National Research University – Higher School of Economics
All-university Department of Public Policy
Syllabus of the course (Comparative Public Policy of
Global Regions)
for Master degree in Political Science (030200.68), Master degree program “Political Analysis and Public Policy”
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National Research University Higher School of Economics
All-university Department of Public Policy
Syllabus of the course Comparative Public Policy of Global Regions
for Master degree in Political Science (030200.68)
for Master degree program “Political Analysis and Public Policy”
Author of the syllabus: Tawat Mahama, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy and
Research Fellow, Centre for Advanced Studies mahama.tawat@otago.ac.nz )
Approved by the meeting of the all-university Department of Public Policy
on (day/month/year) «___»____________ 2014
Head of department:
Nina Belyaeva (signature)
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National Research University – Higher School of Economics
All-university Department of Public Policy
Syllabus of the course (Comparative Public Policy of
Global Regions)
for Master degree in Political Science (030200.68), Master degree program “Political Analysis and Public Policy”
Moscow, 2014
This syllabus cannot be used by other university departments and other higher education
institutions without the explicit permission of the Department of Public Policy.
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National Research University – Higher School of Economics
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Syllabus of the course (Comparative Public Policy of
Global Regions)
for Master degree in Political Science (030200.68), Master degree program “Political Analysis and Public Policy”
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Scope of Use
The present program outlines minimum demands of students’ knowledge and skills and the content
of the course.
The syllabus is intended for the department teaching this course, its teaching assistants, and students
of the degree program 030201.68 ‘Political Science’, master’s program ‘Political Analysis and Public
Policy’.
This syllabus meets the standards required by:
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Standards of National Research University Higher School of Economics of Federal Masters’
Degree Program 030200.68 “Political Science”,
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Master’s program ‘Political Analysis and Public Policy’ of Federal Master’s Degree
Program 030200.68 “Political Science”,
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Curriculum of the master’s program ‘Political Analysis and Public Policy’ as of 2014_.
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Learning Objectives
Learning objectives of the course are:
To provide students with a solid understanding of (1) the main problems in regulatory, distributive,
and morality policies and (2) factors and patterns of convergence and divergence of state responses relating
to these policies within and/or across global regions such as the West, Western Europe, East and Central
Europe, South-East Asia, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, Middle-East and North Africa
(MENA), (3) the factors that explain these trends.
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Learning outcomes
As a result of studying of the discipline the student should:
1-Have the skills to design various comparative studies including the choice of cases and comparative
methods.
2-Have the skills to write various forms of policy documents (reports, briefings, memos, research papers
and so on).
3- Know the main theoretical perspectives relating policy divergence and convergence
4-Know the conceptual basis of policy implementation and evaluation
5-Know the main issue and research questions in distributive, regulatory and morality policies.
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for Master degree in Political Science (030200.68), Master degree program “Political Analysis and Public Policy”
6-Have the skills to apply all the above to the analysis of the formation, implementation and evaluation of a
policy issue in two or more countries.
The following knowledge and competences are needed to study the discipline:
-Good analytical skills
-Medium to advanced English language skills
-Successful completion or prior exposure to the courses: Theories and Methodology of Political Science
and Contemporary Political Science.
Competence
Descriptors
NC/NRU(indicators
for
achieving the
HSE
result)
Code
Ability
to
generate
concepts and theoretical
models, to test new
methods and tools for
professional activities
SC-2
Ability to analyze, verify,
estimate the accuracy of
information in his/her
professional activities.
Ability to fill in the gaps,
to synthesize the missing
information and to work in
uncertainty
SC-6
Ability
to
prepare
analytical
materials
(reviews, notes, reports,
recommendations, etc) and
policy
proposals
for
decision-makers.
PC-6
Forms and methods of education
which help the students to acquire the
competence
70 percent of students in
the cohort have achieved
at least 5 over 10
Lectures, seminars, independent
work, group work, tests.
70 percent students in the
cohort have achieved at
least 5 over 10
Lectures, seminars, independent
work, group work, tests.
70 percent of students in
the cohort have achieved
at least 5 over 10
Lectures, seminars, independent
work, group work, tests.
