- Docente: Daniela Giannetti
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SPS/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Digital Innovation Policies and Governance (cod. 5889)
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from Feb 11, 2025 to May 08, 2025
Learning outcomes
The course focuses on the topic of institutional stability and change, with particular reference to decision-making processes in organisations. By the end of the course the student is able to: analyse decision-making processes and evaluate their outcomes; interpret the trajectories of institutional change.
Course contents
The study of political institutions is quite broad and diverse, so that one course cannot provide an exhaustive survey of the field. To illustrate this area of study, we will focus on prominent research questions looking at institutions through the lenses of the rational choice approach. The questions examined allow us to investigate institutions as obiect of choice and institutions as constraints.We will focus on institutions as solutions to collective action dilemmas: cooperation and coordination. Then we will examine institutions as constraints by focusing on problems in collective decision making. Finally we will focus on issues of agency and delegation in organizations.
Readings/Bibliography
A reading list will be provided at the beginning of the course. Students are encouraged to read Shepsle, Kenneth Analyzing Politics. Rationality, Behavior and Institutions, New York, Norton, 2nd edition 2010.
Teaching methods
The basic format will be classroom lectures and students' presentations/discussion.
All students are expected to complete the required readings before each week’s class meeting and to contribute to class discussion (30%)
All readings will be posted on virtuale.unibo.it
Assessment methods
Assessment methods for attending students
Class attendance: 30%; Oral presentation: 30%; Written paper: 40%.
Attendance at the exam for the discussion of the written paper is required.
Assessment methods for non-attending students
Written paper: 40%; oral examination : 60%.
Required readings:
Kenneth Shepsle, Analyzying Politics. Rationality, Behaviour and Institutions, New York, Norton 2010.
One article of your choice from the reading list available on Virtuale.
Non-attending students are requested to contact the lecturer to agree on the topic of the paper.
Teaching tools
Teaching materials including course syllabus will be available on line at the following website https://virtuale.unibo.it [https://iol.unibo.it/]
Office hours
See the website of Daniela Giannetti