Dr Kira Matus CON6.10 and Miss Maja Rasmussen

This course is compulsory on the MSc in Public Administration and Government (LSE and Peking University). This course is available on the MPA in European Public and Economic Policy, MPA in International Development, MPA in Public and Economic Policy, MPA in Public and Social Policy, MSc in Development Management, MSc in Development Studies, MSc in Management and Strategy, MSc in Public Policy and Administration, MSc in Public Policy and Administration (Research), MSc in Regulation and MSc in Regulation (Research). This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

Other postgraduates require permission of teachers responsible.

The course offers an intensive introduction into key areas of public management with reference to both developed and lesser developed world contexts. Topics include administrative doctrine, implementation, organizational change and inertia, capacity building, performance-management, leadership, institution creation, transparency and risk management. Public management is treated as an interdisciplinary field of study, with a particular emphasis on the administrative practices and change as well as the critical analysis of practical arguments about Public Management

10 hours of lectures and 20 hours of seminars in the MT. 2 hours of lectures in the ST.

Students are expected to complete two formative essays.

M Barzelay, The New Public Management, 2001; C Hood, The Art of the State, 1998; C Hood and M Lodge, Politics of Public Service Bargains, 2006; E Bardach, Getting Agencies to Work Together, 1998; M Barzelay and C Campbell Preparing for the Future, 2003; C Hood & M Jackson, Administrative Argument, 1991; H Simons, Persuasion in Society, 2001; E. Ferlie, L. Lynn and C. Pollitt Oxford Handbook of Public Management, 2005; C Hood and H Margetts, Tools of Government in the Digital Age, 2007.

Exam (100%, duration: 2 hours) in the main exam period.