2009/2010

2009/2010

DM270

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

SOCIETA' E POLITICA

2°

2nd semester (15/02/2010 - 29/05/2010)

12

Italian

Students must have passed the Political Science exam

The course aims to provide students with factual knowledge and analytic tools to understand the electoral process and the formation of public opinion. The course intends to provide students with sufficient knowledge of European institutions and of the EU’s political process to enable them to comprehend the main problems of European integration and to make sense of the outcomes of the EU policy-making process.

The course covers parties and movements, public opinion, political and electoral participation, electoral systems, mobilisation and electoral campaigns, voting. The institutions of the European Union:
the European Commission;
the Council of Ministers and the European Council;
the European Parliament, European elections and “Europarties”
the European Court of Justice and the main features of European law
other actors and institutions
Interest group politics in the EU
Theories of European integration and of the European policy making process

Lectures and seminars.

written examination