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Course Code: 
PA 403
Course Period: 
Spring
Course Type: 
Core
P: 
3
Application: 
0
Credits: 
3
ECTS: 
5
Course Language: 
İngilizce
Courses given by: 
Course Objectives: 

The course aims to provide informations on European Administrative Space (EAS.)

Course Content: 

The European administrative space is a structure under construction based on common public administration principles in the European Union. Fundamental approaches and principles of the European Union related to public administration compose main point of the negotiations executed with candidate countries in the transition process from EU-15 to EU-27. Since harmonization with acquis communautaire is a condition for membership, requiring a comprehensive change in the public administration of candidate countries. Within this context, the course will focus in the historical evolution of European Integration, issue of enlargement and Turkey’s relations with the EU (before and after 1999), organization and functioning of EU institutions, theoretical background: Europeanization of public policies, Turkish bureaucracy, technical and political works for harmonization of Turkey to EU.  Social, economic, cultural and legal problems encountered in the integration process of Turkey to EU and changes expected in the industrial, agricultural, service sectors in the relations with EU will be examined as well.  

Course Methodology: 
1: Lecture, 2: Question-Answer, 3: Discussion, 9: Simulation, 12: Case Study
Course Evaluation Methods: 
A: Testing, C: Homework

Vertical Tabs

Course Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Program’s Learning Outcomes

Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

To analyze the European Union acquis in terms of Public Administration

1,9

1,2,3

A

To know and interprets the public administration comprehension which is foreseen by European Union.

1,9,10

1,2,3

A

To analyze the administrative structure of Turkey on the basis of European Union.

1,9

1,2,3

A

To analyze and reveals the administrative capacity in the candidacy process to the European Union.

1,9

1,2,3

A

To discuss the problems of administrative structure in the context of European Union.

1,9,10

1,2,3

A

To analyze the last administrative reforms in the context of European Union acquis

1,9,10

1,2,3

A

 

Course Flow

Week

Topics

Study Materials

1

A general introduction of the course and perspectives

 

2

Brief overview of the EU history (a short history of the European Integration)

 

3

Theories of integration and analysis of the integration process

 

4

EU Institutions (main institutions)

 

5

Commission – Parliament – Council (decision making)

 

6

EU-TR relations (Before 1999, from Ankara Agreement to Helsinki Summit)

 

7

EU-TR relations (After 1999, Constitutional changes, negociation chapters, new discussions about negociations and problems within the Turkish accession to EU)

 

8

MIDTERM EXAM

 

9

EU and Public administration: Theoretical background: Europeanization of public policies, "European Administrative Space" and multi-level governance

 

10

From Theory to the Practice (I): EU and Territorial Administrations (Decentralization – Regionalization politics of EU – local authorities)

 

11

From Theory to the Practice (II): EU Regional Policy, Structural funds (1988 and 1993 reforms on structural funds), some regionalization tendencies in the EU countries, non-EU international institutions and the concept of the region (Council of Europe, UN, OECD..etc.)  

 

12

 The Turkish public administration structure (from Ottoman period to Republic): central state, local administrations, tutelage control, traditional policy making in Tr.pub.adm. and dominancy of "state-centric" approach

 

13

EU adaptation process and transformation of Turkish Public Administration (New perceptions/understandings, new approaches, new laws, new institutions like ABGS...etc.) ; latest public administration reforms under the EU prospective effects (Transformation of the turkish local government to local governance) 

 

14

EU impacts on territorial administration of Turkey (local and regional changes, development agencies, rural development agencies and IPARD...etc.)

