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2015/2016 BA-BHAAI1058U The Politics of Public-Private Partnerships
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| The Politics of Public-Private Partnerships |
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| Language | English |
| Course ECTS | 7.5 ECTS |
| Type | Elective |
| Level | Bachelor |
| Duration | Summer |
| Start time of the course | Summer |
| Timetable | Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk |
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Study Board for BSc in Economics and Business
Administration
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| Last updated on 12-05-2016 | |
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To achieve the grade 12, students
should meet the following learning objectives with no or only minor
mistakes or errors:
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This is course invites undergraduate students to pursue a variety of theoretical and empirical questions regarding public-private partnerships (PPPs), state-market relations, and international relations. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, we will illuminate PPPs by locating them in a broader context of politics and power, policy and governance. Students will explore PPPs from a variety of conceptual and theoretical standpoints. They will reflect on how the rise of PPPs fits into a broader frame of intellectual, political, and economic developments in recent decades associated with what is being called neoliberalism. Students will ask how we should evaluate PPPs in terms of their consequences – not only for the achievement of public goals but also for the future of democratic governance and citizenship.
Class 1: Introduction: The Politics of Public-Private Partnerships in an Era of Neoliberalism
Class 2: The Ideological Context: Neoliberalism and Democracy
Class 3: Power, Politics and Revising State-Market Relations
Class 4: PPPs and Globalization
Class 5: Corporate Social Responsibility
Class 6: PPPs and Philanthrocapitalism feedback activity: in-class discussion about the course
Class 7: Social Impact Bonds
Class 8: The Bottom of the Pyramid
Class 9: PPPs and NGOs: Global Governance and International
Class 11: Radical Incrementalism: Rethinking Change Strategies
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| Class sessions will typically tack back and forth between question-driven discussions and short lectures designed to organize, clarify, and augment the ideas that have emerged through discussion. I begin with discussion questions – and devote most of our time in class to discussion – to ensure that students take primary responsibility for interpreting and critiquing the readings. I follow up with mini-lectures to ensure they come away with a clear understanding of the readings and the issues. In addition, I find that student engagement is improved by alternating between participatory discussions and short clarifying lectures that respond to the ways the students have framed and engaged the issues. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Preliminary Assignment: To help students get maximum value from ISUP courses, instructors provide a reading or a small number of readings or video clips to be read or viewed before the start of classes with a related task scheduled for class 1 in order to 'jump-start' the learning process.
Feedback Activity: A feedback activitity defined by the course instructor will take place app. half-way through the course.
NB! Please note that this course is cancelled in ISUP 2016! |
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PRIMARY LITERATURE (MUST-HAVE BOOKS): Sanford F. Schram: The Return of Ordinary Capitalism: Neoliberalism, Precarity, Occupy Oxford University Press, 2015 |
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