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National Research University – Higher School of Economics
All-university Department of Public Policy
Syllabus of the course (Comparative Public Policy of
Global Regions)
for Master degree in Political Science (030200.68), Master degree program “Political Analysis and Public Policy”
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Place of the discipline in the Master program structure
This discipline is one of the general disciplines for the program.
This discipline is the basic one for specialization "Political Analysis and Public Policy"
The main propositions of the discipline to be used later in the study the following subjects:
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Quantitative and qualitative methods of data analysis
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Global actors in public policy
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Think tanks as policy actors
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Food policy
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Development policy
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Defense policy and civil-military relations
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Social policy and welfare state
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State policy in the field of ethno-national relations (migration and national minority)
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SRS "Methods and organization of public policy analysis"
Main competences developed by studying this discipline can be used to study the following
disciplines:
Comparative social policy
Comparative public administration
Comparative Politics
Public management and governance
Development studies
Public health
Political economy
Political sociology
Area studies
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5. Course Plan
№
Total
hours
Topic
Contact hours
Indepennt
students’
work
Lectures Seminars
1.The comparative method
2.Focused comparison: case-oriented vs variable-
oriented comparison
3. Policy processes in comparative perspective
4.Regulatory policies e.g. banking policy
5.Distributive policies e.g. health policy
6.
Morality policies e.g. abortion
7.Policy Analysis: The tendering process, drafting a
policy document: analysis, report, working paper,
briefing, article.
8.Policy Implementation
9.Policy Evaluation
10 Public management reforms
144
Total
32
6. Requirements and Grading
Type of
grading
Type of work
1 st.year
1
2
Department
3
4
6
Characteristics
20
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for Master degree in Political Science (030200.68), Master degree program “Political Analysis and Public Policy”
Current
Essay
Current
Groupwork
Final
Exam
1
4
4
AUDPP
The student is expected to show on the
one hand, craft in writing and good
presentation and should, if necessary,
liaise with the Writing Centre for
assistance. On the other hand, he or she is
expected to show an understanding of
theoretical, methodological and thematic
issues and the ability to expose them in a
convincing manner.
AUDPP
This will last 45 minutes including the
Questions and Answers session and
count for 20%. It will be the result of
group work by three or four students on a
policy topic.
AUDPP
The final paper does not carry more
weight than the mid-term paper and
follow the same rules. However, it will
focus on the topics examined in the last
quarter of the module.
6.1 Course Evaluation Criteria
Students will be assessed on the following four criteria:
1. Participation. This amounts to 10% of the module grade and assesses the level of participation of
each student: activity and quality. This includes homework and debate.
2.
One mid-term paper of about 15-20 pages. This will count for (30%) of the grade. It will deal
with topics examined in lectures and seminars during the previous three or four weeks. The paper is
a significant piece of research work. The student is expected to show on the one hand, craft in
writing and good presentation and should, if necessary, liaise with the Writing Centre for
assistance. On the other hand, he or she is expected to show an understanding of theoretical,
methodological and thematic issues and the ability to expose them in a convincing manner. Late
submissions will be penalized. I will be available for advice throughout the semester at my office
hours or through appointment. Details and adjustments will be provided prior to the beginning of
the course.
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for Master degree in Political Science (030200.68), Master degree program “Political Analysis and Public Policy”
3.
Oral presentation. (homework) This will last 45 minutes including the Questions and Answers
session and count for 20%. It will be the result of group work by three or four students on a policy
topic. Details and adjustments will be provided prior to the beginning of the course.
4.
Final paper (40%) 15-20 pages. The final paper does not carry more weight than the mid-term
paper and follow the same rules. However, it will focus on the topics examined in the last quarter of
the module.
7 Course Description
As the subject of this discipline is in the process of permanent evolution and academic publications
get outdated quickly, students are advised to follow the latest developments in several academic journals on
the topic, available at the HSE library, such as Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Comparative
Policy Analysis, Comparative Politics, Policy and Society, Critical Policy Studies, Journal of European
Public Policy etc., as well as in the general media, on the internet and around them, “in the street”.
