The European Union: Policy Modes
Overview
- Credit value: 15 credits at Level 7
- Convenor and tutor: Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos
- Assessment: a take-home test (90%) and online quiz (10%)
Module description
This module will familiarise you with a) the different types of EU public policy as well as b) the content and evolution of the EU’s policies in a broad range of sectors. This is why it covers a broad range of issues such as the single market, the EU’s macro-economic policy, foreign policy, migration policy as well as the EU’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Indicative module syllabus
- The modes of EU policy making
- The crisis of the ‘Community method’
- The single market
- EMU, macro-economic policy
- The EU’s budget
- The EU’s trade and foreign policies
- EU crises and reform
- The EU and the Covid-19 pandemic
- The EU and the crisis of the rule of law
- The scope for and limits of ‘disintegration’
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you will:
- have detailed knowledge of the EU’s policy different policy modes as analysed via contemporary theoretical frameworks
- have a critical understanding of the factors that promote and impede policy change in the EU
- be able to apply theories and models to contemporary EU policy issues
- have detailed knowledge of the institutional features of EU policymaking
- be able to synthesise a variety of materials across primary and secondary texts to explain and support your own arguments concerning key problems in the study of EU politics and policymaking
- have developed skills of critical thinking, enquiry, synthesis, analysis and evaluation that can be employed on other modules studied at this level.