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The course examines the relations between the EU institutions and the Member States' institutions, as well as the aspects of the European political system and decision-making that these relationships influence. It reviews the relevance of national and European-level factors in decision-making at the European level, the coordination of national institutions and their positions for European-level decision-making, the competences and activities of national parliaments at both the national and European levels, and their relations with each other and with EU institutions. Last update: Martinková Viera, Mgr., Ph.D. (19.02.2026)
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Students will gain a deeper understanding of the inclusion of national institutions at the European level, including relevant Treaty articles and protocols, as well as national-level alternatives for incorporating various domestic institutions into EU affairs. They will also familiarise themselves with current academic research on these subjects. Students will be able to distinguish between different models of executive coordination of European affairs, national parliamentary scrutiny, and European-level parliamentary cooperation, associate relevant factors with these models, and categorise the institutional settings of individual Member States into these categories. They will also be able to interpret developments and functioning of this system using different theoretical perspectives of new institutionalism. At the end of the semester, students will create a research design and write an empirical seminar paper on a specific Member State. Last update: Martinková Viera, Mgr., Ph.D. (19.02.2026)
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Auel, K - Benz, A. (2006) The Europeanisation of Parliamentary Democracy Routledge. Bache, I. -.Flinders, M. (2004) Multi-level Governance Oxford University Press. Bulmer, S. – Lequesne, C. (eds.) (2013) The member states of the European Union, Oxford : Oxford University Press. Cooper, I. (2012): A ‘Virtual Third Chamber’ for the European Union? National Parliaments after the Treaty of Lisbon, West European Politics 35(3): 441-465; Crum, B. (2018) ‘Parliamentary accountability in multilevel governance: what role for parliaments in post-crisis EU economic governance?’, Journal of European Public Policy 25(2):268-286 Hefftler, C. - Neuhold, C. - Rozenberg, O. – Smith, J. (eds.) (2015) The Palgrave handbook of national parliaments and the European Union, Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan. Kassim, H. - Peters, G. – Wright, V. (eds.) (2000) The National Co-ordination of EU Policy, The Domestic Level OUP Klüver, H. – Sagarzazu, I. (2013) Ideological congruency and decision-making speed: The effect of partisanship across European Union institutions , European Union Politics 14(3):388-407 O’Brennan, J. - Raunio, T. (eds) (2007) National Parliaments within the Enlarged European Union: From Victims of Integration to Competitive Actors? Routledge. Last update: Karlas Jan, doc. PhDr., Ph.D., M.A. (19.12.2023)
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• compulsory active participation in seminars o absence from the seminar must be reported to the lecturer via e-mail no later than 24 hours before the seminar, and later replaced by additional written work (to achieve the required seminar grade); o participation in discussions is required; each seminar is graded on a scale of 0-20 points; the final grade is computed as an average of all classes, disregarding the lowest grade o written assignments: students must address the questions/issues raised in the assignment based on assigned literature (and possibly other relevant sources), be 500-2000 words in length (answer all the questions to the best of your ability, form and length are secondary), submitted via Moodle by 6 p.m. two days before the seminar; o every assignment is graded on a scale of 0-20 points; the final grade is computed as an average of all assignments; o 40 points maximum, a sum of the assignment average and the discussion average; o minimum 20 points required to be allowed to submit the final paper; • final paper o to be submitted no later than 03/06/2026 via Moodle; o students select their own topic that must be pre-approved by the lecturer; o 4000 words, references included (tolerance: 10 %); o 60 points, a minimum of 30 points required to pass the class;
All readings and assignments are available in electronic versions from the library catalogue or journal databases available via the library or as downloadable files in Moodle. The grading scale is as follows: 100-91 – A 90-81 – B 80-71 – C 70-61 – D 60-51 – E 50 or less – F Last update: Martinková Viera, Mgr., Ph.D. (19.02.2026)
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