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
  • Marco Damiani
Hours
  • 60 ore - Marco Damiani
CFU
8
Course Regulation
Coorte 2026
Offered
2026/27
Learning activities
Caratterizzante
Area
Formazione sociologica e del servizio sociale
Sector
GSPS-07/A
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 empiricalmethodological
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. Short Anthology of Essays – Available on Unistudium in online format or in hard copy at the Secretariat of the Department of Institutions and Society, Via Elce di sotto. For information: +39 075 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
Additional information will be provided by the instructor during lectures and on the Department’s Unistudium platform.
Learning verification modality
The preparation of the students will be evaluated through a written test
on the first part of the program. Attending students
can check it.
Extended program
The first part of the course aims to explore three fundamental theoretical concepts: (1) governance; (2) social capital; and (3) public policy.
The second part of the course is instead devoted to a group-based workshop activity, designed to deepen, through practical experience, the foundations of governance.