ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Political Science and Sociology
Areas: Political Science and Administration
Center Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
To Provide students with the essential tools for analyzing and defining public problems, constructing scenarios and solutions, making efficient decisions, strategically designing policies, and choosing management models strategically.
TOPIC 1: PROBLEMS, ACTORS, AND SOLUTIONS
1.1 Problem Definition
1.2 Actors and Problems
1.2 Public Agenda and Public Decisions
TOPIC 2: PROBLEM ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY
2.1 Strategic Thinking
2.2 Strategic Analysis
2.3 Role Analysis
TOPIC 3: METHODS AND TECHNIQUES OF STRATEGY ANALYSIS
3.1 Strategic Analysis and Rational Choice
3.2 Quantitative Approaches: Cost/Benefit Analysis
3.3 Qualitative Approaches: SWOT and Variants
TOPIC 4: DECISION-MAKING
4.1 Rationality and Decision-Making
4.2 Decision-Making Models
4.3 Strategic Management
BIBLIOGRAFÍA BÁSICA
Albi, E., González Páramo, J.M., y López Casanova, G. (1997): Gestión Pública. Fundamentos, técnicas y casos. Barcelona: Ariel.
Albi E. Onrubia Fernández, J. (2015) Economía de la gestión pública : cuestiones fundamentales: Editorial Universitaria Ramón Areces. Madrid.
Bañón, R. y Carrillo, E. (1997): La nueva Administración Pública. Madrid: Alianza Universidad Textos.
Brugué, Q., y Subirats, J. (1996): Lecturas de Gestión Pública. Madrid: MAP.
Gimbert, Xavier. (2010) Pensar estratégicamente : modelos, conceptos y reflexiones. Deusto.
Kleyn, G. (2009). Streetlights and shadows. MIT Press. Cambridge, Massachusets.
Nieto, A. (1996): La "nueva" organización del desgobierno. Ariel. Barcelona.
Nieto, A. (2012): El desgobierno de lo público. Ariel. Barcelona.
Meny, I, Thoening, J: Las Políticas Públicas, Ariel ciencia Política, Barcelona, 1992.
Ramió, Carles (1999). Teoría de la Organización y Administración Pública. UPF. Editorial Tecnos. Barcelona.
Ramio, Carles (2022) Burocracia inteligente. Guía para transformar la Administración pública. Catarata
Sanchez Rojo, D. (2002). Gestión de Servicios Públicos: estrategias de marketing y calidad. UPF. Editorial Tecnos. Barcelona
Subirats, J. Dente, B. (2014) Decisiones públicas. Ariel Ciencia Política. Barcelona
Subirats, J. Knoepfel P. Larrue, C. Varone, F. Análisis y Gestión de Políticas Públicas. Ariel Ciencia Política. Barcelona 2008.
BIBLIOGRAFÍA AVANZADA
ALLISON G, T: Essence of Decision, Little Brown, Boston, 1971.
ANDERSON, J: Public Policy Making, Nelson, 1975.
ARROW, K, J: Social Choice and Individual Values, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1963.
ATKINSON M, COLEMAN, W. Policy Networks, Policy Communities and the Problem of Governance. Governance. Vol 5. N 2. Abril 1992, p. 154-180.
BECKMAN, N: Policy Analysis in Government, Alternatives to Muddlingh Through, PAR, nª37, 1977.
BELTRAN, M: "El Policy Analysis como instrumento de valoración de la acción pública", Revista de Estudios Políticos, 56, abril-junio, pg.65-75.
BOBROW, B, DRYZECK, J: Policy Analysis by Design, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 1987.
BRAYBROOKE, D, LINDBLOM, CH: A Strategy of Decision, Free Press, Nueva York, 1963.
CARLEY, M: Rational Techniques in Policy Analysis, Heinemann Educational Books, 1980.
DERY, D : Problem Definition In Policy Analisys, University Press of Kansas, 1984.
DOWDING, K, Model or metaphor?, a Critical review of the policy network Approach, political Studies, XLIII, p.136-158, 1995.
DOWDING, K, KING, D, DUNLEAVY, P MARGETTS, H, Rational Choice and Community Power Structures, Political Studies, XLIII, p.267-277, 1995b
DROR, Y: Public Policymaking Reexamined, Transaction Publishers, Oxford, 1989.
DUNN, W,N: Public Policy Analysis, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs,1981.
DYE T R: Understanding Public Policy, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs,1987.
EZIONI, A: Mixed Scanning, a Third Approach to Decision Making, PAR, 27, 1967.
FRIEDMAN, J: Planificación en el Ambito Público, INAP, Madrid, 1991.
GREGORY, R: Political Rationality or Incrementalism, p.212-235. The Policy Process: a Reader, ed. Michael Hill, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993.
HEYFETZ, R, A, SINDER R, Politicat Leadership: Managing the Public´s Problem Solving, The Power of Public Ideas, capítulo 8. Londres, 1992.
HILL, M, HAM, C: The Policy Porcess in the Modern Capitalist State, Harvester wheatsheaft, 1993.
HIRSCHMAN, A, O: Shifting Involvements, Private interests and the Public Action, Princenton Universiiity Press, Princenton, 1983.
HOGWOOD B, W, GUNN, L, A: Policy Analysis for the real World, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1984.
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HULL, CH, HJERN, B: Policy Analysis in a Mixed Economy, an Implementation
To Provide students with an overview of the various dominant theoretical frameworks and decision-making techniques. Understand the core elements of the public decision-making process. Develop individual and teamwork skills by learning to analyze information, identify the most important ideas, and summarize them orally and in writing.
In-person master classes and practical classes dedicated to the study and analysis of real-life cases of public decision-making and the theoretical study of decision-making.
In-person seminars for group research projects on current public decisions.
The theoretical component will be assessed in a final exam in which the student will be questioned about the content studied.
The exam will consist of the development of at least two sections of the course syllabus. 40% grade.
Review of the research work in the interactive seminars. 50% grade.
40% of that grade is linked to compulsory attendance from a minimum of 80%.
The assessment will be completed with an evaluation of the practical work carried out in seminars and tutorials, and an assessment of attendance and participation in classes. 10% grade.
To be eligible for the three grades, a minimum of 2 points on the exam is required.
If you are exempt, you must pass an oral exam. 100% of the grade.
N-PERSON CLASSROOM WORK
Blackboard classes: 30 hours
Seminars: 10 hours
Supervised assignments: 5 hours
Tutoring: 2 hours
Study-related tasks: 3 hours
TOTAL: 50 hours
STUDENT PERSONAL WORK
Individual study: 50 hours
Preparation of group projects and presentations: 25 hours
Completion of individual projects: 25 hours
TOTAL: 100 hours
a) Access to USC resources: technological, bibliographic, educational...
b) ICT management.
Antonio Losada Trabada
Coordinador/a- Department
- Political Science and Sociology
- Area
- Political Science and Administration
- Phone
- 881815155
- antonio.losada [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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| 10:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | Galician | 0.2 |
| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Galician | 0.2 |
| 16:00-17:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Galician | 0.2 |
| 05.25.2026 10:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | 2.1 |
| 05.25.2026 18:30-20:30 | Grupo /CLE_02 | 1.4 |
| 07.10.2026 10:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | 2.1 |
| 07.10.2026 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | 2.1 |