Research in EU integration and governance
PhD class, Public Policy Track – 4 credits
Fall Term 2015 (AY 2015/2016), 2 credits
Youngmi Kim, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy/ Dept. International
Relations
Email: kimy@ceu.edu
Office: Vigyazo Ferenc utca 2, 2nd fl. Rm 211
Office Hours: Tuesday 1:00 – 3:00
Uwe Puetter, Professor (Winter Term/ 2016)
School of Public Policy, Central European University
Email: puetteru@ceu.hu
Web: http://people.ceu.hu/uwe_puetter
Office: October 6 u. 7, 3rd floor, Office 339
Course objectives
This class aims at preparing students for independent and advanced-level research in
the field of European integration studies. It targets students who already have a
good knowledge of EU policy-making both at an empirical and theoretical level. The
course provides access to core debates in European integration studies by critically
reviewing existing research in the light of new empirical findings. The course pays
particular attention to the challenges of combining the theoretical frameworks and
methodological tools of different disciplines in EU studies, and to how concepts and
research perspectives developed mainly in the pre-enlargement context can be
applied to the politics and policies of the EU-28 and/or require modification. In this
the class aims at helping students to advance their own conceptual and empirical
research frameworks and to situate themselves and their respective research
projects in the wider disciplines of European integration studies.
The course develops core analytical and theoretical skills and specifically aims at
preparing students for a career in academia and/or in leadership positions in policymaking related to European affairs. The course is based on an interactive teaching
methodology targeted at a small group seminar. Students obtain responsibility for
acting as lead speakers on specific topics and practice peer review. To this end the
course applies a number of formats which are characteristic of the future academic
and/or professional environment of students such as panel discussion,
presenter/discussant model, short lecture format, policy briefings and round table
discussions.
Learning outcomes
At the outcome of this course students will have the ability to critically apply core
theories and research perspectives in European integration theory to different
empirical contexts in an innovative manner, thus contributing both to empirical and
theoretical innovation. They will have developed an understanding of core
conceptual, methodological as well as empirical challenges with regard to
researching a range of different issues in contemporary EU governance and policy.
Moreover, students will be able to apply a number of core academic practices and
will have developed oral and written presentation skills which are required for
communicating the results of complex and advanced-level studies to different
audiences (academic, professional expert setting, interested public).
This course will contribute to the development of a new generation of researchers
with a strong analytical potential, thus helping innovation in the field of European
integration studies both in research and teaching. Those students aiming for a career
in EU policy practice will be able to both produce and make use of complex
theoretical and empirical studies in applied and practical contexts.
Teaching schedule
Tuesdays: 3:30- 5:10pm
Session format
Each session is fully based on students’ presentation and discussions. All participants
are required to read core readings.
Course requirements
Final Paper 50 % (3000 words, Deadline 15th December)
Presentations 30 %
Participation and discussion 20%
Readings for this class
All readings for this course are available through the CEU library. Most readings are
available in electronic format. This includes book chapters. You can access the
library’s e-book holding by visiting the relevant bibliographic entry of the publication
in the main library catalogue. You need to be on campus or connect via VPN to the
CEU network. Do note that most publications by Oxford University Press are
available via the www.oxfordscholarship.com database, which is part of the CEU
library connection. Students can also access most readings via the course website
(see below).
Access to the course website on CEU e-learning
For accessing the course website on the CEU e-learning platform you will need an
enrolment key which you can request from the course director. The direct link to the
course website is
http://ceulearning.ceu.hu/course/view.php?id=3703
Literature
As a PhD course, this class builds on active participation and the research interests of
its members. The selection of readings is not limited to the suggestions which appear
in the course outline. The reading list will be discussed and revised in regular
intervals. Required readings are posted on the e-learning platform
(http://ceulearning.ceu.hu/). Please check it each time before you prepare for
individual classes!
Materials will be made available through the e-learning platform or can be found
through the online resources of the CEU library. In order to facilitate access to
frequently used hardcopies of books from the CEU library a special book collection
has been created for this class in the CEU library.
There are no compulsory textbooks for this class as we deal with a wide range of
research topics and participants are expected to have previously studied the EU
policy-making context. Familiarity with core issues in European integration research,
concepts and theories as well as the EU’s institutional architecture is required. Five
reference textbooks have been selected below, each representing state-of-the art
knowledge in a specific area of EU integration studies. A list of the most commonly
cited journals is provided as well. Please check them out regularly.
