THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE EU- FALL, 2022 4 credits
Univ.Prof. Laszló Csaba Course description
This survey course is devoted to students of international relations, economics, political science and public policy. Composed of lectures and seminars, building on global cutting edge research it offers a bird’s eye view of a difficult and contestd reality of the European Union. It covers the major policy fields, policy relvant theories and focuses on potential future scenarios, with an ever stronger presence of the EU in global architecture. It revolves around the question of how far historically emerged forms and depth of integration fit to the new challenges, represented by the crisis of Ukraine, the fragility of the international financial and trade regimes, not to speak of the Climate Agreements of G26 of Glasgow, November 2021. Lectures cover the basic, general features of the topics in question, while required and recommended readings address peculiars, bits and pieces. While required reaings must be individually processed, seminar presentations from among the
RECOMMENDED allow for deepening knowledge and get involved in discoursive interaction by course participants.
Requirements: Regular, interactive presence in each and every lecture and seminar/10pc, weekly submission of summary of required readings/5 pc each, seminar presentation/10pc, review of a book of your choice from within the field/20pc. In case of difficulty, you must inform the instrucor IN ADVANCE.
Outcomes: As a survey course it offers you a comprenehsive overview of the subject.
Improves your presentational and analytical skills, familiarizes you with newest and alo with established insights from the literature, allows you to possess with expert knowledge applicable in business, policy positions and the academe. It provides you with a compass in the turbulent world of economics and politics of the European Union as a global power.
REFERENCE VOLUMES
These cover various aspects of the coure subject in a depth which can not be attained in a normal rythm of teaching, but may be helpful if you write your theses on any of these topics or take special interest in any of the sub-fields. You may also choose a chapter from these books for seminar presentation, or choose these titles as subject of your book review for the course.
1/ LAURSEN,F.ED/2021/: The Oxford Encyclopedia of EU Politics, vols i-IV. Oxford-New York:
oxford University Press.
2/ BEREND,T.I./2020/: The Economics and Politics of European Integration:Populism, Nationalism and the History of the EU. Abingdon-NY: Routedge/eBook.
3/ LANDESMANN,M.- SZÉKELY,P.I.eds/2021/: Does EU Membership Facilitate Convergence?
The Experience of the EU’s Eastern Enlargement, vols I-II. Basingstoke:Palgrave
4/ FISCHER,G. – STRAUSS, R., .eds, /2021/: Europe’s Income, Wealth, Consmumption and Inequality. Oxford- New York: Oxford University Press/eBook.
5/ MÁTYÁS ,L, .ed. /2022/: Emerging European Economies after the Pandemic. Houndmills:
Palgrave/eBook.
6/ FARGION,V. – GAZIBO,M.eds/2021/: REvisiting EU-Africa Relations in a Changing World.
Cheltenham: E.Elgar/eBook
7/ RAUHUT, D.et al eds/2021/: EU Cohesion Policy and Spatial Governance. Cheltenham/UK:
E.Elgar/eBook.
REQUIRED AND RECOMMMENDED READINGS
1/REQ.: Forum Discussion: Europe’s path to net zero emmission. Intereconomics, vol.56.no.6.,pp304-335/Dec.2021/.-OA
2/REQ.: ASIMAKOPOULOS,I. – HOWARTH,D.˛2022/: Stillborn Banking Union. Journal of Common Market Studies, vol.60. no.2.-pp264-282/OA.
3/ recom.: CASAGRANDE,S. – DALLAGO,B./2021/: Benchmarking institutional variety in the eurozone: an empirical investigation. Economic Systems, vol.45.no.1. article no 100 838/OA
4/ recom.: TOBER,T. – BUSEMEYER,M./2022/: Breaking the link? How European integration shapes social policy demand and supply. Journal of European Public Policy, vol.29.no.2., pp 259-280./OA.
