Course 2024-2025 a.y.

This course allows students to understand the complexity of policy making and other decision-making processes in the public sector, with a particular focus on different governance models, multiple stakeholders, and public-private relations.

In particular, the course provides tools, competences, and skills:

1. to understand, critically discuss, and design public governance models as well as decision-making and policy-making processes to support strategic choices of public interest and relevance (first part of the course + group assignment);

2. to understand the organizational dimensions of public governance, and to manage collaborative governance opportunities and public service contracts with a shared value perspective for sustainable goals (second part of the course

· Explain the evolution of the models of governing.

· Define and describe public as well as collaborative governance.

· Identify solutions and levers to successfully manage public governance

• Design and to organize multi-stakeholder decision making processes.
• Critically discuss (both individually and in team) public governance models.
• Develop teamwork and public speaking skills.

• Lectures
• Guest speaker's talks (in class or in distance)
• Collaborative Works / Assignments
• Interaction/Gamification

The course uses lectures and a mix of class discussions, involving also practitioners able to bring to the class concrete public governance examples, case studies, incidents, and simulations. The course combines theoretical perspectives and various real-life examples of public governance that highlight the reasons and conditions for success as well as failures and unexpected/unwanted results. A group project in the first part of the course allows students to apply analytical tools from the class to a policy issue of their choice.

· Group assignment: 40%

· Final written exam: 60%

For attending students, the first part of the course is assessed through a group assignment aimed at assessing students’ ability to apply the analytical perspectives and skills acquired during the first part of the course (in particular on decision-making and policy-making).

The final written exam for attending student covers only the second part of the course. It consists of a mix of multiple-choice and open-ended questions that focus the topics / contents / methods analyzed and discussed in class. The written exam assesses:

i) students' understanding of the concepts and tools discussed during the second part of the course;

ii) students’ ability to apply the analytical tools discussed during the second part of the course and to propose management solutions in different situations / cases.

Attending students will have the possibility to take the final exam during the first two available exam dates. In order to pass the exam each part of the exam (group assignment and final written exam) have to be graded at least 18.

100% written exam.

Final written exam covering the entire course The final written exam for non-attending students will cover the entire program of the course and all readings. It consists of a mix of multiple-choice and open-ended questions that focus the topics / contents / methods analyzed and discussed in class. The written exam assesses:

i) students' understanding of the concepts and tools covered by the course;

ii) students’ ability to apply the analytical tools presented by the course and to propose management solutions in different situations / cases.

Required readings (articles, papers, slides) will be specified in the syllabus and will be available online on Blackboard.