The students in this class have been specially selected to participate in a seminar focused on "Rival Models of Capitalism". The course will examine the different ways in which capitalism is organized in Europe, the impact of EU economic and political integration, and, in particular, the challenges facing center-left “third way” governments in France, Germany, Britain and Italy.  Students will work on research and presentation projects related to this theme and meet in a seminar setting with visiting policy makers and scholars.  The class is connected to the visiting speakers program run by the European Union Center.  Attendance at the speaker series, and two conferences co-sponsored by the Center, is a required feature of the seminar (these events are italicised in the syllabus).  In addition to these public talks students will have the opportunity to interrogate visiting policy makers and scholars in the seminar setting.

Semester Plan
There are three parts to the course.
1. Weeks 1-5 are introductory and will involve lecture/discussion about course themes. This section culminates in a short exam on February 20th.  This exam will account for 10% of the course grade.
2. Weeks 6-10 will be organized around the EU Center speaker series attached to the course.  This will be an opportunity to interrogate scholars and officials about their writing and presentations. Active participation in these interactions will account for 20% of the course grade.
3. Weeks 11-15 will be organized around two student projects: (a) a group multimedia presentation project and (b) an individual research project.
    (a)  Powerpoint-based presentations will be prepared by groups of 2-4 students.   These presentations will be made to the rest of the class and to a local High School teacher/student audience. These presentations will account for 20% of the course grade.
    (b)  Individual research projects will be developed thru a proposal (4 pages due March 29), submission draft (20 pages, due April 12) and final draft (25 pages due May1/3).  The proposal, submission draft and detailed critiques of one's peer's work will comprise 20% of course grade.  The final draft of this paper accounts for another 20% of the course grade.

The remaining 10% of the course grade will be determined by overall attendance and participation. Events listed in this syllabus are mandatory (exceptions may apply if an event clashes with another class).  Attendance at other public talks sponsored by the EU Center are recommended.  It is expected that students will participate in two conferences co-sponsored by the EU Center: the Saturday March 3 conference at UCLA (together with the dinner in Claremont the night before) and the Friday March 30 conference at Cal State Long Beach (the second day of the conference is optional).  Transportation and meals will be provided.  Failure to attend mandatory events, a low ratio of attendance at recommended events and tardiness for any events/classes will be  penalized.
 

Reading Material

All students will be required to get a subscription to the Financial Times.  The following books are also required

H. Kitschelt and P. Lange (eds) Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism (1999)
G. Garrett Partisan Politics in the Global Economy (1998)
Anthony Giddens The Third Way and its Critics (2000)

For many of the visiting speakers copies of recent papers will be made available to the class prior to each encounter.
 

Weekly Schedule

I Rival Models of Capitalism in Europe

Week 1
Tuesday January 16th Course Introduction: rival models of capitalism (Boyle)
Thursday January 18th "Origins, structure, and functions of the European Union" (Andrews)
Thursday January 18th Vaclav Klaus (former Czech Prime Minister) “Creating Capitalism in Eastern Europe: the Czech case” Athenaeum, CMC.  (Reception 5:30, dinner 6:00, talk 6:45).

Week 2
Tuesday January 23rd Capitalism, Industrialization and National Economies in Europe 1618-1948 (Boyle)
Thursday January 25th Liberalism, Conservatism and Socialism in Europe: ideologies, parties and the trente glorieuses (Boyle)

Week 3
Tuesday January 30th  20th Century International Economic Regimes (Andrews)
(Read Kitschelt/Lange Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism Part I)
Thursday February 1st   Domestic Political Economies: Coordinated versus Liberal (Boyle)
(Read Kitschelt/Lange  Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism  Part II)

Week 4
Tuesday February 6th   Capitalism and the Welfare State: the three worlds (Boyle)
(Read Kitschelt/Lange Part III  Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism  Part III)
Thursday February 8th   EMU:  coordination, institutionalization, unification (Andrews)

Week 5
Tuesday February 13th
 The Third Way and its Critics (Discussion led by Boyle)
(Read Giddens The Third Way and its Critics)
Thursday February 15th
Partisan Politics in the Global Economy (Discussion led by Andrews)
(Garrett Partisan Politics in the Global Economy)

Tuesday February 20th Exam

II  Speakers and Conferences

Week 6
Tuesday February 20th 4:15 Rory Knight (Dean, Templeton College, Oxford) talk "Corporate Governance and Financial Performance: Anglo American Capital Meets Rhenish Governance" Albrecht Auditorium, CGU
Thursday February 22nd  Davorin Kracun (Slovenia's Ambassador to the US) "The Transition to a Market Economy in Slovenia"

Week 7
Monday February 26 Victor Pestoff, Professor of Political Science, Södertörns högskola, Sweden, speaks on “Beyond the Market and State: Social Enterprises and Civil Democracy in a Welfare Society”, at 12:00 noon at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum.
Tuesday February 27th  Anita Gradin (fmr EU Commissioner from Sweden) "The Swedish social democratic model and the EU" also featuring Johan Lillehook (Swedish and EU diplomat)
Tuesday February 27th noon Anita Gradin (fmr EU Commissioner from Sweden) "Women, Social Policy and the EU" (EU Center State of the EU address) Balch Auditorium.
Thursday March 1st

