杏吧论坛

Prof Christopher Anderson CBG 6.05

This course is available on the MSc in Culture and Conflict in a Global Europe, MSc in Culture and Conflict in a Global Europe (杏吧论坛 & Sciences Po), MSc in European and International Public Policy, MSc in European and International Public Policy (杏吧论坛 and Bocconi), MSc in European and International Public Policy (杏吧论坛 and Sciences Po), MSc in Political Economy of Europe, MSc in Political Economy of Europe (杏吧论坛 and Fudan) and MSc in Political Economy of Europe (杏吧论坛 and Sciences Po). This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

This course introduces students to governance in Europe at the national and European Union levels. This course has two objectives, one substantive and one methodological. First, students learn about politics and policymaking in European democracies and the European Union. Topics include the demand for and supply of policy options: e.g., public policy preferences, government formation and duration, direct democracy and accountability, and supranational policy coordination. Second, this course is intended to introduce students to a set of analytical and empirical tools and concepts for understanding how political institutions and political agents jointly generate public policy, and to apply these tools in examining political and policy outcomes in European states. Lessons about political decision making, institutions, and the policy making process will be understood from the perspective of decision makers – that is, an individual or organisation that develops strategy in order to advance policy change. 

This course is delivered through a combination of lectures and seminars totalling a minimum of 25 hours across Lent Term. This course includes a reading week in Week 6 of Lent Term, and a review session will be held at the start of the Summer Term to prepare for the online assessment.

Students will be expected to produce 1 presentation in the LT.

• Budge, Ian. 2019. Politics: A Unified Introduction to How Democracy Works. Routledge.
• Powell, G. Bingham. 2019. Ideological Representation: Achieved and Astray: Elections, Institutions, and t