Municipalities from the European Perspective - JPM545

• Title: Municipalities from the European Perspective
• Guaranteed by: Department of Political Science (23-KP)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2015
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (25)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: PhDr. Petr Jüptner, Ph.D.

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Radek Švec (14.09.2014)

Viz sylabus

Teaching methods

Last update: Mgr. Radek Švec (14.09.2014)

Kurz přednáší:
 

Vyučující: Tomáš Černěnko, Uroš Pinterič, Katarzyna Radzik

 

Jazyk výuky: anglický, český

 

Termíny výuky:  v blocích 27.-31.10., 3.-7.11., 1.-5.12. (4 přednášky v jednom týdnu)

 

Požadavky na zkoušku nebo zápočet: participation on 75% of lectures, seminar work linked to one of free parts of the course (in english or czech in the case of part 2)

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Radek Švec (14.09.2014)

Part 1 (Uroš Pinterič, 27.-31.10.): Local development (4 lectures)

-          geographical determinism of development

-           legal boundaries of development potential

-           assessment methods - evaluations

-           innovation methods for development

-           political struggle vs. effectiveness

-           effects of political participation

Sources:
 Klimovsky, Radzik (2012): Selected aspects of local and regional development. Nova Gorica:FUDS
 de Vries, Reddy, Shamsul Haque (2008): Improving Local Government. Hampshire, New Yourk: Palgrave.
Blair, Carroll (2009): Local Economic Development; 2nd ed. Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore: Sage.

 

Part 2 (Tomáš Černěnko, 3.-7.11.): Efektívnosť miestnej samosprávy + seminář (4 přednášky)

-          efektívnosť a meranie efektívnosti

-          efektívnosť verejnej správy - čas a úspory

-          municipalizácia

-          hybridné organizácie

-          seminár: meranie efektívnosti, nákladovo úžitkové metódy, hybridné organizácie

 

Zdroje:
Richard Florida (2010): Who Is Your City? New York: Basic Books.
Walter Isaacson (2011): Steve Jobs. Praha: Práh
David Bills (2010): Hybrid Organizations and the Third Sector. London: Palgrave Macmillan

Part 3 (Katarzyna Radzik) - Leadership and Local Democracy (4 lectures)

-          models of local leadership in European local governments;

-          links  between the institutional position of the leader and leadership styles;

-          relations between the leader and the other actors in the process of governing (political parties, entrepreneurs, and the civic society);

-          impact of leadership on urban governance (e.g. New York, London, Paris, and Warsaw)

Sources:

Denters B., 2011, Local Governance In: The Sage Handbook of Governance,
M. Bevir (ed.),SAGE;
John P., 2001, Local Governance in Western Europe, SAGE.
Leadership at the Apex. Politicians and Administrators in Western Local Governments, 2002, P.E.Mourtizen, J.H.Svara (eds.), University of Pittsburgh Press.
Pollitt Ch., Bouckaert G., 2011. Public Management Reform. A Comparative Analysis: New Public Management, Governance, and the Neo-Weberian State, Oxford University Press.
Rao N., 2005, From Committees to Leaders and Cabinets: The British Experience In: Transforming Local Political Leadership, 2005, R. Berg, N. Rao (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan.
Swianiewicz P. 2005, Nowe interpretacje teoretyczne polityki miejskiej, Studia Regionalne i Lokalne 2005, Nr 4.
The European Mayor. Political Leaders in the Changing Context of Local Democracy, 2006, H. Bäck, H. Heinelt (eds.), A. Magnier, VS Verlag;
The New Public Governance. Emerging perspectives on the theory and practice of public governance, 2011, S. P. Osborne (ed.), Routlege.

The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe, 2010, (eds.)
J. Loughlin, F. Hendriks, A. Lindström, Oxford University Press;Transforming Local Political Leadership, 2005, R. Berg, N. Rao (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan.