Party Politics on European Integration in Comparative Perspective

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1 Party Politics on European Integration in Comparative Perspective (Hauptseminar HWS 2016/17) DATES AND LOCATION Thursday, 15:30 17:00 [ ] Building A5 Room B 318 INSTRUCTOR Constantin Schäfer Office: Building A5, Room constantin.schaefer@uni-mannheim.de Phone: Office hours: Monday, 14:30-16:00 (please send an before coming) CONTENT Whether it is the AfD in Germany, the FN in France or the UKIP in the United Kingdom: populist Eurosceptic parties have gained massive ground in recent years all around Europe. The goal of this seminar is to understand the commonalities and variations in these developments and to analyze how they affect the party systems of EU member states. In order to do so, we will first recap conceptual and methodological approaches to analyze parties, party systems and party competition. In the second half of the course, we will read and discuss recent empirical studies about party politics on European integration from a comparative perspective. Questions that will be answered are, for example: What types of Eurosceptic parties can we identify across Europe and how do they relate to the traditional (mainstream) parties? What role does political competition on European integration play for different party systems? What is the relationship between parties and voters in this respect? Every week, students prepare written homeworks connected to mandatory readings (to be found on ILIAS) that are then discussed in class. Regular attendance, good preparation and active participation are key for fruitful discussions in class and the success of the whole seminar. Since the course esp. the second part deals mainly with quantitative empirical studies, a basic knowledge of these statistical methods is essential. At the end of the semester, students are asked to develop their own research proposal and present it in class, before eventually writing their own research paper on a topic closely related to the content of the course. Preferably, this should be an own empirical analysis from a comparative perspective, but could also be a case/country study or a literature review, especially for those not firm in quantitative methods. 1

2 BASIC INFORMATION 7 ECTS Recommended for students in the fifth semester of the Political Science B.A. Online registration on Portal² and ILIAS is mandatory (all available documents and upload of homeworks on ILIAS) Teaching language is English HOW TO SUCCEED IN SHORT Regular attendance and active participation (max. two missed sessions without documentation, e.g. doctoral attestation) Weekly preparation of mandatory readings with homeworks (to be uploaded in ILIAS) Writing and presenting a research proposal in class and reviewing the research proposal of one fellow student Writing a (final) research paper which will be graded Deadlines: o Research proposals: o Research papers: READINGS, HOMEWORKS AND CLASS PARTICIPATION For each week there are mandatory readings for all course participants and homeworks that will be announce orally in class or via . All readings are available electronically via ILIAS. Please note: It is not only essential that you read these pieces of literature prior to the sessions in order to participate in the class discussions, but the homeworks are also mandatory in order to pass the course. Please upload them until 2 P.M. (14.00) at the day of the respective lesson in ILIAS and only bring a printed version in cases when the uploading has not worked. It is also highly recommended to bring a copy of the readings to class and to take notes during the discussion, as there won t be electronic slides prepared by the instructor. As you can imagine, class participation is absolutely necessary to make the weekly sessions interesting and beneficial to everyone. RESEARCH PROPOSAL, REVIEW, PRESENTATION AND FINAL PAPER At the end of the semester, students are asked to develop and carry out an own (empirical) research project, which naturally should relate to the contents of the seminar. For that purpose, you need to submit a first research proposal that includes a working title, the research question, a preliminary content overview and a short bibliography (the deadline will be announced in class). The proposals will then be presented in class, which will take place in the last session of the semester. Afterwards, each presenter will be reviewed by one fellow student and the course instructor. For this purpose, students are asked to write a review beforehand and bring it to class. The final paper itself needs to be written in English. The length of the paper should be around words (+/- 10%), which is around 15 pages. It needs to be uploaded until the 15 th January 2017 in electronic form to ILIAS and submitted as a printed copy at the Chair of Comparative Government the following day (16 th Jan 2017) at the Chair of Comparative Government (either at my office or at the secretary s office A336). The printed version needs to include a signed declaration of authorship). 2

