- Docente: Rebecca Levy Orelli
- Credits: 6
- SSD: SECS-P/07
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Innovation and Organization of Culture and the Arts (cod. 0902)
Learning outcomes
In the last decades, the public sector has been involved in a great process of change that has brought to the development of a new research paradigm the New Public Management. The course will focus on theoretical, operative and critical aspects of the public sector transformation. At the end of the course the students should be able to frame, understand and discuss the recent change that have recently involved the cultural sector at national and international level in the grater transformation process of the public administration as a whole.
Course contents
Pre-New Public Management
- Classical theories
- The evolution of public administration
New Public Management
- The origins
- Competition
- Cooperation
- Authonomy
- Performance measurement
- International variations
Post-NPM
- Public value
- Co-production
- Engagement
- Sustainability and the environment
Readings/Bibliography
A complete list of readings will be provided in class.
Teaching methods
The course is based on class discussions and active participation by students. Classes comprise a mix of lectures and in class activities.
Assessment methods
The assessment tasks are as follows:
a) Group assignment - written report : 25/30
b) Group assignment - presentation: 5/30
Detailed instructions will be delivered in class
Office hours
See the website of Rebecca Levy Orelli
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.