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Public Administration

Course code

RIV6019.YK

old course code

RIV6019

Course title in Estonian

Avalik haldus

Course title in English

Public Administration

ECTS credits

5.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester

Ave Viks (language of instruction:English)

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

The aim of the course is to introduce the discipline of public administration and its key areas of the main problems. As a result of the course student has the basic knowledge of the discipline of public administration, its developments in modern public management, and has improved skills in analysing them in comparative context.

Brief description of the course

The course addresses the following topics: formation of public administration discipline; development of public administration: the traditional public management, new public management, governance and their specifics to governmental arrangements; civil service; and regional and local dimensions of public administration.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- knowledge of public administration discipline and its developments in modern public management;
- knows the key areas of public administration and theoretical approaches.
is able to understand and analyze the main problems in public administration in comparative perspective, and to present and defend his research.

Teacher

Ave Viks

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