Spring, 2002 G53.2424, G42.2424

Professor Martin Schain G46.2424

E-mail: ms5@nyu.edu

Wednesday, 3:40-6

France in Europe

This course begins with the assumption that important areas of politics and policy-making in France can no longer be understood solely from the perspective of the French political system. Although there has been a considerable debate about the nature of policy-making at the European level, as well as the direction in which this process is moving, there can be little doubt that there are few policy-making areas in France that are not touched in some way by the evolution of "Europe" during the past half-century. Between common European policies and policy-making structures, and harmonized policies marked by "European standards" that constrain domestic choices, French policy-making has been gradually transformed by the evolution of Europe. This course will permit us to view the system of European governance through the prism of the French political process.

In this course, we will first analyze the relationship between European governance and the French political system. We will examine the evolution of EU governance during the past twenty years, and the role of France in transforming the European governing system. We will focus particularly on how and why the role of France moved from resistence to closer union under de Gaulle to a prime mover of a more integrated system under Mitterrand. We will then discuss how policy-making in France has adapted to European governance. We look at the changes in the constitutional arrangements of the Fifth Republic, and then at the process of policy-making. We will analyze the evolution of traditional structures-- institutions, political parties, interest groups-- and then the dynamics of the political system.

In the second part of the course we will examine five policy arenas, and analyze the different ways that European and domestic processes interact. In each of these arenas we will look at the impact of the evolution of European union, the interaction of French and European institutional actors, and the development of an interactive policy-making process. Finally, we will analyze the relationship between process and policy in each of these arenas.

This course consists of readings, lectures and discussions. There is no text for this course. Some basis information and analysis will be provided in Schain, "Politics in France," chapter 9 of Gabriel Almond, Russell Dalton and G. Bingham Powell, European Politics Today (New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2001). A copy of the chapter will be provided for you. All readings from books and articles will be made available to you in the reserve reading room of Bobst Library. Many of the articles are also available on-line, through jstore. You will also be required to follow French politics either through a regular consultation of The Economist (weekly), or Le Monde on-line: (http://www.lemonde.fr/), or both. Other web-sites relevant to this course and for your own research will be given to you during class. There will be a take-home examination that will be returned by e-mail. Each student will also be responsible for either a critical review essay or a research paper of 20-25 pages on a topic of his or her choice (I will explain the difference to you, and I will also give you a list of suggested topics). If you would like to work with survey data, data sets will be made available.

The following books are available at the book store:

Guyomarch, Machin and Ritchie, France in the European Union (St Martin's/1998)

Mény, Muller and Quermonne, eds., Adjusting to Europe: The Impact of the European Union on National Institutions and Policies (Routledge, 1998)

Wallace and Wallace, Policy-making in the European Union, 4th Edition (Oxford/2000)

JHH Weiler, The Constitution of Europe (Cambridge/99)

Reading Schedule

Week 1 (January 23): Introduction

I. France and The European Union System-- 3 weeks (January 30, February 6, 13)

Week 2: France and the Development of the European Union

Guyomarch, Machin and Ritchie, France and the European Union, Intro. and Ch. 1

Alan Milward, The European Rescue of the National State, Chs. 2 and 4

J.H.H. Weiler, The Constitution of Europe, Ch. 2, "The Transformation of Europe"

Andrew Moravcsik, The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht, Chs. 2-6

French Politics and Society, 8/4, Fall, 1990, Special Issue on de Gaulle and Europe, articles by Cohn, Hoffmann, Kolodziej, Kuisel

Week 3: The Process of Governance in Europe: The Search for a Model

Ben Rosamund, Theories of European Integration, Chs. 5 and 6.

John Peterson and Elizabeth Bomberg, Decision-making in the European Union, Ch. 1.

James Caporaso, "the European Union and the Forms of the State...," The Journal of Common Market Studies, 34/1, 1996.

Mény, Muller and Quermonne, eds., Adjusting to Europe: The Impact of the European Union on National Institutions and Policies, Ch.1 and 3

Wallace and Wallace, Policy-making in the European Union, Part I.

Desmond Dinan, Ever Closer Union: An Introduction to the European Community, Intro and chs. 1-6

Gary Marks, "A Third Lens: Comparing European Integration and State Building,"in Jytte Klausen and Louise Tilly, eds., European Integration in Social and Historical Perspective.

