Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500259 Political Science and Public Management | OB | 2 | A |
It is taken for granted that students know, at least, the concepts and theories studied in the "Political Science" course of the first year of the Degree. It is also taken for granted that students regularly follow generalist world news press.
This subject is compulsory in the second year of the Degree in Political Science and Public Management. As an annual subject, it aims, on the one hand, to work in depth the main concepts and models that currently dominate the panorama in the analysis of public administration and public policies from a sectoral perspective. On the other hand, it also introduces the constant reference to comparative experience in administration, public management and public policies.
FIRST SEMESTER
BLOCK 1. Introduction
1. Historical origins of today’s public administration.
2. Reform paths of public administrations
3. Governance reforms: a comparative perspective.
BLOCK 2. Management and governance
4. Public accountability
5. Transparency, open government and anti-corruption policies
6. Stakeholders, conflicts of interest and public ethics
7. Representative bureaucracy
BLOCK 3 What administrations do: regulation and provision of services
8. The regulatory role of administrations: the regulatory state
9. The provider role of administrations: the welfare state
10. Health policies
11. Education policies
12. Employment policies
13. Support to families and childcare policies
14. Long-term care policies
15. Gender policies
16. Artificial Intelligence in social policies
END OF FIRST SEMESTER - START OF SECOND SEMESTER
BLOCK 1 Public administration as an organization and changes in its performing modes
1. The elements of an organization in the classical view
2. The front line of administration: useless procedures and administrative burden
3. The relational state and management through “others”
4. Co-production and "nudges"
BLOCK 2 European, Spanish and Catalan administrative structures
5. The General Administration of the State
6. The Administration of the Generalitat of Catalonia
7. The Administration of Provincial Councils and County Councils
8. The Administration of the city of Barcelona and the municipalities
BLOCK 3 Human and budgetaryresources of public administrations
9. Different models of management and appointment of public employees in Europe
10. Does someone lead or direct the performance of public employees?
11. Human resources management policies in the public sector
12. Public service motivation
13. Economic resources of public administrations: budgets and control of their allocation by internal and external bodies.
The subject "Administration and Public Policies" of 2nd grade, has 12 cr ECTS, that is, a total of 300 hours of student dedication (25 hours per credit). These will be structured in the following types of training activities, supported by the teaching methodology that is indicated:
Guided activities:
Lectures: exhibitions by the teacher with ICT support and debate in a large group.
Public presentation of work: Individual and group presentations and round of assessments.
Seminars for discussion of texts and cases: Introduction of the session, presentation of the text, assessment and discussion. Resolution of practical cases. Preparation of simulations. Reading controls.
Supervised activities:
Tutorials to support the completion of the work and follow-up of the course
Autonomous activities:
Reading of texts: Individual exercise of comprehensive reading of texts
Study Performing diagrams and summaries
Writing of works: Recensions, bibliographical essays (individual or in group) based on a guide for the preparation and preparation of practical cases.
Evaluation: Individual test of written exams.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Lectures | 56 | 2.24 | 14, 4, 1, 8, 9, 19 |
Oral presentations | 8 | 0.32 | 6, 12, 17, 18 |
Seminars | 28 | 1.12 | 14, 4, 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 11, 18, 19, 5 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Tutorials | 30 | 1.2 | 3, 6, 10, 11, 17, 18 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Exercises and essay writing | 28 | 1.12 | 14, 4, 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 12, 10, 11, 17, 18, 21, 22, 19, 5 |
Reading | 50 | 2 | 14, 4, 8, 9, 12, 21, 19 |
Study | 50 | 2 | 14, 4, 2, 8, 9, 12, 11, 18, 21, 5 |
The evaluation of this course will be carried out according to the following criteria:
Both semesters will be assessed independently and recovered independently. Students must approve each semester. The final grade of the course will be the average of the two grades obtained in each semester. If a student has a grade of 4 or higher in one of the two semesters, it will be considered if he / she can approve the course if the average grade of both semesters is higher than 5.
First semester:
Second semester :
Important considerations:
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Parcial exam/Policy brief/Group work | 30% | 15 | 0.6 | 13, 15, 16, 20 |
Seminar exercises | 30% | 30 | 1.2 | 14, 4, 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 12, 10, 11, 17, 18, 21, 22, 19, 5 |
Tests/Exams | 40% | 5 | 0.2 | 14, 4, 1, 3, 7, 8, 9, 18, 19 |
GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
Handbooks in Spanish (in chronological order)
Ballart, X. i C. Ramió, 2000. Ciencia de la Administración, Valencia, Tirant lo Blanch.
Longo, F. 2004. Mérito y flexibilidad. La gestión de las personas en las organizaciones del sector público. Barcelona: Paidós.
Del Pino, E. M. Villoria. 2009. Dirección y Gestión de Recursos Humanos en las Administraciones Públicas. Madrid, Tecnos.
Colino, C. 2013. Gobiernos y Administraciones Públicas en Perspectiva Comparada. Valencia, Tirant lo Blanch.
Parrado, S. y Olmeda, J.A. 2013. Gobiernos y administraciones públicas en perspectiva comparada. Tirant lo Blanch
Ballart, X., G. Rico, G. Ripoll, 2016. La motivación en los servicios públicos: análisis empírico de sus antecedentes y de sus efectos. Madrid: Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública.
Del Pino, E. and Rubio, Mª J. (eds.) 2016. Los Estados de Bienestar en la encrucijada: políticas sociales en perspectiva comparada. Madrid. Editorial Tecnos.
Olmeda, J.A. , Parrado, S. y Colino, C. 2017. Las Administraciones Públicas en España, Valencia, Tirant lo Blanch. ISBN 10: 8491434607 / ISBN 13: 9788491434603.
Gomà, R y Ubasart, G. (Coords.) 2021. Vidas en transición. (Re) construir la ciudadanía social. Madrid. Editorial Tecnos.
Handbooks in English (in chronological order)
Bossaert, D., C. Demmke, K. Nomden y R. Polet, 2001, Civil Services in the Europe of Fifteen. Trends and New Developments. Maastricht, European Institute of Public Administration.
Hughes, Owen E. 2003. Public Management and Administration. An Introduction (Third Edition) Palgrave Macmillan: New York.
Pollitt, C. and Bouckaert, G. 2004 Public Management Reform. A Comparative Analysis, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Moran, M., Rein, M., and Goodin, R.E. 2006. The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy, Oxford University Press
Ongaro, E. 2009. Public Management Reform: Trajectories of Administrative Change in Italy, France, Greece, Portugal and Spain. London: Edward Elgar.
Painter, M. and Peters, B. G. 2010. (Eds). Administrative Traditions: Inheritances and Transplants in Comparative Perspective, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Kuhlmann, S. and Wollmann, H. 2014. Introduction to Comparative Public Administrations. Administrative Systems and Reform in Europe. Cheltenham and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar
Perry, J., and Christensen, R.K. 2015. Handbook of Public Administration, London: Routledge.
Pierre, J., y Peters G.B. 2020. Governance, Politics and the State. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
SPECIFIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
Specific reading materials will be assigned for each session/seminar.
Main journals
Governance, an International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions
International Journal of Public Administration
International Journal of Public Sector Management
International Public Management Journal
Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis
Journal of European Public Policy
Journal of European Social Policy
Journal of South European Society and Politics
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
Journal of Public Policy
Local Government Studies
Public Administration -An internationalquarterly
Public Management Review
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