 

15

 General evaluation: official reports (progress report) published by European Commission

 

16

FINAL EXAM

 

 

Recommended Sources

Textbook

 

Additional Resources

 

 

Material Sharing

Documents

 

1. European Union, Actors & Institutions

 

The Political System of the European Uni

  1. Hix S., The political system of the European Union, Londres, Palgrave, 1999.

 

The Council of Ministers and nationals administrations

 

  1. Hayes Renshaw F. & Wallace H. (1997): The Council of Ministers, London, Macmillan.
  2. Lewis J. (1998): "Is the 'hard-bargaining' image of the Council misleading? The COREPER and the local elections directive", Journal of common market studies, vol. 36 (4), December.
  3. Wurzel R. (1996): "The role of the EU Presidency in the environmental field: does it make a difference which member state runs the Presidency?", European Journal of Public Policy, 3 (2)

 

European Commission

 

  1. Cini M. (1996): The European Commission. Leadership, organisation and culture in the EU administration, Manchester, Manchester University Press.
  2. Cram L (1994): "The European Commission as a multi-organisation: social policy and IT policy in the EU", Journal of European Public Policy, 1 (2).
  3. Eceberg M. (1996): "Organization and nationality in the European Commission services", Public Administration, vol 74, Winter.
  4. Hooghe L. (1999): "Supranational activists or intergovernmental agents? Explaining the orientations of senior Commission officials toward European integration", Comparative political studies, vol 32 (4), June.
  5. Laffan B. (1997): "From policy entrepreneur to policy manager: the challenge facing the European Commission", European Journal of Public Policy, vol 4 (3).
  6. Page E. & Wouters L. (1994): "Bureaucratic politics and political leadership in Brussels", Public Administration, vol 72, Autumn.

 

Parliament

 

  1. Corbett R., Jacobs F., Shakleton M. (2003), The European Parliament, 5° éd., Londres, John Harper.
  2. Corbett R. (1998), The European Parliament’s Role in Closer European Union Integration, Basingstoke (GB), Mac Millan Press / New York (EU), St Martin’s Press.
  3. Judge D. & Earnshaw D. (2003), The European Parliament, Londres, Palgrave-Macmillan.

 

Court of Justice

 

  1. Gibson J., Caldeira G. (1998): "Changes in the legitimacy of the European court of Justice: a post-Maastricht analysis", British Journal of Political Science, vol. 28 (1), January.
  2. Golub J. (1996): "The politics of judicial discretion: rethinking the interaction between national courts and the European Court of Justice", West European Politics, 19 (2).

 

2. European Union, Public Policies and Political Practices Area: Europeanization and Convergence

 

General Approaches

 

  1. Andersen S. & Eliassen K., dirs (1993): Making policy in Europe. The Europeification of national policy-making, London, Sage.
  2. Cram L. (1997): Policy making in the European Union. Conceptual lenses and the integration process, London, Routledge.
  3. Peters G. (1994): "Agenda-setting in the European Community", Journal of European Public Policy, vol 1 (1).
  4. Pollack M. (1994): "Creeping competence: the expanding agenda of the European Community", Journal of Public Policy, vol 14 (2).
  5. Wallace H. & Wallace W., dirs (1996): Policy-making in the European Union (3eme édition), Oxford, Oxford University Press.

 

Euro, Eurozone, economic and budgetary politics

 

  1. Dyson K. (1999): "The Franco-German relationship and EMU : using Europe to 'bind Leviathan'", West European Politics, vol 22 (1), January
  2. Laffan B. (1997): The finances of the European Union, London, Macmillan
  3. McNamarar K. (1998): The currency of ideas. Monetary politics in the European Union, New York, Cornell University Press
  4. Verdun A. (1998): "The institutional design of EMU: a democratic deficit?", Journal of public policy, vol 18 (2), May-August

 

Competition, deregulation, regulation

 

  1. Buiges P., Jacquemin A., Sapir A. (1998): European policies on competition, trade and industry: conflict and complementarities, Bruxelles, La librairie européenne.
  2. Héritier A. (1996): "The accommodation of diversity in European policy-making and its outcomes: regulatory policy as patchwork", European Journal of Public Policy, 3 (2)
  3. Journal of European public policy (1997): special number on the "Governance in the internal market", vol 4 (4)
  4. McGovern L., Cini M. (1999): "Discretion and politicization in EU competition policy: the case of merger control", Governance, vol 12 (2), April

 

Environmental Politics

 

  1. Lowe P., Ward S. (1997): British environmental policy and Europe : politics and policy in transition, London, Routledge.

