33185 - PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
2020/21
1.13.1. Competences
1 General competences:
• G2. Ability to identify the main ideas of a written text or oral presentation.
• G4. Ability to solve problems and make decisions autonomously.
• G5. Ability to relate theory to concrete situations in the real world.
• G6. Ability to work as part of a team.
• G8. Ability to make sound and reasoned judgments, using the language of the study area.
2 Basic competences:
• B1. Ability to communicate orally and in public in a correct, clear and reasoned way in English and, where appropriate, in Spanish.
• B2. Ability to communicate in writing in a correct, clear, reasoned manner and respecting the formal rules of a scientific text, in English and, where appropriate, in Spanish.
• B4. Ability to search, select and analyze information from different sources in English and, where appropriate, in Spanish.
• B6. Ability to interpret analyzes of relatively complex data.
3 Specific skills:
• E10. Knowledge of the organization and management of Public Administration at its different levels.
• E11. Knowledge of the planning, implementation, evaluation and analysis of public policies.
• E12. Knowledge of the behavior of bureaucrats and other actors participating in the elaboration and implementation of public policies.
• E13. Knowledge of the main instruments of analysis applied in research on public administration and policies.
1.13.2. Learning outcomes
• G2. Ability to identify the main ideas of a written text or oral presentation.
• G4. Ability to solve problems and make decisions autonomously.
• G5. Ability to relate theory to concrete situations in the real world.
• G6. Ability to work as part of a team.
• G8. Ability to make sound and reasoned judgments, using the language of the study area.
• B1. Ability to communicate orally and in public in a correct, clear and reasoned way in English and, where appropriate, in Spanish.
• B2. Ability to communicate in writing in a correct, clear, reasoned manner and respecting the formal rules of a scientific text, in English and, where appropriate, in Spanish.
• B4. Ability to search, select and analyze information from different sources in English and, where appropriate, in Spanish.
• B6. Ability to interpret analysis of relatively complex data.
• E10. Knowledge of the organization and management of Public Administration at its different levels.
• E11. Knowledge of the planning, implementation, evaluation and analysis of public policies.
• E12. Knowledge about the behavior of bureaucrats and other actors that participate in the elaboration and implementation of public policies.
• E13. Knowedge of the main instruments of analysis applied in research on public administration and policies.
1.15. Course bibliography
Compulsory reading. A list of compulsory and complementary reading will be provided in the digital platform of the course prior to the beginning of the term.
Indicative reading. The following list is a guide to general books about the core topics of the course (mostly in English, but some in Spanish).
6, Perri. (2004). e-Governance. Styles of Politcal Judgement in the Information Age Polity. Londres: Palgrave.
Aibar, Eduard, y Ferrán Urgell. (2007). Estado, Burocracia y Red. Barcelona: Ariel.
Arenilla, Manuel (ed.). (2014). Administración 2032. Madrid: Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública.
Barzelay, Michael. (2019). Public Management as a Design-Oriented Professional Discipline. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Barzelay, Michael. (2001). The New Public Management. Improving Research and Policy Dialogue. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Bovaird, Tony, y Elke Löffler, eds. (2016). Public Management and Governance. 3 ed. London: Routledge.
Christensen, Tom, y Per Laegreid, eds. (2007). Transcending New Public Management: The Transformation of Public Sector Reforms. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Criado, J. Ignacio. (ed.) (2016). Nuevas Tendencias en la Gestión Pública. Innovación Abierta, Gobernanza Inteligente y Tecnologías Sociales en unas Administraciones Públicas Colaborativas. Madrid: Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública.
Criado, J. Ignacio. (2009). Entre Sueños Utópicos y Visiones Pesimistas. Internet y las TIC en la Modernización de las Administraciones Públicas. Madrid: Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública.
Dahlström, C. and Lapuente V. (2017). Organizing Leviathan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Denhardt, Robert B. (2000). Theories of Public Organization. 6 ed. Orlando: Harcourt Brace & Co.
Dunleavy, Patrick, Hellen Margetts, H., Simon Bastow, y Jane Tinkler. (2006). Digital Era Governance: IT Corporations, the State and E-government. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
del Pino, Eloisa. (2004). Los Ciudadanos y el Estado. Las Actitudes de los Españoles hacia las Administraciones y las Políticas Públicas. Madrid: Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública.
Denhardt, Robert. B. (2011). Theories of Public Organization. 6 ed., Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace.
Ferlie, Ewan, Laurence E. Lynn, y Christopher Pollit. (2006). The Oxford Handbook of Public Management. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Flynn, Norman & Asquer, Alberto. (2016). Public Sector Management. 7 ed. London: Pearson.
Gascó, Mila. (2014). Open Government. Challenges and Opportunities for Public Governance. New York, Springer.
Gil-García, J. Ramón, Criado, J. Ignacio, & Téllez, Juan Carlos. (eds.) (2016). Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación en la Administración Pública. Conceptos, Enfoques, Aplicaciones y Resultados. Ciudad de México: INFOTEC.
Hood, Christopher. (1998). The Art of the State. Culture, Rhetoric and Public Management. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hood, Christopher y Helen Margetts. (2007). The Tools of Government in the Digital Age. Londres: Palgrave.
Hughes, Owen. (2017). Public Management and Administration. 5 ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Mergel, Ines. (2012). Social Media in the Public Sector: A guide to participation, collaboration, and transparency in the networked world. San Francisco: John Wiley&Sons.
Noordegraaf, Mirko (2015). Public Management. London: Palgrave-Macmillan.
Olías de Lima, Blanca, ed. (2001). La Nueva Gestión Pública. Madrid: Prentice Hall.
Olmeda, José. A., Salvador Parrado, y César Colino. (2012). Las Administraciones Públicas en España. Valencia: Tirant Lo Blanch.
Ongaro, Edoardo (ed.) (2018). Philosophy and Public Administration. An Introduction. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Ongaro, Edoardo (ed.) (2018). Public Administration in Europe. The Contribution of EGPA. London: Palgrave-Macmillan.
Ongaro, Edoardo (2009). Public Management Reform and Modernization Trajectories of Administrative Change in Italy, France, Greece, Portugal and Spain. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Ongaro, Edoardo & Van Thiel, S. (eds.) (2017). The Palgrave Handbook of Public Administration and Management in Europe. London: Palgrave-Macmillan.
Parrado, Salvador. (2015). El análisis de la gestión pública. Madrid: Tirant Lo Blanch.
Peters, B. Guy, y John Pierre, eds. (2014). Handbook of Public Administration. 2 ed. London: Sage.
Peters, B. Guy. (2018). The Politics of Bureaucracy. 7 ed. New York: Routledge.
Pollit, Christopher. (2003). The Essential Public Manager. Buckingham: Open University Press-McGraw Hill Education.
Pollit, Christopher, y Geert Bouckaert. (2017). Public Management Reform. A Comparative Analysis – Into the Age of Austerity. 4 ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Raadschelders Jos C.N. (2011) Public Administration: The Interdisciplinary Study of Government, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Reddick, Chris. (2012). Public Administration and Information Technology. Burlington MA: Jones & Bartlett.
Simon, Hebert A. (1997). Administrative Behavior: A Study of Decision-Making Processes in Administrative Organizations. 4 ed. Nueva York: The Free Press.