Public governance [EPOLB215]

Acquis d'apprentissage

The unit aims at developing students’ general understanding of public governance and public administration issues. In particular, it offers students theoretical and practical insights at how public sector organizations operate and produce knowledge.

The course is designed to favour critical analysis of public governance and public administration and to support real-word application of theoretical concepts.

Objectifs

The main objectives of the unit are:

1. Understanding key concepts that relate to public governance and public administration.
2. Applying these concepts to existing situations and cases.
3. Better situating the role and activities of public sector organisations.
4. Developing a critical approach to public sector organisations.

Contenu

This course takes place over a semester. It covers the following topics:

• Main models regarding public administration, public management and public governance.
• Politico administrative regimes (including state structure, type of governement, politico-administrative relationships and politicization, administrative culture and policy advice).
• Administrative functoning and reforms (including organisation, human resources, finance and performance).
• Knowledge production in public sector (including statistics, policy evaluation, policy foresight and public sector innovation).
• Multi level governance in public administration.

Disciplines