 

Relations among enterprises, sectors et institutions

 

  1. Coen D. (1998): "The European business interest and the nation state. Large firm lobbying in the European Union and Member states", Journal of public policy, vol 18 (1), January-April.
  2. Greenwood J. (2003): Interests representation in the European Union, London, Macmillan
  3. Kohler-Koch B. (1994): "Changing patterns in interest intermediation in the EU", Government and Opposition, 29 (2).
  4. Streeck W. (1998): "The internationalization of industrial relations in Europe : prospects and problems", Politics and society, vol 26 (4), December

 

Relations among governmental levels

 

  1. Benz A., Eberlein B. (1999): "The Europeanization of regional policies: patterns of multi-level governance", Journal of European Public Policy, 6 (2).
  2. Peterson J. (1997): "States, societies and the European Union", West European politics, vol 20 (4), octobre.
  3. Regional and Federal Studies, special number on the "multi-level governance", summer 1996.
  4. Scharpf F. (1988): "The joint decision trap: lessons from German federalism and European integration, Public Administration, 66 (3).

 

Political Parties and Europe

 

  1. Hix S. & Lord C. (1997), Political Parties in the European Union, Basingstoke, Macmillan.
  2. Jansen T. (1998), The European People’s Party: Origins and Development. Bastingstoke: Macmillan.
  3. Leonard M. (1997), Politics without frontiers: The role of political parties in Europe’s future. London:Demos.
  4. Raunio T. (1997), The European Perspective: Transnational Party Groups in the 1989-94 European Parliament, Aldershot, Ashgate.

 

3. Institutional structure and problems

 

Political Representation

 

  1. Thomassen, Jacques & Schmitt, Hermann, “Political Representation and Legitimacy in the European Union”  

 

Citizenships and national, regional and European identities

 

  1. Weiler J. (1997): "To be a European citizen. Eros and civilization", Journal of European public policy, vol 4 (4)

Media and public opinion

 

  1. Morgan D. (1995): “British media and EU news”, European journal of communication, vol 10 (3).

 

Legitimacy and political leadership

 

  1. Banchoff T. Smith M., dirs. (1999): Legitimacy and the European Union. The contested polity, London, Routledge.
  2. Beetham D. & Lord C. (1998), Legitimacy and the EU, Londres, Addison Wesley Publishing Company.
  3. Drake H. (1995): "Political leadership and European integration", West European Politics, 18 (1).
  4. Lodge J. (1994): "Transparency and democratic legitimacy", Journal of Common Market Studies, 32 (3).
  5. Peterson J. (1999): "The Santer era: the European Commission in normative, historical and theoretical perspective", Journal of European public policy, vol 6 (1)
  6. Wallace W. & Smith J. (1995): "Democracy or technocracy? European integration and the problem of popular consent", West European Politics, 18 (3).

 

4. Main theoretical approaches

 

General Discussions

 

  1. Rosamond B. (2000), The Theories of European Integration, Londres, Palgrave.
  2. Webb C. (1983): "Theoretical perspectives and problems", in Wallace H., Wallace W., Webb C., dirs: Policy-making in the European Community, London, J. Wiley.

 

Interngouvernmentalism

 

  1. Keohane R & Hoffman S. dirs (1991): The new European Community, decision making and international change, Boulder, Westview.
  2. Moravcsik A. (1998): The choice for Europe : social purpose and state power from Messina to Maastricht, Ithaca, Cornell University Press.
  3. Moravcsik A. (1998): "A new Statecraft? Supranational entrepreneurs and international cooperation”, International organisation, vol 55 (2), spring.

