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| SPOL2307-1 | Contemporary theories of public administration
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| Duration : | 45h Th |
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| Holder(s) : | Catherine Fallon |
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| Language : | French language |
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| Course contents : | The course will cover recent theories of the on going transformations of the state :
- Reforms derived from the New Public Management trend; agencification and contractualisation
- Reforms of the public services
- Administration in multi-level environment. |
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| Course objective : | Develop a critical approach of the emerging issues in the domaine of public administration, and the theoretical tools to manage these issues. |
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| Workshops : | Students have to analyse (groupwork) a question of reform of a public administration (on the basis of a list of proposition given by the teacher): this will be based on fieldwork. It will be presented during the lecture (march 2011) : the students will have to write a 10-pages report (no later than 1/5/2011) |
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| Organization : | lectures are organised during the 2d semestre, on the basis of a series of articles and texsts (in French and English)
Students have to analyse (groupwork) a question of reform of a public administration (on the basis of a list of proposition given by the teacher): this will be based on fieldwork. It will be presented during the lecture (march 2011) : the students will have to write a 10-pages report (no later than 1/5/2011)
Details will be provided during the introductory course. |
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| Written notes : | A series of articles
the slides used during the lectures will be made available |
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| Assessment : | oral examination : a discussion on an article selected randomly from the reading file; a question on the elements covered during the lectures (restitution)
50% of the final evalution will be based on the groupwork (quality of the analysis, quality of the oral presentation, quality of the written report) |
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| Contacts : | catherine.fallon@ulg.ac.be |
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