DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE:
PSC 4000 EUROPEAN POLITICS
Instructor: Marcus Kreuzer
Office Hours: M/F 3-4 or by appointment
E-mail: mkreuzer@email.vill.edu
Phone: 519 5300 Office: SAC - Rm 257
Course Description: European democracies differ, at times dramatically, from their American
counterpart in how their constitutional arrangements translate of societal interests into public policies, how
socio-economic divisions structure party politics and how welfare arrangements and industrial relations
shape the functioning of markets. To understand these differences, this course introduces you to the
political institutions, patterns of party politics and political economies found across European democracies.
It also analyzes how the European integration and globalization processes have been transforming the
longstanding domestic patterns of politics. Overall, the course will provide you not only with a firm
grounding in the nuts and bolts of European politics but also requires to think how the differences across
European democracies translates into fundamentally different political outcomes.
Academic Integrity Notice: Fair and effective education requires academic honesty and any violation
is a very serious matter. Villanova's rules concerning academic integrity are spelled out in the Enchiridion
(http://davinci.vill.edu/enchiridion/). Note especially the strict prohibition against plagiarism, i.e.
submitting as your own or without proper attribution work done wholly or in party by another person.
Plagiarism includes unauthorized collaboration on course assignments. Unless otherwise indicated, all
assignments in this course are individual and no collaboration with any person is permitted. Any academic
integrity violation will be punished by a grade penalty up to automatic course failure and will without
exception be reported to the student's dean for disciplinary action.
Grading:
1) Overall Class Participation
25%
2) Three Exams (25% each)
75%
Readings: The readings average around 70 –90 pages per week. They are neither breezy textbook
readings with cartoons and pictures nor are they arcane, jargon ridden academic treatises. They are written
for general, intellectually engaged audience and as such require careful reading.

Arend Lijphart. 1999. Patterns of Democracy (New Haven: Yale) (Ordered by Bookstore)

Russell Dalton. 2002. Citizen Politics (New York: Seven Bridges Press) (Ordered by
Bookstore)
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- Contemporary Copyright Law tremendously complicates what and how readings can be
made available to students. So please bear with the following instructions. a) Most readings
are available at Falvey either as traditional hardcopies (to be read in the reserve reading
room or photocopied) and/or through Electronic Reserve (Instructions for accessing
Electronic Reserve, please see: http://www.library.villanova.edu/html2/howdoi/EReserves.htm) b) Some readings you have to directly download from electronic sites to
which our library subscribes. Those readings are identified with an * and contain the
relevant URL . c) All the readings from the Economist (identified by **) are available only
as hardcopy or can be accessed through Lexis-Lexis. In other words, they are not available
as electronic reserve.
I. INSTITUTIONS AND PATTERNS OF DEMOCRACY
Wk 1
Wk 2
Wk 3
Jan. 26
Introduction
Aug. 28
Patterns of Democracy [Discussion Class]
Readings: Arend Lijphart. 1999. Patterns of Democracy (New Haven: Yale): 120, 31-41
Aug. 30
No Class
Sept. 2.
Labor Day
Sept. 4
Electoral Institutions and Party Systems
Readings: Russell Dalton. 2002. Citizen Politics (Third Edition) (New York:
Seven Bridges Press): 125-30.
- Michael Gallagher et al. 1995. Representative Government in Modern
Europe (New York: McGraw-Hill), pp. 151-62, 169-72.
- Arend Lijphart. 1999. Patterns of Democracy (New Haven: Yale): 6269, 74-77, 143-70.
- Karl Popper, "The Open Society and Its Enemies Revisited,"
Economist April. 23, 1988, pp. 19-22
Sept. 6
Governing Institutions
Reading: Lijphart (1999): 185-91, 216-31
- Malcom Shaw. 1998. “Legislative Committees,” in World
Encyclopedia of Parliaments and Legislatures George Kurian ed.
(Washington: Congressional Quarterly): 786-93.
Sept. 9
cont.
Readings: Arend Lijphart, 1999. Patterns of Democracy (New Haven: Yale):
116-24, 127-29, 200-15.
Sept. 11 Patterns of Party Organization [Discussion Class]
Readings: David Mayhew. 1974. Congress. The Electoral Connection (New
Haven: Yale University Press): 13-65.
- Bruce Cain, John Ferejohn and Morris Fiorina. 1987. The Personal
Vote. Constituency Service and Electoral Independence (Cambridge:
Harvard University Press): 1-4, 9-12.
- Morris Fiorina. 1980. “The Decline of Collective Responsibility in
American Politics,” Daedalus vol. 109 (Summer): 25-44
Sept. 13 Electoral Institutions and Party Organization
Readings: Cain, Ferejohn et al. Personal Vote (1987): 197-229.