5/ recom.: van t’KLOSTER,J./2021/: Technocratic Keynesianism: a paradigm shift without legislative change. New Political Economy, vol.29, AA as of 31 December, OA on tafonline
6/ REQUIRED: MADOW,Ph./2021/: Models of the welfare state. IN: BÉLAND,D.et al eds: The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, pp.787- 802/ the case studie sin the chapter are all recommended/-eBook.
7/ recom.: GYŐRFFY,D./2022/: The middle income trap in central and eastern europe in the 2010s: the role of institutions.
Comparative European Politics, vol.20.no.1.,pp90-113/OA.
8/recom. MARTILL,B./2021/: Unity over diversity? The politics of differentiated integration after Brexit. Journal of European Integration, vol.43.no.8.,pp 973-988.
9/ REQ.: Forum discussion: Redesigning EU Fiscal Rules after Covid 19. Intereconomics, vol.57.no.1/2022/,pp 4-32/OA/online
10/recom. SPIELBERGER,L./2022/: The politicization of the European Central Bank and its emergency credit lines outside the euro area. Journal of European Public Policy,
vol.29/AA/OA, 14 February
11/ REQ.: D’ADDA,D.et al/2022/: Smart Specialization Strategy in perspective: have regions changed the allocation of the Structural Funds? Regional Studies, vol.56.no.1,pp 155-170.
12/ recom: KOLLIAS,Ch./2022/: Turkey’s accession to the EU: a bridge too far? Journal of Contemporary European Studies, advance article as of 27 Nov., 2021/OA
13/recom: THOMSON,R. – DUMONT,P./2022/: A comparison of two views ont he European Commission: engine of integration and conduit of national interest. Journal of European Public Policy, vol.29., special issue no 1.,pp 136-154/OA
14/ REQ.. TÜMLER,M./2022/: Completing the Banking Union? The role of national deposit guarantee schemes in shifting member states’ preferences ont he European Deposit Insurance Scheme. Journal of Common Market Studies, advance article, OA, 24 January.
15/ recom.: GUTER-SANDU,A. – MURRAU,S./2022/: The Eurozone’s evolving fiscal ecosystem:Mitigating fiscal discipline by governing through off-balance-sheet fiscal agencies. New Political Economy, vol.27.no.1.,pp 62-80/OA
16/REQ.: CSABA,L./2021/: The limits to Europe. IN: ANDREFF,W.ed.: Comparative Economic Studies in Europe – a Thirty Year Assessment. Houndmills: Palgrave, pp. 191-210/eBook
17/recom. DALLAGO,B. – ROSEFIELDE,S./2021/: A flexible and concerned Europe: a new proposal. Acta Oeconomica, vol.71.no.2.,pp 195-212/not OA/.
18/ recom.: THOMMEN,Y./2022/: Reforms of collective bargaining in Europe: bad timing, bad outcomes? European Journal of Political Economy, vol.71/January, article no. 102 066/OA
19/ recom.: KOTARSKI,K. – PETAK,Z./2020/: When EU political convergence fails in new member-states: Corporate and party-state capture in Croatia and the Czech Republic.
Europe-Asia Studies, vol.73.no.4/May, pp740-765/OA
20/ REQ.: ODIIJE,M/2022/: Unintentional neocolonialism? Three generations of trade and development relations between the EU and west Africa. Journal of Economic Integration, vol.43/advance article/30 March, 2021/OA
227.
21/recom.: YÖRÜK, E.et al/2022/: The four global worlds of welfare capitalism: Institutional, neoliberal,populist and residual welfare states. Journal of European Social Policy,
vol.32/AA/, 8 January/OA, pp.1-16.
