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TheFoundationsofPublicAdministrationSeriesisacollectionofarticleswrittenbyexpertsin20
contentareas,providingintroductoryessaysandrecommendingtoparticlesinthosesubjects.
Governance
Laurence E. Lynn, Jr.
About This Course
Governance refers to how actors are organized and managed in order to accomplish purposes they have in
common. These actors may be multinational organizations, governments, public agencies, private corporations,
communities, or natural persons. More succinctly, governance is the provision of guidance and direction, theexercise of authority.
The concept of governance thus applies to a single business corporation such as General Motors, an NGO suchas Mdecins Sans Frontires, or public agency such as the Transportation Security Administration; to a
particular country such as the United Kingdom, to consociations such as the European Union, and to globalentities such as the United Nations Development Program or the World Banks International Development
Association. Governance can be defined with respect to a shared purpose, such as economic development or
HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, or to a specific policy domain, such as homeland security or globalclimate control.
Creating and sustaining effective governance is a major concern of policy makers in national governments andin regional and international organizations. The quality of governance is an issue in foreign and national
security policy, international development policy, and virtually every domain of domestic policy. The sense of
urgency that often infuses discussions of governance has as its sources both the globalization of the forces
confronting national and international policy makers, from climate change to financial instability and terrorism,and the spread of democracy movements and democratic reforms, which accelerated following the end of the
Cold War.
Policy debates concerning governance engender considerable controversy . Many scholars and practitioners,
for example, argue that, as a broad generalization, governance is, or should be, post-bureaucratic and that the
boundaries between states and the institutions of civil society, especially in advanced democracies, are being
redrawn to reduce governments role in societal guidance and direction. Others dispute this view and argue thattrends in the forms and instruments of governance prove the adaptability, not the obsolescence, of traditional
hierarchical/bureaucratic governance and confirm the historical path dependence of national institutional
development. This course will explore these and other, more specific issues that arise in contemporary debateson governance in a globalizing world.
The goal of the course is twofold. The first is to familiarize students with the many different definitions,concepts, and models of governance that will be encountered in discussions of public policies toward
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governance and governance reform in professional literature. The second is to equip students with the critical
analytical tools and skills to evaluate the impact of various forms of governance, and of various proposals for
governance reform, on the achievement of shared purposes and on the interactions between the state, orgovernments, and civil society. Why does governance take the forms and evolve in the ways that it does both
nationally and internationally? How do systems of governance work? How can we explain the success or
failure of governance reforms? In the light of the answers to such questions, how can, or should, governance
problems be solved?
Within this broad consideration, specific questions such as the following will be considered: Why did the
United Nation Oil for Program in Iraq failor did it? Why did integration into the European Union havesuch different effects in Spain and Portugal? Under what circumstances should policy makers prefer (a)
markets, (b) hierarchy, and (c) networks when designing public policies and programs? Why did Great Britain
and Germany react so differently to the neo-liberal administrative reform movement called New PublicManagement?
A number of concepts useful to the analysis and comparison of governance systems will be introduced. Theseinclude transaction costs, common property resources, veto players, path dependence, chain of delegation, and
principal-agent relationships. These concepts are useful in expanding ones grasp of why we observe what we
do in governance systems and how those systems might be changed to produce different outcomes.
Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students should demonstrate a range of knowledge and skill
competencies. These competencies, which comprise the course objectives, are listed below.
Knowledge Competencies
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
1. Explain the different meanings of the concept of governance found in professional literature and discourse
and, in addition;
2. Comprehend and explain theories that might account for the emergence of various forms of governance;
3. Argue on behalf of their own views concerning the applicability of the concept of governance to publicadministration policy and practice;
4. Explain the types of evidence that are used to support various arguments and proposals for different
approaches to governance policy and practice; and
5. Demonstrate in-depth familiarity with the issues and controversies in the study and practice of governance.
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Skill Competencies
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
1. Understand and critically evaluate the quality of arguments in professional literature concerning governance;
2. Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches to governance in the developed anddeveloping worlds and in supranational organizations;
3. Locate and use information concerning governance gathered through library, electronic, and field research;and
4. Produce arguments professionally and persuasively in class discussions, in written assignments, and in oralpresentations.
Course Readings
All assigned readings are available on electronic reserve, on-line (at the cited URL), or as class handouts.
Please note: readings marked with are required of all students other than Ph.D. students, although they areencouraged to read whatever materials interest them. Ph.D. students are required to familiarize themselves withall the assigned readings.
