Course program
As far as the Italian institutions are concerned, the course will start from the genesis of the Constitution of 1948, with particular attention to the contemporary experience of the foundation of the French Fourth Republic. Subsequently, the process of implementation of the Constitution between the Fifties and the Seventies will be analyzed. The opening and development of the debate on institutional reforms, the crisis of the post-war party system and the political-institutional evolution of the last decades will then be examined.
The European part of the course will start with the debate in the pro-European movements and with the creation of the Council of Europe. This will be followed by an examination of the community institutional system built up with the ECSC Treaty of 1951, and in particular of the role assumed by the Parliamentary Assembly. The course will then focus on the Treaties of Rome, on the development of the European institutions and on the failed attempt, in the years 2002-2005, to provide the European Union with a Constitution.
Prerequisites
No prerequisites
Books
- Francesco Bonini, Storia costituzionale della Repubblica, Roma, Carocci, 2007, pp. 15-152.
- Leonardo Rapone, Storia dell'integrazione europea, Nuova edizione, Roma Carocci, 2015, pp. 19-185.
- Sandro Guerrieri, Un Parlamento oltre le nazioni. L'Assemblea Comune della CECA e le sfide dell'integrazione europea (1952-1958), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016.
- Sandro Guerrieri, Il processo costituente in Italia e in Francia dopo la Liberazione, in M. Fioravanti (a cura di), Culture e modelli costituzionali dell'Italia repubblicana, Cosenza, Pellegrini, 2008, pp. 11-32 (l'articolo è a disposizione presso la Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, III piano).
Frequency
Attendance is optional
Exam mode
The assessment method will be a test that will take place in oral form, on the basis of about five questions. Students attending the course will have the possibility to do a facultative intermediate written test with open-ended questions. The oral test and the facultative intermediate written test are both aimed at ascertaining the level of knowledge and understanding achieved by the student of the topics of the course and the ability to analyze them.
Lesson mode
The course will be based on frontal lectures on the different topics of the programme. During these lessons, students will constantly be asked to express their points of view, so that their ability to exercise critical thinking will be increased. The attendance of the course is optional.