- Marcus Kreuzer. 2000. “Electoral Mechanisms and Electioneering
Incentives.” Party Politics 6/4: 487-504.
Wk 4
Sept. 16 Governing Institutions and Party Organization
Readings: Cain, Ferejohn et al. Personal Vote (1987) 12-19.
- Lawrence Longley and Reuven Hazan. “On the Uneasy, Delicate, yet
Necessary Relationships between Parliamentary Members and
Leaders,” In The Uneasy Relationship between Parliamentary
Members and Leaders Ibid (London: Frank Cass): 1-12.
- Bowler, Shaun. 2000. “Parties in Legislatures. Two Competing
Explanations,” In Parties without Partisans Russell Dalton and Martin
Wattenberg eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000): 157-79.
Sept. 18 European Governing Institution
Readings: Mike Gallagher et al. 1995. Representative Government in Modern
Europe (NY; McGraw Hill): 78-104
Sept. 20 cont.
Readings: **Economist “Learning to Love the EU” (May 31, 1997)
- **Economist “ The Founding Fathers, Maybe” (Feb. 23, 2002)
- Thomas Risse. 2001. “A European Identity ? Europeanization and the
Evolution of Nation-State Identities, “ In Transforming Europe Maria
Green Cowles, James Caporaso and Thomas Risse eds. (Ithaca: Cornell
University Press) 203-213.
II. PARTY POLITICS
Wk 5
Sept. 23 Introduction
Readings: Michael Gallagher et al. 1995. Representative Government in Modern
Europe (New York: McGraw-Hill), 209-26.
- Budge, Ian; Kenneth Newton et al “The Old Politics of Parties,” In
The Politics of the New Europe (London: Longman): 193-203
Sept. 25 cont.
Readings: Russell Dalton. 2002. Citizen Politics (Third Edition) (New York:
Seven Bridges Press): 97-119.
Sept. 27 Partisan Politics: Social Base
Readings: - Russell Dalton. 2002. Citizen Politics (Third Edition) (New York:
Seven Bridges Press): 131-34, 145-70.
Wk 6
Sept. 30 Partisan Politics: Organization of Actors
Readings: Richard Gunther and Larry Diamond. 2001. “Types and Functions of
Parties,” In Political Parties and Democracy Larry Diamond and
Richard Gunther, eds. (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press): 3-4,
7-22.
Oct. 2
Catch-All Politics: Social Base
Readings: - Russell Dalton. 2002. Citizen Politics (Third Edition) (New York:
Seven Bridges Press): 180-92.
- Seymour Martin Lipset. 2001. “The Americanization of the European
Left,” Diamond and Gunther (2001): 52-64.
Oct. 4:
Catch-All Politics: Organization of Actors
Readings: - Richard Gunther and Larry Diamond. 2001. “Types and Functions
of Parties,” In Political Parties and Democracy Larry Diamond and
Richard Gunther, eds. (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press): 2530.
- David Farrell and Paul Webb. 2000. “Political Parties as Campaign
Organizations” In Parties without Partisans Russell Dalton and Martin
Wattenberg eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000): 102-08
Wk 7
Oct. 7
Greens
Readings: - Russell Dalton. 2002. Citizen Politics (Third Edition) (New York:
Seven Bridges Press): 58-65.
- Budge, Ian; Kenneth Newton et al. “Environment and Peace: A New
Politics of Social Movements,” In The Politics of the New Europe
(London: Longman): 177-91 [skip sections on Eastern Europe]
- Dalton, Russell. 1994. The Green Rainbow (New Haven: Yale
University Press): 25-50.
Oct. 9
Domestic Causes
Readings: Russell Dalton. 2002. Citizen Politics (Third Edition) (New York:
Seven Bridges Press): 65-73
Oct. 10
cont.
Readings: Russell Dalton. 2002. Citizen Politics (Third Edition) (New York:
Seven Bridges Press): 77-94.
Wk 8
Oct. 14-20
Fall Recess
Wk 9
Oct. 21
Right-Wing Populism
Readings: Taggart, Paul. 1995. “New Populist Parties in Western Europe,” West
European Politics 18/1 (January) 34-51.
- Herbert Kitschelt and Anthony McGann. 1997. The Radical Right in
Western Europe (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press): 91-102,
121-35, 159-77.
Oct. 23
Domestic Causes
Readings: Herbert Kitschelt. 2002. “Popular Dissatisfaction with Democracy:
Populism and Party Systems, “ in Democracies and the Populist
Challenge Yves Meny and Yves Surel (eds. (Houndsmill: Palgrave):
179-196.
- Betz, H. G. “The New Politics of Resentment. Radical Right-Wing
Populist Parties in Western Europe,” Comparative Politics 25/4 (July):
420-23.
