Basic text, available at the bookstore: Yves Meny / Andrew Knapp: Government and Politics in Western Europe. Britain, France, Italy, Germany. Third Edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford/New York 1999. Most of the other texts are on reserve at Wilson Library.
Requirements: Grades are based on class participation (20 %), midterm exam (20 %), final exam (20 %), and term-papers (40 %). Term papers should be appr. 15 pages in length and are due at the end of November. Please discuss topics with me during my office-hours in September.
| 9/8: |
Introduction, organization. |
| 9/10: |
The consequences of Yalta: the division and formation of Europe (OR: Geoffrey K. Roberts/Patricia Hogwood: European politics today, Manchester UK 1997, pp. 1-23) |
| 9/13 & 9/15 |
Stability and change in 3 European nations (RR: Meny/Knapp 1-15) |
| 9/17: |
Social structure as a source of political conflict: historical perspectives (RR: Percy Allum: State and Society in Western Europe, Oxford/Cambridge 1995, pp. 79-121) |
| 9/20: |
Social structure and cleavages: the current situation (RR: Meny/Knapp 16-45; OR: Roberts/Hogwood, 50-77) |
| 9/22 & 9/24: |
Political parties (RR: Meny/Knapp 56-104) |
| 9/27: |
Party systems (RR: Meny/Knapp 104-122; OR: Allum 147-152, 182-237) |
| 9/29: |
Views from the past 1: The Fifties: Vanishing Opposition (RR: Otto Kirchheimer: Germany: The Vanishing Opposition. In: Robert Dahl (ed.): Political Opposition in Western Democracies, New Haven/London 1966, pp. 237-259) |
| 10/1: |
Views from the past 2: The Eighties: New Social Movements (RR: Russell J. Dalton/Manfred Kuechler (eds.): Challenging the Political Order. New Social and Political Movements in Western Democracies, New York 1990, chapters 3, 5, 14) |
| 10/4: |
Interest Groups (RR: Meny/Knapp 121-152) |
| 10/6: |
Electoral systems (RR: Meny/Knapp 153-180; OR: Roberts/Hogwood 78-106 |
| 10/8: |
No class! (GSA-conference in Atlanta) |
| 10/11: |
Electoral change: Italy in the early 90's. (RR: Hilary Partridge: Italian politics today, Manchester/New York 1998, pp. 145-170. OR: Roberto D'Alimonte/Stefano Bartolini: 'Electoral Transition' and Party System Change in Italy, in: West European Politics 26 (1997) 1, pp. 110-134; Gianfranco Pasquino: No Longer A 'Party State'? Institutions, Power and the Problems of Italian Reform, ibidem, pp. 34-53.) |
| 10/13: |
Are there still "Two Germanies"? (RR: David P. Conradt: Political Culture in Unified Germany: Will the Bonn Republic Survive and Thrive in Berlin ? In: German Studies Review 21(1998) 1, 83-104; Dieter Fuchs/Robert Rohrschneider: Postmaterialism and Electoral Choice before and after German Unification, in: West European Politics 21(1998) 2, pp. 95-11.) |
| 10/15: |
Parliaments 1 (RR: Meny/Knapp 182-207) |
| 10/18: |
Parliaments 2 (RR: Meny/Knapp 207-220; OR: "Parliamentary Affairs" 50(1997) 3, Articles by Saalfeld (380-395), Norton (357-372), and Della Salla (396-409)) |
| 10/20: |
Prep.-Session for Midterm-Exam |
| 10/22: |
Heads of Government (RR: Meny/Knapp 222-238) |
| 10/25: |
MIDTERM EXAM |
| 10/27: |
Central leadership (RR: Meny/Knapp 238-262) |
| 10/29: |
Conceptualizing regime-types. (RR: Robert Elgie: Models of Executive Politics: a Framework for the Study of Executive Power Relations in Parliamentary and Semi-presidential Regimes, in: Political Studies 45 (1997) 2, pp. 217-231. OR: R. Kent Weaver/Bert A. Rockman: Assessing the Effects of Institutions, in: Weaver/Rockman (eds.): Do Institutions Matter? Government Capabilities in the United States and Abroad, Washington D.C. 1993, pp. 1-41). |
| 11/1: |
Administrative and political elites (RR: Meny/Knapp 306-316; B. Guy Peters: Bureaucrats and Political Appointees in European Democracies: Who's Who and Does it Make Any Difference? In: Ali Farazmand (ed.): Modern Systems of Government. Exploring the Role of Bureaucrats and Politicians, Thousand Oaks/London/New Delhi 1997, pp. 232-254.) |
| 11/3 & 11/5: |