Class Participation
In general, the first half of each class will be devoted to discussion of the days assigned readings. Students are
expected to come to class prepared with questions, critical comments, and insights based on the readings. Eachstudent should send a one-page summary of these questions and comments to other members of the class no
later than the previous evening via the course listserv. The second half of each class will be devoted to a
discussion and analysis of assigned teaching and research cases.. Evaluation of class participation will be basedon the quality (analytic insights, mastery of concepts, being on point), not the quantity of student contributions.
Students are expected to attend each class. If a student is unable to attend on any given day, he or she should
notify the instructor in advance. One excused absence will be allowed without penalty.
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Assignments
Students are required to complete the following assignments:
Questions/Comments on Readings - As discussed above, students are expected to circulate
questions/comments on the readings by the night before scheduled classes.
Case Analyses Students areexpected to complete four case analysis memos of 3-5 double-spaced
pages each (discussed further below);
Course Paper Students areexpected to completea 12-15 double-spaced page analysis of an issue or
problem of governance chosen by the student (also discussed further below).
Course Grades
The maximum score for the entire course is 100 points, which may be earned as follows:
questions/comments on course reading and participation in case discussions: 20 points;
case analyses: 10 points each, for a total of 40 points;
course paper: 40 points.
Making Good Arguments
In analyzing course readings, in all written assignments, and in class discussions, students are expected to knowand demonstrate the qualities of a persuasive argument. To a significant extent, discussion of public programs
and policies and their implementation takes the form of argument: discourse intended to persuade policy
makers, employees, and stakeholders of a particular point of view and to build political and organizationalsupport for it. Reasoned persuasion is, and should be, a basic competency in public administration practice.
In a good argument,
(1) a clear point is stated or claimis made this is what I want you to believe is true;,
(2) the point or claim is backed up with reasonsthat support the main point;
(3) facts or data evidence- are provided that support those reasons and points/claims;
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(4) a general principle, or warrant, is stated or implied that links the evidence with the main point; and
(5) potential criticisms are addressed and qualifications are acknowledged.
These elements are shown schematically in the following diagram:
Figure 3.1:
Elements of an Argument
I claim that because of these reasons which I base on this evidence
CLAIM REASON EVIDENCE
I acknowledge these questions, objections,
and alternatives, and I respond to them with these arguments
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND RESPONSE
The principle thatlets me connect my
reason and claim is
WARRANT
Source: Joseph M. Williams, Gregory G. Colomb, Jonathan DErrico, and Karen Tracey,
The Craft of Argument, with Readings(New York: Longman, 2003): 35.
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In-Class Case Discussions
Each class will feature a case discussion. These cases are of two types: teaching cases and research cases.
Teaching cases take a reader to ground level of governance. Research cases and articles take readers to the
heights, where one can view broader patterns. Teaching cases are, in effect, telling anecdotes that may be
helpful in interpreting the practical implications of broad patterns of change.
A typical teaching casetells a story (that is, describes a sequence of events: something happened, then
something else happened, then something else happened, and so on) about a governance problem or issue. Atypical case brings you to a point at which a decision must be made or action taken or recommended by an actor
in the case. Case discussions will generally focus on the actions or problems of public officials in the case as
they are caused or influenced by contextual factors.
Another quality of a good teaching case is that there the right answers are not obvious. Rather, many answers
(decisions, solutions, actions) are possible, each of which has advantages and disadvantages and about the
merits of which reasonable people can disagree.
To prepare for the in-class case discussions (and for written analyses of cases), students will want to do a deep
(or close) reading of the case. That is,read the case at least twice (sometimes more). Become immersed in thecase and become familiar with the basic situation it represents: inhabit the situation.
Students will be asked to make a convincing argument (see above discussion of good arguments) about the
case, supporting their answers with evidence form the case. Students can expect to be asked: What would youdo and why? Good arguments require a close and insightful1reading of the case.
Students may be asked to play the roles of actors in the case. Brief, spontaneous, in-class role plays may
occur. These should be taken seriously (that is, students should imagine themselves in the positions of the actorsin the case), but it is fine to have some fun with it.
Students may believe that more information is needed for a good decision than is included in the case. That
could be right. But in the real world, enough information is often not available, and one is expected to workwith the information that one has, i.e., information in the case.
In addition to specific questions that apply to each case, students will find it helpful to keep these generalquestions in mind:
Can you summarize the case in one succinct sentence?
Who is the main decision maker, and what specific decisions does he or she have to make?
1 Insight = clear or deep perception of a situation, grasping the inner nature of things.
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Who are the other important actors in the case, and what are their objectives?
