Universität Wien

040229 SE Policy in the EU (2017S)

The EU between market constituion and market correction

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 30 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 01.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Studierzone
  • Wednesday 08.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Studierzone
  • Wednesday 15.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Studierzone
  • Wednesday 22.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Studierzone
  • Wednesday 29.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Studierzone
  • Wednesday 05.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Studierzone
  • Wednesday 26.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Studierzone
  • Wednesday 03.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Studierzone
  • Wednesday 10.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Studierzone
  • Wednesday 17.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Studierzone
  • Wednesday 24.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Studierzone
  • Wednesday 31.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Studierzone
  • Wednesday 07.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Studierzone
  • Wednesday 14.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Studierzone
  • Wednesday 21.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Studierzone
  • Wednesday 28.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Studierzone

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

In the process of European integration, member states have largely centralized competition policy at the European level and thereby moved the provision of public services to a significant extent from the public sector to the market. Through the application of the “four market freedoms”, and “mutual recognition” of foreign regulatory standards, they also opened up domestic markets in goods and services for foreign competition, sometimes governed by foreign regulation. At the same time, however, liberalization seems to have unleashed an unprecedented level of regulatory activity at the EU level, and member-states often successfully “export” their domestic regulations to the EU level.
This seminar uses European integration theory to explain these and other seeming contradictions in regulatory EU policy. It provides and introduction to EU policy using instances of market constituting (liberal) and market-correcting (interventionist) policies as examples. It explores the tensions between these policies, their dynamics and potential for conflict; and it examines how and to what extent market constitution and market correction are embedded in the EU’s institutional architecture.

Assessment and permitted materials

Assignments:

This is an interactive seminar that builds on student input.

- A handful of discussion questions will be assigned for each session. The students are required to read the assigned literature with this question in mind and to prepare their answers.

- In each seminar session, several students will be picked at random and asked to present their answers as a discussion seed. This takes the form of an informal and very short "mini presentation", three to five minutes in duration. There will be no additional "long form" presentations.

- Each student has to submit one term paper of 3000 words (+/- 5%, counting only the body). The paper examines a suitable research question (to be discussed with the lecturer) and develops a consistent argument. As a minimum, it discusses eight relevant articles, detailing how they inform the research question; half of the articles should be found through the student’s own research.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Coursework assessment:

- The paper counts 55%; constructive, knowledgeable, and prepared engagement in the discussion counts 45% towards the final grade.

- Plagiarism, even of a short passage, leads to immediate failing of the course.

- The term paper is due no later than three weeks after the last session, at midnight of the last day.

Examination topics

Reading list

Helen Wallace and Christine Reh, “An Institutional Anatomy and Five Policy-Modes,” in Policy-Making in the European Union, ed. Helen Wallace, Mark A. Pollack, and Alasdair A. Young, 7. ed. (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2015), 72–112.

This text will be made available on moodle. Subsequent reading assignments will be announced in the syllabus and have to be obtained by the students themselves.

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