Topic 1. The Comparative Method:
How does comparative public policy differ from public policy, public administration and public
management? Why compare? The advantages and limits of comparison. Units of Comparison: within-state
and across-state. Heuristic differences and similarities between focused comparison, the case study, and
statistical analysis. Why the choice of cases matters? most similar designs, most-different designs.
Required readings:
Isabelle Engeli and Christine Rothmayr Allison eds. (2014) Conceptual and Methodological Challenges in
Comparative Public Policy, London: Palgrave, chapter 2 and 3.
Lijphart, Arend (1975) “The Comparable-Cases Strategy in Comparative Research”, Comparative Political
Studies, Vol. 8, No 2, 158-177.
Sartori Giovanni (1970) Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics, American Political Science
Review, Vol. 64, No. 4, 1033-1053.
Optional readings
Przeworski, Adam and Teune, Henry (1970) The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry, New York: WileyInterscience.
Lijphart, Arend (1971) “Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method”, American Political Science
Review, Vol. 65, No 3.
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Barbara Geddes (1990) “How the Cases You Choose Affect the Answers You Get: Selection Bias in
Comparative Politics,” in James A. Stimson ed. Political Analysis, Vol. II, Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 131-150.
Tarrow, Sydney (2010) The Strategy of Paired Comparison: Toward a Theory of Practice, Comparative
Political Studies, Vol. 43, No 2, 235-237.
George, Alexander, L. and Bennett, Andrew (2005). Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social
Sciences, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
King, Gary, Keohane, Robert and Verba, Sidney (1994). Designing Social Inquiry. Scientific Inference in
Qualitative Research, Princeton: University Press.
Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Henry E. Brady, and David Collier eds. The Oxford Handbook of Political
Methodology, New York: Oxford University Press.
Goggin, Malcolm, L. (1986) ‘The “Too Few Cases/Too Many Variables” Problem in Implementation
Research’, Western Political Quarterly 38, 328–47.
Hague, Rod, and Martin Harrop (2013) Political Science: A Comparative Introduction, 7th edition.
Palgrave.
Birkland Thomas (2011) A. An Introduction to the Policy Process. Theories, Concepts, and Models of
Public Policy Making. New York: M.E.Sharpe.
Page, Edward, C. (2006) "The origins of policy" in Moran, Michael and Rein, Martin and Goodin, Robert
E., (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Public Policy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
Topic 2. Focused Comparison: Case-oriented and Variable-oriented comparisons
Ontology and methodology in social science research. The tenets of comparative historical analysis and
interpretive analysis (qualitative comparative analysis). Mill's Indirect Method of Agreement and
Difference: principles, advantages and pitfalls. Configurational Comparative Methods (crisp-set QCA,
multi-valueQCA, fuzzy-setQCA, Boolian language, sufficiency and necessity of variables, choice of
variables/the formation of configurations, process-tracing and forms of historical analysis, correlation,
multifinality, equifinality, randomness, QCA softwares. Policy convergence: variations and distributions of
frequency.
Required readings:
Howard, Peter (2010) “Triangulating Debates within the Field: Teaching International Relations Research
Methodology”, International Studies Perspectives, Vol. 11, No 4.
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Mahoney, James and Rueschemeyer, Dietrich eds. (2003) Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social
Sciences: Cambridge University Press, All chapters.
Isabelle Engeli and Christine Rothmayr Allison eds. (2014) Conceptual and Methodological Challenges in
Comparative Public Policy, London: Palgrave, chapters 4, 5 and 6.
Optional readings:
Anckar, Carsten (2008) "On the Applicability of the Most Similar Systems Design and the Most Different
Systems Design in Comparative Research." International Journal of Social Research Methodology 11 (5):
389-401.
Savolainen, Jukka (1994) "The Rationality of Drawing Big Conclusions Based on Small Samples: In
Defense of Mill's Methods." Social Forces 72 (4), 1217-24.
Lieberson, Stanley (1994) "More on the Uneasy Case for Using Mill-Type Methods in Small-N
Comparative Studies." Social Forces, 72 (4):12, 25-37.
Skocpol, Theda (1979) States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and
China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Moore, Jr., Barrington (1993) [First published 1966]. Social origins of dictatorship and democracy: lord
and peasant in the making of the modern world (with a new foreword by Edward Friedman and James C.
