Saint-Louis University - Bruxelles
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LEUSL2704 - The political basis of European Integration



Credits : 6

Lecturer :
Mode of delivery :
Face-to-face , first term, 30 hours of theory.

Language of instruction :
French

Learning outcomes :
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the European Union's political system and its functioning through the analysis of its institutions, actors, modes of government and public policies. The political effects of European integration on national policies and on the citizens of the Member States are also examined.

Prerequisites :
None

Co-requisites :
None

Course contents :
1. Introduction
How to analyze European integration: theories and concepts
Historical construction and evolution of the institutional system
2. The dynamics of European integration
Integration by the market. Integration through public policy. Integration through law
3. European governance and its transformations
The Community method and the decision-making system, overtaking and transformations
New modes of governance?
4. The characteristics of the European institutional system
Member States at the heart of the
The European Commission, the key to the system
The European Parliament, a parliament like any other?
5. European policies and their effects on the Member States
What is a European public policy? Typology and degrees of integration
Europeanization of public policies and impact on national policies
6. Representation of interests, civil society and transnational social movements
Public interest, private interests and European integration
Specialized civil society and disputes
7. Citizenship and identity (ies) in the European Union
How do European citizens perceive the European Union?
How does the European Union reconfigure society?


Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
Lectures +reading seminar

Assessment methods and criteria :
The evaluation of students will be based on two elements: a final written examination which will account for 75% of the final mark and a presentation and application exercise which will account for 25% of the final mark.

Recommended or required reading :
- BELOT, Céline, MAGNETTE, Paul, SAURUGGER, Sabine, Science politique de l'Union européenne, Paris, Economica, 2008.
- CINI, Michelle, PEREZ-SOLORZANO BORRAGAN, Nieves, European Union Politics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016 (5e édition).
- COHEN, Antonin, Le régime politique de l'Union européenne, Paris, La Découverte, 2014.
- COSTA, Olivier, BRACK, Nathalie, Le fonctionnement de l'Union européenne, Bruxelles, Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 2017 (3e édition).
- DEHOUSSE, Renaud (dir.), L'Union européenne, Paris, La documentation française, 2014 (4e édition).
- DEHOUSSE, Renaud (dir.), Politiques européennes, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2009.
- DOUTRIAUX, Yves, LEQUESNE, Christian, Les institutions de l'Union européenne après la crise de l'euro, Paris, La documentation française, 2013 (9e édition).
- HIX, Simon, HOYLAND, Bjorn, The Political System of the European Union, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2011 (3e édition).
- JONES, Erik, MENON, Anand, WEATHERHILL, Stephen (dir.), The Oxford Handbook of the European Union, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012.
- MAGNETTE, Paul, Le régime politique de l'Union européenne, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2017 (4e édition).
- MAGONE, José M. (dir.), Routledge Handbook of European Politics, Londres, Routledge, 2014.
- MERAND, Frédéric, WEISBEIN, Julien, Introduction à l'Union européenne, Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2011.
- WALLACE, Helen, POLLACK, Mark A., YOUNG, Alasdair R. (dir.), Policy-Making in the European Union », Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015 (7e édition).


Other information :
None