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Postgraduate Course: European Union and Domestic Parliamentary Governance (LAWS11106)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Law CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityAvailable to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) Credits20
Home subject areaLaw Other subject areaPolitics
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThis 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)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
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
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Not entered
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
Keywords- Domestic parliamentary transformation
- National and regional parliaments
- Comparative theory and
Contacts
Course organiserDr Caitriona Carter
Tel: (0131 6)50 2052
Email: C.A.Carter@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Lene Mccool
Tel: (0131 6)50 2022
Email: lene.mccool@ed.ac.uk
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