Institut für politikwissenschaft kommentiertes Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Einführung in die EDV

	Nur für Studierende der Doppeldiplom-Studiengänge
	Zeit: Di 8-10	Raum: R. 313	Beginn: 1. Vorlw.

Radtke, K.
064453	Einführung in die EDV
	Nur für Studierende der Doppeldiplom-Studiengänge
	Zeit: Do 8-10	Raum: R. 313	Beginn: 1. Vorlw.

Woyke, W. / Groenendijk, N./ de Wilde, J.
064491	European Institutions
	(Sowi SI/SII: A3)
	Zeit: s. Aushang	Raum: s. Aushang	Beginn: s. Aushang

(7 LP)

Lecturers Dr. Nico S. Groenendijk (UT)

Prof. Dr. Jaap H. de Wilde (UT)

Prof. Dr. Wichard Woyke (WWU)
Course outline & objectives

The students shall gain knowledge about the role and functioning of various institutions of the European Union: the European Commission, the European Council and the Council of Ministers, the European Parliament, the European Court of Justice, the European Court of Auditors, the European Investment Bank, the European Central Bank, and Europol. In particular the economic context of European integration is highlighted in the introductory courses and written assignments. Additionally, students will study the role and functioning of other European intergovernmental organizations, notably the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Council of Europe and the European Court for Human Rights. The students will deepen their insight in theories about the grounding and functioning of international organizations in public administration.

Literature

To be announced.

Course organisation

This course sets out with a seminar (3-4 days) and ends with a five-day excursion to various European institutions. In between, individual papers are prepared and discussed using the distant learning facilities of TeleTop. Seminar: Introductory lectures are given, in particular about the economic dimensions of European integration. In discussion groups the stage is set for the second phase, the preparation of individual papers. Research paper: Each student will prepare a paper of about 15 pages (6000 words) which discusses a selection of European institutions or organizations, and their contemporary agendas, and which discusses at least two theoretical angles to analyse their present role in international politics. In subgroups topical events in European politics will be discussed on TeleTop. Excursion: It differs each year which of the main European institutions are visited. It concerns institutions in Brussels (various EU-institutions; NATO), Strasbourg (Council of Europe, European Court for Human Rights), Luxembourg (EU-institutions), The Hague (Europol, International Court of Justice, the Yugoslavia Tribunal) and Frankfurt (European Central Bank). At the institutions discussions are organized with international civil servants and national representatives.

Woyke, W. / Meyers, R. / Timmermans, A.
064028	The Multilevel Policy Process Veranstaltung in Zusammenarbeit mit der Universität Twente.
	(Sowi SI/SII: A3)
	Zeit: s. Aushang	Raum: s. Aushang	Beginn: Mi 3.9.2001 13.45-15.30 i. Twente

Bitte die gesonderten Anfangszeiten beachten. Das Seminar beginnt in der ersten Septemberwoche und endet in der vorletzten Dezemberwoche. Teils in Twente, teils in Münster.Termine s. Aushang. Gesonderte Anfangszeiten beachten!

2 SWS 7 LP

Course outline & objectives

Understanding complexity in the European Union. To many people, the superlative in political complexity is the working of the European Union. How can the policy making process within the European Union be understood?

This course is about the European policy process as it takes place within European institutions as well as in national and substate institutions. By institutions we mean bodies in which policies are made and binding decisions on European policies are taken, as for example the European Commission, the European Parliament, national governments and, sometimes, even local administrative agencies. This multilevel structure characterizes the policy process in the European Union.

Hence it is important to consider not only what happens around and within European policy making bodies, but also the ways in which European policies are coordinated and implemented in member states. Some policies are clear-cut and binding directly, but other decisions taken in Brussels or elsewhere leave discretion for member states, and need to be fitted into their own systems of legislation. All European policies require at least some national coordination. Here, it is important to be aware of the differences in policy-making structures within countries, and in the attitudes of actors within these countries towards policy problems put on the European agenda. For this reason, different countries also may differ in how they implement European policies.

