30350 - Public administration and public policy analysis

Course contents

The course is divided into three parts: 1) the first one deals with the characteristics of politico-administrative systems in comparative perspective and on the role performed with respect to the implementation of public policies; 2) the second one is focused on the latest studies and approaches on the evolution of welfare state in the main European countries; 3) the third one is based on an in-depth reconstruction of the process of modernisation and policy change in two strategic components of the welfare state: work and health.

Readings/Bibliography

1st PART: Public Administration & Administrative Reforms

 

References

 

Carboni, N. (2008), Il circolo virtuoso del controllo politico, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, capp. 2 e 3 (optional).

Gualmini, E. (2008) Restructuring Weberian Bureaucracy: Comparing Managerial Reforms in Europe and the United States, in «Public Administration», n. 1, vol. 86, pp. 54-75.

Torres, L. e Pina V. (2004), Reshaping Public Administration: The Spanish Experience Compared to the UK , in «Public Administration», n. 2, pp. 445-464.

Knill, C. (1999), Explaining Cross-National Variance in Administrative Reform: Autonomous Versus Instrumental Bureaucracies, in «Journal of Public Policy», 19, 2, pp. 113-139. 

Clark, D. (1998), The Modernization of the French Civil Service: Crisis, Change and Continuity, in «Public Administration», 76, pp. 97-115.

Clark, D. (2000), Public Service Reform: A Comparative West European Perspective, in «West European Politics», vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 25-44.

Guyomarch, A. (1998), Public Service, Public Management and the Modernization of French Public Administration, in «Public Administration», 1, pp. 171-193.

Christensen, T. e P. Laegreid (1998), Administrative Reform Policy: The Case of Norway, in «International Review of Administrative Sciences», 64, 457-475.

Christensen, T. e P. Laegreid (1999), New Public Management – Are Politicians Losing Control? ECPR Paper, Mannheim.

Kuperus, H. e Rode A. (2009), Flexicurity Approach and Restructuring: Part of Strategic Management in Public Administrations in Europe? , EGPA Paper, Malta.

 

2nd Part: Public Policy 

Labour  & health care policies

References 

Employment 

Gualmini, E. (1998), La politica del lavoro, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1998, cap. I.

Goetschy, J. (2001), The European employment strategy from Amsterdam to Stockholm, in «Industrial Relations Journal», n. 5, pp. 401-418.

Raveaud, G. (2007) The European Employment Strategy: Towards More and Better Jobs?, in «Journal of Common Market Studies», n. 2, pp. 411-434.

        Ilsoe, A. (2007), The Danish Flexicurity Model – A Lesson For The US?, Working Paper.

Clasen, J. e D. Clegg (2006), New Labour Market Risks and the Revision of Unemployment Protection Systems in Europe, in K. Armingeon e G. Bonoli (a cura di), The Politics of Post-Industrial Welfare States, London, Routledge, pp. 192-210.

Ebbinghaus, B. (2006) Trade Union Movements in Post-Industrial Welfare States: Opening Up to New Social Interests? in,  K. Armingeon e G. Bonoli (a cura di), The Politics of Post-Industrial Welfare States, London, Routledge, pp. 123-142.

        Bonoli, G. (2006), New Social Risks and the Politics of Post-Industrial Social Policies, in K. Armingeon e G. Bonoli (a cura di), The Politics of Post-Industrial Welfare States, London, Routledge, pp. 3-26.

Dingeldey, I. (2007), Between Workfare and Enablement – The Different Paths to Transformation of the Welfare State: A Comparative Analysis of a Activating Labour Market Policies, in «European Journal of Political Research», 46, pp. 823-851.

 

Health Care 

Freddi, G. (2009), La sanità statunitense: il problema centrale del sistema politico e della società civile¸ in «Rivista italiana di politiche pubbliche», n. 2, pp. 43-68.

Guillén A.M. (2002), The Politics of Universalisation: Establishing National Health Services in Southern Europe, in «West European Politics», 25, 4, pp. 49-68.

Hassenteufel P. e Palier B. (2007), Towards Neo-Bismarckian Health Care States? Comparing Health Insurance Reforms in Bismarckian Welfare Systems, in «Social Policy & Administration», vol. 41, n. 6, pp. 574-596.

Jacobs, A. (1998), Seeing Difference: Market Health Reform in Europe, in «Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law», vol. 23, n. 1, pp. 1-33.

Maarse, H. (2006), The Privatization of Health Care in Europe: An Eight-Country Analysis, in Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law», 31, pp. 981-1014.

 

Teaching methods

One third of the lessons will be dedicated to papers' presentations and discussions. Students are required to read and critically discuss latest contributions on public administration and welfare state and to present them to the classroom. A collective discussion will then follow.

 

More conventional frontal lessons will of course be held by the teacher and summerized in power point slide which will be regularly made available on the teacher's web site (www.dosp.unibo.it/gualmini). Students are required to attend classes as frequently as possible.

Assessment methods

-   Intermediate written exam for attendant students + oral examination on the second part of the course.

-  Oral examination for non-attendants.

Teaching tools

PC projector for microsoft power point.

Links to further information

http://www.dosp.unibo.it/gualmini

Office hours

See the website of Elisabetta Gualmini