Scott ed.), Boston: Beacon Press.
Putnam, Robert, D.; Leonardi, Robert and Nanetti, Raffaella, Y. (1993) Making Democracy Work: Civic
Traditions in Modern Italy, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
de Tocqueville, Alexis (1862) (1946) Democracy in America translated by Henry Reeve, edited with an
introduction by Henry Steele Commager, London: Oxford University Press.
Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Henry E. Brady, and David Collier eds. (2008) The Oxford Handbook of Political
Methodology, New York: Oxford University Press.
Mill, John Stuart. 1974b [1843]. “Of the Four Methods of Experimental Inquiry.” In Book 3, Chapter 8,
cinative and Inductive, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
COMPASSS (COMPArative Methods for Systematic cross-caSe analySis) Website.
http://www.compasss.org/about.htmhttp://www.compasss.org/about.htm
http://www.compasss.org/about.htm
David Levi-Faur’s homepage on the comparative method http://poli.haifa.ac.il/~levi/method.html
Ragin, Charles, C. (1987) The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative
Strategies, Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Johnson, R. Burke, Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie and Lisa A. Turner (2007) ‘Toward a Definition of Mixed
Methods Research’, Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 1 (2), 112–33.
Hall, Peter A. (2004) ‘Letter from the President. Beyond the Comparative Method’, Newsletter of the
Organized Section in Comparative Politics of the American Political Science Association, 15 (2), 1–4.
Collier, David (2008) “Introduction” Symposium: Case Selection, Case Studies, and Causal Inference,
Fall, Vol. 6, No. 2, Qualitative & Multi-Method Research, Newsletter of the American Political Science
Association Organized Section for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research.
Bennett, Andrew and Elman, Colin (2006) “Complex Causal Relations and Case Study Methods: The
Example of Path Dependence”, Political Analysis, Vol. 14, No 3, 250-267.
Topic 3. Policy Processes in a Comparative Perspective
Is the Stages heuristic a universal process or are variations the norm? Comparative studies of agendasetting based on institutional veto-points, Institutional Analysis and Development, the Streams Metaphor,
Advocacy Coalition Framework, ideas, Punctuated Equilibrium, policy networks, new institutionalisms and
policy legacy, interpretive approaches (problem definition, policy narratives, framing).
Required readings:
Paul Sabatier, ed. (2014) Theories of the Policy Process. Boulder, CO: Westview, Press, Second Edition,
part 2.
Eduardo Araral, Scott Fritzen, Michael Howlett, M Ramesh, Xun Wu (eds.) (2013) Handbook of Public
Policy, New York: Routledge, parts 1-6.
Baumgartner, Frank R. (2006) Green-Pedersen, Christoffer; Jones, Bryan D. I. 'Comparative Studies of
Policy Agendas,' Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 13, No. 3, 959-974.
Nina Belyaeva. Public Policy in Russia: Actors' Interests and Modernization of Institutions.
http://www.iuctorino.it/sites/default/files/docs/Belyaeva%20-%20Public%20Policy%20in%20Russia.pdf.
Optional readings:
Sven Steinmo, Kathleen Thelen, and Longstreth, Frank Eds.(1992) Structuring politics: Historical
Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 57-89.
Ham, Christopher and Hill, Michael (1993) The Policy Process in the Modern Capitalist State, 2nd edition,
New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
Hupe, Peter L. and Michael J. Hill (2006) ‘The Three Actions Levels of Governance: Re-Framing the
Policy Process Beyond the Stages Model’, in B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre (eds) Handbook of Public
Policy (London: Sage), 13–30.
Jann, Werner and Kai Wegrich (2007) ‘Theories of the Policy Cycle’, in Frank Fischer, Gerald J. Miller
and Mara S. Sidney (eds) Handbook of Public Policy Analysis: Theory, Politics and Methods, Boca Raton:
CRC, 43–62.
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Pierson, Paul (2000) ‘Not Just What, but When: Timing and Sequence in Political Processes’, Studies in
American Political Development, 14 (1), 72–92.