What are the key issues, facts or assumptions that must be resolved in order to reach a decision?
What is the context (or environment) that the main decision maker and other actors are operating
in?
What alternatives should the decision maker consider, and what are the consequences of each
course of action?
What wouldyou do in these circumstances and WHY: what is your argument?
A research case is a published research article or a report or study of some kind, which poses issues and
questions and proposes answers based on the author(s) research.
Different discussion questions arise with research cases. What is the authors argument? Is that argument
convincing? Why or why not? Are the findings broadly applicable to many contexts or relevant only to
specific or limited contexts? How might policy makers use the authors findings? The purpose of studying and
discussing research cases is to enhance student familiarity with how the scientific and other evidence thatfrequently informs policy debates is produced and used to make a point.
Case Analysis Memos
Students are expected to complete four case analysis memos. Two of the assigned cases must be analyzed byall students:
The United Nations Oil-for-Food Program
A Partnership in Troubled Waters
Students may choose any other two teaching or research cases in the syllabus to analyze.
Memos are due on the day the case will be discussed in class.
Each case analysis memo should be addressed either to the decision-maker in a teaching case or to the
instructor in other cases(as someone who has asked, What can I learn from this article/report?) Follow the
guidance for analyzing cases in the preceding section of this syllabus.
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Course Paper
As described in the first paragraph of this syllabus, the concept of governance can be applied to organizations,consociations, and policies. Students may choose a subject for their course paper to which the concept of
governance can be applied, presumably a subject that reflects their career, policy, or organizational interests.
The paper should identify problems or issues of governance that are the focus of the papers analysis. Thatanalysis should (1) describe the governance of the subject area, (2) show how governance contributes to or
causes the problems or issues under analysis, and (3) suggest how governance reforms might contribute to
resolving these problems or issues. The paper should use concepts and analytic frameworks from coursereadings to provide logical structure to the analysis and the basis for deriving conclusions and
recommendations.
The final paper should begin with a one- or two-paragraph summary of the papers argument then cover the
three topics described in the previous paragraph of this syllabus.
A 1-2 page prospectus that describes the subject and the way the student will research it is due on the 5th
weekof class. A 2-page progress report what each student has done and learned so far -- is due the 10
thweek of
class. The final paper is due on the last day of class, during which summaries of findings will be presented and
discussed.
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Kettl, Donald F. 2000. The Global Public Management Revolution: A Report on the Transformation of
Governance. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.
Koppell, Jonathan GS. 2010. World Rule: Accountability, Legitimacy, and the Design of Global Governance.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Kjaer, A 2004. Governance. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.
Koliba, Christopher, Jack W. Meek, and Asim Zia. 2010. Governance Networks in Public Administration andPublic Policy. London: CRC Press.
Kooiman, Jan. 2003. Governing as Governance. London: Sage.
Lynn, Laurence E., Jr., Carolyn J. Heinrich, and Carolyn J. Hill. 2001. Improving Governance: A New Logic
for Empirical Research. Washington, D.C., Georgetown University Press.
Peters, B. Guy. 1996. The Future of Governing: Four Emerging Models. Lawrence, KS: University Press of
Kansas.
Srensen, Eva and Jacob Torfing. 2007. Theories of Democratic Network Governance. Cheltenham, UK:Edward Elgar.
Stivers, Camilla. 2008. Governance in Dark Times: Practical Philosophy for Public Service. Washington,D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
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Schedule of Course Topics and Assignments
Week 1:Governance Definitions, Issues, and Controversies
Lynn, Laurence E., Jr. 2010. Governance. Public Administration Review Foundations of PublicAdministration Series. At: http://www.aspanet.org/scriptcontent/index_par_foundationsseries.cfm.
Jackson, Peter M. 2009. The Size and Scope of the Public Sector. In T. Bovaird and E. Loffler, eds.
Public Management and Governance,Second Edition. London: Routledge, pp. 27-40.
Bovaird, Tony and Elke Lffler. 2009. The Changing Context of Public Policy. In T. Bovaird and E
Lffler, eds., Public Management and GovernanceSecond Edition. London: Routledge, pp. 15-26.
Van Kersbergen, Kees and Frans Van Waarden. 2004. Governance as a Bridge Between Disciplines
cross-Disciplinary Inspiration Regarding Shifts in Governance and Problems of Governability
Accountability, and Legitimacy. European Journal of Political Research 43:2: 143-171.
Brinkerhoff, Derick W. and Jennifer M. Coston. 1999. International Development Management in a
Globalized World. Public Administration Review 59:4: 346-361.
