a Tool to Improve the European Commission's Regulatory Monitoring Capacity, JCMS https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13093.
- Katharina L. Meissner & Magnus G. Schoeller (2019) Rising despite the polycrisis? The European Parliament’s strategies of self-empowerment after Lisbon, Journal of European Public Policy, 26:7, 1075-1093, DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2019.1619187.
- Bürgin, A. (2019) The implications of the better regulation agenda for the European Parliament’s inter- and intra-institutional power relations, Journal of European Integration, 41:2, 187-202, DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2019.1572134.
- Jensen, T. (2009) The Democratic Deficit of the European Union, Living Reviews in Democracy, https://cis.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/gess/cis/cis-dam/CIS_DAM_2015/WorkingPapers/Living_Reviews_Democracy/Jensen.pdf.
- Tanja A. Börzel & Frank Schimmelfennig (2017) Coming together or drifting apart? The EU’s political integration capacity in Eastern Europe, Journal of European Public Policy, 24:2, 278-296, DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2016.1265574
- Charles F. Parker, Christer Karlsson & Mattias Hjerpe (2017) Assessing the European Union’s global climate change leadership: from Copenhagen to the Paris Agreement, Journal of European Integration, 39:2, 239-252, DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2016.1275608.
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