30342 - PUBLIC GOVERNANCE

Knowledge and understanding
At the end of the course student will be able to do:
This course provides students with the frameworks to understand the complexity of decision-making processes in public sector, with a focus on implications due to different governance models, multiple stakeholders, administrative red tape, public-private relationships, increasingly liquid borders between politics and management. The course provides also tools, competences and skills to design effective governance models and decision-making processes to support strategic choices of public interest and/or relevance.

Applying knowledge and understanding
At the end of the course student will be able to do:
Ability to manage decision-making in public systems with specific focus to those characterized by wicked issues and high need of inter-institutional cooperation, and ability to design and organize inter-institutional networks and their governance

• Face-to-face lectures
• Guest speaker's talks (in-class or in distance)
• In-class exercises
• Theories and/or case studies discussions (in-class or in distance)
• Oral presentations of individual/group assignments
• Individual assignments
• Group assignments

• Written exam(s) with open ended questions
• Individual assignments
• Group assignments