This course is available for in-person and remote (online) learning.
This course introduces students to the core themes, theories, contemporary and historical experiences of public sector management and administration. The scholarship of public management and administration is located within a transnational, comparative and longitudinal context, wherein you will be exposed to international trends of best practice in public administration over time. You will learn to examine public sector management reforms through a range of theoretical lenses including political, sociological and economical. Moreover, you will learn to examine and distinguish between attributes of political administrative tradition, organizational function, and sequences in development, and how these shape public management reform trajectories.
Topics covered include political administrative traditions, administrative doctrines and organizational principles, privatizing and devolving the state, collaborative governance and networks (in multi-level/federal contexts), institutions of accountability, performance measurement, transparency and experimental/democratic learning.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
Demonstrated ability to analyse and evaluate aspects of public management and administration in a comparative context;
demonstrated ability to participate constructively in class discussion of issues relating to public management;
demonstrated ability to develop a detailed proposal for reform of a particular public institution or process.
Other Information
Delivery Mode:
On Campus.
Indicative Assessment
In class quiz (20%)
Case Study (30%)
Research Paper (50%)
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Prescribed Texts
A ‘brick’ of prescribed readings will be available for purchase.
Preliminary Reading
G. B. Peters and J. Pierre (eds), The Handbook of Public Administration (Sage 2003); O. Hughes, Public Management and Administration Third edition (Palgrave Macmillan 2003)
Reading lists will be provided for each topic in the course outline
Fees
Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.
Commonwealth Support (CSP) Students
If you have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). More information about your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.
- Student Contribution Band:
- 14
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are a domestic graduate coursework student with a Domestic Tuition Fee (DTF) place or international student you will be required to pay course tuition fees (see below). Course tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.
Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.
| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $4110 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $5880 |
Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links
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