George Tsebelis, “Decision Making in Political Systems: Veto Players in Presidentialism,
Parliamentarism, Multicameralism, and Multipartyism,” British Journal of Political Science, 25 (1995),
289-325.
Hague, Rod, and Martin Harrop (2013). Political Science: A Comparative Introduction, 7th edition.
Palgrave.
Hanspeter Kriesi, et al (2006) 'Comparative Analysis of Policy Networks in Western Europe' International
Journal of Political Research Methodology. Volume 13, Issue 3.
Immergut, Ellen M. (1990) “Institutions, Veto Points, and Policy Results: A Comparative Analysis of
Health Care”, Journal of Public Policy, Vol. 10, No 4, 391-416
Kingdon, John (1984) Agendas, Alternatives and Public Policies, New York: Longman.
Schmidt, Vivien, A. (2009) “Taking Ideas and Discourse Seriously: Explaining Change through Discursive
Institutionalism as the Fourth “New Institutionalism”, European Political Science Review, Vol. 2, No 1, 125.
Hall, Peter A. (1993) ‘Policy Paradigms, Social Learning and the State: The Case of Economic Policy
Making in Britain’, Comparative Politics, 25 (3), 275–96.
Baumgartner, Frank R. and Bryan D. Jones (1993) Agendas and Instability in American Politics,
University of Chicago Press.
Real-Dato J. (2009) Mechanisms of Policy Change: A Proposal for a Synthetic Explanatory Framework,
Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis,Vol. 11, No. 1, 117-143.
Bleich, Erik (1998) “From International Ideas to Domestic Policies: Educational Multiculturalism in
England and France”, Comparative Politics, Vol. 31, No1, 90-91.
Evans, Peter B.; Rueschemeyer, Dietrich and Skocpol, Theda (1985) (eds.) Bringing the State Back In,
New York: Cambridge University Press.
Goldstein Judith and Keohane Robert. O. 1993, eds., Ideas and Foreign Policy: Beliefs,
Institutions, and Political Change. Ithaca. New York: Cornell University Press.
Berman, Sheri.E. 2013. ‘Ideational Theorizing in the Social Sciences Since Policy Paradigms, Social
Learning, and the State’, Governance, 23, 6.
Hall, Peter and Taylor, Rosemary (1996), “The Three New Institutionalisms,” Political Studies, 44, 936957.
Donald L. Horowitz (1989) “Is there a Third World Policy Process?” Policy Sciences, Vol. 22, No.3/4,
197-212.
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Topic 4. Regulatory Policies
Banking, trade, competition, environmental protection, regulation of biotchnologies. Factors of
policy convergence across countries. The European Union
Jordana, Jacint and Levi-Faur, David (eds) The Politics of Regulation: Institutions and Regulatory
Reforms for the Age of Governance, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (chapters 1-2 and 8-10).
Knill, Christoph (2006). Cross-National Policy Convergence: Causes, Concepts and Empirical Findings.
Journal of European Public Policy, Special Issue 12 [5].
Optional readings:
Holzinger, Katharina, Christoph Knill, and Thomas Sommerer (2008) ‘Environmental Policy
Convergence: The Impact of International Harmonization, Transnational Communication, and Regulatory
Competition’, International Organization, 62 (4), 553–87.
Knill, Christoph, Schulze, Kai, Tosun, Jale (2012) Regulatory Policy Outputs and Impacts: Exploring a
Complex Relationship, Regulation and Governance 6 (4), 427-444.
Bennett, Colin J. (1991) ‘Review Article: What Is Policy Convergence and What Causes It?’, British
Journal of Political Science, 21 (2), 215–33.
Topic 5. Distributive (Redistributive) Policies
Health, education, welfare regimes, Variations of welfare regimes in developed countries. The
politics of retrenchment in the West: economic globalization, immigration, aging and the
sustainability of the welfare state. Welfare regimes in the global South: Types and challenges.
Group work and comparative policy analysis.
Gøsta Esping-Andersen (1990) The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Cambridge: Polity Press, and
Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Pierson, Paul (1996) ‘The New Politics of the Welfare State’, World Politics, 48 (2), 143–79.