Reference post-graduate textbooks (do note the year of publication)
Hix, S., Høyland, B., The political system of the European Union, (Houndmills,
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), 2011.
Peterson, J., Shackleton, M. (eds.), The institutions of the European Union, (Oxford:
Oxford University Press), 2012.
Wiener, A. and T. Diez, European integration theory, (Oxford: Oxford University
Press), 2009.
Craig, P. and De Búrca, G., European Union Law: Texts, Cases and Materials, (Oxford:
Oxford University Press), 2011.
Reference advanced undergraduate textbooks (do note the year of publication)
Cini, M. and Pérez-Solórzano Borragán, N. (eds.), European Union Politics, (Oxford:
Oxford University Press), 2013.
Zimmermann, H./ Dür, A. (eds.), Key controversies in European integration,
(Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), 2012.
Journals (all available at CEU)
Comparative European Politics
European Political Science Review
European Union Politics
Journal of Common Market Studies
Journal of European Integration
Journal of European Public Policy
European Law Journal
European Law Review
Common Market Law Review
1 Introduction and course overview. From the European Community to the
European Union
Core readings
J.T.S. Keeler (2005) Mapping EU Studies: The Evolution from Boutique to Boom Field
1960-2001. Journal of Common Market Studies 43(3), 551-582.
J. McCormick (2005) Understanding the European Union. A Concise
Introduction (Palgrave), 57-86.
Additional readings
M. Burgess (2006) Federalism and the European Union: The building of Europe 19502000 (Routledge).
T. Judt (2005) Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945 (Penguin)
T. Padoa-Schioppa (2000) The road to Monetary Union in Europe: The emperor, the
kings, the genies. (Oxford: OUP).
Stanley Hoffmann. 1966. “Obstinate or Obsolete? The Fate of the Nation State
and the Case of Western Europe.” Daedalus 95: 892-908.
S. Bulmer (2009) ‘Institutional and Policy Analysis in the European Union: From the
Treaty of Rome to the Present’, in D. Phinnemore and A. Warleigh-Lack (eds)
Reflections on European Integration: 50 Years of the Treaty of Rome (Palgrave).
G. Soros (2012) The Tragedy of the European Union and How to Resolve It
New York Review of Books, 27 September.
G. Soros and G.P. Schmitz (2014) The Future of Europe: An Interview with George
Soros. New York Review of Books. 24 April.
2 History: From Maastricht to The Lisbon Treaty and beyond. Promise and crisis of
the EU
Core readings
A. Moravcsik and K. Nicolaides (1999) Explaining the Treaty of Amsterdam: Interests,
Influences, Institutions. Journal of Common Market Studies, 37, 59-85.
S. Bulmer and W. Paterson (2013) Germany as the EU’s reluctant hegemon? Of
Economic strength and political constraints. Journal of European Public Policy,
20(10), 1387-405.
Additional readings
S. Hix (2008) What’s wrong with the European Union and How to fix it (Polity).
T. Christiansen and C. Reh (2009) Constitutionalizing the European Union (Palgrave)
3 Theories 1 – European integration
Core readings
D. Ioannou, P. Leblond, A Niemann (2015) European integration and the crisis:
practice and theory. Journal of European Public Policy, 22(2), 155-176.
K. Mitchell (2014) Does European identification increase support for further
economic integration? Journal of European Integration, 36(6), 601-618.
Additional readings
S. Hix (1994) The Study of the European Community: The Challenge to Comparative
Politics. West European Politics, 17, 1-30.
R. Adler-Nissen, K. Kropp (2015) A sociology of knowledge approach to European
integration: Four Analytical Principles. Journal of European Integration, 37(@), 155173.
P. Pierson (1996) The path to European integration: a historical institutionalist
analysis. Comparative Political Studies, 29(2), 123-63.
P. Drulak, R. Drulakova (2014) The richness of the liberal tradition in international
relations: Karl Deutsch on political community and the European integration.
International Relations, 28(3), 333-349.
J. Bolstad (2015) Dynamics of European integration: Public Opinion in the Core and
the Periphery. European Union Politics, 16(1), 23-44.
