The New Economic Governance of the European Union and Its Impact on Member States. 1st Term Seminar

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1 The New Economic Governance of the European Union and Its Impact on Member States 1st Term Seminar Prof. Adrienne Héritier Tuesdays 13:00-15:00 Seminar Room 3 (Badia Fiesolana) The international financial crisis and the Eurozone crisis have led to important changes in the economic governance of the European Union with important policy implications and institutional implications both at the European level and the national level. Three questions will be at the centre of the analysis to be conducted in the seminar: (1) Which new instruments have been developed in order to overcome the international financial and ensuing sovereign debt crisis as well as the ensuing economic consequences in member states? How were the new instruments shaped in the European policy making process? Which actors opted for which solutions and why were specific instruments chosen? Some of the most important new instruments are the European Financial Stability Facility, the European Stability Mechanism, the Fiscal Compact, the Six plus Two pack regulations under the revised European Stability and Growth pact. What do these instruments provide for and what is their aim? (2) In a second step we will study how the various instruments of economic governance are applied in practice. How do they play out in different member states? Which actors play an important role in the implementation of the rules of European economic governance? How much latitude do actors have in the application of the rules? To what

2 extent the rules transformed in the course their implementation? And, finally, what is their impact on national institutions and national policies? (3) Finally, it will be discussed what the overall implications all these policy and institutional changes will be for the overall project of European integration. Has it led to a deepening of integration? Or will it result in a Union of more flexible integration of variable geometry? Answers to the three questions will be based on a theory-guided empirical analysis. Theories which offer answers to questions one and two are theories of institutional design, bargaining theory, theory of institutional change, in the context of incomplete contracts, Europeanization theories, liberal intergovernmentalism, neo-functionalism and historical institutionalism. In order to get credit, participants are expected to a) discuss two texts of the syllabus or b) present their own pertinent research and discuss one text of the syllabus. Seminar Plan Session One: October 8 th 2013 Introduction Theoretical background and empirical themes Task assignment Session Two: October 15 th 2013 Theories (cont.): Readings: Fabbrini, S., 2013, Intergovernmentalism and Its Limits: Assessing the EU s Answer to the Euro Crisis, Working Paper, LUISS, Rome. Ackrill, R., Kay, R., Zahariadis, N., 2013, Ambiguity, Multiple Streams and EU Policy, JEPP, 20:6,

3 Schimmelfennig, J., 2013, European Integration in the Euro Crisis: the limits of postfunctionalism,paper MZES Workshop, Coping with Crisis: Europe s Challenges and Strategies, Mannheim. Session Three: October 22 nd International Context: Drezner, D.W., McNamara, K.R., 2013, International Political Economy, Global Financial Orders and the 2008 Financial Crisis, Perspectives on Politics, 11,1, Eichengreen, B., Jung, N., Moch, S., Mody, A. The Eurozone Crisis: Phoenix Miracle or Lost Decade? Berkely Economic History Laboratory, May 2013, WP Krugman, P. How the Case for Austerity Has Crumbled, New York Review of Books, June 6, 2013, Blyth, M., 2013, Paradigms and Paradox: The Politics of Economic Ideas in Two Moments of Crisis, Governance 26, Muegge, D., 2013, The Political Economy of Europeanized Financial Regulation, Journal of European Public Policy, 20,3, Session Four: October 29 th 2013 European Level: Economics and Politics of the Euro Crisis: Schelkle, W., 2013, Monetary integration in crisis: how well do existing theories explain the predicament of EMU? Transfer: European review of labour and research, 19 (1). pp ISSN De Grauwe, P. 2013, Design Failures in the Eurozone: Can they be fixed? LSE Working Paper 57 Scharpf, F.W., 2012, Legitimacy Intermediation in the Multilevel European Polity - MPIfG, Discussion Papers.

