DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Master's Degree in Public Administration Sciences
Academic Year 2016/2017 - 2° Year

ANALISI DELLE POLITICHE PUBBLICHE

Teaching Staff

Learning Objectives

• approaches and methods
  
  In order to enable to outline the main cornerstones on which structure and develops public intervention, the module focuses on basic conceptual tools to study public policy, to evaluate them and compare them to each other. In particular, students will learn the tools aimed at the understanding of public policies from the main approaches and methods, models and interpretations of the latest empirical research. The comparative analysis of the approaches and methods of research, developed through group projects, will fuel the reflections and the judgment skills of the student.
• ACTORS PROCESSES AND INTERACTIONS
  
  The module focalizes on the study of the actors and interactions that define the process of "organizational learning" as a strategic innovation and organizational change policies.
• EVALUATION OF PUBLIC POLICIES
  
  The objective of the module is to provide students with the theoretical references and empirical basis of the evaluation research. Building on the methodological assumptions of socio-political research in general, the student will learn individual evaluation techniques.

Detailed Course Content

• approaches and methods
  

  The analysis of public policy and political science. The inductive and deductive paradigms in the analysis of public policies. The actors and institutions of public policies. The instruments of policy. The policy process and the life cycle of public policies; construction of the agenda; policy formulation; the decision of the policies; the implementation of policies; policy evaluation. The decision making styles.

• ACTORS PROCESSES AND INTERACTIONS
  

  The literature on organizational learning, analyzed also as a social phenomenon. The learning in communities of practice and systems activities. Learning how circulation of practical knowledge. Inter-organizational learning and innovation.

• EVALUATION OF PUBLIC POLICIES
  

  The role of evaluation in the cycle of policy making; the ex-post evaluation; the in-itinere evaluation; the ex-ante evaluation.

Textbook Information

• approaches and methods
  

  M. Howlett e M.Ramesh, Come studiare le politiche pub-bliche, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2003, pp. VIII-110

• ACTORS PROCESSES AND INTERACTIONS
  

  M. Howlett e M.Ramesh, Come studiare le politiche pubbliche, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2003, pp. 113-215.

• EVALUATION OF PUBLIC POLICIES
  

  A. Lippi, La valutazione delle politiche pubbliche, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007, pp. 7-49; pp. 85-177.