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This course is designed to introduce the students
to rational choice institutionalism as it is applied
to European integration studies. Institutional
configurations and their impact upon political
outcomes within the study of European integration
are analyzed with a focus on the analytic character
of group choice, voting methods and behavior,
cooperation, collective action, public goods, institutional
choice and reform. First institutions are discussed as
formal, legalistic entities and decision rules imposing
restrictions upon utility maximizing self-interested
political actors. Second, applications to our understanding
of the EU enlargement, ratification and intergovernmental
negotiations, European integration and governance are
discussed.
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