 

New functionalism

 

  1. Haas E. (1958): The uniting of Europe, Stanford, Stanford University press.
  2. Lindberg L. (1963): The political dynamics of European economic integration, Stanford, Stanford University Press.
  3. Lindberg L. & Scheingold S. (1970): Europe's would-be polity, Englewood cliffs, Prentice-Hall.

 

Governance: Europe as a public policy area

 

  1. Kohler-Koch B. (1996): "Catching up with change: thlicy, 3 (3)
  2. Peterson J., Bomberg E. (1999): Decision-making in the European Union, London, Macmillan.
  3. Richardson J. dir. (1996): European Union: power and policy-making, London, Routledge.

 

New institutionalism

 

  1. Pierson P. (1996) : “ The path to European integration. A historical institutionalist analysis ”, Comparative political studies, 29 (2), avril
  2. Pollack M. (1996): "The new institutionalism and EC Governance: the promise and limits of institutional analysis, Governance, vol 9 (4).
  3. Sandholtz W. (1996): "Membership matters: limits of the functional approach to European institutions", The Journal of Common Market Studies, 34 (3).
  4. Stone A. & Sandholtz W. (1997): "European integration and supranational governance", Journal of European Public Policy, vol 4 (3).

 

Constructive Approaches

 

  1. Checkel J. (1997): "International norms and domestic politics. Bridging the rationalist-constructivist divide", European journal of international relations, vol. 3 (4), December Journal of European public policy (1999): numéro spécial, vol 6 (4)
  2. Risse-Kappen T. (1999): "Exploring the nature of the beast : International relations theory and comparative politics meets the EU", Journal of common market studies, 34 (3) septembre
  3. Ruggie J. (1998): "What makes the world hang together? Neo-utilitarianism and the social constructivist challenge", International Organization, vol 52 (4) Autumn.

 

 

5. Main Political Science Journals / Reviews relating to EU

 

  1. European Union Politics
  2. Journal of European Public Policy
  3. Journal of Common Market Studies
  4. Journal of European Integration

 

6. Other (in Turkish)

  1. Haluk Günuğur : Avrupa Birliği (daha basit, yalın)
  2. Uğur Ömürgönülşen ve Kemal Öktem : AB’nin Türk Kamu Yönetimine Etkileri / İmaj Yayınları, 2007
  3. Rıdvan Karluk: Avrupa Birliği (daha iktisat ağırlıklı)

Assignments

 

Exams

 

 

Assessment

IN-TERM STUDIES

NUMBER

PERCENTAGE

Midterm

1

40

Final 

1

50

Attendance 

1

10

Total

 

100

Contribution of final exam to overall grade

 

50

Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade

 

50

Total

 

100

Course’s Contribution to Program

No

Program Learning Outcomes

Contribution

1

2

3

4

5

 

When students have completed the Public Administration Undergraduate Program, they will be able to;

 

 

 

 

 

1

To know the state theories and universal principles of public administration

 

 

 

X

 

2

To know that the legal structure of Turkish public administration

 

 

 

X

 

3

 Competence of analyzing the current administrative and political issues in the light of Turkey's socio-political history

 

 

X

 

 

4

 Acquiring communication and leadership skills for the public, NGO and private sectors.

 

 

X

 

 

5

To have the qualifications to develop and implement public policies at the local and national level

 

 

 

X

 

6

Effective use of technology in the public and private sectors

 

X

 

 

 

7

An ability to analyze global and regional developments

 

 

 

 

X

             

 

 

ECTS

Activities

Quantity

Duration
(Hour)

Total
Workload
(Hour)

Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours)

16

3

48

Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)

16

3

48

Mid-terms

1

4

4

Quiz

3

2

6

Final examination

1

8

8

Total Work Load

 

 

114

Total Work Load / 25 (h)

 

 

4,56

ECTS Credit of the Course

 

 

5

 
3