The first objective of this course is to make the student familiar with the multilevel nature of the European policy process and with the central concepts used to analyse this process. We expect the student to be able to understand European policy making in terms of concepts and theories taken from the political science literature, such as agenda setting, policy design, coalition building, negotiation, implementation, and policy learning. These concepts and the theories in which they are embedded help us to find answers to the following questions: How and why does a particular issue reach the European agenda? How are, on this issue, coalitions of stakeholders formed and what influence do these coalitions have? How do the structures and procedures of European decision making arenas such as the Commission or the European Parliament increase or constrain opportunities for actors, and where are final decisions taken? Why are some European policies implemented easily in one country, but sabotaged in another?

The second objective moves beyond this knowledge based on concepts and theory: The student should be able to investigate a case taken from the real world of European policy making. In this case analysis, the student applies concepts and insights gained during the first part of the course. A selection of the questions mentioned above has to be answered. For example, one may want to analyse how reform of the agricultural sector in the common market (most topical: cattle breeding) has reached the European agenda. Or the student may want to get a more systematic insight into the reasons for the partial failure of the Amsterdam treaty (the Treaty of the EU). Or perhaps the student wants to know why recent European regulation of the postal services is implemented easily in one country but reluctantly in another. Finally, the pressures, needs and ramifications of the structural and cohesion policy on the one hand, and of the EU Eastern enlargement negotiations on the other offer ample opportunities for case study approaches. For some subjects, secondary literature will serve as a source; other subjects require collection of new empirical material.

Literature

Bromley, Simon, Ed.(2001), Governing the European Union, London: Sage Publications in association with the Open University

Grande, Edgar, und Markus Jachtenfuchs, Eds.(2000), Wie problemlösungsfähig ist die EU ? Regieren im europäischen Mehrebenensystem, Baden-Baden: Nomos

Guiberneau, Montserrat, Ed. (2001), Governing European Diversity, London: Sage Publications in association with the Open University

Kassim, Hussein, and B.Guy Peters, and Vincent Wright, Eds.(2000), The National Co-ordination of EU Policy. The Domestic Level, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Kohler-Koch, Beate, and Rainer Eising, Eds. (1999), The Transformation of Governance in the European Union, London: Routledge

Peterson, John, and Elizabeth Bomberg (1999), Decision-Making in the European Union, Basingstoke: Macmillan

Richardson, Jeremy, Ed. (1996), European Union: Power and Policy-Making, London: Routledge.

Rose, Richard (1993), Lesson-Drawing in Public Policy, [.]

Thompson, Grahame, Ed.(2001), Governing the European Economy, London: Sage Publications in association with the Open University

Wallace, Helen, and William Wallace, Eds.(2000), Policy-Making in the European Union, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4^th ed.

Wolf, Klaus Dieter, Ed.(1997), Projekt Europa im Übergang ? Probleme, Modelle und Strategien des Regierens in der Europäischen Union, Baden-Baden: Nomos

Several articles

Course organisation

The course is divided into two parts. The first part is devoted to the first course objective. In a series of five seminars, we consider the key theoretical concepts and approaches used to analyse policy-making in the multilevel environment of the European Union. The seminars are used for presentations by students and for discussion. This part of the course is held at the University of Twente.

Part two builds on the conceptual and theoretical knowledge formed in part one, and is devoted to an assignment consisting of a case study of European policy-making. Here, the student may raise a number of questions, dealing for example with agenda setting, negotiations, or implementation. The student is expected to work individually on this assignment, but will receive guidance, and experiences will be shared through presentations in meetings. At the end of the course reports are submitted in a plenary sessions. This part of the course takes place mainly at the WWU. Pending on the availability of financial resources, it is suggested to organise the WWU sessions either as a two-day intensive block seminar (including prearranged overnight stay for Twente participants) on December 12/13, or as a three-day consecutive intensive teaching unit (with no official overnight facilities) on December 12/13/14.

Please note:

the course starts early in September and ends with the WWU block teaching assignment in December 2001. Die Veranstaltung steht auch Studierenden der Magister- und Lehramtsstudiengänge sowie der anderen Doppeldiplomstudiengänge offen.

Zimmer, A. / de Vroom, B. / Anderson, K. / Svensson, J.S.
064252	Changing European Welfare States
	(Sowi SI/SII: A2,3)
	Zeit: Di 11-13 und 14-16	Raum: R. 614	Beginn: 1. Vorlw.

