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Public Management & Delivery - Mundus MAPP - POL00075M

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  • Department: Politics and International Relations
  • Module co-ordinator: Dr. Elena Davidescu
  • Credit value: 14 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2022-23

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Spring Term 2022-23

Module aims

This module provides an opportunity for students of a practical orientation to enhance their personal growth by stimulating new ideas and developing new skills in public policy, administration and management. The module explores current developments in applied policy analysis and public management; considers how policy problems and programmes are managed in the public sector; evaluates the actions and processes that shape the management of change; and assesses how policies are managed, implemented, monitored and evaluated.

The module brings together three key inter-related themes: public management theory and practice; the tools of government; and the role of knowledge in public policy-making. The focus of the module is on how changes in the nature of government have created problems in terms of delivery. Hence the module develops ways of understanding new and varied forms of delivery mechanism for public policy.

Module learning outcomes

The module aims to provide students with:

  • an understanding of the complex issues surrounding the formation, implementation and evaluation of public policy
  • a grasp of the political, institutional and organisational contexts which shape the policy making process
  • a familiarity with the ways in which the management and operation of the public sector has been transformed since the early 1980s
  • team work and research skills which will benefit data collection and analysis for the dissertation component of the degree
  • inter-professional perspectives and intellectual and professional self-awareness

Assessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
4000 word essay		 N/A 100

Special assessment rules

None

Reassessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
4000 word essay		 N/A 100

Module feedback

Ongoing oral feedback through seminars and feedback and guidance hours. Written feedback within five weeks of submission of assessment.

Indicative reading

Hood, C (1998) The Art of the State: Culture, Rhetoric and Public Management. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Pollit, C., & Bouckaert, G. (2011) Public management reform: A comparative analysis – new public management, governance, and the Neo-Weberian state. Oxford University Press

Smith, M.J (2009) Power and the state, Palgrave

Hood, C. C. & Margarets, H.Z. (2007) The Tools of Government in the Digital Age Palgrave


The information on this page is indicative of the module that is currently on offer. The University is constantly exploring ways to enhance and improve its degree programmes and therefore reserves the right to make variations to the content and method of delivery of modules, and to discontinue modules, if such action is reasonably considered to be necessary by the University. Where appropriate, the University will notify and consult with affected students in advance about any changes that are required in line with the University's policy on the Approval of Modifications to Existing Taught Programmes of Study.