Kwon, H.-j., Mkandawire, Thandika. and Palme, Joakim (2009), Introduction: social policy and economic
development in late industrializers, International Journal of Social Welfare, 18: 1–11.
Hacker, Jacob S. (2004) ‘Review Article: Dismantling the Health Care State? Political Institutions, Public
Policies and the Comparative Politics of Health Reform’, British Journal of Political Science, 34 (4), 693–
724.
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Optional readings:
Rueschemeyer, Marilyn, Ornstein, Mitchell and Cook, Linda (1999) eds. Left Parties and Social Policy in
Post-Communist Europe", Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Sainsbury, Diane (2006) Immigrants’ Social Rights in Comparative Perspective: Welfare Regimes, Forms
in Immigration and Immigration Policy Regimes, Journal of European Social Policy, 16 (3), 229-244.
Saxonberg, Steven (2014) Gendering Family Policies in Post-Communist Europe. A
Historical-Institutional Analysis, London: Palgrave.
Heidenheimer, Arnold, Heclo Hugh and Carolyne T. Addams (1990) Comparative Public Policy: The
Politics of Social Choice in America, Europe and Japan, 3rd edn., New York: St Martin’s Press.
Kvist, Jon and Greve, Bent (2011) Has the Nordic Welfare Model Been Transformed? Social Policy &
Administration, 45: 146–160.
Rothstein, Bo (1998) Just Institutions Matter: The Moral and Political Logic of the Universal Welfare
State, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Considine, Mark (2001) Enterprising States: The Public Management of Welfare-to-Work, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Jensen, Carsten, Knill, Christoph, Schulze Kai, Tosun, Jale (2014). Giving Less by Doing More: Solving
the Paradox of Retrenchment. Journal of European Public Policy, 21 (4), 528-548.
Kvist, Jon. (2002) ‘Activating welfare states. How social policies can promote employment’, in J. Clasen
(ed.), What Future for Social Security? Debates and Reforms in National and Cross-National Perspectives,
Bristol: Policy Press.
Hubert , Evelyn; Stephens, John, D.; Bradley, David, Moller, Stephanie and Nielsen, Francois (2003)
“Distribution and Redistribution in Post-Industrial Democracies” World Politics, 55 (2), 193-208.
Clausen, Jochen and Clegg, David (2006) Beyond activation: reforming European unemployment
protection systems in post-industrial labour markets, European Societies, 8, 4, 555-581.
Thandika Mkandawire (ed) (2004). Social Policy in a Development Context [Online] Available
at:http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9780230523975 (Accessed: 28 July 2014).
Topic 6. Morality Policy
Cell-stem, gambling, abortion, prostitution, drug, same-sex marriage, gun-control, euthanasia.
Patterns of policy choice and, developments. The politics of morality policies in Western Europe,
the USA and Russia. Comparative policy analysis.
Required readings:
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Knill, Christoph (2013). Morality Policies in Europe: Concepts, Theories, and Empirical Evidence, Journal
of European Public Policy, Special Issue 20 [3].
Engeli, Isabelle, Christopher Green-Pedersen and Lars Thurop Larsen (2012) Morality Politics in Western
Europe. Parties, Agenda and Policy Choices, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Optional readings:
Bucken-Knapp, Gregg and Karlsson Schaffer, J. (2008) “Prostitution Policy Reform and the Causal Role
of Ideas: A Comparative Study of Policymaking in the Nordic Countries” Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift, Vol.
110, No. 1, 59-65.
Knill, Christoph; Preidel, Caroline, Nebel, Kerstin (2014) Brake Rather Than Barrier: The Impact of the
Catholic Church on Morality Policies in Western Europe. West European Politics.
Topic 7. Policy Analysis Exercise (PAE)
The tendering process. Types of policy analysis: report, memo, briefing article, research
article, working paper, systematic review. Policy analysis exercise.
Policy Analysis Exercise (PAE). The Writing guide. The HKS Communications Program
Harvard Kennedy School.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/var/ezp_site/storage/fckeditor/file/pdfs/degreeprograms/oca/Communications/pae-guide.pdf
Research for Development (R4D) Department of International Development (UK)
http://r4d.dfid.gov.uk/
Topic 8. Policy Implementation
Implementation failure. The top-down approach. The bottom-up approach. The synthetisers.