3 SCHEDULE AND READINGS Introduction PART I: UNDERSTANDING PARTY POLITICS BASIC CONCEPTS AND METHODOLOGICAL TOOLS Political Parties, Their Role and Their Emergence Katz, Richard S. (2014): Political Parties. In: Caramani, Daniel (Ed.): Comparative Politics. Third Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press Scarrow, Susan E. (2006): The nineteenth century origins of modern political parties: The unwanted emergence of party-based politics. In: Katz, Richard S. / Crotty, Wiliam (Eds.): Handbook of Party Politics. London/Thousand Oaks/New Dehli: SAGE Publications White, John K. (2006): What is a political party? In: Katz, Richard S. / Crotty, Wiliam (Eds.): Handbook of Party Politics. London/Thousand Oaks/New Dehli: SAGE Publications Party Systems and Their Changes Caramani, Daniel (2014): Party systems. In: Caramani, Daniel (Ed.): Comparative Politics. Third Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press Mair, Peter (2006): Party system change. In: Katz, Richard S. / Crotty, Wiliam (Eds.): Handbook of Party Politics. London/Thousand Oaks/New Dehli: SAGE Publications Wolinetz, Steven (2006): Party systems and party system types. In: Katz, Richard S. / Crotty, Wiliam (Eds.): Handbook of Party Politics. London/Thousand Oaks/New Dehli: SAGE Publications Party Types, Party Models and Party Families Gallagher, Michael / Laver, Michael / Mair, Peter (2011): Party Families. In: Gallagher, Michael / Laver, Michael / Mair, Peter: Representative Government in Modern Europe. Fifth Edition. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill Krouwel, Andre (2006): Party Models. In: Katz, Richard S. / Crotty, Wiliam (Eds.): Handbook of Party Politics. London/Thousand Oaks/New Dehli: SAGE Publications Meguid, Bonnie M. (2008): The Niche Party Phenomenon. In: Meguid, Bonnie M.: Party Competition between Unequals: Strategies and Electoral Fortunes in Western Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

4 Measuring Party Positions Budge, Ian (2006): Identifying Dimensions and Locating Parties: Methodological and Conceptual Problems. In: Katz, Richard S. / Crotty, Wiliam (Eds.): Handbook of Party Politics. London/Thousand Oaks/New Dehli: SAGE Publications Laver, Michael (2014): Measuring Policy Positions in Political Space. Annual Review of Politcal Science 17: Ray, Leonard (2007): Validity of measured party positions on European integration: Assumptions, approaches, and a comparison of alternative measures. Electoral Studies 26: Part II: Political Conflict over European Integration and Party-Based Euroscepticism The Changing Political Landscape in Europe Kriesi, Hanspeter / Grande, Edgar / Lachat, Romain / Dolezal, Martin / Bornschier, Simon / Frey, Timotheos (2006): Globalization and the transformation of the national political space: Six European countries compared. European Journal of Political Research 45: Marks, Gary / Wilson, Carole J. (2000): The Past in the Present: A Cleavage Theory of Party Response to European Integration. British Journal of Political Science 30(3): Ideology or Strategy: What Determines Party Positions on European Integration? Hooghe, Liesbet / Marks, Gary / Wilson, Carole J. (2002): Does Left-Right Structure Party Positions on European Integration? Comparative Political Studies 35(8): Sitter, Nick (2001): "The politics of opposition and European integration in Scandinavia: Is Euro scepticism a government opposition dynamic?" West European Politics 24(4): An East-West Divide in Party Competition on European Integration? Marks, Gary / Hooghe, Liesbet / Nelson, Moira / Edwards, Erica (2006): Party Competition and European Integration in the East and West. Different Structure, Same Causality. Comparative Political Studies 39(2): Whitefield, Stephen / Rohrschneider, Robert (2015): The Salience of European Integration to Party Competition: Western and Eastern Europe Compared. East European Politics and Societies and Cultures 29(1):

