Předmět European Union Public Policy (BPV_EUPP)

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Despite definitive debates about whether the European Union (EU) can be equated with the characteristics of a fully fledged state, it is certainly beyond the dispute that the EU has acquired for itself at least the policy making attributes of a modern state across an increasingly wide range of policy sectors. As a result it has also gained a considerable degree of power in order to set policy agendas, and formulate, implement and enforce policy decisions.After a brief introduction to the EU institutions and the EU public policy process this course will conceptualise the EU public policy process into four sections – agenda setting, policy formulation, policy decision-making and policy implementation. In examining these four parts of the policy process different models of analysis will be employed at different levels within the EU and at different stages of the policy process.The final section of the course will examine two EU public policy areas, utilising them as case studies within the conceptual frameworks identified in the first part of the course.

Osnova

Structure of the course:The course will be taught through a series of lectures and workshops. There will be 12 lectures and 2 workshops.Lecture programme:PLEASE NOTE: 80% attendance at lectures (i.e. at least 10) is a requirement to pass this course (see Course Assessment below)The powerpoint presentations for each lecture will be placed on the Masaryk University Information System prior to each lecture Lecture 1. The development of the European Union and the development of E.U. public policyLecture 2. The basis of, and principles underpinning, E.U. public policy: harmonisation, mutual recognition and convergence?Lecture 3. Agenda-setting 1: role and purpose, E.U. political process, and the nature of agendasLecture 4. Agenda-setting 2: fragmentation and the absence of effective policy co-ordinationLecture 5. Policy formulation 1: the policy communities and policy networks modelLecture 6. Policy formulation 2: policy-making uncertainty, expertise and epistemic communities, multiple policy-making ‘venues’Lecture 7. Policy decision-making: institutional analysisLecture 8. Policy implementation: implementation as a complex and multifaceted process, inter-organisational behaviour and implementation analysis, characterising implementation in the E.U.Lecture 9. A case study of the E.U. policy process: Education policyLecture 10. A further case study of the E.U. policy process: Environmental policyLecture 11. The ‘Europeanisation’ or ‘Regionalisation’ of public policyWorkshop programme:PLEASE NOTE:a) 100% attendance at the 2 workshops is a requirement to pass this course (see Course Assessment below)b) Students will be expected to have read for each workshop and participate. Indicative readings are given below for each workshop Workshop 1:This will consist of student participation and discussion groupsQuestion: Is harmonisation, mutual recognition or convergence the best principle upon which European Union Public Policy should be based? Provide reasons and evidence for your preference.Readings:Borros, S. and Greve, B. (2004) The Open Method of Co-ordination in the European Union, special issue of Journal of European Public Policy, 11:2 (various articles of interest)Jepsen, M. and Pascual, A.S. (2005) ‘The European Social Model: an exercise in deconstruction’, Journal of European Social Policy, 15(3), pp.231-245.Roberts, I. and Springer, B. Social Policy in the European Union: Between Harmonisation and National Autonomy, Boulder, Lynne Reiner, 2001.Room, G. (2007) ‘Challenges facing the E.U.: Scope for a coherent response’, European Societies, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp.229-244.Sinn, H-W and Ochel, W (2003) ‘Social Union, convergence and migration’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 41, pp.869-96.Threlfall, M. (2003) ‘European social integration: harmonization, convergence and the single social area’, Journal of European Social Policy, 13, pp.121-140.Wallace, H. Wallace, W. and Pollack, M. A. Policy Making in the European Union (5th edition), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005. Workshop 2: This will consist of student participation and discussion groups around discussion, and direction in respect of the assessment essay.Readings:Beland, D. (2009) ‘Ideas, institutions, and policy change’, Journal of European Public Policy, Vol.16, no.5, pp.701-718Hix, S. The Political System of the European Union, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 2005.Jepsen, M. and Pascual, A.S. (2005) ‘The European Social Model: an exercise in deconstruction’, Journal of European Social Policy, 15(3), pp.231-245.Room, G. (2007) ‘Challenges facing the E.U.: Scope for a coherent response’, European Societies, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp.229-244.Rosamond, B. Theories Of European Integration, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2000.Sinn, H-W and Ochel, W (2003) ‘Social Union, convergence and migration’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 41, pp.869-96.Threlfall, M. (2003) ‘European social integration: harmonization, convergence and the single social area’, Journal of European Social Policy, 13, pp.121-140.Wallace, H. Wallace, W. and Pollack, M. A. Policy Making in the European Union (5th edition), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005.