Doherty, Joe, Pascal De Decker, Volker Busch-Geertsema, Eoin OSullivan, Ingrid Sahlin, Antonio Tosiand Johu Patari. 2004. The Changing Role of the State: The Sate and the Housing Markets of
Europe. Brussels, Belgium: European Federation of National Organisations Working with the
Homeless, 24 pp.
Kaul, Ingrid. Bye-bye Westphalian State, Hello Intermediary StateWhy Fair Multilateralism Matters.
Unpublished manuscript. At: http://www.ingekaul.net/pdf/upload110908/IS-paper.pdf.
TEACHING CASE: The Turbot War: Canada, Spain and Conflict Over The North Atlantic Fishery,Electronic Hallway, The University of Washington, 15pp.
See assignment appended to this syllabus.
Week 2: Governance as Ordered Rule
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Michalski, Wolfgang, Riel Miller, and Barrie Stevens. 2001. Governance in the 21st century: Power inthe global knowledge economy and society. In Governance in the 21st century, 726. Paris:Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Enriques L, Volpin P. 2007. "Corporate governance reforms in Continental Europe." Journal ofEconomic Perspectives21:1: 117140.
Silk, Thomas. 2004. Ten Emerging Principles of Governance of Nonprofit Corporations and Guides toa Safe Harbor. International Journal for Nonprofit Law7:1. At:
http://www.icnl.org/knowledge/ijnl/vol7iss1/art_3.htm.
Andrs-Alonso, Pablo de, Natalia Martin Cruz and M. Elena Romero-Merino. 2006. The Governance ofNonprofit Organizations: Empirical Evidence From Nongovernmental Development Organizations
in Spain.Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 35:4: 588-604.
RESEARCH CASE:Spain and Portugal in the European Union:
See Assignment appended to this syllabus.
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Week 3: Governance as Government
Bell, S., and Hindmoor, A. 2009.Rethinking governance: The centrality of the state in modern society.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Chapter 1: A state-centric relational approach, pp. 1-19.
Paquet, Gilles. 2001. The New Governance, Subsidiarity, and the Strategic State. Governance in the 21st
Century. Paris: OECD, pp.184-214.
Thompson, E. Maunde. 1886. Untitled Review. The English Historical Review, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 568-574.
Morrison, Donald. 1945. Public Administration and the Art of Governance. Public AdministrationReview 5:1: 83-87.
RESEARCH CASE: Guo, Chao. 2007. When Government Becomes the Principal Philanthropist: TheEffects of Public Funding on Patterns of Nonprofit Governance. Public Administration Review
67:3: 458-473.
See assignment appended to this syllabus.
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Week 4: Governance as GoodGovernment
The World Bank. 1997. World Development Report 1997: The State in a Changing World: Chapter 1
Overview, pp. 1-15, The Evolving Role of the State, pp. 19-28. Access on UT Library
netLibrary.
Andrews, Matt. 2010. Good Government Means Different Things in Different Countries.
Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions23:1:735.
Boyle, Richard. 2009. Performance Reporting Insights from International Practice. Washington, DC
IBM Center for the Business of Government, 34pp.
Ohiorhenuan, John F. E. and Zoe Keeler. 2008. International Political Economy and AfricanEconomic Development: A Survey of Issues and Research Agenda.Journal Of African Economies:
17:AERC Supplement 1:i140i239.
RESEARCH CASE: Harlow, Carol and Richard Rawlings. 2006. Promoting Accountability in
Multilevel Governance: A Network Approach. European Governance Papers No. C-06-02, pp. 1
41.
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Week 5: Governance as Rule of Law
Prado, Mariana Mota and Michael J. Trebilcock. 2009. Path Dependence, Development, and the Dynamics
of Institutional Reform. University of Toronto Law Journal 59:3: 341-380.
Lynn, Laurence E., Jr. 2006. New Public Management: Delegation and Accountability. PublicManagement: Old and New, Chapter 7: New Public Management: Delegation and Accountability,
pp. 136-156.
Mashaw, Jerry L. 2009. Due Processes of Governance: Terror, the Rule of Law, and the Limits of
Institutional Design. Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, andInstitutions22:3: 353368.
Kay, Adrian and Robert Ackrill. 2009. Institutional Change in the International Governance ofAgriculture: A Revised Account. Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration,
and Institutions22:3:483506.
TEACHING CASE: Aiding or Abetting? World Bank and the 1997 Judicial Reform Project.Kennedy School of Government Case Program C-15-04-1779.0.