H. Wallace (2010) ‘An institutional anatomy and five policy modes’, in H Wallace,
M.A. Pollack, and A.R. Young (eds) Policy-making in the European Union (Oxford:
OUP).
4 Theories 2 – EU governance
Core readings
B. Kohler-Koch and B. Ritterberger (2006) The governance turn in EU Studies. Journal
of Common Market Studies, 44, 27-49.
J. Langbein (2014) European Union Governance towards the Eastern
Neighbourhood: Transcending or Redrawing Europe's East-West Divide? Journal of
Common Market Studies. 52(1), 157-174.
Additional readings
L. Hooghe and G. Marks (2004) Multi-level Governance and European Integration
(Rowman and Littlefield)
Ian Bache and Matthew Flinders eds. 2004. Multi-Level Governance. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks. 2001. Multilevel Governance and European
Integration. Rowman and Littlefield.
I. Manners (2007) ‘Another Europe is possible’, in K. E. Jorgensen, M. Pollack and B.
Rosamond (eds) Handbook of European Union Politics (SAGE).
5 Institutions and governance 1
Institutional architecture and institutional change
(The European Commission/ The European Council and the Council of Ministers)
Core readings
D. Dinan, (2014) Governance and Institutions: The Unrelenting Rise of the European
Parliament. Journal of Common Market Studies, 52, 109-124.
B. Rosamond (2015) Performing Theory/theorizing performance in emergent
supranational governance: The ‘live’ knowledge archive of European integration and
the early European Commission. Journal of European Integration, 37(2), 175-191.
Additional readings
M. Parízek, M.O. Hosli, B. Plechanovová (2015) Avoiding Paralysis: The Eastern
Enlargement and the Council of the European Union. Journal of European
Integration, 37(6), 649-665.
F.M. Häge (2007) Committee decision-making in the Council of the European Union.
European Union Politics, 8(3), 299-328.
J. Golub (2012) How the European Union does not work: National bargaining success
in the Council of Ministers’. Journal of Common Market Studies, 45(1), 45-66.
J. Peterson (2008) Enlargement, reform, and the European Commission: weathering
a perfect storm? Journal of European Public Policy, 15(5), 761-80.
M. Tsakatika (2005) The European Commission between Continuity and Change.
Journal of Common Market Studies, 43(1), 193-220.
Pollack, Mark A. 1997. “Delegation, Agency, and Agenda-Setting in the European
Community.” International Organization 51(1): 99-134 (Winter).
Schmidt, Susanne. 2000. “Only an Agenda Setter? The European Commission’s
Power over the Council of Ministers.” European Union Politics 1(1): 37-61
Mattila, Mikko and Jan-Erik Lane. 2001. “Why Unanimity in the Council? A Roll Call
Analysis of Council Voting.” European Union Politics 2(1): 31-52.
Schure, Paul and Amy Verdun. 2008. “Legislative Bargaining in the European Union:
The Divide between Large and Small Member States.” European Union Politics 9(4),
459-486.
J. Tallberg (2004) The Power of the Presidency: Brokerage, Efficiency and Distribution
in EU Negotiations. Journal of Common Market Studies 42(5), 999-1022.
6 Institutions and governance 2
Institutional architecture and institutional change
(The European Parliament/ The Eurogroup/ The European Central Bank)
Core readings
T. Winzen (2015) Parliamentary co-evolution: national parliamentary reactions to
the empowerment of the European Parliament. Journal of European Public Policy,
22(1), 75-93.
Additional readings
Hix, Simon, Abdul Noury, and Gérard Roland. 2006. “Dimensions of Politics in the
European Parliament.” American Journal of Political Science 50(2): 494- 511.
Hausemer, Pierre (2006) Participation and Political Competition in Committee Report
Allocation: Under What Conditions Do MEPs Represent Their Constituents?
European Union Politics 7(4): 505-530.
M. Egan (2012) ‘Single Market’, in E. Jones, A. Menon, S. Weatherhill (eds) Oxford
Handbook of the European Union (Oxford: OUP).
J. Peterson (2004) ‘Policy networks’, in A. Wiener and T. Diez (eds) European
Integration Theory (Oxford: OUP).
B. Kohler-Koch (2009) The three worlds of European civil society – What role for civil
society for what kind of Europe? Policy and Society, 28(1) 47-57.