Course : Changing European Welfare States
Instructor(s) : Prof. Dr. B. de Vroom/ Prof. Dr. A. Zimmer (co-ordinator)

Dr. K. Anderson

Dr. J.S. Svensson

Type of class : working groups (discussions and presentations by students)

Level : graduate

Requirements/

final test : 4 papers of about 1500 words each

2-3 oral presentations

Contents:

This course presents an institutional and comparative analysis of different types of welfare states and welfare state policies. On a theoretical level two different approaches to welfare state development and change (restructuring) will be discussed: Esping-Andersen's power-resource approach and Paul Pierson’s policy feedback approach. On an empirical level several specific welfare states will be analyzed. Finally, the possibility of a European Welfare State will be discussed.

Requirements:

Readings: Students are expected to read the assigned literature before each class meeting. Oral Presentations: For each class meeting, two students will make short (10 minutes) oral presentations summarizing and critically discussing the readings for the week. In addition, each student will make a short oral presentation of the results of paper assignment 4 (see below). Papers: Students will write four short papers (about 1500 words each) dealing with the following topics: 1) The model of Esping-Andersen, 2) The model of Pierson, 3) Analysis of your ‘own’ welfare state (using the models of Esping-Andersen and Pierson), 4) The (im)possibility of one European social policy.

Literature

G. Esping-Andersen, 1990. The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity Press.; P. Pierson, 1994. Dismantling the Welfare State? Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of Retrenchment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.; Reader: selected essays.

Detailed Explanation

The structure is based on 5 general lectures and 10 working group sessions.

Lectures:

• 
  The lectures will be alternately in Münster and Twente.
  
• 
  The lectures will be in English
  

Working Groups:

• 
  The working group sessions: the idea is to organise a number of these sessions on the same day as the lectures (to reduce travel time). This will be the case for 5 sessions, where all students come together in either Münster or Twente. See the schedule below. The other 5 sessions should be organised separately in Münster and Twente.
  
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  This basically means that the working groups will be devided in (2) ‘Münster groups’ and (2) ‘Twente groups’. In that case the language in the working groups can be German and Dutch (unless the foreign students from the Socrates program join the working groups).
  
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  Another possibility in stead of (all) working group sessions is ‘telelearning’ (the Twente program TELETOP). This will be something to elaborate.
  

Schedule:

Date	Lecture (L) and	Groups(WG)	Place
16 October	L 1: Introduction	Zimmer + De Vroom	Münster
16 October	WG 1: Pierson & Castles 1	Twente: Anderson, Svensson Münster:	Münster
23 October	WG 2: Pierson & Castles 2	Twente: Anderson, Svensson Münster:	Twente& Münste
30 October	L 2: Regimes	De Vroom	Twente
30 October	WG 3: Esping-Anderson 1	Twente: Anderson, Svensson Münster:	Twente
6 November	WG 4: Esping-Anderson 2	Twente: Anderson, Svensson Münster:	Twente& Münste
13 November	L 3: Changing Welfare States	De Vroom	Münster
13 November	WG 5: Paul Pierson 1	Twente: Anderson, Svensson Münster:	Münster
20 November	WG 6: Paul Pierson 1	Twente: Anderson, Svensson Münster	Twente& Münster
27 November	L 4: Germany-NL Comparison	Zimmer + De Vroom	Twente
27 November	WG 7: Germany-NL	Twente: Anderson, Svensson Münster:	Twente
4 December	WG 8: Pierson & Castles 3	Twente: Anderson, Svensson Münster:	Twente& Münster
11 December	L 5: EU + Future	Zimmer + De Vroom	Münster
11 December	WG 9: Pierson & Castles 4	Twente: Anderson, Svensson Münster:	Twente
18 December	WG10:evaluation&preparing/ discussing essay proposals	Twente: Anderson, Svensson Münster:	Twente& Münster

Time investment for students:

1. 
   Literature: Pierson & Casles, Esping-Anderson, Paul Pierson, diverse; total number of pages about 600. Preparation of literature (including discussion points, presentations) is about 7p/hour = total about 85 hrs.
   
2. 
   Contact hours = total about 35 hrs.
   
3. 
   Essay = about 20 hrs
   

Total = 140 hrs (= 3,5 points in the Twente system)