Oct. 25
International Causes
Readings: - *Gary Freeman. 1997. “Immigration as a Source of Political
Discontent and Frustration in Western Democracies, “ Studies in
Comparative International Development 32/3 (Fall): 42-64. [no URL
available but access through VUCat]
- Sara De Master and Michael Le Roy. 2000. “Xenophobia and the
European Union,” Comparative Politics 32/4 (July): 419-22, 425 (top)430 (middle)
III. POLITICAL ECONOMY
Wk 10
Oct. 28
Introduction [Discussion Class]
Readings: *Centesimus Annus (The Hundredth Year, John Paul II, 1991):
Sections 1-21, 30-43. [http://www.osjspm.org/cst/ca_el.htm]
Wk 11
Oct. 30
Liberal Welfare State
Readings: Robert Goodin et al. 1999. The Real World of Welfare Capitalism
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 41-45.
- Colin Crouch. 1999. Social Change in Western Europe (Oxford:
Oxford University Press) 366-67, 380-82, 368-73, Appendix 13.1
[Note: read pages in this sequence even though are out of order]
Nov. 1:
Social-Democratic Welfare State
Readings: Robert Goodin et al. 1999. The Real World of Welfare Capitalism
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 45-51.
- Colin Crouch. 1999. Social Change in Western Europe (Oxford: Oxford
University Press) 382-84
Nov. 4
Conservative Welfare State
Readings: Robert Goodin et al. 1999. The Real World of Welfare Capitalism
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 51-55.
- Colin Crouch. 1999. Social Change in Western Europe (Oxford:
Oxford University Press) 384-85.
Nov. 6/8 TAB
Wk 12
Wk 13
Nov. 11
Labor Markets [Discussion Section]
Readings: *Laborem Exercens” (On Human Work, John Paul II, 1981): Sections
1-15 [http://www.osjspm.org/cst/le_el.htm]
- Robert Kuttner. 1996. Everything for Sale (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press): 68-72.
Nov. 13
Labor Market Policies:
Readings: Gallie, Duncan and Serge Paugam. 2000. “The Experience of
Unemployment in Europe,” In Welfare Regimes and the Experience of
Unemployment in Europe Gallie and Paugam (Oxford: Oxford
University Press): 1-15.
Nov. 15
Industrial Relations:
Readings: Michael Gallagher et al. 1995. Representative Government in Modern
Europe (New York: McGraw-Hill), 359-77.
- Arend Lijphart. 2000. Patterns of Democracy (New Haven: Yale
University Press) 171-85
Nov. 18
Globalization
Readings: Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw. 1998. Commanding Heights
(New York Touchstone): 1-27, 107-20, 133-38, 379-98.
-** The Economist: "School Brief: Trade Wind", November. 8, 1997.
- **The Economist “School Brief: Delivering the Goods”, November
16, 1999
- **The Economist “School Brief: Worldbeater Inc.”, November 22,
1999
Nov. 20
European Economic Integration
Readings: Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw. 1998. Commanding Heights
(New York Touchstone): 309-337
- Rey Koslowski. 1998. “European Union Migration Regimes,’ In
Challenge to the Nation State Christian Joppke, ed. (Oxford: Oxford
University Press): 153-55, 160-180.
Nov. 22
Wk 14 Nov. 25
: Economic Integration III: Monetary Integration:
Readings: John Pinder. 2001. The European Union (Oxford: Oxford University
Press: 60-72.
- Elizabeth Pond. 1999. The Rebirth of Europe (Washington:
Brookings): 85-107
Payoffs of Euro-Globalization [Dicussion Section]
Readings: U.S. Catholic Conference Office “The Globalized Economy:
Challenges to the Church in the US”
- Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw. 1998. Commanding Heights
(New York Touchstone): 399-418
Nov. 27-29 Thanksgiving
Wk 15
Dec. 2
Welfare Consequences of Economic Integration
Readings: - Hans-Peter Martin and Harald Schuman. 1997. The Global Trap
(New York: Zed Books): 196-208.
- Thomas Friedman. 1999. The Lexus and the Olive Tree (New York:
Farrar, Straus & Giroux): 83-92.
- **The Economist. 2001. “Is Government Disappearing” (September
29): 14-18
Dec. 4
Labor Market Consequences
Readings: - Robert Kuttner. 1996. Everything for Sale (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press): 73-77.
- Hans-Peter Martin and Harald Schuman. 1997. The Global Trap
(New York: Zed Books): 96-138.
- **The Economist. 2001. “Profits over People.” (September 2001): 57.
- Richard Sennett. “The Corrosion of Character” (2 page excerpt)
Dec. 6
cont.
Wk 16 TAB