This course introduces students to governance in Europe at the national and European Union levels. We will have two objectives, one substantive and one methodological. First, the course will consider politics and policymaking in European democracies and the European Union. Second, the course is intended to introduce students to a set of analytical and empirical concepts and tools for understanding how political institutions and political agents jointly generate public policy, and to apply these tools in examining political and policy outcomes in European states.