22/REQ.:/ GARDNER, A./2021/: The partnership between the USA and the EU. IN:
WALLACE,H.ed: Europe’s Transformations. Oxford-N.Y.: OUP/Oxford Scholarship Online, ch.16/OA
23/recom.: SCHMIDT,V./2022/: The discoursive construction of discontent: varieties of populist anti-system ideas and discoursive interactions in Europe. Journal of European Integration, vol.44.no.2.,pp. 165-182./OA
24/REQ.: COUTINHO,L.- TURINI,A./2020/: Real convergence across the Euro are-What role do macroeconomic imbalances play? Intereconomics, vol.55.no.5.,pp301-311/OA
25/ recom.: BOD,P.Á et al/2021/: Varieties of euro adoption strategies in the Visegrád countries befor the pandemic. Acta Oeconomica, vol.71.no.4.,pp 519-550/OA.
26/ REQ.: BEVINGTON,M. – MENON,A./2021/: Implications of Brexit for the UK and EU. IN:
WALLACE, H., ed: Europe’s Transformations. Oxford University Press, Oxford Scholarship Online/OA, November.
27/recom.: NAGY,S.Gy. – SILJAK,D./2022/: Is the EU still a convergence machine? Acta Oeconomica, vol.72.no.1.,pp 47-63/OA.
28/recom.: BEETSMA, R.et al/2022/: What kind of EU fiscal capacity? Economic Policy, vol.37/advance article/18 January, 2022/Academic.oup.com/not OA
29/REQ.: European Commission/2022/: The new common agricultural policy,2023-2027.
Available at: http.ec.europa.eu/food-farming/key-policies/common-agricultural-policy/new- cap-2023-27/en
30/recom.: BONGARDT,A. – TORRES,F./2022/: The European Green Deal: more than an exit strategy to pandemic crisis , or a building block to a sustainable European economic model?
Journal of Common Market Studies, vol.60.no.1.,pp 170-185/OA
31/recom.: YI MA/2í22/: Improved soft law implementation with national ownership:
evidence from the European Semester. Comparative European POlitics, vol.20.no.1.,pp 1- 32/OA.
32/ recom.: GEHRING,K./2022/: Can external threats foster European Union identity?
Evidence from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Economic Journal/advance article, 17 November, 2021/OA
33/recom.: BENGTSSON,E./2021/: Looking back: a historical perspective on European crises.
IN: FERRI,G. -d’APICE,V.eds.: A Modern Guide to Financial Shocks and Crises. Cheltenham:
E.Elgar, pp289-313/print book/.
34/ recom.: STOUPOS,N. KIOHOS,A./2022/: Euro area- toward a European common bond?
Journal of Common Market Studies,vol60/advance article/21 Dec., 202í/OA
35/recom.: RIGBY, D.et al/2022/: Do EU regions benfit from the Smart Specialization principle? Regional Studies, vol.56/advance article, as of 21 March/OA.
36/recom.: PRIEBUS,S./2022/: Watering down the ’nuclear option’: the Council and the article 7 dilemma. Journal of European Integration, vol.44/advance article/14
March,2í22/OA.
37/recom.:SOYALTIN-COLELLA,D./2022/: The EU’s actions without sanctions? The politcs of the rule of law crisis in may Europes. European Politics and Society, vol.23.no.1.,pp 25- 41/not OA
38/ recom.: LINDSTRÖM, N./2021/: Aiding the state: administrative capacity and creative compliance with European state aid rules in new member-states. Journal of European Public Policy, vol.29.no.4,pp 1789-1806/OA
39/recom.: KENGYEL,Á./2022/: Would re-nationalization aand co-financing of the Common Agricultural Policy be justified? Intereconomics, vol.57.no.2.,,pp113-119/OA.
40/ recom.: KÖLLING,M./2022/: The role of /rule of law/ conditionality in MFF 2021-27 and Next Generation EU, or the stressed budget. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, vol.30/AA/online on 31 March/not OA
41/recom.: CSEHI,R./2022/: The challenge populist governments pose for the process and theory of European integration. West European Politics,vol.45/AA/,online 5 Nov.2021/not OA.
