The course starts by introducing the types of power and administration in the interpreting in the work of Max Weber (handouts will be provided for attending students) and then analyze the elements that have encouraged, in different national contests, the dissemination and rooting of bureaucracies as instruments of government. Bureaucracies will therefore identify the most common pathologies. Then the main reforms that have invested the bureaucracies of the western countries will be presented starting from the eighties of the twentieth century. In the second part of the course, the main products of the administrative activity will be analyzed, that is to say the public policies. These will be analyzed in terms of arenas, actors, objectives, outcomes and evaluation of results.

Traditional power and its administration

Charismatic power and its administration

The legal-rational power and its administration

The rational legal bureaucracy in the Weberian model

The advantages of bureaucratization Professional administration

The neutrality of the bureaucrat

Obedience to the law Rigidity and self-reference of the official in the bureaucracy

Formalism in the observance of the rules

New Public Management and public administration reforms

What is a public policy

The cycle of a public policy

Decision models

Pluralism and policy arenas

Types of public policies Implementation

Evaluation of the results of a public policy

No bridging courses

The main objectives of the course are to provide the student who comes out of high school and approaches the study of political science, a field of knowledge of institutions and tools of government in their generality, which can be found in different national contexts even when the relations between legislative, executive and judicial power take different forms. During the lessons will be provided examples and materials useful for understanding the concrete cases but the aim will always be to encourage the conceptualization and abstraction from the concrete case to develop analytical tools of the social sciences. The students will therefore be induced, both during the lecture, and through the stimulus to participate in reflections for groups or individuals, to develop analytical concepts, to link these concepts together in order to increase their ability to analyze, connect, criticism and exemplification. The concomitance of this course with the courses of Political Science, Public Law and Metology will allow students to address the concepts of government and administration from different points of view, learning regardless of the individual concrete situation to adopt a more perspective look wide. The learning outcomes will therefore be evaluated in terms of:

ability to understand the main conceptual analysis tools

ability to relate the different analytical concepts in order to be able to interpret new phenomena

autonomy of judgment, in the production of analytical paths thanks to the growth of the aforementioned capacities

ability to express written and oral assertions based on your own judgment

ability to publicly support their opinions in a comparison of arguments based on analytical and comparative concepts

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Every students has lo login the moodle platform blendned. uniurb of the course in order to receive any kind of papers, slides or communication, and to communicate with the teacher and other students

Attendance

Attendance is not compulsory but students who atttend will have a different handsouts and papers to study

Course books

Course book for english, french or spanish speacking students will be indicated after a talk with teacher taking into consideration the educational background of the student.

Assessment

Avaluation will be on papers, presentations or other kind of works that be assigned to the student. The student can always ask to be evaluated in a oral examination at the end of the course.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Attendance

Not compulsory

Course books

Course book for english, french or spanish speacking students will be indicated after a talk with teacher taking into consideration the educational background of the student.

Assessment

Avaluation will be on papers, presentations or other kind of works that be assigned to the student. The student can always ask to be evaluated in a oral examination at the end of the course.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.