MVE444 European Integration: Supranational integration and domestic change

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2005
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Dr. Klaus Detterbeck (lecturer), doc. PhDr. Markéta Pitrová, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Pavel Pšeja, Ph.D.
Department of International Relations and European Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Olga Cídlová, DiS.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
The course will be open for advanced undergraduate students and for graduate students. Participants are expected to have a basic knowledge of the history and the institutions of the European Union.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Syllabus (in Czech)
  • Date (provisional) Time Content Suggested Reading 03.03.05 1 hour Introduction None 04.03.05 2 hours Theories of European Integration I Neofunctionalism/Supranationalism Intergovernmentalism Wiener & Dietz (eds., 2003): 45-116; Cini (ed., 2003): 80-127. 07.03.05 2 hours Theories of European Integration II The joint decision-making trap Multi-level governance Wiener & Dietz (eds., 2003): 45-116; Scharpf 2000 08.03.05 2 hours Europeanization and domestic change I Mechanisms of Europeanization Dimensions of the domestic impact Börzel & Risse 2000; Knill & Lehmkuhl 1999 09.03.05 2 hours Europeanization and domestic change II Reading The reaction of member states: convergence vs. Divergence German experiences Börzel 2002: 45-89 Börzel, Tanja (2002): States and regions in the European Union. Institutional adaptation in Germany and Spain, Cambridge. Börzel, Tanja & Risse, Thomas (2000): When Europe hits home: Europeanization and domestic change. European Integration Online Papers (EioP), Vol. 4/2000, No. 15 [available at: http://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/2000-015a.htm] Cini, Michelle (Ed., 2003): European Union Politics, Oxford. Cram, Laura (2001): Integration theory and the study of the European policy process: towards a synthesis of approaches, in: Richardson, Jeremy (Ed.): European Union. Power and policy-making, London, 51-73. Featherstone, Kevin & Radaelli, Claudio (Eds., 2003): The politics of Europeanization, Oxford. Green Cowles, Maria et al. (Eds., 2001) : Transforming Europe. Europeanization and Domestic change, Ithaca/New York. Jeffery, Charlie (2000): Sub-national mobilization and European integration, in: Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 1-23. Knill, Christoph & Lehmkuhl, Dirk (1999): How Europe matters. Different mechanisms of Europeanization. European Integration Online Papers (EioP), Vol. 3/1999, No. 7. [available at: http://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/1999-007a.htm] Marks , Gary (1997): An actor-centred approach to multilevel governance, in: Jeffery, Charlie (Ed.): The regional dimension of the European Union. Towards a third level in Europe?, London, pp. 20-40. McCormick, John (1999): Understanding the European Union. A concise introduction, Houndmills/Basingstoke. Peterson, John & Shackleton, Michael (Eds., 2002): The institutions of the European Union, Oxford. Sandholtz, Wayne & Stone Sweet, Alec (1998): European Integration and Supranational governance, Oxford. Scharpf, Fritz, W. (2000): Notes toward the theory of multilevel governing in Europe. Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung Köln, Discussion Paper 00/5 [available at: www.mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de] Wiener, Antje & Diez, Thomas (Eds., 2003): European integration theory. Past, Present, future, Oxford.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Participants will have to read the suggested reading in advance and to actively take part in all sessions of the course. After the end of the seminar, participants will have to write an essay (of some 20 pages) on a specific topic related to the contents of the course.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught in blocks.
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