Literatura

TextsStudents are referred to a range of journal, book and internet texts. Some of the books and journals are held in the Faculty of Social Studies library.Additional texts will be given within the lectures, and included in the power point presentations for lectures that will be placed on the University Information System prior to each lecture.BooksFeatherstone, K. and Radaelli, C. (eds.) The Politics of Europeanization, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003. (especially the Introduction and the chapter by D. Wincott).Gallie, D. (ed.) Resisting marginalisation: Unemployment experience and social policy in the EU, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004.Geyer, R. Exploring European Social Policy, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2000.Hantrais, L. Social Policy in the EU, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 2000 (second edition) or 2007 (third edition).Hix, S. The Political System of the European Union, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 2005.Jordan, A. and Liefferink, D. (eds.) Environmental Policy in Europe: The Europeanization of National Environmental Policy, London, Routledge, 2004.Kleinman, M. A European Welfare State: European Union Social Policy in context, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2002.McCormick, J. Understanding the European Union (Third edition), Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2005.Nugent, N. The Government and Politics of the European Union, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.Richardson, J. European Union. Power and policy-making (Third edition), Oxford, Routledge, 2006. (alternatively, Second edition, 2001).Roberts, I. and Springer, B. Social Policy in the European Union: Between Harmonisation and National Autonomy, Boulder, Lynne Reiner, 2001.Rosamond, B. Theories Of European Integration, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2000.Salais, R. and Villeneuve, R. (eds.) Europe and the politics of capabilities, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2004.Schimmelfennig, F. and Sedelmeier, U. (eds.) The Europeanisation of Central and Eastern Europe. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 2005.Wallace, H. Wallace, W. and Pollack, M. A. Policy Making in the European Union (5th edition), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005.Journal articlesBeland, D. (2009) ‘Ideas, institutions, and policy change’, Journal of European Public Policy, Vol.16, no.5, pp.701-718.Borros, S. and Greve, B. (2004) The Open Method of Co-ordination in the European Union, special issue of Journal of European Public Policy, 11:2 (various articles of interest).Delreux, T. ‘The E.U. negotiates multilateral environmental agreements: explaining the agent’s discretion’, Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 16, No.5, pp.719-737.Farrell, H. and Heritier, A. (2005) ‘A Rationalist-Institutionalist Explanation of Endogenous Regional Integration’, Journal of European Public Policy, 12/2: pp.273-90.Farrell, D. M. and Scully, R. (2010) ‘The European parliament: one parliament, several modes of political representation on the ground?’, Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 17, no.1, pp.36-54.Guillen, A. and Palier, B. (2004) ‘Does Europe matter? Accession to EU and social policy developments in recent and new member states’, Journal of European Social Policy, 14:3, pp.203-209, and other articles in this special issue.Jepsen, M. and Pascual, A.S. (2005) ‘The European Social Model: an exercise in deconstruction’, Journal of European Social Policy, 15(3), pp.231-245.Kelemen, R. D. (2010) ‘Globalising European Union environment policy’, Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 17, no.3, pp.335-349.Liefferink, D. Arts, B. Kamstra, J. Ooijevaar, J. (2009) ‘Leaders and laggards in environmental policy: a quantitative analysis of domestic policy outputs’, Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 16, No.5, pp.677-700.Mosher, J. and Trubek, D. (2003) ‘Alternative approaches to governance in the EU: EU Social Policy and the European Employment Strategy’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 4:1, pp.63-88.Neilson, J. (1998) ‘Equal opportunities for women in the European Union: success or failure?’, Journal of European Social Policy, 8, pp.64-79.Room, G. (2007) ‘Challenges facing the E.U.: Scope for a coherent response’, European Societies, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp.229-244.Sinn, H-W and Ochel, W (2003) ‘Social Union, convergence and migration’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 41, pp.869-96.Threlfall, M. (2003) ‘European social integration: harmonization, convergence and the single social area’, Journal of European Social Policy, 13, pp.121-140.Van Der Heijden, Hein-Anton. "Multi-level Environmentalism and the European Union: The Case of Trans-European Transport Networks." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30 (2006): 23-37.Van der Mei (2003) ‘Freedom of movement for the unemployed and co-ordination of unemployment benefit schemes’, European Journal of Social Security, 5:3, pp.214-229.Varela, D. (2009) ‚Just a Lobbyist? The European Parliament and the Consultation Procedure‘, European Union Politics, Vol.10, No.1, pp.7-34.Vobruba, G. (2003) ‘The enlargement crisis of the European Union: limits of the dialectics of integration and expansion’, Journal of European Social Policy, 13 (1), pp.35-48, and responses by M. Bach and M. Rhodes.Wolf, Winifried. "Transport Policy in the European Union. Debatte14 (2006): 167-83.

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doc. JUDr. Ivan Malý, CSc.

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prof. John Frederick Wilton