Wallace and Young, eds, Participation and Politics in the European Union, Chs. 1-3.

Week 4: Issues of Governance and Theories of Integration

"The Changing Politics of the European Union": The Journal of Common Market Studies, November, 2001:

Helen Wallace, "The Changing Politics of the EU: An Overview"

Laura Cram, "Governance 'to go'"

Christopher Lord, Assessing Democracy in a Contested Polity"

Joerges, Mény and Weiler, eds, What Kind of Constitution for What Kind of Polity: Responses to Joschka Fisher (also found on: http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/Jean Monnet/papers/00/symp.html)

The Fischer speech on 12 May 2000

Börzel and Risse, "Who is Afraid of a European Federation? How to Constitutionalize a Multi-level Governance System"

Charles Leben, "A Federation of Nation-states or a Federal State?"

Helen Wallace, "Possible Futures for the European Union: A British Reaction"

Weiler, "Fischer: The Dark Side"

Giuliano Amato, "A Strong Heart for Europe"

II. The French Political System, and how it relates to Europe-- 3 weeks (February 20, 27, March 6)

Week 5: Institutional Arrangements (Pick up take-home examination)

Schain, "Politics in France," pp. 1-39

Keeler and Schain, Ch. 1, "Mitterrand's Legacy" and Ch. 13, Cameron, "National Interest, the Dilemmas of European Integration and Malaise," in Chirac's Challenge

Andrews, Presidential Government in Gaullist France, Chs. 4-6

Guyomarch, Machin and Ritchie, France in the European Union, Chs. 1, 2, 7

Guyomarch and Machin, "A History of Hesitations on the Road to Maastricht," French Politics and Society, Fall, 1992

Keeler and Schain, Ch. 2, "Models of Democracy in Fifth Republic France..." in Chirac's Challenge

Cameron, "Exchange Rate Politics in France, 1981-83: The Regime-Defining Choices of the Mitterrand Presidency," in Daley, The Mitterrand Era

Howeth, François Mitterrand and the "Domaine Réservé," FPS Winter, 1992

Week 6: The Policy-making Process (Return take-home examination)

Schain, "Politics in France," pp. 52-70

Alec Stone, Ch. 3, "Constitutional Politics and Malaise in France," and Frank Baumgartner, Ch. 4, "The Many Styles of Policymaking in France," in Keeler and Schain, Chirac's Challenge...

Suleiman, Elites in French Society, Chs. 4-7

Lequesne, "French central government and the European Political union: the fusion of public policies," in Mény, Muller and Quermonne, eds., Adjusting to Europe: The Impact of the European Union on National Institutions and Policies, Ch.6

Wilson, Ambler, Schain and Baumgartner on the "Politics of Protest," French Politics and Society, Spring/Summer, 1994

Wilson, "French Interest-group Politics," American Political Science Review, December, 1983; Comments: American Political Science Review, September, 1985

Ross and Martin, "European Integration and the Europeanization of Labor," Working Papers of the Juan March Institute, December, 1998

Week 7: Europe, Political Parties and Elections

Schain, "Politics in France," pp. 39-52.

Guyomarch, Machin and Ritchie, France in the European Union, Ch. 3

Mayer, "Elections and the Left-Right Division in France;" and Perrineau, "Election Cycles and Changing Patterns of Political Behavior in France," in French Politics and Society, Winter, 1995

Appleton, "Maastricht and the French Party System," Toinet, "The Limits of Malaise in France," in Keeler and Schain, Chirac's Challenge

Lawson and Ysmal, "Do the Parties Matter?"

Daniel Boy and Nonna Mayer, "Cleavage Voting and Issue Voting in France

Ross, "Europe Becomes French Domestic Politics,"

in Michael Lewis-Beck, Editor, How France Votes

Grunberg, Perrineau and Ysmal, Europe at the Polls: The European Elections of 1999:

Cautrès and Sinnott, "The 1999 European Parliamentary Elections and the Political Culture of Europe"

Schmitt, and Thomassen, "Dynamic Represenation: The Case of European Integration"

Frognier, "Identity and Electoral Participation..."