4 Schild, J., 2013, Leadership in Hard Times: Germany, France, and the Management of the Eurozone Crisis, German Politics & Society, 31,1, Hall, P., 2013, The Economics and Politics of the Euro Crisis, German Politics, 21:4, Session Five: November 5 th 2013 European Level: Economics and Politics of the Euro Crisis (cont): Schelkle, W., 2012, European Fiscal Union: from monetary back door to parliamentary main entrance. CESifo forum, 13 (1), Bauer, M., 2013, The European Commission in the EU s Response to the Financial Crisis, Paper MZES Workshop, Coping with Crisis: Europe s Challenges and Strategies, Mannheim Hallerberg, M., Marzinotto, B., Wolff, G.B., 2011, How Effective and Legitimate is the European Semester? The increasing role of the European Parliament, in Bruegel Working Paper, No. 2011, 09 Karagiannis, Y, Guidi, M., 2013, Institutional Change and Continuity in the European Union: The super-commissioner saga. Acta Politica, 22pp, electronic version Session Six: November 12 th 2013 National political and economic responses: Hefftler,C., Wessels,W., 2013, The Democratic Legitimacy of the EU s Economic Governance and National Parliaments, IAI Working Papers, 13. Greece, Ireland Pappas, T.S., 2013, Embattled Democracy: Legitimation Crisis, Party System Change, and the Rise of Political Extremism in Greece, EUI, Workshop, Political change in the GIIPS, June, 28pp. Pappas, T.S, 2013, Why Greece Failed, Journal of Democracy, 24, 2, EUSA Review Forum: The Eurozone Crisis Seen From the Periphery Featherstone K., Greece: Penetrated, Bound and Committed

5 Laffan, B., Ireland: From Boom to Bubble to Bust, Winter 2012 Mair, P., 2012, Bini-Smaghi vs Political Parties, EUI RSCAS Working Paper Marsh, M., Mikhaylov, S., 2012, Economic Voting in a Crisis: The Irish election of 2011, Electoral Studies A Session Seven: November 19 th 2013 Spain, Portugal: Torres, F. Portugal: a Chance to Implement Previously Adopted Objectives, EUSA Review Forum: The Eurozone Crisis Seen From the Periphery, Winter Hopkin, J., 2013, The End of a Model? The Euro Crisis in Spain, EUI, Workshop, Political change in the GIIPS, June, 28pp. Eltetoe, A. 2011, The economic crisis and its management in Spain, Eastern Journal of European Studies, 2,1, De Giorgi, E., Moury, C., Ruivo, J.P., 2012, Governing Portugal in Hard Times: Incumbents, opposition and international lenders, Conference, Università Roma Tre, Sept. Session Eight: November 26 th 2013 Germany: Reisenbichler, A., Morgan, K.J., 2013, How Germany Won the Euro Crisis And Why Its Gains Could Be Fleeting, Foreign Affairs,June, 20 Kleger. H., Mehlhausen. T., 2013, Unstrittig und doch umstritten europäische Solidarität in der Eurokrise, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Heft 1, Wimmel, A., 2012, Deutsche Parteien in der Euro-Krise: Das Ende des Konsensprinzips? Integration Vierteljahresschrift des Instituts für Europäische Politik 01/2012, Guerot, U. 2012, Towards Europia? Germany and the euro crisis, Open Democracy,

6 Session Nine: December 3 rd 2013 UK Matthijs, M.,2013, David Cameron s Dangerous Game. The Folly of Flirting With an EU Exit, Foreign Affairs, Sept./Oct. Kelemen, D., 2013, Saving the Euro; Dividing the Union, Could Europe s Deeper Integration Push the United Kingdom Out?, Foreign Affairs: Brendan Simms, 2013,The EU, Germany and the British Problem, Journal for Comparative Government and European Policy, 1. Estonia Madariaga,Aldo,2013,Mechanisms of Institutional Continuity in Neoliberal "Success Stories": Developmental Regimes in Chile and Estonia. MPIfG Discussion Paper 13/10. Session Ten: December 10 th 2013 Where do we go from here? Majone, G., 2012, Rethinking European Integration After the Debt Crisis, Working paper No.3, University College London, June Schimmelfennig, F., 2013, Europeanization Beyond the Member States, Zeitschrift für Staats- und Europawissenschaften ma nuscript_.pdf Habermas, J., 2013, Democracy, Solidarity And The European Crisis, Social Europe, Schmidt, V., 2012, The Eurozone Crisis Challenge to Democracy: which way forward? Open Democracy, 14 December 2012 Offe, C., Europa in der Falle, Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, Heft1 (2013): 67-80, here 76.