Regieren als komplexer Prozess im Mehrebenesystem: European Union Politics - Einzelansicht

Purpose:

The European Union’s existence and development impacts the German political system considerably and therefore raises many empirical and theoretical questions. The objective of this class is to explain the evolution of the EU institutions, to gain a deeper theoretical and first-hand practical understanding of what the EU is and does, to investigate the relationship between the different EU institutions and its member states, and to examine how studying the EU can contribute to the study of political systems and governance structures more generally and the political system of Germany in particular. At the end of this course you will have gained an overview of the current public and scholarly social scientific and normative debates about European Union politics and a solid understanding of how EU institutions work and how to work with them in practice.

Background reading:

No single book is exactly coterminous with the syllabus. But the following is useful background reading recommended for the preparation of the seminar:

Peterson, J. and M. Shackleton (2012) The Institutions of the European Union, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Class discussion will be more interesting if we are all up-to-date on EU current events. In addition to the coverage in international and national newspapers, you might also find www.euractive.com  and http://euobserver.com helpful.