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Week 6: New Governance GovernanceBeyondGovernment,
Governance,NotGovernment
Rhodes, Rod A. W. 1996. "The New Governance: Governing Without Government." Political Studies44 (4): 65267.
Hajer, Maarten, and Hendrik Wagenaar. 2003. Introduction. InDeliberative Policy Analysis:Understanding Governance in the Network Society, ed. Maarten A. Hajer and Hendrik Wagenaar.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Pierre, Jon and B. Guy Peters. 2000. Governance, Politics and the State. New York: Macmillan.Introduction, pp. 1-10, and Different Ways to Think About Governance, pp. 14-27.
Srenson, Eva. 2006. Metagovernance: The Changing Role of Politicians in Processes of DemocraticGovernance. American Review of Public Administration36:98-114.
Stoker, G. 1998. Governance as Theory: Five Propositions.International Social Science Journal, Vol.50, No. 1: 17-28.
Zhao, Yongfei and B. Guy Peters. The State of the State: Comparing Governance in China and the UnitedStates. Public Administration Review 69: s122-s128.
TEACHING CASE: A Partnership in Troubled Waters, Electronic Hallway, The University ofWashington, 31 pp.
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Week 7: New Governance - New Governance in Europe and in America
Europe
Klijn, Erik-Hans. 2008. Governance and Governance Networks in Europe: An Assessment of TenYears of Research on the Theme. Public Management Review, 10: 505-525.
Osborne, Stephen P. 2010. The (New) Public Governance: a suitable case for treatment? In S. P.Osborne, ed., The New Public Governance: Emerging Perspectives on the Theory And Practice of
Public Governance. London: Routledge, pp. 1-15.
Jann, Warner. 2003. State, Administration and Governance in Germany: Competing Traditions and
Dominant Narratives.Public Administration, 81:1: 95-118.
Skelcher, Chris. 2010. Fishing in Muddy Waters: Principals, Agents, and Democratic Governance inEurope. Journal of Public Administration Research and theory 20:i161i175.
United States
Salamon, Lester M. 2000. The New Governance and Tools of Government Action: An Introduction.Fordham Urban Law Journal28:1611-1674.
Peters, B. Guy, and Jon Pierre. 1998. "Governance without Government?: Rethinking PublicAdministration." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 8 (2): 223-43.
Durant, Robert F. 2004. Toward a New Governance Paradigm for Environmental and Natural ResourcesManagement in the 21st Century?Administration & Society, Vol. 35, No. 6, 643-682.
Durant, Robert F. 2004. Toward a New Governance Paradigm for Environmental and Natural ResourcesManagement in the 21st Century?Administration & Society35:6:643-682. In Menzel, Donald C.
and Harvey L. White, eds. 2010. The State of Public Administration : Issues, Challenges, and
.Opportunities. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, pp. 257-271.
Macgillis, Alec. 2010. Are bigger health-care networks better or just creating a monopoly? Washington
Post, 16 August 2010.
RESEARCH/TEACHING CASE: Choi, Jin-Wook. 2007. Governance Structure and AdministrativeCorruption in Japan: An Organizational Network Approach. Public Administration Review 67:5:
930-942.
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Week 8: New Governance in Theory
Peters, B. Guy. 1996. The Future of Governance: Four Emerging Models, pp. 1-20.
Lynn, Laurence E., Jr., Robbie Waters Robichau, and Melissa Forbes. 2010. Governance and
Organizational Effectiveness: Toward a Theory of Government Performance. Unpublished
manuscript, 42 pp.
Tsebelis, George. 2002. Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work, 15pp.
Lynn, Laurence E., Jr. 2008. New Frontiers of Public Administration: The Practice of Theory and the
Theory of Practice, PS: Political Science and PoliticsXLI: 3-9.
Dixon, John and Rhys Dogan. 2002. Hierarchies, Networks and Markets: Responses to Societal
Governance Failure. Administrative Theory & Praxis24:1:175-196.
Werlin, Herbert H. 2003. Poor Nations, Rich Nations. A theory of Governance. Public AdministrationReview63:3: 329-342.
Catlaw, Thomas J. 2007. From Representations to Compositions: Governance Beyond the Three-SectorSociety.Administrative Theory & Praxis 29:2: 225-259.
McQuaid, R. W. 2010. Theory of Organizational Partnerships: Partnership Advantages, Disadvantages and
Success Factors. In S.P. Osborne, ed., The New Public Governance? Emerging Perspectives on the
Theory and Practice of Public Governance. London: Routledge, pp. 127-148.
