Public Management & Delivery - Mundus MAPP - POL00075M

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  • Department: Politics and International Relations
  • Credit value: 14 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2024-25

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Semester 2 2024-25

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

Indicative assessment

Task % of module mark
Essay/coursework 100

Special assessment rules

None

Indicative reassessment

Task % of module mark
Essay/coursework 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