VPL155 European Union Public Policy

Fakulta sociálních studií
podzim 2019
Rozsah
1/1/0. 5 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
John Frederick Wilton, B.A. (Hons), M. Soc Sc, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
doc. PhDr. Jiří Winkler, Ph.D.
Katedra sociální politiky a sociální práce – Fakulta sociálních studií
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra sociální politiky a sociální práce – Fakulta sociálních studií
Rozvrh
Čt 17. 10. 16:00–17:40 P21, Čt 24. 10. 16:00–17:40 P21, Čt 31. 10. 16:00–17:40 P21, Čt 7. 11. 16:00–17:40 P21, Čt 14. 11. 16:00–17:40 P21, Čt 21. 11. 16:00–17:40 P21
Předpoklady
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Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 15 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 0/15, pouze zareg.: 0/15, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/15
Mateřské obory/plány
předmět má 10 mateřských oborů, zobrazit
Cíle předmětu
The students will understand: - the principles underpinning E.U. public policy - the process of EU public policy making in four perspectives: agenda setting, policy formulation, policy decision-making and policy implementation. The students will learn about different models of analysis at different levels within the EU and at different stages of the policy process. They will learn how to use some of the selected approaches of the policy analysis.
Výstupy z učení
Identify benefits and problems within the E.U. public policy;
Apply principial theory of public policy process (agenda-setting) to a practical public problems in the EU;
Osnova
  • Lecture 1. The basis of, and principles underpinning, E.U. public policy: harmonisation, mutual recognition and convergence? Lecture 2. Agenda-setting: role and purpose, fragmentation and the absence of effective policy co-ordination Lecture 3. Policy formulation: the policy communities and policy networks model, policymaking uncertainty, expertise and epistemic communities, multiple policymaking ‘venues’ Lecture 4. Policy decision-making: institutional analysis Lecture 5. Policy implementation: implementation as a complex and multifaceted process, inter-organisational behaviour and implementation analysis, characterising implementation in the E.U. Workshop 1 Lecture 6. a) A case study of the E.U. policy process: Welfare b) The ‘Europeanisation’ of public policy
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • Resisting marginalization : unemployment experience and social policy in the European Union. Edited by Duncan Gallie. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, xi, 291. ISBN 0199271852. info
    doporučená literatura
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • HIX, Simon. The political system of the European Union. 2nd ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, xxii, 490. ISBN 033396182X. URL info
  • Environmental policy in Europe : the Europeanization of national environmental policy. Edited by Andrew Jordan - Duncan Liefferink. New York: Routledge, 2004, xix, 251. ISBN 041540679X. URL info
  • The politics of europeanization. Edited by Kevin Featherstone - Claudio M. Radaelli. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, xii, 351. ISBN 0199252092. info
  • KLEINMAN, Mark. A european welfare state? :European union social policy in context. 1st pub. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002, ix, 246 s. ISBN 0-333-69892-4. info
  • MCCORMICK, John. Understanding the European Union : a concise introduction. 2. ed. New York: Palgrave, 2002, xvi, 237 s. ISBN 0-333-94868-8. info
  • HANTRAIS, Linda. Social policy in the European union. 2nd ed. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000, xiv, 273 s. ISBN 0-333-92008-2. info
  • ROSAMOND, Ben. Theories of European integration. 1. ed. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2000, xiii, 323. ISBN 0-333-64716-5. info
  • Policy-making in the European union. Edited by William Wallace - Helen S. Wallace. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, xxvii, 509. ISBN 0198781296. info
Výukové metody
lectures, class discussion, reading
Metody hodnocení
Essay assessment. Essay address answers to following questions: (i) What are the benefits and problems that arise from the processes of agenda-setting and policy implementation at the beginning and end of the European Union public policy cycle? (ii) Can European Union public policy making be described as ‘Europeanised’? (iii) Identify benefits and problems within the E.U. public policy process in one public policy area in respect of the principles of harmonisation, mutual recognition and convergence.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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Studijní materiály
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích podzim 2012, podzim 2013, jaro 2014, podzim 2014, jaro 2015, podzim 2015, jaro 2016, podzim 2016, jaro 2017, podzim 2017, jaro 2018, podzim 2018, jaro 2019, jaro 2020.