TEACHING/RESEARCH CASE: The United Nations Oil-for-Food Program. 2008. In Laurence E
Lynn, Jr. and Carolyn J. Hill, Public Management: A Three Dimensional Approach, pp. 61-64.
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Week9:Change:Howmuch? Whatkind? Where?I- TheMatterofEvidence,
ResearchBasedonAggregateIndicators
See Aggregate Indicators Assignment appended to this syllabus.
Week10:Change:Howmuch? Whatkind? Where?II-AssessmentsofInstitutional
ChangeandReform
OECD. 2009. Overcoming Barriers to Administrative Simplification Strategies: guidance for policymakers. Paris: OECD, 55 pp.
Thompson, James R. 2002. Reinvention as Reform: Assessing the National Performance Review.Public Administration Review60:6:508-521.
Kuhlmann, Sabine, Jrg Bogumil, and Stephan Grohs. 2008. Evaluating Administrative Modernizationin German Local Governance: Success or Failure of the New Steering Model? PublicAdministration Review 68:5:851-863.
Walker, Richard M. and George A. Boyne. 2006. Public Management Reform and Organizational
Performance: An Empirical Assessment of the U.K. Labour Governments Public ServiceImprovement Strategy. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 25:2: 371-393.
Carrothers, Thomas. 2002. The End of the Transition Paradigm. Journal of Democracy13:1: 5-21.
TEACHING CASE: Dealing with Corruption in the Police Force of La Paz, Kennedy School ofGovernment Case Program C-16-92-1104.0.
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Week11:Change:Howmuch? Whatkind? Where?III- EvidencefromTheory-
BasedEmpiricalResearch
Hill, Carolyn J. and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. 2005. Is hierarchical Governance in Decline? Evidence fromEmpirical Research.Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 15:2: 173-195.
Lips, A. Miriam B., John A. Taylor, and Joe Organ.2009. Managing Citizen Identity Information in
EGovernment Service Relationships in the UK. Public Management Review11: 6:833-856.
McBeath, Bowen and William Meezan. 2010. Governance in Motion: Service Provision and Child
Welfare Outcomes in a Performance-Based, Managed Care Contracting Environment. Journal ofPublic Administration Research and Theory 20:i101-i123.
Jordan, Andrew, Rudiger K. W. Wurzel, and Anthony Zito. 2005. The Rise of New PolicyInstruments in Comparative Perspective: Has Governance Eclipsed Government? Political Studies
53: 477496.
RESEARCHCASE: Dollar, David and Jakob Svensson. 2000. "What Explains the Success or Failure ofStructural Adjustment Programmes?"Economic Journal, 110 (October), pp. 894-917.
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Krahmann, Elke. 2003. National, Regional, and Global Governance: One Phenomenon or Many?Global Governance9:323-346.
Bevir, Mark, Rod A. W. Rhodes, and Patrick Weller, P. 2003b. Comparative Governance: Prospects and
Lessons. Public Administration81:1:191-210.
Drazen, Allan. 2008. Is There a Different Political Economy for Developing Countries? Issues,Perspectives, and Methodology. Journal Of African Economies: 17:AERC Supplement 1:i18i71.
Fredrickson, G. H. (2005). Whatever happened to public administration? Governance, governance
everywhere. In E. Ferlie, L.E. Lynn, Jr., and C. Pollitt (Eds.), The oxford handbook of public
management (pp. 282-304). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mamudu, Hadii M. and Donley T. Studlar. 2009. Multilevel Governance and Shared Sovereignty
European Union, Member States, and the FCTC. Governance: An International Journal of Policy,
Administration, and Institutions22: 1: 7397.
RESEARCH CASE: Callahan, Richard. 2007. Governance: The Collision of Politics andCooperation. Public Administration Review67:2: 290-301.
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Week 13: Governance: A Research Agenda
Osborne, Stephen P. 2010. Public governance and public services delivery: a research agenda for thefuture. In S. P. Osborne, ed., The New Public Governance: Emerging Perspectives on the TheoryAnd Practice of Public Governance. London: Routledge, pp. 411-426.
Heinrich, Carolyn J., Carolyn J. Hill, and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. 2004. Governance as an OrganizingTheme for Empirical Research. In Patricia W. Ingraham and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. eds., The Art ofGovernance: Analyzing Management and Administration. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown
University Press, pp. 3-19.
Heinrich, Carolyn J., Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., and H. Brinton Milward. 2010. A state of agents?Sharpening the Debate and Evidence over the Extent and Impact of the Transformation of
Governance.Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 20 (Supplement 1): i3-i19.