III. Case Studies in Policymaking: Europe Through the Prism of French Politics -- 7 weeks (March 20, 27, April 3, 10, 17, 24, May 1)

Week 8: Agriculture: The First Common Policy-- 1 week

Peterson and Bomberg, Decision-making in the European Union, Ch. 5.

John Keeler, The Politics of Neo-corporatism in France, Ch. 3

Keeler, "The Political and Institutional Bases of Agricultural Power in the European Community: Explaining the Fate of CAP and GATT Negotiations"

Keeler, De Gaulle and Europe's Common Agricultural Policy," French Politics and Society, 8/4, Fall, 1990, Special Issue on de Gaulle and Europe

"America's Farm Subsidies," The Economist, June 27, 1992

Wallace and Wallace, Policy-making in the European Union, Chs. 7 and 12

Moravcsik, The Choice for Europe, pp. 208-216;

Journal of Cold War History, 3/1, December, 2000, selections

Keeler, "A Response to Andrew Moravcsik..."

Guyomarch, Machin and Ritchie, France in the European Union, Ch.5

Weeks 9-10: Judicialization and the Emergence of a European Rights Regime-- 2 weeks

Alec Stone, The Birth of Judicial Politics in France, Chs. 1, 4,5,8

Alec Stone, Ch. 3, "Constitutional Politics and Malaise in France," in Keeler and Schain, Chirac's Challenge...

Alec Stone Sweet, and T.L. Brunell, "The European Court and National Courts," in Journal of European Public Policy, 5/1 (1997)

Alec Stone Sweet, "Constructing a Supranational Constitution," American Political Science Review, 92/1 (1998)

Wallace and Wallace, Policy-making in the European Union, Ch. 18

Weiler, The Constitution of Europe, Chs 4, 5, 9

Week 11: Harmonizing the Internal Market-- 1 week

Michelle Cini and Lee McGowan, Competition Policy in the European Union, Chs. 2 and 12

Peterson and Bomberg, Decision-making in the European Union, Ch. 3

Francesco Duina, Harmonizing Europe, Chs. 1-4

Schmidt, From State to Market, Chs. 2, 7-9, 10-11 (passim)

Wallace and Wallace, Policy-making in the European Union, Ch. 14-15

Elie Cohen, "Europe Between Market and Power: Industrial Policies...," in Mény, Muller and Quermonne, eds., Adjusting to Europe: The Impact of the European Union on National Institutions and Policies, Ch.8

Wallace and Young, eds, Participation and Politics in the European Union, Chs. 4, 6, 7, 9.

Ross and Martin, "European Integration and Europeanization of Labor," Working Papers of the Juan March Institute, December 1998.

Week 12: Monetary Policy and the Impact of the Euro-- 1 week

Wallace and Wallace, Policy-making in the European Union, Chs. 4 and 6.

John Goodman, Monetary Sovereignty: The Politics of Central Banking in Western Europe, Chs. 1, 2, 6, 7.

John Goodman, "Monetary Policy and Financial Deregulation in France," French Politics and Society, Fall, 1992

David Cameron, National Interest, the Dilemmas of European Integration and Mailaise," in Keeler and Schain, Chirac's Challenge

Alison Cottrel, "Softer Euro, Stronger Europe," in Edwards and Wiessala, The European Union

Swann, The Single European Market and Beyond, selections

Ross, "EMU and the French Model of Society"

Weeks 13-14: A Common Immigration policy?-- 2 weeks

Andrew Geddes, Immigration and European Integration, Chs., Intro., Chs. 1, 4, 5 7

Jörg Monar, "The Dynamics of Justice and Home Affairs," in the Journal of Common Market Studies, November, 2001

Hollifield, Immigrants, Markets and States, Intro and Ch. 8

Katznelson and Zolberg, Working Class Formation, Chs. 6 and 9.

Colleen Thouez, "Towards a Common European Migration and Asylum Policy," Working Paper No. 27, UNHCR, 2000.

Schain, "Immigration and Politics," in Hall, Hayward and Machin, Developments in French Politics

Schain, "The Impact of the Extreme Right on Immigration Policy"

Guyomarch, Machin and Ritchie, France in the European Union, Ch.8

Weiler, The Constitution of Europe, Ch. 10.