DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Bachelor's Degree in History, Politics and International Relations
Academic Year 2016/2017 - 2° Year

POLITICA DELL'UNIONE EUROPEA E POLITICHE PUBBLICHE

Teaching Staff

Learning Objectives

• UNIONE EUROPEA E SCIENZA POLITICA: TEORIE E APPROCCI
  
  This module examines various theoretical approaches of relevance to understanding the evolution of the EU, and, examines the EU its institutions and policies in the light of these approaches with the aim to provide students with a critical understanding and comprehensive knowledge of the government and politics of the EU with particular regard the the theoretical mainstreming theoretical debate
• European Union Politics
  
  The main aim of this module is to provide students with a critical understanding and comprehensive knowledge of the government and politics of the EU, as well as the policy making processes of the EU when policy is made. In particular, students will learn about the main institutions of the EU (The Commission, Council, European Parliament and the European Court of Justice), the role of interest groups in Brussels, and different theoretical approaches to understanding policy-making.
• European Union Policies
  
  The main aim is for students to understand EU as a public policy provider and learn about specific EU policies including: economic and monetary union, internal and external security policies, immigration and asylum policy. At the end of this course it is expected that students will have learned a detailed understanding of: how the EU institutions work, how public policy is formed and theoretical characterisations of the policy making process.

Detailed Course Content

• UNIONE EUROPEA E SCIENZA POLITICA: TEORIE E APPROCCI
  
  Theoretical Debate on European Union: International Relation theories and Comparative Politics theories
• European Union Politics
  

  Composition, source of legitimacy and functions of: EU Parliament. EU Commission, European Council and Council of the European Unon ; Executive Power and Legislative Power inthe European Union; Political Parties and Interest Group in the EU

• European Union Policies
  

  Policy Making processes in the EU; Common Foreign and Security Policy; Area of Freedom, Security and Justice; Immigration Policy.

Textbook Information

• European Union Politics
  

  1. Sistema politico dell’Unione europea: F. Longo, Unione Europea e scienza politica: teorie a confronto, Milano, Giuffrè, 2005 capitolo 3° 2. Attinà F. e Natalicchi G., L’Unione Europea. Governo, Istituzioni, Politiche, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010, Capitolo 3.1 (“Il Quadro istituzionale”); Capitolo 3.2 (“Attori non Istituzionali”); Capitolo 4; 3. Longo F. “Un sistema Partitico senza un governo dei partiti nell’Unione Europea?, in M. Mascia (a cura di) Verso un sistema partitico Europeo transnazionale, bari, Cacucci 2014, 4. A. Kreppel ”Le Implicazioni politiche delle riforma costituzionali: le relazioni tra esecutivo e legislativo nell’Unione Europea” in Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, n. 3, 2009, pag. 383-416.

   

  A specific reading list made up of english textbooks will be provided on demand for foreign students

• European Union Policies
  

  Attinà F. e Natalicchi G., L’Unione Europea. Governo, Istituzioni, Politiche, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010, capitoli 1 e 8 Longo F: "La Politica di Immigrazione nel'Unione Europea tra vecchie e nuove sfide", publishing soon

  A specific reading list made up of english textbooks will be provided on demand for foreign students