Cigler, Beverly A. 2010. Neglected Dimensions of Intergovernmental Relations and Federalism. In
Menzel, Donald C. II. White, Harvey L. 2010. The State of Public Administration : Issues,Challenges, and Opportunities. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, pp. 316-334.
Moore, Mark. and Hartley, Jean. 2010. Innovations in governance. In Stephen P. Osborne, Ed., The New
Public Governance? Emerging Perspectives on the Theory and Practice of Public Governance.London: Routledge, pp. 52-71.
Week 14: Student Presentations of Course Papers; Review and
Summing Up
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Assignment
Teaching Case: The Turbot War
1. Create a time line for this case.
2. What is the story line in this case?
3. Who are the influential actors or stakeholders?
4. How would you describe the governance of the North Atlantic turbot fishery? What governmentalentities and organizations were involved? What managerial and policy decisions were made?
5. Why is there a need for this type of governance? Why couldnt the commercial fishing industry solve
its problems without government intervention?
6, Is governance in this case effective? If so, why? What issues or questions are raised by this case?
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Aggregate Indicators Assignment
The purpose of this class is to enable you to become familiar with sources of factual information, statistics, and
data on governance for countries worldwide. The reading listed below is the latest report from the World Bankwith findings based on analysis of its Worldwide Governance Indicators database. The Web sites provide
access to a wealth of quantitative information on governance.
Familiarize yourself with the Worldwide Governance Indicators project and with the findings in the recent
Governance Matters report (cited below). Then visit several Web sites and navigate them until you get a feel
for what kinds of information are available. Look at information for your own country, at comparative
information, and at specific types of indicators and other information that interest you. Notre the sources of themany indicators and measures that you review.
You should come to class prepared to talk about things you have found that interest or surprise you or that youthink are significant. Print out tables or graphs and explain what they mean. Do you think of these kinds of
evidence are useful or revealing? Is governance in your country, or aspects of governance in your country,
fairly and accurately portrayed?
Readings:
Apaza, Carmen R. 2009. Measuring Governance and Corruption through the Worldwide Governance
Indicators: Critiques, Responses, and Ongoing Scholarly Discussion. PS: Political Science & Politics42:1: 139-143.
Bandura, Romina. 2008. A Survey of Composite Indices Measuring Country Performance: 2008 Update.
UNDP/ODS Working Paper. New York: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Office ofDevelopment Studies.
Berkman, H. Scartascini, C., Stein, E. and Tommasi, M. 2008. Political Institutions, State Capabilities, and
Public Policy: An International Dataset. Washington, DC, United States: IDB Research Department,29pp.
Kaufmann, Daniel, Kraay, Aart and Mastruzzi, Massimo. 2007. Worldwide Governance IndicatorsProject: Answering the Critics. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4149. Available atSSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=965077.
Kaufmann, Daniel, Aart Kraay, and Massimo Mastruzzi. 2009. Governance Matters VIII: Aggregate and
Individual Governance Indicators 19962008. Policy Research Working Paper 4978. Washington, DC
The World Bank. Available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1424591#.
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Kurtz, Marcus J. and Andrew Schrank, A. 2007. Growth and governance: Models, Measures, and
Mechanisms.Journal of Politics, 69:2: 538-554.
Langbein, Laura and Knack, Stephen. 2008. The Worldwide Governance Indicators and Tautology: Causally
Related Separable Concepts, Indicators of a Common Cause, or Both? World Bank Policy Research
Working Paper Series 4669. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1233045.
Lwenheim, Oded. 2008. Examining the State: a Foucauldian Perspective on International GovernanceIndicators. Third World Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp 255 274.
Sutcliffe, Bob and Andrew Glyn. 2003. Measures of Globalization and their Misinterpretation. In Jonathan
Michie, ed.,Handbook of Globalization. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, pp. 61-78
Web sites:
The CIA World Fact Book (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/); click: Guide toCountry Comparisons;
Bertelsmann Transformation Index:http://www.bertelsmann-transformation-index.de/11.0.html?&L=1.
Simon Fraser Institute,Economic Freedom of the World: 2009 Annual Report (http://www.cato.org/pubs/efw/)
Click on Chapter 1, which provides a description of the index and the country tables.
The World Banks Worldwide Governance Indicators (www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance: click data, clickInteractive Web Access to Worldwide Governance Research Indicators Dataset, click Governance
Indicators webpage, which takes you to: http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/sc_country.asp);
The World Banks International Development Association (IDA) Resource Allocation Index (IRAI)
(http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/IDA/0,,contentMDK:21359477~menuPK:2626968~pagePK:51236175~piPK:437394~theSitePK:73154,00.html);
The World Bank Database on Political Institutions (http://go.worldbank.org/2EAGGLRZ40). This is a STATA
file (dta).
