On completion of the module a student should be able to:

• Defend a reasoned argument in public
• Have a broad understanding of key issues and debates in European Governance and Public Policy
• Communicate scholarship to a critical audience
• Synthesise in written form  distinct perspectives in European politics
• Sustain an argument from a variety of distinct theoretical perspectives

The module will take the form of 10 x3 hour seminars, and one training day at the end of the session, whereby EGPP students will participate in the post-graduate Research review, thereby associating closely the students with the EGPP research unit and providing an insight into what will be expected should they decide to progress to Postgraduate Research. Students will develop their presentational skills and their ability to defend an argument in public.

Whilst studying this module, students will practise and develop a number of skills, notably those of analytic reasoning, presentation, mastery of IT and ability to develop a reasoned argument. These skills have a broad importance in the labour market

The module will be assessed by one summative essays of 3000 words plus a A 2hr written examination

Students failing the module can re-submit their essay once for a maximum mark of 50%.

·         Postgraduate Induction

·         Multi-level Governance and the State

·         Which Europe? States and the processes of unitary and differentiated integration

·         How Europeanized are European states?

·         European Political Economy and Institutions

·         Europeanising Higher Education ?

·         Party government and party democracy: European realities and challenges

·         A Franco-German Europe?

·         Policy Networks

·         Problems of Comparative Analysis

·         States of Convergence: Policy Transfer and Policy Learning

·         EGIPP Postgraduate Training Afternoon

Dyson, K. and Sepos, A. (eds) (2010). Which Europe? The Politics of Differentiated Integration. Palgrave Macmillan.

Dyson, K. (2010),  The State Tradition in Western Europe (ECPR Press)

Featherstone K. and Radaelli, C. (eds (2003). The Politics of Europeanisation Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Piatonni, S. (2010) The Theory of Multi-level Governance Oxford: OUP

Rokkan, Stein Kuhnle, Stein Flora, Peter and Urwin, Derek (1999) State Formation, Nation-Building, and Mass Politics in Europe: The Theory of Stein Rokkan (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999)

Thompson, G. (ed.), Governing the European Economy

Gallagher, Laver & Mair, ( 2005) Representative Government in Modern Europe, (4^th edition), McGraw Hill,

John, P. (1998), Analysing Public Policy, chapter 4, esp 78-91.

Compston, H. (2009), Policy Networks and Policy Change