EI505 EUROPEAN GOVARNANCE
| Course Code: |
8380505 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
| Department: |
European Integration |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
Prof.Dr. AHMET ÞÝNASÝ AKSOY |
| Offered Semester: |
Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
The purpose of this course is to develop an understanding of the present stage of European governance, actually denoting a European political system based on an extensive transfer of policy powers and responsibilities from national to European level and the emergence of European institutions and decision making structures. While virtually all spheres of public policy shifts to the EU agenda at least some degree, the European nation-states enter an ever porous process of Europeanization defined by an emergence of a European public policy agenda in an expanding range of fields from agriculture, trade and environmet to social affairs, policing and education. The course will focus particularly on the following subjects: the tranformation of European states; the emergence of a European administrative space; multi-level governance; the linkages between law, governance and democracy; changing structure of political opportunity in the EU; regulatory governance and open method of coordination; Europe as a differentiated polity; changing parameters of relations between major European institutions such as the Council of Ministers, the European Commission and the European Parliament; the impact of enlargement on European institutions such as the Committee of Regions, the Economic and Social Committee; the transformation of core executive in the new EU members.
