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POLI-O410

European integration and Public Policy

année académique
2024-2025
2025-2026

Titulaire(s) du cours

Joël FICET (Coordonnateur) et Amandine CRESPY

Crédits ECTS

5

Langue(s) d'enseignement

anglais

Contenu du cours

INTRODUCTION 
  • Starting Your Research in EU Policy Analysis
  • Mapping EU Policies

BLOC I: THEORIES OF EU POLICY-MAKING   
  • Theories of EU Integration in Historical Perspective
  • The EU Policy Cycle
  • Europeanization and Policy Transfers

BLOC II: CHANGES IN EU POLICY-MAKING: SECTORAL STUDIES   
  • Neofunctionalist Dynamics and Regulatory Governance: the Single Market Policy
  • Policy Learning and Paradigm Shift: The Common Agricultural Policy
  • Soft Coordination in Higher Education Policy
  • Policy Framing and Artificial Intelligence Policy

Objectifs (et/ou acquis d'apprentissages spécifiques)

Objectives

  • Discover the main policies of the EU: history, features, reforms
  • Understand European policy-making procedures: institutions, rules, actors
  • Understand the mechanisms and actors of policy change in the EUR  
  • Follow current European policy issues

Skills developped

  • Extensive grasp of EU policies  
  • Mastering of concepts and theories in EU policy change in the EU
  • Understanding of how actors deal with EU policy-making in practice
  • Ability to discuss policy issues in English
  • Awareness of ongoing European affairs

Méthodes d'enseignement et activités d'apprentissages

Lectures will be interrupted and complemented by:

  • Debates about policy issues
  • Discussions about readings
  • Simulation games performed by student groups and collective feedback

Références, bibliographie et lectures recommandées

Recommended handbooks : 
Michelle Cini, Nieves Borragan, European Union Politics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022. 
Esther Versluis, Mendeltje van Keulen, Paul Stephenson, Analyzing the European Union policy process, Palgrave, 2014. 
 

Support(s) de cours

  • Université virtuelle

Contribution au profil d'enseignement

This course provides students with solid knowledge of key policies of the EU. Focusing on policies, it complements well other courses focused on institutions or politics. 

Autres renseignements

Contacts

Joel Ficet: joel.ficet@uclouvain.be
Appointment on demand (via e-mail)

Campus

Solbosch

Evaluation

Méthode(s) d'évaluation

  • Examen écrit
  • Autre

Examen écrit

Autre

SIMULATION GAME

  • Objectives
    • Research a particular case/policy issue identified by the instructor
    • Puts the emphasis on actors and interactions in specific institutional settings
  • Group work (4-8 people depending on topic)
    • The issue, institutional context and relevant decision-making procedure are briefly explained to the other students (2 minutes max)
    • You determine the relevant characters/roles
    • Each student endorses and performs a particular role
    • The game is performed in class for no longer than 10-15 min
    • Prepare a written report to be sent per e-mail on the day before the game
    • In 3-4 pages, describe:
      • What the specific situation of the situation is: case, dossier, time, institutional framework
      • Who the actors involved are
      • What are their positions on the issue at stake
      • Give the list of your references (5-10) : separate first hand material/documents/sources and academic literature.
      • Length: 250 words x nbr of participants
EXAM 
  • Written exam (2 hours)
  • Essay (4 pages max.): pick one of two questions

Construction de la note (en ce compris, la pondération des notes partielles)

  • Simulation game: 50% of final mark
  • Exam: 50%  of final mark

Langue(s) d'évaluation

  • anglais

Programmes