STV2500 – Politics in the European Union

Schedule, syllabus and examination date

Course content

In this course, you will learn to analyze decision-making in the European Union. The course consists of three parts: Government, Politics, and Policies. The premise for the course is that although the EU is not a state, it can be analyzed using standard theoretical tools from mainstream political science. The empirical focus is on how the EU is currently operating. We expect you to follow EU current affairs and be able to apply the theoretical tools to interpret contemporary developments. Moreover, you will develop the ability to use relevant data for analyzing politics in the European Union.

Learning outcome

Knowledge

You will

  • master central theoretical concepts in institutional rational choice

  • know where to find relevant information about the EU institutions, politics in the EU and development in the various policy-areas

  • be able to explain the main decision-making processes in the EU

Skills

You will

  • be able to apply concepts from institutional rational choice in substantive analysis of EU government, politics, and policies

  • learn to obtain and utilize primary and secondary EU data in your own writing

  • be able to analyze the consequences of decision-making procedures and the policy positions of actors for policy-outcomes

  • be able to employ theoretical tools to analyze current developments in the EU

  • be able to structure short academic texts to answer pre-defined research questions.

Competences

You will

  • develop the ability to find relevant data on the European Union provided by the Union’s institutions as well as secondary data

  • develop your abilty to use data to make an argument

  • develop your analytical writing skills

Admission to the course

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.

This course is not available for single course students.

Students should be familiar with the EU institutions and politics in the European Union, at the level of STV1501or similar.

Students should also have basic research design and statistical skills, at the level of STV101 and STV1020 – Politisk analyse 2: 澳门葡京手机版app下载sdesign og kvantitative metoder .

As the course draws on general theories and concepts from comparative politics, familiarity with such concepts, e.g. from STV130 will be assumed.

Teaching

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