THEORY AND PRACTICE OF INTERNATIONAL GOVERNANCE
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF INTERNATIONAL GOVERNANCE
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| 2024/2025 | 8 |
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| Nicola Giannelli | wednesday 3-5 pm or other time agreed by student and professor |
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Course entirely taught in a foreign language
English
French
Spanish
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
Multilevel Governance is a way of describing public decisions when they are made by public actors at different levels of government and/or when these are taken with the participation and/or partnership of private actors or non-profit actors. It therefore corresponds to a relational model of policy making in which cooperation, competition and conflict can occur between the different participants in the decision-
The first part of the course will be dedicated to an analysis of analytical concepts and their applications to different realities: regionalized states, federal states (including the United States of America) and new institutional realities, in particular the European Union. This application part will be discussed with the students so that the individual cases are useful for them to develop their analytical ability and to connect analytical tools with real contexts.
The second part of the course will focus on a very important but often overlooked aspect: the intertwining of formal rules and procedures and informal rules and procedures in the governance of a complex subject. This intertwining exists in all organizations. The reading will be aimed at the context of the European Union as a place of continuous negotiation between different interests and decision-making logics within formal and informal frameworks. The analysis of this informal Governance will be very useful as a tool for analytical reading of the institutional reality, capable of going beyond the formal schemes which often fail to explain the actors' behaviors and the concrete outcomes of the decision-making processes.
The course is in English and the texts are in English. Students who need a program in Italian on Italian texts must contact the teacher via email.
Program
Part 1. Types of multilevel governance
Federalism and resource allocation in multilevel government systems
Multilevel relationship models and the specificity of multilevel relationships in the European Union
Is there global multilevel governance?
Multi-level governance and interest representation in regionalized or federal states
Governance models in some European states, in Canada and in the United States
The complex governance model of the European Union: how institutional actors and political subjects interact in the institutional framework of the European Union.
Examples of Multilevel Governance in North America and Asia
The case of the United Nations (UN)
Other cases of multilevel international networks
The role of private individuals and non-governmental organizations in multi-level international governance
Governance of the economy and taxation in multilevel governance
Part 2. The formal-informal Governance of the European Union: theories and practices
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
The student will be trained to use governance concepts in understanding European and international institutional mechanisms and collaboration between different levels of government. His capacity for analysis, synthesis, understanding and expression will be tested in the light of problem-solving orientation in the context of complex international and multilevel community decisions.
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
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Innovative teaching methods
Students will be invited to actively contribute to the use of analytical concepts through discussion, short classroom reports and a simple final presentation.
- Course books
Enderlein Walti and Zurn: HANDBOOK ON MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE 2010.pdf
http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/53786/1/3.Henrik%20Enderlein.pdf
Mareike Kleine Informal Governance in the European Union
How Governments Make International Organizations Work, 2013
https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/30791/642711.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
- Assessment
Attending students will be invited to make a first presentation on a topic of their choice in the first part of the course and a second presentation on a topic of their choice in the second part of the course. Otherwise they will be able to take a normal oral exam on all the material 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.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
Non-attending students read more than the study material of attending students. But this reading is an OECD (OECD) Report that explains how a multilevel decision-making process could work well. Therefore it should not be studied like a book but should be read taking notes which then allow you to summarize in a few words (the report itself does this synthesis work) the crucial arguments that are proposed.
Alternatively, non-attending students can agree on a personalized program with the teacher and replace some readings with an essay to be agreed and delivered at least ten days before the exam session chosen.
They can possibly ask for readings in Italian or French and take the exam in one of these two languages instead of English.
- Course books
Enderlein Walti and Zurn: HANDBOOK ON MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE 2010.pdf
http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/53786/1/3.Henrik%20Enderlein.pdf
Mareike Kleine Informal Governance in the European Union
How Governments Make International Organizations Work, 2013
https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/30791/642711.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
OECD Open Governments for Stronger Democracies GLOBAL REPORT
- Assessment
Oral exam which, at the request of the student, can be preceded by a written work agreed with the teacher whose evaluation will be a fundamental part of the overall evaluation
- 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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