March 2-3 (Friday/Saturday) EU Conference and Education Project.  Students will join area High School social studies teachers in attending a dinner in Claremont and a conference at UCLA.  It is out of this encounter that students will develop ideas for their powerpoint presentation.  A preparatory visit to the school may be necessary ahead of the actual presentation.
Friday March 2nd dinner, 5-7:30 pm, McConnell, Pitzer College.
Saturday March 3rd SOCCIS conference at UCLA "The European Union in Transition" 9am-3:30pm

Week 8
Tuesday March 6th  Iain McLean (Nuffield College, Oxford) "The British Left, Blair and the Third Way"
Tuesday March 6th noon Iain McLean "Thatcher, Blair and the Great Moving Right Show: Rhetoric and Heresthetic in UK Political Economy since 1979" McConnell Living Room, Pitzer.
Wednesday March 7 at noon Hilary Appel "Capitalist Development in Eastern Europe" Oldenbourg, Pomona.
Thursday March 8th Research Workshop at Honnold.  By this point the groups for the powerpoint presentations must be formed and the topic finalized.  A provisional topic for the research project must also be identified.

SPRING BREAK

Week 9
Tuesday March 20th David Finegold (Business School, USC) "Neoliberal and Coordinated Market Economies and Comparative Advantage".
Thursday March 22nd Patricia Dillon "Market reforms and models of capitalism in Eastern Europe"

Week 10
Tuesday March 27th
Wednesday March 28 Noon Jacques Delors, former President of the European Commmission "The Future of the European Union" videoconference at Pitzer, room TBA.
Thursday March 29th Powerpoint presentation due for submission to Instructors.  Research project proposal due.

March 30-31 (Friday/Saturday) conference "Germany, Europe and the Global Challenge" Long Beach.   A class trip to the Friday panels - on "The Berlin Republic", "Germany and the EU" and "The Challenge from East/Central Europe" will be arranged.    Attendance at Saturday's panels - on "Markets", "Migration" and "Environment" - are encouraged but not required.
 

III Student Projects

Week 11
Tuesday April 3rd Group 1 presentation
Thursday April 5th Group 2 presentation
April 5-6.  Undergraduate Research Conference at the University of California, Davis.

Week 12
Tuesday April 10th Group 3 presentation.
Thursday April 12th Group 4 presentation.  Submission Drafts of major paper due

Week 13
Tuesday April 17th  Individual Presentations
Thursday April 19th Individual Presentations

Week 14
Monday April 23 Peter Lange (Provost, Duke University) "Perceptions of Economic Risk and the Role of Government in Neo-liberal and Social-Democratic Settings" McConnell Living Room, Pitzer.
Tuesday April 24th  Individual Presentations
Thursday April 26th  Individual Presentations

Week 15
Tuesday May 1st Conclusions.  Senior papers due.
Thursday May 3rd Course critique. Non-senior final papers due.

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G. Howe Conflict of Loyalty (1994)
K. Van Kersbergen Social Capitalism (1996)
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Tony Blair The Third Way (1998) HC256.5 .B544 1997
Przeworski and J. Sprague Paper Stones: a history of electoral socialism (1986)
Marshall, T.H.   Citizenship and social class / T.H. Marshall and Tom Bottomore    HN400.S6 C49 1992
Pope, Leo XIII Rerum novarum (1891) Papal Encyclical on the Condition of Labor STC  HD6338 C26 1940
Friedrich von Hayek  The Road To Serfdom HD 82 H326 1944 C.1
Joseph Schumpeter,   Capitalism, socialism, and democracy HX 86 SCH86 1950 C.1
Karl Polanyi,   The great transformation HC53 .P757A c.1
Milton Friedman  Capitalism and freedom. HB501 .F914 C.6
Peter Baldwin  The politics of social solidarity : class bases of the European welfare state, 1875-1975  JC325 .B33 1990
The social democratic image of society  Francis G. Castles HX 317 C37
Tim Tilton  The political theory of Swedish social democracy : through the welfare state to socialism HX336.5 .T55 1990
Paul Pierson  Dismantling the welfare state? : Reagan, Thatcher, and the politics of retrenchment HN59.2 .P52 1994
Stephan Leibfried and Paul Pierson  European social policy : between fragmentation and integration, HN373.5 .E83 1995
Desmond King   Actively seeking work? : the politics of unemployment and welfare policy in the United States and Great Britain HD5765.A6 K557 1995
Mancur Olson  The rise and decline of nations : economic growth, stagflation, and social rigidities HD 82 O565 1982 c.2
Gary Teeple   Globalization and the decline of social reform Gary Teeple HC59 .T36 1995
Offe, Claus (1996) Modernity and the state JC11 .O33 1996
Piore, Michael J and C. Sabel  The second industrial divide : possibilities for prosperity HC 103 P5X
Anthony Giddens The Third Way and its Critics (2000) HX73 .G54 2000
Democratic Leadership Council-Progressive Policy Institute The New Progressive Declaration: A Political Philosophy for the Information Age (1998)
P. Katzenstein Small States in World Markets (1985)
Benjamin Barber Jihad versus McWorld (1995)
G. Garrett Partisan Politics in the Global Economy (1998)