PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS

The course is aimed at providing students with the knowledge and competences necessary to understand bureaucratic dynamics and public policies.

Why do some public problems are treated and others not? Who decides which solutions should be taken and how? Why policy outcomes are not satisfactory? What tools can be used to support the policy-making process? The course aims to provide students with concepts and methodologies to understand how public policies are generated and developed. At the end of the course, students are expected to critically analyze the various stages of policy-making, to identify actors, interests and networks, to select and use the most appropriate policy tool for each stage of the policy process.

Basic knowledge of Political Science.

The course deals with the general theory of public policy. It is aimed to explain what a policy is, how it is created, which actors participate in the policy process, the type of relationships developed between them, and the impact of processes of Europeanization, multi-level governance and internationalization on national policy contexts. Particular attention will be devoted to the study of policy change in Italy.

- L. Bobbio, G. Pomatto e S. Ravazzi (2017), Le politiche pubbliche. Problemi, soluzioni, incertezze e conflitti, Milano: Mondadori.
- G. Capano e A. Natalini (2020), Le politiche pubbliche in Italia, Bologna: Il Mulino. [Chapter 1 mandatory + a policy sector chosen from the subsequent chapters]
- Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche (2020), Le politiche pubbliche nell'Era digitale (a cura di David Natali e Igor Guardiancich), Fascicolo 1, Aprile 2020 [Introductory Article + an article chosen from the subsequent articles]
- Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche (2019), Lobbying in tempi difficili (a cura di Renata Lizzi e Andrea Pritoni), Fascicolo 2, Agosto 2019 [Introductory Article +
an article chosen from the subsequent articles]
- Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche (2018), La conoscenza contesa: gli usi del sapere nei processi di policy (a cura di Maria Tullia Galanti e Andrea Lippi), Fascicolo 3, Dicembre 2018 [Introductory Article + an article chosen from the subsequent ones among Regonini, Guaschino, Cattaneo]
- Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche (2010), Strategie e strumenti di policy (a cura di Giliberto Capano e Andrea Lippi), Fascicolo 2, Agosto 2010 [Introductory Article +
an article chosen from the subsequent articles]

The final examination will be oral and it is aimed at assessing students' knowledge of the programme.
The evaluation of attending students will be presented during Class1 and made available within MOODLE.

The course will be organized in lectures provided by the responsible of the course with students' active participation. Students attending classes will be asked to analyze case studies by using the most recent theories developed in the field of policy studies, and to present them in class.

Italian

oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Cities, infrastructure and social capital" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development