Organizational design, The Functionalist approach. Policy Analysis Exercise. Health Policy.
Required readings:
Eduardo Araral, Scott Fritzen, Michael Howlett, M Ramesh, Xun Wu (eds.) Handbook of Public Policy,
New York: Routledge, part 7
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Hill, Michael, J. and Hupe, Peter, L. (2002) Implementing Public Policy: Governance in Theory and in
Practice, London: Sage Press (all chapters).
Optional readings:
Lipsky, Michael (1980) Street-Level Bureaucracy, New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Wildavsky, Aaron and Pressman, Jeffrey, L. (1973) Implementation: How Great Expectations in Washing
ton are Dashed in Oakland; Or, Why it’s Amazing that Federal Programs Work at All, This Being a Saga
of the Economic Development Administration as Told by Two sympathetic Observers Who Seek to Build
Morals on a Foundation of Ruined Hopes, Berkeley: University of California Press.
Wilson, James, Q. (2000) Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It, New York:
Basic Books
Peters, B. Guy (1995) The Politics of Bureaucracy: A Comparative Perspective, 4th edition, London:
Longmans.
Matland, Richard, E. (1995) “Synthesizing the Implementation Literature: The Ambiguity-Conflict Model
of Policy Implementation”, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Vol. 5, No 2, 145-174.
O’Toole, Laurence J., Jr (2000) “Research on Policy Implementation: Assessment and Prospects” Journal
of Policy Administration and Theory, Vol. 10, No 2, 263-288.
Sabatier, Paul (1986) “Top-Down and Bottom-up Models of Policy Implementation: A Critical Analysis
and Suggested Synthesis”, Journal of Public Policy, Vol. 6, No 1, 21-48.
Topic 9. Policy Evaluation
Models of evaluation: self-evaluation, external evaluation, accrual accounting, cost-benefit
analysis, effectiveness, efficiency, policy feedback, randomized control trials… Workshop and
group work. Evaluation report of a policy implementation in two or more countries.
Required readings:
Eduardo Araral, Scott Fritzen, Michael Howlett, M Ramesh, Xun Wu eds. (2013) Handbook of Public
Policy, New York: Routledge, part 8.
MacDonald G, Starr G, Schooley M, Yee SL, Klimowski K, Turner K. (2001) Introduction to Program
Evaluation for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs. Atlanta (GA): Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/tobacco_control_programs/surveillance_evaluation/evaluation_manual/pdfs/e
valuation.pdf
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All-university Department of Public Policy
Syllabus of the course (Comparative Public Policy of
Global Regions)
for Master degree in Political Science (030200.68), Master degree program “Political Analysis and Public Policy”
Kusek, J.Z. and Rist, Ray., C. (2004). Ten Steps to a Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation System: A
Handbook for Development Practitioners. World Bank Publications, Washington: USA
Optional readings:
Bemelmans-Videc, Marie-Louise, Rist, Ray C. and Vedung, Evert eds. (1998) Carrots, Sticks and
Sermons: Policy Instruments and Their Evaluation New Brunswick, N.J., Transaction Publishers.
Vedung, Evert (2010) Four Waves of Evaluation, Evaluation, 16(3), 263-277.
Vedung Evert (1997) Public Policy and Program Evaluation, New Brunswick, N.J. and London:
Transaction Publishers.
Goldfinch, Shaun., DeRouen, Karl and Pospieszna, Paulina. (2013), Flying Blind? Evidence for Good
Governance Public Management Reform Agendas, Implementation and Outcomes in Low Income
Countries, Public Administration and Development 33: 50–61.
Topic 10. Public Management Reforms
Approaches to public management reforms: New Public Management, good governance/quality of
government/state capacity and neo-Weberian Bureaucracy. Workshop on implementation of reforms.
Required readings:
Tawat, Mahama (2012) New Public Management in New Zealand: The Past, Present and Future of the
Great Experiment, International Public Management Review, Vol. 14, Issue 2.
Pollitt, Christopher and Bouckaert, Geert. (2004) Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis,
2nd. edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, chapters1-5
Andrews, Matt (2013) The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development. New York: Cambridge
University Press, chapters 1-2.
