| CODE | PPL1084 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Comparative Public Management | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Public Policy | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit discusses a number of current themes in public administration from a comparative perspective. These include public service ethics, economic perspectives on public administrations, public accountability, the virtual organisation, public private partnerships, privatisation, decentralisation and supra national governance all from a comparative perspective. It will further discuss how these issues impact on public administration in a globalised setting and how these issues, at the forefront of EU governance, are helping shape public administration in member-states. These issues touch both the working and the lives of public officers and experience has shown that public officers, immersed in their day-to-day routines, fail to grasp either the direction of public administration evolution or its practical implications for the future of the public administration. Study-Unit Aims: The main aim of this study-unit is to help students, to understand better how public administration is evolving internationally. It will also help them locate changes in Malta on the international scene. Students will also be able to grasp how developments within the EU are shaping public administration in EU states and European Area countries. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Relate how these developments abroad have influenced developments here; - Distinguish how approach to these issues is bound by culture and economic resources; - Analyse local development in the light of similar development elsewhere; - Relate how public administration within EU administrative structures is evolving and how it impacts local administration; - Distinguish how public administration processes have changed the role of the state and its institutions. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Interpret proposals for reform within wider knowledge of similar reforms elsewhere and advise accordingly; - Assess likely benefits / disadvantages of implementing ideas locally; - Evaluate implementation challenges of such measures; - Judge whether measures fit the Maltese public sector; - Assess future trends in public administration. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts - B.Guy Peters, The Politics of Bureaucracy. An introduction to comparative Public Adminstration, 2014. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Kurt Borg Luke Buhagiar Marguerite Camilleri Marie Louise Mangion Mario Thomas Vassallo George Vital Zammit |
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