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The course deals with relations between the EU institutions and institutions of the Member States and the aspects of the European political system and decision-making influenced by these relations. The course aims to provide an advanced understanding of institutional factors of EU membership and of the political system and decision-making processes of the EU itself. The students should familiarise themselves with current institutional design and learn to apply theoretical concepts on specific questions and cases. The students should also learn to search for specific documents in European institutions databases.
The course frames these issues within the multi-level governance theory. It looks more closely on three topics; first, the impact of national versus partisan factors on the decision-making within the three main EU institutions (the European Commission, the Council and the European Parliament), second, on how the interaction with the European level influences Member States' executives, national coordination systems and national parliamentary scrutiny of European affairs on national level, and, third, the interaction and collective action of national parliaments on the European level. All issues are debated from the perspectives of democratic legitimacy on one hand and decision-making efficiency on the other. The course consists of six seminars with extensive out of class preparation. Seminars are organised as discussions covering the day’s topic. All students are expected to have read all the readings assigned for the given seminar and hand in a written assignment. Poslední úprava: Karlas Jan, doc. PhDr., Ph.D., M.A. (19.12.2023)
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The course aims to provide an advanced understanding of institutional factors of EU membership and of the political system and decision-making processes of the EU itself. The students should familiarise themselves with current institutional design and learn to apply theoretical concepts on specific questions and cases. The students should also learn to search for specific documents in European institutions databases. Poslední úprava: Martinková Viera, Mgr., Ph.D. (03.02.2019)
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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. Poslední úprava: Karlas Jan, doc. PhDr., Ph.D., M.A. (19.12.2023)
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Credit requirements • 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 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 of 500-1500 words in length, submitted via Moodle by 6 p.m. two days before the seminar; o each assignment is graded on a scale 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 discussion average. A minimum 20 points are required to pass the class; retakes in the form of additional work are possible only if the student attended classes. • essay o to be submitted no later than 29/05/2024 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 30 points are required to pass the class All readings and assignments are available in electronic versions from the library catalogue or journal databases available via library or as downloadable files in Grading scales: 100-91 – A 90-81 – B 80-71 – C 70-61 – D 60-51 – E 50 or less – F Poslední úprava: Martinková Viera, Mgr., Ph.D. (05.02.2024)
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