EVS154 Political Issues and Social Policy in the European Union

Fakulta sociálních studií
podzim 2008
Rozsah
1/1/0. 7 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
John Frederick Wilton, B.A. (Hons), M. Soc Sc, Ph.D. (přednášející), PhDr. Petr Suchý, Ph.D. (zástupce)
Garance
PhDr. Petr Suchý, Ph.D.
Katedra mezinárodních vztahů a evropských studií – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: Olga Cídlová, DiS.
Rozvrh
St 18:00–19:30 P22
Předpoklady
EVS104 Evropská integrace || MVE102 Evropská integrace || MVZ101 Úvod do mezinárodních vztahů
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Cíle předmětu
Aims An identification and examination of key political issues in a range of social policy areas within the European Union (EU). Employing relevant concepts, models and theories, these issues will be addressed within the context of EU processes of harmonisation, mutual recognition, convergence and the overall on-going integration project. Objectives Initially, a range of theoretical models and concepts relating to the overall development of the EU, and the process of integration, will be examined against the background of the growth in importance of social policy areas in the EU project. Within that framework and process the course will then proceed to address political issues relating to specific areas of social policy, including those concerning the environment, employment and unemployment, education, the ‘demographic time-bomb’, gender, and immigration and asylum policy. The course will conclude by examining political issues relating to social policy within the EU regional policy arena, and by examining social policy within the context of the politics of the future of the EU. Students will gain information on developments of EU social policy, will improve their analytical and writing skills related to these issues.
Osnova
  • 1. Introduction to the course 2. The growth in importance of social policy in the European Union project 3. The E.U. integration project and the politics of social policy: theoretical perspectives – ‘spillover‘, functionalism, neo-functionalism, federalism. 4. Harmonisation, mutual recognition, and the europeanisation of social policy. 5. READING AND SEMINAR PREPARATION WEEK (no lecture) 6. Workshop 1 (see page 2) 7. Environment policy + Workshop 2 (see page 3) 8. Employment and unemployment policy 9. Education and training policy + Seminar 1 (see page 3) 10. Immigration, mobility and asylum policy + Seminar 2 (see page 4) 11. The ‘gender dimension’ and E.U. social policy + Seminar 3 (see page 4) 12. The ‘demographic time bomb’ + Seminar 4 (see page 5) 13. Regions and the E.U. policy process + Seminar 5 (a) and (b) (see pages 5 and 6)
Literatura
  • Roberts, I. and Springer, B. Social Policy in the European Union: Between Harmonisation and National Autonomy, Boulder, Lynne Reiner, 2001.
  • Hantrais, L. Social Policy in the EU, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 2007 (Third edition) (or Second edition, 2000).
  • Geyer, R. Exploring European Social Policy, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2000.
  • Kleinman, M. A European Welfare State: European Union Social Policy in context, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2002.
  • Borros, S. and Greve, B. (2004) The Open Method of Co-ordination in the European Union, special issue of Journal of European Public Policy.
  • McCormick, J. Understanding the European Union (Third Edition), Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2005.
Metody hodnocení
Course Assessment a) Attendance: 80% attendance at lectures (at least 8) and at the seminars/workshops (at least 6) is a requirement to pass this course. b) Seminar Presentation: All students will be required to participate in a verbal seminar presentation in English as a requirement to pass the course. The seminar presentation can be made individually or as part of a group presentation. c) Essay (maximum 2000 words/6 sides of A4 paper) Deadline: Monday 12 January 2009. To be submitted by email or through the Masaryk University Information System Students will be required to submit an essay in answer to one of the questions shown below. The essay must be of a maximum of 2,000 words/6 sides of A4 paper, be typewritten, fully properly referenced, and include a full bibliography. (i) In at least two E.U. social policy areas compare and contrast empirically and theoretically the political impact within the E.U. integration project of E.U. social policy development. (ii) Can European Union social policy be described politically as both Europeanised and regionalised? Provide empirical examples of E.U. social policy to justify your arguments
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
PLEASE NOTE: a) 80% attendance at workshops and seminars (i.e. at least 6) is a requirement to pass the course (see Course Assessment on page 7) b) All students will be required to participate in a verbal seminar presentation in English as a requirement to pass the course. The seminar presentation can be made individually or as part of a group presentation. The verbal seminar presentation should be on one of the seminar questions listed below in the Seminar programme. Presentations can be on topics in the Seminar programme that relate to the student’s choice of essay question. Discussion and feedback in the seminar, and in later consultations with the tutor (if requested by students), will assist in the production of the assessment essay. Allocation of seminar presentation topics, on a voluntary basis, will commence from week 2 of the course (08.10.08). Seminars and presentations will commence from week 7 (12.11.08), following the lecture. The 5 seminar sessions will then take place from 12.11.08 until 10.12.08, immediately after the lectures. Students will be expected to have read for each workshop and seminar, and participate. Indicative readings are given below for each seminar and workshop Workshop 1: This will consist of student participation and discussion groups, and will take place on 22.10.08 22.10.08 Question: Are political, social or economic concerns and factors of most importance for the success of the E.U. integration project? How important in that process is the ‘politics of social policy’?
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