Course
MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE AND DECISION MAKING
Teacher
LUCA CARRIERI
The course aims to provide the main notions around the phenomenon of multilevel governance and decision-making, with particular reference to the political system of the EU (the Government, the Politics and Policies)
1. Knowledge and Ability to Understand:
The course addresses the main issues of multilevel governance and the EU political system by providing a basic presentation of the theories, problems and tools for understanding these phenomena from a political science perspective.
2. Applied knowledge and understanding skills:
The student will be able to develop reflection on multi-level governance and EU political system, analysing the main institutional actors and lines of reform.
3. Autonomy of judgment:
At the end of the course the student will have the ability to evaluate in a more interdisciplinary and critical way the different models present in the EU context.
4. Communication skills:
At the conclusion of the course, the student will have acquired fundamental theoretical knowledge and have mastered the basic conceptual apparatus of the discipline, as well as an overview of the most significant case studies.
Students will acquire the technical language typical of the discipline to communicate clearly and unambiguously with specialist and non-specialist interlocutors.
5. Learning skills:
The course provides the appropriate skills and knowledge to independently explore the main issues of the discipline especially in the work contexts in which students will find themselves.
Multilevel Governance, Concepts and Definitions
Theory of Multilevel Governing in Europe
The EU Political System
EU Institutions
Public Opinion, Parties and Voters at the EU level
EU Policies
Simon Hix and Bjørn Høyland – The Political System of the European Union – The European Union Series (Palgrave McMillan) – Fourth Edition
42 hours of didactic delivery:
- video lectures of general scope (the teacher presents the course content, in a manner similar to frontal classroom teaching, supported by slides);
30 hours of interactive teaching (organized in packages of activities, the student can choose which one to participate in):
- webinar cycles on a subject area, require the student to actively participate during an entire cycle and write a final paper, award a bonus for the purpose of evaluation in the examination.
In addition, in order to support the student's motivation throughout the course and to monitor the student's level of learning through moments of self-assessment and formative assessment, collaborative learning contexts are created:
- summary of the exam program through webinars (a moment of verification in which the main contents are reviewed in broad outline and any doubts about the program are addressed);
- student discussion forum (asynchronous discussion group, focused on individual topics or general themes and open to spontaneous student participation).
Batteries of questions are provided, available online at the teaching page, which offer the student useful elements for self-assessment of preparation, then about whether to continue in the program, or review the topics already studied
By means of an oral exam.
The student must give evidence of having acquired the basic theoretical knowledge and conceptual apparatus of the discipline, as well as an understanding of the case studies examined during the course. Any bonuses acquired by the student through interactive teaching will be considered in the final evaluation.
The knowledge acquired enables the application of the fundamental notions developed by the field of Political Science to the understanding of concrete problems of the political system. This results in the ability to analyse the most common phenomena systematically and according to criteria of objectivity, thanks to the application of the scientific method to analysis in the field of political science. These are skills that can find fruitful application in the professional fields inherent in public institutions and in all decision-making processes involving them.