Postgraduate Course: European Union and Domestic Parliamentary Governance (LAWS11106)
Course Outline
| School | School of Law |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Law |
Other subject area | Politics |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course is a social science based optional course on the MSc programme 'EU Politics and Law'. Other interested students on general MSc or LLM courses are also very welcome to take this course. The course starts with the identification of the challenge faced by domestic parliaments in the EU polity; namely, how the emergence of the EU has structured the transformation of parliamentary deliberation and re-cast executive-legislative relations. From this, we evaluate the analytical purchase of different social science approaches (positivist, institutionalist, sociological) to the study of how national parliaments across the EU have adapted their practices in EU affairs. To do this, we examine both comparative parliamentary practice across a number of Member States (with students taking the lead on a parliament of their choice) and changing British parliamentary practice post-devolution Scotland, Wales and Westminster. Overall, the course considers questions of theory and method in the study of parliaments, as well as raising broader questions on whether old concepts of formal parliamentary control capture new types of parliament-government relationships brought about by EU processes and what the consequences are for the legitimacy of political processes. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the students should be able to do the following:
o Identify the challenge facing domestic (national and regional) parliaments within the unfolding EU polity;
o Compare and contrast different political and social science approaches to the study of parliamentary EU adaptation and change;
o Evaluate the relationships between theory and method in the comparative (inter-state and intra-state) study of EU parliaments;
o Critically assess British parliamentary adaptation post-devolution and adaptation in at least one other Member State;
o Critique transformative notions of 'deliberation' and 'influence' in the context of EU governance processes;
o Critically assess the academic literature on domestic parliaments and the EU. |
Assessment Information
| One essay. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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| Keywords | - Domestic parliamentary transformation
- National and regional parliaments
- Comparative theory and |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Caitriona Carter
Tel: (0131 6)50 2052
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Course secretary | Mrs Lene Mccool
Tel: (0131 6)50 2022
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