Syllabus/achievement requirements

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

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 Link

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., G. Schaefer and Jarle 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 17 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.

Hayes-Renshaw, F. and H. Wallace (2006): The Council of Ministers. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 260 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 Link

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

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 20 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

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

N?rg?rd, G.H. (2006): “National Limits to Transnational Networking? The Case of the Danish IT and Telecom Agency”, in M. Egeberg(ed.) 17 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. (2002): ”Reforming European Institutions of Governance”, Journal of Common Market Studies 40: 581-602 26 pp Link

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

St?le, ?. (2006): “Towards a Multilevel Union Administration? The Decentralization of EU Competition Policy”, in M. Egeberg (ed.) 16 pp

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 Link

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

Total number of pages: 750 pp

Recommended reading:

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

Egeberg, M. (2005): “The EU and the Nordic Countries: Organizing Domestic Diversity?”, in S. Bulmer and C. Lequesne (eds.)

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

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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