Duration
20h Th
Number of credits
| Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) (Faculty of Law, Political Science and Criminology) | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
What makes a public policy fail or succeed? While some see policy failure as fundamentally a problem of policy design, one of the first difficulties is actually putting a problem on the public agenda. This is particularly the case with regard to the rehabilitation or reallocation of places such as polluted sites or abandoned industrial sites. They are subject to various attempts at public intervention, ranging from "non-decision", "laissez-faire" to maintaining a "status quo" situation to rehabilitating wastelands.
The objective of this course is to immerse students to the challenges of an ex-ante comparative evaluation in a prospective and fictional way.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Based on illustrative cases of places to be rehabilitated and key scientific articles, the student analyses the current situation and the potential problem, who has (un)occupied the place, why this potential problem is receiving more or less attention from policy-makers. The students also analyze what happens without political intervention, how public intervention would make a difference, under what conditions and why. The students learn to characterize a particular situation, to articulate potential reasons for (in)action, to develop hypotheses for public action, and to specify evaluation criteria and expected effects.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
pas de co requis/
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course will be a reading seminar. Each week, a student presents the key elements of the theoretical reading of the week applied to a case study of his/her choice. The theoretical reading is then applied to an illustrative case study presented by the professor, and discussed in groups. Emerging theoretical and analytical issues are used as a basis for reflection on the ex-ante evaluation approach.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Recommended or required readings
Slides are available via Ecampus
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a list of scientific papers is constituted during the semestre and made available to the students via Ecampus
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Additional information:
Continuous and final written work :
- 40% participation in the course (including an oral presentation of a text)
- 60% written work on the challenges of the ex-ante evaluation process.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
The team is composed of :
- Céline Parotte celine.parotte@uliege.be
- Hélène Dodion helene.dodion@uliege.be