KOF Index of globalization (http://globalization.kof.ethz.ch/); click: Query the KOF Index of Globalization;
Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Governance Assessment (http://www.odi.org.uk/; in upper right handsearch window, type governance assessment; from the search results, find and click [PDF] Overview
of governance assessment frameworks;
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OECD Country Web Sites
(http://www.oecd.org/countrieslist/0,3025,en_33873108_33844430_1_1_1_1_1,00.html);
OECD International Budget Practices and Procedures Database (best with Internet Explorer)
(www.oecd.org/gov/budget/database);
UNDP Democratic Governance Web Site (http://www.undp.org/governance/);
Interamerican Development Bank, Political Institutions (IDB), State Capabilities, and Public Policy: An
International Dataset (http://www.iadb.org/aboutus/; click Research and Data at top of page; clickStatistics and Databases on left-side menu; click DataGov in text, which takes you to:
http://www.iadb.org/datagob/index.html;
United Nations Millennium Development Indicators (http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mdg/);
Civicus Civil Society Index (at: http://www.civicus.org/csi/2/10-csi-home); on left-side menu, click CivilSociety Index (CSI); on page, click phrase online form in last line; register; search by individual
country;
Transparency International; Corruption Perceptions Index; Global Corruption Barometer(http://www.transparency.org/);
World Economic Forum(http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/gcp/Global%20Competitiveness%20Report/index.htm);
The Ibrahim Index (Africa) (http://www.moibrahimfoundation.org/en/section/the-ibrahim-index);
Columbia University, Lehman Social Sciences Library: General Statistical Indicators International
(http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/lehman/guides/stats/int.html);
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RESEARCH CASE:Spain and Portugal in the European Union
How would you explain differences in the economic performance of Portugal and Spain after they had
become members of the European Union?
Lessons of Spain and PortugalIn "International Herald Tribune" Tuesday, July 19, 2005. At:http://cronicalif.blogspot.com/2005/07/lessons-of-spain-and-portugal.html;
Economic and Social Research Institute. 1996. The Cases of Greece, Ireland, Portugal and
Spain. The European Commission, pp. 1-6;
Royo, Sebastin. 2007. Lessons from the Integration of Spain and Portugal to the EU. PS:
Political Science and Politics689-693;
McLean, Renwick, Financial History Lessons for Europes New Members, The New York
Times, July 26, 2005.
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About the Author
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LaurenceE.Lynn,Jr.isSidRichardsonResearchProfessorattheLyndonB.JohnsonSchoolofPublic
Affairs
at
the
University
of
Texas
at
Austin,
Professor
of
Public
Management
at
the
Manchester
Business
School,
and
the
Sydney
Stein
Jr.
Professor
of
Public
Management
Emeritus
at
the
University
of
Chicago.
His
previous
faculty
affiliations
have
included
the
John
F.
Kennedy
School
of
government
at
Harvard
University,
the
Irving
B.
Harris
School
Graduate
School
of
Public
Policy
Studies
at
the
University
of
Chicago,
and
the
George
Bush
School
of
Government
and
Public
Affairs
at
Texas
A&M
University,
and
the
Graduate
School
of
Business
at
Stanford
University.
He
spent
nearly
a
decade
in
senior
policy
making
positions
in
the
U.S.
Federal
Government.
His
research
is
concerned
with
conceptual
and
empirical
approachestothestudyofgovernanceandwithpublicmanagementtheoryandresearchmethods.His
most
recent
books
are
Public
Management:
Old
and
New,
Madisons
Managers:
Public
Administration
and
the
Constitution(withAnthonyM.Bertelli),andatextbook,PublicManagement:AThreeDimensionalApproach
(with
Carolyn
J.
Hill.
For
his
public
service,
Lynn
received
the
Secretary
of
Defense
Meritorious
Civilian
ServiceMedalandaPresidentialCertificateofDistinguishedAchievement. Forlifetimecontributionsto
public
administration
research
and
practice,
he
was
selected
as
a
John
Gaus
lecturer
by
the
American
Political
Science
Association,
a
recipient
of
the
Dwight
Waldo
and
Paul
Van
Riper
awards
by
the
American
Society
for
Public
Administration,
and
the
recipient
of
the
inaugural
H.
George
Frederickson
award
by
the
Public
Management
Research
Association.