42/recom.:CAPRANU,B. et al/2022/: Do independent fiscal institutions cause better fiscal outcomes in the European Union? Economic Systems, vol.46/AA/, 16 March/not OA
43/ recom.: ARMINGEON, K.et al/2022/: Voices from the past: economic and political vulnerabilities in the making of Next Generation EU. Comparative European Politics, vol.20.no.2.,pp 144-165/OA.
44/recom.: EISI,A. – RUBIO,E./2022/: What makes economic differentiation effective?
Insights from the EU’s energy sector, banking union and third country access the the Single Market. The International Spectator, vol.57.no.1.,pp. 90-106/OA
45/recom.: GORYNIA,M.et al/2022/: Integration and investment development paths in CEE countries. Does EU membership make a difference? Eurasian Geography and Economics, vol.63.no.1.,pp 27-54/OA.
46/recom.: D’ORAZIO,P. – POPOYAN,L./2022/: Realizing central banks’ climate ambitions through financial stabiliyy mandates. Intereconomics, vol.57.no.2.,pp103-113./OA.
47/recom: DULEBA,A./2022/: Differentiated European integration of UKraine in comparative perspective. East European Politics and Societies, vol.36.no.2.,pp 359-377/OA.
48/recom.: MOGNAI,I./2022/: The politics of ECB’s economic ideas and its implications for European economic governance: embeddig a resilient EMU from the top-down?
Comparative European Politics, vol.20/AA/ 20April/OA via SpringerLink
49/recom:: ANGHEL,V. – JONES,E./2022/: Failing forward in Eastwrd enlargement: problem solving through problem making. Journal of European Public Policy, vol.29.no.7.,pp 1092- 1111/OA
NOTE: As a rule, one article per week is assigned, and 3 p summaries of each is expected by the week, not in bulk. Further you should pick a title – classical or new – from within the field/and approved by the instructor/ and write a 10 page review in line with academic standards. Since there is no terms of exams the course ends by the semeste end at latest, i.e all submissions , appeals, add-on works need to be settled by 14 December, 2022 18 hrs CET/no procrastination clause/. Teaching is in hybrid form. Whenever possible in-class teaching, as stipulated by the Senate will take place. But, given the recurring pandemic and related risks, basically all readings are available online.
DETAILED SCHEDULE OF COURSE EVENTS/hybrid mode, all items avalable online at CEU/
1/ 20 September, 2022, Tuesday/ONLINE/: Introduction, requirements. EU as a special creature of international low and political economy
2/26-27 Sept, 2022/in class, further on, unless differently specified/
The Monetary Model of European Integration: History, Theory, Outcomes/lecture and seminar/.
3/ 3-4 October, 2022/in class, lecture and seminar/
The Role of Fiscal Policy in Economic and Monetary Union: Theory and Evidence
4/ 10-11 Oct., 2022
Labor Markets in the EMU. Implications of and for the Social Model/s.
5/ 17-18 October, 2022
Common Agricultural Policy: How to Survive Globalization and the Green Deal?
6/24-25 October, 2022
Crisis, Crisis Mangement and the Role of NextGeneration Fund
7/31 Oct/Reformation day and 1 Nov, All Saints’ day: public holiday in Hungary and Austria
8/7-8 Nov.2022
Cohesion Policies in the EU: Poetry, Reality, Convergence and Waste 9/ 14-15 November, 2022
The EU in Global Trade Conflict: Transatlantic Issues and the Challenge of Bulateralism
10/21-22 November, 2022
Environmental Policy in the EU: Green Deal, COP 2026, Fit for Fifty- Global Leadership and War in Ukraine
11/28-29 November, 2022
Enlargements – Challenges, Differences, Potentials and the Threat of Doing Nothing
12/ 5-6 December, 2022
Brexit: the EU at Crossroads and the Future of Deepening
13/ 14 December, 2022: Final submissions, voluntary add-ons, appeals/online/.
14/ 15 December,2020, Thursday: Final grading/in SITS only as Administration decides/.