7 Reading Week
8 Policies and policy-making in the EU: The Environment
Core readings
Puetter, U. (2012), 'Europe's deliberative intergovernmentalism - the role of the
Council and European Council in EU economic governance', Journal of European
Public Policy, 19 (2), 161-178.
J. Vogler (2005) The European contribution to global environmental governance.
International Affairs, 81(4), 835-49.
Additional readings
M. Schreurs and Y. Tiberghien (2007) Multilevel reinforcement: explaining European
Union Leadership in Cimate Change Mitigation. Global Environmental Politics, 7(4),
113-37.
S. Oberthür, Sebastian, F. Rabitz, Florian (2014) On the EU's performance and
leadership in global environmental governance: the case of the Nagoya Protocol.
Journal of European Public Policy. 21(1), 39-57.
D. Belis, S. Schunz (2013) China and the European Union: Emerging Partners in
Global Climate Governance? Environmental Practice, 15(3), 190-200.
A Carpenter (2012) The Role of the European Union as a Global Player in
Environmental Governance. Journal of Contemporary European Research, 8(2), 167172.
9 Policies 2: Enlargement
Should Ukraine and Turkey become an EU member? How far to the East should the
EU go?
Core readings
Hobolt, Sara B. (2014) Ever closer or ever wider? Public attitudes towards further
enlargement and integration in the European Union. Journal of European Public
Policy. 21(5), 664-680.
J. O’Brennan (2014) On the Slow Train to Nowhere?' The European Union,
'Enlargement Fatigue' and the Western Balkans. European Foreign Affairs Review.
19, 221-241.
Additional readings
R.D. Kelemen, A. Menon, J. Slapin (2014) Wider and deeper? Enlargement and
integration in the European Union. Journal of European Public Policy. 21(5), 647663.
M. Carbone (2007) The European Union and International Development: The Politics
of Foreign Aid (Routledge)
F. Soderbaum and P. Stalgren (eds) (2009) The European Union and the Global South
(Lynne Rienner).
10 Issues 1: Democratic Deficit and Populisms
Core readings
K. Nicolaidis, R. Youngs (2014) Europe's democracy trilemma. International Affairs,
90(6), 1403-1419.
A. Hurrelmann (2014) Democracy beyond the State: Insights from the European
Union. Political Science Quarterly, 129(1), 87-105.
H. Bang, M. Jensen, P. Nedergaard, (2015) ‘We the People’ versus ‘We the Heads of
States’: the debate on the democratic deficit of the European Union. Policy Studies,
36(2), 196-216.
Additional readings
W. Outhwaite (2014) The future of European democracy. European Journal of Social
Theory. 17(3), 326-342.
M. Goodhart (2007) Europe’s Democratic Deficits through the Looking Glass: The
European Union as a Challenge for Democracy, Perspectives on Politics 5(3): 567-584.
V. Schmidt (2005) Democracy in Europe: The Impact of European Integration.
Perspectives on Politics 3(4): 761-779.
M., Bartl (2015) The Way We Do Europe: Subsidiarity and the Substantive
Democratic Deficit. European Law Journal, 21(1), 23-43.
D. Innerarity (2014) What kind of deficit?: Problems of legitimacy in the European
Union. European Journal of Social Theory. 17(3), 307-325.
11 Issues 2: Europe in Crisis? The EU and the Eurozone
Core readings
T. Kuhn and F. Stoeckl (2014) When European integration becomes costly: The Euro
crisis and public support for European economic governance. Journal of European
Public Policy.
D. Hodson (2014) Eurozone Governance: Recovery, Reticence and Reform.
Journal of Common Market Studies. 52, 186-201.
Additional readings
E. Nowotny (2014) The Future of European Monetary Integration. Atlantic Economic
Conference, 42, 229-242.
C. Holmes (2014) ‘Whatever it takes’: Polanyian perspectives on the Eurozone crisis
and the gold standard. Economy and Society, 43(4), 582-602.
12 Academic practice seminar: Textbooks in European Studies
Presenters will review of major textbook used as a teaching resource in degree
programs focusing on EU studies. What are core textbooks suitable for either the BA
and MA level or both? What are key book series and publishers relevant to the field?
What other sources will you use for teaching (official, unofficial, academic, nonacademic, media)?
The syllabus for the winter term to be followed in the next page: