30342 - PUBLIC GOVERNANCE

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

The course provides tools, competences and skills to undestand, critically discuss and to design public (as well as collaborative) governance models and decision-making processes to support strategic choices of public interest and/or relevance.

• Explain the evolution of the models of governing.
• Define and to 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.

• Face-to-face lectures
• Guest speaker's talks (in class or in distance)
• Case studies /Incidents (traditional, online)
• Group assignments
• Interactive class activities (role playing, business game, simulation, online forum, instant polls)

The course usees formal lectures and a mix of class discussions (involving also practitioners able to bring to the class xoncrete public govenrnance examples), case studies, incidents and simulations. It is crucial to participate actively to the class discussion.

• Group assignment: 40% (first partial assignment).
• Final written exam: 60% (open questions).

100% written exam (open questions).

Required readings are made available online on Bboard by the end of August 2018.

Required readings are made available online on Bboard by the end of August 2018.