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: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
Introduce knowledge of the policy-making process and the actors involved in it. It is also the objective of the discipline to analyze the consequences of political intervention on the economy and society. It is also intended to address the knowledge of the internal and external operating logic of public organizations.
Study and analysis of the public policy development process, especially in the study of the problem definition process and its analytical treatment, in policy formulation and in its implementation and evaluation. Analysis of the operating logic of the actors involved in the policy-making process: politicians, bureaucrats and pressure groups. Study of power and conflict dynamics within public administrations.
Aguilar, L.F. (1996.). El estudio de las políticas públicas. Miguel Ángel Porrúa,
Aguilar, L. F. (1997). La hechura de las políticas públicas. Miguel Ángel Porrúa.
Aguilar, L. F. (2000) Problemas públicos y agenda de gobierno. Miguel Ángel Porrúa.
Aguilar, L. F. (2000) La implementación de las políticas. Miguel Ángel Porrúa.
Anderson, J. E. (1975). Public Policy-making. Holt Praeger.
Beltrán, M. (1987). El policy analysis como instrumento de valoración de la acción pública. Revista de Estudios Políticos, (56), 65-75.
Birkland, T.A. (2005) An Introduction to the Policy Process. Theories, concepts and models of public policy making. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351023948
Dente, B. (1989). Politiche pubbliche e pubblica amministrazion. Maggioli, Editore.
Dye, T. R. (1972). Understanding Public Policy. Prentice Hall.
Grawitz, M., J. Lecca, J. (1985). Traité de science politique. Les politiques publiques IV. Presses Universitaires de France (PUF).
Gomà, R. e Subirats, J. (1998). Políticas Públicas en España. Ariel.
Harguindéguy, J. B. (2020). Análisis de políticas públicas. Tecnos.
Howlett, M. e Ramesh, M. (1995). Studying Public Policy, Oxford University Press.
Jones, C. O. (1970). An Introduction to the Study of Public Policy. Wadsworth.
Knill, C., e Tosun, J. (2012). Public policy: A new introduction. Palgrave Macmillan.
Lemieux, V. (1995). L'etude des politiques publiques. Les acteurs et leur pouvoir, Presses de L'Université Laval.
Meny, I. e Thoenig, J. C. (1992). Las Políticas Públicas. Ariel.
Muller, P. (1990). Les politiques publiques. Presses Universitaires de France (PUF).
Nagel, S. S. (1984). Public Policy: Goals, Means and Methods. St. Martin´s Press.
Nagel, S. S. (1999). Evaluaciones opuestas de los estudios de políticas. En N. B. Lynn e A. Wildavsky (eds.), Administración Pública. El estado actual de la disciplina (pp. 539-590). Fondo de Cultura Económica.
Nelson, B. J. (2001). Políticas públicas y administración: una visión general. En Robert T. Goodin e Hans-Dieter Klingemann (eds.), Nuevo manual de Ciencia Política, (pp. 750-860). Istmo.
Pallarés, F. (1988). Las políticas públicas: El sistema político en acción. En Revista de Estudios Políticos, (62), pp. 141-162.
Parsons, W. (1995). Public Policy. Edward Elgar.
Subirats, J. (1988). Notas acerca del Estado, la Administración y las políticas públicas. En Revista de Estudios Políticos, (59), pp. 173-197.
Subirats, J. (1992). Análisis de políticas públicas y eficacia de la administración, INAP.
Subirats, J.; Knoepfel, P.; Larrue, C.; Varone, F. (2008). Análisis y gestión de políticas públicas. Ariel.
Tamayo Sáez, M. (1997). El análisis de las políticas públicas. En R. Bañón, e E. Carrillo (comps), La nueva Administración Pública (pp. 281-312), Alianza.
The specific bibliography will be provided by the teacher with the presentation and monitoring of the syllabus. If students want more specialized bibliography, it will be provided in personalized tutorials.
Proporcionar las herramientas esenciales para el análisis y definición de los problemas públicos, la toma de decisiones y el diseño de políticas públicas. Se busca capacitar también para la toma de decisiones críticas. Comprender el funcionamiento del escenario público. Capacidad de realizar análisis deductivos sobre las consecuencias previsibles de las distintas políticas públicas. Conocer, comprender y saber determinar la adecuación de las distintas herramientas de política pública. Desarrollar capacidades de trabajo y meditación individual.
• Theoretical and participatory blackboard classes.
• Interactive and participatory seminars.
• Tutored assignments: individual and group work that delve into a topic.
• Individual and group tutorials.
The final note is made up of three parts:
- Exam (70%): demonstration of the knowledge acquired.
- Individual work (15%): at the proposal of the teacher. The work will deal with the content of readings and/or analysis of a sectoral public policy.
- Interactive/seminar (15%): monitoring and taking advantage of the interactive classes/seminars, adding the completion of the proposed tasks.
* The exam must be passed to pass the subject.
The Title Report presents the following information:
- Student's personal work: 100 hours.
The teacher will provide the study materials at the beginning of the course and during the presentation of the syllabus. Regular monitoring of the expository and interactive classes is recommended, as well as the preparation prior to class of the materials corresponding to the topic of the day, in such a way that their understanding is facilitated.
- Teacher-student communication will be carried out through email through the institutional account @rai.usc.es (students) and @usc.es (PDI).
- Mandatory use of the technological tools provided by the USC: Virtual Campus, Microsoft Office 365, and other tools provided by the faculty and authorized as institutional tools by the university.
- In cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the Assessment of Academic Performance of Students and the Review of Qualifications will apply.
Miguel Anxo Bastos Boubeta
Coordinador/a- Department
- Political Science and Sociology
- Area
- Political Science and Administration
- Phone
- 881815167
- miguelanxo.bastos [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Diego Mo Groba
- Department
- Political Science and Sociology
- Area
- Political Science and Administration
- Phone
- 881815156
- diego.mo.groba [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) PhD Assistant Professor
Nuria Rodriguez Garcia
- Department
- Political Science and Sociology
- Area
- Political Science and Administration
- nuria.rodriguez.garcia [at] usc.es
- Category
- Xunta Pre-doctoral Contract
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