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Politics and institutions in the globalization era

Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: DANILO DI MAURO

Expected Learning Outcomes

The course aims to provide knowledge and skills in the field of political science, public policies with a particular focus on governance systems. 


Required Prerequisites

None

Attendance of Lessons


Detailed Course Content

Govenrment, public policies, public administration, Multilevel governance systems 

Textbook Information

Capano, G., et al. (2017). Manuale di scienza politica, il Mulino. Cap. VII; VIII; Cap. X


 

Di Mascio, F., & Natalini, A. ( 2018) Oltre il New Public Management. Le riforme amministrative tra meccanismi e contesti. CAP I.            Carocci Editore        


Hooghe, L., & Marks, G. (2003). Unraveling the central state, but how? Types of multi-level governance. (Reihe Politikwissenschaft / Institut für Höhere Studien, Abt. Politikwissenschaft, 87). Wien: Institut für Höhere Studien (IHS), Wien. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-246200


Lippi, A. (2022). Modelli di amministrazioni pubbliche. Capitolo VI, ("Il modello ecologico". Il mulino.


Multilevel Governance and the State

Arjan H. Schakel, Liesbet Hooghe, and Gary Marks

The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State (Forthcoming)

Edited by Stephan Leibfried, Evelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Jonah D. Levy, and John D. Stephens

https://garymarks.web.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13018/2016/12/2014-schakel-marks-hooghe-Multilevel_Governance_and_the_State.pdf


Piattoni, S. (2009). Multi‐level governance: a historical and conceptual analysis. European integration, 31(2), 163-180.


Piattoni, S., & Polverari, L. (2019). Cohesion policy and European Union politics. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics.


Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

L'esame consiste nell'elaborazione di un breve saggio scritto che verrà presentato e discusso oralmente, alla luce del programma, in seduta di esame. 

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

Which are the fundamental paradigms of public administration? Which are the phases of the policy cycle? How can we classify public policies? What is a multi-level governance system?