Hyden, Goran Court, Julius and Meese, Kenneth (2003) ‘The Bureaucracy and Governance in 16
Developing Countries’. World Governance Survey Discussion Paper 7.
http://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/4104.pdf
Optional readings:
Schick, Allan (1998) “Why Most Developing Countries Should Not Try New Zealand Reforms”, World
Bank Research Observer, Vol. 13, No 8, 123–131.
Weber, Max (1947) The Theory of Social and Economic Organizations, New York: Free Press.
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National Research University – Higher School of Economics
All-university Department of Public Policy
Syllabus of the course (Comparative Public Policy of
Global Regions)
for Master degree in Political Science (030200.68), Master degree program “Political Analysis and Public Policy”
Gauld, Robin and Goldfinch Shaun (2006) Dangerous Enthusiasms: e-government, computer failure and
information system development, Dunedin: Otago University Press (Reprinted December 2012).
Fukuyama, Francis (2011). Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French
Revolution,New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
http://www.cgdev.org/files/1426906_file_Fukuyama_What_Is_Governance.pdf
The Nordic Countries, the Next Supermodel, The Economist, 2 February 2013
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21571136-politicians-both-right-and-left-could-learn-nordiccountries-next-supermodel
Goldfinch, Shaun and Wallis, Joe eds. (2009) International Handbook of Public Management Reform,
London: Edward Elgar.
Acemoglu, Daron, and James A Robinson (2012) Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and
Poverty, 1st ed. New York: Crown.
Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Querubin, Pablo and Robinson, James A (2008) When Does Policy
Reform Work - The Case of Central Bank Independence, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity,(1), 351418.
Rothstein, Bo and Teorell, Jan (2008), What Is Quality of Government? A Theory of Impartial Government
Institutions, Governance, 21, 165–190.
Fukuyama, Francis (2012). ‘What is Governance?’ The Governance Blog, Governance: An International
Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions (follow discussion thread on the Blog).
Lapuente, Victor and Bo Rothstein (2014). "Civil War Spain versus Swedish Harmony: The Quality of
Government Factor". Comparative Political Studies 47(10), 1416-1441.
8. Teaching Methods and Recommendations
8.1 Recommendations for Students
Instructions will be provided to the students as an annex to the syllabus.
9. Grading estimation
Provisional Topics for Continuous Assessment (essays):
- Policymaking (comparative analysis of cases).
- Policy implementation (comparative analysis of cases).
- New Public Management and social policy in Developing Countries.
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National Research University – Higher School of Economics
All-university Department of Public Policy
Syllabus of the course (Comparative Public Policy of
Global Regions)
for Master degree in Political Science (030200.68), Master degree program “Political Analysis and Public Policy”
Provisional Questions for grading estimation
1. Compare the policy process in Russia with that of another country of your choice.
2. Make a comparative policy analysis of a public health issue in two countries based on either MSDO
(most similar/different outcome) or MDSO (most different/similar outcome).
3. Write a policy report on implementation obstacles in a policy subfield in two or more countries.
4. Compare the welfare policy patterns of two different regions or countries in the global South.
5. Write an evaluation of the implementation of a policy project in two or three countries.
Specific information will be giving prior to the course beginning.
10.
The rule of forming cumulative grade
10% Participation, 30% Midterm paper, 20% Homework, 40% Final Essay. With the exception of
clerical errors, there will be no change of grades after posting.
Cumulative grade for current work formula is:
Оcurrent = 0,2·Оparticipation + 0,3·Ohomework + 0,5·Оessay;
Final cumulative grade formula is:
Оfinal grade = 0,4·Оfinal essay + 0,6·Оcurrent
Only the final grade goes into your Master Degree certificate.
11. Reading and Materials
Mentioned in course description
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National Research University – Higher School of Economics
All-university Department of Public Policy
Syllabus of the course (Comparative Public Policy of
Global Regions)
for Master degree in Political Science (030200.68), Master degree program “Political Analysis and Public Policy”
12. Equipment
Instructions will be provided to the students as an annex to the syllabus.
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