Political culture: beliefs and values (RR: Max Kaase/Kenneth Newton: Beliefs in Government, Oxford/New York 1995, pp. 65-95. Mattei Dogan: The Decline of Traditional Values in Western Europe. Religion, Nationalism, Authority, in: International Journal of Comparative Sociology 39 (1998) 1, 77-90. OR: Christopher J. Anderson/Christine A. Guillory: Political Institutions and Satisfaction with Democracy: A Cross-National Analysis of Consensus and Majoritarian Systems, in: American Political Science Review 91 (1997) 1, pp. 66-81.) |
| 11/8: |
Administrative structures and civil service (RR: Meny/Knapp 261-306). |
| 11/10: |
Devolution in Britain (RR: William L. Miller: The Periphery and ist Paradoxes, in: West European Politics 21 (1998) 1, pp. 167-196; Vernon Bogdanor: Devolution: Decentralization or Disintegration? In: The Political Quarterly 70 (1999) 2, pp. 185-194.) |
| 11/12: |
The "Hollow State": Clientilism and corruption in Italy (RR: Donnatella della Porta/Alberto Vannucci: The 'Peverse Effects' of Political Corruption, in: Political Studies 45 (1997), Special Issue, pp. 516-538. OR: Patrick Mc Carthy: The Crisis of the Italian State. From the Origins of the Cold War to the Fall of Berlusconi and Beyond, Houndsmills and London 1997, pp. 61-101.) |
| 11/15: |
"New Public Management"- more than a fashion? (RR: Diana Woodhouse: In Pursuit of Good Administration. Ministers, Civil Servants and Judges, Oxford 1997, pp. 41-58; Werner Jann: Public Management Reform in Germany: A Revolution without a Theory? In: W.J.M. Kickert (ed.): Public Management and Administrative Reform in Western Europe, Cheltenham, UK/Lyme, US 1997, pp. 81-100. OR: Richard Common: The agencification of the Civil Service, in: Maurice Mullard (ed.): Policy Making in Britain. An Introduction, London/New York 1995, pp. 136-195; Klaus Koenig: Entrepreneurial Management or Executive Administration: The Perspective of Classical Public Administration, in: Kickert, loc. cit., pp. 217-236.) |
| 11/17 & 11/19: |
The role of the Courts (RR: Meny/Knapp 317-353. OR: Roberts/Hogwood 219-246; Carlo Guarnieri: The Judiciary in the Italian Political Crisis, in: West European Politics 20 (1997) 1, pp. 157-175; James L. Gibson/Gregory A. Caldeira: The Legal Cultures of Europe,. in: Law and Society Review 30(1996) 1, pp. 55-85.) |
| 11/22: |
Who is a citizen? (RR: Jacqueline Bhabba: Belonging in Europe: Citizenship and post-national rights, in: International Social Science Journal No. 159, March 1999, pp. 11-23.) |
| 11/24: |
The process of European integration (RR: Meny/Knapp 354-385. OR: David de Giustino: A Reader in European Integration, London and New York 1996, pp. 252-294.) |
| 11/29 & 12/1: |
The European Union as a political entity (RR: Meny/Knapp 386-461) |
| 12/3: |
"Europe" as a regulatory state? (RR: Giandomenico Majone: The Regulatory State and ist Problems, in: West European Politics 22(1999) 1, pp. 1-24; Silvia Walby: The new regulatory state: the social powers of the European Union, in: British Journal of Sociology 50 (1999) 1, pp. 118-139.) |
| 12/6: |
Industrial relations (RR: Paul Teague: Lean Production and the German Model, in: German Politics 6 (1997) 2, pp. 76-94; Wolfgang Streeck: The Internationalization of Industrial Relations in Europe: Prospects and Problems, in: Politics and Society 26 (1998) 4, pp. 429-459. OR: Marino Reginí/Ida Regalia: Employers, Unions, and the State: The Resurgence of Concertation in Italy, in: West European Politics 20 (1997) 1, pp. 210-230; Mitchell P. Smith: Facing the Market: Institutions, Strategies, and the Fate of Organized Labor in Germany and Britain, in: Politics and Society 26 (1998) 1, pp. 35-67.) |
| 12/8: |
Prep.-Session for Final Exam |
| 12/10 & 12/13: |
Welfare-state retrenchment (RR: Richard Clayton/Jonas Pontusson: Welfare-State Retrenchment Revisited. Entitlement Cuts, Public Sector Restructuring, and Inegalitatian Trends in Advanced Capitalist Societies, in: World Politics 51 (1998) 1, pp. 67-98; Jonah D. Levy: Vice into Virtue? Progressive Politics and Welfare Reform in Continental Europe, in: Politics and Society 27 (1999) 2, pp. 239-273.) |
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FINAL EXAM |
