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| SPOL2307-2 | Contemporary theories of public administration
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Catherine Fallon |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| 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; strategic management and performance evaluation
- Reforms of the public services and professional changes for public servants
- Transformation of the politics / administration relationship
- Administration in multi-level environment. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| 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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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| 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 (Dec 2014) : the students will have to write a report (no later than 31/12/2014)
Organisational details will be precised during a specific course organised in septembre 2014 |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| 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.
Details will be provided during the introductory course. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| A series of articles
the slides used during the lectures will be made available via My ULg |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| 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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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| The course is organised in 2014-2015 but not in 2015-2016 |
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Contacts :
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| catherine.fallon@ulg.ac.be |
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