Syllabus/achievement requirements

Andersen, S.S. and K.A. Eliassen (2001): ”Introduction: The EU as a New Political System”. In S.S. Andersen and K.A. Eliassen (eds.): Making Policy in Europe. London: Sage 16 pp

Aspinwall, M. and G. Schneider (2000): ”Same Menu, Separate Tables: The Institutionalist Turn in Political Science and the Study of European Integration”, European Journal of Political Research 38: 1-36 35 pp

Crum, B. (2003): Towards Finality? A Preliminary Assessment of the Achievements of the European Convention. ARENA: Working Paper No 4 25 pp

Egeberg, M. (2005):”EU Institutions and the Transformation of European-Level Politics: How to Understand Profound Change (If it Occurs)”, Comparative European Politics 3: 102-17 15 pp

Egeberg, M. (forthcoming): “The Nordic Countries and the EU: How European Integration Integrates and Disintegrates States Domestically”, in S. Bulmer and C. Lequesne (eds.): Member States and the European Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press 30pp

Egeberg, M., G. Schaefer and Jarle Trondal (2003): “The Many Faces of EU Committee Governance”, West European Politics 26: 19-40 20 pp

Goetz, K.H. (2001): ”European Integration and National Executives: A Cause in Search of an Effect”. In K. H. Goetz and S. Hix (eds.): Europeanised Politics? European Integration and National Political Systems. London: Frank Cass 20 pp.

Greenwood, J. (2003): Interest Representation in the EU: Demos rules OK? (Paper) 17 pp

Hayes-Renshaw, F. and H. Wallace (1997): The Council of Ministers. New York: St. Martin’s Press (ch. 1-3, 5-11) 265 pp

Hix, S. and K.H. Goetz (2001): ”Introduction: European Integration and National Political Systems”. In K.H. Goetz and S. Hix (eds.): Europeanised Politics? European Integration and National Political Systems. London: Frank Cass 25 pp

Joerges, C. and J. Neyer (1997): “Transforming Strategic Interaction into Deliberative Problem-Solving: European Comitology in the Foodstuffs Sector”, Journal of European Public Policy 4: 609-25 16 pp

Knill, C. (1998): “European Policies: The Impact of National Administrative Traditions”, Journal of Public Policy 18: 1-28 27 pp

Kohler-Koch, B. (1996): “The strength of weakness: the transformation of governance in the EU”, in S. Gustavsson and L. Lewin (eds.): The Future of the Nation-State. London: Routledge 20s.

Mazey, S. and J. Richardson (1996): “The Logic of Organisation: Interest Groups”. In J. Richardson (ed.): European Union: Power and Policy- Making. London: Routledge 15 pp

Nugent, N. (1999): The Government and Politics of the European Union. Houndmills: The Macmillan Press. (ch. 7) 32 pp

Nugent, N. (2001): The European Commission. Houndmills: Palgrave (ch. 1, 3-7) 135 pp

Olsen, J.P. (1992): “Analyzing Institutional Dynamics”, Staatswissenschaften und Staatspraxis 3: 247-71 24 pp

Olsen, J.P. (2000): ”Organising European Institutions of Governance: A Prelude to an Institutional Account of Political Integration.” I H. Wallace (red.): Whose Europe? Interlocking Dimensions of Integration. London: Macmillan 20 pp

Olsen, J.P. (2001): ”Reforming European Institutions of Governance”, ARENA Working Paper No 7. Journal of Common Market Studies 40: 581-602 (2002) 26 pp

Schaefer. G.F. (1996): “Committees in the EC Policy Process. A First Step Towards Developing a Conceptual Framework”. In R.H. Pedler and G.F. Schaefer (eds.): Shaping European Law and Policy: The Role of Committees and Comitology in the Political Process. Maastricht: European Institute of Public Administration 22pp

Sverdrup, U. (1999): ”Precedents and present events in the European Union: An institutional perspective on treaty reform”, in K.H. Neunreither and A. Wiener (eds.): European Integration. Institutional Dynamics and Prospects for Democracy after Amsterdam. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 24 pp.

Sverdrup, U. (2004): “Compliance and Conflict Management in the European Union: Nordic Exceptionalism”, Scandinavian Political Studies 27: 23-43 20pp

Total number of pages: 849 pp 

Recommended reading:

Andersen, S.S. and K.A. Eliassen (eds.) (2001): Making Policy in Europe. London: Sage

Bulmer, S. and C. Lequesne (eds.) (2005): The Member States of the European Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

March, J.G. and J.P. Olsen (1989): Rediscovering Institutions. New York: The Free Press

March, J.G. and J.P. Olsen (1998): ”The Institutional Dynamics of International Political Orders”, International Organization 52:943-969

Page, E.C. (1997): People Who Run Europe. Oxford: Clarendon Press

Wallace, H. and W. Wallace (eds.) (2000): Policy Making in the European Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Wessels, W., A. Maurer and J. Mittag (eds.) (2003): Fifteen into One? The European Union and Its Member States. Manchester: Manchester University Press

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