Unit GOVERNANCE AND PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS
- Course
- Social policies, welfare systems and non profit sector
- Study-unit Code
- A003330
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Marco Damiani
- Teachers
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- Marco Damiani
- Hours
- 60 ore - Marco Damiani
- CFU
- 8
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2025
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Formazione sociologica e del servizio sociale
- Academic discipline
- SPS/11
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian. Non-Italian students and Erasmus students are invited to take the course. Readings and other course material are also available in English. Please contact the instructor for further details and to schedule an appointment during the first week of the lessons.
- Contents
- The course is divided in two parts, a theoretical part and an empirical-methodological part. The contents of the main concepts related to the governance and public policies and also to experience cases of governance through simulations.
- Reference texts
- FOR ATTENDING STUDENTS: 1) Arienzo A., La governance, Ediesse, Roma, 2013. 2) Andreotti A., Il capitale sociale, Carocci, Roma, 2009. 3) Howlett M. e M. Ramesh, Come studiare le politiche pubbliche, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2003. 4) Piccola Antologia di saggi – Disponibile on Unistudium or c/o Segreteria Dipartimento Istituzioni e Società, Via Elce di sotto. Per informazioni: 075 5855405 FOR NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS OR AS ALTERNATIVE TO THE SEMINAR GROUP: - Segatori R., I sindaci, Donzelli, Roma, 2003 (CAP. 3, 4 e 5) "Attending" students are those who attend the class and the seminar group researches. The Students who do not attend classes and/or do not carry out the seminary works will be considered “non-attendants”.
- Educational objectives
- At the end of the course, the students will have attained the theoretical and methodological competences of the main aspects of public policies and the governance model. Moreover, the students attending this course will analyze case studies and they will also simulate case scenarios. The course involves students of several master’s degrees who will acquire the necessary skills to work within the governance structures of the different study areas.
- Prerequisites
- No prerequisites.
- Teaching methods
- The course includes frontal lectures by the teacher. The last part of the course is devoted to the group works carried out by students who attend the seminar research.
- Other information
- Other information will be provided by the teacher on the Unistudium platform of the Department.
- Learning verification modality
- The preparation of the students will be evaluated through a written test on the first part of the program. Attending and non-attending students can check it.
- Extended program
- The first part of the course deals with three fundamental theoretical concepts: 1) governance; 2) Social capital; 3) public policies.