Syllabus/achievement requirements

(All chapters/articles are available in compendia or electronically, except for those in M. Egeberg (ed.): Multilevel Union Administration and Hayes-Renshaw and Wallace (2006): The Council of Ministers)

C= Literature marked with a C are to be found in an article compilation which can be bought from Kopiutsalget at Akademika bookstore at Blindern campus.

You can search the articles in the e-journal database available at the University of Oslo Library. This requires having access to and being logged onto the UiO system.

 

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).

Blom-Hansen, J. and G.J. Brandsma (2009): ‘The EU Comitology System: Intergovernmental Bargaining and Deliberative Supranationalism?’ Journal of Common Market Studies 47: 719-740 (21 pp).

Egeberg, M. (2006a): ‘Europe’s Executive Branch of Government in the Melting Pot: an Overview’, in M. Egeberg (ed.): Multilevel Union Administration. The Transformation of Executive Politics in Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, (16 pp).

Egeberg, M. (2006b):’The Institutional Architecture of the EU and the Transformation of European Politics’, in M. Egeberg (ed.), (14 pp).

Egeberg, M. (2006c): ‘Balancing Autonomy and Accountability: Enduring Tensions in the European Commission’s Development’, in M. Egeberg (ed.), (20 pp).

Egeberg, M. (2006d): ‘The College of Commissioners: Executive Politics as Usual?’ in M. Egeberg (ed.), (15 pp).

Egeberg, M., Å. Gornitzka and J. Trondal (2013, forthcoming): ’A not so technocratic executive? Observations on the everyday Interaction between the European Parliament and Commission,’ West European Politics, 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2013.832952, (18 pp).

Egeberg, M., G. Schaefer and J. Trondal (2006): ‘EU Committee Governance between intergovernmental and Union Administration’, in M. Egeberg (ed.), (20 pp).

Eising, R. (2007): ‘Interest Groups and the European Union’, in M. Cini (ed.): European Union Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, (18 pp).  C

Hayes-Renshaw, F. and H. Wallace (2006): The Council of Ministers. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (Chapters 1-9, 12) (277 pp.)

Goetz, K.H. and J-H Meyer-Sahling (2008): ‘The Europeanisation of National Political Systems: Parliaments and Executives’, Living Reviews in European Governance 3: 2, http://www.livingreviews.org/lreg-2008-2 (26 pp).

Gornitzka, Å. and U. Sverdrup (2008): ‘Who Consults? The Configuration of Expert Groups in the European Union’, West European Politics 31: 725-750, (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).

Martens, M. (2006): ‘National Regulators between Union and Governments: a Study of the EU’s Environmental Policy Network IMPEL’, in M. Egeberg (ed.), (19 pp).

McNamara, K. (2001): 'Where do rules come from? The Creation of the European Central Bank', in A.S. Sweet, W. Sandholtz and N. Fligstein (eds), The Institutionalisation of Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 155-170 (15 pp). C

Moravcsik, A. (1993): ‘Preferences and Power in the European Community: A Liberal Intergovernmentalist Approach’, Journal of Common Market Studies 31(4): 473-523 (50 pp).

Niemann, A. and P.C. Schmitter (2010) ‘Neofunctionalism’, Ch. 3 in A. Wiener & Thomas Diez (eds), European Integration theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press (22 pp.)  C

Olsen, J.P. (2002a) 'The many faces of Europeanization', Journal of Common Market Studies, 40(5): 921-952, (31 pp).

Olsen, J.P. (2002b) 'Reforming European Institutions of Governance', JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 40(4): 581-602 (21 pp).

Olsen, J.P. (2007): ‘A prelude to an institutional account’, in Olsen, J.P. (2007) Europe in Search of Political Order. An institutional perspective on unity/diversity, citizens/their helpers, democratic design/historical drift, and the co-existence of orders., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 92-114 (22 pp). C

Radaelli, C.M. (2008): ‘Europeanization, Policy Learning, and New Modes of Governance’, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 10: 239-254 (16 pp).

Scully, R. (2010): “The European Parliament”, in M. Cini and N. Pérez-Solórzano Borragán (eds.): European Union Politics (3rd edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press (13 pp). C

Støle, Ø. (2006): ‘Towards a Multilevel Union Administration? The Decentralization of EU Competition Policy’, in M. Egeberg (ed.), (16 pp).

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

Tallberg, J. (2010): ‘Explaining the Institutional Foundations of European Union Negotiations’, Journal of European Public Policy 17 (5): 633-647 (15 pp).

Treib, O. (2008): ‘Implementing and complying with EU governance outputs’, Living Reviews in European Governance, 3: 5, http://www.livingreviews.org/lreg-2008-5 (30 pp).

Trondal, J., C. van den Berg and S. Suvarierol (2008): ‘The Compound Machinery of Government. The Case of Seconded Officials in the European Commission’, Governance 21: 253-274 (21 pp).

Ugland, T. and F. Veggeland (2006): ‘The European Commission and the Integration of Food Safety Policies across Levels’, in M. Egeberg (ed.) (20 pp).

Total number of pages: ca. 870 pp

 

Recommended reading:

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

Olsen, J.P. (2007): Europe in Search of Political Order. An institutional perspective on unity/diversity, citizens/their helpers, democratic design/historical drift and the co-existence of orders. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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

Trondal, J. (2010): An Emergent European Executive Order. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Wallace, H. and W. Wallace (eds.) (2010): Policy Making in the European Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press

 

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