5 The Concept of Party-Based Euroscepticism Kopecky, Petr / Mudde, Cas (2002): The Two Sides of Euroscepticism. Party Positions on European Integration in East Central Europe. European Union Politics 3(3): Szczerbiak, Aleks / Taggart, Paul (2008): Theorizing Party-Based Euroscepticism: Problems of Definition, Measurement, and Causality. In: Szczerbiak, Aleks / Taggart, Paul (Eds.): Opposing Europe? The Comparative Party Politics of Euroscepticism. Volume 2: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press Euroscepticism of Extremist and Radical Parties De Vries, Catherine E. / Edwards, Erica (2009): Taking Europe to its Extremes. Extremist Parties and Public Euroscepticism. Party Politics 15(1): Halikopoulou, Daphne / Nanou, Kyriaki / Vasilopoulou, Sofia (2012): The paradox of nationalism: The common denominator of radical right and radical left Euroscepticism. European Journal of Political Research 51: Mass-Elite Linkages on European Integration I: Do Parties Respond to Voters? Meijers, Maurits J. (2015): Contagious Euroscepticism: The impact of Eurosceptic support on mainstream party positions on European integration. Party Politics [published online before print, DOI: / ]. Williams, Christopher / Spoon, Jae-Jae (2015): Differentiated party response: The effect of Euroskeptic public opinion on party positions. European Union Politics 16(2): Mass-Elite Linkages on European Integration II: Do Voters Respond to Parties? Adams, John / Ezrow, Lawrence / Sömer-Topcu, Zeynep (2014): Do Voters Respond to Party Manifestos or to a Wider Information Environment? An Analysis of Mass-Elite Linkages on European Integration. American Journal of Political Science 58(4): Steenbergen, Marco R. / Edwards, Erica E. / de Vries, Catherine E. (2007): Who s Cueing Whom? Mass-Elite Linkages and the Future of European Integration. European Union Politics 8(1): Final Session: Student Presentations of Research Proposals 5

6 FURTHER LITERATURE BOOKS ON PARTY POLITICS & PARTY COMPETITION ON EUROPEAN INTEGRATION Adams, James F. / Merrill III, Samuel / Grofman, Bernard (2005): A unified theory of party competition: a cross-national analysis integrating spatial and behavioral factors. Cambridge University Press. Benoit, Kenneth / Laver, Michael (2006): Party policy in modern democracies. Routledge. Katz, Richard S. / Crotty, Wiliam (2006): Handbook of Party Politics. SAGE Publications. Marks, Gary / Steenbergen, Marco R. (2004): European Integration and Political Conflict. Cambridge University Press. Sartori, Giovanni (2005): Parties and Party Systems. A Framework for Analysis. ECPR Press. Szczerbiak, Aleks / Taggart, Paul (2008): Opposing Europe? The Comparative Party Politics of Euroscepticism. Oxford University Press [Vol. I and II]. CASE AND COUNTRY STUDIES Arzheimer, Kai (2015): The AfD: Finally a Successful Right-Wing Populist Eurosceptic Party for Germany? West European Politics 38(3): Ford, Robert / Goodwin, Matthew (2014): Understanding UKIP: Identity, Social Change and the Left Behind. The Political Quarterly 85(3): Goodliffe, Gabriel (2015): Europe s salience and owning Euroscepticism: Explaining the Front National s victory in the 2014 European elections in France. French Politics 13 (4): Gregor, Milos / Mackova, Alena (2015): Euroscepticism the Czech Way: An analysis of Vaclav Klaus speeches. European Journal of Communication 30(4): Grimm, Robert (2015): The rise of the German Eurosceptic party Alternative für Deutschland, between ordoliberal critique and popular anxiety. International Political Science Review 36(3): Katsanidou, Alexia / Otjes, Simon (2015): How the European debt crisis reshaped national political space: The case of Greece. European Union Politics 17(2): Lanzone, Maria E. (2014): The Post-Modern Populism in Italy: The Case of the Five Star Movement. Research in Political Sociology 22: Markowski, Radosłav / Tucker, Joshua A. (2010): "Euroscepticism and the emergence of political parties in Poland." Party Politics 16(4): Orriols, Lluis / Cordero, Guillermo (2016): The Breakdown of the Spanish Two-Party System: The Upsurge of Podemos and Ciudadanos in the 2015 General Election. South European Society and Politics [published online before publication, DOI: / ]. Ramiro, Luis / Gomez, Raul (2016): Radical-Left Populism during the Great Recession: Podemos and Its Competition with the Established Radical Left. Political Studies [published online before print, DOI: / ]. Startin, Nicholas (2015): Have we reached a tipping point? The mainstreaming of Euroscepticism in the UK. International Political Science Review 36(3): Stavrakakis, Yannis / Katsambekis, Giorgos (2014): Left-wing populism in the European periphery: the case of SYRIZA. Journal of Political Ideologies 19(2): Vasilopoulou, Sofia / Halikiopoulou, Daphne / Exadaktylos, Theofanis (2014): Greece in Crisis: Austerity, Popuism and the Politics of Blame. Journal of Common Market Studies 52(2):