ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF PUBLIC POLICIES
ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF PUBLIC POLICIES
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| 2023/2024 | 8 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Nicola Giannelli | wednesday 3-5 pm |
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Course entirely taught in a foreign language
English
This course is entirely taught in a foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course will be held entirely in English. The course will be aimed at acquiring the fundamental analytical tools for the analysis of public policies. As public policy analysis is a science that uses different analytical and explanatory approaches, these will be examined one by one by making concrete examples in order to understand their effectiveness.
After the study of conceptual tools for policy analysis, we will see how to use them in multilevel policy making: the Next Generation Eu and the Italian Plan of this European Initiative that is National Recovery and Resilience Plan. Conditions, strategy, goals and implementation problems of the NRRP will be examined.
Students will be invited to study a case of implementation of the Next Generation Eu in a member state and to present this case to their classmates.
Program
The Policy Sciences at the Crossroad
Promoting the Policy Orientation: Lasswell in Context
Public Policy, Social Science, and the State: An Historical Perspective
Theories of the Policy Cycle
Agenda Setting in Public Policy
Policy Formulation: Design and Tools
Implementing Public Policy
Do Policies Determine Politics?
A Guide to the Advocacy Coalition Framework
Policy Communities
Public Policy Analysis and Think Tanks
Rationality in Policy Decision Making
Rational Choice in Public Policy: The Theory in Critical Perspective
Taking Stock of Policy Networks: Do They Matter?
Theories of Policy Learning: Agency, Structure, and Change.
The Next Generation EU and its implementation Challenge
The National Recovery and Resilience Plan of the Italian Government: aims, tools and Governance.
Bridging Courses
No one.
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
The aim of the course will be to develop in the student an analytical ability that he can then apply to different contexts, micro and macro. The student will therefore be required to have critical, analytical and expository skills. Students will try to analyze a real case of policy making, first alone and then together with the class, developing a methodological sensitivity that will allow them to face even complex public policy analyzes and evaluations. The proposed cases will serve to know complex decision-making environments and to realize how institutional decision-making procedures are different from how they appear superficially.
Teaching Material
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
Supporting Activities
Students will be brought to visit actors of local policy making in the field of Implementation of the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan.
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Lectures, discussion on readings, discussion on contributions presented by students, paper writing
- Innovative teaching methods
External visiting, classroom presentation, paper writing
- Course books
Fisher F. Miller G.J Sidney M.S. Handbook of Public Policy Analysis. Theory, Politics, Methods, Part I -II-III-IV, pagg 3-222.
European Parliament Italy's National Recovery and Resilience Plan Summary
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2021/698847/EPRS_BRI(2021)698847_EN.pdf
European Parliament Addressing the Callenges of Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive Growth, in National Recovery and Resilience Plans in France Germany Italy Poland assessment
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2023/699554/IPOL_STU(2023)699554_EN.pdf
S. Piattoni L. Polverari the Italian NRRP and Administrative Capacity: Real Game Changer?
- Assessment
Oral exam, oral insights on topics covered in class, term papers on topics agreed with the teacher.
- 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.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Course books
Fisher F. Miller G.J Sidney M.S. Handbook of Public Policy Analysis. Theory, Politics, Methods, Part I -II-III-IV, pagg 3-222.
Other readings and texbook will be agreed with the student considering his/her study interests. He/she could agree a paper to discuss with teacher at the oral exam.
- Assessment
Oral exam and the possibility of replacing a part of the study program with a paper agreed with the teacher.
- 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.
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