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PPOL-544 THE PUBLIC SECTOR: TRENDS AND PERSPECTIVES
Spring only
Effective government is critical to helping secure the public welfare, achieve a just social order, create an environment in which private enterprise can thrive, and plan for a society's future. While many would agree with these propositions, the role and capacity of government in fact is highly contested. Historically the role of government has varied over time in all countries. However, over the last 25 years, the responsibilities of governments, their size, the scope of their responsibilities, and their capacity have been particularly challenged by proponents of privatization, downsizing, deregulation and other approaches to limit government. Many of these perspectives are echoed in other democracies around the globe, and are reinforced in developing countries by international financial institutions which have tended to recommend smaller government, reduced government subsidies, and privatizing public assets. The broad theme of the course is that the scope and capacity of government is critical not only to affecting outcomes in particular policy areas such as education, health care and the environment, but as very broad policy decisions themselves.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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